Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
James Brown
Funky Christmas
(Polygram, 1995)
He was making seasonal soul sides from 1966 to 1972. They’re all here.
What is it with purists and this time of year? MOJO’s How To Buy on James Brown told you all to “Avoid anything involving Christmas”! Well, it pains us to say this but… MOJO is wrong! In fact, very wrong as this might well be the greatest collection of Xmas platters by a solo artist ever released. Brown set out his vision in 1966 with the Christmas Songs LP which included his heartfelt appeal to Let’s Make Christmas Mean Something This Year. Brown’s Xmas records work because they’re so incongruous – soul power and passion invested in such tarnished seasonal subject matter as presents and trees, Santa Claus and smiling children and, well, peace and love. Brown regards Christmas as a time when, as Wayne Coyne once put it “all of mankind reveals its truest potential” and weirdly, he makes Santa Claus the representative figure of optimism and pride, love and kindness. And, as James puts it, there ain’t no use in saying there ain’t no Santa Claus “as Santa Claus is definitely here to stay… in the mind”. Ever wonder why Santa Claus was adopted as a figure of Black Power in late ’60s America? Here is the answer.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 25/12/2007
Further Listening
Akim & The Teddy Van Production Comp - Santa Claus Is A Black Man (available on A John Waters Christmas, new Line, 2004)
The Temptations – Christmas Card (Motown, 1970)
Alexander O’Neal – My Gift To You (Virgin, 1988)
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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