LIST 184 - 01/01/16

Hello again,

A very happy 2016 to all That Music List readers/listeners/both (delete as applicable) - let the new year deal us all a fair hand.

It's back to the regular weekly updates for the winter, I think, starting with a mish-mash of hitherto overlooked 2015 highlights and some other morsels from further back - yep, including a couple or three that couldn't fit onto any of the 1985 or 1995 specials, I admit...

The passing of both Motorhead stalwart Lemmy and raver Guru Josh over the festive period have already been extensively documented elsewhere; perhaps less so, however, that of John Bradbury, drummer with The Specials.  Coventry to his fingertips, to the extent of never having moved away from the city, he was 62.  A selection from almost exactly 35 years ago, which those of you following BBC4's recent reruns of 1980/1 Top of the Pops episodes will have seen only a fortnight ago, is included as tribute.

J xx



THE SPOOK SCHOOL – I Want to Kiss You (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ56pAfCStI

PINEY GIR – Keep It Together (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZfUjfnKqLY

YO LA TENGO – Decora (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFA1VpiIYM

LAURA VEIRS – Sun Song (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P8mfvCGKyg

SPRING KING – Who Are You? (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvlJed74Aoo

THE MEN THEY COULDN’T HANG – Greenback Dollar (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWvxDm5V4w

BRAD SAN MARTIN – Lessons Left Me (2015)
https://soundcloud.com/jigsaw-records/pzl088-brad-san-martin-lessons-left-me

OMAR SOULEYMAN – Bahdeni Nami (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlu1XyPexn8

EDWARD BALL - Docklands Blues (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIju6R7FzI

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE – Dress Up (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU4qDI_F-wU

DESTROYER – Girl in a Sling (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcWD_CroKhc

DESTROYER – J Tailor (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my4wBzq4uq0

FEAR OF MEN – Descent (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRq_RMJsp28

SONIC YOUTH - Little Trouble Girl (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWJcSTPNpM

JLIN – Guantanamo (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SOxiWncp0

RON SEXSMITH - Words We Never Use (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuNzfhFG8iQ 

HELVETIA - A Dot Running for the Dust (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn0PZygBHfc

HAIKU SALUT – Skip to the End (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCxB0uihT7E

THE SPECIALS – Do Nothing (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyL17d0Ny-g