That Music List

LIST 83 - 23/12/11 (Christmas special)

2011-12-22T15:52:00.000-08:00

Hello there,

Time, alas, for the final That Music List of 2011, and as in the previous two years we finish off with an assortment of lesser-known and unheralded (or even unharktheheralded) festive songs.

Actually, I should qualify these as being for the greater part lesser-known, as the Frank Kelly track was actually a top 30 hit upon original release. This comedy track pre-dates his metamorphosing into Father Jack Hackett by all of 11 years - which reminds me, I hope they're going to show the priests-trapped-in-the-lingerie-department episode of Father Ted again this Yuletide. Quality.

All that remains for me to do, then, is to thank you all again for your continued interest in That Music List, and to assure you that it will return in the new year after its usual winter hiatus - I've still a backlog of so much stuff to play through during that time, never mind start to compile it into lists! Very best wishes of the season to you all, and let's make a date sometime in 2012.

Cheers,

J x

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – I Got You What You Want For Christmas (macho megamix) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjRzIFtjC78

JESSY & THE JINGLE BELLES – Dear Santa (live in Boston) (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbfQKX5-zcQ

SCREAMING MALDINI – Restless Hearts and Silent Pioneers (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04FSeP27oY

SONIC YOUTH – Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7sa1eFGUuI

THE PIPETTES – Santa’s On His Way (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5fxdcKu_8k

FRANK KELLY – Christmas Countdown (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJoXCwkPVi8

MOMUS – Little Lord Obedience (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iej3qBEKILE

GRUFF RHYS – Slashed Wrists This Christmas (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPlZ0d-huTc

HENRY ROLLINS – ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFUgRRYmLvk

YO LA TENGO – It’s Christmas Time (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b8dT_OpHuQ

ELASTICA – Father Christmas (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbLQYXkOfjI

SPEARMINT – Oklahoma (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPLx5bokNb8

THE VANDALS – Oi! To the World (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKk-2Pu2N8g

FANTASTIC EVERLASTING GOBSTOPPER – Schoolgirl Psychedelia (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah9U5BHoiF4

DANIEL JOHNSTON – Rock Around The Christmas Tree (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntRjBdwYAg

BERT JANSCH – In The Bleak Midwinter (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ZYxTPhXA8

ATOM & HIS PACKAGE – What WE Do on Christmas (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGC0ga4ifUE

QUASI – Merry X-Mass (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SnOwOMKzf0

WILD BILLY CHILDISH & THE MUSICIANS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE - Poundland Christmas (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVvVzmyDFfA

EMMY THE GREAT & TIM WHEELER – Home for the Holidays (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URCNMEbgd_w

LIST 82 - 16/12/11 (a second Then And Now special)

2011-12-22T14:18:00.000-08:00

Hello again,

Just this and the festive special to go in terms of Lists this year - hasn't it flown by again.

As the title indicates, this is the second ever List (after #66 back in September) given over exclusively to Then And Now, i.e. one song by the featured artist from the present, followed by one from as far back into their history as it amuses me to delve. Where at all possible, I'm still trying to avoid including artists (both in this special and in That Music List in general) whose recording history only dates back as far as this century, though in the fulness of time that's going to be harder to maintain. There's only so many old gimmers with mikes and gee-tars still out there creating stuff, when all is said and done...

The Sigur Ros track is purported to be new - it's certainly previously unreleased, at least, and features now on a new best-of. Equally the Stephin Merritt track is appearing at last on a compilation of rarities, out-takes and unreleased works, so may be a bit older than the 2011 date I'm compelled to give it as a previously unavailable entity.

A quick word about the new Fall album - it's patchy as anything, and the diversion into metal for one track is particularly catastrophic. Conversely "Mask Search", included here, is one of the best things they've done for ages, as well as at long last perfectly encapsulating the moment at which Mark E Smith finally turns into Captain Beefheart doing an impression of Eight Ace from Viz comic.

See if I'm wrong about that. And see also if you can't help crack a smile at the year's best non-seqitur committed to plastic ANYWHERE this year!

J x

SIGUR ROS – Lúppulagið (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR_uuIFszJU

SIGUR ROS - Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akYuy2FMQk4

THE FALL – Mask Search (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNtQ-jzKFgQ

THE FALL – Big New Prinz (live on The Other Side of Midnight) (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wygQmJ59E4Q

ULTRAMARINE – Find A Way (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBe-uC08hp8

ULTRAMARINE – Saratoga (remix) (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSZtEVzbBiA

MAGAZINE – Burden of a Song (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNoDsHksjbI

MAGAZINE – Definitive Gaze (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPPWWkhRT8I

STEPHIN MERRITT – Forever and a Day (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ixF2Z-i5sA

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – Swinging London (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgDIStmjCd0

BRIAN ENO – Bless This Space (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7gvUMn6_YM

BRIAN ENO – King’s Lead Hat (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp0k_o8gfQI

DARREN HAYMAN – I Taught You How to Dance (2011)
http://vimeo.com/31658589

HEFNER – The Hymn for the Cigarettes (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wcslx9RL-c

SPECTRUM – Mary (long version) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM7OYRKFaRg

SPECTRUM – How You Satisfy Me (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9yApVj3z84

BILLY BRAGG – Never Buy the Sun (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uWw7kuiCss

BILLY BRAGG – Milkman of Human Kindness (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Goxm0x4dTw

GRUFF RHYS – Post Apocalypse Christmas (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U3JqmNuRN8

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – Do or Die (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_mwctoW7t8

LIST 81 - 09/12/11 (1981 special)

2011-12-22T14:12:00.000-08:00

Hello again,

Yes, you've read the title right - it's a 1981 special. Having managed to do 20th-anniversary Lists for each of the last three years planted the seed in my mind to try to go back an extra decade, and in the end I wasn't too hard pushed to find a nice sample.

Quite a few of these emanate from childhood, 1981 being both the first year (as a ghastly, precocious, trivia sponge of a six-and-a-half-year-old) that I used to watch Top Of The Pops religiously and the first I was gifted a radio, and from then on the appetite for music developed quickly and voraciously. Mind, watching the disembodied head of John Lydon floating menacingly around the TV screen c/o the BBC vision mixer's trickery could easily have put me off TOTP for life. That was frightening!

The version of "We Could Send Letters" included is that from the original 7" release, and thus from Aztec Camera's debut; whilst "Tally Ho!" is the debut single from The Clean and could as a result conceivably lay claim to being one of the cornerstones on which Southern Hemisphere indiepop developed. Discuss!

A List of songs all from the same year clearly doesn't lend itself to a Then And Now feature, but I hope the conclusion of a song by the Teardrop Explodes leading into a song about the Teardrop Explodes passes muster as an alternative. [sings] I hope it does. It really doooooooooes... Thankyou.

J x

XTC – Smokeless Zone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt9f4Lh4OD8

PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED – Flowers of Romances
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E_0bBGjL70

AZTEC CAMERA – We Could Send Letters (original)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO_6Y4oT7UQ

FSK – Teilnehmende Beobachtungen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bqD040YjM

WIRE – Our Swimmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwb5De18PQ

NEW ORDER – Everything’s Gone Green
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgHSxWnhqk

THE HIGSONS – I Don’t Want to Live with Monkeys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnX_oLnJQA

SUGARHILL GANG – Apache (Jump On It)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQObWW06VAM

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY – Release the Bats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R8pECW3UHs

IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS – Spasticus Autisticus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKnBgJG9A8E

ANTI-PASTI – Let Them Free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5x1amsbnG0

THE DURUTTI COLUMN – Enigma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v0-GHSZuCA

JOHN COOPER CLARKE – Tw*t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5QMT-JUt4

THE CLEAN – Tally Ho!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVkC8W_-a-8

SCRITTI POLITTI – Lions After Slumber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ieWRclcfs

DEAD KENNEDYS – Too Drunk to F*ck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7pgElCPXE

YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS - Clicktalk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-bdMST0ljI

YOKO ONO – Walking on Thin Ice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft7-xEiwvJw

KIRSTY MACCOLL – There’s a Guy Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL2GmaI3Xus

THE TEARDROP EXPLODES – Passionate Friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGkrkcoTILc

THE FRESHIES – I Can’t Get “Bouncing Babies” by the Teardrop Explodes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvU8MddmEkw

LIST 80 - 02/12/11 (1991 special, part two)

2011-12-21T15:46:00.000-08:00

Hello there,

It's the second and final part of the 1991 retrospective this time, with many bases covered once again - any List that includes Po! and Public Enemy can't be accused of being samey, I reckon.

With the festive period hoving into view, it's probably worth me pointing out that the appearance of Kirsty MacColl as a guest on Billy Bragg's track here, plus in a solo capacity next week, is as close as you're going to get to seeing F******** O* N** Y*** on That Music List. Familiarity can sometimes breed contempt, and I never liked the song much in the first place.

It'll be the eleventh anniversary of her passing on December 18th, and I wish more folk would mark the occasion by championing any of her many, many better other tracks, from the painfully autobiographical "Soho Square" to the commentary of "Free World". Go discover.

In that spirit of discovery, finding out just how heavily drenched in shoegaze Moonshake's debut single had been was a complete revelation to me - I missed it completely first time around. The Boo Radleys' fuzzy beginnings were better known to me, but less so "Tortoiseshell" even so. It's a pleasure to include this earlyish b-side as well. Teenage Fanclub's wrecking of "Like A Virgin", conversely, may be something you'd want to file under "play once and then destroy"...

J x

POPPY FACTORY - Stars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05f7vzFULYI

FOREHEADS IN A FISHTANK – Happy Shopper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1mgj9G0ntg

BLUEBOY - Clearer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTpe17LeF9s

CUBIC 22 – Night in Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYBlxKP0bXU

BILLY BRAGG - Sexuality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liNnCKPeEv0

MOONSHAKE - Gravity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-cmrJBIvGM

PUBLIC ENEMY – Can’t Truss It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am9BqZ6eA5c&ob=av3e

THE FATIMA MANSIONS – Bertie’s Brochures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAMwzwY-UsQ

THE BOO RADLEYS - Tortoiseshell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1g7o5z7JMw

808 STATE – In Yer Face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRCXqRHk6JU

THE PIXIES – Alec Eiffel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf20Effo6ds

THEY GO BOOM! – Body
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e03P4HlljZA

SLINT – Good Morning, Captain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoH5MPIgM7c

LFO – We Are Back (remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFtRDuj2SsI

TEENAGE FANCLUB – Like a Virgin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPw1ddI89Wg

PO! – Fay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FDerh1nBaM

THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU – It’s Grim Up North
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwtSdJaPCSI

LIST 79 - 25/11/11 (1991 special, part one)

2011-11-30T12:15:00.001-08:00

Good evening,

Well, you didn't think you were going to escape the whole year without one or two "songs from 20 years ago this year" Lists, did you? (see also Lists #10, #11, #22 and #23 in 2009, plus #44 and #45 in 2010). They've just had to wait whilst the welter of other material has been worked through.

There are some songs on this first installment whose inclusion is a particular source of personal pleasure. "Countdown" endures to this day as both my favourite Pulp song of all time, plus - along with Wir and The Frank And Walters tracks included - a constituent of the playlist on the first evening that I switched over to Mark Goodier's Evening Session permanently (having merely dabbled with it a bit previously) and turned my back on the horrors of Key 103 forever!

(NB that's not to say I wasn't already listening to Peel as well, but supplementing that with some of the other better shows at the time on Radio 1, rather than persisting with the Fab FM direction Key 103 had taken after its post-Piccadilly Radio, post-Mark Radcliffe reimagining, took a little longer).

"Missing The Moon", meanwhile, was and remains just about the best single Sarah Records ever released in my humble opinion. It really does feel like a stare out into the heavens in music form - vast, celestial, and perfect.

No apologies, by the way, for including a bit of that 'ardcore techno that started to fill the charts around this time - I did, for the greater part, love it to bits ("Quadrophonia" in particular has aged far better to this pair of ears than I was necessarily expecting). No apologies either for a nice bit of judderjudderbleuurrrgghh from Extreme Noise Error - merely a year later, they'd find themselves involved with a chart-topping duo, an awards ceremony and an expired ovine - with hilarious consequences, as the sitcoms always say!

J x

CARDIACS - Day is Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRctRAWNi2w

PULP - Countdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GjBFDFln90

DJPC – Insomniak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0cGtx7vdLs

TH’ FAITH HEALERS – Reptile Smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0_PGCnwik

THE FIELD MICE - Missing The Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HgffFOL32s

GARY CLAIL ON-U SOUND SYSTEM – Human Nature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfMwWxgXB3g

MORRISSEY – Pregnant for the Last Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLkSF29BC7c

CURVE – Clipped
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAIaLbcKb0

BLUMFELD – Ghettowelt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHZ64s9gxP0

QUADROPHONIA - Quadrophonia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PkD--DD0TM&NR=1

THE FALL – Edinburgh Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbMG1v7qDqs

PIXIES – Motorway to Roswell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jo3F29JSfs

THE FRANK AND WALTERS – Fashion Crisis Hits New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5H5YgV7LU

WIR – So And Slow it Grows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYxRb1axy_A

EXTREME NOISE TERROR – Knee Deep in Shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVuXBjv9pxI

THE POPGUNS – Crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjaYGj6T_k

HOLE – Teenage Whore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47cF_IpAwUQ

THE HOLLOW MEN – The Moon’s A Balloon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFQLQcNp77w

ELECTRONIC – Get The Message
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7sVSSb2mU4&ob=av2n

LIST 78 - 18/11/11

2011-11-30T12:14:00.001-08:00

Hello again,

More because of the shortage of weeks rather than of new material, this is the last "standard", non-themed List of 2011, with anniversary specials, a second Then And Now special and the usual festive denouement all on their way in the coming weeks. There is, rest assured, a lot of 2011 stuff still to upload in the new year.

It's great to be able to welcome back one-time Festive 50 number ones Los Campesinos! this week with a splendid return single from an equally splendid parent album, even if the "Hello Sadness" video does owe quite a bit to the one for LCD Soundsystem's "Drunk Girls" (not included here to compare and contrast, as we've already had it up once and you know how things work here...)

Standard Fare's new album is another source of huge excitement for me, ditto Hibbett's; whereas the discovery of the fabulous Colour Me Wednesday is just embarassingly overdue. Then And Now features Mazzy Star, unexpectedly reactivated and still as majestic as ever they were; whilst there is no song that's been played on my laptop more in the last fortnight than Telex's malevolently sarcastic, slow-motion version of "Rock Around The Clock". I do have to wonder on this evidence whether the likes of Felix Kubin own a few Telex LPs. I'd not be at all surprised.

J x

DUM DUM GIRLS – Bedroom Eyes (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBSs3-RfLKk

KIDO YOJI – Call A Romance (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDo5Ms51Es&NR=1

HOLY F*CK – Latin America (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd5gVwbRlvk&ob=av2e

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – Theme from Dinosaur Planet (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whAtQONZA8o

DESTROYER – Poor in Love (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=j3bEjqyBA40

COLOUR ME WEDNESDAY – Purge Your Inner Tory (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4xY4zImmP8

IRON AND WINE – Me and Lazarus (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6WS6hp8XM

THE HIT PARADE – The Queen of Mousehole (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ZS1-67o9I

SCROOBIUS PIP – The Struggle (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3HCXh9WQSo

THE GARLANDS – You Never Notice Me (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRjnarcMSk

MAZZY STAR – Lay Myself Down (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB4tjppaVXE

MAZZY STAR – So Tonight That I Might See (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UXnBjSVBOg

HYDE & BEAST – Never Come Back (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpFDZOlVP_U

BART AND FRIENDS – A Summer’s Dream (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKx_EN9_cWc

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY – Trembling Hands (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F0QsjIflZw

STANDARD FARE – Darth Vader (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxmz3vcnxFc

TELEX – Rock Around the Clock (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGXHDMIJw4

LOS CAMPESINOS! – Hello Sadness (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V5SiMKkZrs

SUN ARAW – Crete (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBWe3pxGFw8

LIST 77 - 13/11/11 (a second cover versions special)

2011-11-13T09:27:00.000-08:00

Hello again,

The third and final List of this weekend's bumper crop is the second cover versions special, to follow-up the one that was List #62 back in August. As stated the other day, it wasn't necessarily the intention to do another one so soon, but the sheer volume of interesting enough material I unearthed in the interim made it a possibility.

...And so much of that material is new or nearly new - 10 of the tracks hail from this year, as opposed to just one in the first covers List. Including two readings of The Smiths' There Is a Light That Never Goes Out is cheating, I suppose, except one is an indiepop version from 2011 and the other a classic piece of laptronica from over a decade earlier, so I'm good with that if you all are. Yes? Hoped so. ;-)

Elsewhere covers feature of everyone from Nirvana to Olivia Newton-John, from Big Black to Prefab Sprout, and from The Auteurs to Lonnie Donegan. Oh, and two bands have stabs at The Field Mice. Not literally stabs, of course. The bands would get in trouble for that. And we don't endorse stabbing any indiepop bands, past or present. Even if The Field Mice did break all our hearts when splitting up. They did so.

J x

THE MAXINES – Sweet Nothings (live at the Northern) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Leydtn7yp0

LITTLE ROY – Come As You Are (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1aEo4SkOWg

THE FALL – Mr Pharmacist (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56dxJjXbnjg

F*CK-OFF MACHETE – Physical (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58RCo-xwGwQ

ELSDON SMITHERS – Starstruck (Auteurs cover) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNkdfMharU4

THE WEDDING PRESENT – Cumberland Gap (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBDkPUDuj2s

SINEAD O’CONNOR – Song to the Siren (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmhG4bDr7yw

SEAPONY – Emma’s House (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6bQElp290U

BABY FORD – Children of the Revolution (Inca Mix) (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_DYSbRWOtE

LIANNE HALL – Love Is A Stranger (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhKJWn13Kpg

DUM DUM GIRLS – There is a Light That Never Goes Out (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrgKtFVKTmI

SCHNEIDER TM – The Light 3000 (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEC35485DM

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – Kidney Bingos (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coOco90LU4E

DARREN HANLON – Together in Electric Dreams (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-PHJnmz2Cz0

THE MIDDLE ONES & ACE BUSHY STRIPTEASE – Heterosexuality Is A Construct (2011)
http://www.vimeo.com/23204195

COACH STATION REUNION – Lions In My Own Garden : Exit Someone (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I32qy-vceh4

IMPOSSIBLE TYMES - Coach Station Reunion (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSToaHKHI8

MAN... OR ASTROMAN? – Destination Venus (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svABrRXAa04

THE PRIMITIVES – Need All The Help I Can Get (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xibkh0FknTg

MAGAZINE – Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfTqrQ-FZOM

ST VINCENT – Kerosene (live at Bowery Ballroom) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhCo7PoVpA

LIST 76 - 12/11/11 (25th anniversary of Indie Top 20 - part two)

2011-11-13T08:58:00.000-08:00

Hello again,

Herewith as promised part two of the Indie Top 20 retrospective, and lots of happy musical memories for me. Should it interest, and I doubt it will, the chopped-down version of Triangle by The Field Mice exclusive to volume 10 was my first encounter of Sarah Records - some years later, I got a letter from Matt Haynes suggesting not many other people, if any, have got into the label via that track specifically. Fine as it is, the full nine-minute-and-then-some version from the Skywriting album absolutely knocks it out of the park, but you fine people know that already.

More through accident than skill, there are actually two connections between this List and indiepop mainstays Milky Wimpshake, who might rightfully have featured on one of these volumes had they had their time, what, 15 or 20 years earlier? True Love Will Find You In the End, here read by Spectrum, has been a staple of the Wimpshake's live sets for well over a decade (as part of a mash-up of sorts with a cover of Jonathan Richman's Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste), whilst Brilliant Corners' Delilah Sands was apparently the inspiration behind Alice Nebulae from last year's Wimpshake long-player My Funny Social Crime.

Cover versions all the way tomorrow as part of this weekend's triple whammy. For the time being, though, over to Thurston et al for a cover version of sorts from all of 25 years ago;

J x

CICCONE YOUTH – Into the Groove(y) (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJTcQWuZ3Q

THE SUNDAYS – Joy (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD9ZRlvnh7w

THE GOD MACHINE – Home (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsmq0UJa0ZI

THE CHESTERF!ELDS – Ask Johnny Dee (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTkE4f_WpA

COMPULSION – Mall Monarchy (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktDeuXe1AjY

SPIRITUALIZED – Run (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9gLF8XVQ4

THE WOLFHOUNDS – Happy Shopper (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5isRcKysUec

PALE SAINTS – Fine Friend (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAlp_5_iq1Y

COOKIE CREW – Females (Get On Up) (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVa65PG5gks

POP WILL EAT ITSELF – RSVP (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GtHA5Nf1nU

SLOWDIVE – Alison (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol787NjpBS4

THE PIXIES – Dig for Fire (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xekfBhiqfig

THE BRILLIANT CORNERS – Delilah Sands (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wian1Jmxk

SPIREA-X – Chlorine Dream (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axXGAxbJGxM

WIRE – Silk Skin Paws (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFn_mGFs1Vg

SPECTRUM – True Love Will Find You in the End (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9od_Ggh7uOM

THE FAMILY CAT – Steamroller (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL48CZRC9NE

THE FIELD MICE – Triangle (Indie Top 20 Vol. 10 edit) (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhnUCRN0N4

LOOP – Arc-Lite (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qc_pXs22ug

SANDIE SHAW – Nothing Less Than Brilliant (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExVKb4dZxs

LIST 75 - 11/11/11 (25th anniversary of Indie Top 20 - part one)

2011-11-13T08:28:00.000-08:00

Hello again,

As telegraphed last week, this is both the first of three Lists this weekend alone and the first of two dedicated to my favourite compilation series of them all.

Indie Top 20 was devised by Beechwood Music and first released on cassette in 1986, with a line-up strong on the prevailing C86-era scene but broader than just that in remit - in essence, if a good song of any genre was released on a label with independent distribution, it would be considered for inclusion. Hence the appearance over the first few volumes, for example, of pronk gods Cardiacs, African-American vocal ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock, Manchester acid house figurehead A Guy Called Gerald and any number of purveyors of goth, dance and rock alongside the perhaps more expected jangly guitar fare.

This was "indie" as I understood it, how it always was, and how it should have remained before the term got horribly misappropriated during the 1990s - "Indie" the state of being, rather than a guitar-based genre.

Ironically, Indie Top 20 was at least partly complicit in the gradual misuse of the term "indie" - covertly with the inclusion of one or two major label releases on volume 17 in mid-1993, and rather more explicitly on volume 18 a few months later. "Let's face it", opined Tim Millington, who had taken over the compiling of the series from founders Chet and Bee Selwood half a dozen renewals earlier, "who gives a toss who the distributor is as long as the music is good?"

That rated an atonishing statement given the compilation's original raison d'etre, and was made to appear all the more so as the subsequent volumes became ever more in thrall to the New Wave Of New Wave and eventually Britpop, narrowing in scope all the while.

More bizarre still, at least some of the final, mid-20 numbered volumes were officially endorsed by Melody Maker, which of the two weekly music magazines of the time favoured a broader musical remit more in tune with Indie Top 20's earlier sentiments - "C96 bands", Romo, DIY indiepop (from labels such as Slampt and Vesuvius), rural psychedelia, post-rock, intelligent hip-hop, etc, rather than the rather more Britpop-loving NME.

