tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045621976922014712024-03-14T13:53:02.578+00:00 Across The Kitchen Table
some half decent tunes, personal ramblings and the odd rant
drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.comBlogger3157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-46527084516531646832022-06-16T08:00:00.007+01:002022-06-16T08:00:00.211+01:00Rest Easy Dad Andy Wingate 02 May 1939 - 05 June 2022Today we say goodbye to my dad. My brother, my mum and myself will be performing the service, as my mother says "nobody else knew him quite like we did". I just hope I do him proud.I always knew that when this time came the song below would be the one I reached for when this time came as the first two lines hit me dead on the first time I drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-38672194687115477012021-11-30T18:46:00.001+00:002021-11-30T18:46:29.929+00:00Just Because drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-67936461319430494672020-12-31T17:57:00.003+00:002020-12-31T17:57:32.793+00:002020, You Can Get Yirsel Tae Fuck Let's all hope for health and happiness in 2021. All the best to you and yoursJimi Hendrix - Auld Lang Synedrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-18793383446846486652020-12-24T06:30:00.001+00:002020-12-24T06:30:05.390+00:00Merry Christmas I hope you all have as good a day as possible tomorrow and get what you deserve from Santa. All the best and stay safe.The Housemartins - Caravan of Lovedrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-13875268853412417292020-12-23T06:30:00.001+00:002020-12-23T06:30:05.544+00:00Well. It Wouldn't Be Christmas . . . . . . without this.Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-23471841749522623832020-12-22T06:30:00.001+00:002020-12-22T06:30:01.260+00:00Pure Genius This is absolutely fucking inspired and has hardly been off the turntable since I got it about 10 days ago. It really shouldn't work but it does, so, so well. This would have made top ten in The Tracks of My Year if I had had it a couple more weeks. If you didn't know better you would swear that that vocal was supposed to be in there. It is the product of Japanese dj/producer Mister drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-81198554901829651062020-12-21T06:30:00.001+00:002020-12-21T06:30:08.087+00:00Monday's Long Song Last week I was listening to Into The Mystic and thought to myself "what a pity he's such a prick, the majority of his music is so wonderful. I always knew he had been a moody fucker but when I read Laura Barton's account of trying to interview him, I lost all respect for the man. You can read it here And this was before his utterances on the COVID19 situation and joining the ranks of the drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-79131504004706426502020-12-19T06:30:00.002+00:002020-12-19T09:39:43.132+00:00The Tracks of My Year Ok, so here we are, it's time for the most self indulgent post of the year, the tracks that I believe are the best of the year, you may think differently but of course you are all wrong. It would have been easy to have filled this list with at least a dozen tracks that would be peppered with the Guv'nor's magic, to coin a phrase, as this is probably the last year that Andrew drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-34805584898854874152020-12-18T07:48:00.001+00:002020-12-18T07:48:52.275+00:00It's Friday . . . Let's Dance (In A Socially Distant Manner) It's the final Friday prior to Christmas and normally I would be going on about the amateur drinkers and the sheer hell it is working in pubs and clubs on this night but things are a wee bit different this year. I am sure that all hospitality staff would rather be dealing with the worst of the Christmas office night out twat than sitting in the house doing nothing. I really feel for people drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-77898377139988460052020-12-17T06:30:00.001+00:002020-12-17T06:30:01.060+00:00That's All You Got I haven't stopped playing this since I got it, five times on the bounce last night. Not sure what it is but the whole feel of it just lifts the spirit, it may be that organ, you don't hear enough of that instrument these days. You could imagine Otis Redding or Sam Cooke belting this out. In fact it may have been ever so slightly influenced by That's How Strong My Love Is which has featured drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-693348660162245742020-12-16T06:30:00.002+00:002020-12-16T08:40:00.516+00:00Albums of The Year One good thing that has come out of 2020 is the quality of the music that has been released, well the music that I have bought anyway. It has been a bumper year in the number of releases too making it hard to keep up and I have had to make more hard choices on what to buy and what to try and forget about. It has also been a year when I have chosen to buy the cd copy of some new releases drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-12968096956793500852020-12-14T06:30:00.001+00:002020-12-14T06:30:08.395+00:00Monday's Long Song Some deep and dubby House for the last working week Monday of the year, for me at least and I must admit that I am looking forward to a couple of weeks of doing as little as possible and not thinking about work for two whole weeks. I realise that I really am one of the lucky ones as I have been working all the way through and have not been furloughed or worse but it has been hard going. drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-34193421433057821532020-12-08T06:30:00.003+00:002020-12-08T20:21:39.277+00:00Edwyn Knew The Score A While Back It's the same old story, England's gloryClaiming back the Union Jack, my arse. They've sold us all down the river for fucking fish that they're not going to be able to process or sell and blue bastarding passports that never were fucking blue in the