mp3: Various – Kicking Down Your Front Door
The Clash – Guns Of Brixton
Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses
New Order – Dream Attack
Hamish Hawk – Nancy Dearest
Johnny Marr – Easy Money
The Smiths – How Soon Is Now
Pet Shop Boys – Left To My Own Devices
Caribou – Volume
The Wonder Stuff – Don’t Let Me Down, Gently
Stereolab – French Disko
The Cure – Inbetween Days
The Popguns – Indie Rock Goddess
The Sugarcubes – Walkabout
Josef K – Sorry For Laughing
The Fall – Oh! Brother
The Wedding Present – Ringway to Seatac
The Jam – Theme From Batman
I’ve a feeling most of these have featured on previous mixes, but given it’s now the time of year when it’s increasingly cold and dark and we all seek comfort from the things we most love, then I offer no apologies. The slow and very very very occasional return of Johnny Marr‘s first band continues. I can assure you that when I listen to them, I don’t sing along nor make any efforts to imagine I’m dancing.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Nice mix, but have to reiterate that the lyric to Guns of Brixton is the dumbest thing the Clash ever came up with. Marr’s solo work usually falls a long way short of his first band’s, but Easy Money did remind me of the very cool Rickie Lee Jones track of the same title.
New mixes at TVV, Dubhed and A History of Dubious Taste on the same day. Some sort of great conjunction, I guess. [sk]
My favourites today (which isn’t today but about two weeks later): The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys (the single version, right?), The Cure and The Sugarcubes. The other songs are just good to great.
The younger listeners who have never heard “Pump up the Volume” by M|A|R|S|S were probably struck by “Volume” like lightning. If you like Caribou aka Dan Snaith, I recommend “Sun” from his album “Swim” (Merge 2010).
Thanks [sk]