An Optimo Desert Island Disco
Optimo (Keith and Jonnie) share their Desert Island Disco selections, including tracks from Cameo and The Undertones.
Optimo (Keith and Jonnie) share their Desert Island Disco selections, including tracks from Cameo and The Undertones.
Featuring
1. Cameo - Money (Reese Revamp Mix)
2. 69 – Desire
3. Hawkind – Down Through The Night (Space Ritual Version – Live)
4. The Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy
5. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
Other selections:
• Arvo Part - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
• Eden Ahbez - Full Moon (from “Eden’s Island, Music From An Enchanted Isle”)
• New Order - Your Silent Face
• Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
• Janet Kay - Silly Games
• The Upsetters - Super Ape
• Coil - Going Up
• Alice Coltrane - Om Shanti
• Blondie - Shayla
• Robotiko Rekekto - Rejekto
On choosing The Undertones, Jonnie said: "I wasn’t exposed to much great music as a youngster - there was only one record shop in East Belfast and I didn’t start going into town to Terry Hooley’s “Good Vibrations” shop for the better stuff until I was about 14.
I was collecting records at quite a young age though - from about 11 or 12. Even though they treated me quite badly to begin with - enjoying throwing me into ditches, gobbing on my back, trapping me in sewer pipes and “wedgie-ing” me constantly - I did get to know a lot of local punks and they’d let me have records for cheap off them if they wanted money for booze or fags. I could get singles for 50p usually… this is something from that time."
JD Twitch says that Hawkwind's Space Ritual may be "The best live album ever recorded? Definitely the live album I have spent the most time listening to going away back to when I was a teenager. It is a 90 minute monolithic, hypnotic beast and a towering pinnacle of space rock repetition. Never boring, endlessly invigorating, I can always tell when I have perhaps had one light refreshment too many as I will find myself cranking this to the max at stupid o’clock."
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