So what’s been on the D’log playlist in 2006? The Pet Shop Boys returned to favour with their Together album, prompting me to put their entire works on shuffle; the Guillemots‘ “Made Up Love Song” track; sundry early Numan and lots of obscure bits of early British electropop; early Kraftwerk; Rufus Wainwright; some pre-“Belldog” Eno; one track (“You Have Killed Me”) from the otherwise disappointing (as usual) Morrissey album. And a couple of ‘old but now re-mastered’ albums: the three early pre-Ure Ultravox! albums; and Virginia Astley‘s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.
The big find of the year was, of course, Larrikin Love. They sound kind of like The Smiths – but as if The Smiths had evolved out The Dancing Did, then ditched Morrissey as lead singer in 1984 in favour of Jilted John, and then moved from Manchester to London
I will burn a fire in Westminster / using the door of Downing Street / and when Tony rushes out / complaining of a draft / I’ll let him warm his feet / This country has nothing more to offer me / Oh, everything that I adore / came well before 1984.
