Category: Various

HATS OFF TO THE BUSKERS

I don’t know if the ongoing slump in record/CD sales is being mirrored similarly in the circulation figures of music papers and magazines.

Nowadays I’ll only buy something if there’s the promise of a decent-length article on someone I particularly admire. Failing that, I’ll grab a hold of a magazine or two to take away on holiday just in case there turns out to be a hellishly long flight delay and the battery on the i-pod decides to give up the good fight.

Every now and again I will hand over a few pounds if the CD that’s attached to the cover is of any interest. I rarely give a second glance to a CD that is a round-up of tracks from recent LP releases, but I’ll admit to being a sucker when a special effort is made to produce a tribute CD. I did the other month with an edition of Uncut which comes with Like A Hurricane – A Tribute to Neil Young.

I mention this as a rather rambling intro to what today’s songs are all about.

A few years ago, mid- 2003 to be precise, I actually bought two copies of a particular edition of Uncut, simply because they had two separate CDs entitled White Riot – A Tribute to The Clash, featuring a total of 32 singers and bands doing cover versions of the songs of Strummer/Jones (and Simonen and Headon).

Like most tribute albums, some of the offerings turned out to be half-decent, and one or two I would even go as far as to say are truly inspired. Others are just insipid, while others are plain weird.

Most annoying of all however, is the fact that a couple of them are what I would class as lazy – covers which note for note and beat for beat are far too similar to the original.

Some of the songs were taken from other tribute LPs or were a gathering together of b-sides or album tracks, while some turned out to be exclusive recordings previously unavailable before (or indeed since). And while I would never dream of claiming that any of them were superior to the original recordings, there’s some of them been given space on the above mentioned i-pod.

Things like these:-

mp3 : Edwyn Collins – 1977
mp3 : The National – Clampdown
mp3 : Josh Rouse – Straight To Hell
mp3 : Pete Wylie – Stay Free

Incidentally, the last of the above was recorded live at a tiny pub in Haddington, East Lothian at a gig that I’m sure a mate of mine was at. If you’re reading this Mr Greer, be sure to tell us all if that was indeed the case.

JC

OVERDOSING ON COVER VERSIONS (8)

Is it really any wonder that all us adolescents fell for Siouxsie Sioux when she had been photographed ‘dressed’ like she is above

The finest moment in any of her records comes, and I use the word advisedly, at the 4:55 mark on the 12″ version of this marvellous single from 1982:-

mp3 : Siouxsie & The Banshees – Slowdive (12″ version)

A mate of mine once took that one second gasp and recorded it back to back something like 30 times in a row just so that he could imagine the punk/goth goddess was having an orgasm.

Twenty three years later, a very intriguing version of it, originally recorded for a radio session, was snuck out on a b-side:-

mp3 : LCD Soundsystem – Slowdive

As far as I know, the band Slowdive never made a cover of the song albeit they did record a song by that name as their first ever single back in 1990:-

mp3 : Slowdive – Slowdive

JC

OVERDOSING ON COVER VERSIONS (2)

All the greats eventually get the full-blooded cover version treatment with singers and bands queing up to pay tribute to those who greatly influenced them. The late Leonard Cohen has had his songs covered more than most, including various compilation LPs over the years which have been commercially released or given away free with music magazines. There’s even been specially curated gigs at which some of the great and good have appeared on stage to pay tribute.

So many tracks to choose from, but I’ve gone for one which, in its original recording, is not much more than a gravelled voice and some backing oohs and aahs over a toy synthesiser with its cheap drum pattern:-

mp3 : Leonard Cohen – Tower of Song

The opposite tack was taken by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds who, in a drink and drug fuelled frenzy one day in a studio, eventually cut what became an infamous 33 minute version of the track in which all sorts of musical genres are eventually thrown in. It’s not for the faint hearted:-

mp3 : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Tower of Song (full length)

An edited version was made available for inclusion of the tribute/compilation album I’m Your Fan, released in 1991:-

mp3 : Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Tower of Song (album version)

Here’s two more versions worth giving a listen:-

mp3 : Lloyd Cole – Tower of Song
mp3 : Martha Wainwright – Tower of Song

And finally, the daddy of them all in which Lenny C is given the shoegaze treatment:-

mp3 : The Jesus & Mary Chain – Tower of Song

Outstanding.

