By Maki
It can’t be done, I tell you. There’s just no way. Don’t know why you bother really. You’re just wasting your time.
We’ve all heard it – the naysayers taking a certain joy as they try to burst your balloon to “bring you back down to earth” – and we’ve all either been put off or spurred on by it to a greater or lesser degree. Although I think that when it comes to music, the vast majority of people here are in the latter camp, boldly championing their favourite artists or genres in the face of indifference and incomprehension, imagined or otherwise.
But we stick at it and that’s what this is all about. This week was no exception. Imaginations were sharpened, the rubric was bent, twisted and distorted beyond recognition, clarifications were offered and summarily ignored – as should be the case – and the lists were chosen.
It seems impossible that once a week people from around the world come together to put together a playlist for no other reward than actually just doing it. But here we are. Doing it.I’m in a bit of a hurry this morning. A miscalculation on my part. So here’s the list. I love these songs and hope you all will too.
One brief note: Andy Williams’ Impossible Dream, which would have been my choice, is zedded. I chose Carter USM because the video was shot in Consuegra, which is one of my favourite day trips when we have visitors here in Madrid. If Luther Vandross had shot the video there, magicman would be a much happier bunny today!
The Anything Might Not Happen A-List Playlist:
Wilco – Impossible Germany
NoMeansNo – 0+2=1
Television – Venus
Champion Jack Dupree – Can’t Kick the Habit
Martin Stephenson & The Daintees – Boat to Bolivia
Grateful Dead – Attics of My Life
The Honeybus – I can’t Let Maggie go
Carmen McRae – I Can’t Get Started
Carter USM – The Impossible Dream
Lalo Schifrin – Mission Impossible Theme
The You’d Better Not Believe It B-List Playlist:
Blancmange – Living on the Ceiling
Wire – Three Girl Rhumba
Simple Minds – Promised You a Miracle
Radiohead – 2+2=5
Tony Joe White – They Caught the Devil and Put Him in Jail in Eudora, Arkansas
Jack Bruce – Rope Ladder to the Moon
Maya de Vitry – Not a Trick of the Eye
Jeffrey Lewis Band – It’s Not Impossible
Jackie Leven – As We Sailed into Skibbereen
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – Our Shangri-La
Guru’s Wild Impossibility Pick:
Carlos Cano - Habanera Imposible
These playlists were inspired by readers' song nominations from last week's topic: Mission? Songs about the impossible. The next topic will launch on Thursday at 1pm UK time.
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