(Note: since I posted this in March 2014, a lot of the links have died. Sorry, but I can’t be arsed to update them 🙂 )
I’m listening to all of my 7″ singles from start to finish. It’s a fun trip down memory lane, and another excuse to post links to stuff I like.
DAY 1:
The Acetones: Security Girl b/w National Breakout
Adam and the Ants: Stand and Deliver b/w Beat My Guest
Adam and the Ants: Kings of the Wild Frontier b/w Press Darlings
Adam and the Ants: Friend or Foe b/w Juanito the Bandito
Adam and the Ants: Goody Two Shoes b/w Red Scab
Adam and the Ants: Dog Eat Dog ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtxuPqjSJDc ) b/w Physical (You’re So)
Adam and the Ants: Prince Charming b/w Christian Dior
Adam and the Ants: Antmusic ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPjfD8ulnpw ) b/w Fall In
Adam and the Ants: Ant Rap b/w Friends
Adult Net: White NIghts b/w Naughty or Nice?
Adult Net: Edie b/w Get Around
The Adverts: One Chord Wonders b/w Quick Step
The Adverts: Gary Gilmore’s Eyes ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvQOuuxRO1s ) b/w Bored Teenagers
Aerosmith: Draw the Line b/w Bright, Light, Fright
Jane Aire & the Belvederes: Yankee Wheels ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpn0ExLh8so ) b/w Nasty…Nice
Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band: You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling (promo double A side)
Laurie Anderson: Oh Superman ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hhm0NHhCBg ) b/w Walk the Dog
Altered Images: Pinky Blue b/w Think That It Might
Ama-Dots: Hit Girls ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIukFBcr9-g ) b/w The Cease Is Increase
The Amazement Company – Dead Cows & U.F.O.’s b/w Miss Crash Head
Barry Andrews (ex-XTC): Me and My Mate Can Sing/Bring on the Alligators b/w Mousetrap/Sargasso Bar
Angie – Peppermint Lump b/w Angie’s Orchestra
The One Song I Hope You’ll Check Out: Jane Aire & the Belvederes “Yankee Wheels” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpn0ExLh8so .
An “If It Ain’t Stiff, It Ain’t Worth a Fuck” Records release.
DAY 2:
Angie’s Orchestra: “Peppermint Lump” b/w “Breakfast in Naples”
Angletrax: “Things to Make and Do” b/w “Anorexia Nervosa”
Animal Magnet: “Tomorrow Will Do” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdsc4CqMov0 ) b/w “Struck by Lightning”
The Appliances (Madison band): “Danger Zone/Living in America” b/w “Unease/Neo-Fascist”
Athletico Spizz 80: “No Room” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxZFhN-SNec ) b/w “Spock’s Missing”*
Au Pairs: “It’s Obvious” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi_9jpsyjfE ) b/w “Diet”
Aural Exciters: “Spooks in Space” b/w “Spooks in Space” [version]
Aztec Camera: “Oblivious” b/w “Orchid Girl”
Binky Baker & the Pit Orchestra: “Toe Knee Black Burn” b/w “Rainy Day in Brighton” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyNwFELzNt8 )
Honey Bane: “Turn Me On Turn Me Off” b/w “In Dreams” + “Negative Exposure” b/w “‘Taint Nobody’s Biz-Ness If I Do”
The Batfish Boys: “Justine” b/w “Amoeba Rock”
Bauhaus: “The Passion of Lovers” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2uh5xTCrag ) b/w “1. David Jay 2. Peter Murphy 3. Kevin Haskins 4. Daniel Ash”
The Beat: “Tears of a Clown” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjnYRD2vm8E ) b/w “Ranking Full Stop”
The Beat: “Too Nice to Talk To” b/w “Psychedelic Rockers”
The Beat: “Jeanette” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj6ZqIF7W0c ) b/w “March of the Swivelheads”
The Beatles: “Ticket to Ride” b/w “Yes It Is”
The Beatles: “I Want to Hold Your Hand” b/w “I Saw Her Standing There”
The Beatles: “You Can’t Do That” b/w “Can’t Buy Me Love”
The Beatles: “Got to Get You Into My Life” b/w “Helter Skelter”
The Beatles: “Ballad of John and Yoko” b/w “Old Brown Shoe”
Jeff Beck: “You Know What I Mean” (double-side promo)
Bee Gees: “Edge of the Universe” b/w “Nights on Broadway”
Mark Beer: “Pretty” b/w “Per(version)”
Chuck Berry: “Johnny B. Goode” b/w “Rock and Roll Music:
The B-52’s: “Rock Lobster” b/w “52 Girls”
The B-52’s: “Strobelight” b/w “Dirty Back Road”
The Birthday Party: “The Friend Catcher” b/w “Waving My Arms” & “Cat Man”
The Birthday Party: “Nick the Stripper” ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5I2vEcVC_I ) b/w “Blundertown”
The Birthday Party: “Release the Bats” b/w “Blast Off”
The Birthday Party: “Mr. Clarinet”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTKAZ2CjnsE ) b/w “Happy Birthday”
The Bishops: “I Want Candy” b/w “See That Woman”
Blondie: “Heart of Glass” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_4-5RaxU ) b/w “11:59”
Blondie: “One Way or Another” b/w “Just Go Away”
Blondie: “Heart of Glass” (demo) b/w “Platinum Blonde” (demo) + “The Gang No More” (demo)
Blondie: “The Tide Is High” b/w “Suzy and Jeffrey”
No B-52’s links because I’ve gone on about them at length before.
Jeff, I can readily (if not particularly convincingly) explain why I have five Beatles singles.
A bit of a slog, but a pleasant way to spend a day. Plus I’m getting close to Bowie 🙂
Song of the day…..this will give you a hearty (but not too hearty, what ho!) good Olde English belly laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyNwFELzNt8
DAY 3:
Blurt: “The Fish Needs a Bike” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je30JqJCW0o ) b/w “This is my Royal Wedding Souvenir”
The Bodysnatchers: “Let’s Do Rock Steady ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WVj7s6YRmc ) b/w “Ruder than You” [the only all-girl band on Two-Tone and IMO sadly overlooked]
The Bodysnatchers: “Easy Life” b/w “Too Experienced”
Gary ‘U.S.’ Bonds: “This Little Girl” b/w “Way Back When”
Boney M.: “Rivers of Babylon” b/w “Brown Girl in the Ring”
The Boomtown Rats: “Mary of the 4th Form (alternate version)” b/w “Do the Rat” x 2
The Boomtown Rats: “Lookin’ After No.1” b/w “Born to Burn” + “Barefootin'”
The Boomtown Rats: “Rat Trap” b/w “So Strange”
The Boomtown Rats: “Rat Trap” (U.S double A side demo)
The Boomtown Rats: “She’s So Modern” b/w “Lying Again”
The Boomtown Rats: “Banana Republic” b/w “Man At the Top”
The Boomtown Rats: “Like Clockwork” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRsjh58F1M ) b/w “How Do You Do?”
The Boomtown Rats: “I Don’t Like Mondays” b/w “It’s All the Rage”
David Bowie: “Rebel, Rebel” + “Queen Bitch” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5P63qGTm_g ) b/w “Sorrow” + “Amsterdam” [I’m not sure why this was released, since all of the tracks had already been…released earlier in the UK. Perhaps it was meant as a “What’s Up With DB?” sampler, in which case it’s an absolute cracker, not a duff track in the four.]
David Bowie & Bing Crosby: “Little Drummer Boy” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus ) b/w “Heroes.” [from Crosby’s “Merrie Olde Christmas” TV special, for the longest time, you could only get this on a bootleg single, but it’s been released on compilations since.]
The Manish Boys a/k/a Davy Jones & the Lower Third – “I Pity the Fool” + “Take My Tip” b/w “You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving” + ” Baby Loves That Way” [Juvenilia.]
David Bowie: “Golden Years” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bYOZdM2tpg ) b/w “Can You Hear Me” (U.S. RCA)
David Bowie: “1984” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KByxC7B9WH0 ) b/w “Queen Bitch” (U.S. RCA)
Tomorrow, more Bowie, less commentary.
If You Watch Only One Thing: Bowie’s spectacularly coked-out performance on Soul Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bYOZdM2tpg
DAY 4:
IT’S ALL BOWIE!
“Drive in Saturday” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIN27uwbTL4 ) b/w “Round and Round”
“D.J.” b/w “Fantastic Voyage”
“Be My Wife” b/w “Speed of Life”
“Sound and Vision” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJsAuUgSgc ) b/w “A New Career in a New Town”
DB in Bertold Brecht’s BAAL: “Baal’s Hymn” + “Remembering Marie A” b/w “Ballad of the Adventurers” + “The Drowned Girl” + ” The Dirty Song”
“Let’s Spend the Night Together” b/w “Lady Grinning Soul”
DB & Giorgio Moroder: “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmLowvnCvRk ) b/w “Paul’s Chase (Jogging Theme)”
“‘Heroes'” (RCA promo double A-side)
“Stay” b/w “Word on a Wing”
“Be My Wife” b/w “Speed of Life”
“Ashes to Ashes” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXwh7mTYBBs ) b/w “Move On”
“Rebel Rebel” b/w “Queen Bitch” (UK)
“Changes” b/w “Andy Warhol”
“Space Oddity” b/w “The Man Who Sold the World” x 2
“Rebel Rebel” b/w “Queen Bitch” (US)
“Young Americans [single edit]” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTC6zeq1pYI ) b/w “Knock on Wood”
“John, I’m Only Dancing” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVU_1b9pLj8 ) b/w “Hang on to Yourself”
“Space Oddity” b/w “Changes” + “Velvet Goldmine” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfRgd9REzAs ) [ignore the description…it’s not from Ziggy Stardust]
“London Bye Ta-Ta” b/w “Bombers” (boot)
D.B. & the Hype – “The Prettiest Star” b/w “Conversation Piece” + “Holy Holy” (boot)
“John I’m Only Dancing 1972” b/w “Joe the Lion” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcXb2FXcWg4 )
“Be My Wife” (RCA promo double A-side)
A song you might consider…..”John, I’m Only Dancing” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVU_1b9pLj8 ). Indulge me — it’s my favorite Bowie song.
DAY 5:
DB: “Breaking Glass” b/w “Art Decade” + “Ziggy Stardust” [a good live EP, but I can’t find any of those versions on YT]
DB: “Heroes (chanté en français)”* b/w “V-2 Schneider”
David Jones & the King Bees: “Liza Jane” b/w “Louie, Louie Go Home” [juvenilia]
DB: “Space Oddity” b/w “The Man Who Sold the World”
DB: “Fame” b/w “Right” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIi6ewkFvs )
DB: “Alabama Song” b/w “Space Oddity”
DB: “DJ” b/w “Repetition ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2c73wQH73U )
DB: “Helden” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXV3rlr9G04 )* b/w “V-2 Schneider”
Bow Wow Wow: “Prince of Darkness” b/w “Orangutang” (UK)
Bow Wow Wow: “Orang-Outang” b/w “Mickey, Put It Down Now” (US)
Bow Wow Wow: “Louis Quatorze” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ef3DhaYjd4 )** b/w “Mile High Club”
Bow Wow Wow: “Go Wild in the Country” b/w “El Boss Dicho”
Bow Wow Wow: “C’30, C’60, C’60, Go” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGLK0vcByyI )*** b/w “Sun, Sea and Piracy”
James Brown & The Famous Flames: “Prisoner of Love” b/w “Choo-Choo”
Kate Bush: “Moving” b/w “The Man with the Child In His Eyes”
Kate Bush: “Sat in Your Lap” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cIjariCM-c ) b/w “Lord of the Reevy River”
Kate Bush: “Babooshka” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xckBwPdo1c ) b/w “Ran Tan Waltz”
Buzzcocks: “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” b/w
“I love it when he says, so seriously, with his gun in my back, ‘Honey, close your eyes and think of England….just for one second.”’
