Drop The Biscuit

Years ago, Gideon Coe once did a whole show on 6Music of songs 

under two and a half minutes. It was brilliant. 

Here’s my take on it with the first ‘150 Seconds or less’ playlist. 

Rockin’ Rik Lego.

1.       Amazing Snakeheads-Testifying                          

2.       Fleetwood Mac-Farmers Daughter          

3.       Ramones-Go Lil’Camero Go          

4.       Groovey Joe Poovey-Honolulu Rock A Rolla  

5.       Primal Scream-Velocity Girl                     

6.       Simon & Garfunkel-59th St Bridge Song        

7.       James Brown-Bewildered                      

8.       Tom Waits-Franks Wild Years           

9.       Helen Love-So In Love With You      

10.   Cramps-Rock On The Moon         

11.   Jock Scot-Good God                         

12.   Aretha Franklin-Coca Cola Ad                    

13.   Moon Mulligan-Seven Nights To Rock    

14.   Alf/Alexis Korner-Blues When It Rains       

15.   Wah!-Can’t Put Your Arms….  

16.   Reparata & The Delrons-Captain Of Your Ship     

17.   Fifth Dimension-Go Where You Wanna   

18.   Talking Heads-Thank You For Sending  

19.   Paul Weller-Lullaby Fur Kinder           

20.   Stockard Channing-There Are Worse Things 

Roxy. Remade, Revisited

The overdue follow-up / companion to 2015’s Roxy Music mix.

As before, we’ll be featuring the members’ extra-curricular activities -solo releases; outside projects like 801 and MacKay’s gig as musical director for the TV series Rock Follies- with a couple of covers chucked in for good measure.

But this time round, there’ll also be an ear cast towards ancillary members: the pre-Manzanera guitarists Roger Bunn and Davy O’List (that’s him on the Peel session and Jet track) and the rotating cast of supply bassists: Rik Kenton, Sal Maida (Milk ‘n’ Cookies), Johnny Gustafson (Big Three) and John Wetton (Mogul Thrash). Also, because he’s possibly the band’s most beloved member who EVERYBODY got on with, The Great Paul Thompson gets a bit of individual spotlight with early outfit Smokestack Crumble and his solitary Roxy composition, Your Application’s Failed.

To conclude with the opening, Pachelbel’s Canon was used as the walk-on music at their early live performances.

Ah, Roxy; their crazy music drives you insane. This way…

1 Pachelbel-Canon In D Major

2 Roxy Music-Out Of The Blue

3 Roxy Music-Re-Make/Re-Model (Peel Session)

4 Roger Bunn-Crystal Tunnel

5 Jet-My River

6 Smokestack Crumble-Got A Bad Leg

7 Brian Eno-Severn Deadly Sins

8 Andy Mackay-Walking The Whippet

9 Phil Manzanera-The Flex

10 Rik Kenton-Bungalow Love

11 Milk ’N’ Cookies-Chance To Play

12 The Big Three-You’ve Got To Keep Her Underhand

13 The Mogul Thrash-Sleeping In The Kitchen

14 Roxy Music-Your Application’s Failed

15 Rock Follies-Glenn Miller Is Missing

16 Siouxsie & The Banshees-Sea Breezes

17 Ian McShane-Avalon

18 801-You Really Got Me

19 Bryan Ferry-Another Time, Another Place

Another fine selection of 50’s & 60’s Rockin’ n Rollin’

Country & RnB tunes

to see you through this Easter period.

