Just looking through this week’s update of 63,270 tracks on Spotify.  The first thing to catch my eye was Betty Boo’s 2007 comeback single Take Off, which I had not heard of before, let alone heard.  A bit hi-nrg, gay-disco for me, but it got me all nostalgic for Betty Boo and got me to delve into her first album, Boomania, which is still a firm favourite.  I still have it on vinyl and on pre-recorded cassette.

With that out of my system I looked into some of the other new arrivals on planet Spotify…

• God Save the Crane by Escalator Dance Party
  Quirky, heavy on the fiddle and piano music with glimpses of grungy guitar every now and then.  I might let this grow on me.
• Macondo by Fosforo
  A sort of Latin/reggae fusion.
• Fade to Wolf by Five Foot Frog
  OK I admit it – I just liked the name and wondered what sort of band owuld call themselves Five Foot Frog. Turns out to be run-of-the-mill, but not unpleasant heavy metal.
• Three albums by Gallagher & Lyle
  Probably unnecessary as their greatest hits was already available, but listening to Breakaway and Heart on my Sleeve again really took me right back to 1975.
• I Often Dream of Trains in New York by Robyn Hitchcock
  A live album due to be released next week, recorded on the American leg of his 2008 tour.
• Edgar’s Fault an eponymous album
  A very strange mixture of styles, from power ballad to rockabilly-glam-punk to rock to folk-rock to funk-rock.  Keeps you on your toes.

Plus a shed-load of Britney Spears tracks, about eight Strawbs albums, and a big pile of old jazz and blues artists like Glen Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Big Bill Broonzy and Bessie Smith – probably just different versions of existing tracks or yet more compilations of the same songs in a different order, but I haven’t looked into them.

Anything spectacular I have overlooked?