JC

This is the actual beach and resort from which we will be kicked off later today and forcibly put on a plane back to the UK. I can see my holiday home from here.

Farewell Barbados….until next year.

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (volume ten)

Track Listing

He’s Making A Tape – Wild Billy Childish & The MBEs
St. Anthony (Andrew Weatherall Mix) – Mike Garry & Joe Duddell
Still DRE – Dr. Dre feat Snoop Dogg
Ich Bin Ein Auslander (fun-da-mental 12″ mix) – Pop Will Eat Itself
Setting Sun – The Chemical Brothers
Moaner – Underworld
Suicide Girl – Baby’s Got A Gun
You Say You Don’t Love Me – Buzzcocks
Crazy To Exist – Josef K
Spellbound – Siouxsie & The Banshees
Isolation – Joy Division
U-Mass – Pixies
Get Up – Sleater Kinney
Freakscene – Dinosaur Jr.
Holiday Hymn – The Secret Goldfish

JC

Final night of the holiday. Fuck off with your happiness (copyright, Mr Malcolm Middleton)

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (Volume 9)

Track Listing

Avalanche – Leonard Cohen
Heaven or Las Vegas – Cocteau Twins
Black Hole – James
Rebellion (Lies) – Arcade Fire
Hermit – Randolph’s Leap
Subculture – The Auteurs
Born To A Family – The Go-Betweens
Make Time For Love – The Goon Sax
The Smell of an Artist – Cats on Fire
Only You – Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbard
Whatever Helps – Siobhan Wilson
Love Is A Momentary Lapse In Self-Loathing – Malcolm Middleton
Alive – Steve Mason
Free Range – The Fall
Skyscrapers – Close Lobsters
Eating Noddemix – Young Marble Giants

JC

This time, it’s long songs for those long days in the sun.. it’s hard to leave the beach when it’s getting close to the time to go home.

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (Volume 8)

Track Listing

Tupelo – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Tokyo Storm Warning – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Wrote For Luck – Happy Mondays
Loaded – Primal Scream
Rock Lobster – The B52s
Butterfly (Planet Ann Charlotte Mix) – Lloyd Cole
Stupid Thing – Paul Quinn & The Independent Group
Open Up (original 12″ mix) – Leftfield/Lydon
A Certain Romance – Arctic Monkeys

JC

Holiday cocktails are THE dog’s bollocks…..

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (Volume 7)

Track Listing

Man In The Corner Shop – The Jam
Victoria – The Kinks
Becoming More Like Alfie – The Divine Comedy
T-Shirt Weather – The Lucksmiths
Southern Mark Smith – The Jazz Butcher
Another Fit of Laughter – The Honeymooners
Can’t Be Sure – The Sundays
Typical Girls – The Slits
Something That I Said – The Ruts
15 Ways – The Fall
What a Waster – The Libertines
22 Grand Job – The Rakes
I Love a Boy in Uniform (School Uniform) – The Pipettes
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt.1 – The Flaming Lips
Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) – The The
Oh Yeah – The Subways
I’m Stranded – The Saints
Apologies – The Orchids
Getting Nowhere Fast – The Wedding Present

JC

In case any of you missed out on last week’s run of postings, I better explain that I’m currently entering week two of a holiday in tropical climes, but rather than close things down completely, I’m using Monday – Fridays to post some hour-long mixes made especially to listen to on the beach while keeping the usual couple of long-running series going at weekends.

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (Volume 6)

Track Listing

How He Wrote Elastica Man – Elastica feat Mark E Smith
Yuk Foo – Wolf Alice
Sweet Catatonia – Catatonia
French Disko – Stereolab
West End Girls  – Pet Shop Boys
No Scrubs – TLC
Might Be Stars – Wannadies
La Pastie de la Bourgeoisie – Belle and Sebastian
Quick, Before It Melts – Cinerama
Idiot Country – Electronic
Groovin’ With Mr. Bloe – Associates
Higher Grounds – Cats On Fire
Alcoholiday (Peel Session) – Teenage Fanclub
Duchess – The Stranglers
Landslide – The Popguns
Bye Bye Pride – The Go-Betweens
No Danger – The Delgados
Only Tongue Can Tell – Trashcan Sinatras
Paintball’s Coming Home – Half Man, Half Biscuit

JC

One week down.  One to go.  Friday nights tend to be a wee bit special round these parts.

