LIST 48 - 10/09/10

A few favourites from a while back return with new produce in this list (though in some cases it's been out a few weeks and I've just missed it. Oops). The New Pornographers' "Sing Me Spanish Techno" is still one of the Youtube clips I return to the most, with both song and video guaranteed to make me smile. "Crash Years" is reassuringly up to par, and features lead vocals this time from what I presume must be Neko Case rather than Carl Newman, unless the latter has had an accident recently.

Teki Latex's contribution owes more than a little to Kraftwerk, likewise the Pipettes to Sophie Ellis-Bextor's first solo album, but don't let that damn either with faint praise, as pale facsimiles they are not. Cath Carroll, who - frighteningly for those of us who remember her as the fresh-faced singer / guitarist with C86 act Miaow - turned 50 earlier this year, gets the then and now treatment, whilst the terrifically named Mike Baker The Bike Maker offers up old school perv hiphop over some footage of Russ Meyer's notorious Return to the Valley of the Dolls. Oh, don't pull a face - it's not like I've uploaded The Human Centipede without warning you...

All this and I still haven't mentioned the triumphant return of James Yuill with another contender for my favourite single of the year (as "No Pins Allowed" had been in 2008), or that set-closers Elliot Jack play at the Midlands Art Centre at the Yardbird Jazz Club in Birmingham this Saturday, September 11th at 6pm. That endorsement for their innovative, warm-hearted electronica would have stood even if I hadn't worked with their bassist for two years way back when...


ARCADE FIRE – Ready to Start (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJxEUS0FZQ

TEKI LATEX – Dinosaurs with Guns (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWl-Kryr0dk

PSAPP – I Want That (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSmc7o2EN_g

DAVID HB DRAKE – Food of our Fathers (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxlZojERaxs

BRIAN – Understand (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AntYewyaVcs

THE PIPETTES – Stop the Music (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_ri_vHuUo

AIRIEL – Thinktank (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jP_JdJKBxM

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Crash Years (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KZANuDcRO4

JAMES YUILL – On Your Own (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFseMoI9DM

CATH CARROLL – It All Looks Good on You (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMZZr1zY4s

CATH CARROLL – Moves Like You (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6nZHK-NwYs

DATAROCK – The Pretender (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mVPsCqSRAg&ob=av2n

THE DENTISTS – I Had an Excellent Dream (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRBY41OuIvE

THE FLYERS & MIKE SONAR – Signalica (Original Mix) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJ_q86ilj4

JANINA ANGEL BATH – Life Everlasting Flowers part one (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31B4ZqAxhU8

PLASTICINES - Loser (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yAh7ytW3Wc&ob=av2n

MIKE BAKER THE BIKE MAKER – La La La (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOEgSFdhUu4

SHE & HIM – Thieves (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB6fsQ87q1U

ELLIOT JACK – Go Home To The People That You Love (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_LG_O36c68