Thursday, 10 November 2011

Scotify! (Spotify playlist #8)

Inspired by STV's recent Scotland's Greatest Album series (you can read the final results from the viewers' vote here), I've decided to cobble together my own list of favourites by artists from north of the border (Spotify availability permitting). Unlike the TV version, however, there'll be nae Rod Stewart or AC/DC here. But I have served up lashings of cheese.

1 Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
2 Orange Juice - I Can't Help Myself
3 God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
4 Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
5 The Gentle Waves - Weathershow
6 The Vaselines - Molly's Lips
7 The Rezillos - Top of the Pops
8 The Burns Unit - Send Them Kids To War
9 King Biscuit Time - I Walk The Earth
10 Trash Can Sinatras - Hay Fever (Live)
11 Karine Polwart - Only One Way
12 The Delgados - Pull the Wires From The Wall
13 Big Country - Chance
14 The Bluebells - I'm Falling
15 Love & Money - Jocelyn Square
16 Deacon Blue - Loaded
17 Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens
18 Travis - Writing To Reach You
19 Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
20 Teenage Fanclub - God Knows It's True
21 Eugenius (Captain America) - Bed-In
22 Thrum - Here I Am
23 Bis - Eurodisco
24 Franz Ferdinand - Darts of Pleasure
25 Altered Images - See Those Eyes
26 Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
27 Runrig - Edge Of The World
28 The Proclaimers - Sunshine On Leith
29 Simple Minds - Hunter And The Hunted
30 Aztec Camera - Down The Dip
31 Astrid - Boy Or Girl
32 The Scottish World Cup Squad with B.A. Robertson & John Gordon Sinclair - We Have A Dream

Listen here


With apologies to Hipsway, Capercaillie, Mull Historical Society, The Skids, Ballboy, Malcolm Middleton, Idlewild, Edwyn Collins, Bronski Beat, Texas, Wet Wet Wet (yeah, I know) and a shedload of other acts I could and probably should have included. (I'm sure they'll all be devastated.)

5 comments:

drew said...

Sorry Kippers but you need a bit of AC/DC but whole heartedly approve of your last choice.
I played that in the pub before the 1998 Brazil match, we nearly tore the roof off the pub.
Sadly it will be a while before we reach another World Cup

dickvandyke said...

Some disappointment therein.
No Lena Zavaroni, Andy Stewart nor Kenneth McKellar.

I may have squeezed in Amy MacDonald, Shirley Manson and KT Tunstall, but that's for different reasons.

Kippers said...

Lena Zavaroni was Scottish? I had no idea. (As is apparent from the list, my 70s pop knowledge isn't up to much.)

Yeah Drew, '82 was a good year for World Cup songs all round.

dickvandyke said...

Seriously, I thought Lena was great.
As I get older, her story seems more poignant to me.

See this performance ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8sewohu2qI&feature=related

Kippers said...

That's proper singing.