Featured Artists

Here are a couple tracks from the last couple playlists.

First is a great Can Con track: Girls Of The Future by BB Gabor:



BB Gabor - Girls of the Future

Next is Mister Memory by The Comsat Angels, from their Land album.



The Comsat Angels - Mister Memory

For some more from the Comsats, I suggest going over to the following blog, that so kinldy posted their Chasing Shadows album!

Rave and Roll

April 25, 2008

Adding a new item this post - see below the typed playlist for a last.fm playlist that includes links to song samples, videos, etc. of all the songs listed!

Alice In Videoland - Going Down
BB Gabor - Girls Of The Future
Billy Idol - Mony Mony
Blue Peter - Don't Walk Past
Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
Chubby & Heartache (?) - ??
Dee Long - Mad Magazine
Dee Long - Good Night Universe
Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
Duncan Browne - The Wild Places
Dwight Twilley - Sleeping
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter
Frank Zappa - Let's Make The Water Turn Black
Front Line Assembly (?) - included a sample that said: 'No Medical Basis for Circumcision'
Gabe Lee - Can't Stop The Train
Generation X - Kiss Me Deadly
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
INXS - Beautiful Girls
Japan - Suburban Love
Jesus Jones - International Bright Young Thing
JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Fashionable People
Joy Division - Candidate
Madness - Our House
Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack
Moist - Breathe
New Order - Who's Joe
Nightwish - Sleeping Sun
Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine
Pop Will Eat Itself - X, Y & Zee (remix)
Pukka Orchestra - Your Secret Is Safe With Me
Pukka Orchestra - Might As Well Be On Mars
Raised By Swans - Violet Light
Roger Waters - Sunset Strip
Rough Trade - Crimes Of Passion
Scissor Sisters - Mary
Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Bassline)
Sick Puppies - All The Same
Slave To The SQUAREwave - Sinners Of St. Avenue
Sopken Word - Howl Of The Wolf Movie
Steve Harley - Sebastian
The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
The Call - I Still Believe (Great Design)
The Cure - The Lovecats
The Damned - Eloise
The Demics - New York City
The Extras - Circular Impression
The Farm - Very Emotional
The Fixx - Saved By Zero
The Lightning Seeds - Marvelous
The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
The Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now
The Stranglers - Too Precious
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (ext)
Wide Mouth Mason - Change
XTC - Life Begins At The Hop

Note: tracks above are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

New Features

Well, I was playing around with last.fm and The Hype Machine (hypem.com) a bit in the last couple days (thanks to Daniel!) and found some cool things and have some ideas about things that I might add to the blog. If you scroll down the panel on the right side of the blog, you'll get to some last.fm and Hype Machine widgets that I've added near the bottom.

The last.fm widgets show the latest music I've been listening to and album covers from stuff I've listened to. I thought they were pretty cool, I'll probably experiment with some different versions of those over the next while. I read an article not too far back that since amazon.com added some full length track previews at last.fm they increased mp3 sales by a large percentage (can't remember the exact number) - and that's within the current environment for music sales! One small glimmer of hope for the music biz. Here's an example:

I'm going to see if I can add a last.fm 'playlist' widget to my playlist posts including the tracks they have - not sure how significant an undertaking that might be - my enthusiasm level for doing that will probably be directly related to how much effort it is. Last.fm includes at least a 30 second sample of the song which will help if you're not sure about what a track that's listed might sound like. In some cases they have full samples and in others (such as for a couple Slave to the SQUAREwave tracks) there are free mp3 downloads available from last.fm.



The Hype Machine seems to be more focussed on new releases and what's being included on many music blogs out there. Many of the recent tunes that David adds into the mix can be found there. I've added a widget that includes links to some of the recently released tracks from David's playlists. I found some good stuff - and I'm reasonably sure they're all full length tracks, but I haven't spent too much time exploring and sampling that site yet.

Finally, with kudos to SMoKaLoTaPoT, I should now be able to record the Rock's web feed. I might be able to start including samples of tracks I wasn't able to ID so that anyone who's interested can have a listen to see if they're able to help ID them. This one is also going to be dependant on how time intensitive that process is (and how interested I am in ID'ing the track!)

Thanks to all who have left feedback, please continue to do so, I'd love to hear potential ideas for the blog, etc.

April 24, 2008

Well, I assume there were some of you out there in the same frustrating situation I was in tonight - trying to check into David's show and having trouble with the internet feed. Isn't technology wonderful? Well it is when it's working! At least it eventually came back up! Accordingly, this will be an incomplete list - made up of what I could hear and what was shown on the Neilsen DBS feed.

On the positive side, many of us would not be able to check into David's shows if it wasn't for the web feed. Something like this also makes you realize how dependant we are all becoming on the internet and our expectation that it will always be 'up & running for us' as well as the profound changes it has made in a pretty short time on how we interact with other people.

?? Boys Singing - Tears In Heaven
Bauhaus - Telegram Sam
B.B. King - Lucille
Big Country - In A Big Country [Pure Mix]
Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling (snippet)
Burning Spear - Burning Reggae
Cake - The Distance
Cliks - Nobody Else Will
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
David Usher - My Way Out
Dee Long - Wicked
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
FM - One O'Clock Tomorrow
Frank Marino - Norwegian Wood
Golden Dogs - Saints At The Gates
Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse
Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights
Hunter Valentine - Staten Island Dream Tour
Jeff Healey - Angel Eyes
Jerry Lee Lewis - Rock & Roll (featuring Jimmy Page)
Madness - One Step Beyond
Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards
Mashmakhan - As Years Go By
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne
Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River
Roderick Falconer - Mr. Radio
Roger Waters - Perfect Sense (Part I)
Ronnie Montrose - Town Without Pity
Scissor Sisters - Laura
Slave To The SQUAREwave - Johnny 3:16
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
Tears For Fears - Change
Teenage Head - Disgusteen
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
The Comsat Angels - Mister Memory
The Crimea - Loop A Loop
The Lotus Eaters - First Picture Of You
The Maisonettes - Heartache Avenue
The Mission - Stay With Me
The Parachute Club - Rise Up
The Populars - Smartbomb
The Pretenders - Talk Of The Town
The Psychedelic Furs - President Gas
The Spoons - 2,000 Years
The Zombies - Time Of The Season
Tom Robinson Band - Listen to the Radio: Atmospherics
Tones On Tail - Go!
Wall Of Voodoo - Far Side Of Crazy

