Hello, Party-goers! Welcome back to the Listening Party rumpus room where the beanbag chairs are always waiting!

This week – having finished off our final novelty mix – Mary and David return to the mixtapes of listener Nick Owen for a mix of 80’s indie, psychedelia, alt-rock, art rock, and squelching noises.

Join us in the rumpus room to hear:

* Felt – “Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow” – Cherry Red Records single b/w “Fortune” (the 12” single added “Sunlight Strings” – an instrumental remix of “Sunlight bathed the Golden Glow”), 1984 – 15:29* The Orange Bicycle – “Last Cloud Home” – Parlaphone Records single b-side to “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You”, 1969 – 34:50* Beck – “Rental Car” – Guero, 2005 – 1:14:15* Emitt Rhodes – “Love Will Stone You” – Mirror, 1971 – 1:24:58* Eldridge Holmes – “Pop, Popcorn Children” – Atco Records single b/w “Cheating Woman”, 1969 – 1:35:55* Charlotte Hatherley – “Grey Will Fade” – Grey Will Fade, 2004 – 1:51:05* Jana Hunter – “Vultures” – There’s No Home, 2007 – 2:00:35* Field Music – “Precious Plans” – Field Music [Measure], 2010 – 2:09:20* Lyle Lovett – “Christmas Morning” – The Road to Ensenada, 1996 – 2:17:43* Super Furry Animals – “Run! Christian, Run! – Rings Around the World, 2001 – 2:30:02

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

* Felt – “Sunlight Strings” – Cherry Red 12” single b-side to “Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow”, 1984 – 28:39* The Robb Storme Group – “Here Today” – Columbia Records single b/w “But Cry”, 1966 – 41:25* The Orange Bicycle – “Hyacinth Threads” – Columbia Records b/w “Amy Peate”, 1967 – 48:47* Wilson Malone Voiceband – “Penny Lane” – Funnysad Music, 1968 – 54:44* Boback. Johns, Malone – “On a Meadow Lea” – Motherlight, 1969 – 59:11* Wil Malone – “I Could Write a Book” – Wil Malone, 1970 – 1:07:03* John Butler – “Yes, I Do” – The Loyal Serpent, 1997 – 2:52:25* The Wackers – “Day & Night” – Shredder, 1972 – 2:58:44* Gary Usher – “Sagittarius” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 3:03:23

Thanks for listening.

Dept. of Corections:“Willesden Green” was not a b-side, but instead an album cut from the Kinks’ so-so Percy soundtrack album.

If you’re interested in hearing Sloan’s murderecords singles collection, you can follow this link!

We talked about it during the show so here Emitt Rhodes singing live against a backing track on that show about grey whistle collections: