#20SongsByYear - 1971 4. Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft. doink, doink, doinkawakkaWAKKAwakka www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q429...

#20SongsByYear - 1971 Don McLean - Empty Chairs Perhaps if I hadn't heard the title song one bajillion times I might think differently but to me this is the best song on the American Pie album. Absolutely beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDjv...

#20SongsByYear - 1971 2. Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride To those of us of a certain age this will always bring back memories of Sunday lunchtime and Weekend World, dying for it to be over so we could see The Big Match www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPlx...

Let's have a go at a challenge then, and to kick things off it's Honey Cone, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Stick-up, highway robbery! #20SongsByYear - 1971 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gfz...

Today's 5-star song you may not have played recently Gladys Knight & The Pips - Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF8T...

Oh, what a great album this is. If you're a fan of The Shop Assistants, The Primitives, Sarah Records, etc, this is for you. Released in 2025 but sounds like 1986. Falkirk's The Cords

I've bought three new albums this month, it's like I'm back in the 90s again. After Tchotchke and Die Spitz, it's the posthumous Cardiacs currently (digitally) spinning here. There's lots to take in...

Really, really saddened by the death of Robert Redford. If he was in a film, you knew it was a good one.

I've been having quite a Walter Matthau season here. All the obvious ones (Pelham 123, Front Page, Odd Couple, etc) and trying some different ones. Hopscotch, a couple of days ago was great fun. Tonight, The Laughing Policeman. WM in a serious role, from the dir. of Cool Hand Luke.

You can stick yer Hundred up yer arse, you’ll never beat Blast Finals day.

Last night's movie: Hopscotch. Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston comedy-thriller. I loved it.

Me trying to get to sleep last night: My brain: I won't stop until I remember who did that instrumental song from the seventies that went like this... Me: I can't google that. ... ... ... An hour later: Eye Level! The Simon Park Orchestra!

RIP Terence Stamp. Tell St. Peter he's f**king coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Uz...

I've disappeared down a Yé-Yé rabbit hole. I may be some time.

My depression continues to plummet to new lows. Tonight, I was at least cheered up a little by my discovery of France Gall (don't mock me, I'd never heard of her before tonight). Isn't she great? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_k...

KEXP post a new Wedding Present session. Take Me! (with a new addition in the middle or, at least, one I'd not heard before) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCs...

It's staggering really. Propaganda was one of the very first albums I ever owned as a kid, and I'm now approaching 60 and they're still making great music. Happy birthday to the great man.

Name a song over 10 mins long. The Pooh Sticks - I'm In You. Epic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=G73Q...

50 years ago this week, Delilah hit the top 10 (as did The Stylistics' I Can't Give You Anything). www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBYo...

I heard O Superman tonight for the first time in, I suppose, 40 years. Hated it then, really got into it now. Almost tempted to get the album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfp...

I must have played this 30 times in the past few weeks. Proper feel-good song from my wee years. Frankie Miller - Be Good To Yourself www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXGh...

RIP Flaco Jimenez. I saw him play live in a small venue around 1988 and had a cracking good night.

I've got into the habit of rewatching old movies, seeing them again after far too many years away. I hate to be one of those people but...they don't make 'em like they used to. Anyway, after Network yesterday I'm following a Dunaway trail with Three Days of the Condor tonight.

In memory of Ryne Sandberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b6P...

Would've been Kim's 62nd today. Man, The Muffs were great, and she was a force of nature. So sad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFj0...

wanna hear Trevor Horn, Lol Creme and others play Two Tribes? www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBWY...

This is fascinating, and a real time capsule. All 29 issues of Slash magazine available to read online. It's so amazing to read about songs we know all about now, and how they were received at the time. archive.org/details/slas...

Crap result, but a good time was had at the ENG-IND women's cricket T20 tonight

Wanna get really, REALLY angry? I mean blood-spitting, fire and brimstone angry? Check out Ultimate Classic Rock's "Top 50 American Bands of All Time" ultimateclassicrock.com/top-50-ameri...

Fair's fair, I had a whinge earlier but Glastonbury today was fantastic. This is the best Neil Young show I've seen, and I'll never tire of hearing him do Harvest Moon.

It's better than nothing, obviously, but the BBC coverage of Glastonbury pisses me off every year. There's so much live stuff going on, and instead they show repeats not only from this year but from older events. And then there's the links and interviews, sigh...

#10KinksKovers 10. Better Things - Fountains of Wayne And so, to the general apathy of all, the list ends. I enjoyed it, anyway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n0F...

#10KinksKovers 9. Days - Kirsty MacColl If I had a quid for every time I've played this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOp...

#10KinksKovers 8. Love Me Till the Sun Shines - Lyres One of my favourite bands covers another. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFqf...

#10KinksKovers 7. You Really Got Me - The Hammersmith Gorillas Main man Jesse Hector had really the most spectacular sideburns. I'm very jealous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5h...

#10KinksKovers 6. Lola - Cud www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVv2...

#10KinksKovers 5. The Jam - David Watts www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm72...

#10KinksKovers 4: Balduin - Autumn Almanac Quite a faithful cover, really, considering he's known for a lot of knob-twiddling www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpg...

#10KinksKovers 3. The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQWk...

Day 2, and my favourite one Young Fresh Fellows - Picture Book #10KinksKovers www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne_G...

Just for the fun of it, 10 days of Kinks cover versions #10KinksKovers 1. The Fall - Victoria www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0I2...

post a banger that's not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcH4...

FWIW, and speaking as a die-hard Labour voter of 40 years, they'll not get my vote as long as Starmer and his ilk are running the show. Simply being 'not the Tories' is not enough.

jeez, Britpop was so much more than just the Big 4. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time but there were some bloody great songs like... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRgm...

#5CoverSongsPunk 5. Angelic Upstarts - We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Animals cover) Sad this challenge is over. I wish it was #100CoverSongsPunk :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGA0...

#5CoverSongsPunk 4. The Boys - I Call Your Name (The Beatles / Billy J. Kramer cover) www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTUS...

#5CoverSongsPunk 3. The Saints - Lipstick On Your Collar (Connie Francis cover) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayL1...

There will have to be a quite spectacular record to beat Brian D'Addario's (he of The Lemon Twigs) solo album. I've played it solidly for a week and it's just utterly brilliant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-b...

#5CoverSongsPunk 2. Splodgenessabounds - Have You Got a Light Boy? (The Singing Postman cover) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KRM...

#5CoverSongsPunk 1. Armitage Shanks - GLC (Menace cover) www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnWS...