#OrchestralManoeuvres #MusicChallenge ✨ Day 5 ✨ Frankie Goes to Hollywood - 'Two Tribes (Carnage Mix)' This is the string heavy mix and all overseen by Mr Trevor Horn. The voice of Patrick Allen..." When you hear the air attack warning" youtu.be/uxHqaiJmJH8?...

#OrchestralManoeuvres #MusicChallenge ✨ Day 4 ✨ Mercury Rev - 'The Dark is Rising' Mercury Rev were made for this challenge. Big, bold dramatic songs with 'Deserter Songs' packed with them. This is from the follow-up, 'All Is Dream' and tops the lot... music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky Early start this morning & it's The Cure as my soundtrack ☕ 🥞 It's Lol Tolhurst's birthday today, so I'm digging out Pornography as I shuffle round the kitchen. I'm of an age where he's still in The Cure…and still on drums! music.apple.com/gb/album/por...

#OrchestralManoeuvres #MusicChallenge ✨ Day 3 ✨ Massive Attack 'Live With Me' The wonderful vocals of Terry Callier are matched by the strings which carry the entire track especially this mix... music.apple.com/gb/album/liv...

See you in the Fort!

#last4albums Bonus points for the David Crosby ❤️ A mellow morning here also…well until Physical Graffiti went on

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky The wonderful Graham Nash is 84 today. This is still one of the most perfect singer/songwriter albums of the 70s and sounds so good this morning ☕ 🥣 music.apple.com/gb/album/son...

#OrchestralManoeuvres #MusicChallenge ✨ Day 2 ✨ Portishead - 'Roads' (Live From The Roseland Ballroom, NYC) The amazing Portishead playing the Roseland Ballroom with the band's own, Adrian Utley, doing the string arrangements. youtu.be/qj3QPx089g4?...

#OrchestralManoeuvres #MusicChallenge ✨ Day 1 ✨ Isaac Hayes - 'Walk On By' You need the full 22mins of this epic. String arrangements by the legendary Johnny Allen who worked for both Motown and Stax youtu.be/SQ2VNZe8mSM?...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky A stunner of a 'live' record for the morning routine today. Van never sounded so good. It's 52 today ☕ 🥞 music.apple.com/gb/album/its...

#MusicChallenge #5CoverSongsRelation ✨ Day 5 ✨ Lucinda Williams: “Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” music.apple.com/gb/album/mam...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky Hands down my favourite singer bar none. His classic 4th record is 54 today and perfect this morning round the kitchen ☕ 🥐 music.apple.com/gb/album/let...

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 31 ✨ Nina Simone: 'I Loves You, Porgy' music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 30✨ Wynton Marsalis: 'Bourbon Street Parade' music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky New Order's groundbreaking 5th album is 37 today ☕ 🥣 music.apple.com/gb/album/tec...

#MusicChallenge #5CoverSongsRelation ✨ Day 4 ✨ Grateful Dead: 'Mama Tried' Bob & Jerry et al. do Merle Anyone who knows me knows I will put a Grateful Dead track into every challenge if I can. RIP Bob “Dear old Daddy, rest his soul, left my Mom a heavy load” youtu.be/9oWar5rxzUM?...

#RadioheadTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶 1 🎶 High and Dry Just adore this song. You can get me in the car just belting this out….scares the hell out of the dog. “They're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world all sussed out” youtu.be/7qFfFVSerQo?...

#last4albums An eclectic 4 to say the least this morning…

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 29 ✨ Dave Brubeck: Take Five music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#RadioheadTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶 2 🎶 How To Disappear Completely My favourite song from 'Kid A'. Beautiful strings with the band joining one by one until by the end the whole band glides along as one. “In a little while, I'll be gone…” music.apple.com/gb/album/how...

#MusicChallenge #5CoverSongsRelation ✨ Day 3 ✨ Aretha Franklin: 'Son of a Preacher Man' Aretha does Dusty… “Billy Ray was a preacher's son…” music.apple.com/gb/album/son...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky This morning's breakfast soundtrack is from last's night's Jimmy Kimmel Live…the wonderful Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit ☕ 🥯 youtu.be/7EdYW0Wdeuo?...

#MusicChallenge #5CoverSongsRelation ✨ Day 2 ✨ Roy Ayers Ubiquity: 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone' First heard this on the Freak Zone on 6Music. A groove so good I threw my back out getting down... music.apple.com/gb/album/pap...

#RadioheadTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶 3 🎶 Fake Plastic Trees I like to go back and read what was said about these records at the time and my god the critics wrote some crap...what's new. No wonder I stopped buying the NME around 1986. youtu.be/yudEj4W1TjU

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 28 ✨ Kirk Whalum: 'You are Everything' music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

Thanks @heraldscotland.bsky.social & @thetimes.com for covering our study of what BBC Radio Scotland has been playing in the late-night slots. Since they dropped curated specialist shows: • New music fell 69% • New Scottish music by independent artists fell 67% All data: constantfollower.com

#StormChandra #NowPlaying #MusicSky Well Storm Chandra begins ⛈️ A WFH day if ever there was one. A playlist Storm themed to carry us through… music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

#PowerPopOfTheDay #NowPlaying ✨January 27✨ Ryan Allen - 'Anxious All The Time' youtu.be/7zJyDTf-KOE?...

#5DebutAlbums9094 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky The perfect antidote to 'Gangsta' which was now (1992) the dominant force... ✨Day 5✨ Arrested Development - "3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of" music.apple.com/gb/album/3-y...

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 27 ✨ Billie Holiday - 'Strange Fruit' music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#RadioheadTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶 4 🎶 Reckoner My final song from 'In Rainbows'. A song that builds and builds and then soars. The best song on the album... "Dedicated to all you. All human beings" youtu.be/i9rN9eY2hRc?...

#MusicChallenge #5CoverSongsRelation ✨ Day 1 ✨ Margo Timmins - 'Father and Son' Margo does Cat. From Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) solo debut in 2009. "All the times that I've cried. Keepin' all the things I knew inside It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it" music.apple.com/gb/album/fat...

#RadioheadTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶 5 🎶 Pyramid Song God, I loved this when it came out. Even by what was their new standard this was so 'out there' in terms of structure and sound for a rock group. Seemed almost stream of conscience. youtu.be/3M_Gg1xAHE4?...

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 26 ✨ Brad Mehldau: 'Southern Belle' music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#5DebutAlbums9094 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky The first album I'd heard where it wasn't about the hard man role that hip-hop had got itself into and would become toxic. ✨Day 4✨ A Tribe Called Quest: 'People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm' music.apple.com/gb/album/peo...

#5DebutAlbums9094 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky After Public Enemy this is my favourite debut in hip-hop, maybe even the best full stop? The lyrical delivery was unique at the time but now has been copied forever. ✨Day 3✨ 'illmatic': Nas music.apple.com/gb/album/ill...

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 25 ✨ Sarah Vaughan: 'Bianca' music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#RadioheadTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶 6 🎶 Idioteque music.apple.com/gb/album/idi...

#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky #SoulSky This morning's breakfast shuffle is 54 today ☕ 🥯 music.apple.com/gb/album/you...

#RadioheadTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶 7 🎶 Nude My last, but one, track from 'In Rainbows'. “Don't get any big ideas. They're not gonna happen...” youtu.be/9cBUrIw2sQk?...

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 24 ✨ Huntertones: 'Saturday Spin' music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#5DebutAlbums9094 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Packed with Jazz samples from, Coltrane to Sun Ra. The literary references fly from, Karl Marx to Albert Camus. Such a fresh and imaginative record. ✨Day 2✨ Digable Planets: 'Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)' music.apple.com/gb/album/rea...

#5DebutAlbums9094 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky The 90's were odd. Wearied of guitar pop and the emergence of what would became 'Britpop'. US mainstream was dire. But I found hip-hop was doing exciting things... ✨Day 1✨ 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' - Wu-Tang Clan music.apple.com/gb/album/ent...

Today would have been Malcolm McLaren’s 80th birthday. To celebrate here’s one of my favourite pop singles ever made. youtu.be/STCTCgQ3XJU?...

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 23 ✨ Alfredo Rodriguez & Elif Sanchez - 'Besame Mucho music.apple.com/gb/music-vid...

#RadioheadTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶 8 🎶 The National Anthem Looking at the archive, the hate for 'Kid A' and this song in particular was ridiculous. Another reason why 90% of critics are simply attention seekers wanting to be seen as 'cool'. I love this... www.reddit.com/r/radiohead/...

#RadioheadTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 🎶 9 🎶 Exit Music (For a Film) My final song from 'OK Computer' and it's a cracker...epic doesn't do it justice. "Wake from your sleep. The drying of your tears. Today, we escape, we escape..." youtu.be/16izdtkzEz8?...

#JazzInJanuary #MusicChallenge #JazzSky ✨ Day 22 ✨ 'Cool Eyes' - Horace Silver Quintet youtu.be/73pex5SGd0Y?...