Amazing Songs & Other Delights #92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition on Yé Yé Radio Monday 2 & 9

Teenage Fanclub

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition Monday February 2 & 9, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

It’s a popish, elegant,gentle edition with thirteen songs and one instrumental refering the universe, the stars, some plants and the moon, sometimes not literally. It mixes astronomy and astrology in joyful sixty minutes of music.

From Teenage Fanclub’s Planets to Hands On Approach’s My Wonder Moon though songs by Frank Sinatra, Dehd, Roisin Murphy & DJ Koze and more, and an instrumental by The Vampires.

01: Teenage Fanclub – Planets
02: Sturgill Simpson – Mercury in Retrograde
03: Kate Fenner – Transit of Venus
04: The Parlor – Underneath the Universe
05: The Vampires – Sun Gazers (ft. Chris Abrahams)
06: Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon (ft. Count Basie And His Orchestra)
07: Damien Jurado – Metallic Cloud
08: Dehd – Stars
09: David Bowie – Starman
10: Coldplay – Jupiter
11: Roisin Murphy & DJ Koze – The Universe
12: Raveloe – Clouds Are Release
13: R.E.M. – Saturn Return
14: Hands On Approach – My Wonder Moon

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Butler, Black & Grant – Bring An End

Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song – Bring An End by Butler, Blake & Grant. These days, where Bernard (Butler) gets involved emotions I’m not used to pour out, and feel within, of me. In Bring An End is Norman Blake’s beautiful voice, and the lyrics, that bring me the most chills. The expressive guitars have a part in it too. Along with James and Bernard voices.

I like that Bernard, Norman and James are writing beautiful love and redemption songs. Bring An End music comes from fragments Norman had, the lyrics from  James’ notebooks.

The gorgeous video features Scottish landscapes and St. Margaret’s Braemar, a church in Braemar, Scotland, turned arts venue.

Maybe there is a new essay from me on the way…

Butler Blake & Grant
Tracklist:
Side One
Bring An End (Norman Blake)
One And One Is Two (James Grant)
The 90s (Bernard Butler)
Down By The Sea (Norman Blake)
The Old Mortality (Bernard Butler)

Side Two
Girl With A Little Black Number (James Grant)
Writing’s On The Wall (Norman Blake)
Rosus Posus (Instrumental)
Seemed She Always Knew (James Grant)
There’s Always Something You Can Change (Bernard Butler)

Butler Blake & Grant debut album was
home recorded in Norman Blake’s cottage loving room, mixed in London by Bernard Butler, and mastered by George Shilling. The album is out March 28th on 355 Recordings.