Category: Track of the week

Track of the week 29/5/16
I’ve always liked this track – not that I ever feel under pressure: life’s too short. Whatever the problem, tomorrow morning the sun will rise and the world will turn;

Change what you can
But what you can’t leave it alone
Have the sense to know the difference between the two

… but that’s a Marvyn Gaye lyric from a different song (Change what you can) …

Track of the week 22/5/16

Currently playing regularly on my “Cheese on Toast” playlist, I remember loving this when it first came out (reckon I’d have been about six?) – a Top of the Pops favourite.

A sad, but uplifting song with a hint of whimsy:

We had joy had fun

We had seasons in the sun

But the stars we could reach

Were just starfish on the beach

I always thought that it was his lament and farewell as he was dying, but a quick check on Wikipedia shows that he’s still alive and kicking. And that’s good.

Track of the week 15/5/16

This one’s due to the wonder that is YouTube.

Although a little frightening that it knows my tastes so well, I love the YouTube MyMix playlist – obviously it plays tracks you’ve watched before, but also throws in some vids that you haven’t watched, but thinks you might like.

And this is how I discovered this track.  No idea of its discography, when it was released, genre etc., but I know I like it, so much so that it has made it onto my iPod as a purchased song and now elevated to the glory that is “Track of the Week.”

(A great running track, too. I like to have it kick in near the end of my run – about 2 k out.)

Track of the week 8/5/16
No back story, no particular reason why, just a great uplifting feel good song that you just have to sing along to, and that is enough to make the cut as this week’s track of the week.

Track of the week 1/5/16
Whitney’s original was always a bit too schmaltzy and saccharine, but I do like this “danced” up version of “I Will Always Love You” by Sarah Washington. Takes me back to my time in Germany, when I’d only just met Becky. I knew then, as I still do now, that I would always love her.

I like the sentiment and the lyrics:

I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you’ve dreamed of
And I wish you joy and happiness
But above all this I wish you love

What more could you wish for for someone?

And that is why it makes the cut as a track of the week.

Track of the week 24/4/16

A sad week that saw the passing of Prince.

Always a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, I had the album “Purple Rain” on cassette tape and remember listening to it on loooooong train journeys – often from the furthest reaches of northern Scotland to the civilization that was London, whilst serving at some far-flung outpost (think RAF Kinloss, RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Leuchars – the latter of which was at least only 50 mins beyond Edinburgh, unlike the first two which really were at the ends of the earth.)

A couple of years ago, I bought the album on CD and was pleased to discover it has stood the test of time, and still worth a listen. Finding Prince’s work online is not easy – he protected his copyright vigorously (fair enough), so all the more important to own a physical copy.

He also wrote a lot of great music – I knew he wrote “Nothing Compares 2 U” which was brilliantly performed by Sinead O’Connor, I didn’t know that he wrote “Manic Monday” by The Bangles, but he did, and that is enough to make it my track of the week

Track of the week 17/4/16
Bit of a hidden gem from back in the day. Always liked this song, but it never really got much traction or exposure (although I’ve since discovered – the beauty that is Google – that it reached 8 in the charts in ’89.)
House at its best. Enjoy.

Track of the week 10/4/16
Have always liked this track by The Mighty Wah – for me, it just eclipses their more famous The Story of the Blues but that may well be because I heard “Come Back ” first. Anyway, both cracking tunes.

But, and there is a but,watching the videos of both songs, one quickly realises that Pete Wylie can’t dance, and his acting is not up to much, either. Didn’t matter back in the (pre-MTV) day, but it’d probably cost him today.

Track of the week 3/4/16

Despite my suave, sophisticated demeanor I must confess that I am a bit of a sucker for some 70’s disco and this track from “The Real Thing” has been a guilty pleasure of mine for some time.

I’ll always remember the look of disdain and disgust that Sophie threw me as I shimmied into the sitting room whilst listening to this on my iPod. It is a tune that defies you to sit still, you just have to get up and shake your stuff when it hits your ears.

Track of the week 27/3/16
A mix of sun & showers today made this an appropriate tune for track of the week.

Always reminds me of my first few weeks of IOT (basic training when I joined the RAF). I have a recollection of this belting out through the block one Sunday afternoon after we had got back from some march/run/nav ex through the local Lincolnshire countryside. Have always liked the song since. Happy days!