Week One >> Take off to Thailand. 
No idea who supplies the music, but the aerial footage is simply brilliant - fasten those seat belts !

After nearly two years the  FRIDAY MUSIC SPOT  has reached 100 !!

We kicked-off on 13th November 2015 with Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain'.

The first 50 songs can be seen via this link. Here's a run down of 51-100: listed below. So welcome to:

51 (>)  Turn My Ship Around .…….………….…….… Jeremy Buck
52 (>)  Wishing Well .……….…….…………….……  Bad Company

53 (>)  Fallout .………………….….….… Catfish and the Bottlemen

54 (>)  Don't Believe a Word ..…..…......…. Gary Moore & Friends

55 (>)  Bicentennial Present .…..………..….….… Peter Baumann

56 (>)  The Last Resort …………….……..……………….… Eagles

57 (>)  Friday On My Mind .….……..……………… The Easybeats

58 (>)  Von den Elben .…….…………………………………… Faun

59 (>)  Midnight Blues …….………………………….. Snowy White 

60 (>)  Better Things .……….....… Ray Davies/Bruce Springsteen

61 (>)  China In Your Hand …………..…………….………… T'Pau  

62 (>)  America's Sweetheart/Can't Be Loved ….......... Elle King

63 (>)  Canon Rock  ….……..….……………………...… Laura Lace

64 (>)  Heat of The Moment ….…….…..…..…....….……..…. Asia
65 (>)  Thinking Out Loud ………………………….… Ed Sheeran
66 (>)  Believe ….……….……………………….… Mumford & Sons
67 (>)  I Think It's Going To Work Out Fine …..… Ry Cooder
68 (>)  Soon ….……………………….………..………….……..…… Yes
69 (>)  The Devil's Answer ….…………….…....…  Atomic Rooster

70 (>)  Samba De Janerio ….……….…….……...….…….…  Bellini

71 (>)  Spring 1 ….……………….………….……..….….… Max Richter

72 (>)  Always Gold….……….……..….………..….…….. Radical Face

73 (>)  Firth of Fifth ….……….……..….…… Steve Hackett Band 

74 (>)  Dreams …………………………….…..…..………..…… Dawes

76 (>)  Back of My Hand ….……….…………………....… The Jags 

77 (>)  One Last Breath ….………………..….………….…… Creed

78 (>)  Driver's Seat  …….…………………..….… Sniff 'n' the Tears

79 (>)  Landslide  ….……….……………………..… Fleetwood Mac 

80 (>)  Melissa ….……..…..……….…..….. Greg Allman & Friends

81 (>)  Open Your Eyes ….……….……………..……….. Snow Patrol

82 (>)  Closing Time ….……….…….……………………… Semisonic

83 (>)  Lofty Skies ….…..….…….…..….……. Tyrannosaurus Rex 

84 (>)  Back It Up …………………………….……..….. Nils Lofgren

85 (>)  The Singer Not The Song …………….... Rolling Stones

86 (>)  Philia …….……….….………..……….…… Baiju Dharmajan 

87 (>)  I'd Love to Change the World ….…… Ten Years After

88 (>)  Suite: Judy Blue Eyes … ………....… Crosby, Still & Nash

89 (>)  Music from: ………….………..… Penguin Cafe Orchestra 

90 (>)  Live the Life  .……..……………….…..…..….. Rod Stewart

91 (>)  Summer Breeze ….….…….……….….....… The Isley Brothers

92 (>)  Taillights Fade ….…….….………….….………… Buffalo Tom

93 (>)  Comfortably Dumb ……….………………….… Pink Floyd 

94 (>)  A Dustland Fairytale …….……….…..……..... The Killers

95 (>)  Illusion of Life ….…………….………….….… The Illusion

96 (>)  San Franciscan Nights …. Eric Burdon & the Animals 

97 (>)  Flowers in the Rain ……….….……....……….. The Move

98 (>)   The Sky is a Neighbourhood ….……...…Foo Fighters

99 (>)  Even The Losers ….… Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 

100 (>)  The Voyager ….…….…………..…...….…..…Mike Oldfield

Click on the (>) to go to the track of your choice. (Not sure if all the videos are still available).

This week's Music Spot is being triggered remotely as I'll already be 'on voyage' by the time you are watching this.
Basically it's just a kaleidoscope of images to transport you to some other place. Float away on an appropriately named soundtrack by Mike Oldfield, from his 1996 album release of the same name 
'The Voyager'. 

> This sets the tone for the coming weeks - as I've loaded up the Friday jukebox with a travel log for you to roughly follow our itinerary and come along for the journey.

NB: This is the 100th Star Track on the Friday Music Spot. Come back Monday for the Chart Show.

I'd already set up last week's Music Spot when the sad news concerning Tom Petty came through. A tribute is therefore a bit late but the moment not missed.
Following a 'Classic Albums' tv show, shown last Friday, about the 1979 'Damn the Torpedoes' album, we have today's Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Star Track.
Side one, track three off the LP:- 'Even The Losers'. Fantastic guitar too, from Mike Campbell.

One track is hardly enough, right. And if you were wondered where the Byrds-like chiming Rickenbacker guitars were? Here they are > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyCa35_mOg
Still want more… well 'Damn the Torpedoes' – whole album >>>

September was a good month for new music. Album releases from The Killers and Foo Fighters. An extraordinary concert of Icelandic avant-garde rock from Sigur Ros. And I discovered a band from Toronto called Alvvays (really spelt like that) and their 2nd album called 'Antisocialites'*. 

As we haven't had any thumping rock music in a while and as they are my son's favourite band AND it was his birthday yesterday, I'm going with the Foo Fighters and 'The Sky is a Neighborhood'.

This track is a 'grower' (so give it a few plays to work it's magic). Great video with the sky at the end, something else. All join in…

Bangin' on the ceiling

Bangin' on the ceiling

Keep it down

* Interested? Sample some anti socialness from Alvvays. Link >

Those students and scholars among you will have noted that the Friday Music Spot is fast approaching the milestone of 100. Watch this space.