LIST 228 - 22/12/17
Hello again,
Not often I start a List with an in-loving-memory track, but the sad passing (albeit at the fine age of 89) in the past few days of the much-loved bioengineer, educator and television and radio presenter Professor Heinz Wolff practically demanded the inclusion of the theme tune to arguably his most popular vehicle, BBC2's The Great Egg Race. As it happens, the Denton and Cook-penned piece is also among my very favourite theme tunes of all time, if not indeed the favourite, being as it is a note-perfect take on the almost-pop of Before and After Science-era Brian Eno. Rest easy, Professor Wolff.
Newer material this week includes the impassioned anti-Brexit highlight from Gavin Osborn's Echo Bridge album (one of the most important pieces of art you'll consume all year); no less politically charged new fare from Billy Bragg; and amazing, achingly gorgeous electronic indiepop from Deerful.
The evidence of the fine Goose Feather Bed confirms Wave Pictures/Slow Club amalgamation Surfing Magazines as being more than the sum of their parts, as far as I'm concerned, Slow Club having long since disappointed me although Wave Pictures have not. Just for fun, the Go-Betweens song which may or may not have given this project their name is also included.
There's no dedicated Christmas List this year, but I've found a few festive tracks new and old with which to finish, including MJ Hibbett's take on a track by deathless Cologne popsters Bläck Fööss; a Boy Least Likely To number imbued with rather more poignancy now than when released in 2010; and what I understand might actually have been the first ever commercially available track by The School.
J xx
Not often I start a List with an in-loving-memory track, but the sad passing (albeit at the fine age of 89) in the past few days of the much-loved bioengineer, educator and television and radio presenter Professor Heinz Wolff practically demanded the inclusion of the theme tune to arguably his most popular vehicle, BBC2's The Great Egg Race. As it happens, the Denton and Cook-penned piece is also among my very favourite theme tunes of all time, if not indeed the favourite, being as it is a note-perfect take on the almost-pop of Before and After Science-era Brian Eno. Rest easy, Professor Wolff.
Newer material this week includes the impassioned anti-Brexit highlight from Gavin Osborn's Echo Bridge album (one of the most important pieces of art you'll consume all year); no less politically charged new fare from Billy Bragg; and amazing, achingly gorgeous electronic indiepop from Deerful.
The evidence of the fine Goose Feather Bed confirms Wave Pictures/Slow Club amalgamation Surfing Magazines as being more than the sum of their parts, as far as I'm concerned, Slow Club having long since disappointed me although Wave Pictures have not. Just for fun, the Go-Betweens song which may or may not have given this project their name is also included.
There's no dedicated Christmas List this year, but I've found a few festive tracks new and old with which to finish, including MJ Hibbett's take on a track by deathless Cologne popsters Bläck Fööss; a Boy Least Likely To number imbued with rather more poignancy now than when released in 2010; and what I understand might actually have been the first ever commercially available track by The School.
J xx
RICHARD DENTON AND MARTIN COOK – The
Great Egg Race Theme (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQUFeyORZOY
GAVIN OSBORN – European (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNp9z6ostXE
SURFING MAGAZINES – Goose Feather Bed
(2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CwlxL05MZA
THE GO-BETWEENS – Surfing Magazines
(2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJYP_nfMmg
PEACH PIT – Seventeen (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI8fL77-0e0
DEERFUL – Peach Rose Tea (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F18gd9a94M
TEENAGE
FANCLUB - About You (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svgdTKzXl8Y
SLOWDIVE – Star Roving (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCih4OavoY
SLOWDIVE – Catch the Breeze (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVY9p1IHops
CHROMEO – Juice (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j-ED6tL85o
BILLY BRAGG - Saffiyah Smiles (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkNN81Ta2ik
BIFF BANG POW! – In a
Mourning Town (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSYerRHy8EE
BJORK - The Gate (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGgn1s3AvI
MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – Have
A Drink with Us (Drink Doch Eine Met) (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZnMc7Uq0D4
THE SCHOOL – Kiss You in the Snow
(2007)
https://elefantrecordsclassics.bandcamp.com/track/kiss-you-in-the-snow
WEEBLS-STUFF.COM – Christmas Badgers
(2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_pWTlN15bc
THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO – George and
Andrew (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5CJpVUYOY8
PHIL
PRESTWICH – Mexican Nativity Scene (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y63NavHEOVU
THE SPOOK SCHOOL – Someone to Spend
Christmas With (2017)
https://soundcloud.com/spookschool/someone-to-spend-christmas-with
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – Twelve Days of
Christmas (Peel Session) (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT9SPWwxzgI
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