TV Cream

A bit of business

Sounds incorporated

Thanks to everyone who has added to the TV Cream Towers Spotify playlist.

Seeing as it how it’s all done under the cloak of anonymity, it’s not clear how many ‘everyone’ means. It could just be one person. But thanks all the same.

Like with most things to do with TV Cream, there are a couple of rules governing the playlist that perhaps should have been specified earlier, rules softly spoken but ruthlessly enforced. So, in case you’re wondering why your choice/s may have been deleted:

a) Only one track per artist is allowed.
b) No crap choices or ‘ironic’ selections are permitted. This is an uber-sincere playlist. Instant Sunshine aren’t on there for a joke.

Meanwhile, like they used to do in music magazines back when they were good, here is a list of 10 tracks from the playlist that, if there was a TV Cream Towers office, would be in heavy rotation on the cassette player by the overhead projector:

1) Something’s Jumpin’ In Your Shirt, MALCOLM MCLAREN AND THE BOOTZILLA ORCHESTRA
As with Norway and the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, the man should be able to bequeath an album to the nation every 12 months.
2) Danke Schoen, RAY CONNIFF AND THE SINGERS
Never ‘his’ singers. Ever the gentleman.
3) The Word Girl, SCRITTI POLITTI
Like having a bubble bath that lasts from 1980 to 1989.
4) Amnesia (Theme from The Roxy) BANANARAMA
Like walking down the best street you ever walked down when you were growing up.
5) The Pink Panther Theme, BOBBY MCFERRIN
Better than Mancini’s disco version.
6) Golden Brown, THE KING’S SINGERS
Better than the Stranglers version.
7) Wednesday Jones, STEPHEN DUFFY
Proving that in the hands of a master, even something like Chelmsford shopping centre can sound glorious.
8) Ordinary Angel, HUE AND CRY
Never let it be said they know Foucault about writing a good tune.
9) Merrily We Roll Along, MASSIMO FARAO
The wig-out begins 45 seconds in.
10) Never Say Never Again, THE FLEMISH RADIO ORCHESTRA
The second best Bond theme ever, now minus added Lani Hall.

3 Comments

3 Comments

  1. Nick White

    March 30, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    Is the playlist still accessible? The links below don’t work for me.

  2. TV Cream

    March 30, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    Hmm, it seems to be working OK. You could always try: spotify:user:tvcreamtowers:playlist:63s6QZWUl4K5pqi38Zac7y

  3. Nick White

    March 30, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    Ah! Thanks very much – just tucking into it now.

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