Drop The Biscuit

Second in our series from the West Coast Alt-Country scene, this time brought to you by Rosko.

1 Little Feat -Willin’

2 Emmylou Harris -Bluebird Wine

3 The Byrds -Hickory Wind

4 Joni Mitchell -You Turn Me On I’m A Radio

5 Michael Nesmith & The First National Band -The Keys To The Car

6 Guy Clark -A Nickel For The Fiddler

7 The Flying Burrito Brothers -Cody Cody

8 Neil Young -Human Highway

9 New Riders Of The Purple Sage -Glendale Train

10 Gene Clark -Life’s Greatest Fool

11 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -Modern Day Romance

12 Gram Parsons -Streets Of Baltimore

13 Linda Ronstadt -Poor Poor Pitiful Me

14 Hot Tuna -True Religion

15 Creedance Clearwater Revival -Lodi

16 The Grateful Dead -Uncle John’s Band

17 Stephen Stills -Change Partners

STRUM STRUM STRUM. ANOTHER STRANGE MENAGERIE OF POST PUNK SOFT INDUSTRIAL GUITAR BEATS N BLEEPS WHICH IS KNOWN TO BE ‘INCHXINCH’ – EDGING US EVER CLOSER TO THE PROMISED, DID SHE SAY PROMISED?  LAND.

1 Cat Power- Bathysphere

2 Les Georges Leningrad-Sleep Answer

3 Pharmakon- Crawling On Bruised Knees

4 Delaney Davidson- I’ve Got The Devil Inside

5 Throbbing Gristle- Dead On Arrival

6 Mike Ladd- I Seen What You Say

7 Shipping News- Quiet Victories

8 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Vers)

9 Carambolage- Tu Doch Nicht So

10 Butter 08- How Do I Relax

11 Made- Type Tactical

12 Equiknoxx- Peanut Porridge

13 Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Zero (Mstrkrft Remix)

14 Niagara- 6.30

15 Nine Inch Nails- This Isn’t The Place

With The Beatles saw the lads growing in confidence. Fewer cover versions, and George’s first credit.

Once again, the world beat a path to their door in search of fresh material to adopt and adapt: big band swingers, cod-flamenco tocaores, Texan psychedelic weirdbeards, west country prog eccentrics, West Yorkshire silk-suited smoothies, Jewish-Italian goth-soul divas,  and Romanian god-knows-whats, all plundered its wares. And then there’s Not A Second time with it’s infamous “Aeolean Cadence”….

1 Bob Leaper Orchestra- It Won’t Be Long

2 Louise Goffin- All I’ve Got To Do

3 Margareta Pislaru- Si Sincron (All My Loving)

4 The Telstars Don’t Bother Me

5 Sonny Curtis- Little Child

6 Peggy Lee- Till There Was You

7 Backbeat Band- Please Mr Postman

8 13th Floor Elavators- Roll Over Beethoven

9 Stackridge- Hold Me Tight

10 Laura Nylo & Labelle- You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me

11 Alan Haven- I Wanna Be Your Man

12 The Donays- Devil In His Heart

13 Robert Palmer- Not A Second More

14 Junior Walker & The All Stars- Money

There ain’t no Pandemic gonna stop us from checkin’ out this week’s  DTB! 

Here we go again Brothers an Sisters- Another eclectic roller coaster ride of sense and nonsense… 

Together, we’re living in Eclectic Dreams….

1 Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters-It’s A Quiet Town

2 The Buzzcocks-Orgasm Addict

3 The Groupies- Primitive

3 Jimmy McGriff- Black Pearl

4 Screaming Lord Sutch- Jack The Ripper

5 Led Zeppelin v The Beatles- Whole Lotta Helter Skelter

6 Josephine Foster- How Happy Is The Little Stone

7 Black Country, New Roads- Science Fair

8 Martin Gore- Vervet

9 Jeff & Jane Hudson- Information

10 Gershon Kingsley- Popcorn

11 Elza Soares- Danca

12 Hailu Mergia- Amrew Demkew

13 The Birthday party- Swampland

14 Alvin Stardust- Good love Will Never Die

15 Frank J Wilson & The Cavaliers- Last Kiss

16 The Damned- Stretcher Case

ooh, that’s interesting, she said. between the cracks. a mostly contemporary playlist, of mostly relaxing sounds, suitable for mostly all types of folks…………………

1 Arv & Miljo- Växtlighet I Asfalt (Punkens Helga Skrift)

2 Becker & Mukai- Time Very Near

3 Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan- Was Onaip

4 Arp- Spinette

5 Arthur Russell- Corn (Continued)

6 The Advisory Circle- Triadex Logotone

7 Mary Lattimore- Otis Walks Into The Woods

8 Paul Weller- In Another Room/Submerge

9 Madlib- Hopprock

10 Paul Weller- Embarkation/Rejoice

11 James Martin- Introduction

12 Jenny Hval- Some Days

13 Virginia Astley- Afternoon Summer Of Their Dreams/Afternoons When The Fields Were On Fire

14 Fever Ray- Falling

15 Jon Hopkins- The Wider Sun

16 Misha Mishenko- Sol

similar to the ‘new dub’ & ‘ambient dub’ mixes. you might also like the ‘classical no’ the ‘trip hop’ or the 2 lovely offerings from one of our guests pascale?

This weeks special guest mix comes from WV Vinyl, a Vinyl sharing instagram account

with a similar eclectic taste to ourselves. Enjoy….

