Sweet sounds

The Sweet

After the come down off the toddler sugar high that is Easter, here's a play list of sweet sounds from over the decades. We start the programme with a few giants of 20th Century music, who established the template for the next 50 years.

1. My Country Sugar Mama    Howlin' Wolf    7"    1964    Chess
2. Sweet Sue    Miles Davis & John Coltrane    The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis with John Coltrane     1958    Blue Note
3. Sugar Bowl    Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band    Unconditionally Guaranteed    1974    Virgin
4. Sweet Wine    Cream    Fresh Cream    1966    Reaction
5. Sugar Magnolia    The Grateful Dead    American Beauty    1970    Warner
6. Candy Man    Dale Hawkins    LA, Memphis & Tyler, Texas    1969    Bell
7. Pink Sugar Elephants    Vashti Bunyan    Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind    1966    Decca
8. Sugar Babe    John Renbourn    Another Monday    1967    Transatlantic
9. Sweet Child    Pentangle    Sweet Child    1968    Transatlantic
10. Some Candy Talking    The Jesus & Mary Chain    Darklands    1987    Blanco Y Negro
11. Lips Like Sugar    Echo & The Bunnymen    Echo & The Bunnymen    1987    WEA
12. Sugar    My Bloody Valentine    December, with the Day 7"    1989    Creation
13. Sugar Kane    Sonic Youth    Goo    1990    DGC
14. Sweet 69    Pink Mountaintops    Pink Mountaintops    2004    Jagjaguwar

Soviet

The sounds of Mother Russia this week. 

1. Sympathy For The Devil    The Rolling Stones    Beggars Banquet    1968    Decca
2. Supertzar    Black Sabbath    Sabotage    1975    NEMS
3. From Russia With Love    The John Barry Orchestra with Matt Monroe    From Russia With Love (OST)    1963    United Artists
4. Sputnik Thema    Die Sputniks    7"    1964    Amiga
5. Back In The U.S.S.R.    The Beatles    The White Album    1968   
6. Communist Daughter    Neutral Milk Hotel    In the Aeroplane Over the Sea    1998   
7. Star City, Russia    Labradford    A Stable Reference    1995   
8. Moscow    Orange Juice    The Glasgow School    2005    Domino
9. Dominion - Mother Russia    Sisters Of Mercy    Floodland (Bonus Tracks)    1987    Pietia(lania) colection
10. Agent Tremolo    Messer Chups    Black Black Magic    2002   
11. Moscow Nights    The Feelies    Crazy Rhythms    1980    Stiff
12. Apres Moi    Regina Spektor    Begin To Hope    2006   
13. Russian Hill    Jellyfish    Spilt Milk (1993)    1993   

Louder than God

A godly playlist this week, to mark the approach of Easter.

1. God Only Knows    The Beach Boys    Pet Sounds    1966    Capitol
2. In The Prescence Of The Lord    Blind Faith    Blind Faith    1970    Polydor
3. God    John Lennon    Plastic Ono Band    1971    Apple
4. God Knows    Mike McDonald    7"    1971    RCA
5. God Song    Matching Mole    Matching Mole's Little Red Record    1972    CBS
6. God Gave Rock And Roll To You    Rod Argent    In Deep    1973    Epic
7. Day I Met God    Adam & The Ants    Dirk Wears White Sox    1979    Do It
8. Dear God    XTC    Skylarking    1987    Virgin
9. God's Song    Etta James    Etta James    1973    Chess
10. God's Own Singer    The Flying Burrito Brothers    Burrito Deluxe    1970    A&M
11. Not A God    Th' Faith Healers    L'    1992    Too Pure
12. Prayer to God    Shellac    1000 Hurts    2000    Touch & Go
13. I Am The Resurrection    The Stone Roses    The Stone Roses    1989    Silvertone

School

My old school. No kidding. 

School's in this week. We skip class to listen to songs about the best years of our lives. Yeah, whatevs.

1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl    Muddy Waters    Folk Singer    1964    Chess
2. Be True To Your School    Beach Boys    Little Deuce Coupe    1963    Capitol
3. Teacher Teacher    Rockpile    Seconds Of Pleasure    1980    F-Beat
4. My Old School    Steely Dan    Countdown To Ecstasy    1973    ABC
5. 5 And 20 Schoolgirls    Daevid Allen    Magick Brother    1969    Actual/BYG
6. Teacher    Jethro Tull    Benefit     1970    Island
7. High School    MC5    Back In The USA    1970    Atlantic
8. Terminal Preppie    Dead Kennedys    Plastic Surgery Disasters    1982    Alternative Tentacles
9. Art School    The Jam    In The City    1977    Polydor
10. I Hate School    The Suburban Studs    7"    1978    Pogo
11. Hey High School Baby    Tav Falco    Behind The Magnolia Curtain     1981    Rough Trade
12. The Headmaster Ritual    The Smiths    Meat Is Murder    1985    Rough Trade
13. Schools Out 7"    Alice Cooper    Schools Out 7"    1976    Warner
14. School At Night (Lullaby Music Box)    Goblin    Profondo Rosso    1975    Cinevox
15. Boy From School    Hot Chip    The Warning    2006    EMI
16. I Don't Like Mondays    The Boomtown Rats    I Don't Like Mondays 7"    1979    Ensign

Montage

This week, we take as the theme the current phone hack scandal involving Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and his son. In a leak telephone conversation, they allegedly discuss hiding millions of euro in cash.