"Depressingly generic", one of Melody Maker's own reviewers wrote of the final volume of Indie Top 20, "Remember when the term 'indie' actually meant something?" Quite.

For each of this and tomorrow's List (number 76), I set myself the task of finding one track from as many Indie Top 20s as I could fit onto our usual notional blank CDR of just under 78 minutes, starting at volume one and finishing when I ran out of space. In the event, this happened to be after volume 20 on both Lists, about which I'm not especially sorry. Truth be told, it was hard enough to find two tracks I really liked on volumes 18 to 20 as it was!

The earlier editions, and particularly those from around 1988-1991, posed a slightly different problem, as there are so many tracks I loved from the releases around that time that many of them have already appeared in previous Lists. Nevertheless, I think I've been able to put together a couple of reasonably representative Lists from the material still available - see what you think. Do note that the selections are not in any sort of chronological order - I know this. Don't write in! ;-)

J x

TALULAH GOSH – Talulah Gosh (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxY4Q2TmQAw

THE SHAMEN – Jesus Loves Amerika (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWaQmQyTF24

FRANK BLACK – Hang On To Your Ego (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzA29tCwyR4

SUICIDE – Rain of Ruin (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usWFc2BPuig

THE STONE ROSES – Made of Stone (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0whFVTxZs8

1,000 VIOLINS – Please Don’t Sandblast My House (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Fe5PcSuOc

THE FARM – Stepping Stone (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPx6U6E45jQ

THE BOO RADLEYS – Lazy Day (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSSgUwXJ3ic&ob=av2e

DANIELLE DAX – Big Hollow Man (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqhym59ypUI

STEREOLAB – Lo Fi (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPhwzsv6VA

CARDIACS - Is This the Life (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUDLA1LAzDo

ELASTICA – Stutter (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ie4x8hWYYE&ob=av2e

INSPIRAL CARPETS – Move (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ENlCgERcQ&ob=av2e

SP!N – Scratches (In The Sand) (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX0V_Dfz9Aw

WELFARE HEROINE – Cry-Blood (Dub) (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iimm8wYh0

REVOLVER – Heaven Sent an Angel (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy-cQJcz6DE

THE BLUE AEROPLANES – Broken and Mended (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpFsMqjorfo

DAISY CHAINSAW – Love Your Money (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaZWCGs7tFw

RIDE – How Does It Feel to Feel? (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMjB1RrjhQ

SAINT ETIENNE – Nothing Can Stop Us (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSuxnF8dOPU

LIST 74 - 04/11/11

2011-11-05T07:27:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

One more general mixture for you this week, but herewith advanced notice that I'm hoping to get THREE Lists uploaded next Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Two of them will commemorate the fact that 2011 marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of my favourite compilation series ever - and it's *not* Now That's What I Call Music, before anyone asks... The third will be our second-ever Cover Versions special, which I've been able to complete way ahead of the originally scheduled 2012 date simply on account of the welter of things I've been able to find for it.

Back to this week, then. The inclusion of the Dag For Dag and Moon Duo tracks serves as a reminder to me that, even this far into 2011, there is still a ton of great stuff from last year that I've still not got to the bottom of yet; and the video for the Fujiya & Miyagi track should provide an answer for those of you wondering what the scary, staring bloke out of the Never Mind The Buzzcocks identity parade is up to nowadays!

J x

THE PIPETTES – Boo Shuffle (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opSPgHQYiM0

ASH – True Love 1980 (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=HXl8m_IJhpY

HELP STAMP OUT LONELINESS – Record Shop (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNNW3X7Z2Q

THE VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB – A Conversation (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUT3E7xh0BA

BIBIO – Pretentious (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1UsieqKob0&NR=1

MOON DUO – Catch As Catch Can (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YHKbsbA5A

GRUFF RHYS – Sensations in the Dark (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBg_h9kmRhk

ATARI TEENAGE RIOT – Blood in My Eyes (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at0KNQtWF_o

ATARI TEENAGE RIOT – Kids Are United (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIwUOII7hg

THE LADYBUG TRANSISTOR – Clutching Stems (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LezbUhQScUI

GEOFFREY GURRUMUL YUNUPINGU – Gopuru (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhgDqY7_RGs

NEW BUFFALO – I’ve Got You And You’ve Got Me (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wpN3bOBNA

COMET GAIN – You're Just Lonely (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_FuXf_GPlA

FUJIYA & MIYAGI – Sixteen Shades of Black and Blue (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhkyjcmBldM

THE PRESETS – Girl and the Sea (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvzBvjEz6s

COVERGIRL – Paris Burns (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lWaxtNKiw8

PLANNINGTOROCK – Living It Out (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDXpSg9DD5c

DAG FŐR DAG – Hands and Knees (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPpm2XLRKI

D/R/U/G/S – Love / Lust (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Jsxfe24oE

VETIVER – Wonder Why (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmpAXq7sq8s

LIST 73 - 28/10/11

2011-11-01T16:16:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

Ah, longevity. We may have seen REM off in the last few weeks but a veteran of an even longer recorded career, Tom Waits, hoves back into view with a new release which extends his innings to a - gulp -38th year. I wasn't even born when he started. Wasn't far off, mind.

Bibio, Casiokids and Moon Duo are personal highlights among the smattering of welcome returns this time around, and the Bart And Friends track is no less lovely than that of antecedent band The Cat's Miaow (which also spawned Hydroplane). I'm advised there is another Bart album due so imminently it may already be out at the time of typing this - much catching up for me to do.

J x

BIBIO – Excuses (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCLbJujU8E

CANCEL THE ASTRONAUTS – Funny for a Girl (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGhBKzfj21s

2:54 – Cold Front (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLax4Zf2S8

CASIOKIDS – Det Haster! (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BSeVFWiZnA

BAFFIN ISLAND - You Make Two Weeks Two Days (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JORQ-KdQgE

THE LOVELY EGGS – Watermelons (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM3zwcKMqFk

SEAPONY – Blue Star (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhzm3ERyPI

DJANGO DJANGO – Wor (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvOiFmjExx4

BLANCK MASS – Chernobyl (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_MLTbZ5CDk

TOM WAITS – Bad As Me (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Ta3H-ck6s&ob=av2e

TOM WAITS – Earth Died Screaming (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8reJvRWXKI

THE MUMMERS – Fade Away (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGUsUnh7OU

VOM VORTON – Save An Insect, Save The World (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx93w2WWozQ

MITCHELL MUSEUM – What They Built (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb8Zdp_itdQ

TELEX – Temporary Chicken (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMSLfIO52U

HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR – Painted Eyes (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRFCcITmcoI

MOON DUO – Mazes (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvYUUes4O1Q

ASH – Space Shot (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K06oxJbI6Y

BART AND FRIENDS – These Words Are Too Small (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JNvVFJ9oME

EMA – Milkman (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZrKAR32WKU

GIL SCOTT-HERON & JAMIE XX – I’ll Take Care of You (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvpgVXEBPSA

LIST 72 - 21/10/11

2011-10-18T14:08:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

No apologies at all for starting with the reliably, endearingly deranged Lovely Eggs this time, given that between this List and the next your editor will have seen them in action in both Sheffield and Leeds.

No apologies, either, for including some typically adept, peerless plucking from the late Bert Jansch at the end of the List. A colossus astride the Folk Revival for over four decades and as relevant and revered now as then, his is certainly one of music's most significant and sad losses of 2011.

J x

THE LOVELY EGGS – F*ck It (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOsFadmH584

CATHERINE A.D. – Going Wrong (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwh806w0HY8

CARIBOU – Odessa (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiSa7THgxrI

ARNAUD REBOTINI – Personal Dictator (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXVcP1lifwE

HERMAN DUNE – Be A Doll (And Take My Heart) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buzf7MBkZFY

POSTAL SERVICE – Such Great Heights (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wrsZog8qXg

DOWNDIME – The Chosen One (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVOjnKVcnkw

GIRLS – Honey Bunny (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuDoYhQI2o

THE PRIMITIVES – Never Kill a Secret (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3wx2WevLQ

THE PRIMITIVES – Stop Killing Me (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1so-4rS38A

LINKWOOD – B1 Untitled (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqewpf4oJjg

EVANS THE DEATH- I’m So Unclean (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTebot8rJU

SCREAMING MALDINI – Secret Sounds (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN81xpZ5ido

POCKETBOOKS – Harbour Lights (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5bTTgd5_2w

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW – Cervantine (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYjfBZxhUzU

DRUNKEN BUTTERFLY – Der letzte Mann (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKq0kR28U1I

LANA DEL RAY – Video Games (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw

HAIKU SALUT – Snaffle (live at Indietracks) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f5ShWQqzWU

BERT JANSCH – Blackwater Side (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY-xpa9GWuo

LIST 71 - 14/10/11

2011-10-18T14:05:00.000-07:00

If Tiswas or Dick & Dom ever went into making music videos for other acts, then the Lisa Hannigan promo included this time around might be what they'd come up with. Aggressive but beautifully choreographed slapstick / gunging, all Lisa's own idea, and impressively all done in the one take, first time up.

Having also let herself be drenched in melted chocolate (albeit for an Oxfam Make Trade Fair campaign) in the recent past, one wonders whether she's making up for lost time fun-wise in these post-Mr Rice days...

Fun also seems to be on the agenda for Be Like Pablo, whose perky new single has elevated them in my estimations somewhat after never really getting the track they donated to the Indietracks compilation two years ago.

Elsewhere we have a Beastie Boys then and now; some quality techno japery of the sort Peel would have adored; a Field Mice song and the band who named themselves after it; and Darren Hayman looking alarmingly like Mike Read when rendered in Lego. Another uneventful List, then...

J x

KITTY, DAISY AND LEWIS – Don’t Make a Fool out of Me (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqcc0CkMIo

DOBLE PLETINA – Música Para Cerrar Las Discotecas (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3NsKaKOnZQ

FIELD MUSIC – Measure (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x257xocl4_k

BE LIKE PABLO – The Post-It Song (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4wRJrIvr3k

LISA HANNIGAN – Knots (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYdPtcx-4mo

OMD – Sister Marie Says (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALQsqR1rmLM

YUCK – Get Away (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7vyrFhFE8

ARNAUD REBOTINI – All You Need Is Techno (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOYZ2gu4AI

BEASTIE BOYS – Make Some Noise (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgLMslbDuY

BEASTIE BOYS – Gratitude (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw&ob=av2e

LOVE INKS – Leather Glove (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Scb5-Iv5Lc

ZOEY VAN GOEY – You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EwBNm1Uhs0

SLEIGH BELLS – Tell ‘Em (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJ05P-71gY

FISHBOY – Alyson Revere (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv1-eqMkVYA

DARREN HAYMAN – My Dream Train (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQEHx1w9yU

BLACK MILK – Brain (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldp-arHXRJg

THE FIELD MICE – Coach Station Reunion (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3J8yY-3As

COACH STATION REUNION – Johnny Cash (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKgM0wxhiZg

EL HOMBRE PERCHA – Bocadillos de Jámon (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcdEIBT9KVA

KATIE KIM – Jennifer (live at the Daghdha Space Theatre, Limerick) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSUrax_sME

LIST 70 - 07/10/11

2011-10-10T15:25:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

No huge preamble this week, folks, but rather just a simple invitation to enjoy - among other things - some brand new product from everyone's favourite enduring US geek duo, yet another project involving Swedish indiepop kingpin Roger Gunnarsson, the delectable but lesser-spotted Mr Lekman, and Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral (and have plans for Jim Beglin, by the sounds of it...).

The Lou & Ginny track, meanwhile, washed up whilst I was searching for a write-up on some obscure mid-80s Marvel Comics characters. At this remove I can't for the life of me think how, but the best discoveries (and this girl-power late-1950s rock'n'roll nugget is certainly one of those) are often the accidental ones.

Hmmm, so that's just a medium-large preamble this week, then!

J x

ELECTRICITY IN OUR HOMES – Apple Tree (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJLCXb7r1Hk

TUNABUNNY – Only At Night (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-WohwiAd-4

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – Never Knew Love (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJk_4cnsWWA

MIKROFISCH – Mauro Farina (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ppHCAbD4c

TOM VEK – Aroused (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ZVEt2X3GA&ob=av2e

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Fix It So She Dreams Of Me (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH66IB64UBA

SNOB SCRILLA – Heartbreak Scorsese (2009)
http://www.vimeo.com/5078027

SLOW DOWN TALLAHASSEE – Angel of Death (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_SfQiw_mGU

TIMES NEW VIKING – No Room to Live (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_R9dkoWFHI

DJ SHADOW – I Gotta Rokk (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0mrwAFUuGM

DJ SHADOW – High Noon (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-flSzjEzP64&ob=av2n

LAURA J MARTIN & THE SIMONSOUND – Inside Your Bones (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2J7d3z9v7I

CSS – Hits Me Like a Rock (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atbY03rKrdA

BOB LOG III – My Shit Is Perfect (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A76NeaxNpfQ

THE ANDERSEN TAPES – Visual Explanations (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zldsVAcRIIg

LOU & GINNY – Do I Do Right? (1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvzO2dVGR4

JENS LEKMAN – An Argument With Myself (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=805cOEz4-wE

COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES – Vorms (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsR-NtSRx8M

LIST 69 - 30/09/11

2011-09-30T14:30:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

A general mixture for you again this week, including what must be the best ever stab at marrying doo-wop and shoegaze (The Louche FC); the engine room of New Order reimagined in spooky, sparse, acid splashes (Gillian and Stephen); a fantastically creepy track from the godmother of Welsh indie that I've somehow managed to overlook for nearly two years (Annalogue); and a reminder that the finest Nottingham band ever to walk the Earth isn't, wasn't and ain't ever gonna be any of these mentioned in the Guardian's article on the city's music scene this week (The Melons).

The joy of the week's latest musical discoveries has, however, been overshadowed markedly by the discovery today that Peter Sykes, guitarist with This Many Boyfriends, died of a brain haemorrhage earlier in the week. Upwardly mobile following a couple of great singles in recent months (of which "Young Lovers Go Pop!" concludes this List in Peter's memory) and one of the star turns of Indietracks 2010, the band will doubtlessly be much the poorer without him as member and friend. That Music List offers its unreserved condolences to Peter's family and friends.

J x

PAPA TOPO – La Chica Vampira (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVw8Y_t9QuE&ob=av3n

ALCIAN BLUE – Frozen Sleep (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsSWuTtntdQ

DARREN HANLON – I Waited for the 17 (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ktXU7tYsvk

ANNALOGUE – Tony Wilson (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfJrPphAkfw

THE LOUCHE FC – Only in a Dream (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOMSPdGvYmI

ACID HOUSE KINGS – Under Water (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6GzGpgaVrs

THE RETROSPECTIVES – It’s All Mine (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DChQj49E33E

I’M BEING GOOD – Thaddeus, Mask Of Thaddeus (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhKKhXYvwnI

I’M BEING GOOD – Flat Response (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVH3K_JVb4Q

SCROOBIUS PIP – Let Em Come (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ8TzuqpSQs

LONEY, DEAR – My Heart (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpPOynTcFuo

THE MELONS – Fast Lane (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ErDg_iyWo

LYKKE LI – I Follow Rivers (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZYbEL06lEU

DUTCH UNCLES – Cadenza (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMti9fN0VBQ

TENDER TRAP – Dansette Dansette (live at Indietracks) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XqeOBPaKE8

GILLIAN AND STEPHEN – FF (Gabe Remix) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfS64He49jk

THIS MANY BOYFRIENDS – Young Lovers Go Pop! (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZdPu9fnvkE

LIST 68 - 23/09/11 (a farewell to R.E.M.)

2011-09-28T16:22:00.000-07:00

So that's that, then - Buck, Mills and Stipe (and up to a point Berry) are finally calling it a day after an impressive (if you like longevity) 31 years and 15 albums together, and that seemed as good a reason as any to challenge myself to compile a List which wasn't simply just Shiny Happy People and the other best-known hits. Indeed, fewer than half the tracks ultimately chosen even went top 40 in the UK.

Although I'd stop short of the assertion from Stewart Lee (looking forward to seeing you at the Lexington this Sunday, sir) that; "there's [not] anyone whose career trajectory has been so disappointing, starting so brilliantly and end[ing] up just so dreadful", it was nevertheless harder to find stuff either of merit or genuine curiosity value from the second half of the act's career than the first. No matter, at least in "Staring Down..." there is an inclusion that is both relatively recent and by the looks of it never to be released in any studio-recorded form.

I'm not entirely content with the final List, as there was no clip of "Chance" (one of the b-sides to "Everybody Hurts", and among my very favourite REM tracks ever) among the usual repositories of choice. The band's unfortunate habit for comedy cover versions is catered for courtesy of their interpretation of "Tom's Diner", though, likewise their penchant for side projects of various shapes and degrees of seriousness.

J x

R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It... (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY&ob=av3e

R.E.M. – Cuyahoga (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APn_r6_VLCo

R.E.M. – At My Most Beautiful (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIXs66BPooY

13111 [Bill Berry] – My Bible is the Latest TV Guide (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEqTAX02tgg

R.E.M. – Near Wild Heaven (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7er_6dpsI

R.E.M. – Bad Day (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyk-Vdd_Qrk&ob=av2e

R.E.M. – Stand (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKKqLl_ZEEY&ob=av2e

KRISTIN HERSH ft MICHAEL STIPE – Your Ghost (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igPvSBDt43I

R.E.M. – So. Central Rain (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msWi0c4tHV8&ob=av3e

R.E.M. – Überlin (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITh-XIikgI&ob=av3e

R.E.M. – Tom’s Diner (Live) (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erq_h9fbSws

R.E.M. – Sweetness Follows (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKTIelUzZEM

THE FULL TIME MEN [ft. Peter Buck] – I Got Wheels (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NaK-ZJzxf0

R.E.M. – Crush with Eyeliner (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvJHQUqU1M&ob=av3e

R.E.M. – Exhuming McCarthy (demo) (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGWT_eMpFBk

R.E.M. – Daysleeper (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUcKeKt8C1k&ob=av3n

HINDU LOVE GODS [Berry, Buck, Mills & Warren Zevon] – Raspberry Beret (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQmz8Cx8pbM

R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0oaXhz1u8&ob=av3n

R.E.M. - Staring Down the Barrel of the Middle Distance (live premiere at Dublin Olympia) (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUs-Ko-oPKE

R.E.M. – Nightswimming (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6Kh8klM4&ob=av3e

LIST 67 - 16/09/11

2011-09-17T04:39:00.001-07:00

Hello again,

Back to a general mix of stuff this week, including something close to the "compare and contrast" feature Annie Nightingale regularly used to run. If Let's Whisper's borrowing of the chorus to The Field Mice's "Willow" for their new single wasn't by design, I'll eat my socks! Either way, it's a lovely track, and a trip to York to see them play with Standard Fare a fortnight hence is already in the diary.

Inclusions of tracks by the recently dearly departed usually concern musicians, but the loss of snooker referee Len Ganley this week just gone absolutely had to be commemorated with an appearance of "his" song here.

Elsewhere, and with the seventh anniversary of his passing not so many weeks away now, I wonder what Peel would have made of "About A Girl", part of an entire Little Roy album comprising roots reggae covers of Nirvana tracks (and this 20 years to the week since "Nevermind" was released, though not all the tracks on Roy's work are from that album). I reckon he'd have bloody loved it. I know I do.

J x

TODDLA T – Take it Back (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAqENlABNQk

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – The Len Ganley Stance (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVSd74XdZ_E

I’M FROM BARCELONA – Always Spring (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W0-9ii8ycE

PAISLEY AND CHARLIE – Julia Misbehaves (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HRiigMY9A

ST VINCENT – Cruel (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itt0rALeHE8&ob=av2e

LIANNE HALL – Telephone in a Foreign City (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjbNqGKS6U

CASSOLETTE – Cars (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU_U1wt3EwY

DAVID WRENCH – A Radical Song (1816 / 2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CbWtjPHmNM

THE RAPTURE – How Deep is Your Love? (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRSe-V28Mmk

THE RAPTURE – The Chair That Squeaks (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHxnsPsrVSA

LET’S WRESTLE – In Dreams Part II (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6woVBFWrmPU

LET’S WHISPER – All Happy Endings (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWTXPLFxzlI

THE FIELD MICE – Willow (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIJFzQz4Png

AUSTRA – Lose It (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJtMrhb558

TINARIWEN – Tenere Taqhim Tossam (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOV5jEa-vwc

THE VERY MOST – Patricia (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSTV5t8Iyk4

LITTLE ROY – About A Girl (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3mT_haHXRU

DARREN HANLON – The Unmade Bed (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-HEWb0eeRw

LIST 66 - 09/09/11 (Then And Now special)

2011-09-08T15:54:00.001-07:00

List regulars will be familiar with the "Then And Now" feature, wherein a recent song by a long-established act is listed alongside something from as far down the other end of their career as possible.

Such was the backlog of "Then And Now" candidates I'd somehow managed to accummulate in recent weeks, it seemed perfectly feasible to devote an entire List to them and them alone. So here it is. Its arrival in the same week as Polly Jean Harvey scooped her second Mercury Music Prize represents a coincidence of timing I'd usually fail miserably to pull off successfully if I'd tried to!

J x

PJ HARVEY – The Words That Maketh Murder (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0w5pxFkAM

PJ HARVEY – Rid Of Me (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36G15OR6jvY

THE STREETS – Going Through Hell (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ulRwXIzbo

THE STREETS – Don’t Mug Yourself (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veAIHDGghP4

THE HIT PARADE – The Boy Who Loves Brighter (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328IrHZE6zY

THE HIT PARADE- I Get So Sentimental (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjG5TeaHvjY

MOGWAI – Letters to the Metro (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBTax_2Qh10

MOGWAI – Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZr6u9fT1I

PETE ASTOR – The Perfect Crime (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSxJVOqe7s8

THE LOFT – Up The Hill And Down The Slope (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnJLsP7cHG8

BJORK – Moon (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sWdeMRJIRA

BJORK – Bænin (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXKw3Y1Ie_E

DRUGSTORE – Sweet Chili Girl (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUAgFJL0cMI

DRUGSTORE – Fader (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ9Aoe7i1tA

LADYTRON – Ambulances (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjf7JkQqwfE

LADYTRON – Paco! (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woK8sqt-V5U

LOW – Try To Sleep (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgc0I0zsYs

LOW – Throw Out The Line (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9j3_z793O8

TODDLA T ft ROOTS MANUVA – Watch Me Dance (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rw9yeS6nqA

ROOTS MANUVA – Witness (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuSdXKtJX4

LIST 65 - 02/09/11

2011-09-01T13:52:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

I'm sure I mourned the passing of Trembling Blue Stars in one preamble last year on That Music List when including "All Our Tomorrows" from their final album. Since then, of course, there has actually been a final EP and a final final EP, too, the latter of which I finally acquired this week just gone.

The collaboration with Robert "Josh" Hampson of Loop, plus the cover of Wire's "Kidney Bingos" starring Caesar from The Wake, are all likely to feature in the coming weeks; but how sad to have to think that after 16 years of perfect releases, TBS contributions to That Music List thereafter will be solely in the plundering-the-archives rather than the new-product sense.

Very much still present as well as past tense are Comet Gain, whose records remain the best ways of guaranteeing that what you're hearing is actually Comet Gain music played by Comet Gain members! That might sound like stating the obvious to most, but those who witnessed their, um, enigmatic appearance at Indietracks three years ago will know that this can occasionally be rather less of a given! Something from the new album, along with a classic from 14 years ago, get an airing here.

