I’m totally hooked on Spotify at the moment, it is simply genius, all the music I want when I want for FREE (ok, so I have the £5 monthly subscription… the adverts did my head in). If you haven’t download the free version yet I recommend you give it a try - think of it as “radio evolved”
Anyway enough of the big sell. The reason I like Spotify so much at the moment is because of the social networking features that all you to subscribe and share playlists through facebook, twitter and sites like sharemyplaylist.com. Now I’m a geek when it comes to lists and collections (just take a look at my daytum profile) so I had to create my own list, but being me I had to come up with a twist on the play list that wasn’t being done by all the others (that I know of) on Spotify.
I wanted a list that reflected my musical upbringing - that shows my influences and how/why I like the music I currently listen to. This was a great idea to start with, but it didn’t really differ from any of the other playlists around, plus my list of tracks was massive! No one would take the time to listen to this (except me). I needed to break it down to a smaller list that really showed the tracks I remember best - so I came up with the idea of doing an A to Z type list A is for…. B is for… ect. This allowed me to keep the list relatively small whilst giving he option to include a reason for the track selection.
Sooo here it is, The A to Z of Jon Pudny …
A is for… Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
B: Ben E. King - Stand by Me
C: Belinda Carlisle - Circle in the Sand
D: The Doors - People are Strange
E: Ennio Morricone - L’Estasi Dell’oro
F: Deniece Williams - Free
G: Inner City - Good Life
H: Block Party - Helicopter
I: Talk Talk - It’s my life
J: J.J Cale - Magnolia
K: Kool and the Gang - Summer Madness
L: Let’s stay together - Al Green
M: Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin)
N: Nirvana - Lithium
O: Charles Jackson - Ooh Child
P: Phoenix - If I ever feel better
Q: Queen - Breakthrough
R: Roy Ayers - Everybody loves the sunshine
S: The Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23
T: Timex Social Club - Rumors
U: The Libertines - Up the Bracket
V: Vitalic - Poison Lips
W: Guns N’ Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
X: Marvin Gaye - Mercy mercy me (The Ecology)
X is for… for not even fitting this into my list! A Big Fat X in fact. The lyrics on Mercy Mercy are still as powerful and hold as much sorrow of the world dealing with the environment as they did almost 40 years ago when released, tragic really.
Y: Prodigy - Your Love
Z: Zero 7 - Somersault
Listen here >>> A to Z of Jon Pudny