first place. Still in fifty years it may come good. Cry God for Harry, England and St George, eh. Fucking criminals each and every one of drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-80749754307657294872020-12-07T06:30:00.004+00:002020-12-07T14:53:01.217+00:00Monday's Long Song I have been on a bit of an Ashley Beedle trip this weekend, immersing myself in both Ballistic Brothers albums, some 12" single and some of my favourite remixes including the immense Long Night and The Samba remix of One Night Stand by the Aloof which could have featured in this spot if I hadn't already posted it at least three times previously. Instead here is a beautiful deep mix of drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-35544569748509139472020-12-02T06:34:00.002+00:002020-12-02T06:39:26.919+00:00The TripThe Trip isn't a cover of my favourite Kim Fowley track which has been featured here in the past but the flip side of the only single, "I Know", the only release by Park Avenue Playground, a bunch of kids at the time hailing from Lansing, Illinois The track was recorded in an old theatre and is a furiously paced fuzz guitar, mad sound effects and lyrics suggesting that this bunch had taken drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-50930823952019863202020-12-01T06:30:00.001+00:002020-12-01T06:30:04.820+00:00Time Out Over the past few months I have found that during the day I just need to take some time out and just sit there, select something comforting, stare off into the middle distance and try to soothe my increasingly troubled soul. Kathryn Williams cover of Thirteen, one of the most heartachingly beautiful songs about first love ever usually does the trick either that or it makes me even more drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-68370994110837596492020-11-30T06:00:00.001+00:002020-11-30T06:00:00.197+00:00Monday's Long Song I'm not sure if something can be both ambient and techno but if it can then this is a prime example of that sub genre. Time Square came out in 1994 and is something of a lost classic in my opinion. It's not a record that I have heard many people talk about in the intervening twenty six years, maybe because nobody could categorise it, it didn't find an audience or maybe it was a huge record just drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-9239801977124988562020-11-23T07:00:00.002+00:002020-11-24T08:33:43.511+00:00Monday's Long Song This was supposed to be posted on the 25th October on Keeping It Peel Day but to my shame I forgot all about it. Feel So Sad was first released as a track on Jason Pierce's side of the final Spaceman 3 album Recurring but came into it's own when it was rerecorded and release as the second Spiritualized single and especially on the extremely extended extremely chilled Rhapsodies version on drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-55694277903602824172020-11-19T08:43:00.001+00:002020-11-19T08:43:10.640+00:00The Strength (Within) A few weeks ago I featured the new collaboration from Charles Webster and Burial, The Spell. This sent me back to revisit some of Webster's past work and since then the All System's Gone album under his Presence guise has taken up squatters rights. The album includes contributions from Matthew Herbert and vocalists Shara Nelson, Sara Jay and Steve Edwards. When it came out the album drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-87707623631357191452020-11-18T07:15:00.002+00:002020-11-18T11:29:02.357+00:00Black Rabbit I do like a good cover version and this is a belter, a dub version of a psychedelic masterpiece. Prince Fatty's interpretation of Jefferson Airplane's arguably most famous song came out a month or so ago and if you 're quick you may be able to bag a copy of the 7" single here. For me a great cover version is one which doesn't sound forced or contrived and Black Rabbit with a sublime vocal drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-68717711959606428042020-11-16T08:00:00.001+00:002020-11-16T08:00:03.034+00:00Monday's Long Song An apt song for the start of the week from the Danish proggers Papir, released on the ever excellent El Paraiso records. Not really much more to add this morning.Papir - Monday drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-48919508805831737872020-11-13T08:00:00.001+00:002020-11-13T08:00:07.384+00:00It's Friday . . . Let's Dance (In A Socially Distant Manner) Here's a belter of a Garage track from twenty six years ago, although it does not sound that old to me. I Miss You is the first track on Joey Musaphia first volume of his Cover Up series. The vocal sample is nicked from I Miss You by Juliet Roberts.In football news, Leo and I watched one of the finest Airdrie performances for quite some time on Saturday when the Diamonds gubbed Clyde five drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-5276863839527802122020-11-12T08:56:00.002+00:002020-11-12T10:50:52.011+00:00Mountain EnergieSometimes a bit of the Fall is all that you need. The Fall - Mountain Energie drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-26330241728904027862020-11-11T11:00:00.001+00:002020-11-11T11:00:09.781+00:00Lest We Forget In Memory OfCpl Andrew WingatePvt James Little Pink Floyd - The Gunner's Dreamdrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704562197692201471.post-56228019648124944632020-11-10T08:00:00.001+00:002020-11-10T08:00:03.546+00:00What Difference Does It Make No, not that one. This song is from a different era entirely. I don't know anything about Kenny Shepard apart from the fact that he recorded this lovely Van McCoy penned song which was released on the New York label, Maxx Records in 1964. This is the kind of slow tempo end of the night track in the same vein as Ray Pollard's Drifter or Bobby Paris' I Walked Away. Puredrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469084438125548989noreply@blogger.com1