Gus & Fin - Outdoor Miner

A fine Uke version of a GREAT song..

Jigsaw

A mixed bag of goodies. Tuck in..

1. Wallace Collection - My Way Of Loving You
2. The Bristols - For You
3. The Phoenix Foundation - I Love you, Awesome
4. Tommy Roe - Jam Up And Jelly Tight
5. Hari and Aino - Gold (or Something Just as Nice)
6. The Coral - Being Somebody Else
7. Sidonie / Carrots - It's All Too Much
8. Bertrand Burgalat & Robert Wyatt - This Summer Night
9. Spooky & Sue - I Got The Need
10. Cafe Con Leche - The Bubble Gum Song
11. Tee Set - So Fine
12. Kirsty MacColl - I'm Going Out With An Eighty Year Old Millionaire
13. Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
14. Fun And Games - The Grooviest Girl In The World
15. Second-Hand Furniture - Nice Try, Sunshine!
16. Mark Eric - Move With The Dawn
17. PAS/CAL - O Honey We're Ridiculous
18. Pet Shop Boys - I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
19. Vigil - Aristocracia
20. Hello Saferide - I Was Definitely Made For These Times
21. The Ballet - Cheating On Your Boyfriend
22. Dauerfisch - Hihihihahaha
23. The Shermans - Wasted Moments
24. Pacific - Hot Lips
25. The Love Substitutes - Give The People What They Want
26. The Turtles - Makin' My Mind Up
27. Spiral Staircase - More Today Than Yesterday
28. Honeybus - Chi Sei Tu
29. Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point 4th Grade Class - I Wonder Why

Tomorrow Never Knows

Just for fun - 21 versions of Tomorrow Never Knows. Thanks to ladakale for a couple of these versions. Phil Collins also covered this track on his 'Face Value' LP, but I chose not to bother including that. I believe Hendrix also covered the song. If he did, I haven't got it. And if he didn't, sorry for mis-informing you...

1. Dictionaraoke - Tomorrow Never Knows
2. Michael Becker - Tomorrow Never Knows / 3rd Stone From the Sun
3. 801 feat. Phil Manzanera & Brian Eno - Tomorrow Never Knows
4. Suns of Arqa - Tomorrow Never Knows
5. Pink Fairies - Tomorrow Never Knows
6. Our Lady Peace - Tomorrow Never Knows
7. Monsoon - Tomorrow Never Knows
8. Guided By Voices - Tomorrow Never Knows
9. Mirage - Tomorrow Never Knows
10. Don Randi - Tomorrow Never Knows
11. Laughing Sky - Tomorrow Never Knows
12. Five o'clock Shadow - Tomorrow Never Knows
13. Junior Parker - Tomorrow Never Knows
14. Living Colour - Tomorrow Never Knows
15. João Barone - Tomorrow Never Knows
16. Jad Fair And Daniel Johnston - Tomorrow Never Knows
17. Lucky Sperms - Tomorrow Never Knows / Glass Onion
18. The Helio Sequence - Tomorrow Never Knows
19. Jason McNiff - Tomorrow Never Knows
20. Dave Ellis - Tomorrow Never Knows
21. Christy Baron - Tomorrow Never Knows

The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame : Outside Looking In

On the 10th March of this year, Madonna, The Ventures, John Mellencamp, The Dave Clark Five and Leonard Cohen became the latest artists to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Few can argue with Madonna’s inclusion, having had more impact across the pop culture landscape than all but a handful of names, male or female, in rock history. Or the Ventures inclusion, 23 years eligible and finally getting in after their first nomination. Dave Clark Five – solid if unspectacular and Mellencamp – steady and often under appreciated also went in. It was Cohen’s inclusion funnily enough that caused the most fuss. Always more of a hit with the critics than the record buying public, Leonard is the first inductee in the Hall of Fame’s 23 year history never to have scored a Billboard chart album or Top 100 single.

The 54 tracks on this mix represent artists who are all eligible ( having made their first recording 25 or more years ago ) who I believe should also have been included into the Hall Of Fame by now.

CD One

1. Big Star - O My Soul
2. MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
3. Television - See No Evil
4. Sonics - Have Love Will Travel
5. Marc Bolan & T.Rex - Solid Gold Easy Action
6. Link Wray - Run Chicken Run
7. Love - The Daily Planet
8. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Diddy Wah Diddy
9. Deep Purple - Black Night
10. Canned Heat - Rollin' And Tumblin'
11. Herbie Hancock - Bring Down The Birds
12. Bar-Kays - Soul Finger
13. Carla Thomas - B.A.B.Y.
14. Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want
15. Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop
16. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Tighten Up
17. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street (Part 2)
18. The Delfonics - Ready Or Not, Here I Come
19. Shadows - Foot Tapper
20. Chic - Open Up
21. Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
22. Lee Dorsey - Confusion
23. The Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw
24. Harry Nilsson - I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City
25. Cat Stevens - Matthew And Son
26. Zombies - A Rose for Emily
27. Donovan - The Sun Is A Very Magic Fellow

CD Two

1. The Stooges - 1969
2. Joy Division - Digital
3. X - The Once Over Twice
4. Faces - Ooh La La
5. Monkees - Michigan Blackhawk
6. Ben E King - Stand By Me
7. Shangri-Las - The Dum Dum Ditty
8. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light
9. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
10. Electric Light Orchestra - 10538 Overture
11. Roxy Music - Editions Of You
12. Kraftwerk - Tour De France
13. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper´s Delight
14. Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
15. Ohio Players - Trespassin'
16. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Light Your Windows
17. Willie Nelson - Matador
18. The Flying Burrito Bros. - Do You Know How It Feels
19. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Frenzy
20. Moby Grape - Hey Grandma
21. Dr. John - (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away
22. Country Joe & the Fish - Porpoise Mouth
23. Genesis - Harlequin
24. Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
25. Tom Waits - Clap Hands
26. Irma Thomas - Take a Look
27. Nick Drake - Fly

Carnaby Chic

For this mix, I tried to go for something a bit kitsch. A bit kooky and very groovy. You know, the kind of mix that girls who secretly ( or indeed openly ) wish they were Audrey Hepburn would love..
My kind of girls really. And what has resulted is very much my kind of mix…

1. Harry Roche Constellation - Carnaby Chick
2. Katerine - Parlez-Vous Anglais Mr. Katerine?
3. The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group - Katerine
4. Komeda - Rocket Plane (Music On The Moon)
5. Baby Birkin - Jane B
6. Spring - Hysteria 67
7. Marden Hill - Curtain
8. Saint Etienne - Mario's Cafe
9. Celly Campello - Estupido Cupido
10. Jo-Jo And The Fugitives - Chips Chicken Banana Split
11. Lulu - I'm A Tiger
12. The Young Rascals - Come on Up
13. Eddie Jefferson - Psychedelic Sally
14. Josephine Baker - Don't Touch My Tomatoes
15. Chuy Reyes & His Hollywood Mocambo Orchestra - Oink, Oink Mambo
16. Christine Pilzer - Ils Pataugent
17. Sophia Loren - Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo
18. The Magic Whispers - Fly
19. Basilisco - L'ultimo
20. Royal Blue - Dizzy
21. Harpers Bizarre - Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
22. Would be Goods - Death a la Carte
23. Living Brass - There's A Kind Of Hush
24. Eileen - Ces Bottes Sont Faites Pour Marcher
25. Mina - Dominga
26. R.Castiglione & H.Tical - S.O.S Z2
27. The Feeling Groovies - Koo-Kee
28. Gloria Wood - Oh, Honey
29. Miniflex - Peach a St Tropez

Big Star : Covered

And while I'm having a little dalliance with covers, here's a mix of Big Star cover versions. Two artists are featured twice on this mix, I wanted to host as many different songs. You know, rather than just give you twenty versions of 'Thirteen' or 'El Goodo'.

Some fairly decent takes on here, none of them come close to emulating the originals. However it would take an extraordinarily poor band to tarnish these wonderful songs. You may disagree...

