Suede – Beautiful ones
I have recently been a little fixated by Britpop and warmly reminiscing about the mid-90’s. As such, I have wanted to post this for a while. It features one of my all time favourite intros. Taken from the excellent Coming Up, which was released at Britpop’s zenith in 1996.
Gil Scott-Heron – The Bottle
Sorry I have been slack in posting over the past few days. It has been a hectic week.
I was sorry to hear that Gil Scott-Heron had passed away last night. He was one of the pioneers of rap music, making socially conscious and challenging music. The revolution will not be televised made a big impression on me the first time I heard it as a very green teenager unaware of much outside my bucolic immediate surroundings.
This, however, is my favourite track of his. It strikes the perfect chord between funky and profound.