Cherry blossom girl – Random gum – June 2018
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01 The Shacks – “Let Your Love”
For all the beautiful negative Geminis
02 Lhasa de Sela – “Abro la Ventana”
I hate stumbling onto beautiful contemporary music only after the artist has died.
03 Vessels, John Grant – “Erase the Tapes” …Fear, fear has never got you anywhere/It’s all a misunderstanding, a vague distraction…
Thanks to J
04 Alberteen – “Our Dead Language”
Thanks to Ade
05 The Beatles – “All My Loving”
One of those infectious tunes that gets stuck in your mind, “Close your eyes, and I’ll kiss you”
06 Lucy Dacus – “Troublemaker Doppelganger”
“I wanna live in a world where I can keep my doors wide open”
07 Add N to (X) – “Plug Me In”
Thanks to SD… button yersel up all wrong there, hen. Unless you’re wearing a vest…
08 Nine Inch Nails – “Sin”
Heading to high school & “head like a ho” at Depeche Mode with Leighanne and Terra
09 The Mogambos – “Bi-Aza-Ku-Sasa”
MOGAMBO!
10 Wire – “Eardrum Buzz”
Shaving buzzes. Love to J
11 Kacy & Clayton – “Springtime of the Year”
As a long winter finally gives way to spring
12 Haley Heynderickx – “Worth It”
“Maybe I, maybe I’ve been selfish all along/Finally I’m ready for the silence/Finally I’m ready for nothing”
13 Muzsikás – “En csak azt csodálom”
Hungary
14 Abraxas – “Bisexual Random Trout”
Random disco-ish
15 Zaki Ibrahim – “Profantasies”
South Africa-Canada
16 Hot Chip – “One Life Stand”
True words.
17 Faith Healer – “Light of Loving”
18 U.S. Girls – “Rosebud”
Cheers to Ade
19 Trashcan Sinatras – “Even the Odd”
Glasgow Tesco trips – cheers to SD
20 Sudan Archives – “Oatmeal”
Scott’s Porage Oats pose! Ch-ch-ch-chia!
21 Death In Vegas – “Girls”
22 Wolf Parade – “Fine Young Cannibals”
23 Habibi – “Nedayeh Bahar”
Song of spring. “Where we go/we’ll always be/somewhere close to misery”
24 Nilüfer Yanya – “Golden Cage”
25 Nilipek. – “Kosuyolu”
Lovely Turkish
26 Samantha Crain – “Antiseptic Greeting”
“What happens now is word is spreading I am cruel/When really I am just an oblivious fool/I think I’ll probably always let you down”
27 The Beatles – “The Ballad of John and Yoko”
One of those songs I never tire of for some reason
28 Timber Timbre – “Grifting”
“Faking it to make it/Never give, but take it/Building trust through kindness/To exploit the finest”
29 Palya Bea – “Hívlak Téged”
More Hungary
30 Trailer Trash Tracys – “Eden Machine”
A very vaguely Goldfrapp kind of sound
31 Mattiel – “Count Your Blessings”
“Your body will be whole again/Make yourself at home again/Count your blessings, one to ten”
32 La Luz – “Cicada”
Sweet Seattle
33 Babolar – “Mogambo”
34 Anna Domino – “Land of My Dreams”
35 Eefje de Visser – “Wakker”
The seductive Dutch
36 The Beatles – “You’re Going to Lose That Girl”
It’s not difficult to lose a girl who was never yours…
37 Saint Etienne – “Lose that Girl”
Love to Ben and to Naomi … and you might want to lose that girl anyway
38 Nádia Schilling – “Bad as Me”
Portugal. “Forgive the back and forth/Some anchors drop, crush what it’s worth/But you know, you’re bad as me/Don’t run for cover, walk on your feet/(Even when sore, tired and beat)”
39 Zola Jesus – “Bound”
40 Grand Tone Music – “I Give It All”
My early Swedish music influences, long before living here
41 Faces – “That’s All You Need” …concerns my brother/who’s thin and played violin/woooo!…
For SD the performer, for Erin, for my mom; discussions on Rod the Mod & Paul Hogan imitations of Rod
42 Lord Huron – “Lost in Time and Space”
43 N.W.A. – “Straight Outta Compton”
Insane UK media uses this as a headline about LA-born, royal-by-marriage, Meghan Markle
44 John Cale – “The Man Who Couldn’t Afford to Orgy”
For the man who walks away from orgies
45 Yo La Tengo – “Autumn Sweater”
“When I heard the knock on the door/I couldn’t catch my breath/Is it too late to call this off”
46 Air – “Cherry Blossom Girl”
“I don’t want to be shy/Can’t stand it anymore”
47 Mary Margaret O’Hara – “You Will Be Loved Again”
Beautiful – sad song. I have long loved the Cowboy Junkies’ version but have recently started to turn to the original MMO version. “How could he/Take you in his arms and/Help you free/Then leave you forgotten?/And is it enough to cry/When you’re so broken?”
48 Angels of Light – “Untitled Love Song”
“Show me your ocean red/Kiss the tears that stain my neck/Drug me with visions untrue/But I own a photograph”
49 Frightened Rabbit – “Get Out”
RIP Scott Hutchison
50 Someone – “Forget Forgive”