Morrissey, Curtis Mayfield and Debbie Harry : their Top Tens

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Up for streaming on 6Music currently is that 'My Top 10' from 1984 with Morrissey I was going on about a while ago.

Weird listening to it again. It's funny and sad how happy
and generous-spirited he was then. The Albert Finney thing.

There are also ones from Curtis Mayfield and Debbie Harry. Oh, and Chaka Khan I now see.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/musicdocs_promo.shtml

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Alanis?

― Miles Finch, Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Sorry - Miles's joke refers to that fact that it said 'Morrisset' in the title a minute ago. I tried to change it with my moderator privileges before anyone replied (to make it searchable and all that) but he snuck in there too quickly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Okay, how do I get this to play?
WinAmp doesn't seem to want to play it.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

It plays in the BBC radio player on the page. Unsure if you require a particular plugin.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

It's realaudio.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

= BAH!

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

there's a little freeware app called realAlternative that lets you play realaudio/realmedia files without installing realplayer on your machine....

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Really fucking interesting interviews... I couldn't find any track listings so I killed some time listening to it all. The Morrissey picks are all really fantastic.

If you haven't heard Klaus Nomi's "Death" you should get it right away!!!

MORRISSEY'S TOP TEN
-- the tams - be young, be foolish, be happy
-- billy fury - i will
-- timmy yuro - adding insult to injury
-- john leyton - johnny remember me
-- francoise hardy - all over the world
-- sandie shaw - you've not changed
-- rita pavone - heart
-- the marvelettes - paper boy
-- sandy posey - i take it back
-- klaus nomi - death

DEBORAH HARRY'S TOP TEN
-- the rolling stones - down the road to peace
-- james brown - i got the feeling
-- jimi hendrix - little wing
-- little eva -- the locomotion
-- the doors - moonlight drive
-- frankie lymon - i want you to be my girl
-- dr. john - gris-gris gumbo ya ya
-- the supremes - where did our love go?
-- the velvet underground - i'm waiting for the man
-- janis joplin - half moon

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Morrissey's picks are indeed terrific. When I first heard that show, aged about 15, from a bootleg tape I got off a mail-order Smiths obsessive emporium, I set about buying as many of the records as I could. Good old Old Gold 7" reissues. Though my mum already had the Francoise Hardy.

-- timmy yuro - adding insult to injury

= Timi Yuro - Insult To Injury

Everyone should listen to Timi Yuro more.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Oh if we're doing that, then...
the rolling stones - down the road apiece

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty hard to think of three people I'd rather share a meal with than these three.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 15 January 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

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