I never really listened to Terry Hall’s band The Colour Field that much. Which means I’d never heard their gorgeous cover of The Roches’ Hammond Song until today. Hammond Song on YouTube 🎶

Steely Dan’s 20 greatest songs – ranked! | Steely Dan | The Guardian:

With November marking 50 years since their debut album, we pick the best of the band’s idiosyncratic output, with tales of capitalism, drug dealers and mid-life crises.

Nice list. Deacon Blues is my fave. 🎵

The Marillion show was rescheduled to the following night but at a different venue. This was my view of the stage and the reason I have a sore neck today. It was a great show though. The usual mix of high emotion and laughter from live Marillion. I loved it. Setlist. 🎵

I expected it but next Monday’s Marillion show in Glasgow has been cancelled. It’s disappointing but understandable. I could have done with the uplift after such a stressful summer. New date to come. Marillion ‘The Leavers: V. One Tonight-Live At The Royal Albert Hall 🎶

WFMU: Dance With Me, Stanley with Stashu: Playlist from September 2, 2022:

Dance With Me, Stanley with Stashu

I love the joyful chaos of DJ Stashu on WFMU. She brightens up Friday nights.

Trigger warning for polka music. 🎵

I’ve got two live shows coming up this month. Marillion and Steve Hackett. The last two shows I attended were to see… Marillion and Steve Hackett. I. know what I like as someone once sang. 🎵

Wonderful BBC Proms concert on TV tonight. Public Service Broadcasting and the BBC Symphony Orchestra performed their tribute to the BBC centenary. The ending was powerful. A moving reminder that nothing lasts forever but also a symbol of what we’d lose if the BBC disappeared. 🎵

Currently reading: Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson 📚🎵

I haven’t been able to concentrate on any reading over the last few weeks due to the major stuff going on in my life but I seem to be settling down a bit now. I have a pile of music-related books to get through.

Medicine by Momma. I love this. If you like 90s alternative stuff you probably will too. 🎵

Marillion have released a special edit, and video, of the song Reprogram The Gene for Earth Day - A Friend Of The Earth (Youtube). Have a listen.

“Listen to Greta T…” 🎵

I’ve become a big fan of WFMU over the last few months and having unlimited fast broadband means I can listen in for hours everyday. Knowing that the station has a listeners birding group makes me love it even more. 🎵

Read: ‘They didn’t go round the corner for beer’: Lou Reed and John Cale’s Songs for Drella (The Guardian) 🎵

I saw Marillion in Edinburgh. It was a fantastic night and felt like a real celebration. They were clearly very happy to be back on tour. Lovely old venue too. 🎵

This a great little story.

A rock star’s favourite guitar was stolen. One of his biggest fans tracked it down in Japan.

Link: Randy Bachman’s guitar was stolen. One of his biggest fans tracked it down in Japan. - The Washington Post

I love Steely Dan and this is a great interview. Donald Fagen is supposed to be working on a new solo album. 🎵

Talking Nabokov and Judaism with the Steely Dan co-founder, whose first live album comes out today.

Link: A Conversation With Donald Fagen - Tablet Magazine

A great unreleased (as far as I know) live version of my favourite Genesis song. 🎵

Genesis Live at the Rainbow (1973) - Cinema Show (2009 Remaster) - YouTube

Keep The Change by Mattiel. 🎵

It’s my birthday and I’m at work alone today. The good thing about lone-working is that I get to choose the radio station and I choose BBC Radio 3. Classical music is “depressing” according to my usual colleagues. I find it anything but. 🎵

There must be something magical in Lyon, France, that makes it produce so many great bands. This is one of my favourite albums from last year (Bandcamp link). Odessey & Oracle - Crocorama 🎵

Bob has been on a run of fantastic albums recently. I’m looking forward to the new one very much.

The former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman is back with a career box set and an incendiary new album, having come to terms with childhood trauma, his sexuality and the death of his bandmate

Via: Bob Mould, alt-rock’s gay icon, takes on American evil: ‘My head’s on fire!’ | Music | The Guardian

Earworm of the day: Troublemakers by Lavinia Blackwall. 🎵

It’s been a while since I fell in love with a song I heard on the radio. Love this one.

Take Back the Radio by Katy J Pearson

I grew up on buying vinyl records but I’m not wholly back into the resurgence of the format. I’ll buy the odd special edition but I just don’t have the energy to care about looking after a new collection.

Cardiacs' Tim Smith: a one-man subculture who inspired total devotion | Music | The Guardian:

Tim Smith, who has died aged 59, made a bizarre kind of rock music that was so wrong it was right – and his boundless enthusiasm was so infectious it created an army of followers.

Kraftwerk: their 30 greatest songs, ranked! | Music | The Guardian:

From cycling soundtracks to anti-nuclear protest music, we celebrate the work of the late Florian Schneider and the groundbreaking group he co-founded

Good list.