Show 21/02/2010

This week's show:

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Playlist:
Belle & Sebastian - Mayfly
Gliss - Sleep
Wive - Come Join the Sea
Mission of Burma - Einstein's Day
Shrag - Forty Five 45s
Fugazi - Cashout
Dylan - Idiot Wind [original version]
Hefner - May God Protect Your Home
lift to Experience - Falling From Cloud 9
Galaxie 500 - Pictures
long Fin Killie - Godiva
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

Have fun! New show tomorrow.

Show 07/02/2010

This weeks show has 20% extra snap, crackle and pop, and comes in glorious mono. Also a noise track (Temperatures) which prompted our most scathing email ever:

"Does this sound like music to you? Cos it doesn't to me, the wires in your brain must be crossed or sumfin. Were you dropped on your head as a child? Or possibly a rugby injury from teenage years?"

So yeah, you might want to skip that one if your feedback tolerance isn't very high.

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Playlist:
Guided By Voices - Hardcore UFOs
Sparklehorse - Weird Sisters
Dananananaykroyd - No Wage
Spare Snare - Strange and Silent Staircase
Mobile Unit - We Live in Our Own World, But It's OK They Know Us Here
The Tyde - Look Back in Anger
Giddy Motors - Magmanic
The Moles - Saint Jack
Shellac - My Black Ass
Number One Cup - Smile, It's Sugar
Temperatures - Kakorr
Saloon - Shoot the Singer
Charlene - Blackout

See you next time.

Show 31/01/2010

Join me and this week's guest, Toby, as we play records, overanalyse our favourite bands and plumb new depths of technical incompetence.

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Iggy & the Stooges - Search & Destroy
Beach House - Zebra
Tall Dwarfs - Highrise
Allo, Darlin' - The Polaroid Song
Japandroids - Rockers East Vancouver
Fanfarlo - You are One of the Few Outsiders Who Really Understands Us
Stars - My Favourite Book
Bardo Pond - Rumination
Magnolia Electric Company - Oh Grace
Black Eyes - Commencement
Daniel Johnston - The Beatles
life Without Buildings - Envoys
The Research - The Hard Times
Besnard lakes - Albatross
The Bishops - I Can't Stand It Any More
Skill 7 Stamina 12 - Ijsman
Wake the President - Miss Tierney
Wilco - Theologians
Tunng - Bullets
Okkervil River - Happy Hearts
Tindersticks - Patchwork

Show 17/01/2010

For our second show of the new year, some new stuff! Also some old stuff.

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Playlist:
Cats & Cats & Cats - Brilliant the Brilli Ant
Titus Andronicus - Theme From Cheers
Lilys - Periscope
Blonde Redhead - Hated Because of Great Qualities
Thurston Moore - Fri/End
Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Sophia - When You're Sad
Silver Mt Zion - Kollapz Tradixional (Thee Olde Dirty Flag)
Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More
Mirza - Last Clouds

RIP Jay.

Show 10/01/2010

"Don't look back", said Teenage Fanclub.
"But how else am I going to highlight some great records from 2009 and the 2000s as a whole, some which people will have heard and some which they might not?" I said.
There was no answer.

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Playlist:
Dananananaykroyd - Watch This (Hey Everyone, 2009)
Grandaddy - Jed's Other Poem (The Sophtware Slump, 2000)
Wake the President - Professor (You Can't Change that Boy, 2009)
Enablers - The Destruction Most of All (Tundra, 2008)
Pink Mountaintops - Axis: Thrones of love (Outside Love, 2009)
Manhattan love Suicides - Extra Medication (Burnt Out Landscapes, 2008)
Simon Scott - Flood Inn (Navigare, 2009)
Life Without Buildings - Envoys (Any Other City, 2001)
Jay Reatard - There is No Sun (Watch Me Fall, 2009)
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner (Source Tags & Codes, 2001)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything With You (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, 2009)
Okkervil River - The War Criminal Rises and Speaks (Down the River of Golden Dreams, 2003)
Deerhunter - Circuation (Rainwater Cassette Exchange, 2009)
Drones - I'm Here Now (Gala Mill, 2005)
Tartufi - System Folds (Nests of Waves & Wire, 2009)
The USA is a Monster - Somehow (Tasheyana Compost, 2003)
Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource (Bitte Orca, 2009)
Radiohead - Idioteque (Kid A, 2001)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wind Phoenix (Proper Name) (Why There Are Mountains, 2009)
Wilco - Ashes of American Flags (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2001)

P.S. Sorry for the even worse than usual sound quality this week.

Mp3 of the day #8 - I'll Keep It With Mine by Richard & Linda Thompson

Today's track is an absolutely stunning live cover of a Bob Dylan song by Richard & Linda Thompson from 1982. It's from the bootleg Hard Luck Stories; the whole show is really good and showcases RT's absolutely mind-blowing guitar playing. He really is on a whole different level from almost anyone else I've ever heard harmonically, on electric or acoustic. If you don't know his stuff then watch this and then go and listen to all of the albums he did with Linda.

This song is the best thing on the bootleg, and it beats the Dylan and Nico versions easily. Just stunning, especially Linda's voice and the harmonies on the chorus. Sorry about the slightly bad sound quality.

Richard & Linda Thompson - I'll Keep It With Mine

Mp3 of the day #7 - Snowstorm by Galaxie 500

Here's today's mp3, from the second Galaxie 500 record, On Fire. All day today I've been in a mood for this band. I think it's the combination of the greyness outside and the coldness inside (our hot water and heating aren't working) but they seem to work really well in winter. Their stripped-back production lends itself to this kind of day I think.
Anyway this particular one is a really nice song in a suitably wintry mood. Give it a listen!

Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm