Sonic Youth — Teen Age Riot
Bruce Springsteen — Darkness On The Edge of Town
Chef Raekwon — Knuckleheadz
Roy Orbison — In Dreams
The Fall — Hotel Bloedel
Letta Mbulu — What's Wrong With Groovin'
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity — Season Of The Witch
The Beach Boys — God Only Knows

The Number 91. From a bus route I used to take from Crouch End to the Aldwych. The journey in was always upbeat. The journey back usually more melancholic and wistful. 

This playlist is culled from my most popular tracks on iTunes and lives on from when I used to work in London and take the number 91 bus  to work (when it was too wet to cycle). It's in that well trodden crypto-fascist-hippy genre, in literature terms somewhere between Laurie Lee, Joseph Heller and Bret Easton Ellis. I'd like to think most people inhabit that spectrum of emotions somewhere in their day, oscillating between light and dark. It's interesting to me because of what it excludes as much as what it contains. I wanted to include Claro Intelecto recent stuff and Boo Williams' early work, but neither live on Spotify. Their music manages to be both simultaneously. Crystal Castles were too bleak for me today but I do love them for a descent into dark. And Katell Kleineg's last album At The Mermaid Parade has a few wonderful tracks that could have replaced the Beach Boys. Again, not on spotify but always in my head. Thank you.

About Playlist Club-er: James Boardwell (@jamesb)

I'm James Boardwell. I blog at Technogoggles and am a Director of Folksy.