B69: Bands, those funny little plans, that never work out right ...

As I've been reading about, and listening to, The Band, I've been thinking about bands in general. Bands, those funny little plans ...

I was never in a band. I didn't play an instrument well enough and didn't have a band-like group of friends prepared to overlook my lack of musicality and risk it all on my sizzling on-stage charisma. I was never close to being in a band. So anyone who's ever been in a band has one up on me, and I'm envious of all of them.

Still, bands never work out. None of them, apart from U2.

They all end in disaster, death, dissolution, divorce, dungeons, drugs, departing drummers, disputed details, difference, difference, difference.

The age of the band seems a little like it's over, especially with the whole pandemic and that - 60 years, the age of the band.

I'd like this to be a 60-song playlist about being in a band. I'm not entirely sure it'll get that far....

... anyway, I kind of gave up on this - it's not in the right order and there's no apple link and there's only 45 songs - still, some nice things...

1. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
2. History Lesson Pt 2 - Minutemen
3. Heard About Your Band - Brakes
4. Holes - Mercury Rev
5. Once Were Brothers - Robbie Robertson
6. This is Just a Modern Rock Song - Belle and Sebastian
7. Goodbye - The Spice Girls
8. For Now and Ever - Super Furry Animals
9. Listen to the Band - The Monkees
10. Can't Stand Me Now - The Libertines
11. Battery in Your Leg - Blur
12. When We Was Fab - George Harrison
13. Garageland - The Clash
14. Formed a Band - Art Brut
15. Do It Again - The Beach Boys
16. The Spirit of Giving - The New Pornographers
17. Danko/Manuel - Drive-By Truckers
18. Never Forget - Take That
19. Ruckus in A Minor - Wu-Tang Clan
20. Wilco - Wilco
21. Introducing the Band - Suede
22. You Love Us/Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
23. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
24. Only Living Boy in New York - Simon and Garfunkel
25. We've Been Had - The Walkmen
26. Girl in Amber - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
27. Sweeping the Nation - Spearmint
28. The Late Greats - Wilco
29. Range Life - Pavement
30. Best Ever death Metal Band out of Denton - Mountain Goats
31. Cheated Hearts - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
32. Punka - Kenickie
33. Hey Darling - Sleater-Kinney
34. Fake Tales of San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
35. Hallelujah - Haim
36. We are the Pipettes - The Pipettes
37. Moulty - The Barbarians
38. Creeque Alley - Mamas and the Papas
39. The Load Out - Jackson Browne
40. Torn and Frayed - Stones
41. Tonight's the Night - Neil Young
42. Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
43. I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee Quite Well - Pooh Sticks
44. Glamorous Indie Rock'n'Roll - The Killers