Jack #4 - The Apocalyptic Minstrel Show (A Mekons Bestiary)

This month Jack doth serve us prime cuts from the career of The Mekons!

1. Abernant 1984-1985
2. Tina
3. Oblivion (live)
4. (Sometimes I Feel Like) Fletcher Christian
5. Thee Olde Trip To Jerusalem
6. Kidnapped
7. Sympathy For The Mekons
8. Give Me Wine Or Money (Live)
9. Millionaire
10. Heaven And Back
11. Cockermouth
12. Ghosts Of American Astronauts
13. Orpheus
14. The Curse
15. Come And Have A Go If You Think Your Hard Enough
16. Wild And Blue
17. Beaten And Broken
18. Hard To Be Human Again
19. Memphis, Egypt (Eagle Baur's Rock & Roll) (Live)
20. 32 Weeks
21. Fight The Cuts
22. Dan Dare

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Ivan Mega Post Bananza

SO finally I have done some compilations, pardon for the lateness but hit a compiling rut. Anyway 'Lingua Franca' is a kind of medley of non UK/US artists or at least artists sing in a foreign language.

'I might bicycle' is just s stew of songs that I see as fitting for a cycle bout the place, for various moods and weather it seemed like the kind of thing to do for a Cambridge comp co-op. Anyway easy listenings.


Lingua Franca ---> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7S32BQZZ

I Might Bicycle ---> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=POTHDCP2

Nik #1 - Wha Guanxi (Parts 1 & 2)

Summer Jams

Part 1

01. Caribou - Odessa (Nite Jewel remix)

02. Greg Paulus - Yellow Sky

03. Sumy - Funkin' In Your Mind

04. Machine Drum - Late Night Operation (feat. Theophilus London)

05. Hercules and Love Affair - My House

06. Dillinger - Cocaine In My Brain

07. Satin and Green - Spectacular

08. Luomo - Diskonize Me

09. Sylvester - I Need Somebody To Love Tonigh

10. Tropics - Give It Up

11. MHP - Tonal Of The Rainy Season

12. Love Club - Hot Summer Nights (Instrumental)

13. Change - Change Of Heart (Original 12" mix)

14. rinse.music - What A Gwan?

Part 2

01. Julian Lynch - In New Jersey

02. Egyptrixx - The Only Way Up

03. Chaos In The CBD - Ima Do It Right

04. Fox The Fox - Precious Little Diamond

05. World Premiere - Share The Night (Breakdown Mix)

06. Tom Tom Club - Beautiful

07. Ata Kak - Obaa Sima

08. Escort - Cocaine Blues (Greg Wilson remix)

09. Rebolledo - Amigos Comeme 

10. Moody - It's 2 Late 4 U And Me

11. Joy Orbison - Ladywell

12. Aril Brikha - Groove La Chord

13. Sweet Light - Abusator (Soulwax edit)

14. Toussaint McCall - Nothing Takes The Place Of You

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Live Is All You Need - Bryan #4

This time round I've gone for a whole comp of live stuff. It's like a fantasy festival! At Home! Just put it on, get wrecked on cheap cider, fill a beaker full of piss and throw it over your shoulder because you can't be arsed to go to the loos. Invite a drug dealer over to rip you off at knife point, lose your friends and wake up in the garden the following morning to find that you've messed yerself!

Young Man Blues – The Who

I Don’t Believe You – Bob Dylan

Midnight Rambler – The Rolling Stones

Sea Song – Robert Wyatt

Sweet Jane – The Velvet Underground

Motor City Is Burning – MC5

Lucille – John Lee Hooker

Cortez The Killer – Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Dying On The Vine – John Cale

Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes – Kevin Ayers

Brother Rapp/Ain’t It Funky – James Brown

Shake Your Hips – The 13^th Floor Elevators

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Crystal Meth & Coronets - Jack #3

Mitch Benn – Rasta Queen Mother

Edward II – Johnny Mickey Barry’s

Runrig – The Summer Walkers

Attila The Stockbroker – Libyan Students From Hell!

Julian Cope – All The Blowing-Themselves-Up-Motherfuckers (Will Realise The Minute They Die They Were Suckers)

Blind Alfred Reed – How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?

