187: I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING

You’re thinking that I’m flogging a dead horse with this post, aren’t you ? But hey, bear with me. I had this in mind before yew posted yesterday, I have to bee somewhere in an hour, so I’ve decided to goat with it.

187: I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING

1. The Blow Monkeys – Forbidden Fruit
2. Feargal Sharkey – Listen to your Father
3. Lambchop – You Masculine You
4. The Beatles – Helter Skelter
5. Doves – Black and White Town
6. The Duckworth Lewis Method – Jiggery Pokery
7. Gil Scott-Heron – Me and the Devil
8. Gorillaz – Stylo
9. Modest Mouse – Dashboard
10. Tim Buckley – Sweet Surrender
11. Leonard Cohen – Suzanne
12. The O’Jays – For the love of Money
13. Buzzcocks – I don’t Mind
14. Buffalo Springfield – For What it’s Worth
15. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Everytime I’m with You

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170: Hot

I scream, you scream, we all scream because we live in Richmond and it’s the end of July. I agree, though, that the oppression of the weather added to the depression of an aging body can seem unbearable, but just remember what the American sage Yogi Berra said: “It ain’t the heat; it’s the humility.”

1. Here Comes The Summer — Fiery Furnaces
2. Summer In The City — The Lovin’ Spoonful
3. I Want To Die In The Hot Summer — I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
4. Blaze — fIREHOSE
5. Behind The Sun — Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. Burning Up — Madonna
7. Something’s Burning — The Marvellos
8. Burning Man — Mastodon
9. Burning — Fugazi
10. Burned — Buffalo Springfield
11. Fire — The Jimi Hendrix Experience
12. On Fire — Sebadoh
13. Fire Fire — M.I.A.
14. Lake Of Fire — Meat Puppets
15. Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved) — James Brown
16. Hot Stuff — The Rolling Stones
17. Hot As A Docker’s Armpit — Budgie

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101: MR. AND MRS.

Sometimes, in the pop world, boys and girls names are the way to go. Occasionally, the ‘she’, ‘he’, ‘girl’ and ‘boy’ fit perfectly well. And then there are the times when a degree of formality seems appropriate.

101: MR. AND MRS.

1. Robert Wyatt – Mister E
2. Gregory Isaacs – Mr. Know it All
3. Television – Call Mr. Lee
4. The Tymes – Miss Grace
5. Ella Fitzgerald – Miss Otis Regrets
6. Horace Andy – Mr. Bassie
7. Jean Knight – Mr. Big Stuff
8. The Duckworth Lewis Method – Meeting Mr. Miandad
9. The Muppets – Mr. Bassman
10. New Order – Mr. Disco
11. Candi Staton – Mr. and Mrs. Untrue
12. (Original music from ‘The Simpsons’) Smithers, Mr. Burns and The Ramones – Happy Birthday, Mr. Burns
13. Outkast – Ms. Jackson
14. Buffalo Springfield – Mr. Soul
15. Kate Bush – Mrs. Bartolozzi
16. Loretta Lynn – Mrs. Leroy Brown
17. Brian Wilson – Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow

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88: Not Right

As soon as I committed to print my doubts about you ever having an office job, I preemptively started working on my “wrong” playlist. I figured you’d tell a story of your days working for Penetrode, where you spent your days haplessly updating banking software for the new millennium while falling behind on your TPS reports; or perhaps your stint in a Mayfair office, where you toiled laboriously organising adverts for the courgette catalogue before you went on holiday. Who knows? Regardless, I was right in my assumption…or was I?

1. You Got It All… Wrong — The Hives
2. Right and Wrong — The Muslims
3. Wrong — Archers of Loaf
4. Something’s Gone Wrong Again — Buzzcocks
5. Everything You’ve Done Wrong — Sloan
6. Wrong — Depeche Mode
7. They Done Wrong / We Done Wrong — White Rabbits
8. I Might Be Wrong — Radiohead
9. All Wrong — Morphine
10. Right Place Wrong Time — Dr. John
11. I Got The Right Street (But The Wrong Direction) — Rufus
12. What’s Wrong With Me Baby — The Invitations
13. What’s Wrong — Dennis Wilson
14. That’s What’s Wrong — Good Old War
15. Everybody’s Wrong — Buffalo Springfield
16. We’re Going Wrong — Cream
17. The Kids Are All Wrong — Lagwagon
18. So Wrong — Patsy Cline

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83: SUNDAY MORNING (CONTINUED)

What I neglected to mention fourteen days ago (69: Sunday Morning) was that the selections posted were essentially the first sixty minutes of a two hour compilation. Whereas previous 2 parters (London, Drugs) were perfectly comfortable existing independently of each other, this post is not so much a part two as it is a side two. A second half, if you will. What I would therefore like you to do at your earliest convenience (as long as your earliest convenience is next Sunday) is sit yourself down at 10am and listen to both playlists chronologically and in their entirety. Without pause. Do not leave the room under any circumstances. No, you may not use the bathroom. Thank you for your compliance. I hope you find this to be a relaxing experience.

83: SUNDAY MORNING (CONTINUED)

1. Aaron Neville – Hercules
2. Rickie Lee Jones – Chuck E’s in Love
3. Tom Waits – Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come
4. Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros – X-Ray Style
5. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Breathless
6. Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
7. Nina Simone – In the Morning
8. Buddy Holly – Everyday
9. Joni Mitchell – Help Me
10. Buffalo Springfield – Sit Down, I Think I Love You
11. Patti Smith – Redondo Beach
12. Scritti Politti – Asylums in Jerusalem
13. Orange Juice – Rip It Up
14. Nouvelle Vague – Ever Fallen In Love
15. The Walker Brothers – Living above Your Head
16. Lloyd and Claudette – Queen of the World
17. Smokey Robinson and The Miracles – From Head to Toe
18. Small Faces – Lazy Sunday Afternoon

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69: SUNDAY MORNING

This is a variation on something I was messing around with a couple of years ago. It all began – wait for it – on a Sunday morning. The TV was on with the sound down, I was my normal groggy morning self, and the missus was engrossed in school work with a deadline fast approaching. “Put some music on,” I was instructed. But what to play ? I wasn’t really in a jazzy frame of mind, and clearly Anal Cunt were out of the question. And then it hit me. Quicker than you can say ‘anal moronic idiot’, a self imposed challenge was issued. My mission would be to provide an ‘easy listening soundtrack’. Easy listening – that most odious and vile of genres. Sounds stripped of any cultural connection, with all jagged edges smoothed down. A musical land where Manilow is king, the here and now is neither here nor there, and any potential zeitgeist is buried beneath a mountain of denial and refusal. A bit like Richmond really, only with a big nose. “Challenge accepted,” I pompously muttered to myself, and set about my task as though the very future of music itself depended upon my success.

69: SUNDAY MORNING

1. The Velvet Underground and Nico – Sunday Morning
2. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Deanna/Happy Day
3. Dennis Brown – Money In My Pocket
4. Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares for Me
5. Gil Scott-Heron – Save the Children
6. The Specials – Do Nothing
7. Billie Holiday – Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
8. Nick Drake – Hazey Jane 1
9. Neil Diamond – Do It
10. Buffalo Springfield – Flying on the Ground is Wrong
11. Mary Wells – You Beat Me to the Punch
12. Dionne Warwick – Do You Know the Way to San Jose
13. TLC – No Scrubs
14. Nouvelle Vague – Teenage Kicks
15. David Bowie – Kooks
16. Scritti Politti – The Word Girl
17. John Holt – It’s a Jam in the Streets
18. Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris – Love Lots of Lovin

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