That Music List

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

LIST 99 - 02/11/12

Hello again,

So... the last List before the century is brought up. Fanfare for a big, special event of a List next week? Nope - it's just a number, really, when all's said and done. List #50 passed with no ceremony accorded it beyond being filled with really interesting music, and #100 will follow suit.

This week's assortment isn't bad, either. I have been slow off the mark in getting anything off the astonishing comeback from Dexy's included before now, but am happy to put that right here. A less successful return overall has been that of Stars, but the single included here is one very bright point amongst an album whose change of direction doesn't for the greater part work for me. Ah well.

Ben Folds Five gets the Then and Now treatment, and lover of 1980s puppets will find the new video included an absolute scream. The Tuts are as young, raw and gobby a proposition as the UK indiepop scene has been blessed with for a long time and look set to win scores of admirers in 2013, whilst on a rather different sonic level I'm delighted to have finally remembered to include "Names", by a long margin my favourite Cat Power track ever and a breathtaking piece of work (much loved by Peel) nearly a decade on.

J x

VERONICA FALLS - Teenage (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2I41a6gHsU

THRUSH PUPPIES – Tart/Bint (1995)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vCoCIZpTi0

ANAIS MITCHELL – Coming Down (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmwtQXRRiWg

THE TUTS – I Call You Up (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE3keG5KiHk

2562 – Fever (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAAPteSiCb8

BEACH HOUSE – Myth (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeVrFpQUrNc

BEN FOLDS FIVE – Do It Anyway (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEyrfFwf3rI

BEN FOLDS FIVE – Underground (1996)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqADHn7SWlA

A C NEWMAN – I’m Not Talking (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiecx_qqRiI

BROTHER ALI – Mourning in America (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKHsGh-y8d8

CAT POWER – Names (2003)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9IhiX0Dqsg

CROCODILES – Endless Flowers (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6qOGnP4PEI

STARS – Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9PYiIGAsM8

BOS ANGELES – Days of Youth (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2lbHGkpJ8

MAKING MARKS – Ticket Machine (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orSx3QtJgW4

TOXIC TWO – Rave Generator (1992)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml2NsTHZG0U

DEXY’S – Nowhere Is Home (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzK0aFkiJs

DAVID TATTERSALL – Sunshine Hotel (2012)

http://vimeo.com/50028752

Tuesday, 30 October 2012

LIST 98 - 26/10/12

Hello again,

Yes - proof positive that we've still enough material for general, non-themed Lists after lots of special editions in recent weeks... Quite a number of (for me, at least) really welcome returns to action this time around, not least those of Jens Lekman, Euros Childs and Stars Of Aviation; plus a return from 120 Days, whose comeback last year I somehow managed to miss completely. Duh.

There *is* a Then and Now subject this week, first appearances perhaps to the contrary, as Ruby Throat is the current project of one Katie Jane Garside, formerly of Daisy Chainsaw. And in selecting Love Your Money from the latter act, there was only ever going to be one piece of footage of that song I was going to include. Warning: may contain traces of Bruiser de Cadenet...

J x

JENS LEKMAN – I Know What Love Isn’t (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp6o1zZkOjo

PURITY RING – Fineshrine (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqw4wo8vdY8

THE BEE’S NIECE – Snow (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWGsKEXBgzk

DUM DUM GIRLS – Lord Knows (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHLPyCPjGKM

EUROS CHILDS - That’s Better (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9jlcBQcDw

SQUAREPUSHER – Endless Night (2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s8TfCvbNH8

STARS OF AVIATION – Autumn’s Fingers (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ6GzjiDGCw

AN HORSE – Walls (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjh9lV8yTyQ

RUBY THROAT – O’ Doubt O’ Stars (2012)

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

DAISY CHAINSAW – Love Your Money (1992)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0cYzWgrbR4

POLIÇA – Form (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX1cS6rf2YY

JENNIFER LEFT – Diggory (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKjlmPbeK4

120 DAYS – Sunkissed (2011)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF2Ai_iydOY

LAETITIA SADIER – There Is A Price To Pay For Freedom And It Isn’t Security (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0x5xPOIuXs

DARK HORSES – Radio (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uyr9kqRaLc

RHEINGOLD – Dreiklangsdimensionen (1980)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNaUmWEV5w

THE JOY FORMIDABLE – Cholla (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xsFhE9PzT8

DIE ÄRZTE – Ist das noch Punkrock? (2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjIasSAurB0

ALLO DARLIN’ – Tallulah (live at London Scala) (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6EAmQnus9Y

LIST 97 - 19/10/12 ("Remember this problem? The German language..." - part two)

Guten Abend,

Longstanding viewers will remember that List #52 back in October 2010 featured a bunte Mischung covering a good three decades or so of interesting German language tracks. Here, then, is a long-overdue sequel - long enough, indeed, for a few elder statesmen such as FSK and Die Ärzte to have got round to recording something again.

There wasn't too much in the way of Neue Deutsche Welle music in the previous collection, but hopefully the appearance of four or five tracks from that broad church of a genre will please its fans. Not sure whether Niko counts as NDW to everybody, but either way, it's not every day you get to see a PE teacher from Cologne (true!!) having the time of his life to a backing influenced by early-1980s era Sparks.

The title alone of Ich weiss, wo Jochen Distelmeyer lebt has stalker-like qualities to it. I wonder if the Blumfeld frontman ever did get any unwelcome visitors associated with or influenced by the Oederland track?

J x