1. Gentle Readers - Back of a Car
2. The Posies - Feel
3. Giftshop & Susan And Brandee - Give Me Another Chance
4. Matthew Sweet - The Ballad of el Goodo
5. This Mortal Coil - You & Your Sister
6. Bangles - September Gurls
7. Wilco - Thirteen
8. Skywriter - I'm in Love With a Girl
9. Idle Wilds - You Get What You Deserve
10. Yo La Tengo - Take Care
11. Baby Steps - When My Baby's Beside Me
12. Champale - Stroke It Noel
13. Cheap Trick - That 70's Song (In the Street)
14. Matt Devine - My Life Is Right
15. Fooled By April - Oh Dana
16. Grand Champeen - Daisy Glaze
17. Juliana Hatfield - Don't Lie to Me
18. Teenage Fanclub - Jesus Christ
19. The Posies - What's Going Ahn
20. The Afghan Whigs - Nightime
21. This Mortal Coil - Kangaroo
22. Son Volt - Holocaust

Many thanks to Dead Man for a large chunk of these hard to find tracks.

Link

Pacific! - Hot Lips

Terrific new video from delightful Swedes Pacific! Their album 'Reveries' is out on the 18th of this month..

The Greatest UK Top Ten Singles Of.....Never?

Twenty two all time classics and not a single top ten hit to be found. Hard to believe.

1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart #13 1980
2. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs #12 1972
   
3. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks #31 1978
4. Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK #38 1976
5. The Kingsmen - Louie Louie #26 1964
   
6. Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man #21 1971
   
7. REM - Losing My Religion #19 1991
8. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl n/a
9. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way #38 1977
10. Motorhead - Ace Of Spades #15 1980
11. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love #18 1986
12. Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin' #23 1969
13. Bob Marley - Three Little Birds #17 1980
14. Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender # 11 1956
15. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On #31 1973
16. Stevie Wonder - Superstition #11 1973
17. Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues #18 1958
18. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy #13 1991
19. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life #26 1996
20. Wannadies - You & Me Song #18 1996
21. Boston - More Than A Feeling #22 1977
22. Roxy Music - Avalon #13 1982

Expand Your Mind

AKA Sammy Takes A Trip. A Collection of Fuzzy, Twangy Garage, Freakbeat & Little known Pop Gems from the '60s. I tried to shy away from the 'Nuggets' series ( jus' 2 tracks lifted from them ) as most fans of this particular genre probably own them already.

A couple of points.. the artists on tracks 21 & 24 aren't mis-spellings! And featured are an all together different Minutemen..

1. The Kool Kuzzins - Love Can Be True
2. The Rainy Daze - Discount City
3. Caretakers - East Side Story
4. The Shades Ltd - Froghunt On The Moon
5. Breakers - Don’t Send Me No Flowers ( I Ain’t Dead Yet )
6. The Salt - Lucifer
7. Noel Deschamps - I’m Your Witchdoctor
8. The Fillies - I’ll Sell My Soul
9. Syndicate Of Sound - Little Girl
10. The Galaxies IV - Don’t Lose Your Mind
11. The Idle Race - Skeleton And The Roundabout
12. Kim Fowley - King Of Love
13. The Changing Tymes - Go Your Way
14. Os Mutantes - Não Vá Se Perder por Aí
15. The Live Wires - Scrambled Eggs
16. Beethoven Soul - Beggin’ Your Pardon M’Lady
17. Trans-Atlantic Subway - Servant Of The People
18. The Bosom Blues - Hippie Queen
19. The Misunderstood - I Need Your Love
20. West Coast Branch - Colors Of My Life
21. MC2 - My Mind Goes High
22. The Minutemen - Why Do I Cry
23. The Shag - Stop & Listen
24. Bleach Boys - Wine, Wine, Wine
25. Executives - Ginza Strip
26. Race Marbles - Like A Dribbling Fram
27. The United States Of America - I Won’t Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar
28. Barney Pip - Let It All Hang Out
29. The Gants - I Wonder

Pt1 Pt2

Chart Round Up

Kid Rock scores his first UK No1 single this week with ‘All Summer Long’. The Warren Zevon sampling track has also peaked at #1 in Austria, Switzerland, Germany & Ireland. It stalled at #38 on the Billboard 100.

A huge climb of 134 places sees Katy Perry climb to #4 this week with ‘I Kissed A Girl’. Currently at the top of the Billboard chart, don’t be surprised if Ms Perry emulates that feat in the UK as early as next week.

I’ve no idea why but ‘In The Air Tonight’ is the No1 single in New Zealand. Madonna & Justin continue to Top the charts in 14 Countries with ‘4 Minutes’, and is currently the Worlds biggest seller.

A huge congratulations to Snow Patrol who this week celebrate 100 Weeks in the UK chart with ‘Chasing Cars’. No mean feat this. It’s currently No2 on the All time list of Chart Runners, still a fair way behind Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ on 122 Weeks. But if you ask my opinion that record is there to be broken, and will be.

Finally, ‘Abba Gold’ is back at No1 in the UK album Chart, 16 years after its release. And Noah And The Whale have a Top 10 Single with their debut ‘5 Years Time’. Hooray!

Blink & You'll Miss 'Em

I was originally going to attempt a mix of tracks all under a minute long, but i realised that it would've been rubbish. Rubbish i tell you. So i decided to make it tracks under 2 mins. Ah, but weren't all songs from the 60s that length? Damn. I then limited the mix to tracks released 1990 onwards. The result - indie heaven/hell, take your pick.

Cd Length 51:47

1. Super Furry Animals - God! Show Me Magic (1:50)
2. The Las - Feelin (1:44)
3. Vines - Highly Evolved (1:34)
4. The Bristols - He'll Never Come Back (1:43)
5. Kenicke - Come Out 2 Nite (1:58)
6. Boo Radleys - Lazy Day (1:36)
7. Brassy - Boss (1:57)
8. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl (1:18)
9. Billy Bragg & Wilco - My Flying Saucer (1:45)
10. Helen Love - Rockaway Beach, Heartbreak Hotel (1:59)
11. Teenage Fanclub - What You Do To Me (1:57)
12. Komeda - Boogie Woogie / Rock 'N' Roll (1:58)
13. Bad Livers - Lust For Life (1:55)
14. The Muffs - Won't Come Out To Play (1:50)
15. Silver Sun - I'm A Dick (1:40)
16. Guided By Voices - A Salty Salute (1:29)
17. Drugstore - Super Glider
18. St Etienne - Wilson (1:59)
19. Boutique - Strawberries & Cream (1:56)
20. Elastica - Vaseline (1:23)
21. Ben Kweller - Sha Sha (1:40)
22. Adventures In Stereo - When We Go Back (1:08)
23. The Vaselines - Molly's Lips (1:42)
24. The Soviettes - Ten (1:19)
25. Ricky Spontaine - UFO Man (1:42)
26. The Lilys - A Nanny In Manhattan (1:45)
27. Be Your Own PET - Damn Damn Leash (1:52)
28. Sneeze - Shaky Ground (1:59)
29. Evan Dando - Why Do You Do This To Yourself (1:59)
30. Blur - Far Out (1:37)

I made this in January 2006. A volume 2 is long overdue...

Penelope Rainbow

A collection of the Main Players of the Elephant 6 Collective. Enjoy this, again and again....

1. The Minders - Go Wave Your Wand
   
2. oF Montreal - Penelope
3. Apples In Stereo - The Rainbow
   
4. The Olivia Tremor Control - Hideway
5. The Gerbils - Grin
6. Marbles - Go Marilee
7. The Essex Green - This Isn't Farmlife
8. Elf Power - The Naughty Villain
9. The Ladybug Transistor - Here Comes The Rain
10. Music Tapes - An Orchetration's Overture
11. A Hawk And A Hacksaw - Black Firs
12. Circulatory System - The Lovely Universe
13. Ulysses - The Falcon
14. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
15. The High Water Marks - Finding Clovers
16. Dressy Bessy - You Stand Here
17. The Late B.P Helium - Rabbit's Ear
18. Major Organ and the Adding Machine - Madam Truffle
19. Sunshine Fix - Sail Beyond The Sun
20. Chocolate USA - Two Dogs
21. Great Lakes - The Moon and the Lunatics
22. Thimble Circus - I Got Blue
23. Marshmallow Coast - Oblivion
24. Beulah - Emma Blowgun's Last Stand

Pay attention, especially, to the Sunshine Fix track here. It rewards repeated listens. It's rather wonderful..

