LIST 79 - 25/11/11 (1991 special, part one)

Good evening,

Well, you didn't think you were going to escape the whole year without one or two "songs from 20 years ago this year" Lists, did you? (see also Lists #10, #11, #22 and #23 in 2009, plus #44 and #45 in 2010). They've just had to wait whilst the welter of other material has been worked through.

There are some songs on this first installment whose inclusion is a particular source of personal pleasure. "Countdown" endures to this day as both my favourite Pulp song of all time, plus - along with Wir and The Frank And Walters tracks included - a constituent of the playlist on the first evening that I switched over to Mark Goodier's Evening Session permanently (having merely dabbled with it a bit previously) and turned my back on the horrors of Key 103 forever!

(NB that's not to say I wasn't already listening to Peel as well, but supplementing that with some of the other better shows at the time on Radio 1, rather than persisting with the Fab FM direction Key 103 had taken after its post-Piccadilly Radio, post-Mark Radcliffe reimagining, took a little longer).

"Missing The Moon", meanwhile, was and remains just about the best single Sarah Records ever released in my humble opinion. It really does feel like a stare out into the heavens in music form - vast, celestial, and perfect.

No apologies, by the way, for including a bit of that 'ardcore techno that started to fill the charts around this time - I did, for the greater part, love it to bits ("Quadrophonia" in particular has aged far better to this pair of ears than I was necessarily expecting). No apologies either for a nice bit of judderjudderbleuurrrgghh from Extreme Noise Error - merely a year later, they'd find themselves involved with a chart-topping duo, an awards ceremony and an expired ovine - with hilarious consequences, as the sitcoms always say!

J x


CARDIACS - Day is Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRctRAWNi2w

PULP - Countdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GjBFDFln90

DJPC – Insomniak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0cGtx7vdLs

TH’ FAITH HEALERS – Reptile Smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0_PGCnwik

THE FIELD MICE - Missing The Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HgffFOL32s

GARY CLAIL ON-U SOUND SYSTEM – Human Nature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfMwWxgXB3g

MORRISSEY – Pregnant for the Last Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLkSF29BC7c

CURVE – Clipped
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAIaLbcKb0

BLUMFELD – Ghettowelt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHZ64s9gxP0

QUADROPHONIA - Quadrophonia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PkD--DD0TM&NR=1

THE FALL – Edinburgh Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbMG1v7qDqs

PIXIES – Motorway to Roswell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jo3F29JSfs

THE FRANK AND WALTERS – Fashion Crisis Hits New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5H5YgV7LU

WIR – So And Slow it Grows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYxRb1axy_A

EXTREME NOISE TERROR – Knee Deep in Shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVuXBjv9pxI

THE POPGUNS – Crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjaYGj6T_k

HOLE – Teenage Whore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47cF_IpAwUQ

THE HOLLOW MEN – The Moon’s A Balloon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFQLQcNp77w

ELECTRONIC – Get The Message
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7sVSSb2mU4&ob=av2n