Hello bluesky! Welcome to the Mystery Jukebox 4.0!😸
It's 11AM. Kitty surveys the racks of optics and sparkling glasses then saunters over to the jukebox and switches it on. It lights up.
She crosses the slightly sticky carpet and throws open the doors.
Rules:
https://michaelgallagherwrites.com/rules/
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It's 11AM. Kitty surveys the racks of optics and sparkling glasses then saunters over to the jukebox and switches it on. It lights up.
She crosses the slightly sticky carpet and throws open the doors.
Rules:
https://michaelgallagherwrites.com/rules/
1/2
Comments
This week's keyword of the compass points put me in mind of the shipping forecast. Here's Brian Perkins with a light hearted parody
https://youtu.be/s2noiJKiUXY?si=tw87Yz3GPfqzbRVN
NOT A TOKEN
"East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
All 4 directions covered!
https://youtu.be/BEPkvbRdI9M?si=JPf2m-i58TAKmpoZ
"I Gotta Gal I Love (In North and South Dakota)
https://youtu.be/IOfoMX8-yUc?si=GhH1kEuQlyUHf5wA
The Doors
The End
"The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest"
West End Girls
👋Everyone!
NOT A TOKEN
Thanks!
❤️
🙂
It's a keyword kind of week, and today Kitty's keywords are north, south, east, and west.
Token 1 to start you off -
Lori & the Chameleons: Touch
"Far, far EAST."
What will you add with your two tokens? And will someone oust Kitty from her small cardboard box by guessing her closing token?
Token 2 - South American Getaway (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) by Burt Bacharach
Token 1 - The Gin Soaked Boy - The Divine Comedy
'I'm the sunset in the East'
https://youtu.be/pFtAz6Xnn5U?feature=shared
Token 1 - Northern Skies by I Am Kloot
https://youtu.be/0_RZvDq3Eco?feature=shared
How about…
MC Solaar - Nouveau Western
Anyone else think rapping really SUITS French? I do…
Token 1 inserted (clunk)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Southern Accents.
Artist: Nick Drake
Album: Bryter Layter
Track: Northern Sky
https://youtu.be/BBBkFWXiL9Q?feature=shared
Artists: 801
Album: 801 Live
Track: East of Asteroid
https://youtu.be/_GA89EfQ0Pg?feature=shared
Token 1 a song even older than me.
Substitute, The Who
"The North side of my town faced East and the East was facing South"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eswQl-hcvU0
💥
Token 1
I Shall Be Released
Bob Dylan and The Band (and many friends on stage in this video)
"I see my light come shining, from the west down to the east"
https://youtu.be/oBACxgvrCGo?si=q1gfFHIOOoo6-z_i
That's Dylan.
Artists just seem to want that moment with him.
He's incredibly special.
😎
Super Furry Animals
Northern Lites
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
Gateway To The North
I know a bit about the subgenre, but I'm no expert, so if you have other recommendations I'd be delighted to hear them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYEzbLytK9k
Belbury Poly are great.
NOT A TOKEN
https://soundcloud.com/concretism/sets/placespast
https://youtu.be/dsxib1YxZHE?si=3h5NQyVu0fqU5TOM
For Token 1 I'm gonna throw on Edwin Starr & Slayer - War (on and on South of Heaven)
https://youtu.be/KZB9w1w9dKo?si=cCna1tpc3UIXYE7Y
Token 1
Wild, Wild West x Escape Club.
Wild, Wild West x Kool Moe Dee
The Cult
Go West
https://youtu.be/VhRiX_Bvmu0?si=qBgbMIbzsZBcdhzY
This was literally me! (Not me, but I had the t-shirt)
Token 1
North to Alaska
Johnny Horton
https://youtu.be/FYFm0RgRkks?si=OSYPmNbcRVEKgnin
Midnight Oil beds are burning
Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore, east to Yuendemu
The Western Desert lives and breathes
In forty-five degrees
https://youtu.be/ejorQVy3m8E?si=10A2stFp4QHRKC4J
Token 1
"Golden Brown" - Mariachi Mexteca (now known as The Mariachis) feat. Hugh Cornwell
Golden brown, finer temptress
Through the ages she's heading West
From far away
Stays for a day
Never a frown with golden brown
https://youtu.be/zy8Y3R4dXyc?si=9NYs6UWaq0gKRBhE
I think I may have posted this recently but I really do love it.
