Drop The Biscuit

Here’s to the women who go their own ways.

Who choose to reject everything the strictly limited, industry-mandated persona menu offers them: soul diva, folk damsel, red-hot mamma, pop poppet, bruised chantooze or voracious vamp, saying  “none of the above” and, on their passport under “occupation”, are proud to fill in  the single word “musician”….

1 Dagmar Krause & Marie Goyette-Through My Satellite

2 Zeena Parkins-Firebrat

3 Delia Derbyshire-Delia’s Psychedelian Waltz

4 Ruth White-Sun

5 Annette Peacock-I’m The One

6 Buffy Sainte-Marie-God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot

7 Haco-Oyster Song

8 Frank Chickens-Night Dream

9 Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble-Double Voice, Extra Voice

10 Mandy More-If Not By Fire

11 Brigitte Fontaine-Le Brouillard

12 Ruby-Bad Girl

13 Jane Weaver-H>A>K

14 the United States Of America-The Garden Of Earthly Delights

15 Nancy Sesay & The Melodaires-C’est Fab

16 The Shaggs-My Companion

17 Yoko Ono-Why

18 Nico-Lawns Of Dawns

19 Dame Edith Sitwell-The Wind’s Bastinado (From Facade)

This week we catch up with another one of our favourite books….what has now become the Bible of the the Post Punk era ‘Rip It Up And Start Again’ written by Simon Reynolds.

Quite a few of our mixes have already covered this period, certainly the ‘Post Punk’ playlist’s and a lot of the ‘On/Off’  & even a few of the ‘INCHXINCH’ series, at least in style. 

So in an attempt to not repeat too much we have a lovely little selection of some of our favourite tunes, a couple of the late John Peels favourite’s and hopefully a few, the author would approve? and then 1 or 2 we just couldn’t leave out, so sit back….enjoy fellow post-punksters!

1 A Certain Ratio-Do The Du

2 The Au Pairs-Love Song

3 Magazine-Recoil

4 Manicured Noise-Faith

5 The Pop Group-Snowgirl

6 Alternative TV-Splitting In Two

7 The Cravats-Precinct

8 The Cure-10:15 Saturday Night

9 The Prefects-Things In General

10 The Notsensibles-Death To Disco

11 Adam & The Ants-Plastic Surgery

12 Public Image Ltd-Socialist

13 The Slits-Difficult Fun

14 The Fall-Futures And Pasts

15 Tiller Boys-Big Noise From The Jungle

16 Spizz Energy-Where’s Captain Kirk?

17 Fatal Microbes-Violence Grows

18 Killing Joke-Pssyche

19 Wire-106 Beats That

20 23 Skidoo-Vegas El Bandito

21 Scritti Politti-Lions After Slumber

22 The Cravats-Tears In The Machine

23 The Raincoats-Shouting Out Loud

“I’ve read this book a couple of times now, and dipped into it at least a million times! Without doubt, along with the recently reviewed ‘Bass Culture’ – the most important playlist of our youth”

“Back in the day we used to call everything that wasn’t Punk ‘New Wave’ 

“Of course we thought we knew it all back then…

Following on from Pt.1 & 2, 

step in to the third instalment of MOD related gear brought to you this week by Rosko.

1 Rahsaan Roland Kirk-Making Love After Hours

2 Ray Charles-(Night Time) Is The Right Time

3 Herbie Mann & Tamiko Jones-The Sidewinder

4 The Twistin’ Kings-Congo (Pt.1)

5 King Curtis-Soul Twist

6 Wilson Pickett- Ninety Nine And A Half (Won’t Do)

7 Jimmy McGriff- All About My Girl

8 Barrett Strong- Misery

9 Kenny Burrell- Midnight Blue

10 The Skatelites-Phoenix City

11 The Bar Kays- Knucklehead

12 The Capitols- Cool Jerk

13 Long John Baldry And The Hoochie Coochie Men –  Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air

14 Prince Buster- Texas Hold Up

15 Aretha Franklin- Bit Of Soul

16 Rex Garvin & The Mighty Cravers Sock It To ‘Em J.B.

17 Martha Reeves & The Vandellas- The Jerk

18 Derrick Morgan- Blazing Fire

19 Zoot Money- Geneva/Good Luck Soul (Live)

And if you like this one, you might want to check out Pt’s 1 & 2 

or ‘From Modernist to Mod’, the ‘Roots of Soul’ Series, the ‘Blue Beat 7”, 

the ‘House of Joy’ or any of the R’n’B, Ska or Rocksteady Playlist’s or maybe 

even ‘Soundtracks 3’?  Though, you might not….

