Last week's theme didn't just prompt some interesting suggestions (for which, as ever, thanks) -- it reminded me what a dreadful business unrequited love is. I had flashbacks to being young and annoying and moping over the wrong women. Glad that's all over. I wish, however, that I'd had a copy of The Saturday Boy to console me at the time. This week's nearly-weres: Daniel Johnston, Nick Cave, Therapy?, Stevie Wonder and the Poni-Tails. I searched high and low for a copy of Airhead's Funny How to confirm whether it was a lost classic of early '90s indie or irritating fluff, but it might as well never have existed. And yet seemingly every single note recorded by Another Sunny Day is available at the click of a mouse. Go figure.
With my usual devastating originality, I was going to suggest love for the playlist before Valentine's Day but someone else on this very website got there before me, so let's go with the heart as a theme. It's one of pop's central images -- heartbeats, heartbreak, heart-stopping, heart-melting -- and, unlike last week's topic, there's not a lot of ambiguity involved. Easy. BUT we've already had Heartbeats (the Jose Gonzalez version), Only Love Can Break Your Heart (the St Etienne cover), Groove is in the Heart, In Every Dream Home a Heartache, Fire in My Heart and Cold, Cold Heart.
The RR archive can be found here. The unfailingly useful A-Z can be found here. Deadline is midday on Monday.
