Sweetness and Light 24th February 2012

I now have a slot on student radio where I play records from 1-2 on Friday afternoons over here. Listen in if you will.

The station asks for my playlists and I don't know what they do with it tbh so I'll post them here as well. When the song's not on youtube I've linked to a similar track from the same album:

1) Rob Brady - Everybody's going to the love in (the best of the northern soul story, sony)
2)zen baseball bat- 100 years of seaside entertainment (i am the champion concrete mixer, moonska)
3)jammer- destruction vip (run the road vol. 1, 679 recordings)
4)beastie boys - sounds of science (paul's boutique, capitol records)
5)no lay- unorthadox daughter (run the road vol. 1, 679 recordings)
6)bonnie prince billie - i see a darkness (i see a darkness, domino records) (<-video there still chills and moves)
7)camille yardborough - take yo praise (fly girls, soul jazz records)
8)staples singers- respect yourself (blues brother soul sister, dino entertainment)
9)kelly marie- feels like i'm in love (disco classics, weston-wegram)
10) betty everett - it's in his kiss (blues brother soul sister, dino entertainment)
11) odyssey - going back to my roots (disco classics, weston-wegram)
12) beatles- soldier of love (live at the bbc,
13) wave pictures - apple boy (beer in the breakers bonus disc, moshi moshi)
14) half man half biscuit - floreat inertia (this leaden pall, probe plus)
15)lou courtney - trying to find my woman (the best of the northern soul, sony) (<--- my favourite song atm)
16)hot chip - no fit state (the warning, EMI) (<--- i didn't play this live version but the segue into temptation in the middle is awesome)

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Song lyrics as misheard by me which are better than the original, part XII

actual: "I might not have the power of telepathy,
but
I'm gonna be contacting you."

misheard by me: "I might not have the power to know baleaaepa about me,
but-
I'm good at contacting you!"

cos the song's about being an impish irritant, see? Love me or I'll love you back. Gonna get ya, get ya in the end.

Interesting band, Slow Club. I think the above mishearing succintly demonstrates that I don't listen too closely. And the reason for this is that Slow Club are just so absolutely average. Paul once talked about how he likes to listen to bad Queen albums to relax and I guess it's a similar thing. It's not quite muzak but it just music, like literally 'just music'. What do you wanna hear, James? Oh, some music, you know me. Put some music on. Ok. Here is music. This is what music sounds like.

Weird cos I usually hate the old easy-going unchallenging acoustic vibe

-last link there was a joke OBV. that album's amazing against all the odds and ain't never gonna say nothing against the song that this blog's epigraph comes from, sugar.

"Is making an act so asinine that no-one can possibly be challenged or offended by their music the same as them being everyone's favourite act?!"

-James Lightfoot on Take That. Maybe that's applicable here. Do like 'em though. Slow Club, that is. New album's shit, mind. 'Cos they tried to be distinctive! Ha. Mates of State they ain't despite their best wishes.

I'd like to take this opportunity, as I take any opportunity I get, to say of Rebecca Slow Club, just in case she's reading: I love you and everything you are and stand for. I want you in my eye, my heart, my vicinity, my life, my everything *defiantly holds gaze*.



sigh, flutter.

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here's the antonym to that couplet

Wittgenstein in Popular Culture vol. 8

Joanna Newsom she say: "We are blessed and sustained by what is not said."

Ludwig he say: "My whole tendency and, I believe, the tendency of all men who ever tried to write or talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless. Ethics so far as it springs from the desire to say something about the ultimate meaning of life, the absolute good, the absolute valuable, can be no science. What it says does not add to our knowledge in any sense. But it is a document of a tendency in the human mind which I personally cannot help respecting deeply and I would not for my life ridicule it."



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John Lennon he say: "In spite of you, it's true."

Ludwig he say: "The world is independent of my will."

Poem

Fell asleep on the train,
Woke up in Peterborough,
again.