Whatever you think of Paul Morley, there’s no question he has listened to a lot of music and loves a list. I’m currently rereading his 2003ish history of pop, Words and Music, which spins out many a theory from Can’t Get You Out of My Head and the seminal electronic track I’m Sitting In A Room by Alvin Lucier. The latter is truly amazing, just go listen. Luckily some kind soul called Gary James on Spotify has put all 2000 tracks referenced in the book into one playlist (just search for Paul Morley Words and Music). I’m 200 tracks in and have already discovered as well as Lucier great tracks by Tweet, Roy Harper, Autechre and Laurie Spiegel. It’s so long and varied that you can put it on just like…radio. There’s tracks you know, tracks you don’t but no between song chat. So… (continued in comments)
Old Word Blog Spotify Playlists*
Rummaging through my online draws today I came across this treasure trove of forgotten Word blog* Spotify playlists. I thought some of you might enjoy them. I’ll post them in the comments. If you have any others, either Word related or otherwise, please share them here.
*plus some others
