Drop The Biscuit

SO, HERE’S ANOTHER BUNCH OF X ART STUDENTS/ARTY TYPES DOING WHAT THEY (PROBABLY/POSSIBLY) DO BEST?

1 MAGAZINE-MY MIND AIN’T SO OPEN

2 PINK MILITARY-SPELLBOUND

3 WIRE-THE OTHER WINDOW

4 BLUR-FAR OUT

5 RADIOHEAD-BLOW OUT

6 PERE UBU-NON ALIGNMENT PACT

7 THE BEATLES-HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN

8 MARTIN CREED-GIFT ATTACK

9 THE DURUTTI COLUMN-FIRST ASPECT OF THE SAME THING

10 THE DURUTTI COLUMN-SECOND ASPECT OF THE SAME THING

11 ULTRAVOX-ARTIFICIAL LIFE

12 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM-MOVEMENT

13 GANG OF FOUR-PARALYSED

14 TV ON THE RADIO-I WAS A LOVER

15 THE FEELIES-FORCES AT WORK

16 IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS-WAITING FOR YOUR TAXI

17 WRECKLESS ERIC-RAGS AND TATTERS

18 PARQUET COURTS-THE MAP

19 BLACK MIDI-BMBMBM

Art students forming bands, bands being arty,

(not unlike the ‘INCHXINCH’ playlists?)

Brought to you by Mr Mark McCarthy, Mr Gaz Smith & PV.

1 The Monochrome Set – The Jet Set Junta

2 The Psychedelic Furs – Mr Jones

3 Soft Machine – Box 25/4 Lid

4 10cc – Art For Art’s Sake

5 Clock DVA – 4 Hours

6 Pulp – She’s A Lady

7 XTC – This Is Pop

8 HMLTD – The West Is Dead

9 Roxy Music – Editions Of You

10 The Rapture – House Of Jealous Lovers

11 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Cyboogie (NRZ Edit)

12 Gang Of Four – Outside The Trains Don’t Run On Time

13 Mercury Rev – Nite And Fog

14 Tom Waits – Down, Down, Down

15 Sonic Youth – Spoon

IN OUR CONTINUING TRIBUTES TO FOLKS WE LOVE…..

(SEE  ‘ODDITIES/TRIBUTES’……..BOWIE, ROXY, 

STEVE MARRIOTT, DYLAN, COHEN, ZAPPA ETC………) 

ROSKO HAS LOVINGLY PUT TOGETHER THE 

LATEST & VERY LISTENABLE SELECTION OF JAZZ & BLUES-

INFLUENCES OF THE LATE & GREAT DON VAN VLIET, 

OTHERWISE KNOWN AS CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

1 JIMMY REED-ROLL AND RHUMBA

2 ONE STRING SAM-I NEED 100 DOLLARS

3 LEADBELLY-GOOD MORNING BLUES

4 LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ORCHESTRA-ST JAMES INFIRMARY

5 SON HOUSE-DEATH LETTER BLUES

6 ROBERT JOHNSON-TERRAPLANE BLUES

7 HOWLIN’ WOLF-THE RED ROOSTER

8 THELONIOUS MONK-EPISTROPHY

9 SLIM HARPO-I’M A KING BEE

10 ORNETTE COLMAN-EVENTUALLY

11 MUDDY WATERS-ALL ABOARD

12 LITTLE RICHARD-TUTTI FRUTTI

13 JOHNNY ‘GUITAR’ WATSON-THREE HOURS PAST MIDNIGHT

14 JOHN COLTRANE-GIANT STEPS

15 JOHN LEE HOOKER-CRAWLIN’ KING SNAKE

16 ALBERT AYLER-FREE AT LAST! (STEREO)

17 BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON-YOU’RE GONNA NEED SOMEBODY

18 BO DIDDLEY-COPS AND ROBBERS

19 ELMORE JAMES & HIS BROOM DUSTERS-DUST MY BLUES

This week we have a very special guest- Lola Leng Taylor, 

with a  lovely little Country mix to take us through the weekend….

1 Willie Nelson-Can I Sleep In Your Arms

2 Townes Van Zandt-Poncho & Lefty

3 Lee Halewood-Have You Made Any New Bombs Today

4 Ladysmith Black Mambazo/Dolly Parton-Knocking On Heaven’s Door

5 Rab Noakes-Mississippi

6 Patsy Cline-She’s Got You

7 Tommy McLain-Before I Grow Too Old

8 Bill Monroe-Blue Moon Of Kentucky

9 Ernest Tubb-Thanks a Lot

10 Bob Dylan-Alberta #1

11 John Prine-Illegal Smile

12 The Marshall Tucker Band-Can’t You See

13 Marvin Rainwater-I Gotta Go Get My Baby

14 Tom T.Hall-That’s How I Got To Memphis

15 Bobby Charles-Tennessee Blues

16 Hank Williams-I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

17 George Jones-Treasure Of Love

18 Townes Van Zandt-I’ll Be Here In The Morning

A lovely little selection of fuzzy disco, funk 

and alt soulful breaks to dig the sunshine to.