Bruce Springsteen – Racing In The Street

Jim Moray – The Cuckoo’s Nest

Fairport Convention – The Bonny Black Hare

Cordelia’s Dad – Spencer Rifle

James McMurtry & The Heartless Bastards – Choctaw Bingo

The Body – Empty Hearth

Wire – Comet

Lonesome Bob – Point Of No Return

Two Cow Garage – Swingset Assassin

The Mekons – Ghosts Of American Astronauts

Hot Club Of Cowtown – Big Ball In Cowtown

Wreckless Eric – Take The Cash (K.A.S.H.)

Graham Parker & The Figgs – Get Over It And Move On

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Pete #2 The Flares On The back Of My Neck

1.  Rock & Soul Music - Country Joe & The Fish
2. Samson & Delilah - The Grateful Dead
3. Wasn't Born To Follow - The Byrds
4. Zig Zag Wanderer - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
5. San Francisco Girls - Fever Tree
6. August - Love
7. Poor Richard - Spirit
8. Love Street - The Doors
9. Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan
10. Wind Chimes - The Beach Boys
11. Hello Dawn - Steve Hillage
12. Driving South - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
13. Inca Roads - Frank Zappa
14. What I Say - Miles Davis

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Ollie #1 - The Only Important Thing These Days is Rhythm and Melody

01 - Actress - Gershwin

02 - James Blake - I Never Learnt to Share

03 - Glasser - Mirrorage (Lindstrøm remix)

04 - Leslie Winer - Flove

05 - Steven Fields - Legalize Heroin

06 - Robert Owens - It Takes Me High

07 - Crookers ft. Roisin Murphy - Royal T

08 - Infinite Body - Sunshine

09 - Prince Far I - Shadow

10 - Cold Cave - Sex Ads '09

11 - Gatekeeper - Storm Column

12 - Liquid Vega - Colours

13 - Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen

14 - Cloetta Paris - Young Girls in Town

15 - Tropics - Give It Up

16 - Surgeon - 9 Hours Into the Future

17 - Girl Unit - IRL (Bok Bok remix)

18 - Big Audio Dynamite II - Rush

It sure is sunny

Chris #1 - My Log Saw Something That Night

Hi, I'm new here.  This is a compilation I made to soundtrack a particularly grueling drive to Dundee, turns out most of it was too subtle to really be heard over the engine.  Never mind.  So when Ben introduced me to this blog I gave it a second life. It's all from 7 inches and recorded straight to drive.  Mostly pretty downkey, a bit wimpy guitary, a bit psychy, a bit folky; good for listening to on headphones late on.  Not in a van on the M1.

1// Eric Matthews - Fanfare
2// The Clientele - (I Want You) More Than Ever
3// Joan As Policewoman - Christobel
4// Delicate Awol - Canford Heights
5// Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Gwen Ni Gorffen
6// The Maladies of Bellafontaine - Longsocks
7// Broadcast - Tender Buttons
8// Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Kites
9// Espers - Riding
10// Julee Cruise - Falling
11// The Concretes - On the Radio (Off the Radio)
12// Low - Venus
13// Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder
14// Scout Niblett - Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death
15// C Joynes - Night Over Djerba
16// Taken By Trees - Watch the Waves
17// Múm - Marmalade Fires
18// Dean & Britta - White Horses

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L13ZHHPH

Bryan #3 - Glam Bang!

Howdy! This time round, I've gone for a themed comp. I fancied a round-up of some boot-stomping Glam, but to do a comprehensive Glam comp, you'd have to include The Sweet and all of that kind of bollocks, so the playlist isn't exactly strict, stuff like Big Star and The Flamin' Groovies are on here because the songs just fit in. The band Jet on this comp are not the awful Aussie rockers from a few years back, but a 70s namesake, and the cover is of Julia Davis in the spoof Glam band Ryc Spangle doing 'Playground Bangaround' from the Brass Eye paedo special. Which reminds me - Gary Glitter was out of bounds for this collection, despite how much I love 'Rock and Roll Part 1'! Someone needs to do a storming cover of that so the song can be listened to again.