‘Oh Maria Maria. She reminds me of a west side story.’
https://youtu.be/nPLV7lGbmT4?si=U8D0SKMo062Smdwl
https://youtu.be/ogXQm70S24M?si=rA0_ROxqm18Nt6Zn
‘In the west end of Derby lives a working man. He says "I can't fly but me pigeons can!’
Love Magpie.. tho' now I'm thinkin' a rewatch of Detectorists is on the cards. :)
Off on your many jaunts again, family Buzzbead? 😁😸
Token 1
Glitter Freeze - Gorillaz featuring Mark E Smith
“Where’s North from here?”
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=L8AOva2GPws&feature=shared
NOT A TOKEN
Token 1 from a band I don't ever recall seeing on the jukebox: WEST of Hollywood by the Steeliest of Dans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcvd-L73Cqs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7pqUF6QZSM
Freeez - Southern Freeez
A bit of classic 80s Brit-funk to get the dance floor going
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dla9xLIkfQ
The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North
It certainly is today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XLWEjN9eI
Since I'll not top my first selection, I'm gonna toss away my second on ...
Wild, Wild West - Will Smith
North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
😾
😉
My own cat will be thrilled
token 2: Joan Baez, “The Lily of the West” (trad.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQ5_lbu1z4
NOT A TOKEN
Token 1: R.E.M., “Stand”
“Stand in the place where you live
Now face NORTH
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven’t before
Now stand in the place where you were
Now face WEST”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKKqLl_ZEEY
Big country
East of Eden https://youtu.be/IkjQ-Td6AbI?si=ldrpBW6d-M-dQ4UQ
Token 1
The Fall
Hit the North.
https://youtu.be/v5zav2yrC7M?si=BQxy71d-yhxD9E8Z
"My sun shall rise in the EAST, so shall my heart be at peace"
"I'll Find My Way Home" - Jon & Vangelis
https://youtu.be/5Nexwd9tplI?si=unMuUGF5ahSWsyqb
https://youtu.be/E-Z8cmo7cbs?si=NyT4XteGdaNkZGxE
She hailed from Lancashire, was a v talented pianist with a terrific sense of humour. Here is a documentary about her:
https://youtu.be/Uvs3DLuHk6k?si=AenAsWnFkPMzCeMX
This is the point when NOT reposting feels awful.
Warning: you WILL be humming it all day 😈
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY&ab_channel=TheDeadSouth
Girl from the North Country by Neil Young,
who himself was from the North Country (Canada) as well.
A rather odd setting, but it shows how real musicians make music with very few means.
Who needs computers, or even a record company? 😄
He is from Canada.
Brel, singing about his home country, Belgium in Le plat pays (the flat country) at Olympia
There are other recordings with parts in Flemish.
In it he sings of the winds from all directions respectively:
Le vent de l'ouest (W)
Le vent de l'est (E)
Le vent du nord (N)
Le vent du sud (S)
But it reminds me of this. NOT A TOKEN.
Duke Ellington and His Washingtonians - "East St. Louis Toodle-O"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDF7dlob4qg
Augustus Pablo - "East of the River Nile"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-L7WOrNJ4
Token 1 - Everbody’s Talkin’
Token 1: Life in a Northern Town by Dream Academy https://youtu.be/5UXnulANF8g?feature=shared
"My window faces the South" from 'A prairie Home Companion'. Chris Thile, Punch Bros., Sarah Jarosz, Rich Dworsky
https://youtu.be/3BlgyMm_XK0?feature=shared
Token 1. East of Eden 'Jig-a-Jig'
"There's a pub on the SOUTH side of town. Time stands still while there's still wine around."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4QaSWHWmqo&ab_channel=CamilaNavia
https://youtu.be/N3idn3XQN_w?si=WreDYkDJoAwKxTaD
"...If a drop of ink falls on a blue piece of paper,
In an instant I imagine a beautiful seagull flying in the sky It flies, skirting the immense north and south.."
Token two
"...This inordinate amount of passion
It's madness of the heart
My Foz do Iguaçu, South Pole, my blue
Light of naked feeling
This immense, immeasurable love It goes beyond being whatever It goes beyond where I go, what I am, my pain
My equator
But it's sweet..."