DAY 6:
Great band name. My gaydar wasn’t fully tuned in at that point, but their song titles (“Orgasm Addict,” “Just Lust,” “Why Can’t I Touch It?”) certainly made my teen boy hormones sit up and take notice. It was only later that I found out that lead singer Pete Shelley was a big homo.
They were often derided in the musical press at the time (“Them songs got melodies and that ain’t punk!”)
With the benefit of hindsight, most of their singles seem like minor variations on a theme, and listening to all of them at once, like on the compilation “Singles Going Steady” (most of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Mi995ggFU&list=PL866FD0E7564F2F63 ) is an exercise in diminishing returns. Fun at the time, though.
Buzzcocks: “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” b/w “Why Can’t I Touch It?”
Buzzcocks: “Orgasm Addict” b/w “Whatever Happened To?”
Buzzcocks: “Promises” b/w “Lipstick”
Buzzcocks: “I Believe” b/w “Something’s Gone Wrong Again”
Buzzcocks’ Spiral Scratch EP*: “Breakdown” + “Time’s Up” b/w “Boredom” + “Friends of Mine”
Buzzcocks: “Running Free” b/w “What Do You Know?”**
Buzzcocks: “Strange Thing” b/w “Airwaves Dream”**
Buzzcocks: “Harmony in My Head” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNxlt9N4YMA ) b/w “Something’s Gone Wrong Again”
Buzzcocks: “Are Everything” b/w “Why She’s a Girl from a Chain Store”**
Buzzcocks: “Love You More” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXFgRKRndfc ) b/w “Noise Annoys”
Buzzcocks: “You Say You Don’t Love Me” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ivid4R2ZD0 ) b/w “Raison d’être”
Buzzcocks: “Ever Fallen in Love… (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPG6Ak5FASk ) b/w “Just Lust”
Buzzcocks: “What Do I Get?” b/w “Oh Shit”
David Byrne: “Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)” b/w “Leg Bells”
(Catching up) Two good songs: (1) “Love You More” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXFgRKRndfc ) for its surprise ending, and (2) “Ever Fallen in Love… (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPG6Ak5FASk ) coz it’s good.
*Spiral Scratch was one of the first “independent” releases of the punk movement.
**Latter-day original Buzzcocks (ca. 1980), with Steve Diggle taking on most of the songwriting chores, and not very good.
DAY 7 & 8 (two for the price of one):
Mark Beer: “Love Dances Warm” b/w “The Small Death” [misfiled]
Cabaret Voltaire: “Do the Mussolini (Headkick)” + “The Set Up” b/w “Talkover” + “Here She Comes Now”
Cabaret Voltaire: “Jazz the Glass” b/w “Burnt to the Ground”
Cabaret Voltaire: “Seconds Too Late” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEyqe3cyY38 ) b/w “Control Addict”
Captain & Tennille: “Shop Around” b/w “Butterscotch Castle”
The Carpenters: “Sing” b/w “Druscilla Penny”
The Cars*: “Good Times Roll” (double-A side radio promo)
The Cars: “Just What I Needed” b/w “I’m in Touch with Your World”
The Cars: “Let’s Go” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExYsh1W22Wo ) b/w “That’s It”
Cheap Trick: “Surrender” b/w “Auf Wiedersehen”
Cher: “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTETaWswCY ) b/w “He’ll Never Know”
Cher: “Half-Breed” b/w “Melody”
Cher: “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” b/w “The Way of Love” [wore the first one out]
China Crisis: “African and White” b/w “Red Sails”
China Crisis: “Christian” b/w “Greenacre Bay” + “Performing Seals”
China Crisis: “Working with Fire and Steel” b/w “Dockland” + “Forever I and I”
Chi-Pig: “Bountiful Living” b/w “Ring Around the Collar”
Chris & Cosey: “October (love song)” b/w “Little Houses”
The Clash’s*** The Cost of Living EP: “I Fought the Law” + “Groovy Times” b/w “Gates of the West” + “Capital Radio”
The Clash: “White Riot” b/w “1977” x 2
The Clash: “Remote Control” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaOmTHaRA1g ) b/w “London’s Burning”
The Clash: “Tommy Gun” b/w “1-2 Crush on You”
The Clash: “Train in Vain”**** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Yl4ehzX-o ) b/w “Bankrobber” + “Rocker’s Galore….UK Tour”
The Clash: “Clash City Rockers” b/w “Jail Guitar Doors” x 2
The Clash: “Complete Control” b/w “The City of the Dead”
The Clash: “(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais” b/w “The Prisoner”
The Clash: “English Civil War” b/w “Pressure Drop”
The Clash: “Gates of the West” b/w “Groovy Times” (US radio promo)
The Clash: “Should I Stay or Should I Go” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIXLHtg2Btk ) b/w “Straight to Hell” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRfm1oVnUs )
The Clash: “This Is Radio Clash” b/w “Radio Clash”
The Clash: “Listen” b/w “Capital Radio” + “Interview” (fake bootleg)
Classix Nouveaux: “Nasty Little Green Men” b/w “Test Tube Babies”
One Song to Listen To: The Cabs’ “Seconds Too Late.” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEyqe3cyY38 ) They’re notable if only for their consistency/single bloody mindedness.
-R
*who somehow successfully straddled the divide between Journey and Talking Heads (or at least Devo). Brief anecdote: at college I was known as a fan of new wave, and one of my dorm-mates asked me, “Are The Cars considered New Wave? I hope not, ’cause I like them.”
** Still love this. And no one sings like Cher.
***Another fave band. Not sure why the reviewers got their knickers into a twist when they found out that Joe Strummer (R.I.P.) was middle class and not an authentic guttersnipe. “Print the legend.”
****Their only US hit, and I use that word advisedly.
DAY 9:
Classix Nouveaux: “Guilty” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nawiQi1kNoI ) b/w “Night People”
Clicker: “Before You Say Goodbye” b/w “Thinking ‘Bout You”
Coil*: “Is Suicide a Solution?” b/w “Airbourne Bells”
Coil: “Themes for Derek Jarman’s Blue” (two sides)
Colourbox: “Breakdown” b/w “Tarantula”
Alice Cooper: “Eighteen” b/w “Caught in a Dream”
Cornershop: “Readers’ Wives” b/w “Inside Rani (short version)” +” Tandoori Chicken”
Elvis Costello: “New Amsterdam” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZFcHF-wjBA ) + “Dr. Luther’s Assistant” b/w “Ghost Train” + “Just a Memory” [UK]
EC: “Pump It Up” b/w “Big Tears” [UK]
EC: “Accidents Will Happen”** b/w “Talking in the Dark” + “Wednesday Week” [UK]
EC: “My Funny Valentine” b/w “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” [US radio promo on pink vinyl, not the bootleg version]
EC: Live at Hollywood High EP: “Accidents Will Happen” + “Alison” b/w “Watching the Detectives” [UK] x 3
EC: “Mystery Dance” b/w “Pay It Back” [Belgian yellow vinyl] x 3
EC: “Radio, Radio” b/w “Tiny Steps” [UK]
EC: “Clubland” b/w “Clean Money” + “Hoover Factory” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FAzWgY8Ftc ) [UK]
EC: “Watching the Detectives” b/w “Blame It on Caine” + “Mystery Dance” [Belgian yellow vinyl] x 3
EC: “(I Don’t Want to Go) to Chelsea”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es9rPv9YPlY ) b/w “Tiny Steps” + “Night Rally” [UK]
EC: “Alison” b/w “Less Than Zero” [German]
EC: “Watching the Detectives” [US double A-side radio promo]
EC: “This Year’s Girl” b/w “Big Tears” [US]
EC: “New Amsterdam” + “Dr. Luther’s Assistant” b/w “Ghost Train” + “Just a Memory” [UK picture disc]
EC: “Alison” b/w “Welcome to the Working Week” [UK Stiff]
EC: “Party Party” b/w “Imperial Bedroom” [necessarily US]
EC: “Man Out of Time” b/w “Town Cryer” [ditto]
EC’s Honky Tonk Demos: “Lip Service” + “Jump Up” + “Mystery Dance” b/w ” Wave a White Flag” + “Blame It on Cain” + “Poison Moon” (bootleg)
EC: “Red Shoes” b/w “Mystery Dance” [UK Stiff] x 2
EC: “I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZrBw6mcSM ) b/w “Girl’s Talk”
EC: “(I Don’t Want to Go) to Chelsea” b/w “You Belong to Me” [UK]
EC: “Oliver’s Army” b/w “My Funny Valentine” [UK]
EC: “I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down” + “Girls Talk” b/w “Secondary Modern” + “King Horse” [US]
EC: “Alison” [US double A-side radio promo]
EC: “Accidents Will Happen” b/w “Sunday’s Best” [US]
I won’t go on about Elvis Costello (you’re welcome), but will mention that IMO his first four albums are all excellent, and Get Happy!! sometimes overlooked.
One video I hope you’ll watch, not just a good song but also a visual lament for a building: “Hoover Factory” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FAzWgY8Ftc )
-R
*Interesting band (shared membership with Throbbing Gristle & Psychic TV), somewhere out there on the fringes of UK queer/art/punk/experimentalism, both musically & in their private lives.
**The UK picture sleeve was accidentally printed inside out.
*** IMO EC’s best song.
DAY 10:
Wayne* County & the Electric Chairs: Blatantly Offensive EP: “F*** Off” + “Night Time” b/w “Toilet Love” + “Mean Mutha F***in’ Man” (yellow vinyl)
The Cradle: “I’m Too High” b/w “Walk Around”
The Creatures**: Wild Things EP: “Mad-Eyed Screamer” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOjywdt9iRU )/”So Unreal” b/w “Not Them” + “Wild Thing” b/w “Thumb”
Comsat Angels: “Independence Day” b/w “We Were”
Marshall Crenshaw: “Something’s Gonna Happen” b/w “She Can’t Dance”
Cult Figures: “Zip Nolan” b/w “Playing with Toys” + “Zip Dub”
Cult Figures: “I Remember” b/w “Laura Kate” + “Almost a Love Song”
The Damned: “Problem Child” b/w “You Take My Money”
Dawn featuring Tony Orlando: “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IeiAuHGUkQ ) b/w “I Can’t Believe How Much I Love You”
Dawn featuring Tony Orlando: “Say, Has Anybody Seen my Sweet Gypsy Rose” b/w “The Spark of Love Is Kindlin'”
Dead Boys: “Sonic Reducer” (double A-side radio promo)
Dead Kennedys: “Kill the Poor” b/w “In-Sight”
Deep Purple: “Smoke on the Water (edited version)” [4:34] b/w “Smoke on the Water (edited version)” [3:48]
Delta Five***: “Anticipation” b/w “You”
Delta Five: “Colour” b/w “Try” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQF23pz0HDA )
Delta Five: “Mind Your Own Business” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtlIRFt6AY ) b/w “Now That You’ve Gone”
Department S: “Going Left Right” b/w “She’s Expecting You”
Department S: “Is Vic There?” b/w “Put All the Crosses in the Right Boxes”
Deutsch-Amerikanische-Freundschaft: “Kebabträume” b/w “Gewalt”
Devo****: “Mongoloid” b/w “Jocko Homo” x 2 [UK Stiff/Booji Boy]
Devo: “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” b/w “Uncontrollable Urge (edit)” [Canada-only swirly vinyl]
Devo: “Praying Hands” b/w “Come Back Jonee (Edit)” [US Warners]
Devo: “Be Stiff” b/w “Social Fools” [UK Stiff yellow vinyl]
Devo: “(I can’t get me no) SATISFACTION” b/w “SLOPPY (I saw my baby getting)” [UK Stiff/Booji Boy]
One song I like: Delta Five “Mind Your Own Business” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtlIRFt6AY )
-R
*Later, Jayne. From “F*** Off:” “If you won’t f*ck me, baby/Baby, f*ck off.” From “Toilet Love:” “I like toilet love/You like toilet love/We both like toilet love.” Classic.
