We're well overdue methinks, dear reader, another little selection of some of the "newer" choons that have caught my ear of late - before everything turns to shit with the coming tsunami of Xmas cash-ins...
A fitting way to start is with something that couldn't be more diametrically opposed to tinsel, sleigh-bells, faux-jollity and mawkish sentimentality if it tried! Who would ever have thought that a legendary member of that most decadent of bands Velvet Underground and a contemporary pop-princess would ever have collaborated on something as utterly breath-taking, gothic and sinister as this?
Phew. I think we should break the mood, at least a little bit, with a poignant one - the Soft Cell cover of an old Giorgio Moroder choon, that turned out to be the very last single released before Dave Ball's premature death:
Speaking of 80s/90s troupers, this:
Now for something completely different! [This album's actually on my Amazon wish-list] Abba as you never heard them before:
The wonderful Mr Bill McClintock does it again!
And, saving the best till last - I LOVE THIS!
As ever, dear reader, let me know your thoughts...