Other highlights this week include the first recorded output of 2011 from the likes of Allo Darlin' and Francois & The Atlas Mountains; a double helping of outer space tunes; further evidence of Ladytron's incredibly high stock as a singles band; and something very pleasing involving just two bass guitars and a load of dogs. Really really.

J x

DETOX CUTE & THE BEAUTY JUNKIES – Billy Liar (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJydYq8Ylk

KIDS – Summer Frights (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1llww4xTHsE

DINOSAURS ARE STILL ALIVE – Hive Mind (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3DCFnsoOU4

ALLO DARLIN’ – Darren (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EmpYVA7WHE

THE FOLK IMPLOSION – Natural One (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYerwwTV5qc

GOLD-BEARS – So Natural (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31mGXf6uI5Y

FRÀNÇOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS – Piscine (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdxVMJ9UxnM

C*NT SPARRER – Because You’re Young (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIWBwEqBPZQ

LADYTRON – White Elephant (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cKEy0BFfQw

COMET GAIN – Ballad Of Frankie Machine (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9vZ26uCrQ

COMET GAIN – Strength (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU7m6J9Nve0

DOS – Number Eight (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrgJBCtCmE

ULRICH SCHNAUSS & JONAS MUNK – Chasing Rainbows (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0r3LewPZU

FITNESS FOREVER – Palma De Mallorca (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJgXk_W659Q

EVANS THE DEATH – Threads (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdk9x3CEca4

KAKI KING – Falling Day (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSo995g2kjc

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – Sunrise on Mars (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=9AljtMzdqLE

STEREOLAB – Sun Demon (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXq9-8hI2zw

THE HOBBES FANCLUB – The Boy from Outer Space (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyTnoTEIgTM

THE WEDDING PRESENT – The Queen of Outer Space (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsOAf_5XSaI

NIKI & THE DOVE – The Fox (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUhOgSZHv9o

THE SCHOOL – I Love Everything (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3pM63IKfDY&ob=av2e

LIST 64 - 26/08/11

2011-08-26T11:18:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

Still the Indietracks festival of this year casts its influence over That Music List all of four weeks on, albeit this time in the most delightful form of a brand new White Town single with a video filmed entirely at the festival itself!

Jyoti Mishra wasn't actually on this year's "official" line-up, for want of a better expression, but as indiepop royalty - and indiepop royalty from just up the road from the Butterley venue, at that - his presence at this event is always a cause of cheer.

That new output seemed like as good an excuse as any to make White Town the Then And Now subject for this week, so there's something he put out 14 years earlier included as well (and not "Your Woman", either).

Elsewhere, Moustache Of Insanity continue to be this year's gift that keeps on giving, courtesy of an indiepop-bitcore crossover b-side that sets the plot and gameplay of the old Donkey Kong arcade game to music; and it's also a pleasure to welcome back to action the likes of Howling Bells, Sourpatch, Lo-Fi-FNK, Rosie Taylor Project and Peter Bjorn & John for the first time in a while.

The inclusion of "Mathematically Safe" will confuse some, but it's one of only a couple of songs I could find which mentions Cartmel - the home of sticky toffee pudding, Britain's most cheerily eccentric racecourse, and my favourite place on earth. I'm off up there tomorrow for more pudding, racing and eccentricity. Self-indulgent, moi?

Oh, and the other song I could think of was an Eliza Carthy number. But you probably all shouted that at the screen way ahead of me. :-)

J x

MASCOT FIGHT – That’s A Photocopier (Not A Chair) (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpok7_M8JpA

TIGERCATS – Banned at the Troxy (2011)
http://www.vimeo.com/23626034

TENNISCOATS – Baibaba Bimba (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZBDoitcRo

MOUSTACHE OF INSANITY – The Monkey and My Princess (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swaASu0b13Q

THE ROSIE TAYLOR PROJECT – Sleep (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOfnem7SSQ

CULTS – Go Outside (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxVIK0ZJvtA

STANDARD FARE – Suitcase (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amml6E2XtNU

WHITE TOWN – She’s A Lot Like You (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWwgPVCBqTU

WHITE TOWN – The Death of My Desire (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97tEw8PpM54

WHITE WISHES – Come And Say Hello (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9qJoO660N8

NICOLE ATKINS – Vultures (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTAZHTKY6qU

THE DEIRDRES – Milk is Politics (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xRpo58SVo

LO-FI-FNK – Boom (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBSxpeEoSjY

PETER, BJORN AND JOHN – Dig A Little Deeper (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKiQhT4F9c0

KEY LOSERS – Cheap Display (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3gbM7dmtRk

PANDA BEAR – Last Night at the Jetty (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPzNq03e7e8

SOURPATCH – Cynthia Ann (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7pZjnNWgIA

CASSOLETTE – Not Just Anyone (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwy82EsOMp8

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Mathematically Safe (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBt0nsgCWgk

HOWLING BELLS – Into the Sky (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0wkapy1FBU

VERONICA FALLS – Bad Feeling (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2uQnrOV6xo

THE HERMIT CRABS – About You Before (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQnrHdFeD34

LIST 63 - 19/08/11

2011-08-20T17:36:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

Back to a regular, non-themed mish-mash once more for this week, though with Victoria And Jacob's inclusion I'm ensuring the memories of Indietracks 2011 continue to linger on (and there's plenty more where that came from yet...).

Apropos of Victoria And Jacob, many thanks to the correspondent who pointed out that the Victoria And Jacob whose cover of "Blackbird" I included the other week almost certainly wasn't the actual synthpop duo Victoria And Jacob who played at Butterley. Does that mean that after 60-odd Lists and over 1,200 tracks I've finally dropped a factual bollock? Alas, it would appear so. Placing something in this List from the real Victoria And Jacob was therefore the least I could do. That and thrashing myself with a broken bottle and listening to the Viva Brother album by way of punishment.

Actually I didn't listen to the Viva Brother album. I'd been bad, but not *that* bad...

J x

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – Come On Sister (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aOl3V1A13I

ART BRUT – Lost Weekend (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_IGqNoB4eI

GIORGIO TUMA – Imaginary Soundtrack for Yuri Norstein (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVOiKrt9wxs

THE NOTES – Awake (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV5TlYiuHuQ

AIAS – Quan Tornis Demà (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UovGuICkr0E

SKINNY GIRL DIET – Eyes (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEeTz8DyA5Y

AT SWIM TWO BIRDS – I Must Be Losing You (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LetipiaJbMU

WENDY JAMES – Municipal Blues (Live) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQycE7TUWLQ

PATRICK WOLF – House (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCoJXqGn_kg&ob=av2e

PRINCESS CHELSEA – Monkey Eats Bananas (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YeLuDgzxCM

BEARSUIT – When Will I Be Queen? (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4VIZ0JpDD4

BEARSUIT – Hey Charlie Hey Chuck (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8PSeQNlpBQ

VICTORIA AND JACOB – There is a War (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyycTPMbZOs

NODZZZ – Ye Olde Indian Towne (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz7illy2VUY

GRUFF RHYS – Shark Ridden Waters (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGdERPWoPU

TTC – Leguman (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9mm9Lhaxmo

PEACH KELLI POP – Doo Wah Diddy (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIGbmGkiauU

THE HIT PARADE – There’s Something About Mary (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3T6xyIowLc

SPAGHETTI ANYWHERE – Girlfriends with Boyfriends (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHlJhDXPSmQ

SLEIGH BELLS – Infinity Guitars (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fheYx_ZPU18

THE UNTHANKS – Starless (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7p49EwkmkI

FOXES! – The Panda Bear Song (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2HTVyln5FI&NR=1

LIST 62 - 12/08/11 (cover versions special)

2011-08-12T15:50:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

Don't worry - last week's absence doesn't presage another huge hiatus from That Music List. I just came back to a larger post-Indietracks workload than I'd envisaged. Needless to say, it was another stellar weekend down in Butterley, and maybe all the better for the smaller number of well-known acts than previously as it meant more nice surprises.

If it doesn't seem too divisive to nominate favourites, I'd have to go for Haiku Salut, Moustache Of Insanity, The Wendy Darlings, The Garlands, Frankie Machine, Amore De Dias, The Hidden Cameras, Edwyn Collins, Tiny Fireflies, Very Truly Yours, Math & Physics Club, White Town (impromptu acoustic set), Oxo Foxo (both of her lovely, kids-oriented sets) and above all The Sweet Nothings. The superb set of the last-named on the Sunday afternoon was all the more joyous, having continued to see these Sheffield chums of mine come on leaps and bounds in recent months (not least during their July tour).

As usual, such a shame that it had to come to an end after three perfect days, but also as usual, there are treasured memories from the weekend to take to the grave. Really really.

This week's List comprises cover versions and cover versions only, though not all obvious or well-known by any means and only one bothered the charts in the interpretation presented. This List has been in the compiling for quite some time, with Wanda Jackson's "You Know I'm No Good" practically the first thing added weeks ago, before the original performer's tragic passing. If not originally included as a tribute to Amy Winehouse, then, I certainly don't mind anyone regarding it as such.

Returning to the Indietracks theme, finally, two clips from that festival feature in the List, including the one which garnered the most votes (by some margin) when the official Indietracks blog polled readers just before this year's renewal as to what their favourite ever performanceat Butterley was. For those who may need a clue before reading further down, think of a keyboard-prodding Spaniard dressed as a spaceman...

J x

FELIX KUBIN – Lighting Strikes (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO9ZmgImYSI

WANDA JACKSON – You Know I’m No Good (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLZ-zDmSJQ

CARDIACS – Suzannah’s Still Alive (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMs5QwHmMc&NR=1

EUX AUTRES – My Love Will Not Let You Down (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNNDcB2Eto

JAMES FIGURINE – Blinded by the Lights (200x)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9BdHIpk1E0

THE MOTORCYCLE BOY – Run Run Run (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCr4ZyI2r8I

THE JUST JOANS – All The Umbrellas in London (live in London) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSFwaNqBxhQ&NR=1

DAVE STEWART & COLIN BLUNSTONE – What Becomes... (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbB5V-RE8uw

THE SUNNY STREET – What Is Love (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twg05hhisFY

THE FIELD MICE – Burning World (live in London, 16/02/91) (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bms5BDWHKSs

THE HIGH LLAMAS – At the Chime of a City Clock (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZgH_0IL5Jc

WORLD OF FOX – Jeane (live at Indietracks) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQOQ2sP3AkU

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK - Outdoor Miner (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGZOjHmLKD0

ACE BUSHY STRIPTEASE – Roly Poly (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZw80s8QwyE

LYKKE LI – After Laughter (Comes Tears) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J4N4jFBTmY

THE CAT’S MIAOW – Baby I Love You (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csOnDYwDo8c

FATHER MURPHY – There Is A War (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbCaVtvqfJI

KATHY McCARTHY – Grievances (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQQTWmi6Uxs

TRACEY THORN & JENS LEKMAN – Yeah! Oh Yeah! (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lddn8XQMp24

LAETITIA SADIER – Summertime (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgqcC5eCJxs

LA CASA AZUL – Love is in the Air (live at Indietracks) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ke48Ql9yqw

LIST 61 - 29/07/11 (Indietracks Festival special, part two)

2011-07-25T14:55:00.000-07:00

Hello there,

As promised, herewith part two of my preview of The Best Music Festival Of Them All (that's not up for discussion, incidentally :-) ), and also as promised I've put it up a few days before the usual Friday List day. Between the two lists, I think I've managed to find something for all bar about six of the performing acts - apologies to those concerned.

One or two new contenders for my favourite single of the year in this list, too, not least the splendid effort by Crystal Stilts. The rest isn't half bad, either. Really really. Enjoy!

J x

BERLIN BRIDES – Ballad for the Touch-Deprived (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYOIqjHUisc

MILKY WIMPSHAKE – Alice Nebulae (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0By-GJyFGfU

MODEL VILLAGE – 19 (live at Roadtrip Bar, Hoxton) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P32KhxgM4Kw

SUBURBAN KIDS WITH BIBLICAL NAMES – Europa (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvQ7OhClwwA

CRYSTAL STILTS – Shake The Shackles (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJoMTgANXPc

NEXT TIME PASSIONS – Painter Girl (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFot_54Rqzo

THE SWEET NOTHINGS – Peace, Love and International Socialism(live at the Brixton Windmill, 07/05/11) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9hBFEzpvDM

CHRIS T-T – We Are the King of England (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ftk1Z4uQlY

WORLD OF FOX – Grumpy Man Blues (Shed session) (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIEIbORBsww

MATH AND PHYSICS CLUB – We’re So DIY (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LMGTKhRfI

HOROWITZ – I Need A Blanket (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4UPXbFbYu8

BAND Á PART – Una Persona Normal Con Gafas De Metal (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbmFurLSQsc

PERU – Drift On (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwap4DCsMwY

VICTORIA AND JACOB – Blackbird (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qHWNQgyqmY&NR=1

POCKETBOOKS – Camera Angles (Ian and Emma live acoustic) (2011)
http://www.vimeo.com/24486478

THE GARLANDS – Open Arms (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtSlqQaCK2o

HAIKU SALUT – Piano Suite (live at The Maze, Nottingham) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZtCCjCs8c4

ZIPPER – Lunes Por La Mañana (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMBcb3hcqEE

THE WHATEVERS – Rhapsody in Blue Jeans (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weTAQvk6uiU

ACE BUSHY STRIPTEASE – Michael Kightly is Pretty Rad (live) (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBxm7cmzolk

TINY FIREFLIES – Don’t Wait Until I Fall Asleep (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpCmmPDa6Ok

JONNY – Candyfloss (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNcjy_R3_jE

HERMAN DUNE – Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY_wuw2u5lY

THE WENDY DARLINGS – Girls from Japan (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3-unX95S6o

LIST 60 - 22/07/11 (Indietracks Festival special, part one)

2011-07-21T15:44:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

Pleased to report that the time of my favourite festival of them all, Indietracks, is once again nigh; and also that there appears to be enough material on video out there to push your way two That Music Lists dedicated to it, this week and next.

A little creative liberty has been required to find some Graeme Elston and Oxo Foxo for you, but hopefully not a diabolical one.

As usual, and heaven forfend it ever not be the case, going through the entire running order in the name of That Music List has helped polarise some of my decisions on whom to see. I don't think I'm going to have any less packed a weekend than usual among the trains, stages and very good friends deep in the heart of the East Midlands this time.

Although it'll say "Friday 29th" on it, I'll try to get part two of this special online a few days in advance for you - little point advocating going to Indietracks with a List when the thing is already in full cry!

J x

THE HIDDEN CAMERAS – I Believe in the Good of Life (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pwnRYcn1Y

JUST HANDSHAKES (WE’RE BRITISH) – Falling Over Our Fear (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxyL188kh2g

JEFFREY LEWIS – Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiizrUsC_hY

MOUSTACHE OF INSANITY – Dancing with Emma (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDX-qTXBG8A

SLIPSLIDE [Graeme Elston] – Waiting for the Call (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxyX4aVo5TM

EX FACE PAINT [Oxo Foxo] – Ou Est Le Plage? (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrxkgEFJrB0

EDWYN COLLINS & THE DRUMS – In Your Eyes (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7skpdXLB4XQ

EDWYN COLLINS – If You Could Love Me (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DXNol9GdNE

ANGUISH SANDWICH - Guangzhou Romance Musical Instruments Co (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsQ_zxEtcEk

THE PROCTORS – Wish MY Days Away (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYc90-WjtGQ

DIGNAN PORCH – Like It Was Again (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6el9NiCLh8Q

AMOR DE DIAS – Bunhill Fields (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkfC45BS3Jg

GUATAFÁN – Cucurucho (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOhULf-vTog

FRANCES McKEE – Limbo (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA_8hjpZP-o

THE HISTORY OF APPLE PIE – You’re So Cool (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_lcoWhgiu8

VERY TRULY YOURS – I’d Write You a Song (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81nG_7bM6U

BUTCHER BOY – Girls Make Me Sick (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZjYjL91zAw

PAPA TOPO – Oso Panda (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hleYkbSfjeg&NR=1

FRANKIE MACHINE – Gyproque (Plans & Apologies Remix) (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qU4alTjsJU

A LITTLE ORCHESTRA – Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (live at Jamm, Brixton) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvxBurHmYaI

A FINE DAY FOR SAILING – Summer Blonde (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaPkPN3VGK8

LIST 59 - 15/07/11

2011-07-13T17:09:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

I expect either the next one or two lists will have something to do with my highlight of the year, the forthcoming Indietracks festival, but before that eventuality here's another general mix of things for you.

Of course, Acid House Kings' perfect pop would find a happy home at that festival, but they don't appear to be among the customary contingent of bands from Scandinavia booked this time around. Nor was this song entered for Eurovision, either, which I think it would have walked. It's incalculably better than that dirge from Azerbaijan that emerged on top this year, anyway.

I digress. Lots of other stuff to draw to your attention this week; from the triumphant (ska-tinged?) return of Kitty Daisy and Lewis, to a double helping of the always-engaging Cornershop, to almost certainly far too much swearing, to an only recently unearthed McCarthy track, to the best thing Mark Ronson's ever had anything to do with, to the Rainbow theme in its entirety (just because)... etc. etc. General's the word.

Oh, and that's before even mentioning one of the most beautiful songs I've heard in years, despite missing it completely on release in 2009 and for all the intervening period until he played it live in my new home city last night. Step forward Mark Everett...

J x

KITTY, DAISY AND LEWIS – I’m So Sorry (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyKmukkJTVQ

HIDROGENESSE vs THE HIDDEN CAMERAS – He Falls to Me (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2wH-mec7z0

THE LOVELY EGGS – People Are Twats (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDM-kCQkarw

HYDROPLANE – New Monotonic FM (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOEOr0ZsEUk

THE KNIFE with MT SIMS AND PLANNINGTOROCK – Seeds (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGdQKDmyg0k

ACID HOUSE KINGS – Would You Say Stop? (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN2oCtb5aKA

CORNERSHOP ft BUBBLEY KAUR – United Provinces of India (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-S_plBC1BQ

CORNERSHOP – Camp Orange (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP_8Mqm9mjY

JESCA HOOP – City Bird (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5sAWvUZEd4

THE LIKE – He’s Not A Boy (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42p2nERiNFk

AVEY TARE – Lucky 1 (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wXX7vtZpMo

THOSE DANCING DAYS – Fuckarias (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYg40pJDF_A

McCARTHY – Who Will Rid Me Of These Turbulent Proles? (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT1bzor0Xkw

SELEBRITIES – Can’t Make Up My Mind (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGO-R0i0gQ0

THE VATICAN CELLARS – The Same Crooked Worm (2010)
http://www.vimeo.com/20220835

GO-HOME PRODUCTIONS – Finally, Did You No Wrong (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do3ZcYN7bVI

ANNA CALVI – Desire (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKVy0EVu2ZI

BLANCK MASS – Fuckers (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16LaOG7sJUI

EELS – The Look You Give That Guy (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQwsiIlIfH8

TELLTALE – Rainbow Theme (1973)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJsaujSs7Fw

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – I’m Saying Yes (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn7j9sM_QXw

LIST 58 - 08/07/11

2011-07-05T15:14:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

After last week's C86-themed return to action, here is the first mixed offering of 2011 on That Music List. After the year's tribulations to date, I have a pile of unplayed stuff to make even the late Mr Peel blush. I'm not going to be stuck for material for quite some time, I imagine!

The last two songs are ones that, if I hadn't exactly not anticipated adding any time soon, then I certainly hadn't anticipated adding as a memorial to their respective singers. Trisha Keenan and Gregory Isaacs both left us at the start of 2011, far too early in each case, and it was hard to boil down two diverse portfolios of work into one choice each.

J x

THE LOVELY EGGS – Don’t Look At Me (I Don’t Like It) (2011)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uuMy2ZN7A8

RUCKAZOID – Crush (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWLVTghK09E

DIE TÜREN - Drinnen ist wie draussen (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxFSYMB_X3M

BEARSUIT – A Train Wreck (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhEgsur7VyU

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – The Gay Train (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b-4shDxUlw

PANDA BEAR – You Can Count on Me (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SNJ7vMIfGU

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART – Heart in Your Heartbreak (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhQrteR9OQ

TOPO – Ba Ba Go Go (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uct2FMRColk

PEACH KELLI POP – Do The Eggroll (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhZOl3cBZA

WIRE – Two Minutes (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5WL_khq2AU

WIRE – Ahead (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvRgC0pMIoc

ÜSTMAMÒ – Bank of F*ck Off (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0DnMbXyalM

THE FELT TIPS – Boyfriend Devoted (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoboimN32Js

PIE ARE SQUARED – They Wobble in Anger (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1B43zNcoDo

FUJIYA & MIYAGI - Yoyo (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozoio7Y6M4Q

KENICKIE – SK8BDN Song (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOI-eOOdMfA

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – Drunk Girls (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xT6cdfP_cM

SHRAG – Heart Open Mouth Shut (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quUT4sUbFcc

BROADCAST – The Book Lovers (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7m71xuFbA

GREGORY ISAACS – Tune In (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnw1nAVTmKY

LIST 57 - 01/07/11 (25th anniversary of the C86 compilation album special)

2011-07-05T14:53:00.000-07:00

Well......

A hiatus of exactly six months certainly wasn't the intention, but a second redundancy situation in 10 months and some health issues ensured that that is how long it became. No matter, all those issues have been finally resolved in the affirmative. So, shall we put a record on? :-)

The first That Music List of 2011 is one I've been saving up for a bit, and is a special List dedicated to C86, the seminal album released by New Musical Express back before it crippled itself under its own weight of - by turns - fickleness and cynicism.

It would have been too easy just to find a clip of every song on the original album, so instead a few alternative tracks from C86-featured artists appear. And some of those supersede the original compilation by quite some margin - the Pastels' pretty recent output gave me the perfect excuse to make them the "them and now" subject for this List (yep, all the old features of previous Lists are being maintained as far as possible...). There are a lot of other themed Lists in the offing in the next few weeks, but I think I'll throw in a few general mixes after this and on the run-up to Indietracks.

Thanks as always for your interest and support,

J x

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – I Hate Nerys Hughes (from the Heart) (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfKj8Q_H0Co&p=A9DEDFBCD55F63C7

THE BODINES – Therese (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePnJXu8rR9E

A WITNESS – Sharpened Sticks (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewAZxyp867M

MIGHTY MIGHTY – Everybody Knows the Monkey (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MweILgjR66E

BOGSHED – Run to the Temple (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVlB0EUfsKs

PASTELS / TENNISCOATS – Two Sunsets (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEoBjUgIyyo

PASTELS – Breaking Lines (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cKmkeLIi_I

STUMP – Censorship Stripper (live on the Tube) (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcnmev28fHA

SHOP ASSISTANTS – I Don’t Want To Be Friends With You (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU9fZkXHqns

AGE OF CHANCE – Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Noise? (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__uXcuqgrFM

McCARTHY – Should The Bible Be Banned? (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCc_lMcu4ls&p=731B43EF5AB43FA2

THE SERVANTS – Transparent (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1PBWPHJMU&p=D10FF5972875D60A

THE WOLFHOUNDS – Rent Act (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9ysvLIHLI

THE MacKENZIES – Big Jim (There’s No Pubs in Heaven) (1986)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3CHmbxlCfc

THE SOUP DRAGONS – Whole Wide World (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH7yf0ttsBc

THE CLOSE LOBSTERS – Let’s Make Some Plans (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuWnpvO4AnU

BIG FLAME – Why Popstars Can’t Dance (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1C1PKpzOHs&p=7B6EA355EF9E11B8

MIAOW – Sport Most Royal (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZX76klCsyM&p=D10FF5972875D60A

THE SHRUBS – Another Age (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XztJLQ7ALXg

THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS – Hollow Inside (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58d-7qmwsis

FUZZBOX – What’s The Point (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jOmWjMa7M0

PRIMAL SCREAM – Don’t Fight It, Feel It (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp-hQbj1juA

THE WEDDING PRESENT – This Boy Can Wait (A Little Longer!) (1985)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAu7yRxPes&p=E08790F7A0B51DAF

LIST 56 - 24/12/10 (Christmas Special, part two)

2010-12-23T14:05:00.000-08:00

As promised, and indeed threatened, here is the second half of the That Music List Christmas Special for your delight and delectation just 24 hours shy of the main event. Nothing too festive about the likes of The Fall and HT & OJ's respective efforts, of course, but the likes of the late Frank Sidebottom certainly redress the pro-Christmas balance and then some.

That's it from That Music List until sometime in the New Year (probably midwinter), but return it will. All that remains for me to do is to thank everyone who's been in touch about the blog this year and last, and anyone else who has enjoyed the selections over this period of time. Certainly more to come... 'Til then, however, very best wishes of the season to you all, and may 2011 deal you a kind hand.

Jeremy xx

THE FALL – No Xmas for John Quays (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnthgtwQ-ok

COLIN CLARY – Meow Meow (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjFJIlnBkuo

BILLY ELLIOT (original cast recording) – Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVPqqWFVFM

MOGWAI – Christmas Song (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpn4oLiwlE

GOLDBLADE ft POLY STYRENE – City of Christmas Ghosts (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikNOuYWOC8

VISCHIZO – Winter (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOCD1F-me4

SPARKS – Thank God It’s Not Christmas (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbkDzp5LuY

HT & OJ – Just Say “No!” to Christmas (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beicykNb5cA

XTC (as THE THREE WISE MEN) – Thanks for Christmas (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DBJRSMP8Uw

CAMERA OBSCURA – Happy New Year (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSexCt6NSZA

TWIG – Antoinette’s Christmas Wedding (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt62mzQgCRw

ELASTICA – All for Gloria (Peel Session) (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDyLsCIrQu8

HIS CLANCYNESS – Memories Are Made Of This (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQzJH8KXBZ4

NEKO CASE – Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgTPo4zRI2Q

FRANK SIDEBOTTOM – Christmas is Really Fantastic (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8qQ2LUeq8

THE LONG BLONDES – Christmas is Cancelled (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4s76oLcPTo

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY – Christmas Tree’s on Fire (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4qexogn7Ss

STINA NORDENSTAM – Soon After Christmas (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPsWT_3ypmo

JOHN CALE – Child’s Christmas in Wales (1973)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IKnVVRsmk

HONG KONG IN THE 60s – Walking in the Air (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXr1lUU_hY

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – I Got You What You Want For Christmas (single version) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjRzIFtjC78

LIST 55 - 17/12/10 (Christmas Special, part one)

2010-12-20T13:22:00.000-08:00

Hello again,

Jarringly self-explanatory, this update - the first of two assortments of festive tracks known and less well known... and not very festive at all, in the case of the likes of Charlie Brooker! More of the same seven days hence, in the final That Music List of 2010. Stay safe, stay warm.

=======================================================

SLOW CLUB – Christmas TV (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E1hCYVTvZ4

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – The 29th Day of December (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnXvnH-aZwk

BUCK OWENS – Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_LSPB6HyHo

PARENTHETICAL GIRLS – Thank God It’s Not Christmas (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i02OTAKepsg

GRANDADDY – Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIP7H90ieNU

EUX AUTRES – Another Christmas at Home (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkk1BtivuT0

MOGWAI – Christmas Steps (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZuXtXQ7ZQM

CAMERA OBSCURA – Little Donkey (live at Peel Acres) (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGMILV7pZ28

THE GRANVILLE WILLIAMS ORCHESTRA – Santa Claus is Ska-ing to Town (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaKeI-97me0

THE FALL – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Peel Session) (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LomlkOvalUY

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT – Spotlight on Christmas (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO_9TmPZbY

HELEN LOVE – Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight) (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpT1t648sJ4

CHARLIE BROOKER & THE INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF LARD – If God Exists, Does He Have a Sense of Humour? (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYMYS5vOso

THE BEACH BOYS – Little Saint Nick (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8bGYXgiqbM

THE WOULD-BE-GOODS – Christmas in Haiti (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-SHKIgMRk0

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – It’s Cliched to be Cynical at Christmas (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqQtUQErhQ

SQUEEZE – Christmas Day (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB6BIYjPeHM

HONG KONG IN THE 60s – Winter Symphony (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtahleXtY10

ELASTICA – King of Orient (Peel Session) (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xoAFnSGC1g

ANDY PARTRIDGE – Countdown to Christmas Party Time (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYflDAq_9ys

JEFF MELLIN – Every Year (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_FKyMwxCtQ

LIST 54 - 22/10/10

2010-10-27T12:44:00.000-07:00

Lots of splendid things to round off the current series of That Music List, not least the splendid return of erstwhile Peel faves Bearsuit and a video by Darren Hayman that's pretty much the copybook definition of "less is more" (one piece of card, one set of pencils, one scanner - that's it!). Trembling Blue Stars, meanwhile, get the then and now treatment (to the surprise of none of you out there, I suspect!).

You read the above correctly, by the way - this is indeed the last regular That Music List for a bit, as work commitments start to bite (and after a few weeks' worth of unemployment around late spring, those are words I didn't necessarily think I'd be able to say again this year). There will be at least a couple of Christmas specials either before or during the festive period, though, before the List returns for another extended run of weekly editions some time in the midwinter. That is a promise, and indeed a threat!

In the meantime, thanks again for your patronage over these last 20 months or thereabouts.

Jeremy x

BEARSUIT – Please Don’t Take Him Back (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwlBY5RDOzw

WARPAINT – Undertow (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu4KR9ycBQc

BEASTIE BOYS – Lee Majors Come Again (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfVqHwjvOsI

DARREN HAYMAN & EMMY THE GREAT – Calling Out Your Name Again (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bopPCZ-OjzU

DUTCH UNCLES – The Ink (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V9FUN-8igY

BETTE DAVIS & THE BALCONETTES – Shopping on the Internet (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYnBJ2rZN3k

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – Not For Second Prize (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMBpdoIbzCM

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – For This One (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNbDU-XuwVg

TWO STEP HORROR – King Bee (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5-Gbbdc2Wc

MILKY WIMPSHAKE – One Good Use For My Heart (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb3LVmzr8c4

METRONOMY – Not Made for Love (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iiCJ_6nP0w

PAUL SMITH – Our Lady of Lourdes (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCr3ZSl1h6Q

TRASH KIT – Cadets (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THXql8R9Cko

EPIC45 – Daylight Ghosts (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffW1vSV6UI

IRON AND WINE – Peng! 33 (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZJKphuFwE

PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL – Seed, Crop, Harvest (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVS4F1rTJwE

DAWN LANDES – Young Girl (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IeEwDt5eik

THE SLITS – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQxvo_9DEqY

GAS – Pop #6 (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XednEw7rY&NR=1

LIST 53 - 15/10/10

2010-10-19T16:56:00.000-07:00

It's confirmed - the brand new releases from Trembling Blue Stars, namely an album and two EPs, will be the last.

With that ends 15 years' worth of, for the greater part, Bob Wratten soundtracking his own life with disarming, emotionally laid-bare candour and erudition under the TBS moniker, and at the same time him unwittingly putting to music those lives of mine and doubtless many others worldwide. The likes of Never Loved You More, Farewell to Forever, It's Easier to Smile and Dark Eyes, in particular, are almost painfully redolent of past, present and in all likelihood future chapters of my personal history.

As such, it's safe to assume that "All Our Tomorrows", included below and replete with something close to an official video from Elefant Records, will not be the only song from TBS's final batch to feature in these annals in the short term.

1995, the year TBS formed, was also the year Tindersticks released their favourite song of mine, the eight-minute deadpan narrative "My Sister", included here alongside a track from this year's album for 4AD. Grass Widow and Trash Kit, meanwhile, are included to cheer me up a bit, having managed to miss them play a gig literally a minute's walk from my office a couple of weeks ago owing to sheer volume of work. Unlucky!

RADAR BROTHERS – Horses Warriors (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfNHpG4U2E

MAPS – It Will Find You (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEpkouuK6n4

FALK UND DIE WIESE – Complicated (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXw1G3_mrRY

KIRSTY HAWKSHAW & ULRICH SCHNAUSS – Dreaming of Now (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifFw-JaF1gY

ST CHRISTOPHER – As Good as Married (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oMcE-7WYak

SPC ECO – Like It Is (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUn_m6EcSDc

TINDERSTICKS – Black Smoke (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9G6idC9Fjg

TINDERSTICKS – My Sister (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sFw3kxpX1w

TRICKY – Murder Weapon (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3fd4nE8OCI

MAGNETIC FIELDS – California Girls (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2EQxrGU7Yc

LOW SEA – Berlin (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mFyePCdzlQ

THE WEEK THAT WAS – Scratch the Surface (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowBExbkFZk

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – All Our Tomorrows (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1b4IwNiVU

MOSTAR SEVDAH REUNION – Gondže ružo (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt6FDBElmbg

GRASS WIDOW – Fried Egg (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cveys2XSWM

TRASH KIT – Bugsy (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXBlOG17vs

FSK – Euro-Trash Girl (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCIp56qFB2Q

LIST 52 - 08/10/10 ("Remember this problem? The German language...")

2010-10-19T16:38:00.000-07:00

...Thus began both the FSK album "The Sound Of Music" and the splendid German language music compilation "Wo ist Zuhause, Mama - Perlen Deutschsprachiger Popmusik" 18 and 15 years ago respectively. When I first started considering this week's list, it seemed too good a phrase not to recycle!

So, yes, herewith 20 tracks from German language performers (the presence of the likes of the astonishing Austrian punk-folk duo Attwenger prevents it from being considered a list of German performers), singing more or less all auf Deutsch. "More or less" because, ironically give the opening, the FSK track included contains more than a smattering of English!

It's all in context, though, and the track, "I Wish I Could Sprechen Sie Deutsch", will be remembered very fondly by those of you who were mid-1980s devotees of the John Peel Festive 50. The clip I've found of the track does indeed include the great man before and after, briefly.

Inevitably there were things I found myself leaving out in trying to straddle over three decades' worth of highlights even without pinching any of the sort of stuff a million Neue Deutsche Welle or Darkwave compilations already cover and cover rather better (that's a thought: wonder if Zillo is still going?); and I don't doubt there'll be another list of this nature in 2011 to accommodate the overspill.

In the meantime, and in the words of Nina Hagen in the closing track, "Ich wünsche Ihnen einen recht guten Empfang"...

TOCOTRONIC – Aber hier leben, nein danke (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu_EXn9Kfkw

SUPERPUNK – Das Feuerwork ist Vorbei (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlxOagUeHiQ

WIR SIND HELDEN – Guten Tag (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt8qY5KY9dQ

ATTWENGER – Rahm (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUFwmdm5hjM

ELEMENT ART – Die Eistänzerin (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5V5QDgMPAU

SAMBA – Aus den Kolonien (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kB932Vcx8g

BARBARA MORGENSTERN – Der Augenblick (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjlnhotzH4

1000 ROBOTA – Er sagt (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPedlXWbbnA

DER ELEGANTE REST – Hardcore (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba_7Y0UMNN0

SLUT & JULI ZEH – Wächterhauscollage (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsS2g4yAPGA

DIE ÄRZTE - Junge (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2VnPOIBVt0 (censored)

DIE ÄRZTE – Westerland (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sUh5I6kx1w

DIRK DARMSTÄDTER & BERND BEGEMANN – So geht das jede Nacht (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DZ0LoZmAjY

FSK – I Wish I Could Sprechen Sie Deutsch (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTO5Hwu9PmQ

OSTZONENSUPPENWŰRFELMACHENKREBS - Respekt vor dem eigenen Hau (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izp9L3G1wbg

SPILLSBURY – Sturzflug (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZhMUzGTpgk

LYDIA DAHER – Flüchtige Bürger (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drUC2NV_PDw

DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN – Das bisschen Totschlag (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Hxq-PFOlc

PETER HEPPNER – Alleinesein (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOYXxZXJS18

NINA HAGEN – TV-Glotzer (White Punks on Dope) (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPQB-mtQDY

LIST 51 - 01/10/10

2010-10-01T17:30:00.000-07:00

Another standard, as opposed to themed, List this week, but at the same time two contributions could fall under a loose theme of courageous returns. Laetitia Sadier's solo album, out on September 27th, was at least partly recorded in the aftermath of her sister's suicide - the opening track addresses that tragedy with both unflinching honesty and quiet dignity, and is included here.

Edwyn Collins, meanwhile, has of course had his own trials in recent years, but emerging from the other side of these is "Losing Sleep", technically the second album released since his two brain haemorrhages in 2005 but the first entirely conceived and completed this side of them. The title track leaves little to the imagination regarding his comparatively reduced state nowadays, but at the same time of mawkish self-pity there is none.

I'm minded to include the Go-Betweens' "Right Here" this week, incidentally, after hearing The Peterboroughs' brave reading of it on accordion, uke, banjo and glockenspiel at the Nottingham Indiepop Weekender six days ago. It was, alas, the Leeds quartet's farewell gig, so unless on the fly recordings exist anywhere I wouldn't know where to direct you to a recording of it with any degree of confidence. My apologies!

LAETITIA SADIER – One Million Year Trip (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxWnA7rcsoE

OOIOO – SOL (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fiHyEA6t30

THE PIPETTES – Call Me (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHRNGxYRiUg

AUTOROTATION – Everything is Everything (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2jZpEu1mJ0

BEST COAST – Boyfriend (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTWvCv6uZsU

THE GO-BETWEENS – Right Here (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqtTd_0oFU4

JAMES YUILL – First in Line (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu9Ag_qz1vI

FLOYD THE PHENOMENAL CAT-TROPHY – Name Mention Attention (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC-JtaHb5q8

TEAM GHOST – Colors in Time (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4e2NsQT5Ss

EDWYN COLLINS – Losing Sleep (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwQh1OoYfIE

EDWYN COLLINS – Don’t Shilly Shally (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oS082HqfVE

LAU vs KARINE POLWART – The January Man (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--Q47cNb8o

BONDE DE ROLE - Solto O Frango (2007)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgb6FxuaPQA

SHRAG – Rabbit Kids (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rXs9O2Tq90

DEINE LAKAIEN – Gone (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IXFjlege_0

BROADCAST AND THE FOCUS GROUP – I See, So I See So (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlVaRcNf9nc

BETTY AND THE WEREWOLVES – David Cassidy (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRFoNwddrxQ

GYPSY AND THE CAT – Time to Wander (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuelwnVTNYc

ROBERT WYATT – Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’ (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pylc5jiGy8

THE SCHOOL – Is He Really Coming Home? (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zlSyHAHjo

ATLAS SOUND ft LAETITIA SADIER – Quick Canal (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C79Q7MV4Fgo

LIST 50 - 24/09/10

2010-09-24T11:27:00.000-07:00

So there it is, the first single off the new Belle & Sebastian long-player, complete with top-name actress talent and that. Hasn't grabbed me as the strongest song of those I've heard so far by any means; and with guitar acts almost universally failing to grab any sort of toehold in the hit parade nowadays, I will be looking at its progress upon its imminent release with interest rather than the usual hope and expectation.

Elsewhere, several of the acts turning out at this weekend's Nottingham Indiepop festie get an airing, as does the newest Tunng release as vaunted last week. The OMD comeback album is anything but a total triumph (not surprising given its origin as mostly re-imagined session / lost tracks), but part one of the title track has rightly piqued its share of radio interest and is featured here alongside something all of 30 years its senior from the same source.

The Orb's "Loving You" is a song with a story, having existed in its original form commercially for not much time at all before Minnie Riperton's legal team stomped on the then duo of Alex Paterson and Jimmy (KLF) Cauty. Even all this time later, it's still probably my favourite piece of work from the band in any of its many guises.

Oh, apparently this is the fiftieth That Music List. Compiling them has been a lot of fun so far - hours of my life I'll neither get nor want back! ;-)

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – Write about Love (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ7ZYSNrn-Y

TUNNG – Hustle (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFf6Rg7ICM

MILKY WIMPSHAKE – Lemonade (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOax5f0xbuE

CHROMEO – Don’t Turn the Lights on (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP7mxcvGejQ

THE ORB – Loving You (Bucket and Spade Mix) (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyK6_oqLg5k

THE SUNNY STREET – Insull (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geTPTcgv3Lg

OMD – History of Modern Part 1 (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DV5mBT4rPk

OMD – Messages (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SlWPQGMCfQ

DARREN HAYMAN AND THE SECONDARY MODERN – Two Tree Island (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-LFy0XhAk

OI VA VOI – Waiting (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMYmOD9zns

HOLY F*CK – Red Lights (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AE_WBB97MU

BETTY AND THE WEREWOLVES – Euston Station (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PfxLPtf-s4

THE VASELINES – Sex with an X (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXc_IHcodpk

BJORK – Declare Independence (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igOWR_-BXJU

DAVID GEDGE & THE BBC BIG BAND – Brassneck (live at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, 29th April 2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTW1X4A1bY4

COCOROSIE – Lemonade (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3EcAHdHlE&ob=av2e

POPGUNS – Still A World Away (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSmFdg5VGks

PETE GREEN – Subterranean Moseley Blues (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4fCgvSG90

LIST 49 - 17/09/10

2010-09-21T12:50:00.000-07:00

Back once more, with the first upload to this list so far of anything from Belle and Sebastian's long-awaited "Write About Love" album. I don't think it disappoints - quite the opposite. Whether the remainder of the album entirely stacks up I have yet to discover, though.

It's not the only new produce I'm delighted to include after years of waiting. Neither Stars nor Blonde Redhead have exactly galloped to follow up their previous efforts, but the wait has been worth it in both instances. I'm advised the latter can thank Fever Ray's producer for some creative input this time round - certainly sounds like it if so, and definitely not unwelcome.

Midnight Juggernauts, Connan (still Mockasin but minus the Mockasins, if that makes sense) and Chromeo are other welcome returnees, whilst the appearance of Tunng's "Bullets" this week serves as a prelude for the inclusion of a new track by them / him next.

Oh, and apparently some people out there are still making what the late John Peel christened "bastard pop", so I've finished with some of that this time.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART – Come Saturday (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjYFSyVF1Ks

PENGUIN PRISON – The Worse It Gets (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP1FwjsEivI

THREATMANTICS – Wedi Marw (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAeL3vIl-I

SUN KIL MOON – Third and Seneca (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMrYmEJXfY0

AKALA – XXL (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVp2ZHfUjSE

TUNNG – Bullets (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1NgFYJCN4

MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS – Vital Signs (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc8Osb5zYm4

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – I Didn’t See It Coming (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UeFaayyw3o

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – The Stars of Track and Field (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgohBw0hL-k

J DILLA – Sycamore (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOugOqlBs4

MALAJUBE – Luna (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uLwvbtZYL8

CONNAN MOCKASIN – It’s Choade My Dear (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkNwuY2JUHQ

GABRIELLES WISH – Go See the Doctor (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMPd21FaoKA

BLONDE REDHEAD – Here Sometimes (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuaPdFGxNUQ

CHROMEO – Night By Night (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppNC0uAaCv0

PETE GREEN – The Ballad of Phil Jevons (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUcOfcC27w

STARS – Fixed (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jdZdVmEuk

WOODPIGEON – My Denial in Argyle (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN4LSJt4rMc

FELT – The Day the Rain Came Down (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puoGwPo9Kgc

DJ LOBSTERDUST – Knock Out Eileen (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejuMfZdkM2o

LIST 48 - 10/09/10

2010-09-09T16:44:00.000-07:00

A few favourites from a while back return with new produce in this list (though in some cases it's been out a few weeks and I've just missed it. Oops). The New Pornographers' "Sing Me Spanish Techno" is still one of the Youtube clips I return to the most, with both song and video guaranteed to make me smile. "Crash Years" is reassuringly up to par, and features lead vocals this time from what I presume must be Neko Case rather than Carl Newman, unless the latter has had an accident recently.

Teki Latex's contribution owes more than a little to Kraftwerk, likewise the Pipettes to Sophie Ellis-Bextor's first solo album, but don't let that damn either with faint praise, as pale facsimiles they are not. Cath Carroll, who - frighteningly for those of us who remember her as the fresh-faced singer / guitarist with C86 act Miaow - turned 50 earlier this year, gets the then and now treatment, whilst the terrifically named Mike Baker The Bike Maker offers up old school perv hiphop over some footage of Russ Meyer's notorious Return to the Valley of the Dolls. Oh, don't pull a face - it's not like I've uploaded The Human Centipede without warning you...

All this and I still haven't mentioned the triumphant return of James Yuill with another contender for my favourite single of the year (as "No Pins Allowed" had been in 2008), or that set-closers Elliot Jack play at the Midlands Art Centre at the Yardbird Jazz Club in Birmingham this Saturday, September 11th at 6pm. That endorsement for their innovative, warm-hearted electronica would have stood even if I hadn't worked with their bassist for two years way back when...

ARCADE FIRE – Ready to Start (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJxEUS0FZQ

TEKI LATEX – Dinosaurs with Guns (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWl-Kryr0dk

PSAPP – I Want That (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSmc7o2EN_g

DAVID HB DRAKE – Food of our Fathers (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxlZojERaxs

BRIAN – Understand (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AntYewyaVcs

THE PIPETTES – Stop the Music (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_ri_vHuUo

AIRIEL – Thinktank (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jP_JdJKBxM

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Crash Years (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KZANuDcRO4

JAMES YUILL – On Your Own (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFseMoI9DM

CATH CARROLL – It All Looks Good on You (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMZZr1zY4s

CATH CARROLL – Moves Like You (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6nZHK-NwYs

DATAROCK – The Pretender (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mVPsCqSRAg&ob=av2n

THE DENTISTS – I Had an Excellent Dream (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRBY41OuIvE

THE FLYERS & MIKE SONAR – Signalica (Original Mix) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJ_q86ilj4

JANINA ANGEL BATH – Life Everlasting Flowers part one (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31B4ZqAxhU8

PLASTICINES - Loser (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yAh7ytW3Wc&ob=av2n

MIKE BAKER THE BIKE MAKER – La La La (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOEgSFdhUu4

SHE & HIM – Thieves (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB6fsQ87q1U

ELLIOT JACK – Go Home To The People That You Love (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_LG_O36c68

LIST 47 - 03/09/10

2010-09-09T16:28:00.000-07:00

I'm always willing to be surprised by an act I've never hitherto thought much of, and MGMT's splendid piece of chamber pop is probably the latest case in point - far more interesting and better executed to my mind than anything on the "Time to Pretend" album, though the comparatively modest sales of both single and parent album suggest this isn't the more widely held view. Bah.

