My current 10 tunes...
Soul Train Top Ten (19/3/18)
1. Clean up woman - Betty Wright
2. I'll be good to you - Brothers Johnson
3. If you want me to stay - Sly and the Family Stone
4. Ooh child - The Stairsteps
5. I Dig your act - The O Jays
6. Rhapsody in White - Love Unlimited Orchestra
7. Low Rider - War
8. Sing a happy song - George McCrae
9. Machine Gun - Commodores
10. Just a little misunderstanding - The Contours
West Midlands Top Ten (31/10/16)
1. California Man - The Move
2. Ganja Planter - The Broombusters
3. Save it for later - The Beat
4. The Wizard - Black Sabbath
5. Telephone line - ELO
6. Gudbuy t' Jane - Slade
7. Inside Out - The Mighty Lemon Drops
8. What town is this - The Loveless
9. I just can't go on without you - Dusty Springfield
10. Johnny too bad - UB40
Current Top 10 (Sick of it Chart)
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Someone take the wheel - The Replacements
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It's all over now - The Stones
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Rock 'n' roll ghost - The Replacements
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Treading on a memory - Paul Brindley (new song)
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All shook down - The Replacements
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Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
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Breakdown - Tom Petty
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Take the money and run - Steve Milliband (Miller Band)
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Mercenary Territory - Little Feat
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I'm not down - The Clash
Previous Top 10 (Favourite gigs of all time)
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The Replacements - Marquee, London
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Bruce Springsteen - Bingley Hall, Stafford
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Hanoi Rocks - Marquee, London
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Green on Red - Breedon Bar, Birmingham
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Thin Lizzy - Capitol, Cardiff
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The Clash - Bingley Hall, Birmingham
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REM - Tin Can Club, Birmingham
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Long Ryders - JB's, Dudley
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Primal Scream - Bowling Green, Cannock
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The Ramones - Cardiff University
Previous Top 10 (All female singers)
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Baby, I Love You - The Ronettes
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Kid - The Pretenders
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River - Joni Mitchell
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Some of your lovin' - Dusty Springfield
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Past, Present and Future - The Shangri-La's
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In these shoes - Kirsty MacColl
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Say goodbye to Hollywood - Ronnie Spector
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Dead Flowers - Shelby Lynne
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Touched by your presence - Blondie
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Girl don't come - Sandie Shaw
Previous Top 10
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Cadillac Walk - Mink de Ville
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Superstar - Delaney & Bonnie
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Italian Girls - Rod Stewart
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Everybody here wants you - Jeff Buckley
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Once bitten twice shy - Ian Hunter
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I would die for you - Prince
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Shake up their minds - Marshall Crenshaw
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Me and the Devil Blues - Robert Johnson
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Old Flame - Thin Lizzy
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Never sleep with your friends - Paul Brindley (2012 version)
Previous Top 10.
These are influences on the style and context of the novel Live Fast Dai Young.
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The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry
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As I walked out... - Laurie Lee
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Chronicles - Bob Dylan
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Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
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On the road - Jack Kerouac
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The Night Club - Georges Simenon
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The Crack-up - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Pierre et Jean - Guy de Maupassant
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Rum Punch - Elmore Leonard
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A moveable feast - Ernest Hemingway
Previous Top 10
This is an eighties top eleven, just to show it wasn't all dodgy hair and bad music (although I was occasionally guilty on both counts). They're all songs you could hear OUT at the time (JB's, Steve Clayton's Great Escape, Stafford Whiteley Building) and not just in your room.
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Ain't nothing but a gore hound - The Cramps
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Broad majestic Shannon - The Pogues
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Run dusty run - The Long Ryders
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Ironmasters - The men they couldn't hang
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Footsteps - Womack and Womack
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Love my way - The Psychedelic Furs
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Rockville - REM
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William it was really nothing - The Smiths
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Know your rights - The Clash
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Unguarded moment - The Church
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April Skies - Jesus and Mary Chain
Previous Top 10
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Link Wray - Rumble
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Sonic Youth - Little Trouble Girl
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Hamilton Bohannon - Foot stompin' music
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The Band - Shape I'm in
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Stray Cats - Gene and Eddie
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Brothers Johnson - I'll be good to you
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The Rolling Stones - Ventilator Blues
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Cheap trick - Surrender
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The Carpenters - Superstar
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Augustus Pablo - King Tubby meets rockers uptown
Alex Chilton Top 10
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Thirteen
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In the Street
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September Gurls
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Ballad of El Goodo
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Hey Little Child
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Cry like a Baby
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Kangaroo
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I'm in love with a girl
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Back of a car
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Alex Chilton (The Replacements)
Previous Top 10
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Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
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Chuck Prophett - Hot Talk
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Canned Heat - On the road again
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lodi
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KC & the Sunshine Band - Sound your funky horn
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Outkast - Miss Jackson
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Paul Westerberg - Kickin' the stall
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Tom Waits - Rainbirds
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Ramones - KKK took my baby away
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Bruce Springsteen - Something in the night
Previous Top 10
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The Band - Unfaithful servant
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The Faces - Debris
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Foo Fighters - Aurora
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Long Ryders - Run dusty run
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Paul Westerberg - Gun shy
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Pixies - Dig for fire
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Green on Red - Rock'n'roll disease
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The Temptations - I wish it would rain
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Judee Sill - Jesus was a crossmaker
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Tom Waits - Johnsburg, Illinois
Previous Top 10
- Hank Williams - Lost Highway
- New York Dolls - Cos I sez so
- Bobby Womack - Looking for a love
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lodi
- Joni Mitchell - A case of you
- Joe Strummer - Johnny Appleseed
- Free - Travelling Man
- Roy Harper - When an old cricketer leaves the crease
- Paul Westerberg - Goodnight sweet prince
- Toots and the Maytals - Pressure drop
First Top 10
- Jenny Lewis - Big Guns
- The Replacements - Gudbuy T'Jane
- Johnny Thunders - Born to lose
- The Faces - Open to ideas
- The Beach Boys - Trader
- REM - Perfect circle
- The Triffids - Wide open road
- Buffalo Tom - Summer
- Gladys Knight - You have to cry sometime
- The Solomons - 4 Track EP