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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.