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

April 23, 2004

Blue Peter - Don't Walk Past (remix)
Chalk Circle - April Fool
Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot
Copyright - Radio
Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party
David Bowie - Space Oddity
David Bowie & Massive Attack - Nature Boy
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Elliot Murphy - Everything I Do (Leads Me Back To You)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Frank Zappa - I'm The Slime
Hedwig & The Angry Inch - Sugar Daddy
Hunters & Collectors - Talking To A Stranger
Iggy Pop - Pumpin' For Jill
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Japan - Adolescent Sex
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
Killing Joke - Requiem
Love Spit Love - How Soon Is Now?
Magazine - Permafrost/The Light Pour Out Of Me
Matchbox Twenty - If You're Gone
Matthew Good Band - Hello Time Bomb
Matthew Sweet - Dark Secret
Meryn Cadell - The Sweater
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween
Moev - In & Out
Moist - Breathe
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Our Lady Peace - Starseed
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pukka Orchestra - Cherry Beach Express
Pure - Blast
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
Roger Waters - Who Needs Information
Secret Service - Flash In The Night
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine
Spacehog - Lucy's Shoe
Spoken Word - Police State
Spoken Word - Sun Going Down/Fell On His Head
Spoken Word - Turn In Your Shoes For Industry
Strange Advance - Worlds Away
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
T.Rex - Children Of The Revolution
Talk Talk - Such A Shame
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
Tangerine Dream - Pilots of Purple Twilight
Teenage Head - Let's Shake
Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
The Church - Under The Milky Way
The Clash - Train In Vain
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
The Cure - Caterpillar
The Grapes Of Wrath - Consequences
The Korgis - Young 'N' Russian
The Northern Pikes - The Things I Do For Money
The Sex Pistols - Friggin' In The Riggin'
The Soft Boys - I Got The Hots
The Spoons - Nova Heart
The Tubes - Boy Crazy
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Tommy James - Crimson & Clover (ext)
Tower Of Power - Down To The Nightclub
XTC - Dear God

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

Featured Artists

Here’s a few from the April 23, 2004 play list.

First of course is a Can Con tack, Blast by Pure. A search of iTunes turned up a video for this song, but no audio track, so here it is:



Pure - Blast

Second is Talking To A Stranger by Hunters & Collectors:



Hunters & Collectors - Talking To A Stranger

Here’s a great CFNY and Marsden staple, Friggin’ In The Riggin’ by the Sex Pistols:



Sex Pistols – Friggin’ In The Riggin’

Here’s one from a pretty obscure band: The Korgis – Young ‘N’ Russian:



The Korgis – Young ‘N’ Russian

Here’s one by a familiar voice, but the band name might not be as familiar – this is a Psychedelic Furs side project with Richard Butler on vocals doing a very familiar song: Love Spit Love – How Soon Is Now?



Love Spit Love - How Soon Is Now?

Finally, here’s Flash In The Night by Secret Service:



Secret Service - Flash In The Night

Featured Artists

Here are a few from the April 22, 2004 playlist:

First, I'll start off with the inevitable Can Con item, another track from The Box - L'Affaire Dumoutier (Say to Me)



The Box - L'Affaire Dumoutier

Next up is a guy I don't know too much about, but he does a good version of this instrumental: Ronnie Montrose - Town Without Pity



Ronnie Montrose - Town Without Pity

Last for today is Icehouse with Great Southern Land. I was a bit surprised that an iTunes 'power search' for 'Icehouse' results in zero hits. I tried just 'ice' to be sure and that skips from Ice Cube right to Vanilla Ice....



Icehouse - Great Southern Land

I was actually planning on sharing a few more tracks from this playlist, but sometimes it amazes me as to what IS available on iTunes - tracks from bands like City Boy, Horslips and King Missile were all there. I've been able to pick up a few hard to find tracks from iTunes myself in the recent past, such as Play It Again and Mr. Radio both by Roderick Falconer as well as Ian Hunter's - Just Another Night, all in iTunes plus format (I've personally boycotted their 128kbps DRM files).

April 22, 2004

A Foot In Cold Water - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
Alice In Chains - Man In The Box
Audioslave - I Am The Highway
Bauhaus - She's In Parties
Be Bop Deluxe - Surreal Estate
Big Sugar - Turn The Lights On
Billy Idol - Flesh For Fantasy
Black Box Recorder - Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
Bryan Ferry - Tokyo Joe
Cake - Comfort Eagle
City Boy - 5.7.0.5
Coldplay - Yellow
Colin James - Five Long Years
Concrete Blonde - True
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
David Usher - Black Black Heart
Econoline Crush - Surefire
Genesis - The Cinema Show
Godley & Crème - Snack Attack
Horslips - The Man Who Built America
Ian McCulloch - Prettiest Star
Icehouse - Great Southern Land
INXS - Original Sin
Jethro Tull - Cross-Eyed Mary
Jimi Hendrix - May This Be Love
Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers
John Martyn - I'd Rather Be The Devil
Jona Lewie - (You'll Always Find Me) In The Kitchen At Parties
King Crimson - I Talk To The Wind
King Missile - Detachable Penis
Klaatu - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Long John Baldry - Stormy Monday Blues
Martha & The Muffins - Saigon
Metallica - Turn The Page
Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind
Nickelback - Feeling Way Too Damn Good
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
Pink Floyd - The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
Placebo - Pure Morning
Propaganda - P. Machinery (remix)
Pukka Orchestra - Might As Well Be On Mars
Rammstein - Alter Mann
Roger Waters - 4:41 AM (Sexual Revolution)
Ronnie Montrose - Town Without Pity
Sloan - Nothing Last Forever Anymore
Spoken Word - Goodby Dorothy
Spoken Word - Kansas City Isn't Where It's At
Steve Harley - Here Comes The Sun
The Box - L'Affaire Dumoutier
The Cure - Never Enough (Acoustic)
The Extras - Jealous Girl
The Grapes Of Wrath - I Am Here
The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
The Tea Party - The Messenger
The Tubes - What Do You Want From Life?
Ultravox - White China (ext)
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
Willy Deville - Hey Joe

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

Featured Artists

Here's a few from the Friday show this week:

First up is The Members - Radio (Dub Version):



The Members - Radio

Next are two more Can Con gems, first is Vital Sines - Collage:



Vital Sines - Collage

The second Can Con item is an artist featured already, but here's a different track Darkroon - San Paku:



Darkroom - San Paku

April 18, 2008

999 - Homicide
Barclay James Harvest - She Said
China Crisis - Working With Fire & Steel (Mix)
Classix Nouveuax - Guilty
Cliks - Complicated
Concrete Blonde - Caroline
Danny Marks - Big Town Boy
Darkroom - San Paku
Dee Long - Good Night Universe
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
DJ Champion - No Heaven
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
Front Line Assembly - New Year's Day
Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights
Hunter Valentine - Staten Island Dream Tour
Iggy Pop & Debbie Harry - Well Did You Evah!
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Leon Russell - Pisces Apple Lady
Madness - Wings Of A Dove
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
Meat Puppets - Backwater
Moist - Push
Nash The Slash - Psychotic Reaction
National Velvet - Sex Gorilla
New Order - True Faith
Pete & Geets - Lardette Fashion Show
Peter Murphy - Indigo Eyes 98
Pink Floyd - One Slip
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
Placebo - Pure Morning
Raised By Swans - Violet Light
Rammstein - Du Hast
Redbone - The Witch Queen Of New Orleans
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Sex Bomb Boogie
Simple Minds - Shake Off The Ghosts
Skinny Puppy - Dead Of Winter
Slave To The SQUAREwave - New York's A Go Go
Spoken Word - Music Must Be Stopped
Spoken Word - The World Has Gone Sex Crazy
Spoken Word - Harrison Ford from Blade Runner
Squeeze - Another Nail For My Heart
Status Quo - Wild Side Of Life
Status Quo - Glory Glory Man United (?)
T.Rex - Children Of The Revolution
The Cars - Drive
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
The Crimea - Lottery Winners On Acid
The Diodes - Red Rubber Ball
The English Beat - Hands Off She's Mine
The Fools - It's A Night For Beautiful Girls
The Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)
The Jam - Eton Rifles
The Lords of the New Church - Dance With Me
The Members - Radio (Dub Version)
The Northern Pikes - The Things I Do For Money
The Populars - Smartbomb
The Prodigy - Their Law (featuring Pop Will Eat Itself)
The Spoons - Old Emotions
The Undertones - Here Comes The Summer
Thinkman - The Formula
Thomas Dolby - Airwaves
Vital Sines - Collage

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

Featured Artists

Here's a couple from last night's show. Pretty late in the show last night David played a track by 'The Perth County Conspiracy' called 'Listen To The Kids' and shortly after that he played 'After A Fashion' by 'Midge Ure & Mick Karn' (of Ultravox and Japan fame, respectively). Both of these tracks are pretty obscure.

A while back I found the Perth County Conspiracy album that 'Listen To The Kids' came from on a great blog called Lost-In-Tyme, I even had a link to it on my blogroll. I went back there because I was going to simply do a link for this post and the entire blog seems to be gone, unfortunately. That's a real loss as that was a huge blog and very good. That means I'll have to re-post the album here.

If you listen to the full album you'll find another track that David features on his show fairly regularly. Until I found the full album I knew that track as 'Americanadian Way' which, as it turns out, seems to be just the introduction to the track 'Truth & Fantasy' from the album. I included 'Americanadian Way' on its own in the zip file - I had found that on its own somewhere along the line on the web previously. Also included is a file with the cover art - all the files can be extracted separately.

First up though is Midge Ure & Mick Karn:



Midge Ure & Mick Karn - After a Fashion


The Perth County Conspiracy - 1970 - Does Not Exist - re-upped!



Perth County Conspiracy - Does Not Exist - Part 1 - link updated

Perth County Conspiracy - Does Not Exist - Part 2 - link updated

Perth County Conspiracy - Does Not Exist - Artwork - link updated



Below is the caption that was included with this item in the post on Lost In Tyme:

01 Midnight Hour
02 Epistle of the Borderliner
03 Easy Rider
04 Truth & Fantasy
05 Don't You Feel Fine
06 You Have The Power
07 Keeper of the Keys
08 Lady of the Country
09 Listen to the Kids
10 Trouble on the Farm
11 Excerpt form "As You Like It"
12 The Dancer
13 Crucifixation Cartoon

Cedric Smith (vocals, guitar)
Richard Keelan (guitar, vocals)
Michael Butler (bass)
Terry Jones (guitar, vocals)
George Taros (piano, vocals)

While the disadvantages of major labels, their questionable output and oft-myopic philosophy has been lamented in these pages over and over, the advantages of these maligned oligarchies should not be denied. If the cogs are allowed to interlock as desired it's obviously preferable for all people involved to have a record created with a big, powerful corporation backing it, rather than just what available money could afford. OK, so these cases are rare, but they do exist.

Such generous thoughts cross my mind while listening to the debut LP by Canada's PERTH COUNTY CONSPIRACY. This is because the album is a triumph of realization, more than anything else. I don't know what the PCC guys think of it now -- maybe they hate it, a lot of musicians hate their old records -- but it seems to me that whatever their ambitions were back in 1970, they couldn't have been far removed from the sounds rising from the finished grooves. This is an expensive production, with one of the most attractive soundscapes I have ever come across within the genre, which could be described as Progessive Hippie Folkpsych. Whatever studio time the PCC requested they had it, and other resources at Toronto Sound were obviously provided as needed. Even the artwork, a greatlooking gatefold with booklet insert, shows a good-natured record company at work. Of course, this isn't just any major label we're talking about but Columbia Canada, whose batting average in the early 1970s is rivaled only by that of the 1992 Toronto Blue Jays; It's All Meat, Jarvis St Revue, Ptarmigan are just a few examples of the label's remarkable output at the time (see Fraser & Debolt review below for yet another).

