Sometimes, when Matt and I pick an album, we'll see something popular and avoid it, in favour of something more obscure. This doesn't always work out as desired, as what's obscure to him isn't necessarily obscure to me, and vice-versa.
But occasionally you see a title pop up and think 'Yes! You're not missing out on that.' And (if memory serves correctly), that's how I ended up with the soundtrack to 'Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead'. A great film, with a dirty blues soundtrack.
Which reminds me...
When Katie & I started seeing each other, one of the things that we had in common was a love of music, and a track that we both liked was 'One Foot On The Path' by Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a sickeningly talented young blues guitarist from the States. Katie asked me to make her up a CD of 'stuff like that', which I did. And one of the tracks I put on the CD was from this soundtrack. It was 'Get Out Of Denver' by Blues Traveler (yes, they do spell it with just one 'l').
She hated it.
Well, that track anyway. No accounting for taste...
But as a soundtrack, it's great. Anything with Tom Waits on is going to be pretty good, but other highlights are 'Thrill Is Gone' by Dishwalla, the lazy riff of Jimmy Reed's 'Take Some Insurance Out On Me Baby' and the title track by the late, great and sorely underrated Warren Zevon.
It also has 'Folsom Prison Blues' by Johnny Cash. I need say no more.
DSP rating - 8
Well that was a good rocking start to the day! What's next?
Oh yes!
I introduced Matt to this lot a while back and he recognised class when he saw it. 'Mouthful Of Love' by Young Heart Attack.
YHA hail from Austin, Texas, were formed in 2001 and clearly have never heard any records made after 1975. This is old-school, screaming, guitar-thrashing rock. Short and sweet, the whole album clocks in at just over half an hour.
And you get knackered just listening to it.
It rocks!
DSP rating - 9
There's a line from the late-lamented Douglas Adams in one of the Hitch Hikers Guide books that seems quite appropriate at this point. It goes something like...
'You're driving along, feeling pretty good about yourself. You pass a few hard-driving cars when suddenly you change down from fourth to first instead of third and the engine leaps out of the bonnet in an ugly manner.'
This was that sort of abrupt.
As previously mentioned, I've got some... odd stuff on the iPod. Ages ago, one December, I heard Jonathan Ross playing a reggae version of a Christmas song - I don't remember which. But I did note that it was from 'The Trojan Christmas Box Set'.
And I found it. And it was a bargain. And so I bought it.
Matt seems drawn to this stuff. It's like 'that sounds bizarre / odd / awful - I'm going to make you listen to it'.
Fortunately it was December, and I'm a bit partial to Christmas music.
But even so.
50 songs...
Three hours, eight minutes...
It did get a bit much by the end.
DSP rating - 5
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