Elsewhere this week, there's an Eels here and now feature, with the newer track evidently coming from the first of two albums slated for 2010. The Rodolfo Halffter composition marks a first foray into comptemporary South American classical music for this site, and similarly I don't think we've had too many Field Mice-influenced solo projects from Finland prior to Matador Jose!

Finally, and inexcusably overdue, for which apologies, I've given over the last few minutes to Frank Sidebottom by way of a tribute to his earthly keeper Chris Sievey, who as you'll know lost his battle with cancer this summer. Although mostly catching Chris's output in the Freshies retrospectively, I do remember hearing the first Radio Timperley Frank ever did on the James H Reeve show for Piccadilly Radio (I don't know if this was the first one ever) on the evening of broadcast. There's a near-complete set of all his Oink! cartoons in the other room, too.

To this undefatigable, eternally youthful, relentlessly optimistic comic creation I wish a fond farewell, and say thank you for the memories.

MGMT – It’s Working (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sCw8-mIEoM

LAURA VEIRS – July Flame (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLilpPtY2JU

TULLYCRAFT – Twee (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7PN3YTzuYM&p=49AEC181E3F2B52B

HEALTH – USA Boys (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbjjzXr1KA

BARBATUQUES – Barbapapa’s Groove (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q4aj_te-dw&p=C7C115AAC3766AA0

PILOT CLOUD – The Swell (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppk9Lfgqw1c

MATADOR JOSE – I Sure Will Miss You (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43JLgpcldA

EELS – Spectacular Girl (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjbYBHhCC0&p=98813F72939E9CFD

EELS – Novocaine for the Soul (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2yy141q8HQ&ob=av3e

THE FAUNS – Understand (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNhJSq881js&p=4EBAF0F3A48C1119

SPAGHETTI ANYWHERE – Incredible Hulk (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4bbzKAMkDY

RODOLFO HALFFTER / CUARTETO REVUELTAS – Tiento No. 5 (1973 / 2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs_mU_fphrY

THE PRESETS – This Boy’s in Love (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKwnc7QpUt0

THE BLANCHE HUDSON WEEKEND – Grip of Fear (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KRCDd7t7XU

TO MY BOY – Antarctica (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ieZMZR3dc

HEAVENLY – P.U.N.K. Girl (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jxPoJNfM4s

PATRICK WOLF – Bluebells (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89yEOAapoMc

CLEM SNIDE – Walmart Parking Lot (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu4TnsAuVlw

BEIRUT – No Dice (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M1YsGKgHXc

FRANK SIDEBOTTOM – Mr Custard (Channel M Test Card Version) (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VbrEetg18

FRANK SIDEBOTTOM – Mull of Timperley (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka75vhSh49o

LIST 46 - 27/08/10

2010-09-02T17:06:00.000-07:00

Back to a regular sort of list again this week after the previous two excursions back to 1990, starting with a bit of shape-related serendipity over the first three tracks. Good to learn of the return to action of the splendid synthpop duo Lo-Fi-FNK after an absence of getting on for four years, and of the important news that Nick Cave's found the keys to his dressing-up box again....

Elsewhere there's some then and now treatment of Teenage Fanclub, Charlotte Hatherley getting a paint-job, and further evidence of why SPC Eco is an even better parent-and-child pairing up than Lieutenant Pigeon. No, really.

Oh yes, and another candidate for single of the year, this time from Animal Collective staple Panda Bear, who seems to have taken custody of Tim Smith's book of chords.

THE PARALLELOGRAMS – 1 2 3 Go! (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li1mpER2GCw

THE PARALLELOGRAMS (U.S.) – Hurt Like a Heart Attack (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY19Oy6kZMc

LINDA PERHACS – Parallelograms (1970)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJkgnjSadgE

GRINDERMAN – Heathen Child (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwZXbAJ_fmk

LO-FI-FNK – Marchin’ In (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgkz4zAHM4

TOM WILLIAMS AND THE BOAT – Train Station Carpark (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhP-WWwM3JA

PANDA BEAR – Tomboy (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Qq9wVcdH4

KIDS LOVE LIES – Under the Bed (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUspwyyTJ3I

TEENAGE FANCLUB – Sweet Day’s Waiting (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqt7mQwcnKE

TEENAGE FANCLUB – Sparky’s Dream (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9buNckusos0

THE PIPETTES – So I’ll Say Goodbye (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPRQqMJ38pA

ANAIS MITCHELL – Flowers (Eurydice’s Song) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw4maxWNckE

SPC ECO – Better That Way (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gzJgp8dKk

MILKY WIMPSHAKE – Pearshaped (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmWUkwcR1c

FIELD MUSIC – Let’s Write a Book (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06H-Zfwq0w

ALASKA IN WINTER – Berlin (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYJpYW0q8cg

WHEN I WAS 12 – S is for Subway (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ub6vdfNDqY

BIG BLACK – Kerosene (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r5zTZthbFo

MYNABIRDS – Numbers Don’t Lie (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvPBXE2Ikjs

CHARLOTTE HATHERLEY – White (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brS8pYY2dnY&p=90C051732A49C839

LIST 45 - 20/08/10 (1990 special, part two)

2010-08-18T14:50:00.000-07:00

As promised, herewith part two of our romp through whatever I could find (and liked!) on that there Youtube from 20 years ago.

Although I don't tend to go out of my way to find links, "compare and contrasts", or anything of that nature when I do a retrospective special like this, I was pleased to notice that Angela Conway, who effectively was AC Marias, also directed the video for Nick Cave's "The Weeping Song" which appears right after her "One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing". I couldn't have contrived that if I'd tried!

"What Time Is Love" appears in its 1990 smash hit form rather than the 1988 original.

NIRVANA – Sliver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrPO-Nw611U

THE FALL – Telephone Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOtckaZtLg

THE SHAMEN – Make It Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WXeZwe-1Zk

THE LAVENDER FACTION – Harbour Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wb9XwnTamQ

THE LILAC TIME – Laundry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt08n-JoOsA

THE REVOLTING COCKS – Beers, Steers and Queers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVC8Y4aJdc

STRAITJACKET FITS – Down in Splendour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urZKvcLzUQg

THE KLF – What Time is Love? (Live at Trancentral)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxyrDuEibY8

THE FATIMA MANSIONS – Blues for Ceaucescu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnvsgWD_pAQ

THE SEA URCHINS – A Morning Odyssey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsmmTy_-vtA

NWA – 100 Miles and Runnin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUbgPYIrU4

RIDE – Taste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag-u3Yuq8xo

AC MARIAS – One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Iu7HdFg6I

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS – The Weeping Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhOVY58zIo

MORRISSEY – November Spawned a Monster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73AR4m6XkC8

SONIC YOUTH – Kool Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk

NEW FAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS - Big
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkDhJ_m9XXI

DEEE-LITE – Groove Is In The Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg

LIST 44 - 13/08/10 (1990 special, part one)

2010-08-12T11:49:00.001-07:00

A little later than envisaged (and not by design), here at last is part one of this year's "It was 20 years ago, etc. etc." selection. In light of its recent reappraisal following Clarks Shoes' use of it, "Birdhouse In Your Soul" might have been an obvious choice from They Might Be Giants' "Flood" album, but I thought better of it. Equally I resisted the temptation to include anything from The Field Mice's "Skywriting", despite it being not just my favourite Sarah album, but favourite album. Ever. Full stop. "So Said Kay" just seemed a better song to finish with than anything on that album, so on it went.

Jello Biafra has never sounded so unhinged as on the Lard selection here, and even though that was kind of the point of that cover version, it's still a deliciously unsettling listen. Another 1990 selection will follow next week.

THE PIXIES – Velouria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHhox4_SeHQ

PUBLIC ENEMY – Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBlMrGgpwXE

POP WILL EAT ITSELF – Axe of Men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd_lMQ_aM5c

SLOWDIVE - Slowdive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzVwpibI8uY

THE WAKE – Henry’s Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHMs4KKPrDE

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kU7ifODMnU

THE WOULD BEs – I’m Hardly Ever Wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVEICZvdKwQ

THE HEART THROBS – Dreamtime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_l_7-vRsbs

PLUS ONE ft SIRRON – It’s Happening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgYZ6UATpw8

THE CHILLS – Heavenly Pop Hit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvYihKlgzOg

MY BLOODY VALENTINE – Soon (single edit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvkK0mO7fXg

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Ordinary to Enschede
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elvz-h0xCYk

LFO – LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrfYK_Q7upk

ACTION PAINTING! – These Things Happen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsm-OcDuxFU

TEENAGE FANCLUB – Everything Flows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctYYFETItUc

LARD – They’re Coming To Take Me Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0VMDmGdx0

CRANES – E.G. Shining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUzSNfWgNEk

McCARTHY – Get A Knife Between Your Teeth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOWzQH10cFc

THE FIELD MICE – So Said Kay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMH0ssCyUVY

LIST 43 - 06/08/10

2010-08-05T14:31:00.000-07:00

On playing the Silver Columns track the other day, the second thing that entered my head (after "this is quite good, isn't it!") was that it bore more than a passing resemblance to John Foxx's 1981 hit "Europe After The Rain". Not a plagiaristic resemblance, just a resemblance. See what you think.

The reappearances of both Emma Pollock and the ageless Teenage Fanclub have been long-awaited on these pages - the latter's "Baby Lee" is what was played (for close to the first time, if not *the* first time) at Indietracks last year as "Geddy Lee", supposedly in honour of the Rush bassist of the same name!

Elsewhere, the "Neon Lights" played by former June Brides mainstay Phil Wilson *is* the Kraftwerk song; and the piece interpreted by messrs Jarousky and Namura *does* date from 1678 (originally written by Henry Purcell) - you've read the date right...

HAZEL WINTER – Death Row Bride (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIl_qnpMNKk

TOWN BIKE – Dougie (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqg0gp4-Nts

EMMA POLLOCK – Red Orange Green (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-wHxe73mU

TULLYCRAFT – Georgette Plays a Goth (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMkwRw46x8o

SILVER COLUMNS – Cavalier (Time and Space Machine Remix) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhm594MybUA

JOHN FOXX – Europe After The Rain (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEpG3qy9nKk

TEENAGE FANCLUB – Baby Lee (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzRq8nRtLdA

PIPAS – Run Run Run (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m76tJ-epgxo

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – I Can Change (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW8FKkVnqng

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – Losing My Edge (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xG4oFny2Pk

SERENA-MANEESH – Reprobate (live) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5w9Fh_38Ok

WARPAINT – Elephants (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFxb0F2F2A

PHIL WILSON – Neon Lights (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL3S3anG0Gs

LABRADFORD – Comfort (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypFBT94NUqY

CHRIS T-T – Nintendo (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxlgtSO-_Ng

SUMMER CATS – Maybe Pile (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlpKXMJm9mQ

MARTIN ALFREDSSON – Kosmonaut (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlziAC71wro

PURCELL / PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY / YOKO NAMURA – Music for a While (1678 / 2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCrbTBEeiyQ

THE MOTIFS – Set of Wheels (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3pkwObyYwA

MATT & KIM – Yea Yeah (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yg-CgIwaHs

LIST 42 - 30/07/10

2010-07-30T18:04:00.001-07:00

Hello again,

A regular List for you this week following the Festival specials on the last four occasions, though there is a small element of "festival creep" in the selection with the likes of Linda Guilala, School Of Seven Bells, The Just Joans and The Orchids making a swift reappearance.

I'm delighted that someone suggested Billie The Vision & The Dancers to me in the last few days, and their splendid fragile acoustic numbers could yet become my next obsession. At the other end of the niceness scale, perhaps, the more theologically delicate of you may like to know in advance that much in the Juno Reactor video either depicts or hints at Satanism. Albeit in plasticine. Click on the link or not as you see fit - suptayoo.

That Music List was defunct during the World Cup, as you probably know, so the Eux Autres World Cup track, replete with Japanese animation video, is our somewhat belated addition to the canon of appropriate footie songs. Love them as we do, though, Standard Fare's Mexico-themed equivalent just didn't do it for me, but it's there on Youtube in any event if you fancy a peek at the trio kitted out as sombrero-and-moustache-touting archetypes...

MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS - Shadows (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4swMWnhINdU

THE DIVINE COMEDY – At the Indie Disco (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB--qzE4JhE

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS – Windstorm (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF6PQFL8Hfo

BILLIE THE VISION & THE DANCERS – Hold My Hand (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZuodqCIA2w

LINDA GIULALA – Nadie Se Dará Cuenta (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne9TsGCc_zA

BUBBLEGUM LEMONADE – Last Weekend (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkecRk_DFao

DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Great Britain (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeV2cExvnMI

THE ORCHIDS – Tiny Words (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fejQlZSDjlM

THE ORCHIDS – She’s My Girl (Indietracks remix) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUi8kqLorCs

VIDEO VILLAIN – Low (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojqK6n8TZR4

ALI FARKA TOURE & TOUMANI DIABATE – Kala Djula (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PKdK_68r0A

EUX AUTRES – World Cup Fever (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzGItFXNCLU

JIMMY EDGAR – New Touch (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzhFoX8cwqo

NORTHERN PORTRAIT – New Favourite Moment (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZchLvem3Q

DATAROCK – Fa Fa Fa (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xoFhkthls

SEEFEEL – Plainsong (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYWh3RAQgH4

SODA FOUNTAIN RAG – I Wanna Be Your Cat (live at London Popfest) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbR05vVq_ds

RED PONY CLOCK – The Day I Became My Lawn (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xCfC-5R1u0

JUNO REACTOR – Badimo (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dsaWMzjKZE

THE JUST JOANS – What Do We Do Now? (200x)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX694KGjtF4

LIST 41 - 23/07/10 (Indietracks Festival special, part two)

2010-07-29T17:18:00.000-07:00

Part two of the Indietracks preview, and an excuse at last to include "Donald...", my favourite Ballboy track. The prospect of seeing The Orchids at long last, after 20 years of trying, is joyous; likewise the front ranks of Juniper Moon in their current Linda Giulala guise. Bring it on! Next List to follow seven days hence, with me hopefully still grinning like a loon after three days' worth of indiepop goodness...

THE PRIMITIVES – Way Behind Me (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1yhZcuuIn4

BALLBOY – Donald in the Bushes with a Bag of Glue (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIXRRNcIIDU

THE CALLAS – Lipstick (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRjvdRcN76o

LINDA GIULALA – Bucles Infinitos (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JPcxlrf3A4

DAVID TATTERSALL – The Typewriter Ribbon (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4j_CrqQ-ww

TENDER TRAP – Do You Want a Boyfriend? (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFbLEjsdQQY

ANTARCTICA TAKES IT! – I’m No Lover (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xevBcwpRzaA

THE ORCHIDS – Apologies (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNI8D4P7YrI

THE LOVES – Bubblegum (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0vFz1SkzQ8

SHRAG – Lost Dog (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmklH_Hnxzs

CINEPLEXX ft DUGLAS T STEWART – Tiger Trap (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOOaZI-_SPs

BETTY AND THE WEREWOLVES – Paper Thin (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2A2XBrI_T0

INTERNET FOREVER – Break Bones (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRKJjRAGQio

THE POOH STICKS – The World Is Turning On (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gnuI506xYw

THE SUNNY STREET – Pottery and Glass (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7pJuKoBo4M

MEXICAN KIDS AT HOME – Animal Shells (live in Baby J’s Garden) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72mGpwmqYi0

THE MILLIPEDES – Ooh-Wee (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMtgbaF-CmQ

LIME CHALKS – Dunc’s Skiffle / B.A.B.E (at the Lamb, London) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6NIkrNUwg8

PAISLEY AND CHARLIE – Stone Lions (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzK-8Ex1IMw

EVERYBODY WAS IN THE FRENCH RESISTANCE... NOW! – G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N. (You Know I’ve Got A) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvRGFtxIPQE

LIST 40 - 16/07/10 (Indietracks Festival special, part one)

2010-07-29T17:11:00.000-07:00

...And from Latitude, so we move onto Indietracks, the only festival I'll be getting to go to in person this summer, and the one I regard as the most indispensible now - it'll be my third visit, and certainly not the last.

Finding clips for some of the Indietracks roster is hard, given some of their degrees of Youtube-shyness, but I've managed to fill two Lists all the same. I noticed in compiling that I hadn't included "Do The Indie Kid" previously, despite thinking I had - it turned out that I'd added "My Boss was in an Indie Band Once" in List 37 in its stead by accident. As the latter had already appeared in List 31, it thereby counts as the first ever song to figure in more than one list. Drat it, I was hoping to go longer than that!!! Well done if you spotted the error before I did. Ah well, one duplicate every 600-odd songs isn't bad going, I suppose...

‘ALLO DARLIN – If Loneliness Was Art (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsWwLadwYKY

VERONICA FALLS – Found Love in a Graveyard (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMTjGj-v7qM

WINSTON ECHO – Oh Banjo (200x)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qza-WlnEuA

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART – Everything With You (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVrTruj_Aw

STARS OF AVIATION – Love Is Only In Your Mind (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmF3kuN27ds

LA LA LOVE YOU – Dame Un Beso (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nmyIqqMnV4

THE CAVALCADE – Voices (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=338HJAByixs

STARS IN COMA – Invisibility Trick (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrfC7Qp6ZtY

BOY GENIUS – Old New England (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZjFwTWH0Us

WHITE TOWN – Make The World Go Away (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_gm5IFek8

SECRET SHINE – Temporal (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP1hu20xj5M

JAM ON BREAD – At Your Funeral (Jesus College session) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thx3S6qteIs

SLOW CLUB – Giving Up on Love (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qzOOg4pxw8

THE CANNANES – Frightening Thing (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Cp3izCOy4

STANDARD FARE – Philadelphia (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvozbrUljBA

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – Do The Indie Kid (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z265E7fGL_k

THE BLANCHE HUDSON WEEKEND – Noise and Fury (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUXQrfaBPUI

THE JUST JOANS – Looking Like Rain (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nifMlbzzRT4

LIST 39 - 09/07/10 (Latitude Festival special, part two)

2010-07-29T17:04:00.000-07:00

Herewith the second of our two-part trawl through the Latitude line-up for this year. I seem to have saved a couple of the more disturbing videos (Archie Bronson and Kelpe) for right near the end, but I hope you'll have finished your tea by the time you get to those. Percussive Welsh quartet Islet are a real joyous find - I'm going to enjoy following them from hereon. Likewise Yuck, unheralded up to now but in the same musical postcode as The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and interesting on that basis alone.

LAURA MARLING – Devil’s Spoke (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QirL0HXnyS4

FRIGHTENED RABBIT – Swim Until You Can’t See Land (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzjERZU3wbY

THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS – Tom Tom (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhB4mXI19QI

THE LOST LEVELS – The Early Sheets (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srxNQBMi9d4

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA- Diablo Rojo (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KBgg-hrtyo

ISLET – We Shall Visit (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ2gWrqlCRc

YUCK – Georgia (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HfHGURWVnU

CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG – Time of the Assassins (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn_HUzL50HA

TOM WILLIAMS & THE BOAT – 90mph (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9OHTURaiUA

GAGGLE – I Hear Flies (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkx8j6-ymgg

TOKYO POLICE CLUB – Your English is Good (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KGCAffvGIw

SAMUEL CHASE – Diamonds on a Boat (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD5XqXlCPi0

SPECTRALS – Leave Me Be (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLbqI0N4KvU

ENGINE-EARZ EXPERIMENT ft. LENA CULLEN – Reach You (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSwxI0-MfMo

STANDARD FARE – Fifteen (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWRYPzARAn4

ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT – Hoola (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZg8qY9rh20

NADINE SHAH – Aching Bones (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUmJURtB40

KRISTIN HERSH – Echo (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojaoaHr3nZ8

THE MIDDLE EAST – Blood (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSKrrMb9bnE

KELPE – Microscope Contents (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzN7ipbAvbQ

EVERYTHING EVERYTHING – Photoshop Handsome (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5h2LRvBQ5Q

LIST 38 - 02/07/10 (Latitude Festival special, part one)

2010-07-29T16:49:00.000-07:00

Back again, with apologies for the two-month absence since the last update. We have an unforeseen bout of unemployment, the resultant scramble for a new job, and the 150-mile move back up the country to start that job to thank for this, but everything is mercifully back on an even keel now and That Music List comes to you from hereon in from God's own Yorkshire. It's great to be back up this neck of the woods again after over six years away.

Be that all as it may. As per last year, July's Lists are mostly given over to festival line-ups, with this being the first of two specials to celebrate the upcoming Latitude event in Suffolk. Overall I think it's actually a poorer line-up than last year's, with a lot of the space on the small, interesting stages given over to major label (over-) endorsed singer-songwriter wannabees - how many Tiffany Pages can one industry sustain?

No matter. I think I've found some decent stuff all the same. Delighted to see how much the likes of The Good Natured and Elinor Rose Dougall are developing now, and how have I managed to miss School Of Seven Bells for so long? Joe Worricker, meanwhile, is either a genius pop creation or Rough Trade well and truly on the p*ss-take - I still can't decide which...

BELLE & SEBASTIAN – Funny Little Frog (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvS902DLEVI

KURRAN & THE WOLFNOTES – Tempt (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhucPzzC9sg

THE GOOD NATURED – Human Eyes Cry Godly Tears (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCivAOMYiM

THE UNTHANKS – The Testimony of Patience Kershaw (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhACB1ZPQM

MITCHELL MUSEUM – Warning Bells (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyRTFqlShts

ACTIVE CHILD – I’m In Your Church At Night (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UhwRXqlrFE

JOE WORRICKER – We Hug in Bed (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQm7aqriNWs

JóNSI – Go Do (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HjT4SQKJI

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART- The Tenure Itch (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6mZZCdTT1A

BETH JEANS HOUGHTON – I Will Return (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwkTCov06Pk

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS – My Cabal (single edit) (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw_WcaZZj0o

GENTLEMAN’S DUB CLUB – Fly Away (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At31SDdJsIk

GRIZZLY BEAR – Ready, Able (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puph1hejMQE

ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL – Find Me Out (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmPhKXqBElY

THE AGITATOR – Get Ready (original) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43VCC_8_yDU

DIRTY PROJECTORS – Stillness is the Move (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPF6lpM0XM

O.CHILDREN – Ruins (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmcHPk8_1N8

THESE NEW PURITANS – We Want War (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIfKqgWPVvk

ZUN ZUN EGUI – Intense Customer (live) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZduMX7EYQQ

LIST 37 - 30/04/10 (2009 leftovers)

2010-05-02T14:18:00.000-07:00

I suppose this could count as the first "themed" edition of That Music List for 2010, however tenuously. A glance through the backlog of stuff I was still wanting to include revealed rather a lot of songs from last year, for all that it finished four months ago! No matter.

