LIST 204 - 27/05/16

Hello again,

Okay, okay, it's maybe slightly cheaty to do a Then and Now feature for The Julie Ruin, in so far as the older track is taken from a Kathleen Hanna solo record of that name and the newer one is the lead single from the Kathleen Hanna-fronted band of that name's first album.  But still.  Both are too good not to share.

The temptation to follow the old track by the UK dance act known as Screaming Trees with one from the more familiar US rock act of the same name was avoided, just.  How very unlike me!

J xx

STREET CHANT – Insides (2016)

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

WOODPIGEON – Faithful (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30DJ-i0TTpE 

STEREO MCs – Fade Away (1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-zHR52wFc

FIELD MUSIC – Indeed It Is (2016)

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

NINEBARROW - For a Time (2016)

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

RED MONKEY – This Medium Is Not The Message (1999)

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

ODD NOSDAM – Sisters (2016)

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

THE JULIE RUIN – I Decide (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja0bpkNxSVY

THE JULIE RUIN – Radical or Pro-Parental (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0mCOg5yZY

ZONE OUT – Inside (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi54Ulz7hpU

PITY SEX - Pin a Star (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3QBu5B8TLQ

THE WEDDING PRESENT – I’m Not Always So Stupid (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAa7oezE-mo

KANE STRANG – What’s Wrong (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKArUi6LtJ8

THE EXPLORERS CLUB – California’s Callin’ Ya (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe0RESujmqM

SCREAMING TREES (UK) – Tangiers (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga5tnBUriTU

SEPTEMBER GIRLS - Heartbeats (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbXlkmZzUu0

THE RITZ CLUB - Walk Away (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzay3dtrpKw

THE GOSSIP – Take Back (The Revolution) (2002)

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

LIST 203 - 20/05/16

Hello again,

Another last song dedicated in loving memory in this List, alas, following the passing at the age of 61 last weekend of Marlene Marder, guitarist with trailblazing Swiss female post-punk act Kleenex / LiLiPUT.  Die Matrosen is a fairly obvious choice of tribute song, I concede, but it's also a terrific one.

School Of Seven Bells would in contrast be a band to suffer tragedy whilst still a going concern, founder member and co-guitarist Ben Curtis having died of lymphoma in 2013.  His final demos and ideas have since been fashioned into the final SVIIB album by sole remaining member Alejandra Deheza, and the single included this time is one of many highlights of a superb, if inevitably highly poignant and emotionally charged collection of songs.

The promo for the excellent Cupid by The Big Moon, meanwhile, is surely the latest in a long line of candidates for the title "if Tiswas did videos, would they be like this?", even if the off-camera exhortation to go again does appear to be a bit of a copy from Lisa Hannigan's even messier Knots video - go back to List #71 (http://thatmusiclist.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/list-71-141011.html) and see what you think.

J xx

THE BIG MOON - Cupid (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6t3vNfl85E 

THE CHURCHILL GARDEN – Orange Tree Blossom (2016)

https://soundcloud.com/churchhill/orange-tree-blossom 

THE MEMBRANES – Kafka’s Dad (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i81FG9rhos 

ELISABETH LIKE A DREAM – Shadow (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzS0tp0lZc0 

AG COOK ft HANNAH DIAMOND - Drop FM (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=645r40YSNa4 

DAVID DEVANT & HIS SPIRIT WIFE – Ginger (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWCi7Xg7UeQ 

VLIVM – Looking for a Day (2016)

https://soundcloud.com/discosdekirlian/vlivm-looking-for-a-day 

FIELD HARMONICS – Heron (2016)

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

LUNA - Rhythm King (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3cn5ddoHRQ 

THE FURROW COLLECTIVE - I'd Rather Be Tending My Sheep (2014)

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

SÉBASTIEN TELLIER – Lune de miel IV (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c62SeKXYNbM 

FRENTE! - Cuscutlan (1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl1uIcZfcIY 

KATE JACKSON – The End of Reason (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua_fxY_9W5Q 

THE POOH STICKS – On Tape (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b2MaOG2Vj8 

KONONO N°1 MEETS BATIDA - "Nlele Kalusimbiko"(2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdBiWxHS2F4 

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS – Ablaze (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPWJ0MreHeg 

BLOOD SPORT - The Woodcutter (2013)

http://bloodsportband.tumblr.com/#music 

KLEENEX / LiLiPUT - Die Matrosen (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uTvxUiDbac 

LIST 202 - 13/05/16 (a second Eurovision special)

Hello all,

So enjoyable did compiling a Eurovision List prove last year, I thought I'd see if I could assemble another mix of personal song contest favourites and related tracks ahead of tomorrow night's 61st edition of the continent's favourite musical extravaganza.  Here are the fruits of those labours.

