This week we take in the usual broad spread of tracks you might not have heard, either because you missed them first time around, or because they’re not out yet. In the former category we have Magazine, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Jawbox, Big Youth and Grinderman, and in the latter we have Paul White, Two Fingers, Band of Skulls and some dubstep with excellent vocals that I can’t remember the name of (take from that what you will)…
On top of all that conversations include the non-funk funk, why Jah Wobble didn’t want to meet Prince, when production sells a track short and Trick’s all-important question of the show, namely “can today’s music still inspire people?”. Comment below!
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This was the Featured Video for this show:
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… AKA “The Beatless Special”. Given both myself and Tom are very rhythm-driven in terms of tracks we love – or rather, appreciative of the power of a killer beat – we thought it might be interesting to try a theme special where none of the tracks had beats at all. Well, that was the initial plan, though as you’ll hear something may have been lost in translation resulting in one or two tracks creeping in sporting percussive qualities at best and a bloody huge drum beat at worst (take a bow Ed Zed)…
So, with the Beatles/Beatless puns out the way and joined by our compadre Mr Ed Zed, we sidestep numerous technical disasters including the Resonance CD decks collectively refusing to play Melvins’ “Colossus of Destiny” (a wise move, many might argue) and press on with a series of selections that we hoped might go beyond your obvious choices to deliver something a bit more interesting. Did we succeed? Well, we shall leave that to you to decide, but if the tracklisting might sway you, here it is…
Tracklisting:
Pigbag “The backside”
Grinderman “Grinderman”
Inflatable Boy Clams “I’m Sorry”
Sigue Sigue Sputnik “Atari Baby”
Xela “Creeping Flesh”
Hightower Set “Putting Heads To Bed”
Stephen Duffy “Wednesday Jones”
Morphine “In Spite Of Me”
Social Climbers “Hello Texas”
Galliano “Roofing Tiles (Instrumental)”
As mentioned above, the soundbed was meant to be Melvins’ “Colossus of Destiny” album/track, but thanks to technical hell turned out to be “O Berimbau” by Nana Vasconcelos.
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Featured video this week is a peach of a selection by Tom – a slightly random clip of Martin Degville from Sigue Sigue Sputnik forcing some German TV presenter to dress up SSS-style:
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