However, "Does Not Exist" differs from these LPs in not being a 3-figure rarity, and looking around it appears that Perth County Conspiracy were a near-household name in Canada back in the daze. Maybe this is also the reason why they haven't quite entered the psychedelic pantheon yet, especially outside their homeland. I haven't heard anything from their subsequent and rather confused discography, but this first outing alone should warrant a chair at a table within shouting distance from the musical gods.
Tuning up for the recording session

The Perth County Conspiracy band was formed in Stratford, Ontario as a typical hippie-era art/folk music commune; plenty of people involved, wives, brothers, kids and maybe a couple of shaggy dogs too. Other than contemporary folk their inclination was towards poetry and the theatre, and indeed one of the key guys ended up as a famous actor later on. Doesn't take an oracle to see that coming as literary references and ambitions are all over this LP, including recitations of Dylan Thomas and Shakespeare, the latter being a particular obsession of the band and the area they came from (as the name Stratford implies). Now if this sounds just a wee bit scary, I'm prepared to deliver the first of a handful testimonies where my opinion may differ from that of the typical 1960s/70s psych admirer. This is it: the PCC recitations are daring and pretentious, but I think they work. Yep. Two reasons why: the readings are done in a skillful manner by guys who obviously understand the difficulties involved. They don't play it safe like the sherry-sipping gentleman heard on the Moody Blues albums, but dive head first into the alliterations, rhythms and turns of classic poetry. The opening Dylan Thomas incantation is especially successful, establishing a self-assured, literary tone for the album that thousands of progressive bands could only dream of. The other reason it works is just this; that the band is able to carry that tone into the actual music, which is neither classical nor pretentious, but highly appealing folkpsych and singer/songwriter with a definite 1970 stamp.

So initially we're thrown between the exhilarating poetry of Thomas and an equally exhilarating tune right out of the CSNY/Incredible String Band intersection where Perth County resides. As with many Canadian bands there is an explicit (and physical -- ex-Spikedrivers member Richard Keelan was from Michigan and had moved up North to escape the draft) connection to the USA, linking the perceived wrongs of their own country (war, violence, pollution, etc) with those of the yankees. This makes for a rather complex trip that perhaps could only be understood then and there; in any event we are told that it is the "Americanadian way". But again like many of their maple leaf peers, there is also a strong presence of the British music scene, messieurs Heron & Williamson in particular. While I think the PCC are a bit more successful than the ISB in their cross-cultural ambitions, mainly because they don't automatically assume themselves to be geniuses, one can't deny that the avant-literary folk path that the String Band carved out from 1966 onwards was followed by thousands of bands around the world. I've also seen "Does not exist" compared to Pearls Before Swine, and it's a useful reference that captures the delicate and atmospheric nature of its best tracks.

The opening mix of half-sung poetry and hippie anthem is followed by a Brit-sounding piano-led downer trip, recalling Nick Drake and Isolation but given a nice edge by Cedric Smith, whose acidic vocals is one of the album's many strengths. We are then transported halfway across the world, out into the Californian desert where a deftly understated tribute to "Easy Rider" -- the movie -- rises from the ground like an evening campfire. Richard Keelan's vocals are more of a Steven Stills type introspection, and the difference in style between the two main guys is cleverly juxtaposed throughout the LP. The redneck gunshot at the end of "Easy Rider" is used as a bridge into a highly theatrical spoken bit, full of convoluted anti-war propaganda; graphic and unpleasant but also ironic and multilayered. This in turn works as an introduction to "Truth and fantasy", a suite of superb folkpsych mixed with short theatrical interludes. Labyrinthine? Confusing? Well, that's what the LP is like -- trips opening within trips, yet constantly moving forward. This is also why I consider this a more genuinely psychedelic album than most of the artifacts of its genre. Hey, there's nothing wrong with being pretentious as long as you pull it off. Of course, almost none of the prog-folkers do, but on this LP the Perth County Conspiracy do with flying colors, God bless 'em.

I won't detail the other tracks that round out the whopping 26 minutes of side 1, except to say that they're marvels of production value, vocal harmonies and elaborate arrangements. Over on side 2 we are first treated to the beautiful folkpsych of "Keeper of the keys" which is a good pick to play for a friend you want to convince of the album's greatness; in fact you have to be dead from the neck up not to worship this tune. This is followed by the album's one spot of weakness, the well-intended, charming, and ultimately hopeless "Listen to the kids". A merger of children's poems and a nice little CSN:ish tune, it's not the sugary Graham Nash nightmare you might envision but it's not terribly successful either; the contrast with the very grownup recitation that follows is just too sharp. As the LP as a whole clocks in at no less than 53 minutes this track could have been removed, leaving you still with an unusually generous playtime. Ah, what the hell. Flaws are part of the psychedelic world too. The Orwellian uptempo excursion of "Trouble on the farm" provides a welcome change of mood, before the Conspiracy gears up for the grand finale. First there's a bit of Shakespeare with an unexpected loungey backing, then we are treated to the "The Dancer" which parallels the introspective Albion mood of the second track on side 1, creating a neat arch-like structure for the album as a whole.

These are just preparations for the awesome acid folk epic that closes the LP in a way better than anyone could hope for. "Crucifixation cartoon" is simply stunning, a trip deep into the cranium that reminds me of that long monster track on the Search Party LP, and proof that guilt trip loner anthems are not exclusively the domain of local mid-70s private press albums; at least not if your record label is Columbia Canada. This is where it's at, daddy-o: There's a cross on every tree
When you're learning to be free which may recall the Poet's immortal: The trees in our gaze
Will show us the love that we bring them A C.O.B-like mood emerges with the inventive use of a "ukelin" to provide the lead as this masterpiece of melancholy draws to its inevitable close. The album's end signals the end of an almost physical experience, and I must admit that there really aren't that many LPs around that leave me in such a state of involvement as "Does not exist"; not just once, but pretty much every time I hear it. Helped in no small part by the Toronto money behind them it seems the Perth County Conspiracy, on their first album no less, managed to provide us with a glimpse of an absolute music beyond the veil, something not many groups have done. I realize that to an avid fan of "crude garage fuzz" or "screaming basement psych" this LP may come off as pretentious and foppish, but to anyone with at least half an ear for transcendental folkpsych it is certain to delight, and maybe surprise too, given its non-rare nature.

I was tempted to take a point off for these high-fallooting Canucks referring to their lyric booklet as a "libretto" but hell, I'll give them some leeway on that one too. Best folkpsych LP outta Canada so far! As mentioned before their discography is a bit confusing, and there is in fact another LP by them also titled "Does not exist", due to the band's strange idea to make these words part of their moniker -- as if it wasn't unwieldy enough already. So be sure to check that the label is Columbia before adding "Does not exist" to your collection. The band followed this with a live LP, also on Columbia, before moving on to private labels where they made a handful more LPs during the 1970s. I hear they recently reformed for local gigs.

