Drop The Biscuit

It’s a game of chance she says-roll ze die, see where it goes……….no one knows!

1 sparks-this town ain’t big enough for the both of us

2 the heads-no more lonely nights

3 kazi aniruddha-aao twist Karen

4 the lafayettes-life’s too short

5 hyper black bass-chatty mouth

6 no more-suicide commando

7 the headcoatees-ca plane pour moi

8 dan penn-I need a lot of loving

9 janie jones/the clash-sex machine

10 ranking dread-yes yes yes dub

11 the tape-beatles-mind problems

12 ultravox-the wild, the beautiful & the damned

13 captain beefheart & his magic band-big eyed beans from venus

14 lee allen & his band-tic toc

15 the chromatics-tick of the clock

16 arthur prysock-your body makes eyes at me

17 jack nitzche-da doo ron ron

Sorry about the break! Needed a little holiday n all. Well I’m back with some new fun and games. Lots of new stuff to share from Franz Ferdinand and Sparks to the Wave Pictures with a smattering of well love gems from the past.

Loving you all as always

Rosspunk!

Ben E. King – Spanish Harlem

Django Django – Shot Down

Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint (Fast)

Engineers – Fight Or Flight (Instrumental)

Mott the Hoople – Roll away the stone

FFS – A Violent Death

The Wave Pictures – Green River

War – City, Country, City

The Shangri-Las – Remember (Walkin’ In The Sand)

Panda Bear – Come To Your Senses  DJ Shadow – You Can’t Go Home Again

Malcolm McLaren – Legba

Tito Puente – Oye Como Va

The Beatles – Its All Too Much

Cibo Matto – The Candy Man

The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds

-The time seems just about wrong for another dip into some of the more exciting & interesting ditties & meanderings of the late 70’s post-punk era, so we now have ‘Post Punk Vol.3’ for your dissaproval…

………”Go ahead” he said- so I am….

1 WIRE-GO AHEAD

2 D.A.F-DER RAUBER UND DER PRINZ

3 SPIZZ ENERGY-PLATFORM 3

4 THE POP GROUP-SHE IS BEYOND GOOD & EVIL

5 THE CLASH-THE COOL OUT

6 A CERTAIN RATIO-THE FOX

7 PROPAGANDA-JEWEL

8 YELLO-STANZTRIGGER

9 DEPARTMENT S-IS VIC THERE?

10 THE FLYING LIZARDS-HER STORY

11 CABARET VOLTAIRE-SLUGGIN FOR JESUS

12 THIS HEAT-RADIO PRAGUE

13 YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS-FINAL DAY

14 THE RAINCOATS-IN LOVE

15 THE RED CRAYOLA-THE JEWELS OF THE MADONNA

16 NATIVE HIPSTERS-THERE GOES CONCORDE AGAIN

17 THE OFFS-COOL DOWN

Dropping in a little late this week. I am back after a little live diversion and will be regularly assaulting your lobes once more.

With love as always, RPX

Lesley Garrett – La Wally

Scott Walker – Dealer

Gong – Faerie Steps

Buena Vista Social Club – Chan Chan

Mikey Chung And The Now Generation – Crying In The Chapel

Butthole Surfers – The Hurdy Gurdy Man

Giorgio Moroder – (Theme From) Midnight Express (Vocal: Chris Bennett)

Jane Weaver – Argent

Holy Fuck – Latin America

The Chap – Proper Rock

The Stranglers – Sveridge

Lonelady – Groove It Out

Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives (Quadrant Mix)

The Stepkids – La La

Jorge Ben – Mas Que Nada

a rHumBa rhuMba !!!

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BOOM BOOM BOOM !

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leave nothing to chance, sHe Says-

aN olD gUY wiTh A ToRN JUmPER AN a StrIPEY tiE SAyS

 -PLay mE SOmE NEU WaVE soN-

DUB VENDOR was AlrEAdY Up aN runnIN’

1 Parliament-P-Funk (wants to get funked up)

2 Keith Leblanc-these sounds

3 Hank Williams-Move it on over

4 Hank Williams-I’m so lonesome I could cry

5 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion-Crossroad hop

6 Booker T & the M.G’s-Green Onions

7 Trinity-Z90

8 LL Cool J-Rock the Bells

9 Wooden Shjips-Loose Lips

10 Reuben Wilson-Blue Mode

11 Federale-Tribe

12 Whinnie Williams-That’s Entertainment

13 The Bombay Royale-The Bombay Twist

14 It’s a Beautiful Day-White Bird

To celebrate reaching 50 in 2004, Sundridge Park Mansion was booked. A black tie event, a menu of fish and chips or sausage and mash, with mushy peas, designed to lower the tone, was unleashed on 50 unsuspecting guests, to approval.

