#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky Another early rise and with something a bit chilled while making breakfast ☕ 🥯 From 1961 and 64 today... music.apple.com/gb/album/som...

#SimpleMindsTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky *Ranked* ✨20✨ Premonition From the hugely experimental 2nd album; Real to Real Cacophony. youtu.be/VmyxdlRoYY8?...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨21✨ Five Years Arguably his best intro. The 16yr old me would smack 56yr old me...no.21 🫣 "Pushing through the market square. So many mothers sighing. News had just come over. We had five years left to cry in" youtu.be/8gPSGrpIlkc?...

#PowerPopOfTheDay #MusicChallenge #MusicSky ✨December 11✨ The Airport 77s - 'She's Everything' youtu.be/5JOK6i7_mps?...

#PowerPopOfTheDay #MusicChallenge #MusicSky ✨December 10✨ J.Fla - 'One Sweet Day in Paris' youtu.be/swZ9w-kwXYE?...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨22✨ Fashion The wonderful Robert Fripp on guitar. This song I always felt could have been written by Talking Heads. "We are the goon squad and we're coming to town...beep-beep" youtu.be/uA3TigytSew?...

#SimpleMindsTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky *Ranked* ✨21✨ Constantinople Line From the wonderful 'Empires & Dance' an album I always felt is their 'Station to Station'. The influence of Bowie and Kraftwerk drips from it. This is the start of their golden period.. music.apple.com/gb/album/con...

The Long Ryders tour 🇪🇺Europe behind a new album in April & May. All our 2026 gigs are listed at sidgriffin.com/tour-dates/ (scroll down to April 22) and here is a sweet, short promo video for May 9 in Rallapaviljongen, on the beautiful island called Oland.

Aztec Camera performing Walk Out to Winter live on Switch in 1983

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky Storm Bram about to begin with multiple Yellow weather warnings covering us for the next 24hrs. We're Scots, we'll just put another vest on. Digging out the trusty Storm playlist for the second time this season ☕ 🥣 ☕ music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

#PowerPopOfTheDay #MusicChallenge #MusicSky ✨December 9✨ Pugwash - 'It's Nice to be Nice' youtu.be/bgVwfeCgZKQ?...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨23✨ I Can't Give Everything Away The last track on the last studio album... youtu.be/OZscv36UUHo?...

#SimpleMindsTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky *Ranked* ✨22✨ Sound In 70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall Mick MacNeils shmmering synth breaks for what we like to call Charlies 'cow' riff "When the other-side of midnight calls. Remind me I'm glad to be here" music.apple.com/gb/album/70-...

#NowPlaying #MusicSky #JohnLennon 45yrs ago today 😢 music.apple.com/gb/album/joh...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨24✨ The Man Who Sold The World "You're face to face with the man who sold the world..." music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#PowerPopOfTheDay #MusicChallenge #MusicSky ✨December 8✨ Catholic Guilt - 'Can You See Me' youtu.be/JGigs2iDgAk?...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky The peerless Tom Waits is 76 today. Something from his years on Asylum Records to enjoy over breakfast ☕ 🥞 🫐 music.apple.com/gb/album/blu...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨25✨ Where Are We Now My favourite song on 'The Next Day'. The melancholy is so strong. One of the best lyrics he ever did and it was from album no.25 which is in itself quite something. youtu.be/QWtsV50_-p4?...

#PowerPopOfTheDay #MusicChallenge #MusicSky ✨December 7✨ The Lemon Twigs - 'My Golden Years' youtu.be/jnylB5ylyw4?...

#PowerPopOfTheDay #MusicChallenge #MusicSky ✨December 6✨ The Manic Standstill - 'Go Away' youtu.be/GlNzdODJ4K0?...

#1985AlbumsTop20 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky ✨1✨ Scritti Politti - 'Cupid & Psyche 85' This is the perfect example of 80s pop music, along with ABC's 'Look of Love'. I mean that in a positive way. .. music.apple.com/gb/album/cup...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨26✨ Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) The first album of Bowie I bought with my own money and I've never looked back... youtu.be/1E4ITm2pEL4?...

#5DaysOfPowerPop #MusicChallenge I've stuck to songs/albums released in 2025... ✨Day 5✨ The Rallies - 'I Believe' Hailing from the Pacific NW with a new EP out right now. This is my favourite Power-Pop song of 2025... youtu.be/34mHV5Y2zNY?...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨27✨ Fame His first US No.1 and a co-write with John Lennon & Carlos Alomar's riff... "Fame, bully for you chilly for me..." youtu.be/enenlBsUrTI?...

#1985AlbumsTop20 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Albums not picked before by me... ✨2✨ Talking Heads - Little Creatures Still capable of making left field hit pop songs when they wanted to... music.apple.com/gb/album/lit...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky When you sit with the iPad during last night's football and create a Winter album playlist ☕ 🥯 music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨28✨ Rock 'n' Roll Suicide Has one of my very favourite outro's "Just turn on with me, and you're not alone...Give me your hands, 'cause you're wonderful" youtu.be/lJQf-gcG-g4?...