April 17, 2008

?? - To Keep You Here (?)
Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed
Alice In Videoland - Going Down
Bill Nelson - Acceleration
Chalk Circle - 20th Century Boy
Daniel Lanois - The Maker
David Gilmour - There's No Way Out Of Here
David Usher - A Day In The Life
Dee Long - Wicked
Dillinger - Cocaine In My Brain
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Cleanhead Blues
Elliot Murphy - Anastasia
Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army
Frank Zappa - Montana
Garbage - #1 Crush
Hunter Valentine - Van City
Jackie Shane - Any Other Way
Jimi Hendrix - Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street
Jona Lewie - (You'll Always Find Me) In The Kitchen At Parties
Level 42 - The Sun Goes Down (Livin' It Up)
Long John Baldry - You've Lost That Loving Feeling (featuring Kathi MacDonald)
Matthew Barber - Easy To Fall
Midge Ure & Mick Karn - After A Fashion
Mike Batt - Lady Of The Dawn
Nazareth - Love Hurts
Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
Phil Manzanera & 801 - City Of Lights
Pink Floyd - The Show Must Go On
Pop Will Eat Itself - Def Con One (remix with a Stooges guitar riff sampled)
Powder Blues Band - Sweet Little Girl
Rita Marley - One Draw
Robbie Robertson - American Roulette
Rough Trade - Weapons
Segarini - Gotta Have Pop
Slave To The SQUAREwave - Pumpin' Up The 'P' House (Remix)
Steel Pulse - Sound System
Strange Advance - Kiss In The Dark
Supreme Beings Of Leisure - Last Girl On Earth
Talking Heads - Take Me To The River
The 69 Eyes - Gothic Girl
The Assembly - Never Never
The Comsat Angels - Day One
The Fixx - Deeper & Deeper
The Hidden Cameras - The International M.M.A. The Mild Mannered Army
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Head On
The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women
The Perth County Conspiracy - Listen To The Kids
The Who - Eminence Front
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
XTC - Making Plans For Nigel

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

Featured Artists

Wow, found lots of tracks to feature in the April 13, 2006 playlist I just posted. I'll do them in alphabetical order (by artist) this time.

First up is Godley & Creme. I recently dug out a 12" single I have of this track that has different cover art than what shows up below.



Godley & Creme - Snack Attack

Next are the Headboys:



The Headboys - Kickin' The Kans

Now for some Can Con - The Payola$ (featuring Carole Pope):



Payola$ - Never Said I Loved You

And Phil Manzanera (this track was as part of 801):



Phil Manzanera - Listen Now

Back to Can Con with the last 2, starting with the Powder Blues Band:



Powder Blues - Hear That Guitar Ring

Last is Skinny Puppy & Type O Negative - I couldn't find cover art for this one, I'm not even too sure how this song was released or any other details on it. Anyone with more details, please leave a comment!

Skinny Puppy & Type O Negative - Techno Industry

April 13, 2006

Alabama 3 - Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlife
Alexis Corner (?) - You Are My Sunshine
Cheap Trick - Ain't That A Shame (Live)
Chilliwack - Raino
Cocteau Twins - Pandora
Colourbox - Sex Gun
Dee Long - Wicked
Deliverance Soundtrack - Dueling Banjos
Demics - New York City
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Econoline Crush - All That You Are
Frank Marino - Roadhouse Blues
Front Line Assembly - ??
Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty
Garfield - Play It Again Boys
Godley & Crème - Snack Attack
Golden Earring - Vanilla Queen
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Clevor Trevor
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Japan - Rhodesia
Joe Jackson - Real Men
Leonard Cohen - Closing Time
Love & Rockets - Haunted When The Minutes Drag
Martha & The Muffins - Swimming
Mike Bloomfield (?) - ??
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
Murray Head - Say It Ain't So Joe
Nightwish - ??
Nightwish - I Wish I Had An Angel
Payolas - Never Said I Loved You
Phil Manzanera & 801 - Listen Now
Powder Blues Band - Hear That Guitar Ring
Pukka Orchestra - Rubber Girl
Pulp - Common People
Rod Stewart - Country Comforts
Roderick Falconer - Mr. Radio
Roger Taylor - People On Streets
Skinny Puppy & Type O Negative - Techno Industry
Slave to the SQUAREwave - Big Change
Spencer Davis Group - I'm A Man
T.Rex - Cosmic Dancer
The Crimea - Lottery Winners On Acid
The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
The Headboys - Kickin' The Kans
The Northern Pikes - The Things I Do For Money
The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
The Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now
The Raiders - Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)
The Tubes - Boy Crazy
William Shatner - Common People
Wreckless Eric - Telephoning Home

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

Featured Artists

Well, here's a real mixed bag of stuff from the last few playlists I've posted, but then again a mixed bag is fairly representative of David's show, isn't it? :-)

First up, a couple of Can Con items - you know I'm not actually trying to feature mainly Canadian artists, but they just seem to keep coming up. I guess they tend to be some of the more obscure items that get played.



Boys Brigade - The Passion of Love




National Velvet - Flesh Under Skin

This next group is essentially a UK based 'boy-band', but before you blindly skip to the next item, this one has some great lyrics that make it well worth checking out! The album this came from seems to be available on iTunes, but for some weird reason a couple tracks are missing, one of them being this one!



Busted - Psycho Girl

Finally, here's a track from Phil Lynott, lead singer of the 70's Irish band Thin Lizzy. He released a solo album in 1980 called Solo In Soho, and featured here is the title track.



