That Music List: June 2016

Very occasionally, That Music List runs the risk of aligning itself with current affairs! The opening track from Helen Love is, of course, a paean to the young man who could yet do plenty to ensure that Wales venture further into the Euro 2016 championships than any other home nation, whilst at the same time reigniting her association with football songs which dates back nearly twenty years to Superlove's splendid, Banana Splits theme tune-apeing Cardiff City Superstars.

The closing track, meanwhile, should leave the listener in little doubt as to which side of the Remain/Leave fence this particular List compiler falls. Next week's List will be compiled whilst either in a state of high relief (no celebration in this parish) or inconsolable despair...

J xx

HELEN LOVE – A Boy from Wales Called Gareth Bale (2016)

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

BELLE & SEBASTIAN - Nobody's Empire (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgb8am3NQU0

THE MEL-O-TONES – I Walked with a Bugs Bunny Bendy Toy (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_saSu4IdIk

PATIENCE – The Church (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGDjPRatN8A

JOANA SERRAT ft NEIL HALSTEAD - Cloudy Heart (2016)

https://soundcloud.com/loose-music/joana-serrat-cloudy-heart

CUB - Freaky (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrTxV5eMB20

WORMSTAR – Better Reasons (2015)

https://wormstar.bandcamp.com/track/better-reasons

THE MAGNETIC NORTH - Pennylands (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HQIB7tHY1o

BRIAN ENO – Signals (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9h2o-rc4m4

PEACH KELLI POP - Hundred Dollar Bill (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWItuiSW-q0

BLANCMANGE – Red Shift (Blame Thrower) (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3FvDLgKhlY

THE GOSSIP – Arkansas Heat (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W6ngRC6e6s

THE BLESSED ISLES - Caroline (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xejA1iACmMI

MBONGWANA STAR - Suzanna (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhVTZLvP3GM

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT - Upon Westminster Bridge (2005)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMK0u3bWyo

ARSENIC! - Everyday (2016)

https://arsenic3.bandcamp.com/track/everyday

COLORING ELECTRIC LIKE – Floored (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt068Vdmfww

ALIEN MUTATION – Alqa (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRc8jcmIkGQ

BILLY RUFFIAN - Exit Pursued by Boris (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CITB_g1D8VI

LIST 206 - 10/06/16

Hello again,

Plenty of stuff new and old to enjoy again this week, and in the case of the opening track, perhaps new and old at the same time, considering The Magnetic North's current work is a magnificent concept album dedicated to the reimagining of band member Simon Tong's home town of Skelmersdale as a New Town in 1961. Certainly more flattering a piece, all in all, than The Style Council's Come to Milton Keynes, put it that way.

J xx

THE MAGNETIC NORTH - Signs (2016)

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

GLENN JONES – Flower Turned Inside Out (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLb7ceF7z0

THE FALL - I Feel Voxish (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENxezdcIa4Q

MELICOTON – Les filles de Périmony (2016)

https://melicoton.bandcamp.com/track/les-filles-de-p-rimony

PEACH KELLI POP - Heart Eyes (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxXTQrZBtF0

THE LUCKSMITHS – The Cassingle Revival (2000)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWZNcBG5YxU

SUPERMOON - Bottleships (2016)

https://soundcloud.com/mint-records/4-supermoon-bottle-ships

GIORGIO TUMA ft LAETITA SADIER – Maude Hope (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EdE4pzbBAc

PJ HARVEY – Happy and Bleeding (1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rET4aDfPImw

GIRLPOOL - Chinatown (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h4CTdIhDF0

FATIMA YAMAHA - What's a Girl to Do (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=610DgdLgsrg

MARY LOU LORD – Some Jingle Jangle Morning (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK8uv5wBxcI

ROKIA TRAORÉ - Né So (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq0gyj0cmo8

SALLY SHAPIRO – If You Ever Wanna Change Your Mind (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nwEvyZfEc0

MADDER ROSE - Sleep, Forever (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNdM3XTt80

CRAFTING FOR FOES - Closer Than You Thought (2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bho-yThI_i0

FRANKIE COSMOS - Is It Possible / Sleep Song (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=QQnOjZ5SKAg

KROKE – Time (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5En14C1A0

LIST 205 - 03/06/16

Hello again,

Something of a Then and Now and Even Further Back in this List, as not only is an old (and pretty familiar) track by The Avalanches included alongside their long, long overdue new single, but so too is the piece from 1968 which that older track sampled to great effect in the first place. Must be the first time any recording artist by the name of Enoch has featured in these annals, too.

In the week that Jarvis Cocker's voice (sadly only temporarily) replaced the usual one as the destination announcer on the Sheffield Supertram network, the inclusion of Sheffield Sound City as the concluding track this time around was an absolute must. Then, as now, nobody else on the planet can utter the placename "Attercliffe" without causing grown men and women to melt.

J xx

PETER, BJORN AND JOHN - What You Talking About? (2016)

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

TELEMAN – Dusseldorf (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN7YA4FO7TY

OLIVER MTUKUDZI – Rirongere (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1tXqAWCSs

TV GIRL - Taking What's Not Yours (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Ox5ENW0CeAU

SUE TOMPKINS - Raid (2015)

https://soundcloud.com/user-448232850

THE REDSKINS – Keep On Keeping On (1984)