Friday 26 December 2014

LIST 140 - 26/12/14 (2004 special, part two)



Hello there,

Part two of the 2004 retrospective brings together some more tracks by Peel favourites such as The Fall, FSK, PJ Harvey and McLusky, all of whom will likely have featured in some of his final shows before his unexpected and sad passing in October of that year.

Early sightings here of the likes of Art Brut, Humousexual, Eux Autres and Githead.

That's your lot from That Music List for 2014, with the next edition out a week today on January 2nd 2015...  Enjoy your New Year celebrations, whatever form they take.

J xx



FRANZ FERDINAND – Take Me Out

COWBOY JUNKIES - One Soul Now

PJ HARVEY – You Come Through

PINEY GIR - Janet Schmanet

THE FALL – Theme from Sparta FC pt. 2

V/VM - Stigma

CYANN & BEN – A Moment Nowhere

SEELENLUFT ft JIM REID - I Can See Clearly Now

CINERAMA – It’s Not You, It’s Me

MCLUSKY – That Man Will Not Hang

HUMOUSEXUAL – Seven Hundred Kilometres

ART BRUT – Formed a Band

FSK MEETS ANTHONY “SHAKE” SHAKIR – Black Music

EUX AUTRES – Other Girls

GITHEAD – To Have and To Hold

THE DURUTTI COLUMN – Tempus Fugit

DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS - Godhopping

ISAN - Meet Next Life
 

Thursday 25 December 2014

LIST 139 - 25/12/14 (a Christmas selection)



Hello again,

Just about the most self-explanatory List I do every year - the usual 70-odd minutes' worth of festive-oriented selections offered up as an antidote to what, I'm given to understand on social media, was a particularly wretched Top of the Pops Christmas edition earlier today.  Not much Auto-tuning amongst this assortment!

Best wishes of the season to one and all,

J xx


JOHN OTWAY – OK Father Christmas (2014)

GREGORY WEBSTER - Winter (2011)

THE VATICAN CELLARS - Christmas Island (2011)

DAVID LEACH - Handmade Christmas (2010)

WOOG RIOTS - Under the X-Mas Treeee (2012)

JOHNNY CASH – Blue Christmas (1963)

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS - Easy Christmas (2014)

LOS CAMPESINOS! - The Trains Don't Run It's Christmas Day (2014)

MARK KOZELEK - Christmas Time is Here (2014)

PETE GREEN – Everything’s Dead Pretty When it Snows (2xxx)

THE DECEMBERISTS – Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas) (2xxx)

ATTIC LIGHTS – Why Should Christmas Be So Hard? (2012)

THE PEARLY GATECRASHERS – Kung Fu Christmas (1994)

THE POCKET GODS - Bernard Matthews Turkey Zombie Revenge (2013)

THE BIRTHDAY GIRL vs ALEXANDER's FESTIVAL HALL - Hey Santa! (Black Snow at Christmas) (2011)

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III – Suddenly This Christmas (1993)

KING DIAMOND– No Presents for Christmas (1985)

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS OST – Kidnap the Sandy Claus (1993)

RICHARD HAWLEY – Silent Night (2008)

REUBEN – Christmas is Awesome (2007)

TOM WAITS – Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (1978)

MEDICINE – Christmas Song (1992)               

Wednesday 24 December 2014

LIST 138 - 24/12/14 (2004 special, part one)



Hello there,

Straddled either side of tomorrow's Christmas special, here's the first of two Lists containing selections from (just about) a decade ago.

This was, of course, the year the music died for many of us, following the death in October of John Peel; so among the selections it seems only appropriate to include contributions from Ballboy, People Like Us, Half Man Half Biscuit and Neko Case today and a few other of the great man's favourites on Friday.  

Very early sightings of M.I.A and the late Gravenhurst here; contrariwise a very late sighting of both The Delgados and (barring the odd reconvening since then) Cinerama.

J xx

BLOC PARTY – So Here We Are

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – All Eternal Things

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Who Could Win a Rabbit

JEANS TEAM – Berlin am Meer

BALLBOY – The Ghosts of New Orleans

M.I.A – Fire Bam (Diplo Mix)

PEOPLE LIKE US - Abridged Too Far

FELIX KUBIN – Too Technical

MISS KITTIN - I Come.Com

ATOM AND HIS PACKAGE – Atom and his Package

NOXAGT – Acasta Gneiss

STEREOLAB - Margerine Rock

CLIENT – Tuesday Night

THE DELGADOS – Everybody Come Down

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Epiphany (Peel Session)

THE DIVINE COMEDY – Come Home Billy Bird

CALVIN PARTY – Northern Song

NEKO CASE - The Tigers have Spoken

GRAVENHURST – Black Holes in the Sand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-rQLse-gl4

Tuesday 23 December 2014

LIST 137 - 23/12/14 (1994 special, part two)



Hello there,

Part two of the 20-years-ago-today selection finds us enjoying a "long" version of a very early Melt-Banana track that's still under two minutes long; the song that facilitated the first ever Top Of The Pops appearance of Mark E Smith (which in turn was used as a honey trap to get John Peel to present that show once more, and thence get surprised by This Is Your Life's big red book!); Beck listing a lot of regurgitated food; and much more besides.  2004 bits follow tomorrow.
 

J xx
 


INSPIRAL CARPETS ft MARK E SMITH – I Want You

LSG – Hearts

STEREOLAB - Wow and Flutter

THE FALL – M5 #1

MADDER ROSE – Panic On

SEEFEEL - Air Eyes

THE WEDDING PRESENT – Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

MELT-BANANA – Picnic with Panic (long version)

CRANES – Shining Road

ROC – Girl with the Crooked Eye

BANG BANG MACHINE – Give You Anything

A C ACOUSTICS – Hand Passes Plenty

SABRES OF PARADISE - Wilmot

FRANK BLACK – (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Red Right Hand

BECK – Steve Threw Up

H FOUNDATION – Laika