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