**Interesting side project, a percussion-driven band, from drummer Budgie (aka “Mr. Siouxsie”) of Siouxsie & the Banshees. Some songs instrumental, others with vocals from Mrs. Siouxsie. This was their first release.
***Another fave. Musically not far from Gang of Four, with similarly distanced lyrics. “‘Can I have a taste of your ice cream/Can I lick the crumbs from your table/Can I interfere in your crisis’/’No, mind your own business.'”
****Don’t get me started 🙂
DAY 11:
The Dickies: “Silent Night” b/w “Sounds of Silence” [white vinyl]
The Dickies: “Give It Back” b/w “You Drive Me Ape”
The Dils: “I Hate the Rich” b/w “You’re Not Blank”
Doctor & the Medics: “Spirit in the Sky” b/w “Laughing at the Pieces (studio version)”
Dr. Mix & the Remix: “No Fun” b/w “No Fun version”
Thomas Dolby: “Europa and the Pirate Twins”* ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWPYH-XKpI ) b/w “Therapy/Growth”
Doll by Doll: “Main Travelled Roads” b/w “Be My Friend”
Doll by Doll: “The Palace of Love” b/w “The Fountain Is Red The Fountain Is White”
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods: “Billy, Don’t Be a Hero” b/w “Don’t Ever Look Back”
Carl Douglas: “Kung Fu Fighting” (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0 ) b/w “Gamblin’ Man”
The Drug Addix “Make a Record” EP: “Gay Boys in Bondage” + “Addington Shuffle” b/w “Special Clinic” + “Glutton for Punishment”
David Dundas: “Another Funny Honeymoon” b/w “Daisy Star”
David Dundas: “Jeans On”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwGlhKcEBjY ) b/w”Sleepy Serena”
Kevin Dunn and the Regiment of Women: “Oktyabrina” b/w “20,000 Years in Sing Sing”
Ian [Dury] & the Blockheads: “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick”*** b/w “There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards” x 2
Ian Dury & the Blockheads/Ian Dury & the Kilburns: “Sweet Gene Vincent” b/w “You’re More than Fair”
Easterhouse: “Whistling in the Dark” b/w “Ain’t That Always the Way”
Easterhouse: “Come Out Fighting” b/w “New World in the Morning”
Echo & the Bunnymen: “The Back of Love” b/w “The Cutter”
Echo & the Bunnymen: “Never Stop” b/w “Heads Will Roll”
Dave Edmunds: “Girls Talk” b/w “The Creature from the Black Lagoon”
Electric Guitars: “Health” b/w “Continental Shelf”
Electric Guitars: “Language Problems” b/w “Night Bears”
Electric Guitars: “Work” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5hAgZIqSdk ) b/w “Don’t Wake the Baby”
One song I’d listen to again is the previous one.
-R
*To my mind, TD’s best song, better than that Blinded by Science one.
**The lyrics spoke to me when I was 16.
***”Hit me with your rhythm stick, hit me, hit me! Je t’adore, ich liebe Dich, hit me, hit me, hit me! Hit me with your rhythm stick, hit me slowly, hit me quick, hit me, hit me, hit me!”
DAY 12: Now you’re f’ed
Electric Light Orchestra: “Sweet Talkin’ Woman”* b/w “Fire on High” [purple vinyl]
ELO: “Evil Woman” b/w “10538 Overture”
ELO: “Mister Kingdom” b/w “Turn to Stone”
ELO: “Livin’ Thing”* b/w “Ma-Ma-Ma Bell”
Empire: “Hot Seat” b/w “All These Things”
Brian Eno: “King’s Lead Hat” b/w “R.A.F”
Essential Logic: “Eugene” b/w “Tame the Neighbours”
Essential Logic: “Music Is a Better Noise”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhAyRIfs_X4 ) b/w “Moontown”
Essential Logic: “Fanfare in the Garden”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36KHk5TMIlM ) b/w “The Captain”
Essential Logic: “Aerosol Burns” b/w “World Friction”
The Fall***: “It’s the New Thing” b/w “Various Times”
The Fall: “Rowche Rumble” b/w “In My Area”
The Fall: “How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man'” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7mp9elK49I ) b/w “City Hobgoblins”
The Fall: “Totally Wired” b/w “Putta Block”
The Fall: “Lie Dream of a Casino Soul” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpoYlIUMNc ) b/w “Fantastic Life”
The Fall: “The Man Whose Head Expanded” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XvdgeXuyPs ) b/w “Ludd Gang” [+New Zealand version, sadly without the picture sleeve]
The Fall: “Kicker Conspiracy” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjyQkt04Urc ) + “Wings” b/w “Container Drivers” + “New Puritan”
IMO the best of the early Fall singles: “Lie Dream of a Casino Soul” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpoYlIUMNc ).
-R
DAY 13: Still f’d
The Fall: “Kicker Conspiracy” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjyQkt04Urc ) + “Wings” b/w “Container Drivers” + “New Puritan”
The Fall: “Oh! Brother”( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gg8J4WL9pM ) b/w “God-Box”
The Fall: “c.r.e.e.p.” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCd3wwYyL5c ) b/w “Pat-Trip Dispenser”
The Fall: “Slang King 2” b/w “No Bulbs 3″ [freebie with ‘The Wonderful & Frightening World of …”]
The Fall: “Cruiser’s Creek” b/w “L.A” [x2]
The Fall: “Mr. Pharmacist” b/w “Lucifer Over Lancashire”
The Fall: “Hey! Luciani” b/w “Entitled”
The Fall: “There’s a Ghost in my House” b/w “Half-Found Bormann” [+hologram sleeve]
The Fall: “Hit the North 1” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qUrwIwHYqw ) b/w “Hit the North 2” [+ 2 x pic disc]
The Fall: “Victoria” b/w “Tuff Life Boogie” [+ Spanish release]
The Fall: “Big New Prinz” b/w “Wrong Place, Right Time” [UK, promo only]
The Fall: “Jerusalem” + “Acid Priest 2088” b/w “Big New Prinz” + “Wrong Place, Right Time 2” [box set + postcard]
The Fall: “Cab It Up” + “Dead Beat Descendant”
The Fall: “Telephone Thing” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOtckaZtLg ) + “British People in Hot Weather” [x2]
The Fall: “Popcorn Double Feature” b/w “Butterflies 4 Brains”
The Fall: “Popcorn Double Feature” b/w “Zandra” [limited]
The Fall: “White Lightning” b/w “Blood Outta Stone”
The Fall: “White Lightning” [different version, single-sided promo]
What a fun evening!
Submitted for your consideration: “Telephone Thing” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOtckaZtLg )
DAY 14:
The Fall: “High Tension Line” b/w “Xmas with Simon”
The Fall: “Free Range”* b/w “Everything Hurtz” [+ltd. hand-painted sleeve]
The Fall: “Kimble” b/w “C’n’C Hassle Schmuck”
The Fall: “Why Are People Grudgeful?” b/w “Glam-Racket” [+red vinyl]
The Fall: “The Chiselers” b/w “Chilinist”
The Fall: “Dresden Dolls” b/w “Psycho Mafia” + “Industrial Estate” [undated boot, 1977 demos]
[The Fall:] Brix E. Smith interview disc [ltd. edition blue vinyl + picture disc]**
The Farmer’s Boys: “Whatever Is He Like?” b/w “I Lack Concentration”
Eurythmics: “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” b/w I Could Give You (A Mirror)***
Mick Farren & the Deviants: “Screwed Up” EP: “Outrageous/Contageous [sic]” + “Let’s Loot the Supermarket Again Like We Did Last Summer” b/w “Screwed Up” + “Shock Horror Probe Coming”
The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms: [promo flexi-disc from ‘Crazy Rhythms’]
The Feelies: “Fa Ce La” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6hjPx7k-6E ) b/w “Raised Eyebrows”
The Fifth Dimension: “Aquarius” + “Let the Sunshine In” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayZeAC5Abco ) b/w “Doncha Hear Me Callin’ To Ya”
Fingerprintz: “Shadowed” b/w “Madame X”
Flamin’ Groovies: “I Can’t Hide” [mono/stereo radio promo]
Flamin’ Oh’s: “I Remember Romance” b/w “Everyday”
Fleetwood Mac: “Don’t Stop”**** b/w “Never Going Back Again”
Fleetwood Mac: “Tusk” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT7W8xJFl_g ) b/w “Never Make Me Cry”
Flipper: “Love Canal” b/w “Ha Ha Ha”
A song worth listening to: Fleetwood Mac “Tusk,” odd ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT7W8xJFl_g ).
For the first time in years I cleaned my stylus, and that’s no euphemism. Instead of the audiophile-preferred mix, apparently isopropyl alcohol and blue food coloring ($7 for 1.25 oz. from various sites) I used plain old rubbing alcohol ($1.99 for 16 oz. from Rite-Aid). So far, my audiophile heresy has resulted in neither my stylus nor my penis falling off, but I’ll keep you posted.
Michael Clark & The Fall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAEyuWxAEZM&list=ALBTKoXRg38BBr9m5EwJ3YUFABbkvps_Yt
-R
*According to MES, the best song ever written about the conflict in Yugoslavia.
** 11 minutes of my life I can never get back.
*** A Case Of (Misfiling)
**** My senior class theme song, and why not.
DAY 15:
Are we still having fun?
Float Up C.P: “Joy’s Address” b/w “Desert Heat”
The Flowers: “Ballad of Miss Demeanour” b/w “Food” + “Tear Along”
The Flowers: “Confessions” b/w “(Life) After Dark”
The Flying Lizards: “Money”* ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P2qL3qkzk ) b/w “Money B”
Foghat: “Slow Ride” b/w “Save Your Loving (For Me)”
Four Seasons: “Who Loves You” b/w “Who Loves You (Disco Version)”
John Foxx: “No-one Driving” + “Glimmer” b/w “This City” + “Mr. No”
Peter Frampton: “Baby, I Love Your Way” b/w “It’s a Plain Shame”
Funkadelic: “Maggot Brain” + “Chant (Think It Ain’t Illegal Yet!)” b/w “Lunchmeataphobia (Think! It Ain’t Illegal Yet!) + “P.E. Squad/Doo Doo Chasers”
Fun with Animals: “The Test of Love and Sex” (stereo/mono radio promo)
Peter Gabriel: “Games Without Frontiers” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vvJtqxEiuw ) b/w “Lead a Normal Life”
Gang of Four: “At Home He’s a Tourist” b/w “It’s Her Factory”
Garbage: “Stupid Girl” b/w ?**
Generation X: “Your Generation” b/w “Day by Day”
Generation X: “Your Generation” b/w “Save My Life” + “Ready, Steady, Go” [bootleg, demos]
Girls At Our Best***: “Getting Nowhere Fast” b/w “Warm Girls” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-PkNb7ZYo )
Girls At Our Best: “Go for Gold!” b/w “I’m Beautiful Now” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebOuCFFUOP8 )
Girls At Our Best: “Politics!” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDjzFIf8pD8 ) b/w “It’s Fashion”
Girls At Our Best: “Fast Boyfriends” b/w “This Train”
I like Politics! ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDjzFIf8pD8 )
Next time, fewer girls.
