Wud Records: February 2022 top ten tracks published at SoundCloud

The top ten SoundCloud tracks for February 2022 from Wud Records have been published in a new playlist.

Tracks are arranged from one to ten according to their popularity. The algorithm we use gives greatest weight to reposts, then likes and comments (active engagement) over plays.

When somebody reposts a track, that gives it the opportunity to be heard by a potential new fan. This is always a tremendous help for creative souls!

Songs published at Bandcamp and other platforms are omitted from the SoundCloud statistics because they would require separate treatment.

Archive tracks and bonus tracks are also ignored, as are likes and comments from people who clearly didn’t listen to the music.

Only you, the listener, can influence our March 2022 playlist. So if there is a track you particularly like, keep playing it! Leave a comment, repost it and share it to your social media feeds!

Massive thanks go out to everybody who helped to support all of us during February 2022 by listening to, commenting on and reposting our bands’ tracks on SoundCloud, as well as other platforms.

All the wonderful fans of our bands who supported us with downloads from Bandcamp are especially appreciated because they genuinely help us keep the fires burning. May you be blessed by the gods of rock n roll! :)

We would also like to say a special thank you to all the splendid people on Twitter who have been enjoying and reposting our tracks to their followers. All the support and positive feedback has been incredibly heartwarming for us all. It makes our endeavours here seem worthwhile.

Congratulations to Flicker! Flicker enjoyed a very good month on the new chart, occupying four of the positions. Three of the Flicker tracks are from their wonderful 2002 album At Least 1000 Words. The other is from the HappySad Demos.

At the very top of our chart, up one place from last month, is Oily Road Hideaway, a delightful latin jazz dance. Oily Road Hideaway is the only track from Flicker‘s first album with programmed drums. It also has twin bass guitars playing in unison, with Dave on his Fender and George on the Plank.

Welcome to the Family drops one place on the new chart from three to four. This is another wonderful latin-jazz-rock-fusion instrumental. It builds from its acoustic guitar beginings to a heady climax of guitar feedback and noise. There is a lovely bass solo from Dave, who also plays the keyboard parts with outstanding aplomb and sensitivity.

New at number seven is a demo from Flicker‘s work-in-progress HappySad album. The track is called A Stick, A Bob, A Pea For Peter. This is a truly beautiful piece of instrumental rock. Even though the recording is not very good, a few people found it and enjoyed listening to it, which is very pleasing. We hope to be able to finish and release this fabulous creation before this year is done.

Holiding steady in the top ten at number nine is Week Five by Flicker. This one has a remarkably live-sounding feel for a studio recording and is a breezy feelgood latin rock dance number that wouldn’t sound out of place in a set from Carlos Santana.

Flicker‘s second album, HappySad, is under construction and you can listen to it as it stands right now by clicking here. Several more tracks are likely to be released in the coming weeks and months, so please keep an eye and an ear on our News service and Twitter.

There are three songs in total by Dark Company, who enjoyed another splendid month for Wud Records on SoundCloud during February 2022.

Up five places, to this month‘s number two position, is Horizontal Hold, a very wonderful song that is still work-in-progress. This version is from Dark Company‘s forthcoming fourth album, Can of Worms. It features the thought- and smile-provoking lyrics of Speedy Pete Greatorex. Horizontal Hold (as in “please do not adjust your set”) was later reworked on the subsequent Mind Dance album – with guitars – as Broken Tubes.

Down two places from last month‘s number one is Crash, from Dark Company‘s first album, Signmaker. Crash is a high octane esoteric mix of hard rock and jazz funk. It has been likened to Talking Heads, Van Halen, AC/DC, ZZ Top and The Who amongst others.

Crash was originally an Alien Heat song, and Alien Heat used it to open their live show. Sadly, no recording of the Alien Heat version still exists, as far as we know.

There is also a different work-in-progress version of Crash on Dark Company‘s forthcoming Alien Heat album and a wonderful remix featuring lots of voice samples from an omnibus edition of EastEnders, broadcast on BBC television in late 1991.

Staying at number eight this month is Dark Company’s awesome alternative / hard / psychedelic rock and funk song Dancing In The Dark. The version you can hear is still work-in-progress.

Pete wrote the lyrics in 1989 and the song was originally performed by Alien Heat. Dancing In The Dark describes his memories of going nightclubbing in the West End of London after being revved up by his good friend Billy.

Pete was not actually terribly keen on the song and would always refer to it as “Farting in the Park”.

Back in the days of Alien Heat, Dancing In The Dark included Graham’s drum solo. This was when everyone in the band would roll a cigarette (or something a little more flavoursome) while he performed it, hopefully having the deed done and the object lit in time to carry on with the song at the drum solo’s conclusion.

Alchemeon continue to be a popular act, with two songs on the new chart this month.

Returning to our charts at number six is a live space rock epic from Alchemeon, who crafted two of the ten most popular SoundCloud tracks in February 2022. Tipping the scales at over 15 minutes, Born of Stars, recorded live in the winter of 2008-09, is a weighty cosmic jam which was tremendous fun. It involved on-stage dramatics and audience participation. Each performance was always different. It was originally performed by the Spacegoats, including in their “electric elves” manifestation.

The Freaks (Shall Inherit The Earth) was a chart topper last year. Another Spacegoats original by Pok the Bard, The Freaks (Shall Inherit The Earth) has been a tremendously popular cosmic rock song for many years.

The remaining song on the February 2022 chart comes from The Bastard Sons of Dennis. Good Times is a fun acoustic funk and progressive rock song about a man who told a very strange tale to a hitchhiker he picked up one day. Good Times was recorded at 432Hz and was often used as a set opener for the duo in their longer shows. It’s a fabulous song in the glorious key of G major and has maintained its popularity for a long time.

None of our other acts made it onto the chart this month.

If you would like to go to SoundCloud to hear the top ten songs from Wud Records in February 2022, as played, liked, commented upon and reposted by listeners, please click here.

If you prefer to listen right here at the Wud Records website, you will find that it is the new default music player. You will find it on all non band-specific pages at the site, including our Links collection and homepage.

Recently we have added a few more of the previous charts as pages to their section of this website. We are still nearly three years behind in this work, but at least a little catching up has been done. If you’d like to see all our old charts, they can be accessed easily by clicking here. More pages will be added soon, when there is time.