1. Son Of My Father    Chicory Tip     7"    1972    CBS
2. Money     The Flying Lizards    Money  7"    1979    Virgin
3. All The Money    Bobby Charles    Bobby Charles     1972    Bearsville
4. Money In My Pocket    U Roy and Dennis Brown    12"    1979    Greensleeves
5. Cashing In    The Voices of East Harlem    7"    1971    Just Sunshine
6. The Thief    Can    Delay 1968    1981    Spoon
7. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey    The Beatles    The White Album    1968    Apple
8. No Sense Of Crime    Iggy Pop & James Williamson    Kill City    1977    Bomp
9. Money Runner    Quincy Jones    Dollars (OST)    1972    Polydor
10. Hear Me Calling [Single Version]    Ten Years After    Hear Me Calling 7"    1969    Decca
11. Pick Up The Phone    The Notwist    Neon Golden    2002    Virgin
12. Hanging On The Telephone    Blondie    Parallel Lines    1978    Chrysallis
13. Our Little Secret    SRC    Milestones    1969    Capitol
14. La La La Lies    The Who    The Who Sings My Generation    1966    Brunswick
15. Telephone Thing    The Fall    Extricate    1990    Cog Sinister

Golden Records

A playlist of records about gold (as an oblique reference to the Sochi Winter Olympics) some of which probably went gold (probably not Song Cycle by Van Dyke Parks, I bet).

1. Band Of Gold    Freda Payne    7"    1970    Invictus
2. Sin City    The Flying Burrito Brothers    The Gilded Palace Of Sin    1969    A&M
3. Heart Of Gold    Neil Young    Harvest    1972    Reprise
4. All Golden    Van Dyke Parks    Song Cycle    1968    Warner
5. Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold    Townes Van Zandt    Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas    1977    Tomato
6. Gold Dust Woman    Fleetwood Mac    Rumours    1977    Warner
7. Golden Slumbers    The Beatles    Abbey Road    1969    Apple
8. Solid Gold Easy Action    Marc Bolan & T. Rex    7"    1972    EMI
9. Golden Brown    The Stranglers    La Folie    1981    United Artists
10. Your Gold Dress    The Dukes of the Stratosphear    25 o'clock    1985    Virgin
11. Pretty Golden Hair    Al Stewart     Bed-Sitter Images    1967    CBS
12. Golden Hours    Brian Eno    Another Green World    1975    Island
13. Esperando O Messias (Com Golden Boys)    Marcos Valle    Marcos Valle (Quarentão Simpático)    1970    EMI
14. Golden Hair    Syd Barrett    The Madcap Laughs    1970    Harvest
15. Golden Glades    Teenage Fanclub    Thirteen    1993    Creation
16. Gold Lion    Yeah Yeah Yeahs    Show Your Bones    2006    Interscope

Motherly love

Not my mother-in-law

After a very long hiatus, we're back online with a playlist that marks a visit from Mrs Johns' mother. Lie-ins and evenings out a-hoy!

1. Mother-In-Law Trouble    Oboe    Tradin' Stamps 7"    1963    Savoy
2. Motherly Love    Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention    Freak Out!    1966    Verve
3. Motherless Children    John Renbourn    John Renbourn    1965    Transatlantic
4. Mother Nature's Son    The Beatles    The White Album    1968    
5. Her Mothers Daughter    Dory Previn    Mythical Kings And Iguanas    1971    United Artists
6. Ol' Mother Earth    Tony Joe White    Homemade Ice Cream    1973    Warner Brothers
7. Mother's Red Light    Buzzy Linhart    Music    1970    Eleuthera Records
8. Earth Mother    Nucleus    Elastic Rock    1970    Vertigo
9. Mother Africa    Marijata    Pat Thomas Introduces Marijata     1976    Gapophone
10. Motherly Bluster    Ghost    In Stormy Nights    2007    Drag City
11. Mother/Father    Swans    The Great Annihilator    1995    Young Gods
12. Mother-Sister!    The Fall    Live At The Witch Trials    1978    Step Forward
13. Mothers    The Wedding Present    Seamonsters    1991    RCA
14. The Mother We Share    Chvrches    The Bones Of What You Believe    2013    Goodbye