Day 4: A song you like with a location in the title

Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks

The location in question is of course a major London Underground station. I'm not alone in thinking this is one of the most beautiful and exquisite songs ever written.

There is a group of musical artists that I tend to play every month, on average, and a group that I play about every other week. The odd thing about these groups is that it doesn't have a lot to do with how much I love their music -- many of my absolute fave artists do not appear on these lists at all. Also, these lists tend to slowly morph over time. But, for whatever reason, the lists do seem to occur and I can't help noticing. As things stand at this moment, here they are:

Monthly

Bye Bye Badman
The Chameleons
Collective Soul
Grant Green
The Mighty Scott Hamilton
Yusef Lateef
Love
The Mighty Pat Metheny
The Mock Turtles
Thelonious Monk
Rialto
Ride
Sonny Rollins
Horace Silver

Bi-Weekly

Adorable
Arctic Monkeys
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Donald Byrd
The Dream Academy
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Hank Mobley
Ocean Colour Scene
Shed Seven
Swim Deep

Notable exceptions: for about the past ten or fifteen years, I have been listening to The Charlatans every week. And for about the past seven years, I have been listening to Sulk every day.

The Song of the Autumnal Equinox!

finding a rare Ash album for my collection

I usually have one standout new musical discovery for every calendar year. For 2014 I declare Temples to be it. They released their first album in the spring and proved themselves to be pop craftspeople of consistent appeal. Hear them now!

[I would also have liked to tip the nod to Towns, a band I was quite excited by -- but, alas, they recorded their first album in the winter, announced its release in the spring... and then announced their own breakup before the day the album actually came out! It was deleted as soon as it was released -- if I hadn't preordered my copy I likely would not have one at all. I was really looking forward to more from those boys...]

The release of Caught By the Fuzz, the debut single by Supergrass, on this date twenty years ago. Despite the young band’s obvious punky roots, they quickly grew into a major force for eclectic pop songcraft and one of Britpop’s bright lights....

Definitely Maybe, the debut album by Oasis, which was released on this date twenty years ago.

( what's the big deal )

[Hear them revive the sound of the British Invasion 1965!]

I was thinkin recently... about how there are some bands that I love the first time I hear one song from them... and others that take time [sometimes years] to grow on me. And I wondered if there is any kind of relationship... similarity among the bands on one list, or distinction between the bands on both lists... any effect on how much I love them or how long I love them.... and TBH, as the list assembles: I don't see it. What puts a band on one list or the other appears completely random to me. Huh.

Immediates
Rare Earth
Deep Purple
Sweet
Slade
Kiss
Starz
Alex Harvey
Max Webster
New York Dolls
The Saints
Black Flag
Japan
Hanoi Rocks
Dead or Alive
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Age of Chance
King's X
Warrant
Ruriko Kuboh
Manish
Shonen Knife
Oasis
The White Stripes
Sulk

Slow Growers
The Guess Who
Jimi Hendrix
The Move
Ramones
T. Rex
Cheap Trick
Black Sabbath
Talking Heads
AC/DC
The Pursuit of Happiness
Queensryche
Roxette
Nirvana
Ulfuls
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The Stone Roses
Blur
Suede
Pulp
Ash
Rheostatics
The Charlatans
Collective Soul

The birthday of my fave album of 2013, Graceless, released one year ago today -- rock on, lads!

Two landmark Britpop singles released on this date twenty years ago:

Girls and Boys, Blur's first Top 5 single and the beginning of an upswing that was to mark Their Year;

and the double-A-side Mark b/w Casino Girl, the debut single from prodigious hitmakers Shed Seven.