Tonight's show will be a weird mix of Human League material and songs about 'Rain' ... but then again it's the strange mix that makes this show such fun to present, and I hope to listen to.
Talking of 'rain' , I mentioned that I would post the great e-mail that Alan Richmond in Fife sent in. I've often thought we should do a week of shows that run like C-60 compilation tapes, and looking at this list has convinced me it would work really well...
Every year when we go on the family holiday I do a compilation CD for the car. After the California trip last year, complete with an appropriately themed CD (tracklist available on request), it was a holiday in the UK this year. The CD accompanying this trip was titled "Cats and Dogs: A Rain Compilation".
Some very obvious choices but below is the full 2 disc extravaganza to choose from. Play the Aztec Camera track for my wife Lynn - a big Get It On fan. High Land, Hard Rain, indeed........
Disc 1
Counting Crows - Rain King
Steve Earle - The Rain Came Down
Status Quo - Rain
Jesus and Mary Chain - Happy When it Rains
Manic Street Preachers - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
Prince - Purple Rain
Albert Hammond - Never Rains in Southern California
The Move - Flowers in the Rain
The Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho
Love and Money - Jocelyn Square
The Blue Nile - Tinseltown in the Rain
Aztec Camera - The Boy Wonders
Disc 2
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Zoe - Sunshine on a Rainy Day
Walker Brothers - Sun Ain't Gonna Shine
Madness - The Sun and the Rain
Travis - Why Does it Always Rain on Me
Eruption - I Can't Stand the Rain
The Fortunes - Rainy Day Feeling
Johnny Ray - Just Walking in the Rain
Barry White - Walking in the Rain With the One I Love
Patridge Family - Walking in the Rain
Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain
The Cult - Rain
Love it Alan. I'll happily play Aztec Camera tonight. It can only be a matter of time before we see 'Now That's What I Call Get It On Vol 64' available in record shops across the land.