Wish You Were Here.

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (Volume 5)

Track Listing

I Hope You’re Happy Now – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Revenge of The Hammond Connection – Primal Scream
Penelope Tree – Felt
Truth Be Told – Dead Hope
Heard About Love – The Big Gun
Big Rock Candy Mountain – The Motorcycle Boy
Wonderful Lie – The Hardy Boys
Sparky’s Dream – Teenage Fanclub
Stars – Dubstar
Triple Trouble (Graham Coxon remix) – Beastie Boys
M.O.R. – Blur
Home – P.I.L.
Apply Some Pleasure – Maximo Park
Lullaby – The Cure
I Miss You – Blink 182
Shellshock – New Order
How I Wrote Elastic Man – The Fall

JC

I’m nowhere near the above beach.  Indeed, i doubt the above beach looks that way in mid-December.

Today’s mix is, indeed, A Postcard from Scotland

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (Volume 4)

Track Listing

Bee – Hairband
Don’t Make Me Wait – Emma Pollock
The Shy Retirer – Arab Strap
Michael – Franz Ferdinand
Fall Forever – Honeyblood
Promised You A Miracle – Simple Minds
Gut Feeling – Malcolm Middleton
You Heald The World In Your Arms – Idlewild
No Longer Young Enough – The Just Joans
Fake Fur – Urusei Yatsura
Shimmer Shimmer – She’s Hit
Sore Tummy – PAWS
Taste The Last Girl – Sons & Daughters
These Animals Are Dangerous  – Rote Kapelle
Since Yesterday – Strawberry Switchblade
Blue Boy – Orange Juice
You Can’t Spend You Whole Life Hanging Around With Arseholes – Ballboy
Down The Dip – Aztec Camera

JC

Oh look….it’s another reminder that I’m not around just now.

Today, I’m searching for hidden treasure.

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (Volume 3)

Track Listing

You Supply The Roses – Memphis
This Arsehole’s Been Burned Too Many Times Before – Nectarine No.9
Parks and Recreation – Emma Pollock
Youth Knows No Pain  – Lykke Li
Sister – Tracey Thorn feat. Corinne Bailey Rae
Primitive Painters – Felt feat. Elizabeth Frazer
I Walk The Earth – King Biscuit Time
Old Town – Say Sue Me
With Handclaps – Y’All Is Fantasy Island
Munich – Editors
Dream Sequence – Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls
Love Is A Deserter – The Kills
Look At The Sky – Sons of the Descent
Surfing USA – The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Heinrich Maneuver – Interpol
Sweet and Tender Hooligan – Nouvelle Vague

JC

Second of the hour-long mixes made especially to listen to on the beach this and next week.

Let me show you baby, I’m a talented boy 🙂 🙂 🙂

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (Volume 2)

Track Listing

Gett Off – Prince
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
Paper Planes – M.I.A.
212 – Azelia Banks
Speak Like A Child – The Style Council
Rollercoaster by the Sea – Jonathan Richman
Breathe – The Prodigy
My Doorbell – The White Stripes
Shady Lane – Pavement
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme – Colourbox
Blues for Ceausescu – Fatima Mansions
Push Upstairs – Underworld
What A Waste – Curve
The Sun A Small Star – The Servants
Don’t Ask My Name – Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters
Revolutionary Spirit – The Wild Swans

JC

I’m off on holiday to tropical climes for the next 12 days. Rather than close things down completely, I’m going to use Monday – Fridays to post some hour-long mixes made especially to listen to on the beach while keeping the usual series going at weekends.

mp3 : Various – Beach Bumming (Volume 1)

Track Listing

Television, the Drug of the Nation – Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Sweetheart Contract – Magazine
April Skies – Jesus & Mary Chain
Know Who You Are At Every Age – Cocteau Twins
Deceptacon – Le Tigre
No Bulbs 3 (unedited) – The Fall
Nancy Boy – Placebo
Lee Remick – The Go-Betweens
Sick, Tired and Drunk – The June Brides
Ring Ring Ring (ha ha hey) – De La Soul
Protection – Massive Attack
Helicopter – Bloc Party
Orient Express – Port Sulphur
Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) – Frank Wilson
Geno – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Crocodiles – Echo & The Bunnymen

Me, I’m all smiles.

JC

Turns out that I’ve five songs on the hard drive with an apt title for today. Can’t say that I’m proud of that fact when you see what some of them are:-

mp3 : Embrace – Fireworks
mp3 : Ette – Fireworks
mp3 : Moby – Fireworks
mp3 : Pele – Fireworks
mp3 : Siouxsie & The Banshees – Fireworks

Please make sure your pets are safe and secure tonight and do all you can to minimise the impact on their poor nerves.  In other words, don’t subject them to the Embrace song…..

JC

I’ll pay for this posting……indeed, I’ll pay heavily!

Mrs V turns 60 years old today.  Rachel is, by far, the youngest and most active 60 year old I know, holding down a stressful and time-consuming job that involves a fair amount of travelling across the UK while maintaining a busy social life around her many different loves such as gardening, growing food, walking, music and literature.

We will be waking up in Barcelona, a city she has long wanted to visit, and this will be our third day of four.  We will be joined by a small group of friends to spend a day doing whatever it is Rachel most wants to do, rounding things off with some fine food and wine, with the vegetarian option being enjoyed by the birthday girl.

The trip will be the latest in what has been a year-long effort by her to do all sorts of things with different groups of friends.  There’s been a night at a Taylor Swift gig in Manchester, a weekend at the Rewind festival in Henley-on-Thames and soon she will be off to Oslo to follow a trail associated with one of her favourite authors, Jo Nesbo.  Her energy levels are incredible.

As I’ve said before, we have long enjoyed going to gigs together but in more recent years, especially since I became ensconsed in the blog, our tastes have somewhat drifted….I think Rachel deliberately goes for singers and bands that I wouldn’t dream of listening to.  It certainly makes for some interesting nights fighting over the remote controls….but occasionally something will give us some common ground.

Anyways, I am a very very lucky man to have her in my life….we’ve been living together now for more than 28 years having found each other after failed first marriages….and I hope you don’t mind me being self-indulgent in using the blog to air a few of her favourites:-

mp3 : Fall Out Boy – Dance Dance
mp3 : Good Charlotte – Lifestyles Of The Rich and The Famous
mp3 : Green Day – Minority
mp3 : Marilyn Manson – Disposable Teens
mp3 : Taylor Swift – Look What You Made Me Do
mp3 : Lady Gaga – Born This Way
mp3 : Martin Solveig – Ready To Go
mp3 : Calvin Harris – Feel So Close

Happy birthday missus. Keep on rockin’, dancin’ and laffin’

JC

 

 

Head to Head

Let’s try this again:

Elevation – Television

Elevation – Erasure

Information – Dave Edmunds

Information – Beck

Vacation – Beach Fossils

Vacation – the Go-Go’s

JTFL

(JC adds…..big thanks to Jonny for the posts these past few months…..now how about giving us an update on The Ponderosa Aces??)

 

Those of you who have any interset in this series might recall that the indie charts in May 1988 were topped by an act which made a living out of sampling.  Three months on, they reached the pinnacle again, but this one is much trickier to recall in comparion to ‘Theme…’ :-

1 August 1988 : S’Express – Superfly Guy

Ten years on and a cover of a Womack and Womack song was #1 in the indie charts.

1 August 1998 : Lovestation – Teardrops

I’d never heard this till a few minutes ago.  It came out on a specialist dance label  – Fresh Records.  I include it under duress as it’s quite ghastly.

1 August 2008 : mp3 : Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris  – Dance Wiv Me

It was the middle of a seven week stay at the top of the chart….which means it will be featuing again next month…..except that I’m now killing the series.  It’s been a long time coming but this, the least ‘indie’ of the near 2,000 posts on this blog, has delivered the fatal blow.

JC

A GUEST POST by jimdoes

THIS IS THE END
An Imaginary Compilation Album of final tracks.