Backdrop in place, I decided that if I had to pay a DJ 200 quid, then it may as well, be my poor taste that we listened to. I provided a playlist and all the CD’s. All the DJ had to do was follow instructions.

mean, but I couldn’t risk the ‘Birdie Song’ being played, least of all my guests getting up to dance to it!

The whole evening was always going to be about the music for me, I didn’t want to have to wait until something played, that I could dance to, or at very least it would have to be a ‘toe tapper’.

What you get here is a snippet/flavour of that evening (but not necessarily in the same order, apart from the last 3 track finale), with a few additions, that on reflection I may have played (had they been released), nod to my marriage, and Cops and Buns for DTB assimilation.

Frank Zappa Cops and Buns

Frank Zappa Wedding Dress Song

Frank Zappa Handsome Cabin Boy

The Platters   Enchanted

Nat King Cole           Let There Be Love

Neville Brothers (Aaron)     In The Still Of The Night

Fun Lovin Criminals           Get Your’e Coat

Ray Charles  A Fool For You

Buena Vista Social Club    Y Tú Qué Has Hecho?

Electric Bluebirds     Colinda

Salif Keita      Wamba

Talking Heads          Nothing (But Flowers)

Neville Brothers       Sister Rosa

Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower

The Isley Brothers    Hope You Feel Better

Curtis Mayfield         (Dont Worry) If There’s Hell Below…

The Temptations      Law Of The Land

JAMIROQUAI           Virtual Insanity

Happy Mondays       Bob’s Yer Uncle

Marvin Gaye After The Dance (Instrumental)

Frank Zappa Strictly Genteel

I hope you enjoy.

Thanks Ross, I feel honoured, assuming you air!

Chris Frankham

More ‘rock n’ roll- ‘all flavors’ from the tape an vinyl collections of the guys from ‘Rio Rock’ in Kensington Market back in the day (late 70’s/early 80’s)

1 Freddie Bell & the Bellboys-Teach you to rock

2 The Flamingo’s-Jump Children

3 Jimmy Dell-I got a Dollar

4 Johnny Powers-Long Blond Hair

5 The Video’s-Trickle Trickle

6 The Nutmegs-Story Untold

7 The Flairs-When I was Young

8 Curtis Gordon-Mobile Alabama

9 The Five Keys-She’s the Most

10 The Nutmegs-Rock Me

11 The Dells-Everyday I have the Blues

12 Woody Herman & his Orchestra-99 Guys

13 The Jivers-Ray Pearl

14 Johnny Otis & his Orchestra-Mambo Boogie

15 Ray Harris-Come on little Mama

16 The Chordettes-No Wheels

17 The Jesters-The Plea

18 Nappy Brown-Don’t you be Angry

19 Sammy Masters-Pink Cadillac

20 The Harptones-Marie

21 Elvis Presley-Mystery Train

22 Barbara Pittman-I’m getting better all the time

23 The Flairs-Rock Bottom

24 Cab Calloway & his Orchestra-Jumpin’ Jive

25 The Lawrence Keys Trio-Noisy Clock

26 Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps-Double Talkin Baby

27 The Jive Five-What time is it?

Slippery1

Rock is a broard church and one that normally gets a bad press. Here is my take on Rock and not an inch of spandex in sight.

Get your air guitars, close your eyes and stand by for lift off.

From the 60’s to the present day rock’s saviours and outsiders.

From Rosspunk, with just a little kiss (like this).

