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In Your Eyes 

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One of my greatest musical regrets was turning down the offer of a ticket to see Godspeed! You Black Emperor in the mid 90s. At the time I had never heard of them and the offer came from a friend who had a penchant for thrash metal so I assumed that they would not be to my taste. Very shortly afterwards I have discovered just how exciting and creative a band they are. This is one track that may be familiar to some - it was used as the theme tune to the zombie movie, 28 Days Later.

 

 

 

A Silver Mt Zion - Movie (Never Made)

 

 

Having missed out on Godspeed, I did get to see Mogwai just after they released the album Young Team. They finished their set with this track, Mogwai Fear Satan. I seem to recall that much of the audience was in a daze afterwards - an absolute powerhouse of a track that blew me away with its raw energy.

 

 

Portuguese Joe With The Tennessee Rockabillys - Portuguese Boogie [1957]

 

Buzzcocks - Breakdown [1976]

 

Syd Barrett - Birdie Hop [1970]

 

Woodcraft Folk - English Scheme [2011 cover]

 

The Fall - Shake-Off [1999]

 

Anne Briggs - Sandman's Song [1971]

 

 

Hefner - Alan Bean [2001]

 

Front 242 - Body To Body [1986 Peel Session]

 

Kleenex - Hedi's Head [1978]

 

Fanclub - Leaves [2018]

 

Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog [1961]

 

Speedball Baby - Asphalt Blues [2002]

 

Perfect music for the hammock

 

The ability to change tempo and mood successfully, the hallmark of many a great musician.

 

 

Far out, Huw.

 

Hefner - Pull Yourself Together [1998]

 

Dreamers Cloth - The Coconut Pearl B1 [2008]

 

Shop Assistants - Something To Do and Dreaming Backwards [1984]

 

Artie Shaw - The Glider [1947]

 

Killing Joke - Follow The Leaders [1981]

 

Coh & Cosey Fanni Tutti - Lying [2008]

 

The ability to change tempo and mood successfully, the hallmark of many a great musician.
 
 

Thanks for this, I’m painting the house right now so earphones plugged in the iPod and away I go [emoji51]
Long time since I played any Dire Straits but this album brings back great memories !!

A far cry from the stardom of the late 70’s and most of the 80’s ( with a short reprise in the early 90’s ) which followed Dire Straits around.
Here’s Mark teaming up with James Taylor on an unusual song about the Mason - Dixon line but it works very well and indeed the whole album has some great songs with Mark’s excellent, if slightly restrained, playing.

Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia

Here’s another great tune from the same album with Van Morrison.

 

A great team up of two distinctive voices !!

 

 

https://youtu.be/Kr0vuvEyrtE

 

 

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Sunset Strip

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