1 Ellen Mcilwaine – Farther Along

2 Fred Wesley & The J.B’s- Blow Your Head

3 Amon Tobin- Stoney Street

4 The Missing Brazilians- Missing Brazilians

5 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- The Weeping Song

6 Bernard Parmegiani- Versailles Peut-Etre 2

7 Ultravox- The Wild The Beautiful & The Damned

8 Dick Hyman- Discotheque Doll

9 The Buzzcocks- What Do I Get

10 Kokoko!- Likoko

11 Money Mark- Don’t Miss The Boat

12 Walter Davis- Poor Grinder Blues

13 Bob Dylan- Boots Of Spanish Leather

14 Kraftwerk- Antenna 

15 Dennis Brown/Jah Berry- Stay At home

16 Mustafa Ozkent- Dolana Dolana

17 Tiny Fuller- Catwalk

The first in our series of THE BEATLES PROJECT tackling the complete set of Beatles studio LP’s – With either covers, originals or alternative versions, & we thought we’d start at the beginning…

One, two, three, four!

So it begins.

Please Please Me was released on 22nd March 1963, and the world would never be the same again.

An aural snapshot of their live act permanently etched into plastic, it chucked together a show-tune, r’n’b, and, unlike their southern rivals, these boys were Hamburg-hardened enough not to shirk from displaying their feminine side with, count ’em, no fewer than three examples of Brill Building pop. No wonder the girls loved ‘em so much.

Oh, and unprecedentedly, over half its contents were self-composed.

The opening brace of tracks became the earliest Lennon & McCartney covers with Kenny Lynch & then Duffy Power (backed by the Graham Bond Organisation) first out of the blocks.

Then, of course, apres ceux, le deluge…..

1 The Graham Bond Organisation With Duffy Power- I Saw Her Standing There

2 Kenny Lynch-Misery

3 George Martin-Anna

4 The Cookies-Chains

5 The Flamin’ Groovies-Boys

6 Les Lionceaux- Je Suis Fou (Ask Me Why)

7 The Score- Please Please Me

8 Sandie Shaw- Love Me Do

9 Keeley Smith- P.S I Love You

10 Johnny Thunders & Patti Palladin- Baby It’s You

11Count Basie- Do You Want To Know A Secret

12 Herb Alpert & The Tijuanna Brass- A Taste Of Honey

13 Richard, Keith & Aranbee Pop Orchestra- There’s A Place

14 Top Notes- Twist And Shout 

This week, a  pretty smooth continuation from the last couple of weeks- We got plenty a women in the mix & quite a strong a movie soundtrack feel?  & it’s a mixed bag too – from the 60’s & 70’s & from the raunchy to the soft an soulful, we got it!

1 Claudia Lennear-Goin’ Down/Reprise

2 Marie Queenie Lyons- See And Don’t See

3 Ruby Andrews- You Made A Believer Out Of me

4 Ruby Andrews- You Ole Boo Boo

5 The Pazant Brothers- Back To Beaufort

6 Shirley And The Shirelles- LookWhat You’ve Done To My Heart

7 Joe Thomas- I’m Gone And I’m Glad

8 Betty Davis- The Lone Ranger

9 Voices Of East Harlem- Right On And Be Free

10 Mavis Staples – Chocolate City

11 Gloria Ann Taylor-Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing

12 Mary Love – Hey, Stoney Face

13 Bettye Swann- A Change Is Gonna Come

14 Al Green- Hot Wire

15 Bill Moss- Sock It To ‘Em Soul Brother

16 Little Ann- Deep Shadows.

Plenty of other Soulful offerings out there, more from the ‘Souled’ & ‘Soultime’ series, as well as ‘Grooves’ & some of the Mod things to dig into…

A brilliant addition to our Soundtracks series this week- 

A fantastic playlist compiled by Nick from the Genesis Cinema in Bethnal Green, East London. Many thanks to all the guys there, and especially to Nick for all his great choices, can’t wait for the lockdown to be over, but in the meantime……

Intro – Dirk Digger and his DJ Nick (from Boogie Nights)

1 Rick Springfield- Jessie’s Girl (Boogie Nights)

2 Roy Orbison- In Dreams (Blue Velvet)

3 Tangerine Dream- Betrayal (The Sorcerer)

4 Virtual Mima- Perfect Blue (Perfect Blue)

5 Goblin-Suspira Theme (Suspira 1977)

6 Q Lazzarus- Goodbye Horses (Silence Of The Lambs)

7  The Stranglers- Peaches (Sexy Beast)

8  Alex & His Droogs- Singing In The Rain (A Clockwork Orange)

9  Toshiaki Tsushima- Yakusa Papers (Battle Without Honour & Humanity)

10 Alfred De Carter’s Orchestra- Be Vulgar  By All Means (Unfaithfully Yours 1948)

11 Faye Wong- Dream Lover (Chungking Express)

12 Pino Donaggio- Contest Winners (Carrie)

13 Ennio Morricone- Man With A Harmonica (Once Upon A Time In The West)

14 Pino Donaggio- Bucket Of Blood (Carrie)

15 Vanilla Fudge- You Keep Me Hangin’ On (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood)

16 Meiko Kaji- Shura No Hana (Lady Snowblood)

17 Yumi Takigawa- Aitsu No (New Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701)

18 Roxy Music- More Than This (Lost In Translation)

19 Julie Delphy- A Waltz For A Night (Before Sunset)