Take care,
-R
*Not sure whether this was meant as a parody or not, but it still sounds great.
**Ltd. “cloth” version from 1996, and I’m still not willing to take the shrink wrap off.
***The Leeds post-punk sound meets pop, and pop wins.
DAY 16:
The Gist: “This Is Love”* ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxc6XFzM1ho ) b/w “Yanks”
The Gist: “Love at First Sight” b/w “Light Aircraft”
Go-Go’s: “We Got the Beat”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyjwFsWkNmc ) b/w “How Much More”
Andrew Gold: “Lonely Boy” b/w “Must Be Crazy”
Golden Palominos***: “Omaha” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUOydnBWCyE ) b/w “I.D. (Like a version)”
Ian Gomm: “Hold On” b/w “Another Year”
Gramme: “Mine” b/w “Mine (instrumental)”
Eddie Grant: “I Don’t Wanna Dance” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqUhaUHUOfk ) [1-sided, Spanish]
Winston Groovy: “Sylvia’s Mother” b/w “Here Is My Heart”
Paul Haig: “Running Away” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4U3mXC8-Sg ) b/w “Time”
Perry Haines: “Whats Funk?” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgZRN8qPGD8 ) b/w “Whats What! (Disco Dub Version)”
Half Japanese: “Mono” b/w “Nono”
Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds: “Fallin’ in Love” b/w “So Good at Lovin’ You” [on Playboy Records]
Ana Hausen: “Professionals” b/w “Tunnel Vision”
Haysi Fantayzee: “Shiny Shiny” [US stereo/mono radio promo]
Heaven 17: “Pl
An unexpectedly good bumper crop of tunes this time around, from a fairly mongrel assortment of bands, so lots of links……
I like Paul Haig’s cover of “Running Away” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4U3mXC8-Sg ) almost as much as I like the Raincoats’ ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRSgMAVU6A4 ) and Sly & the Family Stone’s original (?) version ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmCBOc8ICw ). That song seems bad-cover proof.
Stay groovy,
-R
*Another bit of loveliness from former Young Marble Giantists.
**On UK Stiff, different from (better than?) the US version. Link is to the UK version.
***Anton Fier, Bill Laswell, Henry Kaiser, Chris Stamey, Michael Stipe, Arto Lindsay, Fred Frith, Richard Thompson, Carla Bley, and more. Still, they did come up with one song, “Omaha,” that wasn’t total art wankery.
DAY 17:
Songs, bongs and dongs
Heaven 17: “Play to Win” b/w “Play”
Big Den Hegarty & the Random Band: “The Big Country” b/w “Pa Pa Oom Mow Wow”
Richard Hell & the Voidoids: “The Kid with the Replaceable Head” b/w “I’m Your Man”
Kristin Hersh: “Velvet Days (demo version)” b/w “Houdini Blues (demo version)”*
Kevin Hewick: “Ophelia’s Drinking Song/Cathy Clown” b/w “He Holds You Tighter” [FAC48]
The Higsons: “I Don’t Want to Live with Monkeys” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnX_oLnJQA ) b/w “Insect Love”
The Higsons: “The Lost and the Lonely” b/w “It Goes…Waap”
The Higsons: “Tear the Whole Thing Down” b/w “Ylang Ylang”
Justin Hines & the Dominoes: “Carry Go, Bring Come” b/w “Jezebel”
Holy Joy: “It’s Lovebite City” b/w “Sleepy Time Donald”
Hot Chocolate: “You Sexy Thing”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOl4oeHZnBk ) b/w “Amazing Skin Song”
Huggy Bear: “Concrete Life” + “Carnt Kiss” b/w “Derwin” + “Sizzlemeat”
The Human League: “Empire State Human” b/w “Introducing” + “Only After Dark” [version]” b/w “Toyota City (Long Version)”
The Human League: “Mirror Man” b/w “You Remind Me of Gold” [Spanish]
The Human League: “Don’t You Want Me”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4FPmERS7yQ ) b/w “Seconds”
The Human League: “Being Boiled”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neuLu1MMl5M ) b/w “The Circus of Death”
Hüsker Dü: “Eight Miles High” b/w “Masochism World (live”
Icehouse: “Crazy” b/w “No Promises (Live)”
Ideal: “Sex in the Desert (Sex in der Wuste)” b/w “Feuerzueg”
Iggy**** Pop: “Calling Sister Midnight” [mono/stereo radio promo]
You’ve heard it a million times, so once more won’t hurt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOl4oeHZnBk
*only released as a freebie with the album “Hips and Makers,” and a gift from a kind friend (you know who you are).
**I’m occasionally prone to hyperbole, but honestly, what would life be like without this song?
***The one is pure New Pop goodness, t’ other pure post-punk bad-asserie.
****All the “Iggy” variations go under “I.”
DAY 18:
Iggy Pop & James Williamson: “Kill City”* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7i7mtoqOQ ) b/w “I Got Nothin'”* ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21tInuCrhpY )
Iggy Pop: “Five Foot One” b/w “Pretty Flamingo” [picture disc]
Iggy & the Stooges: “Tight Pants” b/w “Scene of the Crime”
Iggy Pop & James Williamson: “Consolation Prizes” + “Johanna” b/w “Jesus Loves the Stooges”
Joe Jackson: “Is She Really Going Out with Him?” [stereo/mono radio promo x 2]
Joe Jackson: “Is She Really Going Out with Him?” (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SPogGqCgeM )** b/w “Do the Instant Mash”
In Rain: “Grow” b/w “….and Julie Rose” + “Sleep”
I’m Being Good: “Pretentious art-wankerage and I can’t figure out the names of the songs from either the record or the sleeve” [not the original name]
I, Ludicrous: “We Stand Around” + “Quite Extraordinary” b/w “Oh Really” + “Spock’s Brain”
The Jags: “Back of My Hand (I’ve Got Your Number)” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yNS2_-71dQ )*** b/w “Single Vision/BWM”
The Jam: “Funeral Pyre” b/w “Disguises”
The Jam: “All Around the World” b/w “Carnaby Street”
The Jam: “In the City” [stereo/mono radio promo w/ PS] ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcK5Go8CzRc )
The Jam: “News of the World” b/w “Aunties and Uncles (Impulsive Youths)” + “Innocent Man”
The Jam: “‘A’ Bomb in Wardour Street” b/w “David Watts”
The Jam: “The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)” b/w “Pity Poor Alfie”**** + “Fever”
The Jam: “in the City” b/w “Takin’ My Love”
The Jam: “Beat Surrender” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf1tW_kZnos ) b/w “Shupping”****
James: “Sit Down***** (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew7Zkkucos8 ) b/w “” [white label promo]
Jean-Michel Jarre: “Oxygene (Part 4)” b/w “Oxygene (Part 6)”
Sit down and listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew7Zkkucos8 , even if he does rather resemble Auntie Gertrude during her alopecia treatment.
Kisses,
-R
*From the criminally underrated (although it has undergone a critical renaissance of sorts in the past few years) album “Kill City.”
**In retrospect, I wonder if Jimmy Saville’s haircut wasn’t his worst sin.
***Classic American New Wave, even if they were from Yorkshire.
****Terrible, and an accurate predictor of Weller’s later council stylings.
*****Rather lovely IMO.
DAY 19:
The Jesus and Mary Chain: “Upside Down” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnO41-rKUsc ) b/w “Vegetable Man” (*)(**)
The Jesus and Mary Chain: Some Candy Talking E.P.: [disc one] “Some Candy Talking” b/w “Psychocandy” + “Hit”/ [disc two, Peel sessions] “Cut Dead (acoustic)” + “Psychocandy (acoustic)” b/w “You Trip Me Up (acoustic)” + “Some Candy Talking (acoustic)”
Joboxers: “Boxerbeat” b/w “Let’s Talk About Love”
David Johansen: “Melody” b/w “Wreckless Crazy”
Grace Jones: “Private Life” b/w “She’s Lost Control”
The Jook: “Watch Your Step” + “La La Girl” b/w “Aggravation Place” + “Everything I Do”
Joy Division: “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYOXyy1ToI ) b/w “These Days” + “Love Will Tear Us Apart” [unlisted, diff. version] (**)
Joy Division: “Atmospheres” b/w “Novelty”
Mickey Jupp: “Old Rock ‘n’ Roller” b/w “S.P.Y.”
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: “Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy”*** (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9DsjMlJmRE ) b/w “You Had No Intention”
The Kings: “Switchin’ to Glide” b/w “This Beat Goes On”
King Trigger: “Temptation” b/w “Running Away”
The Kinks: “Live Life” [stereo/mono radio promo ]
Kissed Air: “Kariba” b/w “Kissed Air”
Kleenex: “Ain’t You” b/w “Heidi’s Head” [x2]
Kleenex: “You” b/w “ŭ”
Die Krupps: “Goldfinger” b/w “Zwei Herzen, ein Rhythmus”
Labelle: “Lady Marmalade”**** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2otwl4ros ) b/w “Space Children”
Elton John: “Island Girl” b/w “Sugar on the Floor”
If you suffer from insomnia, will you sleep with me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF2otwl4ros
-R
*Their first single, now pricey on eBay.
**For me, one of the key singles of post punk.
***Maybe the best song of the brief early-80’s punk/funk movement? “Annie, I’m not your daddy/See, if I was in your blood, you wouldn’t be so ugly.”
****My “Urban Sound” DI 7″ vinyl single D would have to have, at a minimum, “Kung Fu Fighting,” “You Sexy Thang,” and this song.
DAY 20:
Elton John has now been properly filed.
Clive Langer & the Boxes: “Splash (A Tear Goes Rolling Down)” b/w “Hello”
Thomas Leer: “All About You” b/w “Saving Grace”
Leisure Process: “A Way You’ll Never Be” b/w “Rachel Dreams” [Spanish pressing]
Liliput: “Eisiger Wind” b/w “When the Cat’s Away Then the Mice Will Play”
Liliput: “Split”* ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUCmxJSTNiE ) b/w “Die Matrosen” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uTvxUiDbac )
Jimmy Lindsay: “Where Is Your Love” b/w “Daughters of Babylon”
Virna Lindt: “Attention Stockholm” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQKIIdgYjJk ) b/w “Episode 1”
Little Anthony & the Imperials with The 101 Strings: “I Miss You So” b/w “Get Out of My Life”
Little Nell: “Fever” b/w “See You Round Like a Record”
Ken Lockie: “Today” b/w “Train of Events”
Bill Lovelady: “One More Reggae for the Road” b/w “On the Road”
Lene Lovich**: “Bird Song” ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maucjGIUzzo ) b/w “Trixi”
Lene Lovich: “It’s You, Only You (mein Schmerz)” b/w “Blue” [picture disc]
Lene Lovich: [Disc 1: Studio] “What Will I Do Without You” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GxBaNeVRa4 ) b/w “Joan” + [Disc 2: Live] “Monkey Talk” + “The Night” b/w “Too Tender to Touch” + “You Can’t Kill Me”
Nick Lowe: “American Squirm”*** b/w “What’s So Funny, ‘Bout (Peace, Love and Understanding)”
Try this one on for size: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uTvxUiDbac
-R
*Two minutes and five seconds of brilliantly nonsensical noisy girl pop, and The Best Single Ever. Ignore any Johnnies-come-lately who claim that TBSE is a song by beat combo “The Breeders.” (1)
**I love Lene Lovich. Her American label, Epic, tried to downplay her general oddness, her odder Eastern European vibe, and her even odder vocals — rather missing the point.
