LIST 06 - 01/04/2009 (in memory of the Annie Nightingale Request Show, part one)

Hello again,


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, but what a joy it's been to revisit them all again.

Yes, even Fish Heads!

J xx

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TERRY, BLAIR & ANOUCHKA – Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme (1990) 

THE JAM – Butterfly Collector (1979) 

SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND – Swampsnake (1975) 

GANGWAY – My Girl and Me (1988) 

BARNES & BARNES – Fish Heads (1979) 

ALTERN8 – Frequency (1992) 

THE MOTORS – Love & Loneliness (1980) 

STUMP – Buffalo (1986) 

THE DAVE HOWARD SINGERS – Yon Yonson (1987) 

THE PASSIONS – I’m in Love with a German Filmstar (1981) 

ERSTE ALLGEMEINE VERUNSICHERUNG – Ba-Ba-Bankrobbery (1986) 

POP WILL EAT ITSELF – There’s a Psychopath in my Soup (1986) 

MESSIAH – There Is No Law (1991) 

ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS – Brenda’s Iron Sledge (1985) 

THE CURE – A Forest (1980) 

LIST 05 - 14/03/2009

Hello again,

It's 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.

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?  Are you feeling alright?), and the oldest song I've included thus far - 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 enjoyed hugely.

Oh, and there's a little bit of shoegaze as well, for those of us who loved it back in the day!

J xx



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LADYHAWKE – My Delirium (2008) 

BROADCAST – Black Cat (2005) 

ALLO, DARLIN – Dear Stephen Hawking (2008) 

SALT TANK – Charged Up (1991) 

BARRINGTONE – Snake in the Grass (2008) 

ENTER SHIKARI – Sorry, You’re Not a Winner (2006) 

LORD BEGINNER – Victory Calypso (1950) 

FRANZ FERDINAND – No You Girls (2009) 

AIR – CHERRY BLOSSOM GIRL (2004) 

AMADOU & MARIAM – Ce N’est Pas Bon (2008) 

SLOWDIVE – Shine (1990) 

BEST FWENDS – Skate or Live (2007) 

THEN AND NOW
TREMBLING BLUE STARS – This Once Was an Island (2007)
TREMBLING BLUE STARS – For This One (1996) 

 

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – Too Drunk to Dream (2008) 

SIGUR ROS – Gobbledigook (2008) 

THE GRATES - 19-20-20 (2006) 

KUTIMAN – This Is What It Became (2009) 

LADYTRON – Evil (album version) (2004) 

METRONOMY – You Could Easily Have Me (2006) 

LIST 04 - 06/03/2009 (a 2006 special)

Hello again,

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 BBC Radio 6 Music, 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.  Enjoy.

J xx

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CAMERA OBSCURA – Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken 

LO-FI-FNK – Wake Up 

SPARKS – Dick Around 

RUSSIAN FUTURISTS – Paul Simon 

SOL SEPPY – Slo Fuzz 

CSS – Let’s Make Love (and Listen to Death From Above) 

PSAPP – Hi 

MOGWAI – Travel is Dangerous 

I’M FROM BARCELONA – We’re From Barcelona 

DAVID E SUGAR – We Weren’t Put Together 

HOWLING BELLS – Setting Sun 

THE HIDDEN CAMERAS – Awoo 

JAMES FIGURINE – Apologies 

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL – I Want You So Hard 

NEOSUPERVITAL – Rachel 

TO MY BOY – I Am X-Ray 

SOULS SHE SAID – Sunken City 

THE PIPETTES – Pull Shapes

MEAT KATIE & ELITE FORCE ft ROLAND CLARK – Divine 

CLEARLAKE – It’s Getting Light Outside 

THE KNIFE – Like A Pen 

LIST 03 - 27/02/2009

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A note of caution to anyone who doesn't know the song already is that the Jarvis Cocker track that concludes today's selection could hardly be swearier if it tried. 

I was moved to include it after learning that 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 Ruling the World as the last song they ever played on it - no love lost between them and their soon to be ex-employers, it would appear...

J xx

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THE STREETS – Heaven for the Weather (2008)

PORTISHEAD – The Rip (2008)

SERENA-MANEESH – Drain Cosmetics (2006)

FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE – Kiss with a Fist (2008)

BOARDS OF CANADA – Alpha and Omega (2002)

KRISTIN HERSH – In Shock (2007)

McCARTHY – Keep an Open Mind Or Else (1989)

BODY SNATCHERS – Freaky Ho (2008)

THEN AND NOW

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – Bad Losers on Yahoo! Chess (2008)

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit (1985)

AU REVOIR SIMONE – Fallen Snow (2007)

DEL THA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN – Mistadobalina (1992)

RADAR BROTHERS – When Cold Air Goes to Sleep (2008)

NEON NEON ft CATE LE BON & GRUFF RHYS – I Lust You (2008)

MALAJUBE – Fille a Plumes (2007)

JOHN COOPER CLARKE – Beasley Street (1980)

SEBASTIAN TELLIER – Broadway (2006)

THE MONOCHROME SET – Jacob’s Ladder (1984)

JARVIS COCKER – Running the World (2007)

LIST 02 - 19/02/2009

Hello again,

Well, doing that first List four days ago was such fun, I decided not to wait the whole week to publish another.  Enjoy!

