Tracks - page 41

Here’s Doves performing a very tidy acoustic version of Kingdom of Rust in front of the third largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world (aka the Lovell Telescope, but then you knew that already,...

Happy talking, talking happy talk… win yourself a cheap tray…

An obvious choice for today - after many years and near misses, this evening I’ll finally get to see Blur play live.

The lovely Patio Song, from the lovely Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, from their album Barafundle, named after a bay in south Wales. I was there last month, and guess what? It’s lovely.

Another day, another train journey, this time in the company of the latter day Syd Barrett: Robyn Hitchcock. Here, the Cambridge surrealist offers up a typically dreamy world, and the only lyric that I’m aware...

We start August’s playlist, naturally enough, with a journey home, and a sweet and tender song about making that journey. It’s the opening track from Elbow’s third and should-have-been-the-breakthrough album Leaders of the Free World....

If the performance of this track from Orbital’s 2012 album Wonky at the 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony doesn’t touch you even in some small way, or give you the chills at least once then please...

1995, Glastonbury, Saturday, headlining the main stage, Pulp bring out a new song...

God, all those songs about how great life is and how happy the singer is, how in love with everything they are, and yadda yadda yadda life is beautiful, even when its just boiled down...

Not in the least bit ugly, if you ask me. Pretty, and sunny, and pretty sunny.

Occasionally I manage to step out of the wallow-pool for long enough to post a new track or two. This is where you’ll find any new music that catches my ear.

Sunny here, sunny there, sunny everywhere.

Happy up here, happy over there, happy everywhere.

For anyone who has a case of the mondays, here’s Grant-Lee Phillips, several releases into his post-Grant Lee Buffalo, post-post-Shiva Burlesque solo career, and finally writing a song with the word happiness in the title...

If I’d been recording a clip of myself holding up my favourite music for this fan-sourced video, what would I be holding? Pink Moon? Tindersticks’ second album?

Probably closer to the truth, actually.

This is me most nights, as it happens.

Still a cracking tune. Still a lousy video. This appears to be the 1995 version of the single - straight in at 19 almost 18 years ago to the day, the week after Pulp’s Common...

Plenty of sunshine in this one, plenty of big, bright 70s blocks of colour, plenty of samples, and a little cut and paste spiritual feelgoodery.

A massive #62 hit from April 2007. A song not in the least bit about Australia. A summer playlist entry that is mostly filmed in a rainswept used car lot. Oh, but so much sweeter...