 01 Hear Me Calling - Slade

02 John, I'm Only Dancing - David Bowie

03 Chatterbox - The New York Dolls

04 Teenage Head - The Flamin' Groovies

05 Whizz Kid - Mott the Hoople

06 Hasta Manana, Monsieur - Sparks

07 White Punks on Dope - The Tubes

08 Billy Porter - Mick Ronson

09 Editions of You - Roxy Music

10 Beyond the Law - Iggy Pop & James Williamson

11 Don't Lie to Me - Big Star

12 Cosmic Dancer - T-Rex

13 Is It My Body? - Alice Cooper

14 I Can't Stand It - Lou Reed

15 World Without End - Jobriath

16 Queens of Noise - The Runaways

17 Nothing To Do With Us - Jet

18 Heavy Metal Kids - Todd Rundgren

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Ben#2 - Can You Hear Me Now?

Howdy all! Here is a very last minute comp. My proper number 2 (ooop!) is still on a C-90 waiting to be converted to mp3.

Until I figure that out, here is 'CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?' It should be enjoyed in the following order...

1.WOODS - Blood Dries Darker

2.ALASTAIR GALBRAITH - Bravely Bravely

3.THE ROLLING STONES - Citadel

4.ARIEL PINK - Bright Lit Blue Skies

5.SUN CITY GIRLS - Different Kind of Whore

6.US GIRLS - Red Ford Radio

7.SIC ALPS - Do You Want To Give $$

8.FLEETWOOD MAC - That's All For Everyone

9.HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS - Bound To Lose

10.THE SLITS - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

11.FREDDIE KING - Going Down

12.BOB DYLAN - Ring of Fire

13.OMAR KHORSHID - Solenza

14.MAYO THOMPSON - Dear Betty Baby

15.PETE UM - Last Blast

16.THE CHILLS - This Is The Way

17.THE SORROWS - I Don't Wanna Be Free

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G0XA2EBJ

Jack #2 - Hymns, Ancient & Modern

1.       Thanks A Lot, God – The Kipper Family
2.       Converted – Alabama 3
3.       The Sound Of Sinners (live) – The Clash
4.       No Depression – Uncle Tupelo
5.       Heaven (live) – Loudon Wainwright III
6.       God Loves A Drunk – Richard Thompson
7.       God Gave Us Life – Half Man Half Biscuit
8.       Judith – A Perfect Circle
9.       Stand Up For Judas – Dick Gaughan
10.   Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam – The Vaselines
11.   Walking Back To Jesus Part Two – The Broken Family Band
12.   When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels – Hank Williams
13.   Stars In My Crown – Blue Murder
14.   Now Be Thankful – Fairport Convention
15.   Prayer To God – Shellac
16.   God’s Gonna Cut You Down – Johnny Cash
17.   When I Die – Peter Bellamy
18.   Faith/Void – Bill Callahan

 

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Emma #1 - The Palestinian Teletubbies

 

Hewoooo!
This is the soundtrack playing in that yellow car. Doesn't Po look excited? 


1. Jaan Pehechaan Ho - Mohammed Rafi
2. Iron Man - Soreng Santi
3. Archangels Thunderbird - Amon Duul II
4. Lola - The Raincoats
5. Warrior in Woolworths - X-Ray Spex
6. Failures - Joy Division
7. Hey Mr. Rain - Velvet Underground
8. Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) - Neil Young
9. Fever - the Cramps
10. China Gate - Sun Ra and his Arkestra
11. Nightmare - Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
12. Little Drop of Poison - Tom Waits
13. No Chance - Houndog
14. Here I Go - Syd Barrett
15. Let's Go Everywhere - Medeski, Martin & Wood
17. Fur Immer - NEU!