Intro……

1 Buddy Holly & The Crickets-Rip It Up

2 Jimmy Dee & The Offbeats-Henrietta

3 Charlie Gracie-Wildwood Boogie

4 Earl Chatman-Take Two Steps Back

5 The Delco’s-Arabia

6 Charles Epps-Rock With the Boogie

7 Sonny Burgess-Sweet Misery

8 Buster Brown-Madison Shuffle

9 The Harptones-Is This Really The End

10 Eddie Fontaine-Cool It Baby

11 Johnny Otis & His Orchestra-All Nite Long

12 Eddie Fontaine-Nothin’ Shakin’

13 The Hal Singer Sextet-Corn Bread

14 Ronnie Hawkins-Forty Days

15 Kid Thomas-Rockin’ This Joint To-Nite

16 The Falcons & Band-I Found Love

17 Sir Dee’s Group-The (Grandfather’s) Clock

18 Val Bennett-Caldonia

19 The Duvals-Cotton

20 Earl Epps-Be Bop Blues

21 The Mariners-Zindy Lou

22 Bob Luman-Red Hot

23 The Rhythm Addicts-Oomp Oomp

24 Meri Ellen & Her Cohorts-My Funny Valentine

25 Fats Domino-The Fat Mans Hop

Outro………

The second in the series-Basement East

music for pleasure/

& this week features-

PV aka the slippery1. (PV)

Gaz Smith (GS)

Mark McCarthy (MM)

1 (PV) Adrian Sherwood/Temple Of Sound & Rizwan-Paradise Of Nada Remix

2 (GS) The Fall-Theme From Sparta F.C.#2

3 (MM) Jonathan Richman-Parties In The USA

4 (PV) The Hermon Knights-Tale Of A 280LB Shoe Salesman

5 (GS) Future Utopia (Feat, Kae Tempest)-We Were Still Are

6 (MM) Dan Le Sac Vs Scrobius Pip-Thou Shalt Always Kill

7 (PV) Mac Rebenack-Storm Warning

8 (GS) Sonny Boy Williamson-Help Me

9 (MM) Eels- Susan’s Apartment

10 (PV) Che-Hong Beck-Blowing The Whistle

11 (GS) Marc Almond-Gosudaryunia

12 (MM) The Cosmetics-Black Leather Gloves

13 (PV) Augustus Pablo-Credential Instrumental

14 (GS) David Bowie-Pallas Athena (live)

15 (MM) The Wedding Present-Davni Chasni

HAD A COUPLE  A DELIGHTFUL DAYS WADING THROUGH 

A WHOLE LOT OF BLUE NOTE ALBUMS, SO SIT BACK AND ENJOY 

 THE SECOND IN OUR SERIES FROM  THE 

LEGENDARY NEW YORK LABEL.

1 JEREMY STEIG-HOWLING FOR JUDY

2 ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS-DAT DERE

3 MONK HIGGINS-GOTTA BE FUNKY

4 ART TAYLOR-BLUE INTERLUDE

5 SONNY ROLLINS-POOR BUTTERFLY

6 NIGEL KENNEDY-MIDNIGHT BLUE

7 HORACE SILVER-OPUS DE FUNK

8 EDDIE HENDERSON-INSIDE YOU

9 THELONIOUS MONK-OFF MINOR

10 ELVIN JONES-REZA

11 LABI SIFFRE-I GOT THE… 

12 DAVID McCALLUM-HOUSE OF MIRRORS

He said ‘make sure Hip-Hop gets mentioned in the first sentence’, I said O.K

She said ‘being part of this world is about being fu$$ed up’

There was some old fella pointing this way an that

& a bunch a kids shouting

We’re doin’ our thing, we’re doin’ our thing…..whatever that was/is/was/is?

Turn the TV on son.