THE HORRORS – Sea within a Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1lD5cE6Bwc

FEVER RAY - Seven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX07gCjT7dA

STE McCABE – I’ve Got a Big Car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nRc5R6Zp9I

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART – Young Adult Friction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4itzHRpltQ

THEORETICAL GIRL – Rivals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRBHv7s9gV4

AIDAN MOFFAT & THE BEST OFS – Big Blonde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du_ATNL7OMA

DARKSTAR – Aidy’s Girl’s a Computer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie5y3M5mgmA

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – My Boss Was in an Indie Band Once
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYfOfrTvpNs

NEOSUPERVITAL – Dance with You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4pIenBJ8iE

NEKO CASE – People Gotta Lot of Nerve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXl870NoF4E

APPLE RABBITS – Metro Dromedary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh6ePxA0sJs

THE JOY FORMIDABLE - Whirring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baNMHNblAMU

SLIIMY – Womanizer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXiIo7jTipg

STANDARD FARE- Dancing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99MS5-wr1cc

ALLO, DARLIN’ – Henry Rollins Don’t Dance (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIumbgw9JH0

FUCK BUTTONS – Surf Solar (single edit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHAq4oqw9Mw

HAZEL WINTER – The Ballad of Geilie Duncan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5SsBoMvys

BELL X1 – The Great Defector
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbIxBa2UQqI

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Brother Sport
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQjyGT1-mc

LIST 36 - 23/04/10

2010-04-24T09:13:00.000-07:00

There's just the 17 songs in this week's 80-minute digest, but lots to interest nonetheless. Johnny Cash continues to release new product from beyond the grave, with the choice here taken from new release "American VI", whilst the Durutti Column track is taken from the self-explanatory tribute album "Paean to Tony Wilson" - sampled thoughts from the great man himself feature prominently. Massive Attack get the then and now treatment, whilst Goblin's track corrects this website's dereliction of duty hitherto to include any soundtracks from Italian splatter movies. ;-D

EBERG – The Right Thing to Do (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPfOIRklPWY

RED RACK’EM – In Love Again (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXv2gpAWuNk

MOON DUO – Killing Time (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSMDw5OOIs

GOBLIN – Profondo Rosso (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2bfnujqUU

THE FALL – Bury Pts. 1 + 3 (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Fu0tBOd4c

ABERFELDY – Hypnotised (2006)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHzJAhsQcjk

WOODEN SHJIPS – Outta My Head (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmchBXiAlW8

TORO Y MOI – Talamak (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxhLiNypVU

JE SUIS ANIMAL – Fortune Map (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7rqudX3l3c

MASSIVE ATTACK – Paradise Circus (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O86iI7oXYfA

MASSIVE ATTACK – Unfinished Sympathy (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmrfgj0MZI

JOHNNY CASH – Ain’t No Grave (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3iQrUBpn5w

THE EX – Maybe I Was The Pilot (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTZvPSKAnWI

JENS LEKMAN – Sipping on Sweet Nectar (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QjGJcYWOKA

LAST HARBOUR – Sunken Bells (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG7lDOQbTGY

CHINA CRISIS – King in a Catholic Style (Wake Up) (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EYLrws2_s0

THE DURUTTI COLUMN – How Unbelievable (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-gheYceCNk

LIST 35 - 16/04/10

2010-04-23T16:59:00.000-07:00

There's the welcome return of a number of long-absent friends in this week's digest. The return of The Hidden Cameras I managed to miss completely (Oops. How???), but progress on Gogol Bordello and Nina Nastasia has been monitored on a nigh-monthly basis for years, and has ultimately proven well worth it.

The new Bomb The Bass single is reason enough to do a Then And Now on Tim Simenon's enduring project (23 years and counting, I make it), and there are a couple of other genuine curiosities. The Trembling Blue Stars track, all ninety-three seconds of it, was recorded for live-action / puppet-based kids' TV show Yo Gabba Gabba of all things; whilst Anna Fröderberg's track is taken from an album released in January entitled "27 Songs from Barcelona", a triple album featuring one track from each of the 27 members of sainted Swedish indie-pop choir I'm From Barcelona. As the album was limited to 200 vinyl copies worldwide, it's safe to assume we won't be seeing too many of these knocking around in future, other than at inflated prices on eBay.

THE HIDDEN CAMERAS – In The Na (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk4NR7oVNLw

THE FUTUREHEADS – Heartbeat Song (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saYWZ837FeA

ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR – Around the Bend (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq-aNkBc2_M

GOGOL BORDELLO – Pala Tute (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylLYS5_KdYs

ATMOSFEAR - Dancing in Outer Space (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1X-9BIHqG0

DRESSY BESSY – Ten Million Stars (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHljqfd9PaM

BOMB THE BASS – The Infinites (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfHNOLnrEPU

BOMB THE BASS ft JUSTIN WARFIELD – Bug Power Dust (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trbvx1U6Ry8

NINA NASTASIA – Cry Cry Baby (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VNaThCRJc

BEST COAST – Up All Night (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S21SGM8-4lI

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – I Found Love (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rkHIe4lP2M

DARWIN DEEZ – Radar Detector (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pbdLqTh_x4

SILVER COLUMNS – Brow Beaten (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXLR9JzVbYU

EBERG - The Twinkle Tune (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kC2VPXaexI

ANNA FRŐDERBERG – But Hey Even Though Your Horses Went Away (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ltcH72zvA

M83 – America (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmLnFuLXloA&search=m83

PORT O’BRIEN – I Woke Up Today (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw3Y84zXLwg

GIL SCOTT-HERON – Me and the Devil (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OET8SVAGELA

BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY & THE CAIRO GANG – Go Folks, Go (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QooQIrSnyoo

LIST 34 - 09/04/10

2010-04-10T18:43:00.000-07:00

The first fruits of two albums of 2010 I've been particularly waiting for - and for a very long time, at that! - make an appearance in this week's list. Serena-Maneesh return after nearly four years out with a sonic assault to make Kevin Shields proud, whilst another Kevin, Mr Drew, has finally got round to convening his splendid powerpop collective Broken Social Scene for the first time in five.

Couldn't let the week pass without letting the official 6Music protest song, "Joy Division Oven Gloves", get an airing. Coming to a chart new you! Probably. Josh Haden's reactivated slo-fi ensemble Spain gets the then and now treatment, and we round off with our own brief Malcolm McLaren tribute.

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Joy Division Oven Gloves (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEag0ss9pFU

SERENA-MANEESH – I Just Want to See Your Face (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-IPw9mv-J4

BARBARA MORGENSTERN – Come To Berlin (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd8tMz8KM6E

IGGY POP – King of the Dogs (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIBMYfQhkJA

LONELADY – Nerve Up (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7VOLwVpj0

ROGERS SISTERS - Why Won't You (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EICbN6YrnM

SPAIN – I’m Still Free (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMZvUmuoLg

SPAIN – Untitled #1 (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exXIb_ykII4

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS – Ego Death (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN0j5xItIPg

SULTANS OF PING FC – Where’s Me Jumper? (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM

THE LITTLE ONES - Ordinary Songs (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzlj_sipkmc

THESE NEW PURITANS – Attack Music (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWoQf7-AZ7k

TODDLA T – No Kip (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z69cKtISWqo

SHE & HIM – In The Sun (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ3cTwI9bIw

CSS – Left Behind (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIhJC2-UNZA

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE – Forced to Love (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UZFQzfA1E

MALCOLM McLAREN & THE BOOTZILLA ORCHESTRA – House of the Blue Danube (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpCYmeaH4A4

MALCOLM McLAREN – Double Dutch (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6Co7EMNCU

MALCOLM McLAREN – Madame Butterfly (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Drw2_HmK0

LIST 33 - 02/04/10

2010-04-09T16:28:00.000-07:00

Their upcoming appearance at the Jazz Cafe in London was reason enough to dig out some vintage Cranes for this list, and I've been meaning to include The Monochrome Set's eponymous track for quite some time, too. Mostly newer stuff aside from these, though, with the Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip track taken from what's proven to be anything other than a difficult second out.

Three cheers to Goldfrapp for delivering the best pop moment of 2010 so far, I reckon - wonder if France has forgiven them yet for still not creating a Felt Mountain mk. 2?

THE BLACK BELLES – What Can I Do? (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNTQ-GmMkM

THE SHINS - Phantom Limb (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkITsv3Nk6M

THE DUCKWORTH LEWIS METHOD – The Age of Revolution (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxuV0A1Jlxk

NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB - Ice Cream (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yYAOUc7YBE

WHITE HILLS – Dead (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPkzJn-1iwQ

DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP – Sick Tonight (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QrkcGykwVE

THE WAVE PICTURES – Kiss Me (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYypUkMC6jI

CRANES – Shining Road (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoX5PoH5IG4

WILLIAM D DRAKE – Wolves (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YeTU9X99U

BLOOD RED SHOES – Light It Up (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiTSbmxssBQ

OOIOO – Grow Sound Tree (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9l_2MDdtKU

HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR – Hercules Theme (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaUMPGx2-Io

GOLDFRAPP – Rocket (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJppnG1tflU

GOLDFRAPP – Lovely Head (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBq-XCKePWg

STORNOWAY – I Saw You Blink (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfI_dcH1d9U

REX THE DOG – Prototype (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYHFR7pKleU&feature=related

FRIGHTENED RABBIT – Nothing Like You (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8z7eP9xnU

THE MONOCHROME SET – The Monochrome Set (I Presume) (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9zfNlV_Fio

TIGER FORCE - Syntax Error (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhTDv9fBDUw

LIST 32 - 26/03/10

2010-03-27T16:44:00.000-07:00

A couple of really splendid duets among this week's assortment, I think -the redoubtable folkster Eliza Carthy guests with fop-pop chameleon Patrick Wold, whilst the legendary Robert Wyatt is heard in collaboration with easy listening / pop composer Bertrand Burgalat later on. There's a Therapy? then and now (impressive how up for it Andy Cairns' men still sound after two decades), as well as a cut from the new album by Field Music, to my mind the collection making the early running for album of the year.

THE KNIFE - We Share Our Mother's Health (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=617ANIA5Rqs

EDITORS – Papillon (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq4tyDRhU_4

MIRACLE FORTRESS – Maybe Lately (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8cmRdpcePc

VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS – The Burning Mountain (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHsw4M97hPE

THE WAVE PICTURES – Strawberry Cables (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep8_PQ4mbak

BONDE DE ROLE - Office Boy (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv8mZh3MHhA

FIELD MUSIC – Them That Do Nothing (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JV3dPrR0PY

ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT - Dead Funny (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGSwk_7BRA

PATRICK WOLF & ELIZA CARTHY – The Bachelor (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MVXUvd0Rk

LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION – Marlene (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCo-U6war6c

NETTO HOUZ – Rising (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bMYlXdiufs

THERAPY? – Crooked Timber (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtP4-dJak8Y

THERAPY? – Teethgrinder (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH_yivWallk

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA – Buster Voodoo (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ZxozEsdgQ

LOS CAMPESINOS! – There Are Listed Buildings (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbs9nzErz4

JOSE JAMES – Blackmagic (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnrMWzsJLHs

NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB – Lost a Girl (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wwXLkpwt58

THE STRANGE BOYS – Be Brave (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hEQd-1XdIs

ROBERT WYATT & BERTRAND BURGALAT - This Summer Night (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmH3_TbfHaA

LIST 31 - 19/03/10

2010-03-27T16:37:00.000-07:00

You'll think twice about lifting the lid off your food in the restaurant after seeing this week's opening video... sorry about that. Elsewhere, there are two helpings of Nick Cave, the late-lamented legend of poetic Scottish whimsy, some German underground psych-pop as old as I am, and a particularly splendid Kate Bush cover.

THE LOVELY EGGS – Haunt Me Out (2009)
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=100266320

DJ FOOD – All Covered in Darkness (Mr P Remix) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MyKslzdqqs

GOLD SOUNDS – So It Goes (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9M7HgKkRn4

BREAKESTRA – Posed to Be (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQ9--Gor7s

GEOFFREY GURRUMUL YUNUPINGU – Bapa (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKC-Jd7KN64&feature=featured

HOLGER CZUKAY – Good Morning Story (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OlBugOdojM

O.CHILDREN – Dead Disco Dancer (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1o_03ilQY

SOULWAX - N.Y. Excuse (2005)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAIgEeOB8xE

AUTOROTATION – And Dream of Sheep (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwQIE513ZYc

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – My Boss Was in an Indie Band Once (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYfOfrTvpNs

JAHDAN BLAKKAMOORE – The General (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqIRjs0O06M

NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS – The Far Road (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3PG01IS20

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Deanna (acoustic) (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImzECO9QkhM

THE PHANTOM BAND – The Howling (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HCEu663rqU

SAND – May Rain (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIRfNDw_RDA

LAWRENCE ARABIA – Apple Pie Bed (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgM74NERL_s

BRUNETTES – B.A.B.Y (Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth) (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrhEHcRymTQ

BIBIO – Lover’s Carvings (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eks4gB9tbE

TRUS’ME ft DAM FUNK – Bail Me Out (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtXnip0vJmM

YEASAYER – Ambling Alp (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4msowO5-h8

IVOR CUTLER – Shoplifters (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LddPuhzt0F4

LIST 30 - 12/03/10

2010-03-12T06:12:00.000-08:00

Back from its winter hiatus, here's the first That Music List of the Tens, Teens, Teenies, Tweenies, whatever you want to call them. 76 minutes of varied stuff including a Magnetic Fields then-and-now, Beth Ditto in collaboration, the folk-world supergroup The Imagined Village and (having played a real collector's item gig at the Lexington a fortnight ago) a wee dash of The Wake from 26 years ago. More next week, all being well.

THE IMAGINED VILLAGE – Space Girl (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ZgShUIfQc

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART – Higher than the Stars (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNpSX42EcKw

BUCK 65 ft. SUFJAN STEVENS – Blood Part 2 (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq5YtipSjsw

ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT – Shark’s Tooth (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chmaBWe7oqI&feature=channel

VAN SHE – Kelly (2006)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM7O5c4xNB8

THE AGITATOR – Let’s Start Marching (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMXMFYjJ80&feature=channel

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – You Must Be Out of Your Mind (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77gy-2UUA-c

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – You Love to Fail (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQpQftEclok

RICHARD HAWLEY – As the Dawn Breaks (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBygWQ8vlug

ARTHUR & MARTHA – Music for Hairproducts (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VvO89Jzh0k

HUMOUSEXUAL – Oh Camberwell (live at the Brixton Windmill) (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IEvt9uxsmM

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – What Would I Want? Sky (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSmuzEzeAeY

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO ft BETH DITTO – Cruel Intentions (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIofSxwkkQE

JE SUIS ANIMAL – The Mystery of Marie Roget (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MELudipdt4

CHRISTOPHER D ASHLEY – Sugar Coated Lies (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5M0KPpkvBw

RINGO DEATHSTARR – Sweet Girl (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQb56S54qOw

DELPHIC – Doubt (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vl2tZV6XV4

MENOMENA – Rotten Hell (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0LIBCw8syA

OH NO – Xcalibur (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7rbcat6Vg4

THE WAKE – Talk about the Past (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHfvzD9JL4w

THE KNIFE - Heartbeats (live) (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrjwqXwyzNU

LIST 29 - 23/12/09 (Christmas)

2009-12-23T15:36:00.000-08:00

Oh go on, then – let’s finish off 2009 with a Christmas special... Something for everyone inamongst this lot, unless you were after Cliff. I'm after Cliff myself, you know - with an axe.

"Just Like Christmas" is the finest festive song ever, and that fact is not open for debate. Most of the other tracks on here run it close, though, including the extraodinary ShiSho, which I managed to miss completely up until now

That Music List will return in 2010 - same URL, same format, different tracks. Best wishes of the season to you all until then.

THE RAMONES – Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight) (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of2tzbVHYCY

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s25qJVER_U

SUFJAN STEVENS – That Was The Worst Christmas Ever! (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpmiPbDkvBQ

XIANNING – Jingle My Bells (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zddq3nr3LqA

THE FLAMING LIPS – Christmas at the Zoo (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VzF3t07spI

THE WEDDING PRESENT – No Christmas (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXHqU7uI1fk

SHISHO – Merry Christmas, Now Leave! (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uID30LQGXU

THE SCHOOL – Let Me Be The Fairy on Christmas Tree Tonight (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBkQd019w7Q

THE KNIFE – Reindeer (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ9KQI8gCXg&feature=related

COCTEAU TWINS – Frosty the Snowman (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pds_K2j3RKM

RUN DMC – Christmas in Hollis (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xWdoQJxMM

MUMFORD & SONS – Winter Winds (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCg_QEHtkY

SHONEN KNIFE – Space Christmas (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Benleak6V6E

BB KING – Merry Christmas Baby (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDV0Y6UK0zs

HYPERBUBBLE – Away in a Manger (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOmGE08E4Z4

LOU BARLOW – Mary (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZnQDo1lCW8

MJ HIBBETT AND THE VALIDATORS – The Advent Calendar of Fact (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc3GsWRsGrs

KURTIS BLOW – Christmas Rappin’ (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVju8BeUQWQ

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Or410w6hI

LOW – Just Like Christmas (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IippcraBPKA

PET SHOP BOYS – It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJNNUahv5c

LIST 28 - 27/11/09 (Warp Records 20th anniversary special, part two)

2009-12-23T15:25:00.000-08:00

As promised, here is the second half of my look back over the Sheffield label's first two decades, with tracks old and new once more in evidence. Always a pleasure to give the Aphex Twin, LFO and Autechre oldies in question a dusting off, and some of the new tracks are especially beguiling. Would it be too glib to call Tim Exile a one-man laptronica Cardiacs? Absolutely thrilled to discover him whilst compiling this list.

There is just the one That Music List list left for 2009 after this, and inevitably it's a wee bit festive. Keep 'em peeled.

APHEX TWIN – On (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-US91WU8zA

BEANS – Down by Law (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uclhS6UarKY

DREXCIYA – Black Sea (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI4u57F7JaQ

MAXIMO PARK – Wraithlike (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxWJJ_IaBU

SQUAREPUSHER – Hello Meow (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcxve603-4

LEILA ft MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD – Deflect (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt5_HOlZiVY&feature=related

LFO – Ta n Ta Ra (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhCERqO0ieM&feature=related

BROTHOMSTATES – Qtio (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdRd_bVaz0E

COCO STEEL AND LOVEBOMB – Feel It (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJ76MpsRbo

HUDSON MOHAWKE – FUSE (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hWrxfuzwjQ

SABRES OF PARADISE – Wilmot (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUxZz4lVRfA

THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS – Dressed in Dresden (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo-HmXANPIo

SEEFEEL – Fracture (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqCWksJQJrw

HARMONIC 313 – Battlestar (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbd-TJKL0cc

TIM EXILE – Family Galaxy (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKHEyUIErEk

AUTECHRE – 444 (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLXzSefzVWU

LIST 27 - 20/11/09 (Warp Records 20th anniversary special, part one)

2009-11-20T17:23:00.000-08:00

As long promised, here is a selection of highlights old and new from Warp Records, the pioneering Sheffield techno label-turned London all-round bastion of interesting new music. Me being me, I've unearthed enough stuff for two lists, so Part One it is!

This first half is literally a start-to-finish retrospective, including as it does the first ever Warp release from 1989 by Forgemasters, and a track by Nice Nice that's been out barely a fortnight.

BOARDS OF CANADA - Dayvan Cowboy (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8

BROADCAST AND THE FOCUS GROUP – Witch Cults (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqINetENovg

SPEEDY J – The Fun Equations (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4dYc53Q4g

POLYGON WINDOW – Polygon Window (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPU4DJG4phg

GRAVENHURST – Black Holes in the Sand (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHzsGzcShvE

NIGHTMARES ON WAX – I’m for Real (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlpGKru7q6s

CHRIS MORRIS : ON THE HOUR – Newsorama (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCIF4qRLras

FORGEMASTERS – Track with No Name (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ys9e2m0LTs

JACKSON AND HIS COMPUTER BAND – Utopia (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PKRsKNpteM

BIBIO – Ambivalence Avenue (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgGsnYpT3zg

TRICKY DISCO – Tricky Disco (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKTEXhc6IyY

GRIZZLY BEAR – While You Wait for the Others (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4jZeGUFzI

JAMIE LIDELL – You Got Me Up (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0h0pvjVSzo

NICE NICE – Ark Drum (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCuefhyaLVQ&feature=channel

PIVOT – In the Blood (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DbM9FGTk-E

PLONE – Plock (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlLzsF61n-8

LONELADY – Immaterial (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHTL0m5Ityk

BORN RUFFIANS – I Need a Life (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9dP51_WssU

!!! (CHK CHK CHK) – Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaqQYetCH8U

Total running time: 77.25 minutes

LIST 26 - 13/11/09

2009-11-15T15:33:00.000-08:00

Neither "Relax" nor "Two Tribes" was the most controversial singles of 1983-4, however much their creators may like to think otherwise. Shockheaded Peters' disarming swing-meets-post-punk paean to paid-for gay sex, "I, Bloodbrother Be", knocks allcomers out of the park, and it's a pleasure to be able to include this exceptional piece of work in a That Music List list.

Other tracks from way back in the day include just about my favourite instrumental opener to an album ever, so it would have been most inappropriate not to accord "Arrogance Gave Him Up" the same position here. There's also a then and now of Groove Armada, some cut and paste hilarity from Cassetteboy, the young British one-woman answer to Doo Rag, what Little Boots did before Little Boots (see if you can spot her), and the return of everyone's favourite ex-hobo.

THE ASSOCIATES – Arrogance Gave Him Up (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn2bCZ1YhIQ

DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Look for the Woman (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqnKbdqjh2I

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – My Girls (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE&feature=fvw

JACOB GOLDEN – On a Saturday (2008)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a2f0DQIuWw

DEAD DISCO – You’re Out (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBv5FHQDnNg

EVEN AS WE SPEAK – Falling Down The Stairs (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGmuHgmcyc

SEASICK STEVE – Never Go West (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x0sNC48KsM

SHOCK HEADED PETERS – I, Bloodbrother Be (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NabkuN1Qktg

ARTHUR & MARTHA – Autovia (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHkppM58m4Q

THE JUST JOANS – Hey Boy... You’re Oh So Sensitive (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn1YBRmmXig

GROOVE ARMADA – I Won’t Kneel (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTAdtYECNE

GROOVE ARMADA – At the River (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KyPpHuIXZo

MICACHU & THE SHAPES – Lips (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dImT-Xs9RMI

NICOLE ATKINS – Maybe Tonight (2008)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VoCcnpbco58

THE FLOWERPOT MEN – Django (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-WMSVPKbQ

CONNAN & THE MOCKASINS - Sneaky Sneaky Dogfriend (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvCaAG8shXs

NEON INDIAN – Deadbeat Summer (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59jEAxcvkWM

SHE & HIM – Sweet Darlin’ (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TBcBPCkEes

TODDLA T – Shake It (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhMCsO0ubiM

CASSETTEBOY – Cassetteboy Vs The Bloody Apprentice (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi6QDwQyLU

Total running time: 77.5 minutes

LIST 25 - 06/11/09

2009-11-08T16:38:00.000-08:00

The quarter-century has been reached, and still not a single song repeated! Nor should there be, really - we've only got through about 500 songs out of the whole history of recorded music (according to the Gospel of St Youtube ;-p) so far...

The splendid return of Loney, Dear features this time, as does the one stand-out track (by a very long way) on a rather inconsistent new Fake Blood EP. The Pastels and Tenniscoats' recent collaborative efforts have begotten a single, also included, and Sonic Youth get the now and then treatment.