Greetings from Cornwall.

X.

1 Los Yoyi-Banana

2 The Mighty Mocabos-The Next Message

3 Roy Porter Sound Machine-Hip City

4 The Supremes-High Energy

5 Frederick Knight-Let Me Ring Your Bell

6 Howard Tate-Every Day I Have The Blues

7 Nico Gomez & His Afro Percussion-Pa! Pa! Pa!Pa!

8 Magic Source-Genius Of Love

9 Darondo-Let My People Go

10 Jah Wobble-Guangzhou Funk

11 Leon Thomas-The Creator Has A Master Plan

12 The Daktaris-Eltsuhg Ibal Lasiti

13 Prince Fatty (Feat-Shniece)-Expansions/Dub

The accepted Anglo-American critical consensus would have you believe that before the sudden early 70s emergence of Kraftwerk, Can, Amon Duul, Faust and their comrades, German pop was a wasteland populated only by Bavarian oompah bands and middle-aged, middle of the road schlager merchants as epitomised by James Last.

This is an attempt to counteract that notion (although Hansi himself does get to top and tail proceedings).

Here are all sorts of things you were never told about: Teutonic takes on Bossa, exotica, psych, sunshine-pop and, from Cindy & Bert, Sabbath as well as much stranger and stronger stuff.

And you might also have noticed that being right-on as ever, we’ve avoided use of that rather demeaning K-word.

Prost!

1 James Last-Nothing

2 Paul Nero- This Is Soul

3 Hazy Osterwald Jet Set-Swinging London

4 Vivi Bach & Dietmar Schonherr-Molotow Cocktail Party

5 Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra-The World is Gone

6 Mary Roos-Blauer Montag (Mas Que Nada)

7 Hildegard Knef-Von Nun An Ging’s Bergab 

8 Inga Rumpf & I.D Company-I Watched The Women

9 Sibylle Baier-Give Me A Smile

10 City Preachers-Come Back

11 The Rattles-If You Don’t Come Back

12 Cindy & Bert-Der Hund Von Baskerville (Paranoid)

13 Peter Herbolzheimer-Frogdance

14 Gunter Noris-Gemini

15 Eugen Thomass-Undergroovin’

16 Carlos Fendeira-Gimmi Moro

17 Tommy Haggard Orchestra-Peeled Tomato

18 Rolf Wilhelm-Do It Yourself

19 Orchester Werner Muller-Bodybuilding

20 George-Butterflies Never Cry

21 Slapp Happy-Little Girls World

22 James Last-Voodoo Lady’s Love

THE SECOND IN OUR DUBBED BEATS SERIES

 WITH A SLIGHTLY POST PUNK

THEME? WANDERING IN & OUT.

& THIS TIME BROUGHT TO YOU BY

GAZ SMITH, PV & MARK McCARTHY.

1 PANDA DUB-WHO AM I

2 MUNGO’S HI-FI-BABYLON KILL BY DUB

3 JAH WOBBLE-ALBATROSS

4 THE POP GROUP-3:38 (DENNIS BOVELL DUB)

5 DEPECHE MODE-DREAM ON (OCTAGON MAN DUB)

6 SOFT CELL-TAINTED LOVE/WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? (DUB)

7 THE DUB PISTOLS-BLUE MONDAY (GAUDI STEPPER DUB)

8 KILLING JOKE-CHANGE (DUB)

9 THE SKATALITES-FUGITIVE DUB

10 ABA-ARIGINAL-ABA-JOE DUB

11 THE GORILLAZ-SLOW COUNTRY (STRICTLY RUBBADUB)

12 BAUHAUS-IN FEAR OF DUB

PANICKY IN THE STREETS OF LONDON, 

PANICKY IN THE STREETS OF BIRMINGHAM, 

CARLISLE, DUBLIN & HUMBERSIDE, 

THERE’S EVEN PANICKY IN DETROIT…..

