Look Up To The Sky

Just got the sad news that Pete Shelley has passed away. The Buzzcocks frontman, who more or less singlehandedly invented punkpop, was 63. Miss him.

Buzzcocks - Nostalgia

Look At Her Run

This one goes out to someone special. "Layin' 'round doing nothing like all my friends, play it cool, don't get angry, count up to ten..." Per molts anys, amic.

Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen
The Heptones - Only Sixteen
Buzzcocks - Sixteen Again

Old Friends

Hola, mi amigos da musica. You probably guessed it already: it's six pack time again, so sit back and enjoy the ride. Original artwork as usual by my good friend Tinca. Why isn't she famous yet?

The Kinks - See My Friends
It's All Meat - Make Some Use Of Your Friends
Gregg Allman - All My Friends
Peter Hammill - Just Good Friends
Buzzcocks - Friends Of Mine
Palma Violets - Best Of Friends

Hey Chairman

"You know me - I'm acting dumb..." Scene ain't particularly humdrum today though. Have a nice weekend.

Buzzcocks - Boredom
Adverts - Bored Teenagers
Snatch - When I'm Bored
Destroy All Monsters - Bored
Iggy Pop - I'm Bored

Plus the obvious non-boring bonus track to make it a six pack:

Boredoms - Bocabola

Wild Weekend Vol. 5

Long live the weekend, the weekend is here. And it´s gonna be another wild one... My iPod shuffle function picks the tunes, and we´ll just have to wait and see what comes up. Ready, set, go.

Let´s get this show on the road with some intense blues from the inimitable Robert Pete Williams. Recorded live in Angola Prison, where the guitarist was doing time for fatally shooting a (white) man in what was probably self-defence. "Some got six months, but me and my buddies got a lifetime here..." These ´59 recordings actually helped to get his case looked at anew and his sentence reduced. Jandek provides another kind of blues: of the outsider variety. Most people find his stuff unlistenable, but I regularly need a shot of the unique Houston loner.

Robert Pete Williams - Some Got Six Months MP3

Jandek - Naked In The Afternoon MP3

The Buzzcocks more or less defined the punkpop genre in the magical year of ´77. They´ve been unrivalled ever since really. To be sixteen again... oh no! Find it on Love Bites, their somewhat underrated second offering. I stupidly forgot to include Tom Russell´s Blood And Candle Smoke in my list of last year´s fave albums. Sorry Tom, won´t happen again. Check out the impressive East Of Woodstock, West Of Vietnam and add this album to your wishlift pronto. Them mariachi-like horns are delicious. "Raise high the roof beams, carpenter boy..."

Buzzcocks - Sixteen Again MP3

Tom Russell - East Of Woodstock, West Of Vietnam MP3

Next up are the Byrds. Makes sense, as I´ve got a lot of their timeless songs on my iPod. One Hundred Years From Now was sung by McGuinn on their groundbreaking countryrock classic Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, as the original vocals of the one and only Gram Parsons were erased for contractual reasons. The version here comes from the Byrds box set, with Gram´s wonderful voice restored. And we bid you goodnight with some intense flamenco from the Jerez Earthquake. "Toma, toma..."

The Byrds - One Hundred Years From Now MP3

Terremoto De Jerez - Fiesta En El Barrio Santiago MP3