A good 50...

Playlist

Creek - 1998-02-02

Creek - 1999-09-01

Creek - 2004-06-08 (Live at the Cafe Royal)

Creek - 2004-10-30

Anchor and Burden - Weigh Anchor (I)

Anchor and Burden - Molten Burden (IV)

Sigh - ShikiMartin Stürtzer - Relativity

Parnassus Akademie - String Sextets

Quirine Viersen & Silke Avenhaus - Sonatas For Violoncello And Piano

King Buffalo - Regenerator

Various Artists - Spirit of '69 : The Boss Reggae Sevens Collection

Torino Guitar Quartet - Codex

Black Sky Giant - Primigenian

The Lickerish Quartet - Fables From Fearsome Heights

Trio ELF - Fram

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentytwo

Ivan Ilić - Jongen: Preludes for Piano

Suzanne Vega - Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers

Tower Of Power - Back To Oakland

Iggy Pop - Every Loser

Bach, C P E - Double Concertos

Jason Vieaux - Guitar Recital

Earth - Even Hell has its Heroes (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Unwinding Hours - Untitled EP No 2

Peter Gabriel - Panopticom (Bright Side Mix)

Anchor and Burden - Feels Like Forever (V)

Secret Piece - Super-Regional

Fehlfarben - ?0??

Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks

Sigur Rós - Takk...

Alpha Rev - Greatest Thing I've Ever Learned

The Bad Plus & Wendy Lewis - For All I Care

The Killers - Day & Age

Laura Pausini - Primavera in Anticipo

Neal Morse - Lifeline

Udo Lindenberg - Stark Wie Zwei

DJ Hell - Teufelswerk

Justin Currie - The Great War

Fehlfarben - Xenophonie

Paul Buchanan - Mid Air

Up around 6:40 and downloading new music as, of course, Friday is new music day (yes, I know it seems like very day is new music day for me but I mean new new music - i.e. new releases)...

These are what I ended up with...

...of which Gabriel, Moby, Pop, Earth, Jongen and Secret Piece are the new releases today...

The new Creek archive release was set free into the wild...

And some time was spent writing yesterday's entry...

Off to the place I go to lose, having, unsurprisingly, given the festive season, not lost but, rather, gained...

Home for a solo breakfast as Anne set off for a day of walking, chatting, coffeeing, lunching etc etc with Lynn...

Then I worked on notes for the overall Creek discography using these pics of cassette covers provided by Stu Cobley last night...

Then to compiling the podcast and sorting out the running order...

The remains of yesterday's soup for lunch and then to recording the podcast...

...and the postie brought the new Fehlfarben album...

...which, once the podcast was done, was very much enjoyed...

First thing this morning, I'd received an e-mail from erstwhile Charnelhouse, Call Me Clive and Crazy Wisdom colleague Malcolm Logan, asking for contact details for Count Brodski re a job reference...

This led me late this afternoon to searching "Crazy Wisdom" in the diary, which, in turn, led me to finding this list of "subjectively good" songs created on 11 June 2005...

David Bowie - "Heroes"

Coldplay - The Scientist

Brian Eno - Always Returning

Yes - Awaken

Dido - Here With Me

John Wetton - Battle Lines

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Fripp & Eno - Evening Star

Alice Cooper - School's Out

King Crimson - Starless

Jellyfish - The King Is Half Undressed

Roxy Music - A Song For Europe

Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares

T Rex - Children Of The Revolution

Peter Gabriel - I Grieve

Roger Waters - What God Wants pt III

Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

UK - Thirty Years

Uriah Heep - Stealin'

Cockney Rebel - Tumbling Down

Rush - The Spirit Of Radio

Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Michael Rother - Sonnenrad

New Order - Regret

Craig Armstrong/Evan Dando - Wake Up In New York

Soft Cell - Say Hello Wave Goodbye

Dar Williams - February

David Sylvian - Before The Bullfight

Pet Shop Boys - Shameless

Lou Reed - Sad Song

Simple Minds - The American

The Blue Nile - Let's Go Out Tonight

Moby - Porcelain

Jane Siberry - Love Is Everything

Electric Light Orchestra - One Summer Dream

Alice Peacock - Some Things Get Lost

The Cure - The Figurehead

Neil Young - Cortez The Killer

Rainbow - Stargazer

Joy Division - Decades

I did some searching around various other playlists of "top songs" I've created in the intervening years and, from those, I could increase this list 40 to a good 50, by adding these...

Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight

Alpha Rev - Colder Months

The Killers - Human

Laura Pausini - Bellissimo Cosi'

Justin Currie - Baby, You Survived

Bend Sinister - Best Of You

Flying Colors - The Fury Of My Love

Taylor Swift - Blank Space

Ingrid Michaelson - I Remember Her

Grandaddy - The Boat Is In The Barn

And so, a good 50 was indeed compiled...

Anne finally returned around 4:30...

A tasty casserole was prepared...

Yum!

This evening, a veritable cornucopia of TV was watched...

"Scot Squad", "Father Brown", "Madam Blanc Mysteries", "Death in Paradise" and "The Graham Norton Show" all entertained before we called it a night...

Highlight of the Day : Fave programmes returning...

Today's new music:-