The appearance of LFO is intended as a precursor to the That Music List special mentioned previously, celebrating Warp Records' 20th anniversary, whilst the appearance of "Brain" at the end of the list is just there to challenge you a bit. I blimmin' love it, anyway. ;-D

LFO – Freak (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Zq1I5_WAA

LONEY, DEAR – Airport Surroundings (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwmPACtcITg&feature=fvst

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI – That Beep (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Xf-IpT4jQ

GRIZZLY BEAR – Knife (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYZbYtAl9A

BARBARA MORGENSTERN – We’re All Gonna Fucking Die (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MvfOj_sLMU&feature=channel

LISSY TRULLIE – Boy Boy (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seFmkz2x8m4

WAVE PICTURES – I Love You Like A Madman (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3NU8GFzaRs

SONIC YOUTH – Sacred Trickster (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKlbBgQHPqo

SONIC YOUTH – Bull in the Heather (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4BsnXmJaI

EXAMPLE - You Can’t Rap (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvCd1Xq0Au4

JOHN VANDERSLICE – Too Much Time (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ou7FnmExvU

IT’S IMMATERIAL – Driving Away From Home(1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypadKraAb1s

SHY CHILD - Drop the Phone (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aONAuZd-L0A

MICACHU & THE SHAPES – Golden Phone (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TRkZpFgJcI

PASTELS / TENNISCOATS – Vivid Youth (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zxL_va72gk&feature=fvst

FAKE BLOOD – The Dozens (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOzoudDJBr8&feature=related

BEIRUT - Elephant Gun (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-mqhkuOF7s

OU EST LE SWIMMING POOL – Dance the Way I Feel (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLLlSDpdPdE

THE YUMMY FUR – Plastic Cowboy (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImqXXwlIqU

KEIRAN HEBDEN & STEVE REID - Brain (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sihuerkLo4

LIST 24 - 30/10/09

2009-11-08T16:26:00.000-08:00

Always nice to remember a band after ages, think, "I wonder if they're on Youtube at all?", and then find out that they are - hence the joyous appearance of Glasgow's finest psychic-Germany-eyeballs-plastic-cowboy-housing-estate art punk-poppers The Yummy Fur. Result!

Other highlights this time include a double helping of Depeche Mode with tracks all of 19 years apart (and yep, I know I could have gone further back still...), new stuff from the queen of indiepop (and economics) Amelia Fletcher, a spirited Hot Chip cover, the first appearance of some Touareg beats on this site, and some compelling late-90s German electronica.

KITTY, DAISY AND LEWIS – Going Up the Country (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxW3Ed7GrhQ&feature=related

LISSY TRULLIE – Ready for the Floor (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STqsTQegWTo

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Summertime Clothes (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhaRgJUMl8&feature=channel

ELVIS PERKINS - All The Night Without Love (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWa9HwGnV8w

THE YUMMY FUR – Theme from Ultrabra (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nCLK0o1O0s

COLA JET SET – El Sueńo de mi vida (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJFBKkoTLE

PATRICK WOLF – Hard Times (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH5vgng9LAg

SENSORAMA – Star Escalator (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWSjnGHZT78

GRUFF RHYS – Candylion (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyuhOUQs_-I&NR=1

THE ROGERS SISTERS – Never Learn to Cry (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-L0HUZVy2U

DEPECHE MODE – Wrong (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsXOcK9_Cw

DEPECHE MODE – World in My Eyes (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6sMGUWtQg

TENDER TRAP – Fireworks (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sRi24_0rzw

JOHN VANDERSLICE – Exodus Revolution (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNNzGhzIAVo

MOTHLITE – The Flax of Reverie (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q8FBPS_jWE

TOUMAST – Ammilana (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmNSP0QRL0

GILES LIKES TEA – Where We Fell (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ou7FnmExvU

HAWNAY TROOF – Front My Hope (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiNghQlw2pA

DOVES – Sea Song (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXB_h9Ybc2I

LIST 23 – 02/10/09 (1989 special, part four)

2009-10-02T16:03:00.000-07:00

Here's the fourth and final part of the it-was-20-years-ago retrospective That Music List has run during the summer - I hope it's brought back some fond memories, whatever you were into back then. As sure as my bottom points downwards, there will be something similar on this blog next year for 1990!

It's not the end of the 20th anniversary stuff per se, as I've remembered that Warp Records hits that milestone itself any day now, if it hasn't already done so. A trot through some of their highlights during the ensuing two decades will be added at some point, though I think we'll go back to the new(ish) stuff next time.

NEW ORDER – Round and Round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kHgMvWmIs4

THE PARACHUTE MEN – Leeds Station
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4lNqEc-Mo

SPACEMEN 3 – Hypnotized
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mi-Xsz1b5Y

CARDIACS – Baby Heart Dirt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4xw5RTUFX0

BOB MOULD – See A Little Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hNP0RbYwYQ&feature=PlayList&p=BCC6017FA4193EEF&index=0&playnext=1

KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION – Elephantine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI6NKtVJ8Q8

TELEVISION PERSONALITIES – Salvador Dali’s Garden Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w763N6xWSbs

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND – Doowutchalike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raIxMrXQ9ps&feature=related

THE INDIGO GIRLS – Closer to Fine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o27ugtK3i4w&feature=fvst

CLOSE LOBSTERS – Nature Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2WF9TqBWRs&feature=related

AD NAUSEAM – Little Life Little Wonder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usHg2tUNfpI

REM – Stand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4F9sHyyvqk

FRANKIE KNUCKLES – Tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDS7boNwtKk

THE WONDER STUFF – Don’t Let Me Down, Gently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunQM3yJgqY

COWBOY JUNKIES – Blue Moon Revisited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GysJ4bKIhho

ACTION PAINTING! – These Things Happen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsm-OcDuxFU

MORRISSEY – Ouija Board, Ouija Board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8V82TXOzm0

LIST 22 - 25/09/09 (1989 special, part three)

2009-09-18T13:19:00.000-07:00

Picking up where we left off back in June, here is part three of That Music List's "it was 20 years ago today" sort of retrospective. Squirm in horror once more, as you realise all of these songs really were out two whole decades ago!

DEPECHE MODE – Personal Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZEuzxM3_Uk

PUBLIC ENEMY – Fight The Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk

INSPIRAL CARPETS – Joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7lRFUCjVz4

ALIEN SEX FIEND – Haunted House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e9Z7BySFbY

THE MAN FROM DELMONTE – My Love Is Like A Gift You Can’t Return
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MaiVck5Ris

KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION – The Third Time We Opened The Capsule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLzY-PISy-k

DANIELLE DAX – White Knuckle Ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG4TQ27-Uis

THE WAKE – Crush The Flowers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o38U_fKtIzU&feature=related

OYSTERBAND – New York Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvxyT1VpCVA

POP WILL EAT ITSELF – Wise Up! Sucker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDWEs8RJ0v0

THE FIELD MICE – If You Need Someone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpQZB08zJo

MYSTERIOUS ART – Das Omen (teil 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyD8dfyj_Jo

REDHEAD KINGPIN & THE FBI – Do The Right Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUv3iZ4PafM

BOB – Convenience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HcB6dYjf4I

XTC – King For A Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=depsFULhqV8

THE WOLFHOUNDS – Rent Act
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oVvklYfME0

THE GO-BETWEENS – Love Goes On!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq8ZH-Z59hQ

ULTRA VIVID SCENE – The Mercy Seat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aXF9DG9FGo

POPGUNS – Waiting For the Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veero9j4WCQ&feature=PlayList&p=0A5E85C3E879EFD7&index=10

THE CURE – Lullaby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYtYe9K6zv4

LIST 21 - 18/09/09

2009-09-18T13:03:00.000-07:00

I'm a pretty late comer to the naughtily-monikered F*ck Buttons, but I'm glad I have. Like much on their two albums to date, "Space Mountain" is astonishing stuff - like a more aggressive, visceral Boards Of Canada, if that isn't doing both acts a disservice.

Other than that, there is a double helping of veteran Japanese punk-poppers Shonen Knife (28 years and still going strong!), French hip-hop, Norwegian pronk, London steampunk, the cutest Americans ever, and a boat full of robots playing Baroque music. Oh yes, and something Soundgarden fans might not want reminding of!

METRIC - Monster Hospital (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_-jIYkPQAU

AU REVOIR SIMONE – All Or Nothing (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUVgdiSM4tw

JIM NOIR – I Me You I’m Yours (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYa7dgeGoNw

PASSION PIT – The Reeling (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVstHPhaJ6M

GRINDERMAN - Grinderman (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshpJbeNF4U

RONDO VENEZIANO – La Serenissima (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_wRgBS5lI

UNGDOMSKULEN – Idunno (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn87ZxKv4qg

AIR - Mer Du Japon (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjq4_sHy06U

THE SIDDELEYS – What Went Wrong This Time (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZImflXW6ebg&NR=1

MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO – Josephine (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pStL2wkOoTk

TTC - Travailler (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZN_ECkVtk

THE SMITTENS – One Hundred Roses (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ycf0jp-urc

SHONEN KNIFE – Riding on the Rocket [Original] (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSqGtOj72Q4

SHONEN KNIFE – Super Group (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSveOVUdkPI&NR=1

FUCK BUTTONS – Space Mountain (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_T7vyWoSwo

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW – God Bless the Ottoman Empire (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEFt--uGq0

YOUR TWENTIES – Annie (demo) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjcIjlLk3Nc

APRIL SMITH – Bright White Jackets (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UW_yY1a8Xw

SILVERY - Horrors (2008)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ri-9nn-bI84

MOOG COOKBOOK - Black Hole Sun (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEFR85cCi8w

LIST 20 - 13/09/09

2009-09-18T12:11:00.000-07:00

How much does the new Muse single sound like a variation of the Doctor Who theme tune initially? A lot. But I still like it, for all that the lyrics have the merest whiff of impotent rebellion about them.

Elsewhere, there's a dramatic instrumental from Japan, stompy folk from Bristol, instrument-swapping all-female japes from Norway, the most twee Scottish duo ever, a popular American hobo, and an extraordinary experimental track from over 40 years ago. Oh, and two helpings of They Might Be Giants!

LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION - Galaxy of the Lost (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaHJJgoR0-s

MUSE – Uprising (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCdMMd3dpk4

BLITZEN TRAPPER – Furr (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtlcHiSHTE

FUJIYA & MIYAGI - Ankle Injuries (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XVeENmLMk

MONO – Follow the Map (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89zzHCfZ_zs

THE IMPOSSIBLES – The Drum (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H8Sg6s0dM8

ORTZROKA – Planets (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkD4jF8LXjo

KATZENJAMMER – Hey Ho (On The Devil’s Back) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IBCqovBk5Q

THE WHIP – Divebomb (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9vcpdhv74

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – Roy G Biv (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf33ueRXMzQ

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – They’ll Need a Crane (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XdqMGBZjGM

BABEL – Pearl Street Raga (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlwRwPIoFDs

SUGAR CRISIS – We Are Here to Save You (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKZtyBfAZ7A&feature=related

THE ORCHIDS - Another Saturday Night (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hxkrUz0k88

PLASTIC OPERATOR – Folder (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX6rzEX3CK0&search=plastic%20folder

WHITE NOISE – Here Come the Fleas (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRacpYt5F0&NR=1

AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR – Set Guitars to Kill (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU_wQb1qs-4

TILLY AND THE WALL – Beat Control (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVNycEoGtnQ

CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE – Killers (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MqBZxYgtQ0

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE – Rockist part IV (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfi8ZMu1mXM

SEASICK STEVE – I Started Out With Nothin’ (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=113FzU6Uf9U

LIST 19 - 25/08/09

2009-08-25T12:51:00.000-07:00

Dear me, did I jinx them last week? Very sad to learn of Stereolab's recent split the other day, so inevitably they had to get the Then And Now treatment with just about their first single and just about their last single included in this latest collection. Bit of dancehall reggae in here for the first time in a while, too, along with some Marc Riley and Lick The Tins for those of you as old and decrepit as myself. ;-D

FITNESS FOREVER – Vacanze a Settembre (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlIqlvTmPHs

MARC RILEY & THE CREEPERS – Judas Sheep (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuD2UAlRJ48&NR=1

LE MAN AVEC LES LUNETTES – The Happy Birth of You and Me (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXnwZQLzrOo

GRAVENHURST - Hollow Men (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVSnLEzdfg

LUKE ABBOTT - Melody 120 (2008)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5E8oGkhSyc0

PET SHOP BOYS – Love Etc. (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBiaRBUjUs&feature=channel

FILM SCHOOL - 11:11 (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OCM2yOKJ8

STEREOLAB – Super Electric (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJPXldB9eG8

STEREOLAB – Neon Beanbag (2008)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LwpTYLJvY

THE DUCKWORTH LEWIS METHOD – The Nightwatchman (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp6K8U5QlvQ

ANTHONY B – God Above Everything (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmFzh3vjJQs

CYANN & BEN – Words (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RerKcRpcjXI

TEKI LATEX ft. LIO - Les Matins De Paris (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lthbSHjHMFw

LICK THE TINS – Can’t Help Falling in Love with You (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4vAP43d2gs

SLIIMY – Wake Up (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pccguTaYDLQ

SHE WANTS REVENGE - Tear You Apart (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_daRJ0PQI

THE GOOD NATURED – How Can I Believe in You? (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwKE4XsrjC0

PINEY GIR – Say I’m Sorry (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dJs_jTGlZ8

LA CASA AZUL – Esta noche solo cantan para mi (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKvrSNqRqEE

LIST 18 - 14/08/09

2009-08-14T14:03:00.000-07:00

Astonishing that I've gone 18 lists into this feature before the first appearance of the redoubtable Stereolab, given they have been pretty much an ever-present in my musical diet for some 17 years now.

Elsewhere, 'tis a pleasure to find some Lesbo Pig on the interweb to share with you at last, likewise Roy Moller.

Polly Jean Harvey gets the then and now treatment, whilst for the 80s fans among you there's also a bit of Boothill Foot Tappers and also Redditch's very own The Very Things.

GOD HELP THE GIRL – Come Monday Night (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxmrKav8gUM

DARREN HANLON – Fingertips and Mountaintops (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqIO4RA_7IU&feature=PlayList&p=E44526DBEB487944&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=53

OBSCURE – Schwermut (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeoRMW9Ot-Y

BOOTHILL FOOT TAPPERS – Too Much Time (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ousTvrd7m1I&feature=related

WHAT WOULD JESUS DRIVE – The Girls Are In Charge (2009)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLXOmE23KLE

BEASTIE BOYS - Off The Grid (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEkV9c34Qo

THE COMPANY PRESENTS ROY MOLLER – Brother Love (2009)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kczQJRHY-k

NEW FLESH - Wherever We Go (2006)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZKXEqKKbs

dEUS – The Architect (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2CFDsG_oxg

TOM LEHRER – Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH - Black Hearted Love (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWrfLhX964I&feature=PlayList&p=99B3B7710B79645B&index=14

PJ HARVEY – Sheela Na Gig (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojeYbBpbeU

GRIZZLY BEAR – Two Weeks (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ

MONEY CAN’T BUY MUSIC – We Will All Asphyxiate (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TXnpCn-GXQ

CARDIACS – Angleworm Angel (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhJudPpOYwg&feature=PlayList&p=FFE33A2F7A065655&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=17

JUNIOR BOYS - Like A Child (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVxp4Hl-Ik

COOPER – Canción de viernes (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ8tszcjilM

LESBO PIG – Where It’s At (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-WL6zzv6mY

STEREOLAB – Three Women (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNGhqe4OiQ

THE VERY THINGS – The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpgyVxP8OG8

LIST 17 - 02/08/09

2009-08-02T15:17:00.000-07:00

Phew. After all the excitement of first Latitude and then Indietracks, it's back to a standard, non-themed list again this time. Still plenty of interest, mind, including some 2009 product from Camera Obscura, Cornershop and former Blue Aeroplanes guitarist Hazel Winter. The inclusion of the last-named seemed reason enough to dig out the 'Aeroplanes' joyous reinterpretation of an old Paul Simon hit, too!

The closing track appears as That Music List's own tribute to the victims of the appalling attack on the gay young people's centre in Tel Aviv last week. I can't really add anything to the lyrics that they don't say pertinently and succinctly enough already.

GOGOL BORDELLO - Not A Crime (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFL2SXGdrVA

BLONDE REDHEAD - 23 (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7FqUNlEdwA

CAMERA OBSCURA – Honey in the Sun (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDg7Vz8Ow4

fránçois – Hold On Twice (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6S8DJyhyFc&feature=related

DISASTERADIO – Awesome Feelings (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoTFXxcrrw

BLUE AEROPLANES – The Boy in the Bubble (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9eZ3O5StN8

HAZEL WINTER – The Candyman Walks (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jugNw7rSdw

ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL – Another Version of Pop Song (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfecdVruPGQ

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Water Curses (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2rqB0Sl5MQ

THE SMITTENS – My Favourite Dream (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN6aiPQi7PM

COCOROSIE – Rainbowarriors (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypS4x4GO_-E

BIS – Eurodisco (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpC_hz-Gxc8

MANDA RIN – My DNA (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV5EZBpQq0U

CORNERSHOP – The Roll-Off Characteristics (of History in the Making) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLgueesvGxk

AKALA – Shakespeare (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gme1YN-qZV8

DAWN LANDES – Bodyguard (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHhez7NMCc

TELEVISION PERSONALITIES – A Picture of Dorian Gray (1981)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMbuZSfV41w

MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – Do The Indie Kid (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z265E7fGL_k

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – A Statue to Wilde (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzIPhGVPX6U

LIST 16 - 23/07/09 (Indietracks Festival special, part two)

2009-07-23T16:25:00.000-07:00

...And the other half of Indietracks. DIY indie-pop abounds. Good!

MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES – Extra Medication (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxxLi6ol9ug

TEENAGE FANCLUB – I Don’t Want Control of You (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FHwkZPrJHw

STEREO TOTAL – I Love You, Ono! (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTFfEkJf4NM

THE LOYAL TROOPER – The Doctor (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mWGfvouYI

LET’S WHISPER – When You Were Eating Ice Cream (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVUaejHuCPo

POCKETBOOKS – Footsteps (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZcI1lVFjrI

COLA JET SET – Quiereme (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y56vbzY7f00

NORTHERN PORTRAIT – A Quiet Night in Copenhagen (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_BCJaaNCE

NICK GARRIE – Twilight (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWPRScqDXfQ

DISASTERADIO – Power Up (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg5MOQhWImo

COOPER – Hyde Park (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlcwUZttXoI

BMX BANDITS – You Don’t Wanna Be My Girlfriend, Phoebe (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgHasNvOb04

LUCKY SOUL – Lips Are Unhappy (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOdEjlvFem0

KING OF CATS – Balloon Fuel (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZtd6yOJnY

STE McCABE – Huyton Scum (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQEJcvQA8No&feature=PlayList&p=ECD09473892CB127&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=39

THE SCHOOL – All I Wanna Do (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdarcOe5L2k

THE SMITTENS – Gumdrops (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyoR7Pch6Uo

LE MAN ET LES LUNETTES – Aging Again (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyTpNst4vXo

MOUSTACHE OF INSANITY – Cheese and Freckles (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2tYpT3mf9Q

GORDON McINTYRE – I Am An Indie Pirate and I Will Skuttle Ye (2009)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X7CAkoJtRw

ART BRUT – Emily Kane (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvA0UBesfbY

EUX AUTRES – Anne Boleyn (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ4hv_K2I4Q

THE MARSHMALLOW KISSES – Dear Giant (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgLC9_8oCwQ

MJ HIBBETT – Hey Hey 16k (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCdNrRNS4g&feature=PlayList&p=56B2621E04AB47DA&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4

AU REVOIR SIMONE – Sad Song (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFG-cUQ1a8k

THE FRANK AND WALTERS – After All (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XntbZJrDHq0

CAMERA OBSCURA – Let’s Get Out of This Country (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY_L_rafEs0

LIST 15 – 22/07/09 (Indietracks Festival special, part one)

2009-07-23T16:18:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

As promised, having worked through all of the Latitude line-up (more or less), our thoughts now turn to Indietracks, taking place for the third time in the Butterly Railway Musuem near Ripley, Derbyshire this very weekend.

This is my kind of festival - cheap (£55 for the weekend), small, civilised and very friendly. And if the music doesn't grab you, the free rides on the preserved steam trains is bound to!

Once again, the remit was to try to find a track by as many artists performing over the weekend as possible. And one again, this proved successful enough to run into more than one list. Here's the first!

AU REVOIR SIMONE – Dark Halls (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW1aQvlGDfo

EMMY THE GREAT – First Love (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dS8uy5fwfs

ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL – Stop / Start / Synchro (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHDYzPCfo-Q&feature=related

CAMERA OBSCURA – Tears for Affairs (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa1OJ8n1r6U

THE LOVELY EGGS – Have You Ever Heard a Digital Accordion? (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrvPKjE1dNE

CATS ON FIRE – Tears in your Cup (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOUj2soql3g

LA CASA AZUL – La Revolucion Sexual (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn_MtUK_6H4

BUTCHER BOY – I Could Be in Love with Anyone (live) (2007)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoUM-xDSeuY

SPEEDMARKET AVENUE – Don’t Fall in Love (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utAIXRCsiXU

MIGHTY MIGHTY – Law (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17xpb0GJvBk

ONE HAPPY ISLAND – Anita (live) (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXSA4oF8IFk

LITTLE MY – Sellotape My Hands (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb7Y9LJFaUw&feature=related

ROY MOLLER – Great Wall of China (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEMYEmkjwqU

FITNESS FOREVER – Bacharach (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZbBziT9Hbg

KEVIN McGROTHER – The Girl in the DM Boots (live) (2009)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPm4BE-_7v8&feature=related

DOWNDIME – Lessons (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFTia8F1AHw

SUCRETTE - (シュクレット) (Lovely My Girl) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jP5BNs_p_k

POPPY AND FRIENDS – Did It (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2aDpgPwkng

WAKE THE PRESIDENT – Miss Tierney (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eusm7-3y1oA

RAY RUMOURS & THE NO EYED DEARS – Mr Bear (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CBJj2yhFyo

THE FRANK AND WALTERS – Miles and Miles (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf-YStg_e2o

List 14 - 05/07/09 (Latitude Festival special, part three)

2009-07-23T15:50:00.001-07:00

...And finally...

Here is the last part of the three-part Latitude Festival preview for your delight and delectation. A big thanks as always to the modern-day wonder that is Youtube for storing them all in the first place. Hope you've enjoyed these lists as much as I have compiling them!

The next That Music List is likely to be something similar for the forthcoming Indietracks Festival (July 24th-26th), assuming I can find enough material. I'll load that up in a week or two's time.

Cheers!

BAT FOR LASHES – Daniel (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ZHah-c0hQ

SPIRITUALIZED – Anyway That You Want Me (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVyOULVEx4

FEVER RAY – If I Had A Heart (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJmkcguNVhE&feature=related

EMMY THE GREAT – We Almost Had A Baby (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-XKr5vkQk

TEMPER TRAP – Science of Fear (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vkXxn65ec

ALELA DIANE – The Rifle (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJFZUpmv62c

MAGAZINE – Definitive Gaze (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgZiKziAY58&feature=related

CHAIRLIFT – Bruises (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLG9DheSh-c&feature=related

HJALTALIN – Traffic Music (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfR_jMM2Hw

CHARLOTTE HATHERLEY – Bastardo (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyIVkEhyNLE&feature=related

KAP BAMBINO – Dead Lazers (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5E4QUUFG9Y

LOCAL NATIVES – Airplanes (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EonnZ-8GdiY

YES GIANTESS – Tuff N Stuff (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83LNxvzRKA4

ALAN POWNALL – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28rODrLLefI

SLOW CLUB – Me and You (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_jPQrdnE8

CASIOKIDS – Fot i Hose (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGWjMGDNRM

DJANGO DJANGO - Storm (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbL3oUMsvgU

SPEECH DEBELLE – The Key (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I98iyEf5a7E

CHEW LIPS – Solo (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5zfOa7CDI

PULLED APART BY HORSES – Meat Balloon (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBQEX9hJ8sM

LIST 13 - 04/07/09 (Latitude Festival special, part two)

2009-07-23T15:38:00.000-07:00

Hello again,

This is the second of three lists, with every act scheduled to appear at Latitude in a little over a fortnight's time. All bases covered from world to dayglo punkpop and then some!