***”I made an American squirm/And it felt so right”
(1) Although that’s hella good too ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxvkI9MTQw4 )
DAY 21:
Nick Lowe: “Bowi” EP*: “Born a Woman” + “Shake That Rat” b/w “Marie Provost” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3dTc4kyIOU ) + “Endless Sleep” [UK Stiff]
Nick Lowe: “Burning” b/w “Zulu Kiss”
Nick Lowe: “Halfway to Paradise” b/w “I Don’t Want the Night to End” [UK Stiff + Belgian yellow vinyl]
Nick Lowe: “Keep It Out of Sight” b/w “(I’ve Been Taking the) Truth Drug” [Netherlands-only release]
Nick Lowe: “Cruel to Be Kind” b/w “Endless Grey Ribbon”
Nick Lowe: “Little Hitler” b/w “Cruel to Be Kind” [diff. version]
Lucy Fur**: “Temptress” b/w “Killing You”
Lulu: “Shout” b/w “When He Touches Me”
Lulu: “The Man Who Sold the World” b/w “Watch That Man” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNi6VIlNRrA ) (***) [Spanish x 2]
The Lurkers: “Freak Show” b/w “Mass Media Believer”
Lynyrd Skynyrd: “What’s Your Name” [stereo/mono promo only x 2]
Madness: “Night Boat to Cairo” + “Deceives the Eye” b/w “The Young and the Old” + “Don’t Quote Me on That”
Madness: “Baggy Trousers” b/w “The Business”
Madness: “Un Paso Adelante…”**** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6SdtwRwzg0 ) b/w “Mistakes” [Spanish Stiff]
Madness: “One Step Beyond” b/w “Mistakes”
Magazine: “Upside Down” b/w “The Light Pours Out of Me”
Magazine: “About the Weather” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlrI37lo2Y ) b/w “In the Dark” [I.R.S.]
Malaria: “How Do You Like My New Dog?” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhjGmY7uzSQ ) b/w “Pernod.”
Absent anything better, I’d recommend Malaria, almost frightening in their Teutonicness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhjGmY7uzSQ
-R
*Released shortly after David Bowie released his album “Low.”
**The music’s shite, but bonus points for the non-obvious band name.
***From her short-lived collaboration with Bowie.
****Despite the record sleeve, this is the Spanish-language version.
DAY 22:
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: “Blinded by the Light” b/w “Starbird No. 2”
Maniacs: “Chelsea 77” b/w “Ain’t No Legend”
The March Violets: “Turn to the Sky” b/w “Never Look Back”
Mass: “You and I” b/w “Cabbage”
Material: “Discourse” b/w “Slow Murder”
Don McLean: “Vincent” b/w “Castles in the Air”
Meat Loaf: “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night0” b/w “For Crying Out Loud” [w/ lyric insert!]
Medium Medium: “Hungry, So Angry”* ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYqvQwj-log ) b/w “Nadsat Dream”
The Mekons: “Teeth”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOmJAKhkIlw ) + “Guardian” b/w “Kill” + “Stay Cool”
Melanie: “Brand New Key” b/w “Some Say (I Got Devil)”***
Métal Urbain: “Paris Maquis” b/w “Clé de Contact” [RT01]
The Method Actors: “The Method” b/w “Can’t Act” + “Dynamo”
Liza Minnelli: “Maybe This Time”**** b/w “Cabaret”
Minutemen: “Paranoid Time” EP: “Validation” + “The Maze” + “Definitions” + “Sickles and Hammers” b/w “Fascist” + “Joe McCarthy’s Ghost” + “Paranoid Chant”
Mittagspause: [disc one] “Testbild” + “3 x Norpo” + “Intelnet” b/w “X-9200” + “Milituerk” + “Innen Stadt Front” / [disc two] “Deutschland” + “Derendorf” + “Ueberbuck” b/w “In der Tat” + “Ernstfall”
Mocedades: “Eres Tu (Touch the Wind)” [stereo/mono]
Modern English: “I Melt with You” b/w “After the Snow”
Eddie Money: “Maybe I’m a Fool” b/w “Life for the Taking”
The Monochrome Set*****: “The Monochrome Set” b/w “Mr. Bizarro”
If I only had time for one song, it would be Medium Medium ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYqvQwj-log ).
Bisous,
-R
*For me, one of the best of the post-punk punk/funk songs.
**Another key post-punk single.
***My #1 single when I was 11.
****It would probably be gay to mention that there’s a better version of this song from “Glee:” http://blip.tv/kyogo/glee-kristin-chenoweth-lea-michele-maybe-this-time-3209447 .
*****”Monochrome Set” is old-fashioned UK parlance for “B&W TV set.”
R.I.P Cory Monteith.
DAY 23: Singles, signs, and signifiers On 7/15/2013 7:37 PM, adrian.marshall@creativematch.co.uk wrote:
I loved the Melanie single too. I hope we're in for 'eine symphonie des grauens' next http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MfWLYwDmhY
I’m surprised that Melanie was even known in the UK…as for tMS, wait for it….. 🙂
The Monochrome Set:* “Ten Don’ts for Honeymooners” b/w “Straits of Malacca” (1)
The Monochrome Set: “He’s Frank” b/w “Alphaville” [RT 005 + US]
The Monochrome Set: “405 Lines” b/w “Goodbye Joe”
The Monochrome Set: “Apocalypso” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9q_seeKnk ) b/w “Fiasco Bongo” [dub version]
The Monochrome Set: “He’s Frank” b/w “Silicon Carne” + “Fallout”
The Monochrome Set: “Eine Symphonies des Grauens” ( link above courtesy of Ade ) b/w “Lester Leaps In”
The Monochrome Set: “The Strange Boutique” b/w “Surfing S.W.12”
Mott the Hoople: “All the Young Dudes” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBcDEmNDYW8 ) b/w “Honaloochie Boogie”
Anne Murray: “Snowbird”** b/w “Just Bidin’ My Time”
Anne Murray: “Snowbird” b/w “Put Your Hand in the Hand”
Mutants: “Boss Man” b/w “Back Yard Boys”
Mystere Five’s: “Never Say Thank You” b/w “Heart Rules the Head”
The Names: “Night Shift” b/w “I Wish I Could Speak Your Language” [Fac 29]
Wazmo Nariz: “Tele-Tele-Telephone”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-APSYJP1cLw ) b/w “Gadabout”
Wazmo Nariz: The E.P.: “I Hate my Life” + “Touchy Feely People” b/w “Propinquity” + “I Just Want to Have Sex”
Bill Nelson: “Eros Arriving” + “Haunting in my Head” b/w “He and Sleep Were Brothers” + “Flesh”
New Order: “Temptation”**** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eypLp6w7AO4 ) b/w “Hurt” [Fac 63]
New Order: “Everything’s Gone Green” b/w “Procession” [Fac 53]
If you have time for just one song, check out Ade’s link…..IMO one of their best songs.
Hi Rochelle!
Bacci,
-R
(1) “Shirt tails up, long shorts down/ In a sleazy part of town”
*Great band, goofy, but with impeccable melody/pop song-writing skills, at least until their third album.
**Another fave of young Robert.
***This was (with the benefit of hindsight, inexplicably) a minor U.S. New Wave pop hit.
****For me, yet another key post-punk single, and the first time New Order were able to break away from the “Joy Division sound.”
DAY 24:
Nervus Rex: “Don’t Look” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLRK26IWa48 ) b/w “Love Affair”
Pam Nestor: “Hiding and Seeking (No More)” b/w “Man on the Run”
New Math: “Die Trying” b/w “Can’t get Off the Ground”
The Nice Men: “Senile Youth” b/w “I Am Wood”
The Nightingales: “Idiot Strength” b/w “Seconds” [RT075]
999: “Homicide” b/w “Soldier”
The Normal: “T.V.O.D.” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Yyifc6NgI ) b/w “Warm Leatherette” (*)
The Notes: “Rough School Year” b/w “Love Gets Lost”
Hazel O’Connor: “D-Days” b/w “Time Is Free”
Mike Oldfield: “Tubular Bells” b/w “Tubular Bells” [vocal(!)]
Orange Juice: “Simply Thrilled Honey” b/w “Breakfast Time”
The Paley Brothers and Ramones/The Paley Brothers: “Come On Let’s Go” b/w “Magic Power”
The Panik: It Won’t Sell E.P.: “Modern Politics” b/w “Urban Damnation” + “Murder”
Graham Parker: “You’ve Got to Be Kidding” b/w “Soul Shoes”
Graham Parker: “Local Girls” ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXvBivGcMo ) b/w “I Want You Back (Alive)”
Dolly Parton: “Two Doors Down” b/w “It’s All Wrong, But It’s All Right”
Dolly Parton: “Here You Come Again” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yyNT7afVSs ) b/w “Me and Little Andy”
Penetration: “Life’s a Gamble” b/w “V.I.P.”
Pere Ubu: “Not Happy” b/w “Lonesome Cowboy Dave” [RT066]
Pezband: “Stop! Wait a Minute” b/w “Black Magic”
Pigbag: “Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryQdiB5tGJA ) b/w “The Backside”
Pink Lady: “Kiss in the Dark” [mono/stereo promo]
Although not without interest, kind of a middling selection this time around. I’m reserving my choice of recommendation for next time.
-R
*By Daniel Miller, and released on his, at the time, non-existent Mute Records label. The rest is history. Still sounds amazing, and another key PP single for me.
