LIST 213 - 29/07/2016 (Indietracks 2016 special, part two)

Hello again,

It's the second half of this year's Indietracks special today, and with that the final List for this seventh season - let's see if circumstances permit there to be an eighth later in the year. I hope so.

For the time being, if you're heading off to this 'ere indiepop festival this evening, I'll be the one in a Chuckie Egg t-shirt clasping a pint of something improbably dark. 

If Stewart Lee deigns to make an appearance during Simon Love's set tonight, I might just go a bit giddy and fanboyish and embarrassing.

J xx



SIMON LOVE (featuring Stewart Lee) – The Meaning of Love (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO7JvAhi6hU

JESSICA & THE FLETCHERS - Marble Mountain (2016)
http://marketsquarerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/jessica-the-fletchers-marble-fountain-b-w-crystal-tears

WHITE TOWN –The Barren Seas (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TxQ1qJ2T9E

LORNA – Snowlights (2012)
http://lorna1.bandcamp.com/track/snowlights

SAINT ETIENNE – London Belongs to Me (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZqFfMP-cyM

TRUST FUND – Together (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jst5Pdm5498

ALIMONY HUSTLE – BNOC (2016)
https://alimonyhustle.bandcamp.com/track/bnoc-2

SONGS FOR WALTER – Tougher Than a Soldier's Boots (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsb_Ze-ENFU

COMET GAIN – Avenue Girls (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNp0f-4gj4

WITCHING WAVES – Better Run (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njgO7zlcvWQ

IKO CHÉRIE – Colour Me Dark (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtuiSv9BmRo

BEARSUIT – Drinkink (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukNMGBxLwLA

CHARLA FANTASMA – Hey Sandra! (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEvic5gr8D4

HAIKU SALUT - Bleak and Beautiful (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbeV1VV12Ew

TWO WHITE CRANES – Diaries (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc3as_CIc7M

THE AISLERS SET - One Half Laughing (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRCSjyPImaQ

EXPERT ALTERATIONS – Such a Stupid Fool (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dEdS2DMD2E

DEERFUL – Moon Maps (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddnpVXRZMAM

DARREN HAYMAN AND THE SECONDARY MODERN – Aisholt, Somerset (2016)
https://vimeo.com/158319975

FALLING AND LAUGHING – Field Notes (2015)
https://fallingandlaughing.bandcamp.com/track/field-notes

NERVOUS TWITCH – Somebody Else (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqFPJwL_oE8

EMMA POLLOCK – Dark Skies (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I6MkgtIaXE

PRIZEFIGHTER – There is Light (2014)
https://prizefighteruk.bandcamp.com/track/there-is-a-light

KRISS FOSTER - The Vimto Song (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5NvRC-x8Ug

BOYS FOREVER – They Don’t Know (2016) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mya3-lLjVbE

LIST 212 - 22/07/2016 (Indietracks 2016 special, part one)

Hello there,

Already that time of year again? Absolutely it is. No music festival will ever mean this much to me - especially not this year, with one family member and a couple of my absolute, absolute all-time favourites on the line-up. See if you can guess who they might be.

J xx



CHRISSY BARNACLE – Fawn Heart (2014)

HUMOUSEXUAL – Manchester Rambler (2011)

AY CARMELA – Crying in Public (2016)

VACACIONES –Soy Tu Fan (2015)

HELEN McCOOKERYBOOK – Temptation (2014)

GAVIN OSBORN – There’s An Awful Lot Wrong with a Little Bump n Grind (2009)

SONIC THE COMIC –Synchronise (2016)

THE SPOOK SCHOOL - Gone Home (2016)

SODA FOUNTAIN RAG – Love Song for the Geek (2016)

SECRET SHINE –Take Me Slowly (1992)

RED SLEEPING BEAUTY - If You Want Affection (2016)

PETE GREEN – Dream of Firsby Station (2016)

RUTH PO! – She Lies in State (1989)

FLOWERS – Young (2014)

HONEY JOY – Pestle & Mortar (2015)

MAGGIE8 – Charming Lady (2011)

SEAZOO -The Heart of Hercules (2016)

CITY YELPS – Vetinary Centre (2013)

FRANKIE MACHINE - Cheap Shots in the Bless (2015)

GIRL RAY – I’ll Make This Fun (2016)

DIRTY GIRL – Dogshit (2015)

THE LOVELY EGGS – I Collect Snails (2009)

ROBBERIE – Beneath Your City As You Dream (2015)

LIST 211 - 15/07/2016

Hello again,

Not very much longer to go with this seventh season of That Music List - just a couple of Indietracks specials to follow, and then that's me done until the late autumn.

Warp veteran Mark Pritchard's Vashti Bunyan-sampling Under the Sun is right up there with the best things I've heard all year, and is a particular pleasure to include this time.  Elsewhere, the Warp mini-theme this week is upheld by Odd Nosdam's breathaking Trish, a tribute to the late Trish Keenan of Broadcast which I've inexplicably overlooked in the near three years since its initial release.

J xx



BRIAN ENO – Fickle Sun (iii) I’m Set Free (2016)

PALLENBERG – Star Crossed Lovers (2016)

THE SUNCHARMS – One I See (1991)

MARK PRITCHARD – Under the Sun (2016)

OBNOX - Too Punk Shakur (2015)

PANDA BEAR – Untitled #5 (from Young Prayer) (2004)

THE HAYMAN KUPA BAND – Someone to Care for (2016)

THE HEART THROBS – Here I Hide (1988)

MOON DRUID - Not Today (2016)

DOG LEGS – Beast Like Me (2013)

THE BLANCHE HUDSON WEEKEND – No Contest (2011)

ODD NOSDAM – Trish (2013)

ALÈMAYÈHU ESHÈTÉ - Betachayén Tègodahu (197x/2001)

EXPENSIVE – Secrets in the Moss (2013)

MARY LATTIMORE – Jimmy V (2016)

ELASTICA – 2:1 (1995)

THE OLIVE SHOOTS – Dropped and Lost (2016)

GIDEON WOLF – The Hunt (2015)

LIST 210 - 08/07/2016

Hello again,

Another choice mix of all sorts this week, including the venerable Hibbett's response to bucket list oneupmanship; a splendid one-off from Portishead which I was too impatient to hold onto until the next List cover versions special; two helpings of Super Furry Animals past and present; and Blonde Redhead doing something rather splendid a couple of years ago with what sounds like little more than a Yamaha PSS 470 keyboard (ah, the childhood music class memories...).

J xx



MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS - 20 Things To Do Before You're 30 (2016)

DECENT INTERNATIONAL – When Koaa (2016)

THE CHILLS - Wet Blanket (1987)

SIMON SCOTT - Floodlines #1 (live) (2016)

LIZZO - Humanize (2015)

ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER - A Bang and a Wimpy (1982)

STEPHEN STEINBRINK - Now You See Everything (2015)

COLOUR ME WEDNESDAY – Horror Story (2016)

PORTISHEAD - SOS (2016)

HAILU MERGIA & DAHLAK BAND — Sintayehu (1978)

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - Bing Bong (2016)

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - Northern Lites (1999)

178° ft OTTO SMART - Queen Mary (2013)

TODD TERJE – Delorean Dynamite (2014)

EXPLODED VIEW - No More Parties in the Attic (2006)

COOPER - Hyde Park (2009)

FELT - Dismantled King Is Off The Throne (1984)

BLONDE REDHEAD - Mind to be Had (2014)

LIST 209 - 01/07/2016

Hello again,

A slightly different look to this List and probably all others hereafter, as a mere seven years and 209 editions into this feature I've worked out how to do title links in Blogger without the URL still showing.  Atta boy!

In terms of new music, there are particularly lovely new things this week from Barry Adamson, Mogwai, Chorusgirl and Citizen Helene among others, plus something from Nancy Sin which naturally compels me to include the Beat Happening song after which said act took their name.

The Blur track late on, of course, is one many of you will know better as a much shorter song named The Anniversary Waltz.  This, however, is the oldest and to my mind best incarnation of the song, lifted from a session on Mark Goodier's pre-Lamacq/Whiley incarnation of BBC Radio 1's Evening Session.  Those were the days...