SAINT ETIENNE – He’s on the Phone (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OgV4F7JzVc

THE DUCKWORTH LEWIS METHOD – Meeting Mr Miandad (2009)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGVzbFaLk0s

PATRICK WOLF – Bloodbeat (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm-V1wlUj5I

OF MONTREAL - Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PoJv4N1Too&search=of%20montreal%20wraith

THE CHAKRAS – We The People (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr_RwkZivxE

SQUEEZE – Another Nail in my Heart (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l07bZjtz4go&feature=related

CAMERA OBSCURA – If Looks Could Kill (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztIWgEO0vRc&NR=1

MARNIE STERN – Transformer (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3oxU9-zeiA

THE MUMMERS – Wonderland (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNFV10oTVoU&feature=related

GEOFFREY GURRUMUL YUNIPINGU – Djarimirri (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bawDFY8G-o4

LITTLE BOOTS – Meddle (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cHX-znop8Q

BAND OF SKULLS – I Know What I Am (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tl3zhbWrBY

GOLDHEART ASSEMBLY – The Engraver’s Daughter (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ptqX4KMlsk

WE HAVE BAND – You Came Out (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANKjz-7uZIc

MAPS – You Don’t Know Her Name (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-GieKHv7-A

SUGARCRISIS – Stuck in Traffic (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEW7uy5H1YU&feature=related

FIRST AID KIT – You’re Not Coming Home Tonight (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lWiYu39O4

GOLDEN SILVERS – True Romance (True No.9 Blues) (2009)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9o1gEhaE8

JOE GIDEON & THE SHARK - DOL (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxQtnti6ids

BISHI - On My Own Again (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYoVmqZIoR8

THE XX – Crystalised (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pib8eYDSFEI

LIST 12 - 03/07/09 (Latitude Festival special, part one)

2009-07-23T15:35:00.001-07:00

Hey up,

Now, a few people have asked me to go through the line-up of this year's Latitude Festival, including a few who, like me, won't be able to go this time on account of work commitments. No problem, happy to oblige! It's something I'm happy to do, given the work involved has constituted my first exposure to rather a lot of the acts on the two smallest music stages in particular.

This is the first of three lists, with every act scheduled to appear at Latitude in a little over a fortnight's time. In order to cram on as much as possible, I have opted to omit most of the headline acts - I trust most people are familiar enough with the output of Pet Shop Boys, Editors, Doves, etc. not to be too disappointed about that.

Right, off we go!

THE GOSSIP – Heavy Cross (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6k1I_OnjTU

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – Red Right Hand (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUlgN__Jrxk

THOM YORKE – Harrowdown Hill (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS37ZSYOwTA

LADYHAWKE – Paris is Burning (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1HDZNR9cY4

PHOENIX – 1901 (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSLbW1S5gHA

DATAROCK - Computer Camp Love (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO7xa3UZaZ0

BROKEN FAMILY BAND – Salivating (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygJYDvJ8PSU

BROKEN RECORDS – Lies (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuDUiVwNpdc

LISA HANNIGAN – Lille (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaFs_uEfqhM

AMAZING BABY – Bayonets (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTxXcTOcggo

LYKKE LI – I’m Good, I’m Gone (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Z1ZtIiuPA

THE VASELINES – Dying For It (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IewYV6d0NWQ

iLIKETRAINS – Terra Nova (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHloQFJNvs

WILDBIRDS & PEACEDRUMS – There Is No Light (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4y_wyov6Q

PASSION PIT – Sleepyhead (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfseWNmlds&NR=1

PHENOMENAL HAND CLAP BAND – 15 to 20 (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYSdF37LCPA

FIGHT LIKE APES – Tie Me Up With Jackets (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9KFT5ImlxA

DEAR READER – Dearheart (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMsB38XD4FU

CATHERINE A.D. – Follow Your Heart (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ehu13YgeRc

DAG FŐR DAG - Words (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?

THE AGITATOR - All That You Got (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zbI6gio9xw&feature=related

LIST 11 - 22/06/09 (1989 special, part two)

2009-07-23T15:29:00.000-07:00

Part two of the "20 years ago" retrospective. Some real old favourites here, as well as some lost gems and never-weres. Other than the bassist, who ran off to join Lush ultimately, whatever *did* happen to See See Rider? Answers on a postcard...

THE KLF – Kylie Said To Jason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSaZKgAq8J0

PIXIES – Here Comes Your Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvi4iA3PnKE

THE SHAMEN – Omega Amigo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyAfsPl2cQ

THE WEDDING PRESENT – Kennedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcn0dQWRshE

DE LA SOUL – Me, Myself and I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PAkrbQScw

NEW FAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS – Big
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkDhJ_m9XXI

THE SUNDAYS – Can’t Be Sure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27jcB5woXyU

POP WILL EAT ITSELF – Can U Dig It?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8cN_qvhfeI

SEE SEE RIDER – She Sings Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWmcuSE5MM

HOUSE OF LOVE – I Don’t Know Why I Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVdfi1VoM7w

NINE INCH NAILS – Sin (1989 original issue)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOoWkXEz-5E

THE THE – The Beat(en) Generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isUCQIvOplA

A GUY CALLED GERALD – Hot Lemonade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BItMlta4lV8

LIGHTNING SEEDS – Pure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6myNbk15sMs&feature=related

SUGARCUBES – Regina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznnQ9nhWFU

WIRE – In Vivo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHAnOQyXhGI

LUSH – De-Luxe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdhXvCc1RJE

THE STONE ROSES – I Am The Resurrection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QnK0yql8s

LIST 10 - 14/06/09 (1989 special, part one)

2009-07-23T15:26:00.000-07:00

1989 SPECIAL – Part One

Frightening but true - all of these tracks are 20 years old this year! This is the first of at least two, probably more likely three, delves into one of my absolute favourite years for music. Lots seemed to happen, most of it very good indeed. I hope these tracks make you feel suitably nostalgic rather than incredibly old, depressed and superannuated. ;-D

"Eardrum Buzz", of course, was voted the worst song ever by Philip Schofield once upon a time. So what better recommendation do you need?

WIRE – Eardrum Buzz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoBXsZh2XZE

PIXIES – Debaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCoOlUjhlc

808 STATE – Pacific State
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ebeduqvCUs&feature=related

THE FIELD MICE – Anyone Else Isn’t You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_kX3QXRW9o

DANIELLE DAX – Cat-House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6dIBK7_ig

THROWING MUSES – Dizzy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1iJYZqG1E

THE KLF – 3am Eternal (1989 Pure Trance Original)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32xQiPuUDaw

HEART THROBS – Dreamtime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_l_7-vRsbs

THE WONDER STUFF – Golden Green
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l67iGJPakRE

MYSTERIOUS ART – Requiem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPVsn8dOqA

ST CHRISTOPHER – All Of A Tremble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0IYBVCNtns

FATIMA MANSIONS – Only Losers Take The Bus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSi2Z74Ou8

THE STONE ROSES – What The World Is Waiting For
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGOaro9kfS4

MICHELLE SHOCKED – On The Greener Side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1NyTN3FG9s

A C MARIAS – One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Iu7HdFg6I

THE BELOVED – The Sun Rising
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2hzlEdXsg0

DARLING BUDS – Hit The Ground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxqqa0U_3js

FINITRIBE – Monster in the House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo9lvC8HtnE

KIRSTY MACCOLL - Free World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46pfPVE5q1o

CARDIACS - The Everso Closely Guarded Line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61CicoCgyd0

LIST 09 - 08/06/09

2009-07-23T15:19:00.000-07:00

Astonishing that it's taken nine lists for me to get my favourite band The Field Mice on a list. How remiss!

A real pleasure to include Cybotron's "Clear", one of the defining statements in techno and still a vital, fresh track 26 years on. SPC ECO, meanwhile, is the new project of Dean Garcia, the other half of Curve. Do please give it a go!

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE ft FEIST - 7/4 Shoreline (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uev2J_cBHjQ&search=broken%20social%20scene

CAMERA OBSCURA – French Navy (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9n8LVY0vs

ERRORS - Salut! France (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Mq9d3cWZ8

ROKIA TRAORE – Zen (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUVLZFEL-b4

THE FIELD MICE – Sensitive (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9JRLwdwno

GAMEBOY GAMEGIRL – Sweaty Wet / Dirty Damp (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NzMsktBcmI

120 DAYS - C-Musik (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh7gFUkpANk

PET SHOP BOYS – Did You See Me Coming? (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hy4bT0ESfc

PET SHOP BOYS – Being Boring (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnvFOaBoieE

SPC ECO – Telling You (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYNWqNd0EKg

TUUNG – Fair Doreen (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrMEzZEUPbE

BATTLES - Atlas (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp-22t0lU

FIELD MUSIC - A House is Not a Home (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e8W1AYn8c0

CYBOTRON – Clear (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I280cxs2jvA

AU REVOIR SIMONE – Shadows (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bar3rLB2ao

MALAJUBE – Montreal -40c (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGSi3pmpuI&feature=related

PROLAPSE – Deanshanger (1997)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIbhkQlQAsU

LYKKE LI – Little Bit (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upnTg2GPgTM

LONEY, DEAR - Saturday Waits (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohhqm0igbXE

SUGAR – Tilted (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrLcNWi94Wk

LIST 08 - 30/05/09

2009-07-23T15:14:00.000-07:00

Delighted to include a double helping of Sparks songs this time, old and new. If only all bands could sound as vital over 30 years into their careers as both Sparks and Cardiacs (also included) do. Marvellous efforts.

THE REAL TUESDAY WELD – Bathtime in Clerkenwell (2002)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCT23V7C9GU

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - Another Sunny Day (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HTBwvwVNT4

JARVIS COCKER – Angela (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNh4CS9Cns

XTC versus BONDE DO ROLE – Carretel De Frango (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F3IcyNUL10

PEEPING TOM – Mojo (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pcvBFFflEc

MANU CHAO – Me Gustas Tu (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzgjiPBCsss

BLOOD RED SHOES – It’s Getting Boring by the Sea (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEzKBUsyGYg

EVEN AS WE SPEAK – Falling Down (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7pWbObmuX4

SPARKS – I Can’t Believe That You Would Fall For All The Crap In This Song (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5fSQka4ck

SPARKS – The Number 1 Song in Heaven (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc_x2-rCFWI

THE CONCRETES - On The Radio (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3kLxyes3ig

TAKEN BY TREES – Tell Me (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4GmERZ3pig&feature=related

CADENCE WEAPON – Sharks (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gecCt0F_6nM

WORKING FOR A NUCLEAR FREE CITY - Rocket (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_573IIv81A

CULTURE – War in Sierra Leone (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfgo47Tk1qk

JAKOBINARINA - This Is An Advertisement (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCrvZcfqNc

JACOB GOLDEN – Out Come the Wolves (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRuj1PkhdCg

THOMPSON TWINS – Come Inside (Feedback Max House Mix) (1991)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toX3vTLLSME

ABSENTEE – Bitchstealer (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3_p6tPlF0

EAST RIVER PIPE – Make a Deal with the City (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRq4Tc-cry4

CARDIACS – Jibber and Twitch (rehearsal) (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxhuQWKwbqY

LIST 07 - 07/05/09 (in memory of the Annie Nightingale Request Show, part two)

2009-07-23T15:00:00.000-07:00

Oops, so much for roughly weekly updates! It's been a mad old month. Anyhoo, here is the other half of the Annie Nightingale Request Show tribute list - looks a bit more quirky than part one on balance, and would have been all the more so if I'd have found a copy of Digital Underground's "Doowutchalyke" that hadn't been overwritten by Youtube. Meh.

STONE ROSES – Fool’s Gold (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4bHMVAKDao

THIS MORTAL COIL – Song to the Siren (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM

MC 900 Ft JESUS FEATURING DJ ZERO – Truth Is Out Of Style (1989)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtlpG0hb38

TODD RUNDGREN & UTOPIA – Communion with the Sun (1976)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCnpKgY6u4E

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Dickie Davies Eyes (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCvs2w_Mjeg

FIAT LUX – Secrets (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOeGawjJnR8&feature=related

SAINT ETIENNE – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdS6pPVCMU

FREUR – Doot Doot (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opaeNiiizxo

TOM LEHRER – The Masochism Tango (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE

THE ORB – Little Fluffy Clouds (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWMIXgCaJPQ

STUMP – Charlton Heston (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xxju1pNhuA

THE TIMES – Manchester (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKs9JwiD65E

FRANK ZAPPA – Valley Girl (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnVE3UTIgEM

LIST 06 - 01/04/09 (in memory of the Annie Nightingale Request Show, part one)

2009-07-23T14:52:00.000-07:00

Quite by accident the other day, I read on Wikipedia that the eternally wonderful Annie Nightingale was born on April 1st.

It's not a landmark birthday for her this year, but that was still all the excuse I needed to knock up a list of some of my (and your?) favourite tunes from her long-discontinued and sadly-missed Sunday evening request show on Radio 1 (1982-1994).

In the event I found enough material from the usual sources to fill two hour-long lists rather than the one usual "CD length" one, so here's part one for you. There's nothing newer than the early 90s on here, for obvious reasons, and as such there are fewer working videos accompanying the music than is usually the case. The songs themselves are all present and correct, though, and what a joy it's been to hear them again.

Yes, even "Fish Heads"!

TERRY, BLAIR & ANOUCHKA – Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiiLQH_2fjY

THE JAM – Butterfly Collector (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2vue_-cW0s

SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND – Swampsnake (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrZ9lcXskrg

GANGWAY – My Girl and Me (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjALLCRCn6U

BARNES & BARNES – Fish Heads (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpUVAcvWfU

ALTERN8 – Frequency (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UxDOuz570s

THE MOTORS – Love & Loneliness (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJnH2fKZGA

STUMP – Buffalo (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmQ3dFQvs

THE DAVE HOWARD SINGERS – Yon Yonson (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwCHi3KbsMQ

PASSIONS – I’m in Love with a German Filmstar (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nasn-49uk4A

ERSTE ALLGEMEINE VERUNSICHERUNG – Ba-Ba-Bankrobbery (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JXmzPr6bkA

POP WILL EAT ITSELF – There’s a Psycopath in my Soup (1986)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVaVeaaUC0

MESSIAH – There Is No Law (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgqeZeKcj_k

ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS – Brenda’s Iron Sledge (1985)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpRHX880Po

THE CURE – A Forest (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7wuV_C1oI

LIST 05 - 14/03/09

2009-07-23T14:48:00.000-07:00

So.... the first list since PRS and Youtube came to blows, but apart from having to swerve a few official record label video providers to find stuff, life's carried on pretty much as normal in That Music List Towers.

Moral of story: aspire to listen to something other than Leona Lewis, and all shall be well. ;-D

Highlights of this list include a couple of Trembling Blue Stars songs from either end of that band's career (Note to self: five lists in and still not one single Field Mice track? What's wrong with you, Jezza?), and the oldest song I've found to date - a wonderful British calypso track from 1950 by Lord Beginner. Damon Albarn's digging out of such gems recorded by the first generation of West Indians to emigrate to Britain over 50 years ago is something I've enojoyed hugely.

Oh, and there's some shoegaze as well, for those of us who loved it back in the day!

LADYHAWKE – My Delirium (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVnUwWRteaQ

BROADCAST – Black Cat (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjg3rfQmh_I

ALLO, DARLIN – Dear Stephen Hawking (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eTrhx9KlOU&feature=channel

SALT TANK – Charged Up (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-nLoK2EOw

BARRINGTONE – Snake in the Grass (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWrIv6IC3Ds

ENTER SHIKARI – Sorry, You’re Not a Winner (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4MiC67seUY

LORD BEGINNER – Victory Calypso (1950)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06P0RdZyjT4

FRANZ FERDINAND – No you Girls (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5idcarc5rc

AIR – CHERRY BLOSSOM GIRL (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RixdZcVuyw8

AMADOU & MARIAM – Ce N’est Pas Bon (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZkKmpto9c

SLOWDIVE – Shine (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVGPtNTYVQ

BEST FWENDS – Skate or Live (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdDjl1khbP4

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – This Once Was an Island (2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zva2pR39NJg

TREMBLING BLUE STARS – For This One (1996)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNbDU-XuwVg

MAGNETIC FIELDS – Too Drunk to Dream (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h4ufGS6bE4

SIGUR ROS – Gobbledigook (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfKw5r7M7MQ

THE GRATES - 19-20-20 (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-8WwzEbsTo&search=the%20grates

KUTIMAN – This Is What It Became (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAvS0pc9NIw

LADYTRON – Evil (album version) (2004)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glzoH-L0Ybo

METRONOMY – You Could Easily Have Me (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBb0zSmNevY

LIST 04 - 06/03/09

2009-07-23T14:40:00.000-07:00

As the title implies, everything on here hails from 2006.

Reason being? Well, 2006 was when I was working on the short-lived national daily newspaper The Sportsman, and out of necessity the hours were a little more exotic than your usual daily 9 to 5.

As such, many were the evenings that I'd not get back home until around 11pm, and dive straight onto the digital telly to catch MTV2's late-lamented 120 Minutes, or something on Huw Stephens' show, or 6Music, or similar, whilst still winding down from another day at the typeface.

The upshot is that whilst my pursuit and absorption of interesting music has never ever really let up, during 2006 it was probably as intense as it had been for many years previously.

These are some of my highlights from 100s of potential candidates during that year.

CAMERA OBSCURA – Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTa_RQC8ZxA

LO-FI-FNK – Wake Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUM94BCiZXI

SPARKS – Dick Around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na8oDCKp6AU

RUSSIAN FUTURISTS – Paul Simon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1OlRNE6qak

SOL SEPPY – Slo Fuzz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd27YI1Es3Q

CSS – Let’s Make Love (and Listen to Death From Above)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7agPOt1XZz8

PSAPP – Hi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OBxL8PiFc8

MOGWAI – Travel is Dangerous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBy_W9KLfiQ

I’M FROM BARCELONA – We’re From Barcelona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwwbXHNGsjU

DAVID E SUGAR – We Weren’t Put Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVo7jCXwVKE

HOWLING BELLS – Setting Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbBepI5FVgo

THE HIDDEN CAMERAS – Awoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1m66vjAFRU

JAMES FIGURINE – Apologies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjE1NpoEprY

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL – I Want You So Hard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrIVkuYRiHA

NEOSUPERVITAL – Rachel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PHT-Vxff2Y

TO MY BOY – I Am X-Ray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThiSo8AvLXY

SOULS SHE SAID – Sunken City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz7QGRCz9cM

PIPETTES – Pull Shapes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYzVEmOUoE

MEAT KATIE & ELITE FORCE ft ROLAND CLARK – Divine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lke2oaLM95s

CLEARLAKE – It’s Getting Light Outside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntA7NdgB4qA&search=clearlake%20light

THE KNIFE – Like A Pen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqNSd-x1yEs&feature=related

Total running time: 79 minutes

LIST 03 - 27/02/09

2009-07-23T14:32:00.000-07:00

Here again!

A note of caution to anyone who doesn't know the song already is that the Jarvis Cocker track that concludes this section could hardly be swearier if it tried. I was moved to include it after learning that those sods at MTV have cancelled the 120 Minutes show, by a long margin my main source of new leftfield music over the last three years.

The producers of the show chose it as the last song they ever played on it - no love lost between them and their soon to be ex-employers, then!

PORTISHEAD – The Rip (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOZ4RuKRgE

SERENA-MANEESH – Drain Cosmetics (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT_uwSI01Hc

FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE – Kiss with a Fiss (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpsDegqioVA

THE STREETS – Heaven for the Weather (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XczLJ4-sd8M

BOARDS OF CANADA – Alpha and Omega (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxSr7nF_SU

KRISTIN HERSH – In Shock (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFoWvu-86O8

McCARTHY – Keep an Open Mind Or Else (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxSr7nF_SU

BODY SNATCHERS – Freaky Ho (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDjyGIuNiA

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Bad Losers on Yahoo! Chess (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8w3eW1huCM

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na12OyJEgJ8

AU REVOIR SIMONE – Fallen Snow (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXmKpB9dn3c

DEL THA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN – Mistadobalina (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h3ynPZEOM4

RADAR BROTHERS – When Cold Air Goes to Sleep (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsde36e2YcY

NEON NEON ft CATE LE BON & GRUFF RHYS – I Lust You (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4lZqDmCO9c

MALAJUBE – Fille a Plumes (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU1aQCB32uE

JOHN COOPER CLARKE – Beasley Street (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37QUUwp9xIs&feature=related

SEBASTIAN TELLIER – Broadway (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5yA9uX7hM

THE MONOCHROME SET – Jacob’s Ladder (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqOGSjA2HPY

JARVIS COCKER – Running the World (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=monyiOsoKxg

LIST 02 - 19/02/09

2009-07-23T14:26:00.000-07:00

Not sure what's the greatest surprise in this list - that some wonderful soul finally stuck "Considering a Move to Memphis" on Youtube, or that St Etienne are still living and breathing!
Cardiacs double-header appears as a morale-booster whilst frontman Tim Smith remains incapacitated after - ironically - a cardiac arrest. Some things you just can't script. Bet Lawnmower Death are worried now.

As always, sound levels vary a bit from one clip to the next, so wiggle your knob accordingly to attain best results. ;-)

XTC – The Mayor of Simpleton (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Da9sc6YDBo

SAINT ETIENNE – Method of Modern Love (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi0OvJkLiww

YILA ft SCROOBIUS PIP – Astronaut (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8UfvHnna38

THE COLORBLIND JAMES EXPERIENCE – Considering a Move to Memphis (1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exul_bc_mIU&feature=related

KIKO – Slave of My Mind (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rij8qWLqo-U

ANOTHER SUNNY DAY – You Should All Be Murdered (1989)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkXC5m8ueA

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Sick Sick Sick (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXCaXz0GbU

1990s - See You at the Lights (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EURfmrWJcPY

CULTURE – Lion Rock (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUSvMOJ2M_k

CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE – White Corolla (2009)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3dUgPvkYnw

WAVE PICTURES – Strange Fruit for David (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OHfi4U2k-g

CARDIACS – Ditzy Scene (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP6nEQyP6uA

CARDIACS – Tarred and Feathered (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlfWoWHHRNA

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK – Beach Read Lullaby (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YU9AgUaw9o

BOMB THE BASS ft FUJIYA & MIYAGI – Butterfingers (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8lcGoS9Yc

ROBERT WYATT – I’m A Believer (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-FmG4JTIfk

ROSIE TAYLOR PROJECT – A Good Cafe on George Street (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIVhNWm65HE

SILVER APPLES – Oscillations (live at Toronto Music Gallery (2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09jb-eBcGE&feature=related

NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Sing Me Spanish Techno (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDUHJNVjpS0