LIST 72 - 21/10/11

Hello again,

No apologies at all for starting with the reliably, endearingly deranged Lovely Eggs this time, given that between this List and the next your editor will have seen them in action in both Sheffield and Leeds.

No apologies, either, for including some typically adept, peerless plucking from the late Bert Jansch at the end of the List. A colossus astride the Folk Revival for over four decades and as relevant and revered now as then, his is certainly one of music's most significant and sad losses of 2011.

J x



THE LOVELY EGGS – F*ck It (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOsFadmH584

CATHERINE A.D. – Going Wrong (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwh806w0HY8

CARIBOU – Odessa (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiSa7THgxrI

ARNAUD REBOTINI – Personal Dictator (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXVcP1lifwE

HERMAN DUNE – Be A Doll (And Take My Heart) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buzf7MBkZFY

POSTAL SERVICE – Such Great Heights (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wrsZog8qXg

DOWNDIME – The Chosen One (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVOjnKVcnkw

GIRLS – Honey Bunny (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuDoYhQI2o

THE PRIMITIVES – Never Kill a Secret (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3wx2WevLQ

THE PRIMITIVES – Stop Killing Me (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1so-4rS38A

LINKWOOD – B1 Untitled (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqewpf4oJjg

EVANS THE DEATH- I’m So Unclean (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTebot8rJU

SCREAMING MALDINI – Secret Sounds (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN81xpZ5ido

POCKETBOOKS – Harbour Lights (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5bTTgd5_2w

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW – Cervantine (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYjfBZxhUzU

DRUNKEN BUTTERFLY – Der letzte Mann (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKq0kR28U1I

LANA DEL RAY – Video Games (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw

HAIKU SALUT – Snaffle (live at Indietracks) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f5ShWQqzWU

BERT JANSCH – Blackwater Side (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY-xpa9GWuo

LIST 71 - 14/10/11

If Tiswas or Dick & Dom ever went into making music videos for other acts, then the Lisa Hannigan promo included this time around might be what they'd come up with. Aggressive but beautifully choreographed slapstick / gunging, all Lisa's own idea, and impressively all done in the one take, first time up.

Having also let herself be drenched in melted chocolate (albeit for an Oxfam Make Trade Fair campaign) in the recent past, one wonders whether she's making up for lost time fun-wise in these post-Mr Rice days...

Fun also seems to be on the agenda for Be Like Pablo, whose perky new single has elevated them in my estimations somewhat after never really getting the track they donated to the Indietracks compilation two years ago.

Elsewhere we have a Beastie Boys then and now; some quality techno japery of the sort Peel would have adored; a Field Mice song and the band who named themselves after it; and Darren Hayman looking alarmingly like Mike Read when rendered in Lego. Another uneventful List, then...

J x



KITTY, DAISY AND LEWIS – Don’t Make a Fool out of Me (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqcc0CkMIo

DOBLE PLETINA – Música Para Cerrar Las Discotecas (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3NsKaKOnZQ

FIELD MUSIC – Measure (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x257xocl4_k

BE LIKE PABLO – The Post-It Song (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4wRJrIvr3k

LISA HANNIGAN – Knots (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYdPtcx-4mo

OMD – Sister Marie Says (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALQsqR1rmLM

YUCK – Get Away (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7vyrFhFE8

ARNAUD REBOTINI – All You Need Is Techno (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOYZ2gu4AI

BEASTIE BOYS – Make Some Noise (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgLMslbDuY

BEASTIE BOYS – Gratitude (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw&ob=av2e

LOVE INKS – Leather Glove (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Scb5-Iv5Lc

ZOEY VAN GOEY – You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EwBNm1Uhs0

SLEIGH BELLS – Tell ‘Em (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJ05P-71gY

FISHBOY – Alyson Revere (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1-eqMkVYA

DARREN HAYMAN – My Dream Train (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQEHx1w9yU

BLACK MILK – Brain (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldp-arHXRJg

THE FIELD MICE – Coach Station Reunion (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3J8yY-3As

COACH STATION REUNION – Johnny Cash (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKgM0wxhiZg

EL HOMBRE PERCHA – Bocadillos de Jámon (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcdEIBT9KVA

KATIE KIM – Jennifer (live at the Daghdha Space Theatre, Limerick) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSUrax_sME

LIST 70 - 07/10/11

Hello again,

No huge preamble this week, folks, but rather just a simple invitation to enjoy - among other things - some brand new product from everyone's favourite enduring US geek duo, yet another project involving Swedish indiepop kingpin Roger Gunnarsson, the delectable but lesser-spotted Mr Lekman, and Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral (and have plans for Jim Beglin, by the sounds of it...).

The Lou & Ginny track, meanwhile, washed up whilst I was searching for a write-up on some obscure mid-80s Marvel Comics characters. At this remove I can't for the life of me think how, but the best discoveries (and this girl-power late-1950s rock'n'roll nugget is certainly one of those) are often the accidental ones.

Hmmm, so that's just a medium-large preamble this week, then!

J x



ELECTRICITY IN OUR HOMES – Apple Tree (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJLCXb7r1Hk

TUNABUNNY – Only At Night (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-WohwiAd-4

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – Never Knew Love (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJk_4cnsWWA

MIKROFISCH – Mauro Farina (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ppHCAbD4c

TOM VEK – Aroused (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ZVEt2X3GA&ob=av2e

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Fix It So She Dreams Of Me (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH66IB64UBA

SNOB SCRILLA – Heartbreak Scorsese (2009)
http://www.vimeo.com/5078027

SLOW DOWN TALLAHASSEE – Angel of Death (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_SfQiw_mGU

TIMES NEW VIKING – No Room to Live (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_R9dkoWFHI

DJ SHADOW – I Gotta Rokk (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0mrwAFUuGM

DJ SHADOW – High Noon (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-flSzjEzP64&ob=av2n

LAURA J MARTIN & THE SIMONSOUND – Inside Your Bones (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2J7d3z9v7I

CSS – Hits Me Like a Rock (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atbY03rKrdA

BOB LOG III – My Shit Is Perfect (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A76NeaxNpfQ

THE ANDERSEN TAPES – Visual Explanations (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zldsVAcRIIg

LOU & GINNY – Do I Do Right? (1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvzO2dVGR4

JENS LEKMAN – An Argument With Myself (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=805cOEz4-wE

COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES – Vorms (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsR-NtSRx8M