Great Britain Vs The USA

Here's a hypothetical situation for you all. You're about to be dumped on a desert island for, say, 3 years. Don't worry, there'll be plenty of Food & Drink, Cigarettes and hunky men / scantily clad women for you. But here's the bad news, you can only take your entire record/CD collection from one of these 2 countries. Tough isn't it? So what's it going to be. 3 years without the Beatles. No Dylan or Velvets for 36 months. Choice is yours...
Obviously other countries make great music, so don't pull me up on that, unless you really have to.. And before I go, my stance? Well, obviously I love the Beatles. But there's a lack of any decent Soul or Jazz from over here. AND I believe I could listen to Big Star all day every day. And then there's Motown.. And Nuggets vol1 is better than vol 2. So, even though I'm a Brit, there'll be no flag waving here. It's one-nil to the States...

Great Britain

1. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
2. The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
3. The Clash - Train In Vain
4. Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
5. Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
6. David Bowie - Rock 'N Roll Suicide
7. Zombies - Friends Of Mine
8. The Who - Happy Jack
9. Syd Barrett - Dark Globe
10. Small Faces - My Minds Eye
11. The Jam - A Bomb In Wardour Street
12. Blur - Sunday Sunday
13. The Kinks - Autumn Almanac
14. Donovan - Colours
15. The Smiths - Panic
16. PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
17. The Cure - Love Song
18. Roxy Music - Street Life
19. Joy Division - Isolation
20. Radiohead - Idioteque
21. The Stone Roses - Sally Cinammon
22. Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam
23. Jesus & Mary Chain - Far Gone & Out
24. Kate Bush - The Sensual World
25. Bert Jansch - Veronica
26. Nick Drake - One Of These Things First

USA

1. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
2. Velvet Underground - Rock And Roll
3. Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
4. Big Star - Way Out West
5. Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
6. Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
7. The Pixies - Debaser
8. Yo La Tengo - Mr Tough
9. Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire
10. REM - Pretty Persuasion
11. Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
12. The Byrds - Ballad Of Easy Rider
13. Chuck Berry - Back In The USA
14. MC5 - Shakin' Street
15. Ramones - Beat On The Brat
16. Pavement - Trigger Cut
17. Love - My Little Red Book
18. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
19. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
20. Wilco - Can't Stand It
21. Elvis Presley - I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell
22. Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People
23. Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone
24. Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
25. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
26. Woody Guthrie - Car Song

A Rough Trade Singles Anthology : Vol 2 Latter Days

A mix containing some good songs. It's not as good as Volume 1, but it was never going to be. I do love that particular Cornershop track though..

1. Fiery Furnaces - Single Again
2. Libertines - Up The Bracket
3. Tyde - Go Ask Yer Dad
4. Cornershop - Topknot
5. Brakes - Sometimes Always
6. The Kills - Fried My Little Brains
7. Low - California
8. Sufjan Stevens - The Black Hawk War
9. Delays - Nearer Than Heaven
10. Adam Green - Bluebirds
11. Detroit Cobras - Cha Cha Twist
12. British Sea Power - Remember Me
13. Belle & Sebastian - Funny Little Frog
14. Strokes - Hard To Explain
15. Hidden Cameras - A Miracle
16. Hal - Worry About The Wind
17. Aberfeldy - Summer's Gone
18. Babyshambles - Albion
19. Veils - The Tide That Left & Never Came Back
20. Moldy Peaches - Anybody Else But You
21. Antony & The Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
22. Arcade Fire - Cold Wind
23. Emiliana Torrini - Heartstopper

A Rough Trade Singles Anthology : Vol 1 The Early Years

This is a mix I made over two years ago, however as the music on here is so timeless, I decided it deserved a posting. Volume 2 is on its way....

1. Metal Urbain - Paris Marquis
2. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
3. Camper van Beethoven -Take The Skinheads Bowling
4. Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing
5. Luna - Indian Summer
6. Aztec Camera - Oblivious
7. Sundays - Can't Be Sure
8. Go Betweens - Cattle & Cane
9. Violent Femmes - Ugly
10. Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder
11. Lucinda Williams - I Just Wanted To See You So Bad
12. Feelies - Fa Ce La
13. Shelleyan Orphan - Anatomy Of Love
14. Woodentops - Well Well Well
15. Jonathan Richman - That Summer Feeling
16. Prefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden
17. Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna
18. Vic Godard - Stop That Girl
19. Sandie Shaw - Hand In Glove
20. Pastels - I Wonder Why
21. Fall - Totally Wired
22. Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong
23. Monochrome Set - He's Frank ( Slight Return )
24. Rainy Day - I'll Keep It With Mine