Neolithic Gram banger! Originally released the month I was born - new to me (my loss).
The International Submarine Band - Sum Up Broke
YouTube video by Go! With The Times
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Ici les enfants du paradis. The boys were falling like an avalanche...
Pretty Baby
YouTube video by Blondie - Topic
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Woke up this morning a random urge to play this album - maybe I dreamt about it or something? Must be mellowing in my old age 'cos I even like the pop-ska polka-hoedown tracks nowadays, I used to skip 'em back in't day. Suggested titular update: Take The Meth-Heads Bathing. p.s. Mondays are foul.
Today's chazza booty, 50p each. I'm not familiar with TWGC's music, just the name - "country noir" apparently? - but I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying this comp of Billy's earliest recs. I also bought the new Durutti Column CD but I'm saving that for later, when the red wine's uncorked, etc.
New to me - unreleased at the time for reasons unknown to everybody but LL Cool Ray. Perhaps its melodic echoes of "Waterloo Sunset" were responsible for his last-minute cold feet - or maybe he was just bored with singing about the UK class system? Shame, it would've made a nice standalone single...
Lavender Lane
YouTube video by THE KINKS - Topic
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Only two years ago apparently - it already feels more like five!
listening to whitewater again i see [iykyk]
Boards of Canada - Whitewater (new cassette rip)
YouTube video by buckfoss
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I don't traverse these dusty backroads too often nowadays, but I'm rarely disappointed when I do. Typical Bob: he assembles a large pop-style band, including backing vocalists & a horn section, then records the entire LP in a week in a rundown room with terrible acoustics. One of me faves, ducky.
The end of another dreary & exhausting week's job slog. Thank f*ck for Fahey. Kris Needs (writing for Record Collector) called it "hair-raisingly self-indulgent & enigmatic... dismembered guitar hallucinogenically entwined with musique concréte, found sounds, & Gregorian chants". Yep, that good.
I had no idea 'til now that Don was still performing this song live as late as 1980. This performance, by a completely different Magic Band to the one that originally recorded it (with Ry Cooder in its line-up) in 1967, sounds much more like The Fall's scrappy 21st century cover version. #FallFriday
Dropout Boogie (Live In Liverpool 1980)
YouTube video by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Topic
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New to me: Can lip-syncing on German pop TV in summer 1976. The dancing is a bit shonky & there's not enough on-screen Holger, but Karoli's presence (he missed their only TOTP performance), along with the last-minute cameo by a low-flying wig & the fact that this clip exists at all, makes up for it.
Can - I Want More ( Original Footage Plattenkuche German TV 1976 Stereo Remastered )
YouTube video by Golden Decades
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I taped this off the telly at the time and played it to death. Top notch quality footage of the DKs at their live peak, broadcast by the fledgling C4 back when it wasn't a complete shock to see this sort of thing on yer TV, just an exciting treat...
DEAD KENNEDYS - Brixton Ace, London December 2nd 1982 (Whatever You Want/Get TV) Master TV HD
YouTube video by MrHbsauce, Punk Rock & New Wave videos
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This afternoon's chazza booty: £1.99. I definitely wasn't expecting to ever see a copy of this in the 7" rack at my local Oxfam. I first heard it on (& taped it off) Peel's show in the early '90s & have never forgotten it but I'd never seen a copy for sale before until today. Miracles take longer!
#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 9 / A Word Or Title That Is Probably Not In The Dictionary "Ulcragyceptimol" by the Associates. Youtube lists this as an "alternative version" but it's definitely the one I remember from the Club Country 12" back in 1982: youtu.be/KK8UYBVV9SA?...
Ulcragyceptimol (Alternative Version) (2022 Remaster)
YouTube video by The Associates - Topic
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Hold that jinx back like a rabbit to the hutch. #FallFriday
Scareball
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 10: From the year you were 10 "Shake Some Action" by the Flamin' Groovies:
Shake Some Action
YouTube video by FLAMIN' GROOVIES - Topic
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Roger B left us 20 years ago today, aged 60. I've always liked this informal photograph of him, pictured in 1978 or thereabouts - though I've no idea what the circumstances surrounding it were (perhaps @scribblerrob.bsky.social can shed a little light on it)? Shine on, and on (and so on).
Btw I started reading this again today - and it's worrying how much of it I've forgotten: a knock-on effect of 50+ memory chip fail rather than the quality of Mark's writing I expect? "We’re living in a re-issue world, filching from the past like magpies with a Tardis." #FallFriday (redux)
A weird wake: life up in smoke babe rolled like a joint hunger in their home #FallFriday
The Fall - Ed's Babe
YouTube video by Kevin Kriel
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I saw this for the first time last night - new to me but it turned out to be a top notch Wim Wenders styled (dark) comedy-thriller located in America's backwaters with a terrific performance from Geraldine Chaplin (and Tony Perkins in a non-loony role too). Thank you @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social.
This morning's chazza booty, £1.99. You find some right old tat in Oxfam nowadays, eh? But just look at that luxurious head of hair! @nightingalesuk.bsky.social
This actually got played on the radio (one of those cheesy throwback stations) during a sweltering shift at work yesterday - retro Plymouth car ad an'all - will wonders never cease, etc...
THE BARRACUDAS - SUMMER FUN (1980) - HQ AUDIO VIDEO EDIT
YouTube video by JohnnyBoySoul
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Nobody ever talks about this track, even on #FallFriday! Tagged as a live recording, it's actually a studio outtake from the Shift-Work LP (1991). "And I'll have it in a cold glass please and not a red-hot one."
Cloud of Black (Live)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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