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The best music you WON'T hear on the radio
Theme from The Long Good Friday – Francis Monkman
‘You can’t go crucifying people outside a church – not on a good Friday!’
Spem in alium – The Tallis Scholars
Not performed often – requires 8 choirs of 5 voices each.
The Last Time – The Andrew Oldham Orchestra
Andrew was the Stones’ manager. The string arrangement might be familiar.
Aerial – Kate Bush
Eccentric duet with a blackbird.
Alex Harvey sings Jacques Brel: ultimate acquired tastes?
‘Also sprach Zarathustra’ - The Portsmouth Sinfonia. For true music lovers everywhere.
Bonkers over-production, but unforgettable.
Clare originally got £30 to come in one Sunday night, sing this and go home.
Treat, from Santana's first - just a little album track, but blueprints jazz / latin / rock fusion they were aiming for.
Freddie King - only ever needed two strings to do this sort of thing.
Hotel California: the Gipsy Kings make it theirs. The Dude abides.....
When it comes to cover versions of great songs, this takes some beating: Shinedown's cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Simple Man'. Oh to be able to sing like Brent Smith!
Portishead - Sour Times.
Beth Gibbons, emotionless despair in a voice we don't hear often enough. No idea what she's singing aobut, but you know its going to end badly.
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