Intro-

1 Terry Thomas- Bring Back The Cat

2 Mrs Mills- I’m Just Wild About Harry

3 Al Coker- Don’t Go Baby

4 Gene Brown- Big Door

5 Beck- Farewell Ride (Subtle Remix)

6 Sugar And Spice- Come Go With Me

7 Hal Blaine – Hallucinations

8 The Ramones- Blitzkrieg Bop

9 Soul Supreme- Orbit

10 Dr. John- Loop Garoo

11 Kikagaku Moyo- Dancing Blue

12 Carcass Identity- Kundu Basket

13 Claude Cooper- Magic Circle

14 Dion- I Can’t Help But wonder Where I’m Bound

15 gene Ammons- Swinging For Bernie

16 Chet Atkins- Pagan Love Song

WE GOT SOME DEEP FUNK

THIS WEEK

FOR ALL YOU FUNKY PEOPLE-

THE THIRD IN OUR SERIES…

1 JOE SAVAGE & THE SOUL PEOPLE-ALL THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE (PT.1)

2 BOB THEILE EMERGENCY-HEAD START

3 SOUL SUGAR-GET UP & GET IT/VERSION

4 WALLIAS BAND-MUZIQAWI SILT

5 BARRY WAITE & LTD-FUNKY STING PT.2

6 FAUSTO PAPPETTI-SLIPPING INTO DARKNESS

7 DENNIS COFFEY TRIO-IT’S YOUR THANG

8 GEORGE JACKSON-LOVE HIJACKER PT.2

9 JOE HOUSTON-KICKING BACK PT.1&2

10 EXPLOSIONS-GARDEN OF FOUR TREES

11 CLARENCE WHEELER & THE ENFORCERS-BROASTED OR FRIED

12 PRESTON EPPS-AFRICA

13 JAMES BROWN-FUNKY BROADWAY

14 CLARENCE WHEELER & THE ENFORCERS-DOIN’ WHAT I WANNA

15 JAMBO-HARRAMBEE

16 CLARENCE WHEELER & THE ENFORCERS-SHAM TIME

The initial idea was to trace how Psychedelia morphed into Prog Rock (as absolutely nobody called it at the time, the favoured phrases being, according to disposition, Progressive Music, Underground, Techno-flash or Pomp Rock) but, as is often the case, this mix took on a life of its own and became something very  different from the original proposition: stretching back to the 1930s, taking in some of the Progressive Jazz  experiments (Stan Kenton came up with that name) of the 50s, tipping the trilby to the UK’s post-skiffle instrumental boom spearheaded by the Shads, before concluding with a freak-out in 1960s L.A.

Still plenty of Prog trademarks, mind: ambition, fancy time-signatures, unusual instrumental combinations, exotic influences, studio tomfoolery, gongs, (lots of gongs) and virtuoso playing to make up for the paucity of vocals.

On the other hand, things have been kept relatively brief with only the final track breaking the 5 minute barrier. Something few self-respecting Prog acts would countenance.

1 Reginald Foresythe-Garden Of Weed

2 Stan Kenton-Thermopylae

3 Jimmy Giuffre-The Train And The River

4 Fred E Katz-Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

5 The Dave Brubeck Quartet-Blue Rondo A La Turk (Edit)

6 Kenny Graham-Chant

7 Joe Meek And The Blue Men-Glob Waterfall

8 Russ Conway- China Tea

9 The Federals-In A Persian Market

10 Sounds Incorporated-Taboo

11 The Shadows-Wonderful Land

12 Davy Graham & Alexis Korner- 3/4 A.D

13 John Fahey-Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV

14 Gabor Szabo With The Chico- El Toro

15 Duke Ellington- Blue Pepper

16 Graham Bond Organisation- Spanish Blues

17 Manfred Mann- Mr Anello

18 The Beach Boys- Let’s Go Away For Awhile

19 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention- Invocation & Ritual Dance Of Young Pumpkin

Finally catch up with an old friend 

from the Basildon punk scene, Rockin’ Rik Lego.

 Now happily married & settled north of the border in Glasgow.

-who recently sent us a pile a homemade CD’s 

(not too dissimilar from the DTB’s) 

of some of the music that’s been keeping him busy over the years,

which we’ve been busily working our way thru…..

So this is a small selection of some the more recent 

 bits an’ bobs he’s been listening to.

(Diggin’ the roots of Soul)

Doo-Wop #2

1.the sparrows – i stole your heart

2.the shells – baby oh baby

3.the clovers – if i could be loved by you

4.the earls – remember then

5.the bobbettes – mr lee

6.little butchie saunders – linda lou

7.copesetics – collegian

8.the camelots – don’t leave me baby

9.the coasters – hongry

10.marv johnson – come to me

11.brenda lee & vocaltones – i ain’t gonna give nobody

12.the orlons – don’t hang up

13.barbara gale & the larks – who walks in when i walk out

14.the jayhawks – don’t mind dyin’

15.buddies – i waited

16.5 thrills – my baby’s gone

17.the scaletones – everlasting love

18.the olympics – i can tell

19.the orchids – you’re everything to me

20.bobby capri & the velvet angels – the night

21.the safaris – image of a girl

22.the valentines – don’t say goodnight

23.bertha tilman – oh my angel