361: OPPOSITES

Self explanatory, this one. Big thanks to Mash for his assistance.

361: OPPOSITES

1. The Jam – Start !
2. The Supremes – Stop ! In The Name Of Love
3. Ram Jam – Black Betty
4. Gorillaz – White Flag
5. Stevie Wonder – Yester-me, Yester-you, Yesterday
6. Bob Marley and The Wailers – No Woman, No Cry
7. The Beatles – Come Together
8. The Miracles – Going To A Go-Go
9. Dolly Parton – Here You Come Again
10. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – There She Goes, My Beautiful World
11. PJ Harvey – This Mess We’re In
12. Morrissey – That’s How People Grow Up
13. Fine Young Cannibals – Good Thing
14. Thin Lizzy – Bad Reputation
15. Buzzcocks – You Say You Don’t Love Me
16. Macy Gray – I Can’t wait To Meetchu

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345: UNTITLED

Why ‘Untitled’ ? I just thought we should have one at some point. Besides, it is titled, it’s just titled ‘Untitled’.

Whilst I of course love the music that makes up these playlists, what with time usually being an issue, the occasions when I have listened to music for non-blog related reasons over the last few months have been rare. When I have, these are some faves. Which I suppose now makes them blog-related.

345: UNTITLED

1. Kate Bush – Lake Tahoe
2. Morrissey – Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself
3. Cat Power – The Greatest
4. Steve Earle – City of Immigrants
5. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
6. The Divine Comedy – At the Indie Disco
7. Edwyn Collins – The Campaign For Real Rock
8. Subway Sect – Ambition
9. Leonard Cohen – First We Take Manhattan
10. Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
11. Magazine – Do the Meaning
12. New Order – Sub-Culture

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342: (Two Thousand) Twelve Inches

Today is Sunday, and I just realized that I skipped this week’s “vinyl Monday”. To be fair, it was January 2nd, when the year was fresh and I was throwing out thank-yous like so many radio shout outs, but it’s nothing that can’t be rectified. Like the grammar in that last sentence (or this one). Anyway, here is a playlist featuring some of my favorite picks from my 12″ singles collection, a veritable treasure trove of nostalgia for me.

1. Mudhoney — Halloween
2. Sonic Youth — Touch Me I’m Sick
3. Morrissey — Interesting Drug
4. New Order — Don’t Do It
5. The Stop The Violence Movement — Self Destruction
6. The West Coast Rap All-Stars — We’re All In The Same Gang
7. Sugar Hill Gang — Apache
8. Parliament — Flash Light
9. Madonna — Like A Virgin (Extended Dance Remix)
10. Son Of Bazerk Featuring No Self Control And The Band– The Band Gets Swivey On The Wheels
11. LL Cool J — Jack The Ripper
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191: REVISITATION 6

I didn’t realise how long it’s been since I did one of these, and there’s some catching up to do. Time once again then, to move forward by looking back.

191: REVISITATION 6

1. REGATTA DE NOT – Modest Mouse – Float On
2. THE MAN – Ian Dury – My Old Man
3. GLASTONBURY – The Streets – Turn The Page
4. TIME TIMES TWO – Morrissey – You were Good in Your Time
5. EXCUSE ME, DO YOU HAVE THE TIME ? – Tom Waits – 2:19
6. THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY – Billie Holiday – It’s Easy to Remember
7. GOING LONG AGAIN – Japan – Sons of Pioneers
8. RAIDING THE ROOMIES RECORDS – Peter Gabriel – And Through the Wire
9. HAPPENO DAY – Roxy Music – Bitters End
10. MY BACK – Quincy Jones – Back on the Block
11. THE YEAR THAT WAS – Thievery Corporation – 2001 Spliff Odyssey
12. ’67 – Love – You Set the Scene
13. HOBBLING AND MELTING – The Kinks – Supersonic Rocket Ship

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182: The Letter M (Artists)

So here we are, August 1st, the beginning of the second half of our year. You would think I would mix it up a bit, add a fresh twist, or have something profound and/or witty to say, or maybe put my post in dactylic hexameter like the great poet Carlton Ridenhour, but no, none of that. Just a sentence with five commas, and another playlist culled from my vinyl LPs.

