9/13 - For A Little While

It's one of those weeks when I have too many candidates for Top 5. I could easily make three amazing lists this Monday. But I shall follow my self-imposed rules and only choose five tunes. Save the rest for another week. As the songs are all equally awesome, I grouped the songs by genre instead, and thus it is that this week goes in the sign of old-timey rock/blues/soul; if nothing else so for the reason that it's not been too much of that in my lists lately.

Dusty Springfield - Take Me For A Little While
Oh my… the ending of this. So effin heavy. The tidal wave of horns, Dusty's amazing vocals, the desperate pleading

Won't you have me baby?
Anyway you want me I'm yours
Anything you want me to do

Bob Dylan - Gospel Plow

Oh Lord! Keep your hand on that plow! Hold on!

Jack White - Freedom At 21
I've held out on Jack White's solo album til now. Don't know why. He's one of very few people who can still get me excited about a guitar solo. Which he proves here.


Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena
YYYs have a new album coming out. It looks sick, in either meaning of the word. But this one's an old favourite. Karen O and the guitar riff are both so absolutely intoxicating in this one it's easy to miss perhaps the best detail of the whole tune; those amazing offbeat cymbals during the chorus!


Buddy Guy - This Is The End
That voice. It's like he's wading in icecold water and throughout the track he stays in the exact depth when the water just reaches the genitalia, and you desperately start tiptoeing and screaming. Sometimes you really believe it is the end. Brilliant, loose guitarwork too.



It's also been the week that Amok was finally released, but as it's not up on Spotify yet I'll save my thoughts on it til next week. Although I can't resist posting this. I'm more into the video than the song actually. The suits in particular. Not Thom's hair. But both's dancing. And the colours. The song's growing on me too.