I met Tom in the Key & Chain, it was quiet & dusty & my mouth was dry. What ya got for me this week boy, another one a those DTB’s? yessir i say’s, an with your open mind & oddness of spirit Tom, this should be right up your street?

Introduction stuff.

1 David Bowie-The gospel according to Tony Day

2 John Baker-Electro rhythm MQ LP1/3

3 Cambodian Rocks-A2

4 Goat-Let it burn

5 Pop Masta/the Clash-Rapturous Revolution

6 Lord Invader & his Calypso Rhythm Boys-Teddy boy calypso

7 Raymond Scott-At an Arabian house party

8 Pascale Comelade-Taking tiger mountain

9 Marcel et Son Orchestre-Zarathoustra

10 Goat Girl-Hank’s theme

11 Mick Carn-Tribal dawn

12 Asmus Tietchens-Teilmenge 20 (section)

13 The Gorillaz (featuring Moon Child Sanelly)-With love to an ex

14 Unidentified-No more, my Lawd

15 U-Roy-Control tower

16 Lou Rawls-The letter

17 The Velvet Underground-Countess from Hong Kong (demo)

18 Maarja Nuut & Ruum-Muutuja

19 Yoko Ono with the Plastic Ono Band-Don’t count the waves

Woosh…..

This week’s guest mix comes from Wireshaker – falling somewhere in between the ‘country’ & ‘countryesque’ mixes already posted, or continuing on from the ‘west coast alt/country’ posted way back in sept 2015?

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Nixon in the White House, Bobby Kennedy in the ground,dead, the Viet Nam war still very much alive, pot still illegal..

The beautiful people heaved a collective sigh, threw in the towel and retreated inward, laying the foundations of the coming Me Decade and backwards to the comforting sounds of the country songs heard on the family’s Victrola during childhood.

But being hippies, they couldn’t resist adding a twist or three…

1 EUGENE CHADBOURNE-GOD MADE COUNTRY MUSIC FOR GOOD PEOPLE LIKE YA’LL

2 EVE-HELLO L.A.,BYE BYE BIRMINHAM

3 RICK NELSON & THE STONE CANYON BAND-CALIFORNIA

4 THE INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE BAND-LUXURY LINER

5 THE DILLARDS-LEMON CHIMES

6 THE NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND-YUKON RAILROAD

7 COUNTRY JOE McDONALD-I’VE GOT A TIGER BY THE TAIL

8 THE MONKEES-WHAT AM I DOIN’ HANGIN’ ‘ROUND?

9 MICHAEL NESMITH & THE FIRST NATIONAL BAND-CALICO GIRLFRIEND

10 STEPHEN STILLS-DON’T LOOK AT MY SHADOW

11 FORMALLY FAT HARRY-PASSING THE RIVER

12 BAREFOOT JERRY-HIROSHIMA HOLE

13 GENE CLARK-SILVER RAVEN

14 SANFORD CLARK-THE BLACK WIDOW SPIDER

15 SKIP SPENCE-CRIPPLE CREEK

16 GRATEFUL DEAD-BOX OF RAIN

17 MORNING-ROLL ‘EM DOWN

18 THE BEAU BRUMMELS-TURN AROUND

19 THE DOOBIE BROTHERS-NOBODY

20 THE YOUNGBLOODS-SMUG

21 STEELY DAN-PEARL OF THE QUARTER

22 NEON PHILHARMONIC-COWBOY

23 QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE- HAPPY TRAILS

IF YOU LIKE REGGAE, THIS BOOK IS A MUST! I CAN’T BELIEVE WE HAVEN’T POSTED A PLAYLIST INSPIRED BY THIS BOOK ALREADY-‘BASS CULTURE, WHEN REGGAE WAS KING’ (I THOUGHT IT STILL WAS!)