#1985AlbumsTop20 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Albums not picked before by me... ✨3✨ Hüsker Dü - 'New Day Rising' The 3rd, and my favourite, Hüsker Dü album... music.apple.com/gb/album/new...

#5DaysOfPowerPop #MusicChallenge I've stuck to songs/albums released in 2025... ✨Day 4✨ 20/20 - 'Back to California' With the first new record in over 25 years. This is the lead single, and the title track, from the new album. A return of a leading light of 80s power-pop youtu.be/dV11RHWIke8?...

R.I.P. legendary Stax Records guitarist Steve Cropper

#NowPlaying #MusicSky A joyous noise from last nights Late Show as Jason Isbell gets back with the Drive-By Truckers... youtu.be/Z7n3s5_M570?...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky A giant of a record turns 60 today. Skipping around the kitchen preparing breakfast this is perfection ☕ 🥯 music.apple.com/gb/album/rub...

#5DaysOfPowerPop #MusicChallenge I've stuck to songs/albums released in 2025... ✨Day 3✨ Ratboys - 'Anywhere' From Chicago, plenty albums deep at this point, it was the last album 'The Window' which broke the mould & pushed them on. This is from a new record due in 2026. youtu.be/KYUMoL9FrIA?...

#1985AlbumsTop20 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Albums not picked before by me... ✨4✨ The Apartments - 'The Evening Visits...And Stays for Years' The debut album out on Rough Trade. In 1985 I was still buying records based on the label alone....I miss those days music.apple.com/gb/album/the...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨29✨ 'John, I'm Only Dancing' (Single Version) A chequered release history with various versions. But it's the original 1972 version for me. youtu.be/lmVVyhpuFRc?...

New album from The Delines is being released March 6th by Decor Records. Available on CD, clear vinyl LP, and limited Blood Red vinyl exclusive to Rough Trade with a free CD of unreleased instrumentals

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨30✨ Queen Bitch From 'Hunky Dory' a song so good it was a b-side... "I'm up on the eleventh floor. And I'm watching the cruisers below. He's down on the street and he's trying hard to pull sister Flo" youtu.be/iuDJue0r2G8?...

#1985AlbumsTop20 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Albums not picked before by me... ✨5✨ Lone Justice - Lone Justice Welcome to the voice of Maria McKee... music.apple.com/gb/album/lon...

#5DaysOfPowerPop #MusicChallenge #MusicSky I've stuck to songs/albums released in 2025... ✨Day 2✨ The Beths - 'Straight Line Was a Lie' A New Zealand 4-piece now on their 4th album. Harmonies to die for & the group citing Rilo Kiley as an influence makes perfect sense... youtu.be/j42HHzUW1H0?...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky This morning's soundtrack is the 2017 release by Neil Young and the 2nd with Promise Of The Real as his band. Love this ongoing collaboration and it seems to have given him a real kick. It's 8yrs old today ☕ 🥯 music.apple.com/gb/album/the...

#5DaysOfPowerPop #MusicChallenge #MusicSky I've stuck to songs/albums released in 2025... ✨Day 1✨ Sugar - 'House of Dead Memories' The return of Sugar after 30yrs!! youtu.be/-S72djtUIFk?...

#1985AlbumsTop20 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Albums not picked before by me... ✨6✨ China Crisis - 'Flaunt the Imperfection' The sublime 3rd album. One of the best albums of the 80's. A joy... music.apple.com/gb/album/fla...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Top31DavidBowie *Ranked* ✨31✨ She Shook Me Cold From 'The Man Who Sold the World'. A pick for the Mick Ronson solo. I'm not one for guitar theatrics but I make an exception for Mick Ronson always... music.apple.com/gb/album/she...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky Wake up Sunday! Luckily my neighbour is old & losing his hearing...morning Adam...other wise this wouldn't be a mellow morning. 46 today...The Wall ☕ ☕ music.apple.com/gb/album/the...

#NotKnownEnough #MusicChallenge #MusicSky ✨30✨ Julia Holter Never dull and doesn't do the same thing twice. Singer/Songwriter, composer, producer and all round smarty pants. Love her music 🫶 music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#MusicChallenge #MusicInMusic #MusicSky 30 Built To Spill - Distopian Dream Girl "My stepfather looks just like David Bowie. He hates David Bowie. I think Bowie's cool. I think Lodger rules. I think my stepdad's a fool" I bet he can spell dystopian correctly though? youtu.be/MwP2p1Wq4aY?...

#1985AlbumsTop20 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Albums not picked before by me... ✨7✨ The Long Ryders - State of our Union They burned bright for 3yrs and 3 studio albums before first splitting. Finally got to see them at the QMU in 1985 and they were amazing... music.apple.com/gb/album/sta...

#5CoverSongsBlackFriday #NowPlaying #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 5. The Supremes - 'Can't Buy Me Love' Diana, Florence & Mary do John, Paul, George & Ringo No-one does The Beatles as well as Motown 🥰 youtu.be/hykN15gWKZM?...

#bbc6music I've had it with daytime BBC radio. Yet again the lead story on the news is an 'angry' story about immigrants. Why does a music station have a news bulletin at all. If I want ignorant scare stories about anyone non-white, non-christian I'll read a national newspaper. Sick of it 🤬