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Bryan #2 - Little Frankie Steinberg Jr

 1.       Make Up – Save Yourself
2.       Stereolab – Cybele’s Reverie
3.       John’s Children – Hippy Gumbo
4.       The Move – Hello Suzie
5.       Wayne County and the Electric Chairs – Out of Control
6.       The Flaming Lips – Moth in the Incubator
7.       Family – No Mule’s Fool
8.       Ivor Cutler – Pickle Your Knees
9.       The Pink Fairies – Do It
10.   High Tide – Futilist’s Lament
11.   King Crimson – One More Red Nightmare
12.   Macca – Dear Boy
13.   Bill Fay – Let All The Other Teddies Know
14.   Roxy Music – In Every Dream Home a Heartache
15.   The Undertones – Mars Bars
16.   Lalo Schiffrin – Magnum Force
17.   Burt Bacharach – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 

 

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Kate #1 - Mr Tasty Fingers

1. Soon soon soon - Kevin Ayers
2. Superstar - Sonic Youth
3. Penetration - Iggy and The Stooges
4. Hungry Freaks, Daddy - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
5. Can't Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds
6. Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
7. Porpoise Mouth - Country Joe and the Fish
8. Bilbao Song - Lottie Lenya
9. Requiem pour un c... - Serge Gainsbourg
10. Euphoria - The Holy Modal Rounders
11. Cabinessence - The Beach Boys
12. Hung up on a Dream - The Zombies
13. Bracelets of Fingers - The Pretty Things
14. Koeeoaddi There - The Incredible String Band
15. Train Song - Pentangle
16. Maypole Song - Paul Giovanni and Magnet (The Wicker Man soundtrack)
17. Child of the Moon - The Rolling Stones
18. Big Eyed Beans from Venus - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
19. Yine Seni Taninm - Ersen
20. Big Shot - The Bonzo Dog Band

Howdy music fans! Jack's suggestion of Techo-Fearing Apes was in pole position for my compilation title until Bryan and I watched a phenomenal documentary about The Holy Modal Rounders last night (cheers Ben!), what a guy Peter Stampfel is! One particularly charming sequence showed him tenderly feeding his pet parrot some ravioli from his hand, whilst cooing in that hick-sounding-shot-to-bits hipster voice (kind of like a Head version of Walter Brennan) 'It's Mister Tasty Fingers!' - adorable! Then clearly Viv Stanshall (everyone's favourite offbeat Teddy Boy) kissing a mini warthog just fell into place.....

Anyways, I had immense fun putting this together and have been umming and ahhhhing over my final choices for weeks. It's pretty 60's heavy, but I'm just that kinda gal. I hope you like it. And if not, Mr tasty Fingers is coming to get you!....Let me know what ye think.

K X

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Graham: The Movie

If those Hollywood bigwigs ever wanted to make a movie about my life then this is the soundtrack I would insist on, not that those coke-snortin', whore-fuckers would listen to reason. Scumbags. 

Every song is taken from one of my favourite films or TV shows, with the exception of Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney's "Blood Embrace", which features dialogue from John Flynn's 1977 corker, Rolling Thunder.

Tell me what you think, you magnificent bastards.

01 Office Kitano Logo - Takeshi Kitano films - Joe Hisaishi

02 Tank! - Cowboy Bebop - Yoko Kanno & the Seatbelts

03 Opening - Babycart at the River Styx - Hideaki Sakurai

04 Les Sirenes - Ulysses 31 - Shuki Levy

05 The Urumbaba (Wrath of God) - Aguirre: Wrath of God - Popol Vuh

06 Main Theme - Blood on Satan’s Claw - Marc Wilkinson

07 Diary of a Taxi Driver - Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann

08 The Pink Room - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Angelo Badalamenti

09 Goin’ Down South - Eastbound & Down: Season 2 - R.L. Burnside

10 Main Theme - Assault on Precinct 13 - John Carpenter

11 Main Theme - The Warriors - Joe Walsh

12 Backwards Flute - Fishing With John - John Lurie

13 Opening - The Hired Hand - Bruce Langhorn

14 Ghost Ship in a Storm - Love Liza - Jim O’Rourke

15 Vessel in Vain - Dead Man's Shoes - Smog

16 He’s Alright - Eastbound & Down: Season 2 - Kurt Vile

17 Blood Embrace - Rolling Thunder - Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney

18 Way Down in the Hole - The Wire - Tom Waits & the Kronos Quartet

19 O Death - O' Brother Where Art Thou? Ralph Stanley

20 I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire - Passport to Pimlico – The Ink Spots 

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