1 LINTON KWESI JOHNSON-BASS CULTURE

2 THE ETHIOPIANS-THE WHIP

3 WINSTON WRIGHT & THE UPSETTERS-JAM#1

4 PRINCE FRANCIS-STREET DOCTOR

5 ALTON ELLIS-IF I COULD RULE THE WORLD

6 THE GLADIATORS-RUDE BOY SKA

7 BRIGADIER JERRY-RAM DANCE MASTER

8 SNUFFY & WALLY-DREADER MAFIA

9 PRINCE BUSTER-COOL OPERATOR

10 U-ROY-SMALL AXE (VERSION)

11 ALTON ELLIS & THE FLAMES-SOME TALK

12 JACKIE MITTOO-DISCO JACK/VERSION

13 KOJAK & LISA-FIST-TO-FIST RUB-A-DUB

14 KING TUBBY-TAKE FIVE

15 THE ETHIOPIANS-LOCUS

16 THE DUKE REID ALL STARS-FLIP FLOP

17 SIR LORD COMIC-DJANGO SHOOTS FIRST

18 AUGUSTUS PABLO-LIGHTNING CLAP VERSION

19 PRINCE FAR I-PRISON DISCIPLINE

20 KING TUBBY AND THE AGGROVATORS-A BETTER VERSION

21 CLINT EASTWOOD & GENERAL SAINT-I CAN’T TAKE ANOTHER WORLD WAR

22 JACOB MILLER-KNOCKING VERSION (DUB)

23 PRINCE BUSTER’S ALL STARS-ALI SHUFFLE

24 LESTER STERLING-SOUL VOYAGE

LOT’S MORE REGGAE (& RELATED) PLAYLIST’S TO CHECK OUT…

RETRO FUTURIST? – IT’S 1980- 

NO IT’S SOMETIME LATER……THE BRIEF WAS TO PUT TOGETHER A MORE CONTEMPORARY PLAYLIST OF TUNES THAT HAVE A SIMILAR ‘FEEL’ TO THOSE HEADY TIMES?

IT’S INTERESTING COMPARING THE TWO, THE OLD WITH THE NEW. THE SIMILARITIES/INFLUENCES, BOTH MUSICALLY & LYRICALLY? HERE YOU MAY DETECT THE ODD NOD TO BANDS LIKE TG, VISAGE, THE CABS, DM, OMD, THE HUMAN LEAGUE, JAPAN, JOY DIVISION, OR THE CURE ….

BIG THANX TO ALL THOSE ORIGINAL CROC’S REGULARS THAT HELPED OUT WITH THESE NEW SELECTIONS…… CREATING THIS ‘CROC’S NOT CROC’S’

TRACKLISTING-

1 ADD N TO (X)-APHINE REPITITION

2 MISS KITTEN & THE HACKER-1982

3 LADYTRON-TRUE MATHEMATICS

4 WHISPERING SONS-ALONE

5 TROPIC OF CANCER-MORE ALONE

6 BLACK MARBLE-IRON LUNG

7 DETACHMENTS-THE FLOWERS THAT FELL

8 STEREOLAB-LES YPER-SOUND

9 LES GEORGES LENINGRAD-MISSING GARY

10 THE KVB-DOMINANCE/SUBMISSION

11 MARK BROOM-TRANSLUCID

12 VITALIC-LIGHTSPEED

13 SINK YA TEETH-SWEETNESS

14 PLANNINGTOROCK-BEULAH LOVES DANCING

15 LOVATARAXX-ANA VENUS

16 MENTHULL-FACE AU MUR

17 MOTOR (FEAT.MLG)-MAN MADE MACHINE

18 EMPATHY TEST-LAST NIGHT ON EARTH.

CROC’S 

(OR SHOULD THAT’VE BEEN CALLED AL’S?)  I READ SOMEWHERE RECENTLY THAT WHEN CROC’S WAS REBRANDED ‘THE PINK TOOTHBRUSH IN 1984, THE CROCODILES WERE RELOCATED TO COLCHESTER ZOO, WHERE THEY DISCOVERED THEY WERE ACTUALLY ALLIGATORS!!?…NO!

…

CHECK OUT THE ORIGINAL- ‘THE CROC’S MIX’

& FOR SOMETHING SIMILAR- 

THE ‘ON/OFF’ OR ‘INCHXINCH’ MIXES, 

THE ‘MUTE’ & ‘HANSA’ PLAYLISTS, 

OR GUEST MIXES BY 

‘MR HARD’ & ’DARK NIGHT’

TAKING ANOTHER TURN IN THE ATJ HOT SEAT & GIVING ME A LITTLE TIME OFF, WE HAVE ANOTHER FINE SELECTION OF JAZZ TUNES FROM OUR MAN ROSKO.