PANICKY INTRO……

1 JO JO BENNETT-CANTALOUPE ISLAND

2 T.REX-SCENEOF

3 FRANK ZAPPA-WILLIE THE PIMP

4 ELASTICA-MAD DOG (ASHLEY BEEDLE EDIT)

5 ESSENTIAL LOGIC-WAKE UP

6 CAN-MOTHER SKY

7 JOHN DAVIS & GEORGIA SEA ISLAND SINGERS-RILEY

8 THE CAT-DO THE WATUSI

9 KIKAGAKU MOYO-DRIPPING SUN

10 LINK WRAY-SOUL TRAIN

11 DAVID BOWIE-REBEL REBEL

12 BEASTIE BOYS-PIANO JAM

13 NICO GOMEZ & HIS AFRO PERCUSSIONS INC-LUPITA

14 CHARLES MANIER-TRUEST COFFER

15 DORY PREVIN-AFTERSHOCK

Back to basics. A voice, a guitar and a tapping foot. Add a mythological bargain with the devil and you have the simple ingredients that can tilt a world on its axis, which the Blues certainly did.

And ground zero was an unassuming share-cropping town situated on the bank of the Mississippi at the intersection of Routes 49 and 61. Clarksdale: the place where Robert Johnson was said to have made his Faustian pact.

Here’s some of the first generation sounds which led up to and were fall-out from that encounter.

Apologies for the sound quality but we are dealing with recordings made almost a century ago!

1 ROBERT JOHNSON-CROSS ROAD BLUES

2 BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON-SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN

3 BESSIE SMITH-BLUE SPIRIT BLUES

4 MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT-STACK O’LEE

5 SON HOUSE-DEATH LETTER BLUES

6 CHARLEY PATTON-SCREAMIN’ AND HOLLERIN’ THE BLUES

7 ROBERT WILKINS-THAT’S NO WAY TO GET ALONG

8 SKIP JAMES-DEVIL GOT MY WOMAN

9 SISTER ROSETTA THARPE-THE DEVIL HAS THROWN HIM DOWN

10 BUKKA WHITE-SHAKE ‘EM ON DOWN

11 LEADBELLY-(BLACK GAL) WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT

12 VICTORIA SPIVEY & LONNIE JOHNSON-DOPE HEAD BLUES

13 BLIND WILLIE McTELL-TRAVELIN’ BLUES

14 HENRY THOMAS-HONEY WON’T YOU ALLOW ME ONE MORE CHANCE

15 MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL-LEVEE CAMP BLUES

16 MEMPHIS MINNIE-WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS

17 HAMBONE WILLIE NEWBERN-ROLL AND TUMBLE BLUES

18 ONE STRING SAM-I NEED A HUNDRED DOLLARS

19 PINK ANDERSON-IN THE EVENING

20 FLOYD ANDERSON-RUNAWAY MAN BLUES

21 BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON-JOHN THE REVELATOR

22 BIG BILL BROONZY-KEYS TO THE HIGHWAY

23 REVERAND GARY DAVIS-I’M THROWIN’ UP MY ARMS

LET’S SIT DOWN AND PONDER SHALL WE? NO

LET’S SIT DOWN AND PONDER SHALL WE? NO

THE TIGER WITH 3 EYES

TAUNTS THE LADY CHIMP

ANOTHER WEEK OF NONSENSENESS

LET’S JUST GET THIS DONE, SHALL WE?

SHE SAID WHAT WOULD YOU DO

IF YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO?

NOTHING.

INTRODUCTION-WENDY CARLOS

1 MORT GARSON-BAMBOO CITY

2 BO DIDDLEY-SHE’S ALRIGHT

3 BRIDES OF FUNKENSTEIN-DISCO TO GO

4 ALISON MOSSHART-SUMMERTIME

5 WILLIAM TASKER-MR.DYNAMITE

6 CHARLES AZNOVOUR-WHAT MAKES A MAN

7 THE ADVISORY CIRCLE-FROZEN PONDS

8 AHMED MALEK-AUTOPSIE D’UN COMPLOT

9 KING TUBBY-STRAIGHT DUB

10 JEANNE FOLLY-SATISFACTION

11 DJ TRIPP-ROYAL LOSERS (LORDE VS BECK FT LIL JOHN)

12 MATMOS-SOLO BUTTONS FOR JOE MEEK

13 DR JOHN-LOOP GAROO

14 THE COUSINS-THE ROBOT

15 3 LEG TORSO-LE BEAU’S HOLE

16 DONOVAN-HEY GYP (DIG THE SLOWNESS)

17 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS-PEOPLE AIN’T NO GOOD

18 JOSEPHINE FOSTER-MY LIFE HAD STOOD A LOADED GUN