My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 85 – The Of Love & Loss edition airs Monday October 6, and repeats Monday October 13, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Of Love & Loss is a self-explanatory title. Originally, that was not how this edition was going to be called. Maybe it would have been called The Mild Ones edition. The Mild Ones are a wonderful Suede fan group of which I am part of, and there are several Mild Ones on this edition – Mark Robin White (A 90s new man called Stan), Bettina Korn, James Mediocre (The Vinegar Tasters), Simon Gilbert (Suede).
Or maybe it was going to be called something else. Bettina’s cover of John Denver’s Annie’s Song was certain, regardless of the name thos edition of Amazing Songs & Other Delights would have. Monday, September 30, Ian Pye posted Suede’s Daddy’s Speeding to the group.
I was reminded of how great the song is, and listened to it a few times, because the song has a very interesting musical change, and selected as one of my International Music Day for The Polymath.
A couple of days latter I was listening to it on repeat for very different reasons. Curve balls. Life, love, loss. The other songs were already in though for this edition, or came as soundscape of feelings and emotions.
Most of the songs aren’t necessarily about love. Or loss. They aren’t all gloomy, far from it. Daddy’s Spending does sits at the center, with its music, vocal, words, highly charged emotional landscape, but the songs before and after offer a full picture of a week filled with changes.
To lighten things a bit, in the spirit of Wally, can you spot Bernard Butler, (other than in Suede)?…
Tracklist:
01: The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road
02: A 90s new man called Stan –
Disco Dystopian Blues
03: The Auteurs – Show Girl
04: Bettina Korn – Annie’s Song (John Denver cover)
05: Chimehours – Underneath The Earth
06: The Mercury Rev – Goodness on a Highway
07: Maitland – Einstein-Rosen Bridge
08: Ricardo Reis Soares – Qualquer Coisa
09: Suede – Daddy’s Speeding
10: The Vinegar Tasters – Smokestack
11: The Radio Field – It’s Alright
12: Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker – Land of Plenty
13: Thee Headcoatees – You’re Gonna Lose That Boy
14: Lour – Outro Lado
15: Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum –
In lichem fol beloften(feat. Tsead Bruinja)
16: Mark Eitzel – The Last Ten Years
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