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Revision as of 16:28, 18 November 2020
From November 10, 2020, Elvis curated a playlist on Spotify, pairing tracks from the expanded box set reissue of Armed Forces with tracks by other artists. This was presented as:
"Armed Forces 33⅓ Network
On Twitter he introduced it thus:
"Spin the dial to this frequency to hear songs and cues and catches from the 20th Century jukebox and radio airwaves that were enlisted into ‘Armed Forces’”
Armed Forces 33⅓ Network - November 10, 2020 - ?
| number | song | album | note |
| 01. | Clean Money | “Sketches For Emotional Fascism” | The opening track of our 1979 album was supposed to be, “Clean Money”. It was definitely indebted to The Beatles “Back In The U.S.S.R” and a favourite group of ours from Madison, Wisconsin: Cheap Trick. Indeed, Rick Neilsen generously introduced us to a slightly skeptical crowd at “Bunky’s” in Madison in the Winter of 1977. I never did learn how to juggle all those guitars. |
| 02. | Big Eyes | In Color by Cheap Trick | |
| 03. | Accidents Will Happen | Armed Forces | Many songs and much mischief went in to what eventually became the first cut on “Armed Forces”. The most obvious is a half-quotation from the lyrics of Randy Newman’s “I Don’t Want To Hear It Anymore” as sung by my favourite singer. |
| 04. | I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore | Dusty In Memphis by Dusty Springfield | |
| 05. | Breaking Glass | Low by David Bowie | The many miles of our first tours of the U.S. had a limited soundtrack, the few cassettes on which we could agree, among them the “Berlin” records by David Bowie and Iggy Pop, I hear a reference to a track from “Low" in the background voices and tremolo guitar of the third song on “Armed Forces”. |
| 06. | Senior Service | Armed Forces | |
| 07. | Oliver's Army | Armed Forces | The tie-breaker in our “Tour Station Wagon Soundtrack Stand-Offs” was often this ABBA album. We loved ABBA so much that we even bought their Swedish language albums on our first venture to the country, shortly before making “Armed Forces”. |
| 08. | Dancing Queen | Arrival by ABBA | My song about boys being sent off to do other people’s dirty work was heading for a B-side pile until Steve Nieve borrowed Benny Andersson’s grand piano style and turned the song into a Top Five U.K. hit.. |
