I wouldn't necessarily recommend it as a Mother's Day gift -- I can just imagine my own mum's nonplussed reaction ("Ghostface who?") - but thanks for your help in assembling this week's playlist. For me, it was a good opportunity to discover the Gram Parsons and 10,000 Maniacs songs, and to dig out the OV Wright. On the increasingly indispensable B-list: The Beatles, Paul Simon, the Rolling Stones (surely the last band in the world that should be ticking off housewives for using drugs), Junior, Son House, Slade (not really about mums, though, is it?), Sigur Ros, Ella Fitzgerald, the Pharcyde, the Durutti Column and Cartman from South Park. Good to read your feedback last week. It all helps to keep the column on track.
Next weekend, Britain's clocks go forward, so the theme is morning songs. By this I mean any relevant reference to morning, dawn, sunrise or waking up. If the music actually sounds like it should be played when the sun is streaming through the blinds and the smell of coffee is in the air, then all the better. We've already had a few: Angel of the Morning, Some Velvet Morning, Mornin' Glory, Sunday Morning Coming Down and Waking Up in the Sun. More tenuously, Woke Up This Morning and Friday Night Saturday Morning. I recommend playing some of the above to get you in the zone.
To our left, we have the invaluable A-Z. To our right, we have the Readers recommend archive. Please tread carefully. All suggestions by midday on Monday please.
