That Music List: October 2012

Tuesday 30 October 2012

LIST 98 - 26/10/12

Hello again,

Yes - proof positive that we've still enough material for general, non-themed Lists after lots of special editions in recent weeks... Quite a number of (for me, at least) really welcome returns to action this time around, not least those of Jens Lekman, Euros Childs and Stars Of Aviation; plus a return from 120 Days, whose comeback last year I somehow managed to miss completely. Duh.

There *is* a Then and Now subject this week, first appearances perhaps to the contrary, as Ruby Throat is the current project of one Katie Jane Garside, formerly of Daisy Chainsaw. And in selecting Love Your Money from the latter act, there was only ever going to be one piece of footage of that song I was going to include. Warning: may contain traces of Bruiser de Cadenet...

J x

JENS LEKMAN – I Know What Love Isn’t (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp6o1zZkOjo

PURITY RING – Fineshrine (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqw4wo8vdY8

THE BEE’S NIECE – Snow (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWGsKEXBgzk

DUM DUM GIRLS – Lord Knows (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHLPyCPjGKM

EUROS CHILDS - That’s Better (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9jlcBQcDw

SQUAREPUSHER – Endless Night (2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s8TfCvbNH8

STARS OF AVIATION – Autumn’s Fingers (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ6GzjiDGCw

AN HORSE – Walls (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjh9lV8yTyQ

RUBY THROAT – O’ Doubt O’ Stars (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfwZXYG_mno

DAISY CHAINSAW – Love Your Money (1992)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0cYzWgrbR4

POLIÇA – Form (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX1cS6rf2YY

JENNIFER LEFT – Diggory (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKjlmPbeK4

120 DAYS – Sunkissed (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF2Ai_iydOY

LAETITIA SADIER – There Is A Price To Pay For Freedom And It Isn’t Security (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0x5xPOIuXs

DARK HORSES – Radio (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uyr9kqRaLc

RHEINGOLD – Dreiklangsdimensionen (1980)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNaUmWEV5w

THE JOY FORMIDABLE – Cholla (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xsFhE9PzT8

DIE ÄRZTE – Ist das noch Punkrock? (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjIasSAurB0

ALLO DARLIN’ – Tallulah (live at London Scala) (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6EAmQnus9Y

LIST 97 - 19/10/12 ("Remember this problem? The German language..." - part two)

Guten Abend,

Longstanding viewers will remember that List #52 back in October 2010 featured a bunte Mischung covering a good three decades or so of interesting German language tracks. Here, then, is a long-overdue sequel - long enough, indeed, for a few elder statesmen such as FSK and Die Ärzte to have got round to recording something again.

There wasn't too much in the way of Neue Deutsche Welle music in the previous collection, but hopefully the appearance of four or five tracks from that broad church of a genre will please its fans. Not sure whether Niko counts as NDW to everybody, but either way, it's not every day you get to see a PE teacher from Cologne (true!!) having the time of his life to a backing influenced by early-1980s era Sparks.

The title alone of Ich weiss, wo Jochen Distelmeyer lebt has stalker-like qualities to it. I wonder if the Blumfeld frontman ever did get any unwelcome visitors associated with or influenced by the Oederland track?

J x