I'm particularly grateful to some wonderful soul sticking Considering a Move to Memphis on YouTube.  Its popularity has felt like a slow burn to me over the twenty years since its original release... or maybe I've just not been tuning in to the radio stations that were still playing it regularly all along.  Either explanation is plausible.

Cardiacs become the first to receive the Then and Now feature treatment, in which a new and very much not new track by the same act are offered up back to back.  

How much more music there is actually to some from Cardiacs remains uncertain, of course, given the band's driving force and bona fide genius Tim Smith remains incapacitated following a cardiac arrest.  The most cruel of cruel ironies.

As is perhaps to be expected from something drawing from a number of sources, sound levels vary a bit from one clip to the next.  To attain best results, do touch that dial!

J xx

Click on the video or link to play each tune (links last checked as all working 20/04/2026).

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – Sing Me Spanish Techno (2006)

XTC – The Mayor of Simpleton (1989)

SAINT ETIENNE – Method of Modern Love (2009)

YILA ft SCROOBIUS PIP – Astronaut (2008)

KIKO – Slave of My Mind (2008)

ANOTHER SUNNY DAY – You Should All Be Murdered (1989)

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Sick Sick Sick (2007)

1990s - See You at the Lights (2007)

CULTURE – Lion Rock (1982)

CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE – White Corolla (2009)

WAVE PICTURES – Strange Fruit for David (2008)

THEN AND NOW: Cardiacs

CARDIACS – Ditzy Scene (2007)

CARDIACS – Tarred and Feathered (1987)

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK – Beach Read Lullaby (1995)

BOMB THE BASS ft FUJIYA & MIYAGI – Butterfingers (2008)

ROBERT WYATT – I’m A Believer (1974)

ROSIE TAYLOR PROJECT – A Good Cafe on George Street (2008)

SILVER APPLES – Oscillations (live at Toronto Music Gallery (2008)

THE COLORBLIND JAMES EXPERIENCE – Considering a Move to Memphis (1988)

LIST 01 - 15/02/2009

The preamble:

Quite simply, That Music List is a vaguely weekly-ish list of links to songs past and present that I really like, and would love to share with anyone interested in extending their musical palate at no cost to themselves (other than your connection time on the Interweb, of course).

There's roughly about 80 minutes of music in each new list - partly as it's a manageable length of time, and partly to replicate (sort of) that feel of the list representing the contents of a really varied home-compiled CDR.

That Music List was inspired by the lengthy music-oriented threads I have posted to the message board of activity group Spice over the last three years, and the lounge area of The Racing Forum for the last five.

It was going to be named either "Listen Without Prejudice", but George Michael nicked that first; or else "Keep An Open Mind Or Else" (after the revered single by late-80s Marxist indiepoppers McCarthy), but on balance that seemed a bit aggressive!

Right, then. So here goes!  Do feel free to discuss any of the songs contained herein in the comments section.

J xx

Click on the video or link to play each tune (links last checked as all working 27/02/2026).

JAMES YUILL - No Pins Allowed (2008)

BRIAN ENO - No One Receiving (1975)

WIRE - One Of Us (2008)

SEBASTIEN TELLIER - Divine (2008)

JEANS TEAM - Baby 3 (2002)

AMADOU & MARIAM - Magosa (2008)

FARMERS BOYS - Phew Wow (1984)

MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES - Clusterf*ck (2008)

DARKEL - At The End Of The Sky (2006)

TREMBLING BLUE STARS - November Starlings (2007)

THE WEDDING PRESENT - Brassneck (1990)

ALELA DIANE - The Pirate's Gospel (2008)

HOLY F*CK - Lovely Allen (2008)

KAKI KING - Playing With Pink Noise (2006)

GARY CLAIL ON-U SOUND SYSTEM - Who Pays The Piper? (1992)

FAKE BLOOD - Mars (2008)

ROBOTNIK - People Walk Away (2008)

CIRCULUS - My Body Is Made Of Sunlight (2005)

FUJIYA & MIYAGI - Knickerbocker (2008)

PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED - Careering (1979)

YUMI YUMI - I Am Right (2003)

LADYTRON - Ghosts (2008)