Two months after the first post, I make a return. Oops. I'm sure the first rule of blogging and attracting an audience was to make the content of your blog interesting/informative/profane/whatever it takes to get people reading. Once you've done that you need to make sure the content is updated regularly to keep them coming back. Haven't done too well on either of those...
I mentioned in the last post that one of the previous blogs I've written was based around the Five-A-Day recommendation, but using (often) loosely connected songs around a theme. A few friends have asked what happened to this, probably not enough to justify the use of the phrase "back by popular demand" but enough to make me think it was worth another punt.
Apparently yesterday was Blue Monday, the most miserable day of the year. What better a theme to build a Five-A-Day around? It's the post-Christmas period, we're all skint, miserable and an evening of aural doom and gloom can seem as comforting as a slanket. Add in the fact a self-proclaimed Grumpy Scot is choosing the songs and surely misery is guaranteed? No. Being a contrary fucker the obvious thing to do is choose five songs that ought to make you grin like a loon. If none of these songs even raise a smile then either you're beyond all hope or I'm more fucked than previously thought.
Frank Zappa: Bobby Brown Goes Down
This might be seen as juvenile by some, but I'm sorry, this never fails to makes me smile. The fact the "cutest boy in town" ends up in a leisure suit with a spindle up his butt only makes things sweeter.
The Gourds: Gin and Juice
Hicks do hip hop. The original was Snoop Doggy Dogg's second single and a seminal chunk of mid-90s rap. The Gourds take the story of a house party in LA fuelled by weed and gin, keep exactly the same lyrics yet somehow manage to evoke the type of moonshine-powered hoedown in the muddy backyard of a farm in the arse-end of the arsehole of nowhere. What's not to like about it?
The Flaming Lips: Christmas at the Zoo
Christmas Eve, Wayne Coyne decides to free the animals from the zoo. Animals agree that they aren't happy in the zoo but they'd prefer to free themselves. Wayne walks off whistling to himself, safe in the knowledge he's written one of the greatest Christmas themed songs of all time that will sounds even better a few weeks later in deep mid-January.
Underworld: Rez
No words, just several minutes of perfect electronic noise that ought to banish even the coldest, shittiest January night.
Toots and the Maytals: Pressure Drop
Sunshine on wax/plastic/mp3. I think I've owned this on pretty much every format and have played it to death on all of them without the song ever losing its ability to transport from any given place to somewhere infinitely warmer, sunnier and more settled.
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