There’s something special about last songs on albums – where a band have taken you on a journey and leave their big statement to last. Something to remember them by and something that it’s impossible to follow. By it’s very nature this would be an extremely long ICA (those last tracks tend to go on and on). Quite a few of these bands haven’t had ICAs of their own but I’m sure at some point most of them will. It’s hard to get the order right when there’s supposed to be silence after every track but I think they flow well. I’m sure a lot of your readers will be VERY familiar with my selections – and I’m equally sure that you could choose 10 completely different tracks by different bands and create and equally brilliant ICA.

01: THE PRIVATE PSYCHEDELIC REEL – THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
From DIG YOUR OWN HOLE

Possibly the final track to end all final tracks – but here it gets the honour of being side one track one of this ICA. It ticks all the boxes – sprawling, loud and full of false endings. It’s the track that The Chemical Brothers used to end their live shows with and it’s the last track on a truly classic album. When it first came out I’d shove it on the office stereo turn the volume up and blast my colleagues with an aural assault – they were never the same again. It was like nothing I’d heard before (Soon by My Bloody Valentine is possibly closest) and was a welcome relief from the idiocy of most Britpop. And without a doubt it’s the sound of taking drugs.

02 : SHOOT SPEED/KILL LIGHT – PRIMAL SCREAM
From XTRMNTR

This song fills me with so much joy. It’s my favourite track off XTRMNTR – Primal Scream’s second creative peak. They were an absolute beast of a live band around this time – and these shows were some of the best I’ve ever seen – yet I don’t remember them ever playing this song last. New recruits Mani and Kevin Shields took the band to new levels that they haven’t matched since. It’s got everything – driving bass, screeching guitars and Bobby Gillespie intoning the same 4 words over and over – what more could you want?

03: I AM THE RESURRECTION – THE STONE ROSES
From THE STONE ROSES

The drumbeat. The bass. The voice – “Down Down you bring me down”. Then the guitar. It’s a record that needs no introduction – I’m sure everyone has heard it and most will love it. It was probably the first time I was aware of the whole epic final track thing – as much a statement of intent and arrogance as the opening track on their classic debut – “I wanna be adored”. They’re a band that I don’t hold dearly any more (it’s all the bellowing beer boys at their gigs and how they’ve become Oasis) but this track still gets me every time. Again it has all the hallmarks that you need for a final song – length, a certain over-the-top-ness and more false endings than I know what to do with. It’s truly special – it transports me back to being 19 spinning round dancing to it and it still makes me want to dance.

04: MOANER – UNDERWORLD
From BEAUCOUP FISH

Like being repeatedly punched in the face by a drum machine. In the nicest possible way. It builds and builds – Karl Hyde working himself up into an absolute frenzy – getting more intense until it all sort of collapses. I’ve given myself whiplash on more than one occasion dancing to this when Underworld have played it live. Unsurprisingly they always used to play it last because there really was nothing they could follow it with.

05 7:20AM JULLANDER SHERE – CORNERSHOP
From WOMAN’S GOTTA HAVE IT

I saw them first on the bill at a free gig. Expecting jangle, slightly angry indie pop I was absolutely blown away when they sat down and played sitars for 15 minutes and sang in Punjabi. It’s an uplifting, hypnotic track that I never grow tired of and it’s something of a curiosity on my ICA as it’s the same song (with added bass) as the opening track on the album it’s from. I love this track even though I’ve no idea what Tjinder Singh is singing about – in fact, to me this song is the king of the misheard lyric. When this is on in the car and I’m singing along I kind of replicate the sounds he makes which must look and sound pretty ridiculous to anyone who happens to catch sight of me. Having done a bit of research it appears to be a song calling for peace and unity – and you can’t go wrong with that.

06 SEA WITHIN A SEA – THE HORRORS
From PRIMARY COLOURS

Listening to these tracks as I write this ICA, it’s occured to me that lots of them have a driving, motorik beat – and this track is no exception. It was the first single released from The Horrors second album and proved to be a massive departure in sound and ambition from the gothic noise of it’s predecessor. And to me it’s a song they’ve never bettered although they have made some wonderful music since this. It’s one of those songs that seems to go on and on and you can get lost in – always incredible live as they teased new sounds out of it – and when the keyboard kicks in about halfway in I can’t help but feel an adrenaline rush of pure joy. There’s a great live recording of it from Glastonbury 2009 on YouTube that is worth checking out – I was there and it was pretty special.