1 Come On, Come Over…Jaco Pastorius

2Good Humour Man…Freddie Hubbard

3Condiciones Que Existen…Eddie Palmieri

4Jumpin’ in the Mornin’…Ray Charles

5Oh! Oh! Here He Comes…Herbie Hancock

6Do It The Hard Way…the Jazz Renegades

7Inner State (Of Mind)…Courtney Pine

8Dancin’ in an Easy Groove…Lonnie Smith

9West Indies…Sonny Burke and His Orchestra

10Guru-Vin…Don Sebesky

11Round Midnight…Robert Wyatt, Gilad Atzmon

12Flite…Cinematic Orchestra

13Product Efficiency…Johnny Pearson

HE SAID ‘I CHOSE MY HEAD CAREFULLY, SO I SHALL CHOOSE 

MY WORDS CAREFULLY’…MMM…MORE FROM THE ECLECTIC WORLD OF DTB…

INTRODUCTION-

1 TOMMY MCCOOK & THE SUPERSONICS-DOWN BOND STREET

2 MANNY CORCHADO-POW WOW

3 HANK WILLIAMS-MOANIN’ THE BLUES

4 BARBARA LYNN-HE AIN’T GONNA DO RIGHT

5 JOHN LEE HOOKER-I’M A BOOGIE MAN

6 COWBOY JUNKIES-SWEET JANE

7 ASHRA-SHUTTLE COCKS

8 HYBRID KIDS-D’YA THINK I’M SEXY?

9 THE VOICES OF EAST HARLEM-RIGHT ON BE FREE

10 THE VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS-SILVER MORNING BRANCHES/SECOND TRANSITION

11 IDLES-DANKE

12 BARBARA MASON-GOIN’ OUT OF MY HEAD/GROOVIN’

13 GOLDFRAPP-TWIST

14 LYNDA STYNE-MEAN TO ME

15 MARIACHI VARGAS DE TACALITLAN-LA VAQUILLA

16 BLONDIE/THE DOORS-RAPTURE RIDERS 

NOT THAT WE NEED A REASON TO PUT TOGETHER ANOTHER PLAYLIST

ON THE SUBJECT, BUT I’VE JUST STARTED READING FUTURE DAYS, KRAUTROCK AND THE BUILDING OF MODERN GERMANY BY DAVID STUBBS, SO, WHY NOT? 

MOST CURRENT FANS LIKE MYSELF WERE’NT EVEN BORN, OR WERE TOO YOUNG TO NOTICE GERMAN MUSIC WHEN IT WAS BEING RECORDED IN THE LATE 60’S/EARLY 70’S. IT WASN’T POPULAR, ACTUALLY NOBODY I KNEW KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT IT, UNTIL MAYBE JOHN PEEL STARTED PLAYING THE ODD TRACK, OR JOHN LYDON CHOSE HALLELUWAH AS A FAVOURITE TUNE ON THE CAPITOL RADIO INTERVIEW? 

FOR ME, GROWING UP,I DISCOVERED KRAFTWERK & WORKED MY WAY BACK. BUT I LOVE THE IDEA OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT (ESPECIALLY WITH MUSIC) & IN THIS CASE WITH COMPARATIVE MORE POPULAR ART ROCK BANDS OF THE TIME (& SINCE?) LIKE FLOYD, SOFT MACHINE, THE VELVETS, EVEN ZAPPA, ENO/FRIPP, 

BOWIE FOR THAT MATTER?

……AND THEN OF COURSE THERE’S ALSO THE FASCINATION WITH MAN & MACHINE, ELECTRONICS & THE GUITAR. AND ALSO THE PULSATING, OFTEN HYPNOTIC BEATS/GROOVE. ALWAYS A WINNER!

SO, IF YOU HAVE’NT ALREADY? JUST READ THE BOOK, PLAY THE MIX, 

SIT BACK & ENJOY…

& IF YOU LIKE THIS PLAYLIST, CHECK OUT ‘KRAUTROCK/SPACEROCK’ & THE ‘MOTORIK’ MIX FOR A SLIGHTLY MORE CONTEMPORARY LOOK AT SOME OF THE  FAR REACHIN’ INFLUENCES…

(OR YOU COULD JUST LISTEN TO ‘LOW OR ‘HEROES’)

1 CAN-MILLIONENSPIEL

2 CLUSTER-IM SUDEN

3 FAUST-KRAUTROCK

4 AMON DUUL-NACHRICHTEN AUS CANNABISTAN

5 AGITATION FREE-SOMEONE’S SECRET

6 NEU!-GOOD LIFE

7 HARMONIA-MONZA