**Hyperbole included, one of the best song titles ever?
DAY 25:
Pixies: “Planet of Sound” b/w “Build High”
Pixies: “Velouria” (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHhox4_SeHQ ) b/w “I’ve Been Waiting for You”
Pixies: “Dig for Fire” b/w “Velvety Instrumental Version”
Pixies: “Here Comes Your Man” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OJqBYpbXJU ) b/w “Into the White”
Plastic Bertrand: “Ca Plane Pour Moi”* ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXknE8LOEI ) b/w “Pogo Pogo”
Pointer Sisters: “Fire” b/w “Love Is Like a Rolling Stone”
The Police: “Roxanne”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6YIijWayoE ) b/w “Dead End Job”
The Police: “Can’t Stand Losing You”** b/w “Not Time This Time”
The Police: “Message in a Bottle”** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoHMHboOvFA ) b/w “Landlord”
The Police: “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” b/w “Shambelle”
“Groovey” Joe Poovey: “You Are My Sunshine” b/w “Lightning ‘Cross the Sky”
The Pop Group: “She Is Beyond Good and Evil”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC5jRlj8pFE ) b/w “3’38”
Positive Noise: “Ghosts” b/w “Give Me Passion”
Prag Vec: “Expert” b/w “The Follower”
Prag Vec: “Bits” + “Wolf” b/w “”Existential” + “Cigarettes”
The Prats: “General Davis” b/w “The Alliance [RT 080]
The Pretenders: “2000 Miles” b/w “Fast or Slow (The Law’s the Law)”
Pretenders: “Talk of the Town”**** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obt5kFWkFdE ) b/w “Cuban Slide”
The Pretenders: “Brass in Pocket”**** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuWCjxlvSD8 ) b/w “Swinging London” + “Nervous But Shy”
Pretenders: “Stop Your Sobbing” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GFg_pnLmq4 ) b/w “The Wait”
Protex: “Don’t Ring Me Up” b/w “Just Want (Your Attention)” + “Listening In” [RT GOT 1]
Psychedelic Furs: “Love My Way” (U.S. remix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-a4U4FlCsk ) b/w “Aeroplane ” [UK + Spanish]
Psychedelic Furs: “Dumb Waiters” b/w “Dash”
Public Image Ltd: “Memories” b/w “Another”
Public Image Ltd: “Public Image” (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylOCIP54PIQ )***** b/w “The Cowboy Song”
Whew, lotsa links this time, but that reflects the quality of the material rather than any misplaced enthusiasm on my part. Who knew P would be so rewarding?
No recommendations, just pick ‘n’ choose, especially if it’s The Pop Group or PiL 🙂
-R
*Novelty hit or New Wave classic? You be the judge.
**MOR pseudo-reggae New Wave lite, but I still love all three of these songs, especially MiaB.
***Proto punk/funk, and the band’s members/associates ended up in/influencing any number of other bands. Still sounds ahead of/beyond its time after 34 (oy vey!) years.
****More old faves that still sound really good.
*****For me, not a key post-punk single, but THE key post-punk single, and a candidate for best single ever.
DAY 26:
Queen: “Bohemian Rhapsody”* b/w “I’m in Love with My Car”
Queen: “Somebody to Love” b/w “White Man”
The Raincoats**: “Fairytale in the Supermarket” b/w “In Love” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIhrQDIQD2c ) + “Adventures Close to Home” [RT013]
The Raincoats: “Running Away” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRSgMAVU6A4 ) b/w “No Ones Little Girl” [RT093]
Ramones: “Rockaway Beach” b/w “Teenage Lobotomy” + “Beat on the Brat”
Ramones: “Do You Wanna Dance” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KfHpm4s4w) [mono/stereo promo]
Ramones: “Rockaway Beach” [mono/stereo promo]
Ramones: “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nlX7P0nhaI ) [mono/stereo promo]
The Ravers: “(It’s Gonna Be a) Punk Rock Christmas” b/w “Silent Night”
The Red Crayola with Art & Language: “An Old Man’s Dream” b/w “The Milkmaid” [RT073]
The Red Crayola: “Born in Flames” b/w “The Sword of God” [RT054 x 2]
The Reds: “Self Reduction” b/w “Victims”
Lou Reed: “Sally Can’t Dance” b/w “Ennui”
Robert Rental: “Double Heart” b/w “On Location” [MUTE010]
-R
*If you grew up at a certain time, you can’t not love it, plus a link would be redundant since you already know it by heart. If not, it’s just musical wankery 🙂
**I’ve probably gone on about my love for this band enough.
DAY 27: Out of the closet
where most of my singles live, and now into a bookcase in the hallway for the rest.
The Residents: Duck Stab! EP: “Laughing Song” + “Blue Rosebuds” + “Constantinople” b/w “The Booker Tease” + “Sinister Exaggerator” + “Bach Is Dead” + “Elvis and His Boss”
The Residents: “Satisfaction” b/w “Losers Weed” [yellow vinyl]
The Rezillos : “Scuba Scuba” b/w “Scuba Boy Bop”
The Rezillos: “Destination Venus” b/w “Mystery Action”
The Rezillos: “I Can’t Stand My Baby” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalxkvzcgXw ) b/w “I Wanna Be Your Man’
Jeannie C. Riley: “Harper Valley P.T.A.” b/w “Yesterday All Long Today”
Rip Rig + Panic*: “You’re My Kind of Climate” ( can’t find a link to the 7″ version, it’s just a shorter, less wankerish version of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4VXo4gu2Vk )
Tom Robinson Band: “Bully for You” b/w “Our People”
Tom Robinson Band: “2-4-6-8 Motorway” b/w “I Shall Be Released”
Tom Robinson Band: “Don’t Take No for an Answer” + “Sing If You’re Glad to Be Gay” b/w “Martin” + “Right On Sister”
Vicki Sue Robinson: “Turn the Beat Around” b/w “Daylight”
The Rolling Stones: “It’s All Over Now” b/w “Good Times Bad Times” [x2]
The Rolling Stones: “I Wanna Be Your Man” b/w “Not Fade Away” [x2]
The Rolling Stones: “Beast of Burden” b/w “When the Whip Comes Down”[x2]
The Rolling Stones: “Time Is on My Side” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHVeyo4W18U ) b/w “Congratulations” [x2]
The Rolling Stones: “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” b/w “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man”
The Rolling Stones: “The Last Time” b/w “Play with Fire” [x2]
The Rolling Stones: “Gotta Get Away” b/w “As Tears Go By” [x2]
The Rolling Stones: “What a Shame” b/w “Heart of Stone” (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCZHYSdunGw ) [x2]
The Rolling Stones: “Tell Me (You’re Coming Back)” b/w “I Just Want to Make Love to You” [x2]
Linda Ronstadt: “Tumbling Dice” b/w “I Will Never Marry”
The Rotters: “Sit on my Face Stevie Nicks” b/w “Amputee”
The Rubinoos: “I Think We’re Alone Now”** b/w “As Long As I’m With You”
The Rubinoos: “Hold Me” [double-side dj promo]
The end of “R” is fallow ground, but “S” is up next!
My one recommendation would be Rip Rig + Panic, a Neneh Cherry vocal ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4VXo4gu2Vk ). Second favorite RR+P song title is “Bob Hope Takes Risks.”
Bisous,
-R
*More of that whole Pop Group group.
**Lene Lovich’s version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJRGdQSvwjU , still no patch on the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMFLUXTEwM
DAY 28:
Sandie Shaw: “Hand In Glove” b/w “I Don’t Owe You Anything” [RT130]
Pete Shelley: “I Don’t Know What It Is” b/w “Witness the Change” + “In Love with Somebody Else” b/w “Maxine”
Shock: “This Generation’s on Vacation” + “Spoiled” b/w “Overseas” [red vinyl]
Silicon Teens: “Judy in Disguise” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q85ZNnH-H20 ) b/w “Chip ‘n Roll”
Smack: “Edward Fox” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAM6Tm-bwiM ) b/w “Come Again”
Simple Minds: “I Travel” b/w “New Warm Skin”
Siouxsie & the Banshees*: “Hong Kong Garden” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG6bbnIwX6U ) b/w “Voices” [x2]
Siouxsie & the Banshees: “Playground Twist” ( TotP video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdLQxVcFWfE ) b/w “Pull to Bits”
Siouxsie & the Banshees: “The Staircase (Mystery)” ( video, but same audio as the single: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh6KCehWE8M ) b/w “20th Century Boy”
Siouxsie & the Banshees: “This Wheel’s on Fire”** b/w Shooting Sun”
Siouxsie & the Banshees: “Israel” ( can’t find the original 7″ mix, here is the remastered version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iD5TwCCiEM ) b/w “Red Over White”
Siouxsie & the Banshees: “Mittageisen” [German] b/w “Love in a Void”
Siouxsie & the Banshees: “Happy House” ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBMHnJqAvM ) b/w “Drop Dead/Celebration”
Sister Sledge: “We Are Family”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpYgpF1bqQ ) b/w “Easier to Love”
It’s frustrating that many of the original 7″ versions of Siouxsie singles aren’t on YouTube.
Siouxie at her best, John McGeoch guitar, and odd drums: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBMHnJqAvM
DAY 29:
Scars: “The Came and Took Her” b/w “Romance by Mail”
Scheer: “Demon (live demo version)” b/w “Howling Boy” (live demo version)”
Scrawl: “Your Mother Wants to Know” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq0pzDYDQzk ) b/w “Give Up”
Scritti Politti: “Asylums in Jerusalem” b/w “Jacques Derrida” [+ picture disc]
Scritti Politti: 2nd Peel Session: “Messthetics” + “Hegemony” b/w “Scritlocks Door” + “OPEC-Immac” [x2]
Scritti Politti: “Faithless” b/w “Faithless Part II”
The Selecter: “Celebrate the Bullet” b/w “Last Tango in Dub”
The Selecter: “Three Minute Hero” b/w “James Bond”
The Selecter: “The Whisper” b/w “Train to Skaville”
Sex Pistols*: “Holidays in the Sun”** ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWF9MMxnekQ ) b/w “Satellite” [x2]
Sex Pistols: “Anarchy in the U.K.” ( video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZ_9-rbslo ) b/w “I Wanna Be Me”
Sex Pistols: “Pretty Vacant” b/w “I Wanna Be Me” [freebie w/Spiral Scratch magazine, demo versions]
Sex Pistols: “Pretty Vacant” b/w “No Fun”
Sex Pistols: “God Save the Queen” b/w “Did You No Wrong”
Sex Pistols: “No One Is Innocent” b/w “My Way”
Sham 69: “No Entry” b/w “Hurry Up Harry”
Best Sex Pistols track IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWF9MMxnekQ
-R
*Best band ever? Not for their influence and not for the myth, but because even after all these many years, and no matter how familiar, the music+vocals (especially the vocals) still sound transgressive. If I could have only one DID, it would be their album.
DAY 30:
Slant 6: “What Kind of Monster Are You?” + “Semi-Blue Tile” b/w “Thirty-Thirty Vision”
The Slits*: “Animal Space” b/w “Animal Spacier”
The Slits/The Pop Group: “In The Beginning There Was Rhythm” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leOVkvGq8hs ) b/w “Where There’s a Will There’s a Way” [+single-sided DJ promo] [RT039]
The Slits: “Man Next Door” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6msxY-scaE8 ) b/w “Man Next Door (version)” [RT044]
The Slickee Boys: “Mersey, Mersey Me” EP: “Put a Bullet Through the Jukebox” + “Let’s Live for Today” b/w “Girls Want to Be with the Girls” + “Heart On”
Patti Smith Group: “Because the Night” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSVd8szH7Qk ) b/w “God Speed”
The Smiths**: “What Difference Does It Make?” (TotP video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DE8UQnM5Y ) b/w “Back to the Old House” [RT146]
The Smiths: “William, It Was Really Nothing” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvAcPiztnNY ) b/w “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” [RT166]
The Smiths: “How Soon Is Now” b/w “Well I Wonder” [RT176]
The Smiths: “Shakespeare’s Sister” b/w “What She Said” [RT181]
The Smiths: “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore” b/w “Meat Is Murder” [RT186]
The Smiths: “The Boy with the Thorn in His Side” () b/w “Asleep” [RT191]
The Smiths: “Panic” b/w “Vicar in a Tutu” [RT193]
The Smiths: “Ask” b/w “Cemetry Gates” [RT194 x 2]
The Smiths: “Shoplifters of the World Unite” b/w “Half a Person”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZSLJwKlEI ) [RT195 + German blue vinyl]
The Smiths: “Sheila Take a Bow” b/w “Is It Really So Strange”*** (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3D_obNV9vk)[RT196]
The Smiths: “Girlfriend In a Coma” ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5b_V68mQ9k ) b/w “Work Is a Four-Letter Word” [RT197]
The Smiths: “I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish” b/w “Pretty Girls Make Graves” [RT198]
The Smiths: “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me” b/w “Rusholme Ruffians” [RT200]
A song with a sample from The Smiths’ “How Soon Is Now”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILaTgQBKRbE
Cheers,
-R
*Another great band name, another fave girly band. My few singles aren’t representative of their output.
