LIST 183 - 25/12/15 (a Christmas selection)

Hello again,

One final List for 2015, and I'm pleased to say that despite thinking the other week that I had run out of Christmas-oriented tracks I've been able to compile a seventh festive special after all - the addition of some new arrivals from Helen Love, MJ Hibbett and - latest of all - The Tuts and Colour Me Wednesday certainly aided the cause.  Two of those named are charity recordings and I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending you donate to each cause that's set to benefit from them.

It'll be business as usual with List number 184 on New Year's Day, but until then have a very enjoyable holiday season, by whatever name you know it.  I do like Winterval, I must say.  It's playful.

J xx


HELEN LOVE & FRIENDS – The Townhall Band (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJziVkigJA

EMMY THE GREAT & TIM WHEELER – Zombie Christmas (2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb4hlRkDuvg

BRIGHT EYES – Blue Christmas (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=981-rAfPtKo

NAT JOHNSON, KATHERINE JACKSON & HANNAH BROWNE – Christmas Island (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYnQgVff5U

THE DOLLYROTS – Santa Baby (2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQAuNtD9-d8

TIM MINCHIN – White Wine in the Sun (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q

EVAN YATES – Christmas Time is Here (shoegaze version) (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxQccAPk4w

THE BLUE MINKIES – Christmas Means Nothing Without Presents (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZ6Gbeomek

THE NEW MENDICANTS – A Very Sorry Christmas (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_NCgVvQCWs

THE PRIMITIVES – You Trashed My Christmas (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX5N4XBZEA0

THE BELLRAYS – Rocket Ship Santa (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z6K8lXn7As

TREMBLING BLUE STARS - Christmas & Train Trips & Things (2000)

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

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – Roy Wood in the Blue Note (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YPcsoVV1fc

STAN FREBERG – Green Christmas (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPGJ5-XAcM

HELLO SAFERIDE – iPod Christmas (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJ0iqJ3Tuk

THE FUTUREHEADS – Christmas Was Better in the 80s (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHNpS-pnH-M

DAVID FORD – Have Yourself a Bitter Little Christmas (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBnSJ2RQt_g

GRUFF RHYS – Slashed Wrists This Christmas (2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S87I-nONUdI

TOM LEHRER – A Christmas Carol (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZR3lJobjw

THE TUTS & COLOUR ME WEDNESDAY – Christmas Is In The Air / Christmas Without You (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sgLyU9xuXY

LIST 182 - 18/12/15 (2005 special, part two)

Hello again,

The last one of the week, and the second and final part of the trot through some of my favourite tracks of 2005, including the Boom Bip/Gruff Rhys collaboration which presaged Neon Neon; very early outputs from The Pipettes and Loney, Dear; and a Darren Hanlon track which nicely sets things up ahead of the next List (and probably the last of 2015), which will be the Christmas special a week tomorrow, Christmas Day itself.  'Til then!

J xx

ARCADE FIRE – Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2IAyCuJ4U    

THE FALL – I Can Hear the Grass Grow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrrxJ2XcDA   

ACID HOUSE KINGS – This Heart is a Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vIwjaOyZWk    

MERCURY REV - Across Yer Ocean 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okjb1ilLask   

COMET GAIN – Fists in the Pocket 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz9SszsnNwQ  

BOOM BIP ft GRUFF RHYS - Dos and Don'ts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2irZai5Mkw8

DARREN HAYMAN - Caravan Song 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kZZHLLwcuI  

BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH - Rong Radio Station

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HjMcY50Kc  

THE PIPETTES - I Like a Boy in Uniform (School Uniform) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0LjsnPzG_4  

LONEY, DEAR - I Fought the Battle of Trinidad and Tobago 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA5xX_OfiUE  

THE HIT PARADE - Born in St Ives 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5k2EBMNrXM  

CHRIS T-T - M1 Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy9OrRqFQNE

THE REAL TUESDAY WELD - At the House of the Clerkenwell Kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SE7KdcvRw

THE WEDDING PRESENT - Interstate 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjNeycs0IjI

TREMBLING BLUE STARS - Wounded Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZyio-rL0zU  

TEENAGE FANCLUB - It's All In My Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwJ8oui029w

PATRICK WOLF - Wind in the Wires

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CppK9ZfE-cI

DARREN HANLON - Spend Christmas Day with Me 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuDSW0NMyaU  

75.5

LIST 181 - 17/12/15 (1995 special, part three)

Hello there,

Part three from (just about) 20 years ago this time, inclusive of a track from the last ever singles release on Sarah Records; the final sighting of Kitchens Of Distinction for over a decade and a half; contrariwise very early sightings of The Lucksmiths and The Make-Up; Dean Wareham and Laetitia Sadier practically purring in tandem en français; and Sidi Bou Said's couldn't-fail-and-didn't teaming up with Cardiacs genius Tim Smith.  Lots for you to enjoy, hopefully,

J xx

BEN FOLDS FIVE - Underground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqADHn7SWlA  

BLUEBOY – Toulouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqmvmZVdQ_0

KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION - Feel My Genie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxGR0xEVfk

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS & PJ HARVEY – Henry Lee

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

COMET GAIN – Just Fourteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM3GnsyVG_k

MAN OR ASTRO-MAN? - Put Your Fingers in the Socket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IduKgsAPF-Y

McALMONT AND BUTLER - Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSaRw1vjxM

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL - Avery Island / April 1st

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffOXq_ob7Qs

THE LUCKSMITHS - Jewel Thieves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzIYeiWjX1c

THE CAT’S MIAOW – I Fall to Pieces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Lfum1Hn4M

THE MAKE-UP - We're Having a Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1mhV7WBygk

LOW - Shame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvufaL5B_iM

JULIAN COPE – By the Light of the Silbury Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAOBHFC5Azg

SAINT ETIENNE - He's on the Phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddr9EpezslU

ROGER QUIGLEY - A Kind of Loving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-uqWKQAv5c

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - The Village in the Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxVuIZj145Y

SIDI BOU SAID - Ode to Drink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1sVJ1SqD40

LUNA - Bonnie and Clyde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXeCLVsA5PQ   

SPARE SNARE - Bugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj-2y5MmYwo

SMOG - Bathysphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IRwfeo8hoQ

LIST 180 - 16/12/15 (2005 special, part one)

Hello there,

And so with 1995 already extensively mined (think I'll be able to squeeze out one more selection from that year, though), thoughts turn to a decade ago. 

It was an odd year for me in terms of discovering that much in the way of brand new music, being the first full year since John Peel's passing.  Would the music die with him?  Obviously not, no, though with the most major means for finding interesting new stuff no longer around it felt a little bit more of a struggle.  No matter - some of his best beloved acts continued to produce great material in his memory, with Half Man Half Biscuit, Laura Cantrell, Camera Obscura and Amsterdam four such bands included here.

An early sighting in this List of Au Revoir Simone; I'm not sure the first album had even come out by this stage.

J xx



SIGUR ROS – Glósóli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz8iEJeh26E

ROBERT LIPPOK & BARBARA MORGENSTERN – Gammelpop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCnQkXBY-8c

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Depressed Beyond Tablets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxs3hG6qVSs

AU REVOIR SIMONE – Hurricanes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt_BbGitGeM

LAURA CANTRELL – Bees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W06xaUeK-Ck

TUNNG – People Folk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ9ucVMocfM

DEINE LAKAIEN – Over and Done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yoBUWDZzVY

HTRK – Hate Rock Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvOqUBkyLfA

GRAVENHURST – The Velvet Cell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPqwWG8Zes

BROADCAST – Michael A Grammar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzS9ybPMztY

CAMERA OBSCURA – I Love My Jean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0__sO7k5OH0

AMSTERDAM – Takin’ on the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiyWnyNO_-s

LADYTRON – Sugar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLvQJILre6U

THE CLIENTELE – Since K Got Over Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cYNj2SeVdA

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Grass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvBoFpgXQA

HELEN LOVE - Long Hot Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9BSR--5RYw

BOARDS OF CANADA – Oscar See Through Red Eye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsjs6Ae2Fp0

THE HOUSE OF LOVE - Love You Too Much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFY4Lf6G8zg

OF MONTREAL - Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8cCPH1qnYI

LIST 179 - 15/12/15 (named after... part two)

Hello again,

Following on from yesterday's List, here's another selection of tracks that share their name - in most cases deliberately - with some famous soul or others.  Everything covered from teen idols to serial killers to cyclists to American presidents to astronauts to composers to feuding popstars to journeyman footballers, I think!