Phil Lynott - Solo in Soho

April 11, 2008

?? - Love Across The Nation
Alphaville - Big In Japan
Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock
Blue Peter - Take Me To War
Boys Brigade - The Passion Of Love
Breeding Ground - Reunion
Busted - Psycho Girl
Chalk Circle - April Fool
Cottage Industry - Thing Go Up
David Bowie - Life On Mars?
Dee Long - Goodnight Universe
Depeche Mode - Precious
DJ Champion - No Heaven
Electric Six - Radio Ga Ga
Frank Zappa - Flakes
Golden Dogs - Saints At The Gates
Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy
Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights
Howard Devoto - Rainy Season
Hunter Valentine - Van City
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Spasticus Autisticus
James Collins - He's Planning His Funeral
Japan - Rhodesia
Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
Moody Blues - Melancholy Man
National Velvet - Flesh Under Skin
New Order - Bizzare Love Triangle
Nick Lowe - I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - In The Flesh
Rheostatics - Power Ballad For Ozzy Osbourne
Rough Trade - Crimes Of Passion
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Slave to the SQUAREwave - Sinners Of St. Avenue
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Snowy White - Bird Of Paradise
Spoken Word - Can't Get There From Here
Status Quo - In The Army Now
Tears For Fears - Woman In Chains
The Alarm - Rain In The Summertime
The Beatles - Ain't She Sweet
The Boomtown Rats - Dave
The Box - Live On TV
The Clash - Mustapha Dance
The Comsat Angels - Independence Day
The Diodes - Tired Of Waking Up Tired
The Kinks - A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy
The Odds - Heterosexual Man
The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
The Specials - Ghost Town
The Stranglers - Nice 'N' Sleazy
The Stray Cats - Rock This Town
The Tubes - What Do You Want From Life?
The Undertones - Boys Will Be Boys
The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon
Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor (ext)
Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Way Of The West - Don't Say That's Just For White Boys
William Shatner - Has Been

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

April 10, 2008

Alice In Videoland - Going Down
Audience - The House On The Hill
Blue Peter - Chinese Grafitti
Blue Rodeo - Bulletproof
Bob Geldof - In The Pouring Rain
Book Of Love - Boy
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
Carole Pope - Love Strikes Hard
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Wooden Ships
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - not the album version
David Gray - Sail Away
David Usher - Black Black Heart
Garfield - Private Affair
Hunter Valentine - Staten Island Dream Tour
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One) (Ext)
Inspiral Carpets - This Is How It Feels
James Horner - The Portrait
Japan - Life In Tokyo (remix)
Jeff Healey - I Think I Love You Too Much
Jeremy Fisher - High School
Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
Leonard Cohen - The Future
Little Feat - Spanish Moon
Love - My Little Red Book
Love & Rockets - Ball Of Confusion
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark - Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans)
Phil Lynott - Solo In Soho
Pop Will Eat Itself - X, Y & Zee (remix)
Ray Charles - What'd I Say
Roger Waters - Who Needs Information
Slave to the SQUAREwave - New York's A Go Go
Spoken Word - Titanic Piece
Steve Hackett - Star Of Sirius
Strange Advance - Kiss In The Dark
Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety
The Band - Shine A Light
The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
The Electric Flag - Killing Floor
The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
The Lion King - Circle Of Life
The Motels - Danger
The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
The Populars - Smartbomb
The Spoons - Nova Heart
The Stranglers - Precious
The Troggs - Love Is All Around
The Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun
The Waterboys - Independence Day
Van Morrison - T.B. Sheets
Yello - Lost Again

One of the tracks I wasn't able to ID tonight was David's closing track (just after Garfield), but thought I should know it. If anyone recognized that one, please let me know in the comments!

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

Featured Artist

This is weird. I don't think I've heard this one since it was popular in the late 80's and I just found it on an 80's compilation (not really looking for it - barely remembered it) that I recently downloaded and then David goes and plays it!




Tanita Tikaram - Twist in My Sobriety

The track is on Volume 2. of the Best of 1980 - 1990 at the following blog (on the 2nd page since there are so many 80's comp's on this site!):

History of the 80's

Check out this site and its 70's cousin as there are a number of cool items to be found!

Featured Artists

Here are some hard to find tracks from the last few playlists I've posted. The first two are Can Con.



The Box - My Dreams Of You



Breeding Ground - Reunion



Way of the West - Don't Say That's Just For White Boys

Added April 11/08: Here's a bit of an update on Way Of The West. The main guy in the band has a blog which is located at:

Mercury66 - Pete Kearney's Blog

From there I found out that they released 5 singles from the period 81-84, with Don't Say being the first. In Pete's blog he gives links to a couple of other blogs that had posts on Way of the West, I found a working link to a file containing all 5 singles here:

Complete Singles

April 8, 2004

?? - Hard To Swallow
Abraham's Children - Goodbye Farewell
Alice In Chains - Man In the Box
Autograph - Dance All Night
Blue Peter - Don't Walk Past
Bonzo Dog Band - I'm The Urban Spaceman
Breeding Ground - Reunion
China Crisis - Working With Fire & Steel
David Bowie - Heroes
David Byrne - Monkey Man
David Usher - Joy In Small Places
Drastic Measures - Teddy Bear's Picnic
Eric Clapton - Layla (Unplugged)
Fingerprintz - Bulletproof Heart
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag
Golden Earring - Vanilla Queen
Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy
Groundhogs - Split Part II
Heart - Barracuda
Hedwig & The Angry Inch - The Origin Of Love
House Of Love - Marble
Icehouse - Crazy
James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
Japan - Transmission
Jerry Harrison - Man With A Gun
Jimi Hendrix - (Have You Ever Been To) Electric Ladyland
Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers - Swing The Mood
Jona Lewie - Hallelujah Europa
Lloyd Cole - Chelsea Hotel
M + M - Black Stations / White Stations
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Spirits In The Night
MC 900 Ft. Jesus - The City Sleeps
Midge Ure - If I Was
Morrissey - ??
Oingo Boingo - I Am The Walrus
Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark - Enola Gay (remix)
Payolas - China Boys
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Placebo - Pure Morning
Roxy Music - The In Crowd
Sam Roberts - Brother Down
Spoons - Nova Heart
Station Twang - Oyster
Tears For Fears - Shout
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The English Beat - Save It For Later
The Extras - Circular Impression
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?
The Grapes Of Wrath - Consequences
The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women
The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way (ext)
The Sisters Of Mercy - Gimme Shelter
The Stranglers - Peaches
The Tea Party - Walking Wounded
The Tubes - Tubes World Tour
The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon
Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding
Uriah Heep - On The Rebound
Willy Deville - Needles & Pins

