Day 9: John Barry "Theme From Midnight Cowboy"

I had something else planned for today, but given the sad death of John Barry, here's one of the great man's finest moments. Haunting.
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Day 8: Johnny Paycheck "Take This Job & Shove It"

...Back at work after a month off - it has to be...

Day 7: Gary Clail "Hard Left"

Gary Clail riding round Parliament square firing off a toy gun - you wouldn't get away with that these days, would you?

Day 6: Courtney Pine "I've Known Rivers"

Just the thing for a lazy Saturday morning. I only discovered recently that it's a cover of a Gary Bartz track. One more for the wants list, then.

Day 5: Primal Scream "Come Together"

Proof - if it were needed - that Weatherall is a genius and Primal Scream got lucky...

Day 4: MC5 "The American Ruse"

4/100

MC5 doing what they do best - sticking it to The Man via the medium of rock & roll.

Day 3: Jacques Dutronc "Les Cactus"

A nice bit of fuzzy french beat music from Mr Dutronc.

Day 2: The Pogues 'Transmetropolitan'

100 songs, 100 days

2/100

Some Poguetry from a loooong time ago. When Shane McGowan was still London Irish, not wholly Irish. It makes me kind of homesick for the old place.
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Day 1: Earthling "First Transmission"

What better way to start these transmissions than with this, erm, 1st transmission (geddit?.) A slice of surrealism from the criminally underrated Earthling. For me it's the musical and lyrical predecessor to Roots Manuva's surreal and funny flow – turning hip hop bluster on its head, as in

“I'm rock,I'm roll, I'm Nat King Cole
I'm Shostakovich standing in a fish bowl”.

Nice Rod Stewart sample, too...