Meme - tagged by loveandgarbage

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

At first I thought that this would be impossible as recently the only songs I seem to hear are "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" and songs from the CBeebies Bedtime Hour.

However there have been a few things on the Sanderson stereo which I've heard above the sound of children, and they are

1. Can - "Pinch" (from "Ege Bamyasi") - I've been loving this for 33 years now - incredible, weightless funk - a swirling mist of sounds underpinned by a hard rhythm section which is contradictorally somehow more suggested than actual. Damo on best "what's he on about?" form...

2. Steeleye Span - "Female Drummer" (from "Please To See The King") - with a title that sounds very post modern, it's your proper EngFolk gem about women dressing as men and joining the army etc, over the sort of drone rock that nobody does properly anymore. Most ironic of all, despite rocking like a mutha, (with Martin Carthy on electric) there was no drummer in this, the best, version of the Span.

3. Chic - "Everybody Dance" sinister, minor key minimalist classic. The instruction to dance and clap yopur hands sounds positively menacing - still smooth as hell too...

4. Danny Kaye "Inchworm" (from "Hans Christian Anderson" soundtrack) - David Bowie once played this next to Philip Glass's "Einstein on the Beach", which was pretty clever of him actually. It's just a lovely tune that you can get away with being for kids too. Coltrane did a good version as well...

5. Chet Baker "Alone Together" (from "Chet") - a trumpet one rather than a vocal one. I'm ashamed to admit that I'm using this as chill out muzak....

6. Petula Clark - "Sailor" (from "Downtown- the Pye Anthology") - I started off digging the amazingly cool mid sixties Hatch/Trent tracks, but lately I've been hooked on the more corny pre-beat stuff like this and "Romeo" - just great words, tunes and singing. Also it was compiled, and the sleevenotes are by, Ruth's cousin Richard, who bought our kids some nice bath toys.

7.Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra - "Mali Sadid" - this CD was recommended to me ages ago by 30milesormore, and he didn't let me down, every track is an astonishing syncopated cracker. Being played on repeat...

OK I'll tag, erm spoombung, Andrew, steviecat, ednawatley (natch), bad_cb, counsell skitster and strictlytrue....no obligation of course.

This time next week I'll have been back at work for a day - now there's a thought...