AC/DC Riff Raff

Ty Segall & White Fence   Scissor People

Little Barrie   Eyes Were Young

Jorge Ben   Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)

Led Zeppelin   What Is And What Should Never Be

Deep Purple   Shield

Sandi Shaw   Your Time Is Gonna Come

Aerosmith Sweet Emotion

The Mooney Suzuki   Alive & Amplified

Primal Scream   Jailbird

Beaver & Krause   Saga Of The Blue Beaver

Agent Provocateur   Red Tape

Todd Rundgren  I Saw The Light

Rare Earth   Hey Big Brother (Single Version)

Chicago   I’m a Man

The Doors   Peace Frog

Alice Cooper   Under My Wheels

John Lennon   Cold Turkey

Before Punk, there was Funk! The Goldmine, the Lacy Lady, Room at the Top, the Global Village-All through the Seventies DJ’s/Clubs like these would play the best in underground/imported Soul, Funk, Disco, Acid Jazz an later, Jazz-Funk.

To all those folk who went to club’s like the Goldmine in Essex, where Chris Hill was a legend (voted best club/an best DJ, throughout the early 70’s-He was also responsible for starting the whole Swing revival scene, when he started playing artist’s like Glen Miller & the Andrews Sisters).

-My cousin & his girlfriend, who were a bit older than me used to go in the early 70’s, an were involved in the whole Swing scene. They were also both heavily into Bowie an Roxy.

By the mid 70’s the crowd were a mixture of the coolest & most fashionable soul fans, as well as local art/fashion students- Bowie /Roxy fans (a lot of who would go on to be Punks)–People would come from all over Essex-from London an Bromley etc…..A lot of the crowd by now would also regularly be going down the Kings road of a weekend-Seditionaries, Acme Attractions etc……you’d see a mixture of

straight/drainpipe or carpenter jeans, mohair jumpers, string vests,Hawaiian shirts,pointed shoes plastic sandals, army surplus stuff, coloured wedge haircuts  etc………..

Later- after the Punk Scene died out or got a bit too commercial (78/79) a lot of people drifted back into the Soul/Funk scene.

 -Although around this time a few ex-punks that I knew were also getting into Rock ‘n’ Roll an Rockabilly (covered more with the ‘Rio Rock’ mix)-whilst others were beginning to discover Electronic music (see also the ‘Croc’s’ mix).

Anyway this one’s for all the Soulboys an Jazz Funkateers out there!

Pt’s1&2.

1 Jimmy Smith-Burning Spear

2 Gino Soccio-Dancer

3 Brass Construction-Ha Cha Cha

4 Mongo Santamaria-Watermelon Man

5 Wilbert Longmire-Black is the color

6 Isaac Hayes-Zeke the Freak

7 Two Man Sound-Que Tal America

8 Oliver Sain-Party Hearty

9 Harvey Mason Groovin You

10 The Blackbyrds-Spaced Out

11 Reuben Wilson-Got to get your own

12 Manu Dibango-Soul Makossa

13 Crown Heights Affair-Say a Prayer for Two

14 Brass Construction-Sambo

15 Richard Groove Holmes-Groovin’ for Mr G

16 Idris Muhammad-Boogie to the Top

17 Ronnie Jones-Me & Myself

18 Candido-Serenade to a Savage

Ride you devil-ride! agh……Thrill’s, Chill’s an Spill’s- The Circus is in town! It’s wild ya know, round n’ round they go- It’s the end, like everyone does their own thing… she says, it’s a scene man…..click…

click…click…, cluck…cluck…cluck! Vroom vroom, vroom vroom- Let’s get oughta here!

1 Dave Allan & the Arrows-Devils Rumble

2 Ian Dury & The Blockheads-I want to be straight

3 Pigbag-Papa’s got a brand new Pigbag

4 Billy ‘the kid’ Emerson-Shim Sham Shimmy

5 Victor Sylvester-Noel Coward Medley

6 Trans Mo-Grifi-Whole Lotta Love

7 Karen O-Body

8 Songhoy Blues-Soubour

9 Witowmaker-This is it

10 Joe Strummer-Cool ‘n’ Out

11 The Animals-Talkin’ bout you

12 Them-Gloria’s dream

13 MG-Brink

14 Adam & the Ants-Cartrouble

15 Wildbirds & Peacedrums-The unreal Vs the real

16 In Aeternam Vale-Annie

17 Movin’ Morfomen-Run girl run

18 Lubos Fiser-Puppets

19 Gang of four (featuring Alison Mosshart)-Broken Talk

20 Toyan-How the West was won

21 Al ‘Jazzbo’ Collins-3 Little Pigs

22 Tubby Hayes-Voodoo