1. Musical Youth — Youth Of Today
2. Mudhoney — You Got It
3. Mr. Bungle — Desert Search For Techno Allah
4. Mötley Crüe — Looks That Kill
5. Morrissey — I Don’t Mind If You Forget Me
6. Van Morrison — Wild Night
7. Joe Morello — Just In Time
8. Thurston Moore — Hang Out
9. The Moody Blues — Question
10. Wes Montgomery — Bumpin’ On Sunset
11. The Monkees — Take A Giant Step
12. Thelonious Monk — North Of The Sunset
13. Money Mark — Color Of Your Blues
14. The Mod Fun — Thee Hair That You Wear
15. Moby Grape — Naked, If I Want To
16. The Miracles — Mama Done Told Me
17. The Minutemen — The Punch Line
18. Charles Mingus — Self-Portrait In Three Colors

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165: THE YEAR THAT WAS

We have, in recent times, taken the time to have a look at time. First, you tackled ‘Time’, I then addressed ‘Time again’, before getting a little more specific with ‘Excuse me, do you have the time?’ Time, I think, to get a little less specific.

165: THE YEAR THAT WAS

1. Woody Guthrie – 1913 Massacre
2. The Zombies – Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914)
3. Ryuichi Sakamoto – 1919
4. Randy Newman – Louisiana 1927
5. Bee Gees – New York Mining Disaster 1941
6. Morrissey – Munich Air Disaster 1958
7. New Order – 1963
8. The Auteurs – 1967
9. The Stooges – 1969
10. Sigur Ros – 1970
11. Alice Cooper – Teenage Lament ’74
12. The Clash – 1977
13. Everything but the Girl – Hatfield 1980
14. David Bowie – 1984
15. Devlin – 1989
16. The Temptations – 1990
17. Pulp – Disco 2000

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149: GLASTONBURY

Another Summer hits it’s stride, and another Glastonbury comes and goes – without yours truly in attendance. You are familiar, I assume, with Woody Allen’s 1983 offering ‘Zelig’, wherein the main character seeks approval from those around him, and has the uncanny ability to become precisely the person they would want him to be . What he cannot do is be himself. This problem, if memory serves, is rooted in the fact that he was never able to finish Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’. I am starting to think of Glastonbury as my ‘Moby Dick.’ Will I ever get there? Am I destined to end my days having never experienced the most magical weekend it is possible to have ? Or am I just looking at things through those ever reliable English Rose tinted glasses ? Perhaps it is just a few thousand people fucked up in a field. But maybe, just maybe, if I ever get to go, just once in my life, I could witness a land more green and pleasant than I have ever imagined, and those dark satanic mills of my mind might be banished forever. Or perhaps I’d just take the brown acid, fall face first in to a two foot deep puddle of mud, and wake up three days later. In Latvia. On the bright side, I’m not dead yet, there’s (hopefully) a few more ‘maybe next year’s’ to come, so we shall see.  There really is only one way to find out. In the meantime, a playlist of moments I would prefer to have not missed this past weekend.

149: GLASTONBURY

1. Pulp – Something Changed
2. The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats
3. Jimmy Cliff – Sitting in Limbo
4. Dengue Fever – One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula
5. Janelle Monae – Sir Greendown
6. Morrissey – First of the Gang To Die
7. Primal Scream – Slip Inside this House
8. Cee Lo Green – It’s OK
9. The Go! Team – Bottle Rocket
10. Battles – White Electric
11. Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
12. John Cooper Clarke – Post War Glamour Girls
13. Devlin – Brainwashed
14. Big Audio Dynamite – C’Mon Every Beatbox

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