07 A CERTAIN ROMANCE – ARCTIC MONKEYS
From WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT

What a band they were. Incredible that this was made by folk just out of their teens. It was a song that my best mate played as the last song at his wedding disco – everyone went bonkers, dancing, screaming and hugging each other – it’s just one of those songs. He’s divorced now, mind.

08 STREET SPIRIT – RADIOHEAD
From THE BENDS

A song that doesn’t conform to my rules of the last track – although it is epic. It fills me with emotion. Majestic. It was also the song that closed perhaps the greatest show I’ve ever seen – Glastonbury 1997 – it sends shivers down my spine watching it on YouTube. I’d seen the Chemical Brothers on the NME stage with my friends who were determined to see Primal Scream in the Dance Tent – I had other ideas – my wife and I legged it through the backstage area (a shortcut between stages – one of the advantages of working for a national newspaper at the time) to catch a band make the transition from indie band to genuine stadium fillers. it was one of those situations where it was easier to go with peer pressure but I was rewarded for going with my instincts – especially as we were all chemically charged and it was before mobile phones so meeting up later was going to be tricky. Their more recent music doesn’t excite me (I stopped buying their albums around the time of In Rainbows) but I understand why the ‘young folk’ I work with (30somethings!!!) think they are amazing – they grew up with them.

09 SUNRISE – PULP
From WE LOVE LIFE

The final track on Pulp‘s final album – and what a track. Jarvis get’s the singing over pretty sharpish and from about 2 minutes in this song conforms to the last track template. The band just go bananas creating a joyous uplifting sound that seems to go on and on. And stop and start. Must be great hearing it at sunrise after a long night of dancing.

10 PURPLE RAIN – PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
From PURPLE RAIN

A song that needs no introduction – this seems like the perfect track to close this ICA. Everyone can sing along. I used to listen to the Purple Rain soundtrack on headphones in my parents living room and it’s one of my favourite albums EVER. At the time Purple Rain was my least favourite song on the album but I’ve come to appreciate it’s sheer perfection over the intervening 34 years (how to feel old!). And the album contains one of the greatest opening tracks on an album EVER – but I’ll leave that for another ICA!

xxxjim

Doubling Up

Breaking the charged particles single word policy for this week only…

Dimension Mansion – Paw Paw

Nation Integration – Rhythmites

Inspiration Information – Shuggie Otis

JTFL

WHY DID I START THIS THING?

from 26 August 2009

I get the occasional email from readers, and a couple of times recently I’ve been asked, in passing, why I started this blog.

There were loads of reasons at the time, but in the main it boiled down to the fact that having installed broadband in the house back in 2006 I could now browse the world wide web seeking out songs of old, and I decided on a whim that this was something I wanted to do myself. So Mrs Villain bought me a USB turntable and told me to stop just talking about it…

There’s thousands of music blogs out there, and on the right hand side of this page you’ll find a list of some of my particular favourites. There’s one or two other new blogs that have started up in recent times that are also proving to be royally entertaining, and they’re likely to be added to the list in the weeks ahead.

But there’s also been a number of blogs that have come and gone. For a while I kept a list of the ‘dead’ blogs, but ended up deleting this during one of the periodical clean-ups. I’ve actually lost count of the number of songs I’ve downloaded from blogs over the years. Some of them I’ve kept….

But when I do that, I will usually make an effort to track down some product and purchase something, even if it is just a legitimate mp3 download – and I hope that’s what most of you will do of and when you download something from my wee place. So, despite some folk claiming that bloggers are killing the music industry, I find I’m spending more on music now in 2009 than at any other point in my life, and am running out of space in the cupboard that holds the vinyl and on the shelves where the CDs are stacked.

But enough rambling. The idea of today’s post is to bring you some of the more obscure and wonderful things I’ve downloaded over the past three years…and here’s to more of the same going forward:-

mp3 : Coin Op – Hey Uri
mp3 : Arab Strap – Here We Go (live acoustic session)
mp3 : Jens Lekman – You Can Call Me Al
mp3 : Elle S’Appelle – Little Flame
mp3 : Paris Motel – Mr Splitfoot
mp3 : Blur – Close

JC