Love was in the air for this show as a love theme sort of took over. I was compiling music and thought I would find a variety of songs that covered the love aspect of life. As I discussed during the show, for me it wasn’t just a romantic love which can, when you’re single like me, leave you a bit disconnected during the Valentines Day ritual. I also talked about how important it was to build the love for ourselves, which is important to have for ourselves in life in general once we remember we have everything within us that we need. And it’s even more important to harmonise that attraction to someone special and not hang our happiness or need on them or anything external.
Compiling the music then became great fun. Toward the start I continued my journey with some of the rocking I’ve been enjoying recently, including the likes Raging Slab, Tool, Vista Chino and great memories of the Persistence of Time album by Anthrax with H8 Red. The love theme really got rocking with the likes of Downset for all of us, then romantically with John Lennon, Joan Armatrading, and Nirvana, with a comical element from the Welsh favourites Tigertailz. I eased out of the show, if you’ll pardon the expression, rocking with a last minute rocking intervention from Mammoth, before the gentle, beautiful vibes from Nick Barber and Bliss.
You can listen to it all again here:
Here’s the playlist for 11th February 2014 (Albums in brackets)
1. The Cult – Soul Asylum (Sonic Temple – 1989)
2. Tool – Lateralus (Lateralus – 2001)
3. Raging Slab – Ain’t Ugly None (Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert – 1993)
4. Goatsnake – Raw Curtains (Dog Days – 2004)
5. Vista Chino – Sweet Remain (Peace – 2013)
6. Anthrax – H8 Red (Persistence Of Time – 1990)
7. Downset – Together (Check Your People – 2000)
8. Tigertailz – Love Bomb Baby (Bezerk – 1990)
9. Ty Segall – Love Fuzz (Twins – 2012)
10. The Rolling Stones – Factory Girl (Beggers Banquet – 1968)
11. Tom Waits – Shiver Me Timbers (The Heart Of Saturday Night – 1974)
12. John Lennon – Love (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – 1970)
13. Joan Armatrading – Love By You (Secret Secrets – 1985)
14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Love Letter (No More Shall We Part – 2001)
15. Nirvana – Love Buzz (Bleach – 1989)
16. The Doors – Love Her Madly (L.A. Woman – 1971)
17. Mammoth – All The Days (Mammoth – 1989)
18. Nick Barber – Angelheart (Clear Blue Sky – 2008)
19. Bliss – Naked (A Hundred Thousand Angels – 2004)
