is what it is.
Sweet Thing - Rufus feat Chaka Khan
I will love you anyway
Even if you cannot stay
I think you are the one for me
Here is where you ought to be
I just want to satisfy ya
Though you’re not mine
I can’t deny ya
Don’t you hear me talking baby?
Love me now or I’ll go crazy
wwwoooooowwwooooo sweet thang
Don’t you know you’re my everything?
mixtape for no one
Fire in Cairo - The Cure
Shifting crimson veil, silken hips
Slide it under my hand, swollen lips
Whisper my name and I yearn
You take me in your arms, start to burn
Have three and a half minutes? Let’s dance to Fire in Cairo.
Nothing Gold (Todd Terje Remix) - Joakim
One of my favourite songs of this year.
my love is gone
my love is gone
my love is gone
Blue Monday People - Curtis Mayfield
The only track for today.
This hustling affair,
Ain’t the way I even care,
We’ll be together in spite,
Of the crimes of the night,
Crimes of the night,
Crimes of the night.
I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying - The Miracles
^relevant
Lady - Chromatics
If I Could Only Call You My Lady
Baby I Could Be Your Man
Chasin’ A Dream - Tashan
It’s a crime that the early Def Jam records, especially the R&B albums, are out of print and not available on iTunes. So here’s a little something from 1986. Rick Rubin is on drums and Russell Simmons is on guitar.
I make crazy good mixtapes.
Lipstick - The Buzzcocks
When you kiss me…
Does the lipstick on your lip stick on my face?
Will you miss me…
In your dreams does your lover have my face?
Just As Long As I Got You 12” - Love Committee (Dimitri from Paris edit)
Because I really enjoyed what I remember of the DFA party.
Cuddly Toy - Harry Nilsson
You’re not the only cuddly toy
that was ever enjoyed…
by any boy
You’re not the only choo choo train
that was left out in the rain
the day after Santa… came
okay mister mix. oh beautiful…
I’ve never liked The Monkees because I want to be cool. However, I do appreciate that they made a hit out of this Harry Nilsson song about a gangbang.
Slow - My Bloody Valentine
B-side from the You Made Me Realise EP.
Oh well, you know it’s up to you
Sugar think what we could do
Can I have a question
I’ll make you smile, smile, smile, smile, smile
Sugar sugar you’re up to my lips
Licking over everything I miss
And I got no reason
Just a slow, slow, slow, slow, suck
Belle - Al Green
This is from my all time favourite summer album and, on any given day, my favourite Al Green song. It’s the first Al Green album without longtime producer Willie Mitchell, the final of his secular recordings and the first time he picked up and played a guitar. This last factoid has always fascinated me. As a terrible guitarist and slightly better music critic I’m forever concerned by foundations. It seems everyone intially learns to play With Or Without You if they dress poorly, White Light White Heat if they don’t, and Love Me Tender if they go to class and aren’t told the chords are from a copyright free civil war ballad. Belle, with Al Green’s amateur strumming, is an equally simple song to learn and play but unlike the others it teaches you how to play to a groove. Imagine if all the terrible local bands in the world learned this as their first song and how wonderful that would make music?
For most of the song you can strum C, Em, F while singing ‘Belle’ to keep the beat. There’s groove 101.
As an advance class, at the bridge, go fminor7, bflat, eflat, g around ‘seems so easy to me, I’ve tried to act naturally’. That g-chord is one of the most emotionally satisfying pay offs in all music. The whole song can be sung comfortably within most people’s open register if you wisely don’t feel game to tackle Al Green’s incredible falsetto.
When I muddle through it, I usually flip the pro-nouns in the lyrics and make up my own finish point, which is another lesson in itself.
Couldn’t say enough how much I love this song.
Rip It Up - Orange Juice
Rip it up and start again
Rip it up and start again
I hope to God you’re not as dumb as you make out
I hope to God
I hope to God
And I hope to God I’m not as numb as you make out
Uni is coming back, where they’ll call me educated. Going to get a haircut and drink a little less. No ambitious plans.
T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) - M.F.S.B. Featuring Three Degrees
The Soul Train theme song was written by the legendary Gamble and Huff and, having topped the Billboard charts in 1974, is often considered the first disco song.
Instead of being called “Soul Train” the song was renamed at the request of Don Cornelius, who was very protective of his trademark. Cornelius later called his request to rename the song “the dumbest move I ever made.”
