Relaying some musical items of which I’d recently come aware. As I was was listening to the “Friday Show” provided to me as a “Full Maron” subscriber to WTF podcast, I was informed that, at the time, Lorde was the youngest guest to take part in a conversation on that platform. I took a listen to that episode (WTF Episode 844), finding it very enjoyable and surprising. Mostly her musical influences which include Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, Phil Collins (have to give Take Me Home a closer listen), Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado. I am intrigued to listen to her stuff (I’m sure I have heard Royals) – I included “Green Light” from her sophmore effort, Melodrama, on my initial weekly music discovery Spotify playlist (link below).
The second influence, a sad one, to my musical searching was the death of Wayne Kramer of The MC5 (I always thought it was just MC5 and also realized, or remembered, that the name was kinda an acronym for The Motor City 5). I found out about it from the reposting of another WTF episode with Wayne Kramer – it is a WTF tradition to repost an episode with someone that has recently passed. In the episode WK mentions Freddie King’s Hideaway as a benchmark for early guitarists and the MC5 album High Time is mentioned as a proud achievement. Being familiar only with Phil Collins’ Take Me Home, I made a short playlist that includes:
- Peter Green – Showbiz Blues
- Paul Simon – Run That Body Down
- Phil Collins – Take Me Home
- Lorde – Green Light
- Freddie King – Hide Away
- MC5 – Baby Won’t Ya
(Re)Discover these along with me.
Note: I may add to the playlist during the week (or just make a new one as next week’s – haven’t decided yet).
-Ed