Day 128: Life is peaceful there...

Album 396/1031

Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth (1993)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"When You Gonna Learn (Digeridoo)"	Jay Kay	3:50
2.	"Too Young to Die"	Jay Kay, Toby Smith	6:05
3.	"Hooked Up"	Jay Kay, Toby Smith	4:35
4.	"If I Like It, I Do It"	Jay Kay, Nick Van Gelder	4:53
5.	"Music of the Mind"	Jay Kay, Toby Smith	6:22
6.	"Emergency on Planet Earth"	Jay Kay, Toby Smith	4:05
7.	"Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop"	Jay Kay	4:07
8.	"Blow Your Mind"	Jay Kay, Toby Smith	8:32
9.	"Revolution 1993"	Jay Kay, Toby Smith	10:16
10.	"Didgin' Out"	Jay Kay, Wallis Buchanan	2:37

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_on_Planet_Earth

Golf's verdict: If you are going to try and be a Stevie Wonder-like master of the old funk and soul then woe betide you if you are white, middle-class and the son of a minor celebrity. That has not prevented Jay Kay from selling millions of records, but it has done untold damage to his street cred. You are not supposed to like Jamiroquai and I cannot say I actually DO like this, but the bits that sound most like prime-era '70s Stevie W are not half bad. Better to just put Talking Book or Innervisions on though.

Maire's verdict: I remember when this came out. Didn't like it then and don't like it now. In fact it's shite.

Album 397/1031

Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)

All tracks written by Radiohead (Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Philip Selway, Thom Yorke).

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box"	4:00
2.	"Pyramid Song"	4:49
3.	"Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" ([note 1])	4:07
4.	"You and Whose Army?"	3:11
5.	"I Might Be Wrong"	4:54
6.	"Knives Out"	4:15
7.	"Morning Bell/Amnesiac"	3:14
8.	"Dollars and Cents"	4:52
9.	"Hunting Bears"	2:01
10.	"Like Spinning Plates"	3:57
11.	"Life in a Glasshouse"	4:34

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesiac_(album)

Golf's verdict: This album has little warmth and is a little like the musical equivalent of amphetamine paranoia. But I still rather like it. Well, it's Radiohead, isn't it? They've never released anything less than an interesting record. This one is hard to really love though.

Maire's verdict: I struggled with this album, to be honest. Not a favourite.

Album 398/1031

The Pet Shop Boys - Very (1993)

All songs except "Go West" written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.

1. "Can You Forgive Her?" – 3:53
2. "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" – 3:03
3. "Liberation" – 4:05
4. "A Different Point of View" – 3:26
5. "Dreaming of the Queen" – 4:19
6. "Yesterday, When I Was Mad" – 3:55
7. "The Theatre" – 5:10
8. "One and One Make Five" – 3:30
9. "To Speak Is a Sin" – 4:45
10. "Young Offender" – 4:50
11. "One in a Million" – 3:52
12. "Go West" (includes hidden track sung by Chris Lowe "Postscript (I Believe in Ecstasy)" at track-clock 7:07 – 1:15) – 8:22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_(Pet_Shop_Boys_album)

Golf's verdict: If 'It's a Sin' is peak Pet Shop Boys then this comes just after that peak. Still bloody good though and the version of 'Go West' is a camp classic.

Maire's verdict: Always liked the Pet Shop Boys and this is really good.