J xx



MOGWAI – U-235 (2016)

GIRLPOOL – Emily (2015)

AMADOU & MARIAM – Bali Maou (1999)

CITIZEN HELENE – How Can You Find Someone to Love? (2016)

HALF – Last Kiss (2016)

THE HIDDEN CAMERAS – Boys of Melody (2003)

BARRY ADAMSON – In Other Worlds (2016)

JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN - Holy City (2014)

CHORUSGIRL - Girls of 1926 (2016)

NANCY SIN – Room for Rent (2016)

BEAT HAPPENING – Nancy Sin (1990)

APHEX TWIN - CIRKLON3 (2016)

TYNEHAM HOUSE - Bletchingley (2012)

SWANS - When Will I Return (2016)

BLUR - Why Has The Time Signature 3/4 Become Obsolete in the Late 20th Century? (Mark Goodier Session) (1993)

JULY SKIES – The Weather Clock (2008)

LIST 208 - 24/06/2016

Hello again,

The least said about last night's result, the better. Here are some tunes. Stay safe, and be kind to each other.

J xx



MARTHA - Goldman's Detective Agency (2016) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=zwALrjppvx8

STANLEY BRINKS AND THE KANIKS – Between Me and the Future (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l5aojCiRwM

BLUMFELD – Ein Lied von zwei Menschen (1999) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfan1ZovNTw

THE DEATH OF POP – Gardens (2015) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb218pxGbKI

BJÖRK – Hyperballad (Brodsky Quartet Version) (1996) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOwHxXiJXY4

BRIX & THE EXTRICATED – Big New Prinz (live at Nottingham Rock City, 17/10/15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nvJtZtx9w

MAN & THE ECHO – Vile As You Want (2016) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_PPBEF826w

ALASDAIR ROBERTS - Lord Gregory (2001) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OahEA9EmMSo

THE GOON SAX – Home Haircuts (2016) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Tu0TMhtxE

ROOTS MANUVA - Don't Breathe Out (2015) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3vq8izNFM

THE CLOUDS – Get Out Of My Dream (1987) 

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

THE WORLD - Managerial Material (2016) 

https://soundcloud.com/upset-the-rhythm/the-world-managerial-material

SHONEN KNIFE – Jump into the New World (2016) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifsOob7KPcY

THE VIBES – I’m in Pittsburgh (and It’s Rainin’) (1985) 

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

PALMS ON FIRE - Cars (2015) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG2PbZQdk5Y

MARK PRITCHARD – Under the Sun (2016) 

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

SHRUG – The Van with Square Wheels (1988) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZIG0peMZZ4

ANGELIC MILK – Rebel Black (2016) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egOTP1cAXP8

LOOSE TUBES - Arriving (1985/2015) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU55q7sZcP4

LIST 207 - 17/06/2016

Hello there,

Very occasionally, That Music List runs the risk of aligning itself with current affairs... 

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

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

J xx



HELEN LOVE – A Boy from Wales Called Gareth Bale (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwFBWTRjhiE

BELLE & SEBASTIAN - Nobody's Empire (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgb8am3NQU0

THE MEL-O-TONES – I Walked with a Bugs Bunny Bendy Toy (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_saSu4IdIk

PATIENCE – The Church (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGDjPRatN8A

JOANA SERRAT ft NEIL HALSTEAD - Cloudy Heart (2016) https://soundcloud.com/loose-music/joana-serrat-cloudy-heart

CUB - Freaky (1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrTxV5eMB20

WORMSTAR – Better Reasons (2015) https://wormstar.bandcamp.com/track/better-reasons

THE MAGNETIC NORTH - Pennylands (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HQIB7tHY1o

BRIAN ENO – Signals (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9h2o-rc4m4

PEACH KELLI POP - Hundred Dollar Bill (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWItuiSW-q0

BLANCMANGE – Red Shift (Blame Thrower) (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3FvDLgKhlY

THE GOSSIP – Arkansas Heat (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W6ngRC6e6s

THE BLESSED ISLES - Caroline (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xejA1iACmMI

MBONGWANA STAR - Suzanna (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhVTZLvP3GM

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT - Upon Westminster Bridge (2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMK0u3bWyo

ARSENIC! - Everyday (2016) https://arsenic3.bandcamp.com/track/everyday

COLORING ELECTRIC LIKE – Floored (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt068Vdmfww

ALIEN MUTATION – Alqa (1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRc8jcmIkGQ

BILLY RUFFIAN - Exit Pursued by Boris (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CITB_g1D8VI