J xx

THE WENDY DARLINGS – Bobby Darin (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8pPa5fFhcE  

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – The Ballad of Climie Fisher (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr8D1XScCgM

MODESTY BLAISE - Carol Mountain (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChwenPeshR8

LARD - Sylvestre Matuschka (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZqlT9VJ9ok

TRAMWAY - Gianni Bugno Wheels (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXyFiq6ewRU

FELT – Penelope Tree (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LP_xfNfBc

FUNNY VON DANNEN – Nana Mouskouri (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7NZDhVUdQ

LONELY TOURIST – The Ballad of Paul Tierney (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljTa3JGrbf0

NOVA MOB – Wernher von Braun (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqV5EdpPX54

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – James K Polk (1990/1996)

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

GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI – Kevin Ayers (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_9oShCTRq8

FAMILY FODDER – Debbie Harry (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01dvGeDSWE8

UNREST – Winona Ryder (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31mq-NH51xE

PETE GREEN – The Ballad of Phil Jeavons (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUcOfcC27w

THE SHAMEN – Christopher Mayhew Says (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhxP2YXe6M

CARDIACS - Gina Lollabrigida (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XNf-Kq7zu8

THE HAYWAINS – Dusty Springfield (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx4NEGv5vy0

PIXIES - Alec Eiffel (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf20Effo6ds

JULIAN COPE - Bill Drummond Said (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcbM77qCu3o

BILL DRUMMOND - Julian Cope is Dead (1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuDmjZfa_Z0

SUPERCUTE - Jamie Theakston (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1q-QnS7cCw

HEFNER - Alan Bean (2001)

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

SAINT ETIENNE – Conchita Martinez (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg0V9AxZalY

KRAFTWERK - Franz Schubert (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJqnc_0mZmA

LIST 178 - 14/12/15 (named after...)

Hello again,

This week's Lists start with a bit of whimsical fun - every song on here, intentionally or not, shares its name with a famous real person. 

Apart from the Monkey Swallows The Universe One, that is, which shares its name with a famous real horse.

See how many you know.

J xx


CHARLOTTE HATHERLEY – Kim Wilde (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4fMdG5D18o

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – Helen Reddy (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raE70KKY_vM

THE BRILLIANT CORNERS – Brian Rix (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_boOIcRQ3E

THE HUMAN LEAGUE – Tom Baker (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHJXuK4knlA

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – Roy Walker (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jHSlxTGtSY

DANIEL AAND NORBERT DENTRESSANGLE – Bobby McFerrin (2012)
http://vimeo.com/48547830

REM – Lightnin’ Hopkins (demo) (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNsnepfIlHo

GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI – Sally Webster (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szvUwooG1Ag

THE THYME MACHINE – Jimmy Glass (2014)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uURN7BVzTEY

FREAKY REALISTIC – Leonard Nimoy (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYgH5awUbac

POP WILL EAT ITSELF - Harry Dean Stanton (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpZy8z_Fkh4

McCARTHY – Frans Hals (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxWb9FAN078

MONKEY SWALLOWS THE UNIVERSE – Little Polveir (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L040DEFXZ9U

MONTY PYTHON – Oliver Cromwell (19xx)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwiztVCnjY0

THE FRENCH – Wu-Tang Clan (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSTuiKkxcZE

TELEX – Spike Jones (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOiw1R3I9Dg

THE FAMILY CAT – Tom Verlaine (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c-SLr9Z-TE

SILVERFISH – Dolly Parton (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpxFXz08bX0

KINGS HAVE LONG ARMS – Lisa Riley (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip52qy4x0fQ

LIST 177 - 11/12/15 (1995 special, part two)

Hello again,

Part two of the revisiting of (just about) 20 years ago this time, including very early sightings of the likes of Flowchart and Band Of Pain. 

The Aberdeen track is taken from the third to last single ever released on Sarah Records - what a year it's been for critical reappraisals of that seminal, heroic but at the time frequently vilified Bristol independent. 

Stereolab's contribution comes from one of countless split singles the group (or Groop?) put out during the mid-late 1990s in particular, and thankfully is closer to the metronomic Moog wig-outs of their first few years' output rather than the more anonymous jazz and easy listening stylings that would dominate from the Dots and Loops album onwards.

Bad Blood is taken from Fatherhood, the third of five lo-fi albums Baby Bird would release in rapid-fire succession during 1995-6.  Ugly Beautiful, with You're Gorgeous and the rest on it, would see Stephen Jones hit paydirt within twelve months of this, but those earlier efforts, brimming with simple invention and wit, remain the more engaging output as far as I'm concerned.

J xx



DREADZONE – Little Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lD_VIbgEZY

FLOWCHART – Hero Wine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebUV0qS378

STEREOLAB – The Long Hair of Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZWyDxE3zd4

WOLFSHEIM – Closer Still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORDf3NfCEvc

ABERDEEN – Super Sunny Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27KYbNnJS9o

BABY BIRD – Bad Blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB1k6-yqUKY

PULP – I Spy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQi0pZY_J8

THE APPLES IN STEREO – Tidal Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5FZdNe_YSc

BAND OF PAIN – To Whom It May Concern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6fkYAEZfwU

BJORK – Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTNLc6vLu1g


SEEFEEL – Vex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyuoAMmPtCQ

BOARDS OF CANADA – Sixtyniner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMKhq8l_9mI

BANDIT QUEEN – Miss Dandys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12mQcW8d7aQ

THE FALL – Life Just Bounces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOZOAeQKlJk

BELLY – Now They’ll Sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlFzWn_-EdQ

CRISTIAN VOGEL – In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr4boS7iBLk

LIST 176 - 10/12/15 (a selection of places - part two)

Hello again,

Part two of our "places" special this time, and once again plenty of tracks I've been sitting on for a while.  No longer!

Cheetham Hill is an area of Manchester just south of The Fall's original Prestwich base.  Moreton Bay lies of the coast of Brisbane and bore witness to many acts of brutality against Aborigines by European incomers during the 19th century.  Batty Street is in London.  Cuxhaven is on the north coast of Germany.  The rest you'll know.

J xx


THE HIT PARADE – In Gunnersbury Park (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnU9QeadjE

THE FALL – Cheetham Hill (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhYlI_J33X8

DIE LASSIE SINGERS – Hamburg (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQYwtnewEiI

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES – Israel (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TAlS7J9Ofk

ANDY IRVINE – Moreton Bay (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SHZEguNluE

NEW FAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS – Stockholm (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxrFvy3lyg8

THE VOLUNTARY BUTLER SCHEME – The Eiffel Tower and the BT Tower (2008)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GYEW6c_BJk

THE WEDDING PRESENT – California (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9lzS-nqZtk

HUMOUSEXUAL – Batty Street (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9q2t4gDpEU

THE GRESHAM FLYERS – Blackpool (2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA9z56Ly0zc

THE WOLFGANG PRESS – Kansas (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiwXhSPIxbk

DIE 5 FREUNDE – Cuxhaven (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyQ3xVObeA

THE FAIR SEX – Alaska (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyAJnKtOIOM

KIRSTY MacCOLL – Soho Square (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thaiW9bfBM4

THE TIMES – Manchester (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n_kfYzG33c

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – Swinging London (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F7wIAl6J1g

LIGHT OF THE WORLD – London Town (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3rFMUn7olc

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – Kensington Gardens (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLbCIzaE32s

MONOSTARS – Dresden Neustadt (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnQembdSUuE

LIST 175 - 09/12/15 (a selection of places - part one)

Hello again,

Tonight and tomorrow's Lists follow a simple enough theme - every song shares its name with a genuine town, city, country, street, feature or in one case a planet.  These have been fun to compile; there are a few choices I've been waiting to share for almost as long as I've been doing these, and opportunity has finally presented itself.

The Field Mice's evocative and filmic (is that a word?) Holland Street takes its name from a road in Glasgow.  Sauerland, as in the contribution here by Zoff, is an area of northern Germany.  Cuyahoga is many things in Ohio, though I understand the REM track refers specifically to the terminally polluted river of the same name.  Mablethorpe, beloved of Lost Pets, is an East Lincolnshire coastal resort.  The rest you'll know.

J xx


THE FIELD MICE – Holland Street (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZHZCEF5wPw

STANLEY BRINKS AND THE WAVE PICTURES - Berlin (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woPzCzQ-hUs

THE DIVINE COMEDY – Sweden (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-qqFWpguoA

MASAKI HANAKATA – Panama (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TySBdc-kwCM

THE LUCKSMITHS – Mars (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxf-2T-dXAQ

CATWALK – Damascus (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkuuYQhfgaA

ROSE McDOWALL – Tibet (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcig_CjRoJo

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – Washington D.C. (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC56Plwfm38

BAXENDALE – Switzerland (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY4Q88H67bQ

ZOFF – Sauerland (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A5zhnw7CV8

SUGAR – Hoover Dam (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBqZHPTCV58  

REM – Cuyahoga (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrehJovpKfo

NORTHERN PICTURE LIBRARY – Paris (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrpqGxuZKGk

LOST PETS – Mablethorpe (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_L204wDmEQ

SEELENLUFT ft “MIKE MASTER” MICHAEL SMITH – Manila (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45brgbERMG0

M83 – America (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJCq8wHDh0E

THE KLF – America (What Time Is Love?) (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L4OnoEh2us

LIST 174 - 08/12/15

Hello again,

Football is a bit of an off-limits subject for me this week, following my team Oldham Athletic's summary failure to defeat ten-man Sheffield United in the Cup and thus cost themselves a lifeline third round draw against Manchester United.  Fortunately, though, help is at hand with Trust Fund's superb paean to the game, vintage BBC commentary and all.  A lot of fun.

Great to have a fresh Field Music single seeing the light of day as a sighter ahead of next February's new album; great also to be able to include something new from stalwart Swedish house duo Lo-Fi-FNK.  The Haiku Salut video is not for the faint of stomach, perhaps, but offers an inversion of a theme; whilst one of several delves into the archives features Public Enemy, as of a week or so ago the favourite carshare passengers of one Sheffield resident in the sort of story you just can't make up.  Oh, go and Google it...

J xx
 


TRUST FUND – Football (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QlTkH93dEE

SACRI CUORI – La Marabina (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MgmfRqU834

BILLY BRAGG – I Don’t Need This Pressure Ron (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0crTJ5apq8

BODYHEAT - Upside Down (2015)
https://soundcloud.com/bodyheat-1/upside-down

LO-FI-FNK – Pirate Radio (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TctVMi4Ln4U

A WITNESS – Lucky in London (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M_jKjX3SQQ

LITTLE GREEN CARS – Harper Lee (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHwMDr6dMHI

CAVERN OF ANTI-MATTER - Irridated Dream Mouth (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isj8WAPhYKY

MOGWAI – Tracy (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3uIwEY27DQ

MAVIS STAPLES – Fight (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzQmLFQrfY

MAVIS STAPLES – I Have Learned To Do Without You (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaeNfB-tb7g

FIELD MUSIC – The Noisy Days Are Over (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FGPDau_QwA

MYLO – Muscle Car (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7geCioVvQU

LOW – Just Make It Stop (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rAdzJ1U0RU

THE ORCHIDS – God of Special Things (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnB1oqQB6lE

HAIKU SALUT - Hearts Not Parts (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWDB417Mtas

PUBLIC ENEMY – Hazy Shade of Criminal (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvOd48zlNkA

THE GASMAN – It Is Always Now (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEaGSYFbP1w

LIST 173 - 07/12/15

Hello again,

The start of a fresh week of Lists (whilst stocks still last), and a couple of contributions that I've been gutted to have missed playing in Sheffield these past couple of weeks - excellent, upwardly mobile Glasgow two-piece Tuff Love and dramatic French songstress Marianne Dissard.  Gig-going FAIL.

Elsewhere, it's a long-overdue pleasure to include Endless Art by A-House this time around.  It's been kicking around on my to-include list for a couple of years now, in the ultimately unrealised hope of including it in a List entirely consisting of "list" songs. 

One idea that should very much still come to fruition before very long, however, is a List containing only songs that share their names with towns, cities or countries.  So why is Wakefield by Stanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures included here instead of there?  Simple - the venerable Mr Brinks has released more than the one such song as a single this year alone...

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THE SPOOK SCHOOL – Burn Masculinity (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGGj5_7dx0o

TUFF LOVE - Duke (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMad2QxfeMg

BLUE AEROPLANES – Ashtrays from Mt. Etna (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Ker25Rl8s

KILLING JOKE - I Am The Virus (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4wdbibV3IM

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – War on the East Coast (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMcumbSMY_8

TEENAGE FANCLUB – Don’t Need a Drum (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpEqRbNkuOo

STANLEY BRINKS AND THE WAVE PICTURES - Wakefield (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8unrOg4HquU

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Kino (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4IAnSdtbNY

JILL SOBULE - O Canada (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfEWlRicTjs

JILL SOBULE - Rainy Day Parade (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9fY7BrwfOY

MARIANNE DISSARD – Je ne le savais pas (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDi72nyajE

OWL & MOUSE - Octopi (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyLshzMyhM8

PULP – Stacks (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbwj_J750kE

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS – Point of Being Right (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJPw789HSwY

MONKEY SWALLOWS THE UNIVERSE – Bloodline (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImUuSN_2tE8

DJEMBA DJEMBA - Macking in the Car (I Don't Drive) (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNvsl3ucqhM

A HOUSE – Endless Art (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDo6Lgylsjg

FLOWERS – Forget the Fall (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk7s5ONezMU

SLIM – It’s in the Mix (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTtFktnQR7E