Having just looked up (and been quite surprised about) who wrote Better Be Good To Me it's now making me curious what an album of Tina covering glam rock classics would've sounded like
Finally two tracks of the day turning out to be the toughest choice of the day. Both huge GBs for me, but I think Eric stands out just for being such a delightful surprise.
There is no track better fitted to this hellscape of a decade than this. It started out uncannily prescient as lockdown kicked off, but as the years roll by it fits the state of the world perfectly.
Just read the Ciao Bella piece, and as someone who used to work around the corner and also holds it in great affection too, as soon as I read they'd been sat downstairs there was only one way that review was going to go, never take a downstairs table there!
Nerve, Songer & D Double E - TONKZ (UK / Australia, 2024)
First of three UK rap tunes, all coming from different styles of an ever growing scene. This one combines OG grime legend D Double E with a new generation, and the old man steals the show here
Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.
If you’d told 10-year-old me that I’d vote for Phyllis Nelson ahead of Deniece Williams in a pop poll 40+ years in the future, I’d probably have said “as if” but that’s what I happily did here
Also - one of the best ways to get from B1 to B2 and on to further fluency....is to get a job and interact with native speakers every day! Making the bar higher won't make people better at English but worse.
Also another opportunity for a side-by-side comparison with a cover just a year later and Robert Palmer acquits himself well, aided by Bernard Edwards doing something quite different with the production