Token one
This shows it's your first choice, and a token going into the jukebox, as it were.
Plus it will then be picked up by the Mystery Jukebox Feed
Check the rules in Michael's first post for a fuller explanation.
https://youtu.be/2q7qjFJKOXs?si=CKhEmbvsGstjNp_j
Token 1 Northline by Richmond Fontaine
https://youtu.be/5FoeuG2rg9o?si=KGf6dsG_PkAAWFal
https://youtu.be/VwsDU00pqFs?si=Sg12yaOVxcXNCqTi
https://youtu.be/HvF31-2bVNE?si=4m6N4mdkVtQc2xOy
Over the sand bar, holding the North Star.
https://youtu.be/w3PD_uiEK5w?si=2IYc4YqynqX581cK
Token 1 Moss by Cosmo Sheldrake
Legend has it that the moss grows on the north side of the tree. https://youtu.be/QxZ0gN66xLs?si=td3b1LnjZTrN9wvF
NOT A TOKEN
I have no idea which model village Cosmo is playing in but it looks quite elaborate doesn’t it.
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
(AND WHERE IT GOT US)
https://youtu.be/9BC07l2_zKU?si=u3rBACWYqJ8vBBmg
Let’s use Token 1 on the song that leapt immediately to mind on hearing the prompts.
“WEST OF THE FIELDS”
REM
https://youtu.be/pJ8gue5xBr0?si=Gzi1vU3jL9j8C8uZ
This band should be far better known than they are:
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: https://youtu.be/UTrv1njKyNI?si=8JVR_VhUGFNvWGcT
'Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?' https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?si=JEYtct0KvqliwYCW
You always know when you’re listening to Gordon Lightfoot. Such a distinctive voice.
But I can't believe it still hasn't been picked!
Ah! I see.
(I don't, but I know how precious potential choices can be!) 😁😸
❤️
(Sorry... I'm absentminded AF... put my tokens under the wrong post... not the first time... please forgive me.)
😬
Moss Covered Technology: The Eastern End
Token one
Concealed in Clouds: Northen Star
Plus I'm extremely jealous that they get that sort of weather in the first place. But they're from Sweden, so this is possibly completely normal there.
💿 Great Southern Land
🎤 Icehouse
https://youtu.be/3mkidP2OUCk?si=tV2VRgYnSonX0Me0
Token 1
📀 Way Out West
🎤 The Dingoes
https://youtu.be/919phJQtlK8?si=qFfNwRreQOV63zZK
For all the Burt Reynolds fans....
Jerry Reed - East Bound and Down
https://youtu.be/IOgUaFkpS3Y?si=7pjNsZdaLBCpxTmu
Token 1,
Burning Spear - Farther EAST of Jack (Marcus Garvey)
https://youtu.be/cbMvlTPAVp0?si=5B2GB320eYIKrLM4
The South Hill Experiment - Alright, OK
Have a good weekend all :)
For token 1
Teleman - Steam Train Girl
"South of nowhere you call your friends"
✨
Thanks so much!
https://youtu.be/DBOuqyqmtJk?si=McLEj3oZN827tCMA
Back down south
King's of Leon
Token 1
Steve Wynn
The sun rises in the west.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
John Denver
https://youtu.be/IUmnTfsY3hI?si=MTJq6TA54rnD33yM
Token 1 Renaissance - Northern Lights
https://youtu.be/CIEqdXpG5Pg?si=54cr4wvVTV5-I955
'Perfect 10' -The Beautiful South.
https://youtu.be/js-2cqqY1K8?si=0E4m94yPM4cijh5hhttps://youtu.be/js-2cqqY1K8?si=0E4m94yPM4cijh5h
'The Crawl' - The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
"East to west, north to south,
Brand-new dance people shoutin' about,
It's called the crawl..."
https://youtu.be/d5b2psSDCHw?si=_a7n14joXOmLACg7
Map Ref 41 degrees North 93 degrees West by Wire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYbylOZB1o
TOKEN 1
North By North by The Bats
The first track I heard from one of my favourite bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC4SX4c50Ig
Southern Nights by Glen Campbell
https://youtu.be/jYTfV5o2ZMY?si=pNRhtWSPsxTIHtQ1
Token 1
North Country Boy by The Charlatans https://youtu.be/xBAxEQZViTU?si=BP2WniKV7gUV58_t