#SweetKeys 29 - Sheena Easton - 101 (Def House Mix-Extended Club Version) Sheena+Prince+Morales= 🚨 Banger 🚨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JblV...

#SweetKeys 28 - CMAT - Take a Sexy Picture of Me All together now: I did the butcher, I did the baker I did the home and the family maker I did school girl fantasies Oh, I did leg things and hand stuff And single woman banter Now tell me, what was in it for me? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU-q...

#SweetKeys 27 - Cocteau Twins - Alice One of the last songs they released and one of their most haunting ones. Never included in a studio album, so probably not very well known. www.youtube.com/watch?v=su2s...

#SweetKeys 26 - PJ Harvey - Let England Shake Very few artists have a career path as interesting as PJ's her records exist in a world of their own and belong to a genre only she belongs to. An extraordinary, unique talent still making incredible music 30+ years on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tFB...

#SweetKeys 25 - The Cure - Close to Me www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjvf...

#SweetKeys 24 - Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmr...

#SweetKeys 23 - Laufey - Madwoman The fact that young people might be into this kind of thing gives me some hope for the future of humanity. I knew nothing about this young woman until a few days ago, now I know this insanely catchy tune and I think I’m happier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNa8...

#SweetKeys 22 - The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations There are about six hundred people playing in this (brilliant) record so I assume that at least 15 of them play something with keyboards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=apBW...

#SweetKeys 21 - Orange Juice - Rip It Up We said goodbye to our friend Andrew today, this is dedicated to him. 🤍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcRA...

#SweetKeys 20 - King - The Taste of Your Tears www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAmw...

#SweetKeys 19 - Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXmA...

#SweetKeys 18 - The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WCn...

If you only read one book this year, read this. #BookSky

#WeekendSingles #RSD Morning everyone: I was first in the RSD queue and got all I wanted! The 7”s are another present from my friend @showbizwhines.bsky.social

In Worthing drinking beer at the end of the pier (rhyme not intended). Have a great weekend everyone and good luck at #RecordStoreDay tomorrow

#SweetKeys 17 - Air - Alone in Kyoto www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0SV...

#SweetKeys 16 - Double - The Captain of Her Heart www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Qf...

#SweetKeys 15 - Elton John - Song for Guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ_H...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 15 - Padam Padam So good to have our Kylie back in the charts with a bona fide summer banger (and one of her best songs) 30+ years into her music career. Thanks to the lovely Yuri and Drew for another fun challenge. ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Cn...

#SweetKeys 14 - Annie Lennox - Why A lovely bit of melodrama from Annie... 🩷🧡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG7I...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 14 - 2 Hearts Bit of a head-scratcher: a faithful cover of a 2-year-old song by little known duo Kish Mauve, different from anything she’d ever done and not particularly radio-friendly. Deserves a mention for its sheer oddness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQGU...

#SweetKeys 13 - David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul Reminds me of a friend who’s not with us anymore and I hope he’s somewhere out there hanging out with David whom he loved. 🤍 m.youtube.com/watch?v=18d_...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 13 - I Believe in You Scissor Sisters’ Jake and Babydaddy produced and co-wrote this, another smart collaboration that gave us a fantabulous disco stomper. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZp2...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 12 - Slow Not an obvious choice for a single, but a really inspired one that gave her yet another number one. Definitely a grower, not a shower. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omrp...

#SweetKeys 12 - Tori Amos - Silent All These Years My dog won’t bite if you sit real still.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSYr...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 11 - Can't Get You Out of My Head Insanely catchy pop masterpiece written, incongruously, by Cathy Dennis and the guy from Mud (!) It was inescapable for the best part of a year and it was absolute heaven. Kylie was back baby! www.youtube.com/watch?v=c184...

#SweetKeys 11 - Craig Armstrong ft Elizabeth Fraser - This Love The missing link between Massive Attack’s Protection & Mezzanine doesn’t feature any any member of the band itself. Gorgeous song and a breathtaking performance from Scotland’s finest daughter. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvC...

#WeekendSingles Got Gina X and Ryan Paris this week so I thought I’d do a Euro special 🇪🇺

#CDFriday Just in: The Jam’s Compact Snap and a brilliant 60’s girls comp (70 tracks for 98p!)

#SweetKeys 10 - Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart The weekend starts here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAa...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 10 - G.B.I. Poor Kylie must have been resigned to making excellent records and selling very few of them. This brilliant collaboration with Deee-Lite’s Towa Tei should've been an international bestseller, but obviously it wasn’t. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYHZ...

#SweetKeys 9 - Grace Jones - La Vie En Rose My favourite of her 70s output. www.youtube.com/watch?v=41S8...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 9 - Did It Again Kylie goes ROCK, well, sort of. Another bold-ish move that unfortunately didn’t translate into big sales, as I said yesterday, the world wasn’t ready... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmQJ...

#SweetKeys 8 - The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack The Las’ mini-opera is all sorts of amazingness, packing tons of action in three minutes. Also, fantastic hairdos. What more could you ask for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dX...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 8 - Some Kind of Bliss The world wasn’t ready for Indie Kylie and the whole Impossible Princess project was not the success it deserved to be despite great contributions & marketing and Ms M. looking rather fine in the videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdfP...

#SweetKeys 7 - Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Wait It Is Say what you want about the 80s, but I can’t imagine a piano driven song about racial and class injustice going top 20 worldwide and number one in the US in 2026. I’d love to be proven wrong, though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlRQ...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 7 - Where the Wild Roses Grow I don’t think many people were expecting a Bad Seeds collaboration, but that’s what we got and thus Indie-Kylie was upon us. In less than a decade we’d gone from conveyor belt pop to murder ballads. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBq_...

#SweetKeys 6 - Suzanne Vega/Joe Jackson - Left of Center Gorgeous meeting of the minds, I never tire of listening to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YIB...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 6 - Confide in Me Who’d have thought that Kylie would have a future after her S/A/W era and that that future would start with such an incredible song (and video, which still makes me question my sexuality). Absolute top stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxZk...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 5 - Finer Feelings Mid-tempo Kylie is probably my favourite kind of Kylie, this one veers dangerously towards heartfelt ballad territory, but it gets a pass because it’s Kylie. Doesn’t get the love it deserves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmb...

#SweetKeys 5 - Joni Mitchell - Down to You Court & Spark features many tracks that would work, but DtY with its unexpected emotional twists and turns and those heart-wrenching lyrics feels like the right choice. That “love is gone” choir gives me proper goosebumps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Zg...

Some 7s Andrew gave me. I didn’t know him well at all, but from what I could tell he was in real life like he was in his posts: friendly, kind, enthusiastic about music, non-judgmental and generous. We really lost a great person and I’m sure I won’t be alone in missing him here on #WeekendSingles

We did a 9-mile walk today: the Regent’s Canal towpath in London from Little Venice all the way to Limehouse. 32408 steps. 😅

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 4 - Give Me Just a Little More Time Kylie’s cover versions usually make me hit the skip button at the speed of sound, not this one. Have to say though that, a) I don’t know the original and b) it reminds me of a very happy time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyOn...

#SweetKeys 4 - Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcko...

#SweetKeys 3 - The Style Council - The Paris Match Just discovered that there is a more stripped down AND longer version of this beauty - can’t get too much of a good thing. I fantasise that when I see Tracy and Ben next month, Mick will come out and they play this www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6NY...

#ArtistFave15 Kylie - Chronological 3 - What Do I Have to Do? This completes one of my favourite ever trios of singles, crazy that none of these was number one in the UK. Either way, Kylie showed us she was no pop poppet and 35 years later, we’re still listening.❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGxJ...

#SweetKeys 2. New Order - Thieves Like Us Dedicated to a friend who’s not with us anymore. 🤍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv9c...