Calling Octopus by Tom Coates
- Sébastien Tellier – Divine - Midnight Juggernaughts Remix
- Billy Swan – I Can Help
- Wax Stag – Folk Rock
- Terry Jacks – Seasons In The Sun
- DJ Shadow – Six Days (Soulwax Remix)
- Claude François – Pauvre Petite Fille Riche
- Oh No Ono – The Wave Ballet
- Carpenters – Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact Day)
I live in San Francisco now and so it is my duty as an Englishman abroad to shed my inhibitions, my natural cynicism and reserve, and to get into Yoga, polyamourous half-naked street parties and burritos. It is with grudging resignation that I accept this fate. Recently, I went on a road-trip around the Southwest States of the US with my brother and we listened to a lot of music and made a thousand idiotic in-jokes, and I found my music taste swinging towards more open, optimistic or honest-sounding songs. Almost naive songs. And it turns out many of the open, friendly, naive songs I liked were from the seventies. So this is a playlist of openness, cheerfulness, optimism, emotional expression and fun, with quite a lot of songs that it would be easy to be cynical about. But I am choosing not to be.
Tom Coates is a product designer, writer and public speaker who has worked with some of the web's biggest companies. He's just in the process of setting up a new incubator called Product Club in San Francisco. He writes, sporadically, at plasticbag.org.
