LIST 44 - 13/08/10 (1990 special, part one)

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

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

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)

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)

...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)

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)

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