“and I wanna flush it all night loooong”

I think it’s about time I switched it up from the usual rap stuff. Here’s the other 50% of my musical taste. RIP Chris Cornell.

That Mark Mothersbaugh is one of the best and most prolific soundtrack composers of all time? And that’s not even considering the fact that he IS Devo.

Up on a hill top, far from the city
Overlooking a stream
I heard a sound, it made me look round
I looked back where I had just been
There just behind a ledge
There was a man he leapt to and fro
Clipping away at a hedge

Highly unusual. A blend of US southern guitar country-rock and Balkan folk. It works. The video is gorgeous yet so simple. It’s just roads and highways but it tells a story in a way. Worth putting in full screen.

Featuring Robert Fripp.

The Proximity playlist I was talking about 14 days ago is mostly complete, and will get additions whenever a new track drops and I like it or I trawl back in the archives for things I missed. To have it, use Whlrgy_PRXFM on youtubelister.com, with a Spotify link whenever I get around to it.

My wife and I are doing something we haven’t done since our 20s: Going to a live concert on a Tuesday when we have to work the next morning... If you don’t like this music, I’m afraid we can’t be friends.

...is easy: pay no mind.

This is what you get. It’s really good. Close your night with these tunes.

But wouldn’t be the same without Malford Milligan singing it - he might be the best singer around whose name you might not know. Guitar work isn’t bad, either...

Be kind to those you love
And be kind to those you don’t
But for God’s sake you gotta be kind

Bebe Rexha - I’m a Ferrari