Seven songs for summer
Madame Miaow has thrown down the challenge by tagging THE LOOK among seven blogs choosing their current seven favourite songs.
The rules are set by Simon Reynolds: “List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.”
Well hey-ho it’s summer now, so here goes – at the end you’ll find the seven sites we are tagging. Click on the song titles to hear samples/buy them.
Grace Jones – Warm Leatherette
Pow! When Grace met Jean-Paul it was moider…we can’t wait for Thursday night to come around. La Jones is going to melt down Massive Attack’s Meltdown.
Captain Beefheart – My Head Is My Only House (Unless It Rains)
A really heartfelt and typically unpindownable song from The Spotlight Kid. Take a look at The Captain on the cover; always slightly tilted and the very definition of a man: tough but gentle.
Boy/girl revolutionaries Ben and Lo chose their own adventure via candy and ice cream trucks, limited edition vinyl and collaborations with Kate Moross.
Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Inbetweenies 
It may be the burgeoning Barney Bubbles beatification (and quite right too), but British music rarely sounds this damn funky. Uncle Ian, meanwhile, never looked two-bob, always pound-note.
Check out the godlike Damo Suzuki here. Get the get-up! Damo rules!
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – More News From Nowhere
With cameos from Nervous Stephen, Ima Doll, Peaches Geldof, Tim Noble & Sue Webster and Will Self. We can’t better Pippa Brooks’ summation of Nick Cave’s current look: “Receding and droopy moustache…..he’s HOT from where I’m sitting, not since his junkie days with black black quiff, white white skin and huge blue eyes has he looked so perfect. Or imperfect.”
Control Freak!! – Drunken Brain
Yuke The Duke on top form on his new album. Now resident in the UK, Control Freak!! makes our t-shirt Wild Thing – from The Look Presents Wonder Workshop collection available now in-store and online – his very own.
THE LOOK’s tagees are:
Interesting choices, Mr G. Captain Beefheart singing Willie The Pimp with Frank Zappa could easily have been on my list.
Grace Jones, the divas’ Diva, always good value, of course.
Just can’t get Nick Cave, though. I know, I know, he’s hip and terrrrifically popular, and, lordy, I have tried. But his Let It Be just makes me giggle … for all the wrong reasons.