**Gosh, another fave. Their success might have contributed to the ultimate downfall of Rough Trade, and none of their albums were as good as they might have been, but they produced a pretty amazing string of A-sides. Plus groovy picture sleeves (they knew their audience).
***One of the few Smiths singles with IMO a better B- (they’re usually filler) than A-side.
DAY 31:
Snakefinger: “The Spot” b/w “Smelly Tongues” [blue vinyl]
Soft Cell: “Tainted Love”* (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeJkbqjQvnk ) b/w “Where Did Our Love Go?”
Soft Cell: “Where the Heart Is” b/w “It’s a Mugs Game”
Soft Cell: “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” b/w “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (instrumental)”
Soft Cell: “Bedsitter” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b04IRaWHVKo ) b/w “Facility Girls”
Soft Cell: “Torch” b/w “Insecure Me”
Sonny and Cher**: “When You Say Love”[1] b/w “Crystal Clear/ Muddy Waters”
Sonny and Cher: “A Cowboys Work Is Never Done” (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_y5qri00o ) b/w “Somebody”
Spandau Ballet: “To Cut a Long Story Short”*** b/w “[Version] To Cut a Long Story Short”
The Special A.K.A./The Selecter: “Gangsters”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwG4PlgNpuM ) b/w “The Selecter”
The Specials: The Special A.K.A. LIVE!: “Too Much Too Young” b/w “Guns of Navarone” b/w “Longshot Kick the Bucket” b/w “Liquidator”
The Specials: “Rat Race” ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmkMEoVb6rA ) b/w “Rude Boys Outta Jail”
Spherical Objects: “Seventies Romance” b/w “Sweet Tooth”
If you only have time to watch one video, this is classic 70’s variety show footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_y5qri00o
After searching for days, I finally found my copy of “Raw Power” and was able to listen to “Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOV66-W9QeM ) so now all is right in my world 🙂
Thanks,
-R
[1] “When you say love
It means you found your special one
And that you care enough to give your very best
When you say love
There’s not another word that says so much
Cause that four-letter word means happiness”
*Another bad cover-proof song, cf. Gloria Jones’ original: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U ) and Coil’s cover: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo3TUtRnZi4 ).
**Two unique vocal stylists for the price of one.
***IMO key post-punk singles.
DAY 32:
…on “automatic” turntables.
Spitballs: “Telstar” b/w “Neanderthal Man” [promo]
Spizzenergi: “Cold City” + “Red & Black” b/w “Solarisation” + “Platform 3” [RTSO-2]
Spizzenergi: “Where’s Captain Kirk?” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcZUGWuKowM ) b/w “Amnesia” [RTSO 4]
Spizzoil: “6,000 Crazy” b/w “1989” + “Fibre” [RTSO-1]
Spooks: “1980-1990” EP: “Fun Is Everything” + “Sinister Forces….” b/w “Evil Eye/Hit the Lights” + “Laugh It Up” + “Scum of the Earth” [Twin/Tone, red vinyl]
Spooner*: “Cruel School” EP: “Dancing Dolls” + “Working Girl” b/w “Member of the Family” + “From My Head to My Shoes”
The Sports: “Hit Single” b/w “Who Listens to the Radio”
Squeeze: “Tempted” ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UuU4mX1qnk ) b/w “Trust” [x2]
Squeeze: “If I Didn’t Love You” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gv4vBW1wmU ) b/w “Another Nail in My Heart” [5″ single]
Jim Stafford: “Spiders and Snakes” b/w “Undecided”
Chris Stamey: “The Summer Sun” b/w “Where the Fun Is”
The Steppes: “The Beat Drill” b/w “God’s Got Religion”
Stereolab:** “Ping Pong” ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_XswHm514w ) b/w “Moogie Wonderland”
The last is very good…..
-R
*A popular bar band when I was in college. One of their members was a janitor in my dorm, and another was Butch Vig 🙂
**The band I’ve seen live more than any other.
DAY 33:
[slight rewind] Stereolab: “Ping Pong”b/w “Moogie Wonderland” [green vinyl x 2]
Stereolab: “Lo Boob Oscillator” b/w “Tempter” [clear vinyl]
Stereolab: “Iron Man” b/w “The Incredible He Woman” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_w1KEInkyo ) [red vinyl x 3]
Stereolab: “Wow and Flutter” b/w “Heavy Denim” [hand-decorated sleeve]
Stereolab: “The Light (That Will Cease to Fail)” b/w “Au Grand Jour” [US red swirly vinyl]
Stereolab: “John Cage Bubblegum” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL5ie22iEpo ) b/w “Eloge d’Eros” [pink swirly vinyl, also now-crumbling bubblegum]
Stereolab: “Cybele’s Reverie” ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdCgg3wLYp8 ) b/w “Brigitte”
Rod Stewart: “I Was Only Joking (edit)” b/w “Born Loose”
Stiff Little Fingers: “’78 R.P.M.” b/w “Alternative Ulster”* ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLo7z50Tt2g ) (**) [RT 004 x 2]
Stiff Little Fingers: “Suspect Device” b/w “Wasted Life” [RT 006]
Stiff Little Fingers: “Gotta Getaway” b/w “Bloody Sunday” [RT 015]
The Stranglers: “Golden Brown”*** ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R7q1lSZfs ) b/w “Love30”
The Stranglers: “Nice ‘n’ Sleazy” b/w “Shut Up”
The Stranglers: “Something Better Change” + “Straighten Out” b/w “(Get a) Grip (On Yourself)” + “Hanging Around” [US, light pink swirly vinyl]
The Style Council:**** “Party Chambers” b/w “Speak Like a Child”
The Subs: “Gimme Your Heart” b/w “Party Clothes” [Belgian Stiff yellow vinyl]
Suburban Lawns: “Gidget Goes to Hell” b/w “My Boyfriend”
The Suburbs: “Memory” + “Go” + “Stereo” + “Teenage Run-in” + “Chemistry Set” b/w “Your Phone” + “Couldn’t Care Less Anymore” + “You” + “Prehistoric Jaws” [Twin/Tone red vinyl]
Subway Sect: “Ambition” b/w “Different Story” [RT007]
“England, my country, the home of the brave, such miserable weather” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek3KNSF-6Pk ). Such a good song — I’ve ranted about it before — and a preview of day 34.
Thanks,
-R
*Dunno why, but I’ve always loved this song.
**The two copies I have disagree, label-wise, as to which is “Side A” and which is “Side B.”
***They may have been opportunistic punks/New Wavers, but IMO this song makes up for their sins.
****Bought on purpose.
DAY 34:
Ths Sundays: “Can’t Be Sure” b/w “I KIcked a Boy” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUd0NLbApr0 )
Supertramp: “The Logical Song” [stereo/mono promo]
Sweet: “Ballroom Blitz”* ( video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9axhIjVGaw ) b/w “Restless”
Sweet: “Fox on the Run” [stereo/mono promo]
Sweet: “Love Is Like Oxygen”* b/w “Cover Girl”
Rachel Sweet: “Fool’s Gold” b/w “I’ve Got a Reason”
Swell Maps: “Dresden Style” b/w “Ammunition Train” + “Full Moon” [RT 012]
Swell Maps: “Real Shocks” b/w “Monologues” + “English Verse” [RT021]
Swell Maps: “Loin of the Surf” b/w “Doctor at Cake” [rough two]
Swell Maps: “Let’s Build a Car” b/w “Big Maz in the Country” + “….Then Poland” [RT 036]
*I have an inexplicable fondness for these two songs.
-R
DAY 35:
Talking Heads*: “Wild Wild Life” b/w “People Like Us (Movie Version)”
Talking Heads: “Love Goes to Building on Fire” [stereo/mono promo]
Talking Heads: “Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town” b/w “I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That [x2]
Talking Heads: “Life During Wartime (Live)” b/w “Life During Wartime”
Talking Heads: “Psycho Killer” b/w “Psycho Killer (Acoustic)” [x 3]
Talking Heads: “Take Me to the River (edit) b/w “Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (version) ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W888EzZ0lrk ) [x2]
[Talking Heads] The Psycho Killers: “Psycho Killer” + “First Week/Last Week … Carefree” b/w “Artists Only” + “1-2-3 Red Light” [bootleg, demos]
Talking Heads: “Pulled Up” b/w “Don’t Worry About the Government”
Bram Tchaikovsky: “Girl of My Dreams” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U59z_KhAbnI ) b/w “Sarah Smiles”
The Teardrop Explodes: “Ha-Ha I’m Drowning” + “Poppies in the Field” b/w “Bouncing Babies” + “Read It in Books”
The Teardrop Explodes: “Passionate Friend” b/w “Christ versus Warhol”
Television: “Little Johnny Jewel Part One” b/w “Little Johnny Jewel Part Two”
The Temptations: Since I’ve Lost You” b/w “Don’t Let the Joneses Get You Down”
Television Personalities**: “Part Time Punks” [1] + “Where’s Bill Grundy Now” b/w “Happy Families + “Posing at the Roundhouse” [RT033]
Television Personalities**: “I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives” b/w “Arthur the Gardener” [RT063]
I’m once again a gentleman of leisure, which will allow me to continue my life plan to not write the Great American Novel, then eventually be set on fire by teenage boys in the bathroom of a Greyhound bus station, after they’ve riffled my pockets.
Is this the best song from Talking Heads ’77? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9CjnDufqeQ
-R
[1] “Then they go to Rough Trade to buy Siouxsie and the Banshees
They heard John Peel play it just the other night
They’d like to buy the O Level single or Read about Seymour
But they’re not pressed in red so they buy The Lurkers instead”
*Along with The Fall, Elvis Costello and David Bowie, an enduring fave. One link to my favorite TH song.
**Now pricey.
DAY 36:
10 CC: “The Things We Do for Love” b/w “Hot to Trot”
Theatre of Hate:* “The Hop” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEa8RkodcyE ) b/w “Conquistador”
Them: “Here Comes the Night” b/w “All for Myself”
Theoretical Girls:** “U.S. Millie” b/w “You Got Me” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFHqOWjK8Po )
These Animal Men: “You’re Not My Babylon” b/w “Who’s the Daddy Now?”
The The: “Heartland” b/w “Slow Train to Dawn” [Tower Records promo single]
Thompson Twins: “Love on Your Side” b/w “Love on Your Back” + “In the Name of Love”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh6C3WE9DdY ) b/w “In the Beginning”
Thompson Twins: “Runaway” b/w “Open Your Eye” + “Living in Europe” b/w “Make Believe”
Tin Huey: “English Kids” b/w “Sister Rose”
Tom Tom Club: “Wordy Rappinghood”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vl1m5FYlAo ) b/w “(You Don’t Stop) Wordy Rappinghood”
Tom Tom Club: “The Man with the Four Way Hips” b/w “The Man with the Four Way Hips – Dub Version”
Toto Coelo: ” I Eat Cannibals” b/w “I Eat Cannibals”
Trumans Water: “Skyjacker” b/w “Finest Donut Theme Song”
Trumans Water: “New Kinda Radio” + “Do the Spazz” b/w “Batcave” + “Ride the No-Wave”
The Tubes: “Show Me a Reason” b/w “I Saw Her Standing There”
If you want to hear something “hard:” The Hop ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEa8RkodcyE )
If you want to hear something “light:” Wordy Rappinghood ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vl1m5FYlAo )
-R
*This is the 80’s revolutionary hop. Exciting production and Spaghetti Western soundtrack-influenced sound, the follow-up to and an advancement on their first hit ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_6K1xGApY ).
**Glenn Branca’s first band, and their only single, which now sells for a half century.
***Great IMO.
DAY 37:
20/20: “Giving It All” b/w “Under the Freeway” [Bomp 115]
Dwight Twilley: “Out of My Hands” b/w “Nothing’s Ever Gonna Change So Fast”
Dwight Twilley: “Out of My Hands” [mono/stereo promo]
Bonnie Tyler: “It’s a Heartache” (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOy7TPjfkE ) b/w “It’s About Time” [Mexican]
2.3: “All Time Low” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZcTD9RqLEU ) b/w “Where to Now?” [FAST 2]
UB40: “King” b/w “Food”
UB40: “I Got You Babe”* b/w “Nkomo a Go Go”
U.K.: “Nothing to Lose [mono/stereo promo]
James Blood Ulmer: “Are You Glad to Be in America?” b/w “T. V. Blues” [RT045 x 2]
Ultravox: “Vienna” b/w “Passionate Reply”
Ultravox!: “Live Retro” ep: “The Man Who Dies Every Day” + “Young Savage” b/w “The Wild, the Beautiful, and the Damned” + “My Sex”
The Undertones: “My Perfect Cousin” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6pA5Tt0l0A) b/w “Hard Luck (Again)” + “I Don’t Wanna See You Again”
*Chrissie Hynde vocal.
John Peel’s favourite single was The Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVrP6JaPUv0 ) and I’d heartily agree.
-R
DAY 38:
The Valves: “Robot Love” b/w “For Adolf’s Only”
Cherry Vanilla: “The Punk” b/w “Foxy Bitch”
The Vapors: “Spiders” b/w “Galleries for Guns”
Violent Femmes: “Ugly” b/w “Gimme the Car” [RT147]
Virgin Prunes: “Pagan Lovesong” b/w “Dave-Id Is Dead: [RT106]
Virgin Prunes: “Twenty Tens” + “Revenge” b/w “The Children Are Crying” + “Greylight”
Voodoo Queens: “F Is for Fame” b/w “I’m Not Bitter…(I Just Want to Kill You)”
Wall of Voodoo: “Mexican Radio”* ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUed6lyWGk ) b/w “Call of the West”
Larry Wallis: “Police Car” b/w “On Parole” [Stiff BUY 22]
The Weasels: “Beat Her with a Rake” b/w “I’m the Commander”
Weekend: “Past Meets Present” b/w “Midnight Slows” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXWtsSteaMI )
Howard Werth: “Obsolete” b/w “Mango Man”
Wet Willie: “Street Corner Serenade” b/w “We Got Lovin'”
When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water: “Daisy Chain parts” b/w “Quando, Quando, Quando” [pink vinyl]
Wire: “Outdoor Miner” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonTwrIZmrI ) b/w “Practice Make Perfect” [white vinyl]
The Wolfgang Press:** “A Girl Like You” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1EW-mBQDgQ ) b/w “Angel”
An odder than usual assortment. If you don’t already know (or want to hear, or both) “Mexican Radio” here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUed6lyWGk
-R
DAY 39:
Misfiled, but not much missed 🙂
The Wild Side: “Cold As Ice” b/w “Tell Me Why”
Wings: “Mull of Kintyre” b/w “Girls’ School”
Wings: “Maybe I’m Amazed” b/w “Soily”
Edgar Winter: “Free Ride” b/w “Frankenstein”
The Woodentops*: “Well Well Well” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hASeiG02q4g ) b/w “Get It On” [RT167]
The Woodentops: “It Will Come” b/w “Special Friend” [RT169]
The Woodentops: “Everyday Living” b/w “Why” [promo]
The Woodentops: “Move Me” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyny-acwO7c ) b/w “Do It Anyway” [RT165]
The Woodentops: “Everyday Living” + “Why” b/w “Move Me” + “Well Well Well” [RT/D178]
The Woodentops: “Good Thing” b/w “Travelling Man” [RT177]
Wreckless Eric: “Crying, Waiting, Hoping” b/w “I Wish It Would Rain” [Stiff BUY40]
Wreckless Eric: “Reconnez Cherie” b/w “Rags and Tatters” [Stiff BUY25]
Wreckless Eric: “Whole Wide World” b/w “Semaphore Signals” [Stiff BUY16]
Robert Wyatt: “At Last I Am Free” b/w “Strange Fruit” [RT 052]
Robert Wyatt/Dishahri: “Grass” b/w “Trade Union” [RT 081]
Robert Wyatt: “Shipbuilding” b/w “Memories of You” [RT 115] (**)
X-Ray Spex: “Identity” b/w “Let’s Submerge” [red vinyl]
XTC: “Are You Receiving Me”*** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFw6tK94RA ) b/w “Instant Tunes”
The Wolfgang Press (from yesterday) are another fave band, and if I ever do 12″ or CD singles will have more to say. IMO their best song, “Louis XIV” from “Queer:” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQPq37Vb7sA
-R
*Another band that released a few amazingly good singles (surprisingly, usually better in their 12″ versions) but lackluster albums.
**This came with four different collect ’em all covers. How desperate were Rough Trade?
***I always introduced my college radio show with this song.
DAY 40:
XTC*: “Making Plans for Nigel” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s29RKnB7l7o ) b/w “This is Pop” + “Are You Receiving Me” [Japanese]
XTC: “Chain of Command” b/w “Limelight” [freebie single with “Drums and Wires”]
XTC: “Towers of London” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EmU1k5Ue8 ) b/w “Set Myself on Fire” + “Battery Brides” b/w “Scissor Man” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXwhgi7YdvQ )
XTC: “Generals and Majors” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd93QrydX9o ) b/w “Don’t Lose Your Temper” + “Smokeless Zone” + “The Somnambulist”
XTC: “Statue of Liberty” [1] ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRt1GsPMXbk ) + “Hang on to the Night”
Yachts: “Suffice to Say” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX-pd_eil9M ) b/w “Freedom” [Stiff BUY19 Belgian yellow vinyl]
Yazoo: “Don’t Go” b/w “Winter Kills”
Zeitgeist: “Touch” b/w “The Last of the Yellow Fidgets”
Zeitgeist: “Shake-Rage” b/w “Gimmick” + “Sniper”
The Zeros: “Hungry” b/w “Radio Fun” ** ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ICpPhRE2M )
Zounds: “Dancing” b/w “True Love” [RT 094]
Thanks to everyone who’s put up with me on this rather lengthy trip down memory lane and for the replies and comments.
But wait, there’s more!
-R
*Yet another fave band, faver than most. Great pop songs and always smart lyrics, starting from the New Wave hyper-pop of “White Noise.” Is there a better, more consistently good pop album than “Black Sea?”
**Karl “Onion Brother” Wallin’s favorite punk song.
DAY 41:
Misfiles and compilations, in no order.
Revolution 9: “Living with You” b/w ” Wintersong” + “Much for Love” [Clawfist singles club 27]
NME “33-1/3 Given free with NME May ’85”: Bronski Beat: “Hard Rain” + Cocteau Twins: “Ivo” b/w The Smiths: “What She Said (Live) + U2: “Wire (dub mix)”
Sounds Showcase: The Cult: “Outlaw” + The Fall: “Hey Luciani! (original version) b/w The Adult Net: “Spin This Web” b/w The Go-Betweens: “I Just Got Caught Out”
Arthur Murray Dance Party: “Ja Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing, Jing, Jing)” + “Hound Dog” + “Mashed Potatoes” b/w “People” + “Twist and Shout” + “Jamaica Ska”
Th’ Faith Healers: “S.O.S” b/w Mambo Taxi: “Super Trooper” [Clawfist 23]
Moonshake: “Lola, Lola” b/w “Always True to You in My Fashion” (Ella Fitzgerald’s version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gc4gdZh7CE ) [Clawfist 26]
4AD “Joe Friday”: Licorice: “Drive Around” b/w Kendra Smith: “In Your Head” + Red House Painters: “Long Distance Runaround”
Sounds Wave 3: The Sugarcubes: “Motorcrash” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJES76AL-to ) + The Wedding Party: “Go Out and Get ’em Boy”b/w Pixies: “Down to the Well” + “Rock a My Soul” + The Pogues: “Kitty”
-R
DAY 42:
It’s the last one, I promise!
Teen Beat 100’s Ten New Songs*: Blast Off Country Style “Wiener Dog Attitude” + Eggs “Baked Alaska” + Tsunami “Brickbook Building” + Butch Willis “Falling in Love” + Unrest “International Nautical Miles” b/w The Shoetrees (featuring Jonny “Boy” Cohen) “Collisions” + Bratmobile “There’s No Other Way” + Sexual Milkshake “The United States of Arousal” + Cobalt “Saturday” + Los Marauders “Slicker than Snot”
Vinyl Conflict 2 (Melody Maker): Hollywood Beyond “South Africa” + The Cocteau Twins “Orange Appled” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH4dkrCgdvg ) b/w The Fall “Lucifer Over Lancashire” + Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction “High Priest of Love (Demo Version)”
Wiiija Presents/Elemental Presents: Jacob’s Mouse “Kettle” + Cornershop “Change” b/w Bivouac “Dragging Your Weight Around” + Trumans Water “Soar Ossinaxx At Long Last”
Fierce Panda Presents: Mortal Wombat (six baubles of fizzing rapture): Super Furry Animals “Don’t Be A Fool Billy” + Baby Bird “Larry Bright” + Panda “#25” b/w Mexican Pets “Stigmata Errata” + Harvey’s Rabbit “All Over the World” + “Spare Snare” Bruising You”
Cornershop: “Seetar Man” b/w Blood Sausage “(You’re the) Devil in Disguise” [Clawfist #24]
Delmontes: “Don’t Cry Your Tears” b/w “So It’s Not to Be”
Johnnie Allan “Promised Land” b/w Pete Fowler “One Heart, On Song” [Belgian Stiff on yellow vinyl]
Sniffin’ Rock presents: Given Away with Sniffin’ Rock #9: The Fall “Guest Informant (Live in Vienna) b/w The Shamen “Christopher Mayhew Says” + Silver Chapter “Teenage Screamer”
Sire Sampler: New Wave Rock ‘n’ Roll**: Dead Boys “All This and More”/”Sonic Reducer” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdu3EU6sbng ) b/w Talking Heads “Uh-Oh Love Comes to Town” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi9s1gPmR7g )/”Don’t Worry About the Government” + The Saints “(I’m) Stranded”/”Erotic Neurotic” b/w Richard Hell & the Voidoids “Blank Generation” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP3x-VdOb44 )/ “Betrayal Times Two” [promo]
*There are some good bands here, like Blast Off Country Style, Eggs, and Unrest, but I can’t find these particular songs on YouTube. Here’s Unrest “Make Out Style:” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9TiuooWA5M
**!!
-R