As with last year's efforts, not everything here actually appeared in the contest proper.  The tracks from Pussyfoot and Labi Siffre (yep, that one, of Something Inside So Strong and It Must Be Love fame subsequently) were both unsuccessful attempts to win through A Song For Europe; whilst the cover versions by Edwyn Collins, Saint Etienne and Terry Hall/Sinead O'Connor all appeared as part of Channel 4's 1998 "A Song for Eurotrash" song contest special.  It seems quite appropriate to dig out a few tracks from that, given a one-off episode of Eurotrash has just been slated in to coincide with next month's European Union referendum.  If you don't want to know the results, look away then.

European unity, of course, was the very reason for Toto Cutugno's 1990 contest-winning song to exist, and that rallying cry ends this List as part of a double-header of (by Eurovision standards) overtly political tracks; Jamala's 2016 effort, as much of a railing against Russia for previous indiscretions (here: the deportation of the Crimeran Tatars in the 1940s) as current Eurovision song-content rules permit, is the other.

J xx



LAURA TESORO - What's the Pressure (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHF1zlB3raU

SOPHIE ET MAGALY - Le Papa Pingouin (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu9RictLX3I

EDWYN COLLINS – Ding a Dong (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-F3YwBdzMQ

POLLAPÖNK - No Prejudice (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwfGKEIn5xw

SÉVERINE - Un Banc, Un Abre, Une Rue (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBXuPs7scZo

PUSSYFOOT - I Want to Be Me (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBUnPA6H2A

GAITANA - Be My Guest (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLsTn_li5d8

DANIEL - Džuli (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-138pFSyez4

SAINT ETIENNE – La La La (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xJWkqZnNc

SERHAT – I Didn’t Know (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYKFKgwVbV4

WIND - Laß die Sonne in dein Herz (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tr-1aM2k5w

LABI SIFFRE - Solid Love (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVffNKc4gCc

LOïC NOTTET - Rhythm Inside (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c_rUBH52C4

FRIZZLE SIZZLE - Alles heeft ritme (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwdO6F6sRJs

TERRY HALL & SINEAD O’CONNOR –All Kinds of Everything (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlAA1AYQaLM

THE COMMON LINNETS - Calm After the Storm (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWe8PRsW4T0

MATT MONRO - I Love the Little Things (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX-ud8sm6Hg

SAMRA – Miracle (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dix6XJ_Uo-w

RIVA - Rock Me (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPBQ22lROR4

PEARL CARR & TEDDY JOHNSON - Sing Little Birdie (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Etl1zYvNSE

BANANARAMA – Waterloo (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLzUbTO1_pg

JAMALA - 1944 (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv71tmv_c7Q

TOTO CUTUGNO - Insieme: 1992 (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b5whZydVZc

LIST 201 - 06/05/16 (The Many Guises of... Bobby Wratten)

(to follow)

J xx


THE FIELD MICE - The World to Me (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyOcjYZcfgY

TREMBLING BLUE STARS - For This One (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWBFu1aq5k

BUDDHA ON THE MOON - Norfolk Windmills (1997)
https://buddhaonthemoon.bandcamp.com/album/stratospheric

LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR - Ancient Fiction (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtBxlLwgdtM

THE FIELD MICE - White (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks1xigtwOqs

TREMBLING BLUE STARS - Never Loved You More (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MieKy8e35Bk

NORTHERN PICTURE LIBRARY - Lucky (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKIj8F2XZxc

THE FIELD MICE - A Wrong Turn and Raindrops (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU0f9NmVQ9w

THE OCCASIONAL KEEPERS - The Life of the Fields (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxmRY9bRQ6E

LIGHTNING IN A TWILIGHT HOUR – The Sky Beyond the Sky (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpE2MDS-vQ

TREMBLING BLUE STARS - This Once Was an Island (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXrRpY8eq-A

THE YESTERDAY SKY - A Winter's Dawn (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp-rJJNqusw

FUTURE CONDITIONAL - We Don't Just Disappear (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S43taUHWrI

THE FIELD MICE - Indian Ocean (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXYe7XR3prQ

ANGIE HEATON & THE GENTLE TAMERS - Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise (2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJO_x6wTUmU

NORTHERN PICTURE LIBRARY - Dreams and Stars and Sleep (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUgJUYGnh3g