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

April 7, 2006

?? (Cover, not Terry Jacks) - Seasons In The Sun
54-40 - Radio Luv Song
BB Gabor - Metropolitan Life
Bill Haley - See You Later Alligator
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Blackmore's Night - Shadow Of The Moon
Broken Social Scene - Shampoo Suicide
Busted - Psycho Girl
Chris Spedding - Guitar Jamboree
David Gilmour - There's No Way Out Of Here
Dee Long - Take My Advice
Dee Long - Goodnight Universe
FM - Phasers On Stun
Gabe Lee - Can't Stop The Train
Gracious - Heaven
Icehouse - Great Southern Land
Iggy Pop - I Need More
Jackie Shane - In My Tenement
James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
Kasabian - Cutt Off
King Crimson - 21st Century Schitzoid Man
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Speedboat
Martha & The Muffins - Cooling The Medium
Modern Romance - Bring On The Funkateers
Monty Python - Every Sperm Is Sacred
No Doubt - Hella Good
Pink Floyd - The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)
Powder Blues Band - Boppin' With The Blues
Professor Longhair - Got My Mojo Workin'
Queen - Flick Of The Wrist
Raised By Swans - Violet Light
Rammstein - Reise Reise
Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Skinny Puppy - Dead Of Winter
Slave to the SQUAREwave - Sinners of St. Avenue
Spoken Word - Star Trek Intro
Spoken Word (Quentin Crisp) - ??
The 69 Eyes - Betty Blue
The Beatles - Ain't She Sweet
The Box - My Dreams Of You
The Grapes Of Wrath - But I Guess I'll Never Know
The Jesus & Mary Chain - April Skies
The KLF - Justified & Ancient
The Ramones - Rock 'N' Roll High School
The Staple Singers - Let's Do It Again
The Stranglers - Nice 'N' Sleazy
The Stray Cats - She's Sexy & 17
The Thought - I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
The Tubes - Mondo Bondage
The Vanity Project - Wilted Rose
The Vapours - Turning Japanese
Thomas Dolby - Radio Silence
Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Tower Of Power - Funk The Dumb Stuff
Treble Charger - American Psycho
Way Of The West - Don't Say That Just For White Boys
Wendy Carlos - Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
Willy Deville - Hey Joe

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

April 4, 2008

10cc - The Wall Street Shuffle (snippet)
Adrian Belew - Big Electric Cat
Ali Slaight - Hey You
Alice In Videoland - Going Down
Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
Boys Brigade - Melody
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Remix?)
Copyright - Radio
David Gray - Sail Away
Dee Long - (Make Love In) Zero Gravity
Dee Long - Goodnight Universe
Elvis Costello - Radio Radio
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Front Line Assembly - Civilization
Heaven 17 - Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
Hunter Valentine - Van City
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Icehouse - No Promises (ext)
Images In Vogue - Call It Love
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Local H - Hands On The Bible
Meat Puppets - Backwater
Michael Andrews Feat. Gary Jules - Mad World
Moev - Wanting
Mom's Mabley - Abraham, Martin & John
Oingo Boingo - You Really Got Me
Paul Young - Come Back And Stay
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse (ext)
Public Image Limited - Rise
Pukka Orchestra - Your Secret Is Safe With Me
Rammstein - Spring
Roger Taylor - People On Streets
Roger Waters - Towers Of Faith
Rough Trade - ??
Scissor Sisters - Lovers In The Backseat
Slave to the SQUAREwave - Johnny 3:16
Spirit Of The West - Enough, Already Alright (Hello Cleveland)
Strange Advance - Worlds Away
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
The Colour Field - Castles In The Air
The Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?
The Cure - Pictures Of You (Extended Dub Mix)
The Fall - What You Need
The Kinks - Catch Me Now I'm Falling
The Motors - Love & Loneliness
The Move - Brontosaurus
The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
Tonio K. - The Funky Western Civilization
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

Featured Artists

Here's some tracks featured in the two January playlists I posted recently:



A House - Endless Art



BB Gabor - Moscow Drug Club



This is a little known track that's one of my favourites and is essentially a Sisters of Mercy track. At some point between their First & Last & Always and Floodland albums Andrew Eldritch and the rest of the band parted company. This was released to stop the rest of the band (that eventually became the Mission) from using the Sisterhood name.

The Sisterhood - Giving Ground



I was surprised to see that a version of this track is actually available on iTunes, but not the extended 'Club' version that I'm posting here. Does anyone know if there's a link between this track and the very similar sounding (musically, but not lyrically!) track by Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi?

Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl



Fischer-Z - So Long

Featured Artists

Here's a few tracks from the July 24, 2003 playlist:



Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party



Duncan Browne - The Wild Places




Dwight Twilley - Sleeping

This band seems to come up as a blackhole in any web search. It's the CFNY and Marsden staple of Teddy Bear's Picnic by Drastic Measures. The closest I could find to any reference to them on the web was a credit for Nash The Slash appearing on their album (including on this track) in the Jam Canadian Music Encyclopedia. Thus, there is no cover art for this one - if someone has a scan, please sent it to me!

Drastic Measures - Teddy Bear's Picnic

April 3, 2008

?? - Orinicco?
??(Cover Of Neil Young) - Helpless
Age Of Electric - Remote Control
a-Ha - Crying In The Rain
Bauhaus - She's In Parties (Extended Mix)
BB King & Eric Clapton - Come Rain Or Come Shine
Big Country - In A Big Country [Pure Mix]
Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
Bob Geldof - This Is The World Calling
Cliks - Nobody Else Will
Dalbello - Animal
Darkroom - A Test Of Time
Dee Long - Wicked
Depeche Mode - In Your Room (Remix?)
DJ Champion - No Heaven
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur
Ellioit Murphy - Everything I Do (Leads Me Back To You)
Fingerprintz - Wet Job
FM - Dream Girl
Frank Zappa - Dancin' Fool
Garbage - The World Is Not Enough
Garfield - Mississippi Jimi
Genesis - I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
Ghostwriters - Ready Steady Go
Gowan - A Criminal Mind
Howard Jones - What Is Love?
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Jefferson Starship - Miracles
Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made Of Sand
Jona Lewie - Louise (We Get It Right)
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Mental As Anything - Live It Up
Moby Grape - 8:05
Nightwish - Sleeping Sun
Odds - Heterosexual Man
Patti Smith - Frederick
Procol Harum - Conquistador
Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River
Roger Waters - Sunset Strip
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Slave to the SQUAREwave - Hopeless Believers
Spirit - Taurus
Stan Ridgway - Drive She Said
Strange Advance - We Run
The Band - Such A Night
The BC-52's - (Meet) The Flinstones
The Box - Live On TV
The Clash - Jimmy Jazz
The Cure - Caterpillar
The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
The Diodes - Jenny's In A Dream World
The Jam - A Town Called Malice
The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Loving Feeling
The Spoons - Arias & Symphonies
The Strawbs - Tears & Pavan
Willy Deville - Across The Borderline

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

Featured Artist

Well, might as well put this one up now, I'm typing this as it's playing. This is a Can Con rarity from the 80's - A Test Of Time by Darkroom.




