LIST 168 - 30/11/15

Hello again,

Looks like I've enough stuff lined up to be able to offer a List every weekday this week, which is nice.

Among the many phrases I thought I'd never commit to print is "Here's something off the new Juliana Hatfield Three album", and yet here we are, knocking on for two decades since the last sighting of this particular project by the former Blake Babies mainstay.  A particularly splendid single from them first time around is thrown in also.

To these ears FFS, the collaboration between Franz Ferdinand and Sparks, isn't always more than the sum of its parts to be perfectly honest, but the good is still very, very good - they're included here, along with other personal highlights of 2015 (so far - there's still a twelfth of it left!) from John Grant, Haiku Salut, The Lovely Eggs, Wovoka Gentle, the ceaselessly wonderful Berlin keyboard-prodder Barbara Morgenstern and sushi/star/Mablethorpe-loving Nott'nummers Lost Pets.

J xx



JOHN GRANT - Disappointing (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Ig4sMURdc

HAIKU SALUT – Divided by Surfaces and Silence (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yur-GiW0q0

RUTHLESS RAP ASSASSINS – Justice (Just Us) (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFs6lM7cpEY&spfreload=10

LOST PETS – Discount Sushi (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEFndI2PCAo

BEN LEE - Big Love (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3dHdxToZQ

THE CHILLS – Rolling Moon (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmrwC7hFxo

EX HEX – Waterfall (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AxIA4042WA

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER – He Didn’t Mention His Mother (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmyIBIfit94

MAMBO TAXI – Poems on the Underground (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6ikRAiJBz4

JULIANA HATFIELD THREE - If I Could (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgYvkAqRF0U

JULIANA HATFIELD THREE - My Sister (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siJZXTuwBjA

TREMBLING BELLS – I Is Someone Else (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2lawJoUP5I

BARBARA MORGENSTERN with ROBERT LIPPOK and JUSTUS KOEHNCKE - Uebermorgen (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0U2WSfQ5MI

THE WONDER STUFF – Give, Give, Give Me More, More, More (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTVWr2e7qRo

FFS – Johnny Delusional (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCxLpte5loY

MARK B & BLADE – From the Word Lab (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHimg-gCVN8

THE LOVELY EGGS – The Magic Onion (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdNfRF9pBMY

WOVOKA GENTLE – You Have Saved Our Lives, We Are Eternally Grateful (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yqgovaVPAo

THE GROOVE FARM – Baby Blue Marine (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg4aLXamnOQ

FORAOISE – A Bastard (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9OJiJQ4PGw

LIST 167 - 27/11/15

Hello there,
 
Back from our summer and early-autumn jollies, here we are with the start of season seven of That Music List.  Did you miss us?  No need to answer.
 
I expect the next few Lists are all going to be mish-mashes of new, remembered and miscellaneous stuff - heaven knows you had enough themed selections from us during the summer. 

So, in no particular order, this time we have something new from the prolific Mr Hayman, the first fresh output in nearly a quarter of a century from drone titans Loop (plus a reminder of how they sounded back in the day, i.e. pleasingly none too different); some gender binary smashing from the ever-impressive Spook School (who were superb in Sheffield last Saturday, by the way - where were you?); a fishy tale from Francesca's Word Salad (who'll be superb in Sheffield this Saturday - are you coming?); a winsome elephantine tale from the latest kids' album by They Might Be Giants; and a project by the name of Cavern Of Anti-Matter which I feel rank bad about having overlooked for two years, given it's Tim Gane out of Stereolab who leads it.  Oops.

J xx


THE SPOOK SCHOOL - Binary (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNkxOOIDcCQ

KURT COBAIN – And I Love Her (xxx/2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI0ZTzuuj68

THE CHARLOTTES – Liar (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06VtQWYIqEA

THE BAND WHOSE NAME IS A SYMBOL - Baalslapper (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqrlXDTwWtU

DARREN HAYMAN - Nuns Run the Apothecary (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSCDyBXCFXw

CYGNUS X – The Orange Theme (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVy_RBt-lT4

LOOP - Precession (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUnNcPTLeSs

LOOP – Arc-Lite (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqL8EVnrPyE

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - Elephants (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPO_V6aOvkU

THE DIVINE COMEDY – If I Were You (I’d Be Through With Me) (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qSHOR9XOis

FRANCESCA’S WORD SALAD – The Reverse Mermaid (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rZVjrON6nA

THE CLIENTELE – On a Summer Trail (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSEfL4WRmYw

MOGWAI – With Portfolio (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBd8EDjXps

THE CHARLIE TIPPER EXPERIMENT – Something Worth Fighting For (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgm50pogsv4

MICHAEL KNIGHT - Sure, Call Over! (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDmFOw2-oUY

TTC – Pollutions (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nah_o35Uwu8

OWL & MOUSE - Misfits (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8JNDhrPSM

CAVERN OF ANTI-MATTER - Blood Drums (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DMFV-O9aIU