Hmmm, I keep saying that I am trying to catch up on playlists, but “catching up” surely requires me to provide more of these blogs than I’m recording shows. I am currently on a ratio of just about 1:1, which really won’t do if I am going to get up to date.

This week’s featured record from the show is Edwyn Collins‘ return single Losing Sleep, which was released in September and comes from the album of the same title. It would have been difficult to be overly-critical of any record at this stage by Collins – arguably best known for his work in the marvellous Orange Juice and the mid-90s hit A Girl Like You – coming as it does after a long illness. In February 2005 Collins was interviewed on BBC 6Music and complained of feeling a little unwell. Within a couple of days he was admitted to ITU at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, That Fancy London, with a major cerebral hemorrhage. A second hemorrhage followed soon after. The illness left him with a weakness on the right side of his brain and a devastating problem with his speech, which has resulted in a prolonged period of neurological rehabilitation. Recent radio appearances have revealed that Collins’ speech is still not yet 100%, but thankfully the ability to write great pop songs is still in evidence. Any track from Edwyn Collins after this time would have been a triumph. That the record is a triumph purely in musical terms is all the more remarkable.

Courtesy of this lovely Soundcloud player you can listen to this show again for a limited period (probably about the length of time it would take to fill an entire 2 litre bottle with spit, were you to do one flob into it every day). Sadly due to copyright and such blah the show cannot be made available as a downloadable file.

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Selection Box Show 149

The Life Pursuit: Flawless.

Transmitted 13/9/2010

1. Alice Cooper – Elected
from: Billion Dollar Babies

2. Kokanko Sata – Allah Kognuman Don
from: Kokanko Sata

3. Van McCoy – Soul Improvisations Pt 2
from: The Northern Soul Story Vol 3: Blackpool Mecca

4. Niela Miller – Daddy Went To Jail
from: Songs Of Leaving Side A

5. Four Men & A Dog – Micho’s Apron
from: Wallop The Dog

6. Colour Haze – Silent
from: All

7. Belle & Sebastian – Dress Up In You
from: The Life Pursuit

8. The Creole Choir of Cuba – Chen Na Ren
from: CD single

9. The Cadillacs – Gloria
from: The Birth of Rock & Roll (various artists)

10. Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
from: Losing Sleep

11. Leslee Swanson – Each Time
from: The Girls Can’t Help It (various artists)

12. Gabor Szabo – Comin’ Back
from: Jazz Raga

13. Mawkin Causley – Cutty Wren
from: The Awkward Recruit

Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.