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I don’t know if you recall, but in years gone by, you the massive have helped me put together playlists of Songs That Sound a Bit Like Pink Floyd, and Songs That Sound a Bit Like Neil Young (handy, given that he’s no longer on Spotify). So I wondered whether you might like to help suggest some soft-rock gems to augment this one: Songs That Sound a Bit Like Fleetwood Mac (imperial phase).

OK, well it’s actually 50 years old – from November 1971 – and I’d imagine in bootleg circles it’s not very new at all. What is unusual is that this recording from Quebec City has made it on to Spotify. It’s not part of the band’s Early Years or Immersion series of releases. It’s the original bootleg. I’ll be honest: although this is my favourite period for the band, this isn’t the best recording or show. It seems a little slow (either the band are lethargic or it’s the way it was mastered), and the four songs featured – Embryo, Fat Old Sun, One of These Days and Echoes – can all be heard in more pristine form on the Paris Theatre recordings from earlier in the year. Still there are slight difference here and there, and it’s a great pleasure to spend an atmospheric hour in the company of these recordings. Apologies if anyone’s posted about this already; I literally just found it today. But I’d click now if I were you, because it’s also likely to be gone tomorrow.

https://open.spotify.com/album/20dC9drHoMTOmQMffStkXw?si=3JhEv-FCQcWo6-NkjmMWhA

Here’s a Spotify work in progress that I figured you were just the people who could help me with. It started when I noticed that Serpentine by Can shared a similar sound palette to Wish You Were Here and Animals. Listening to a podcast about Hawkwind, a similar case was made for their track City of Lagoon (and I think David Gilmour may have been present when it was recorded). So who else deployed similar analogue synths, stately guitars, greasy bass and that uniquely floppy drumming? Obviously there are many sides to the band, and my favourite era is pre-Dark Side, but I’ll take all submissions, including related solo stuff if it’s on Spotify. I’m less interested in the modern prog bands such as Airbag and Porcupine Tree, who sound too obviously to be paying tribute. In some ways, the more interesting stuff is that which shares the sound somewhat inadvertently such as the Beach Boys’ Steamboat (check those Echoes guitars). And at this early stage I’m surprised just how many Alan Parsons and Gong songs sound like the Floyd; I’d really like to whittle it down to the best ones.

One thing I noticed at the IMAX screening of Pink Floyd’s Live At Pompeii was the intro music, now helpfully called Pompeii Intro on Spotify. What I’m curious of is that with the heartbeat and synthesiser, it’s very close to work in progress for the Dark Side of the Moon, and, if that’s the case, it seems to have snuck out without fanfare. NB/ The audio for the album is quite something

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What do you do when you’ve exhausted all the Van Morrison in the world? All the albums, obviously. And then all the deep cuts, bootlegs, collaborations and live sets on YouTube. Well, if you’re like me you embark on the fool’s errand of compiling a playlist of songs that sound a bit like Van the Man.

Bear with me. My attempts to do the same for Pink Floyd, Neil Young and most recently Fleetwood Mac turned out OK. However, most acts have a psychedelic wigout or a Young-like grungy thrash in their locker. And the Heroes Are Hard to Find hitmakers have been ridiculously influential on the musicians of today, making an erstaz Mac comp not much of a challenge at all.

But Van the Man? In spite of the fact that his Caledonia Soul Orchestra period is, to my mind, the pinnacle of western artistic endeavour, very few artists actually sound like him. Bob Dylan has albums with similar orchestration; Jackie DeShannon covered some of his tunes and sounded like she used some of the same musicians; and the » Continue Reading.

OK, besides listening to those 11 “new” Floyd bootlegs, I’ve also been putting the finishing touches to my playlist of the year – a Spotify tradition since 1965 (check my profile). I may snoop around other people’s playlists for a week or two, but as far as I’m concerned, my work trying to find new music to fathom in 2021 is done. Turns out, at 107 songs long, this is the smallest of these playlists for three years. But it’s also one of the best. I honestly think I’ll be playing these songs for many years to come, and there’ll be very few that I look at in March and think: where ever did I dig that old shit out from? The big question, though, is whether it will beat last year’s record of 27 followers on Spotify. If you want six-and-a-half hours of pop bangers, askew indie, poppers o’clock dance and nu-pub rock in your life, then please like, share, comment etc. And, as ever, I’d love to know what I’ve missed; your own favourites could yet make the cut.