Music Diary 2012 Day 3

No school run today so 6music from the start. Nice to hear the Postal Service & The Hives, but I'm no fan of Echo & The Bunnymen. One of those bands that always left me cold. I'm even unlikely to listen to the Pavement version of that track, and I'll listen to just about anything by Pavement.


Nothing great in the R2 line-up today although nice to hear Climie Fisher & This Charming Man.


At lunchtime I chose a Stephen Duffy album. Duffy is one of those artists that I have to thank my friend Eifion for pointing me towards (see also: the Mountain Goats, The Durutti Column (and most other Factory bands), Pixies, Throwing Muses (and most other 4AD bands), BPB, The Wedding Present, The Smiths, The Sugarcubes/Bjork... The list goes on. He's basically responsible for most of my musical education).


I'd heard Duffy's pop hits Kiss Me & The Icing On The Cake back in the day but Eifion bought the debut album by his band The Lilac Time based (I think) on the video for Return to Yesterday being on The Chart Show. There was no looking back from there really. Whether it's the folky Lilac Time stuff, the more Britpop "Duffy" stuff or the wonderful Music In Colours album he did with Nigel Kennedy, it's generally great stuff. It's no wonder Robbie Williams wanted him as a songwriter.


As I write this MrsJ is watching 100 Greatest Love Songs on VH1 so I'm off to wash the dishes to escape from Phil Collins. If it hadn't been for Eifion I might be joining her saying "I love Phil me".


Thankfully I'm not.


I'll report back with a list of iPod tunes shortly...




BBC 6music - Shaun Keaveny

Richard Hawley — Leave Your Body Behind You
David Bowie — Modern Love
The Postal Service — Such Great Heights
Echo & The Bunnymen — The Killing Moon
Best Coast — The Only Place
Hives — Walk Idiot Walk

BBC Radio2 - Chris Evans



Peggy Lee — Fever
Bee Gees — Night Fever
Paloma Faith — Picking Up The Pieces
JD McPherson — North Side Gal
George Martin Orchestra — Theme One
Tony Blackburn — Chop-Chop
The Move — Flowers In The Rain
George Michael — Faith



BBC Radio2 - Ken Bruce



Bonnie Tyler — Holding Out For A Hero
Emeli Sandé — My Kind Of Love (radio edit)
Take That — The Flood
Climie Fisher — Love Changes (Everything)
Morten Harket — Scared Of Heights
Belinda Carlisle — Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds — A.K.A... What A Life!
Keane — Silenced By The Night
The Trammps — Hold Back The Night
The Manhattan Transfer — Walk In Love
Kid Rock — All Summer Long
The Beach Boys — That's Why God Made The Radio
Michael Nesmith — Rio
Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells
Status Quo — Roll Over Lay Down
Snow Patrol — Spitting Games
Tom Jones — Hit Or Miss
Ren Harvieu — Open Up Your Arms
Arlo Guthrie — City Of New Orleans
Rumer — P.F. Sloan
The Smiths — This Charming Man
David Essex — Gonna Make You A Star
Jeff Wayne & Chris Thompson — Thunderchild
Avalanche City — Sunset
Little Eva — The Locomotion

Lunchtime iPod album
Duffy - I Love My Friends

1. Tune In
2. Eucharist
3. 17
4. Lover's Beware
5. You Are
6. The Deal
7. She Belongs To All
8. Autopsy
9. What If I Fell In Love WIth You

BBC 6music - Lauren Laverne

The Velvet Underground — Sunday MorningSunless — Body WeatherTanlines — All Of MeHerbie Hancock — RockitRamones — Do You Remember Rock N'roll Radio?

BBC 6music - Radcliffe & Maconie
Richard Hawley — Leave Your Body Behind You
The Staple Singers — I'll Take You There
John Lee Hooker — This Is Hip
Team Me — Weathervanes And Chemicals
The Duckworth Lewis Method — Age of Revolution
Franz Ferdinand — Take Me Out
Dan Mangan — About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All
Supertramp — School
Perfume Genius — AWOL Marine
Billy Bragg — Sexuality
Best Coast — The Only Place
Cypress Hill — Insane In The Brain
Madness — Wings Of A Dove
Hooded Fang — Tosta Mista - 6 Music Hub Session 090512
Kate Bush — Hounds Of Love
Beat — Too Nice To Talk To
Ren Harvieu — Open Up Your Arms
Ren Harvieu — Through The Night
Fairport Convention — Who Knows Where The Time Goes
The Kinks — You Really Got Me
Garbage — Battle In Me
Doves — Sea Song
Led Zeppelin — Heartbreaker
Paul Weller — When Your Garden's Overgrown
Heaven 17 — Temptation
Moloko — Sing It Back
Damon Albarn — The Marvelous Dream
Camera Obscura — French Navy

BBC 6music - Steve Lamacq

Kraftwerk — The ModelWe Are Augustines — JuarezRush — Spirit Of Radio

Heart FM


Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love




iPod on shuffle


Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - The Game Gets Old
the Mountain Goats - The Sign
Pavement - Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse)
The Small Faces - Understanding
Pulp - Help The Aged
Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush