LIST 76 - 12/11/11 (25th anniversary of Indie Top 20 - part two)

Hello again,

Herewith as promised part two of the Indie Top 20 retrospective, and lots of happy musical memories for me. Should it interest, and I doubt it will, the chopped-down version of Triangle by The Field Mice exclusive to volume 10 was my first encounter of Sarah Records - some years later, I got a letter from Matt Haynes suggesting not many other people, if any, have got into the label via that track specifically. Fine as it is, the full nine-minute-and-then-some version from the Skywriting album absolutely knocks it out of the park, but you fine people know that already.

More through accident than skill, there are actually two connections between this List and indiepop mainstays Milky Wimpshake, who might rightfully have featured on one of these volumes had they had their time, what, 15 or 20 years earlier? True Love Will Find You In the End, here read by Spectrum, has been a staple of the Wimpshake's live sets for well over a decade (as part of a mash-up of sorts with a cover of Jonathan Richman's Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste), whilst Brilliant Corners' Delilah Sands was apparently the inspiration behind Alice Nebulae from last year's Wimpshake long-player My Funny Social Crime.

Cover versions all the way tomorrow as part of this weekend's triple whammy. For the time being, though, over to Thurston et al for a cover version of sorts from all of 25 years ago;

J x



CICCONE YOUTH – Into the Groove(y) (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJTcQWuZ3Q

THE SUNDAYS – Joy (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD9ZRlvnh7w

THE GOD MACHINE – Home (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsmq0UJa0ZI

THE CHESTERF!ELDS – Ask Johnny Dee (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTkE4f_WpA

COMPULSION – Mall Monarchy (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktDeuXe1AjY

SPIRITUALIZED – Run (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9gLF8XVQ4

THE WOLFHOUNDS – Happy Shopper (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5isRcKysUec

PALE SAINTS – Fine Friend (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAlp_5_iq1Y

COOKIE CREW – Females (Get On Up) (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVa65PG5gks

POP WILL EAT ITSELF – RSVP (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GtHA5Nf1nU

SLOWDIVE – Alison (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol787NjpBS4

THE PIXIES – Dig for Fire (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xekfBhiqfig

THE BRILLIANT CORNERS – Delilah Sands (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wian1Jmxk

SPIREA-X – Chlorine Dream (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axXGAxbJGxM

WIRE – Silk Skin Paws (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFn_mGFs1Vg

SPECTRUM – True Love Will Find You in the End (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9od_Ggh7uOM

THE FAMILY CAT – Steamroller (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL48CZRC9NE

THE FIELD MICE – Triangle (Indie Top 20 Vol. 10 edit) (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhnUCRN0N4

LOOP – Arc-Lite (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qc_pXs22ug

SANDIE SHAW – Nothing Less Than Brilliant (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExVKb4dZxs