December 25, 20222 yr Author ...actually am just catching up with the Celebrity RIP thread in the Lounge and spotted another one from the other day that I completely missed, Martin Duffy from Primal Scream D: Can perhaps give 'Loaded' a play after previously commenting on 'Rocks' not being as good as that x
December 25, 20222 yr Loaded would be a suitable song for Duffy. My favourite Charlatans song (Sproston Green) dates from the Rob Collins era.
December 25, 20222 yr The Specials songs that I'm most familiar with are 'Ghost Town' and 'Free Nelson Mandela' but obvz the former is a #1 and the latter was released after Terry Hall left the band so would not make much sense to play. As the only voter for The Specials in the best groups rate I'll cast a vote for 'Gangsters'. The others in my top 3 by them are 'Friday Night, Saturday Morning' which is almost entirely Terry so would also be fitting albeit lesser known, and 'Nelson Mandela' but from after he left as Bré said - as also seen, it rivals Tina Turner's 'The Best' as one of the most misquoted song titles in history :kink: I was going to suggest 'Salva Mea' for Faithless, but 'Insomnia' deserves a play if it wouldn't have appeared otherwise. Thanks for the tracklists Bré! Hope everyone had a great Christmas.
December 25, 20222 yr Author Both titles have been used for it. The fountain of knowledge uses 'Free Nelson Mandela'. Looks like 'Gangsters' is the most popular pick so far so will probably go with that, I'll see if I recognise it!
December 26, 20222 yr Ooft, I missed some real classics last week, belated love to Linger and Live Forever in particular <3 I also would love to hear Insomnia if it wasn't the most streamed on the two Greatest Hits albums.
January 1, 20232 yr Author Resuming at 4pm today, what better way to spend the first afternoon of the new year B-) Rough list of the #1 albums covered this week (not sure if Paul McCartney will make it but also not sure anyone will want anything from that anyway x) edit: actually all of the 1997 ones are going into next week instead! Better zoom through making the playlist :kink: went out for lunch with the family and thought it'd be safe to leave it until I got home but we were out a little longer than I expected, hopefully will be alright anyway! 1995 Pan Pipe Moods - Free the Spirit Good News from the Next World - Simple Minds Post - Bjork Alternative - Pet Shop Boys One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits 1985-1995 - Michael Bolton Design of a Decade 1986-1996 - Janet Jackson Anthology 1 - The Beatles 1996 Boys for Pele - Tori Amos Don’t Stop - Status Quo Moseley Shoals - Ocean Colour Scene To the Faithful Departed - The Cranberries Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers The Score - The Fugees The Smurfs Go Pop - The Smurfs Travelling Without Moving - Jamiroquai Only Human - Dina Carroll 1997 Hits ‘97 Volume 1 - The Smurfs Still Waters - Bee Gees Lisa Stansfield - Lisa Stansfield 10 - Wet Wet Wet In It for the Money - Supergrass Flaming Pie - Paul McCartney
January 1, 20232 yr Author Also to add another to the list of RIP slots this week, seen that Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse has passed away sadly - they were never a big UK chart act and I'm not sure how well people will know them but I'd like to use this as an opportunity to play 'Dashboard' by them because it's a banger ('Float On' is more popular but Jeremiah doesn't seem to have been on that song).
January 1, 20232 yr Björk - Army of Me Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
January 1, 20232 yr Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet (Post) Pet Shop Boys - Shameless (Alternative) Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter (Everything Must Go)
January 1, 20232 yr Pet Shop Boys - Losing My Mind Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky
January 1, 20232 yr Boys for Pele <3 I still remember NME made a review and had a drawing of Tori with a Brazilian soccer t-shirt when the song has nothing to do with the Brazilian footballer but with Pele the Hawaiian Goddess <3 The album is a masterpieve but not for everyone, very dark and barroque with lots of harpsichords and strange pianos for me: Tori Amos-Boys for Pele (Caught a Lite Sneeze) Bjork-Post (Hyperballad) MSP-Everything must go (No Surface all Feeling)
January 1, 20232 yr Manic Street Preachers- Kevin Carter Ocean Colour Scene- The Riverboat Song Jamiroquai- Virtual Insanity Fugees- Fu-Gee-La
January 1, 20232 yr Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation (this is on the Greatest Hits album right?) Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
January 1, 20232 yr Björk - Hyperballad Fugees - Fu-Gee-La Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go [though No Surface All Feeling is a great shout too]
January 1, 20232 yr Tori Amos - Caught a Lite Sneeze Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go Bjork - Hyper-ballad
January 1, 20232 yr Author Right just about got the playlist ready in time - there are a few pretty long songs/videos again (including 2 in a row right near the start x) so only covering 39 albums (not quite a low to date but close to it), bringing us up to February 1997. And in fact all of the 1997 #2 albums there were after February so they all go into next week's session instead - not looked over the bonus suggestions yet but any there have been for those albums will carry over to next week! A good handful more classics this week, including 2 classics in a row at one point that both surprisingly peaked as low as #11. Kicking off here in 10 mins B-)
January 1, 20232 yr Author Will drop the tracklist from today this evening (pinkie swear) but those of you who didn't stick around until 8 you missed a truly iconic end to the session :cheeseblock: Happy that these sessions have continued to be such a success anyhoo, just some appreciation for all of you guys who keep attending and making this such fun to do each week. Zooming towards the turn of the millennium already but of course the volume of 1 week #1 albums is just going to keep going up so still plenty of material for months to come x
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