Darkroom - A Test Of Time

July 24, 2003

One more old one for today, this is a pretty early one!

?? - Boy From New York City
54-40 - Radio Luv Song
AC/DC - Big Balls
Age Of Electric - Remote Control
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music
Big Sugar - Turn The Lights On
Blind Melon? - ??
Bow Wow Wow - I'm A TV Savage
Cabaret Voltaire - Crackdown
Cockney Rebel - Here Comes The Sun
Cream - White Room
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party
David Usher - A Day In The Life
Deep Purple - Child In Time
Dr. Suess - Fox In Socks
Drastic Measures - Teddy Bear's Picnic
Duncan Browne - The Wild Places
Dwight Twilley - Sleeping
Elton John - Rocket Man
Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
Everlast - Ends
Fergal Sharkey - A Good Heart
FM - Phasers On Stun
Frank Marino - ??
Frank Zappa - Happy Together
Frijid Pink - House Of The Rising Sun
Gabor Szabo? - Black Magic Woman
Gary Numan - Cars
Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlight Knight
Ian Durry & The Blockheads - Spasticus Autisticus (12'')
Iggy Pop - Pumpin' For Jill
John Lennon - Dream #9
Johnny Warman - Screaming Jets
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Klaatu - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
Lou Reed - Sweet Jane (Live)
Men At Work - Down Under
Moist - Breathe
Nazareth - Love Hurts
Pig Bag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag
Pukka Orchestra - Cherry Beach Express
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River
Romeo Void - Never Say Never
Rough Trade - Shaking The Foundations
Shocking Blue - Venus
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music
Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
Tears For Fears - Change
The Beatles - Come Together
The Electric Flag - Killing Floor
The English Beat - Tears Of A Clown
The Specials - Ghost Town
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
The The - Armageddon Days Are Here Again
Tom Robinson Band - Listen To The Radio: Atmospherics

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

January 20, 2005

Here's another January show - this time from 2005:

54-40 - You Don't Get Away That Easy
A House - Endless Art
Alice In Chains - The Rooster
B.E.F. - War (What Is It Good For)Instrumental
BB Gabor - Moscow Drug Club
Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line
Billy Idol - Mony Mony
Blur - On The Way To The Club
Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures Of Matchstick Men
Chalk Circle - 20th Century Boy
Coldplay - Yellow
Colin James - Why'd You Lie
Cream - Tales Of Brave Ulysees
Danko Jones - Bounce
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot
Harlequin - Thinking Of You
Japan - All Tomorrow's Parties
Jon & Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo
Julian Cope - Soul Desert
Klaatu - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
Lloyd Cole - So You'd Like To Save The World
MC 900 Ft. Jesus - The City Sleeps
Orange Juice - Dying Day
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Prodigy - Their Law (with Pop Will Eat Itself)
Radiohead - Wish You Were Here
Rough Trade - Grade B Movie
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Wooly Bully
Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama Out
Shriekback - Nemesis
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Spirit - Mechanical World
Spoken Word - The Street People
Stabilo - Everybody
Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie
Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen
T.Rex - Cosmic Dancer
Taj Mahal - ??
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (Live)
The Band - Stage Fright
The Box - My Dreams Of You
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
The Grapes Of Wrath - I Am Here
The Kane Gang - What Time Is It?
The Rheostatics - Power Ballad For Ozzy Osbourne
The Sisterhood - Giving Ground
The Tenants - Sherriff
The The - Uncertain Smile
The Tubes - Slipped My Disco
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
The Velvet Underground - New Age
The Zombies - Time Of The Season
Toni Basil - Mickey (snippet)
Twister Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
William Shatner - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

January 2, 2004

Here's the first show of 2004, can you tell David had just recently picked up a new Bowie covers CD?:

?? - ?? Jazzy instrumental with prominent trumpet part
?? - Dream A Little Dream Of Me
?? - Hollywood Flashback?
Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter (ext)
Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting
Be Bop Deluxe - Japan
Black Box Recorder - Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (Bowie Cover)
Blue Peter - Take Me To War
Boy George - Starman (Bowie Cover)
Cabaret Voltaire - Crackdown
Chalk Circle - April Fool
Coldplay - God Put A Smile On Your Face
Concrete Blonde - Joey
Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
David Usher - A Day In The Life
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Elton Motello - Jet Boy, Jet Girl
Fisher Z - So Long
Frank Zappa - I Am The Slime
Godley & Crème - The Party
Ian McCulloch - Prettiest Star (Bowie Cover)
Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
Jimi Hendrix - Angel
John Bottomley - You Lose & You Gain
M + M - Black Stations / White Stations
Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards
Midge Ure - The Man Who Sold The World (Bowie Cover)
Moev - Yeah Whatever
Oasis - Wonderwall (Live)
Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Radiohead - Wish You Were Here
Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life
Rough Trade - Crimes Of Passion
Rupert Hine - The Setup
Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You
Split Enz - I Got You (Dance Mix)
Spoken Word - Mexican Border Patrol
Steel Pulse - Sound System
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky
The Assembly - Never Never
The Band - Chest Fever
The Fall - Cruiser's Creek
The Strawbs - ??
The The - Perfect
The Tubes - Don't Touch Me There
The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Ultravox - Love's Great Adventure (ext)
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Note: tracks are presented in alphabetical order rather than the order they were played. Anything I couldn't ID isn't included.

Video Link

Well, I found a video from the last playlist (Peter Godwin - Images of Heaven) that probably didn't get into the regular rotation on MTV, but it's worth watching:




Peter Godwin - Images Of Heaven

The rest of that blog behind the link is worth checking out as well, some good stuff there.