A CENTURY IN MUSIC (ICA #373)

A guest posting by Fraser Pettigrew

As I mentioned in a comment on your birthday post, I thought a compilation made up entirely of songs whose titles are years would be a bit of a laugh, so here it is. (JC adds….which I’ve decided to post as a 16-song ICA – oh, and it was myself who selected the image above!).

I confess I looked some of them up on Spotify – not many, but frankly I’d never heard of Phoenix or Azealia Banks, but when I listened to them I thought they were ok and would add a bit of variety. I’ll leave you to be the final judge on that. A couple of the others I knew the artists but not the songs, and the obvious ones were… obvious. Shapeshifter are a New Zealand band btw in case you don’t know them. No idea how well known they are beyond these shores.

I’m not writing any guff for this. Especially after getting nae comments at all on my Yello piece. Pfft! I’m in the huff! Wait til I drop the piece on The Residents – hah! Vengeance will be mine!

Anyway, have fun with this as you see fit!

Cheers

Compilation album – A Century In Music

1901 Phoenix

1963 New Order

1963 Candi Staton

1967 The Auteurs

1969 Boards of Canada

1969 The Stooges

1970 The Stooges

1973 James Blunt Nah, fuck that!

1975 Gene Clark

1977 The Clash

1979 Smashing Pumpkins

1981 Public Image Ltd

1984 David Bowie

1991 Azealia Banks

1999 Prince

2000AD The Rezillos

2001 Shapeshifter

Fraser