Thanks for all your morning songs. I think you could easily play the whole playlist over breakfast. It's fit for purpose, so to speak. I even expanded it into a compilation for myself, tagging on personal favourites like Margo Guryan, Nina Simone, Beth Orton and the Chemical Brothers. Leaving them aside, the B-list looks something like this: the Boo Radleys, Saint Etienne, Now It's Overhead, Rolf Harris, Billie Holiday, Ian Dury, the Flaming Lips, the Byrds, Jacques Dutronc and Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes.
If I were allowed to recommend songs myself, I'd have put in a word for Lee Hazlewood's If It's Monday Morning and Primal Scream's Deep Hit of Morning Sun. Which I suppose I just have. And if you can find it, there's a remix of Pure Morning by future Madonna producer Jacques Lu Cont (called the Les Rythmes Digitales Remix) which is even better than the original.
I left out anything taking place before dawn, because if I tried waking up to Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours, I suspect I'd just stay in bed and drink myself to death. And I came within a whisker of excluding Sunday Morning, because I've playlisted the Velvets so often, but I just couldn't do it. If you're interested, the Velvets and the Beatles are tied at the top with six songs each. The Smiths, the Kinks, Pulp, Bowie and Neil Young are just behind.
This week's theme was going to be something else entirely but then tracyk mentioned her engagement, discussion of wedding tunes ensued, and that was that. So let's have devoted love songs. I'm talking about expressions of lifelong fidelity: big, unadulterated, together-forever songs. And can we go easy on the obsessive, stalkerish ones? Thanks.
Finally, I am belatedly making plans for the social and have already emailed everyone who contacted me about it. I notice from looking at the old blog that MrMustard, jubileeallsorts, orangeairplane, ejaydee, Deviant, Severin and tracyk also expressed some degree of interest. If any of you do want to be kept posted, email me at dorianlynskey@hotmail.com. No commitment, obviously.
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