Another Sunday and another 2 hours packed full of great music (well I like to think so anyway!). This weeks show was partly inspired by an article on the music site Drowned In Sound regarding the year 1997 and what a great year it was in music. If you don’t believe me then check out the original article here : https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4144688-no-surprises-15-classic-albums-of-15-years-ago. And if you need further proof then there is a 1997 spotify playlist that I’ve put together with 51 reasons why 1997 was an amazing year for music.
On the new track front this week we had the rather excellent new track from Japandroids, The House That Heaven Built, taken from their second album entitled Celebration Rock which is due in June. If this track is anything to go be the album will be just as good as their debut Post-Nothing, which if you haven’t heard then I implore you to buy it! Also this week from out of nowhere sprang a new track from Dirty Projectors called Gun Has No Trigger, this looks to be from a forthcoming album but there doesn’t appear to be any further details at the moment.
My love affair with the new Shins album continued this week, after seeing a lot of the new songs performed live the album has finally clicked and has been pretty much welded to the 33RPM stereo this week.
The rest of the playlist was made up of new albums that I’ve been listening too lately (Royal Baths, Whistle Peak), and some old favourites, a special mention goes to Orbital as I’ve been revisiting their discography preparing for what I hear is their return to form album Wonky.
Playlist below and link to the 1997 Spotify playlist below that!
01 – Dinosaur Jr – The Lung (You’re Living All Over Me)
02 – Belle And Sebastian – Crash (Late Night Tales Vol.2)
03 – Whistle Peak – Hurry Hurry (Half Asleep Upon Echo Falls)
04 – Mogwai – Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home (Young Team)
05 – Animal Collective – My Girls (Merriweather Post Pavillion)
06 – Public Image Ltd – Careering (Metal Box)
07 – Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built (Celebration Rock)
08 – The Shins – It’s Only Life (Port Of Morrow)
09 – Augustus Pablo – Stop Them Jah (King Tubbys Meeet Uptown Rockers)
10 – Dirty Projectors – Gun Has No Trigger (Swing Lo Magellan)
11 – Ministry – Jesus Built My Hotrod (Psalm 69)
12 – Deftones – Be Quiet And Drive (Around The Fur)
13 – Trouble Books – Dead Bee In A Glowing Bowl (Concantenating Fields)
14 – Young Marble Giants – Credit in the Straight World (Colossal Youth)
15 – Orbital – The Box (parts 1 & 2) (In-Sides)
16 – Royal Baths – Burned (Better Luck Next Life)
17 – Daft Punk – Da Funk (Homework)l
18 – Eliott Smith – Angeles (Either/Or)
19 – Fleetwood Mac – Gold Dust Woman (Rumours)
20 – The Beatles – A Day In The Life (Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Class of ’97 Playlist – https://open.spotify.com/user/sadballadman/playlist/2yjYzGVlcR0vie5CAJUkzL
