Taylor Parkes

After demonstrating a fun smartphone app, Jarvis reads Richard Brautigan's story about the search for the perfect lightbulb, Times Square in Montana. Music critic Taylor Parkes drops by, and compares writing for The Quietus website to writing for the Melody Maker. In his audio essay The Monkees and Manufacturing, he argues that the pop machine can offer the world interesting music that couldn't be created otherwise – as long as there's room for happy accidents. He and Jarvis also wonder whether people still care about the pop charts. On This Day, Charles I was beheaded; Cromwell was ritually executed; Carole King's Tapestry was released; The Beatles performed their famous rooftop concert; and Yerba Buena became San Francisco. Birthdays: Richard Brautigan, John Profumo, Horst Jankowski, Franklin D Roosevelt, Percy Thrower, Patrick Caulfield, Nick Broomfield, Phil Collins, Christian Bale, Peter Crouch, Gene Hackman and Vanessa Redgrave. Valete: Gerald Durrell (discussing naturalism and politics).

Mark Murphy — What If?
David Bowie — Heroes (French Single Version)
Breakage and David Rodigan — Together
King Tubby — Tubby's Dub Festival
Mad River and Richard Brautigan — Love's Not the Way to Treat a Friend
Anthony Newley — Christine
Carole King — I Feel the Earth Move
The Beatles with Billy Preston — Get Back
Lightnin' Hopkins — G String Blues
Thomas Truax — January Egg Race Dream
Arthur Russell — Get Around to It
Horst Jankowski — A Walk in the Black Forest
Eric Burdon and the Animals — San Franciscan Nights
Barry Mann — On Broadway