The Dub Is Coming

It feels like most of the sunny, bright warm days this summer have been confined to the working week, when I'm stuck indoors and too busy to enjoy it. In an attempt to blow away the bad vibes of another grey, soggy Saturday, with the sun struggling to shine through, here's an imaginary two sides of Dub Syndicate. Let's face it, when you add Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Congo Ashanti Roy, Bim Sherman, Fats Comet and Doctor Pablo, with Adrian Sherwood on the mix, you cannot go wrong. Pops and crackles on some songs from the original 10" vinyl, but I'm (fairly) sure I've avoided any jumps and skips...

 

Side One

1) What Happened? (10" Mix): Dub Syndicate (1993)

2) Night Train (Album Version): Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Dub Syndicate (1987)

3) The Show Is Coming: Dub Syndicate ft. Fats Comet (1985)

4) Keep You Dancing (10" Version): Dub Syndicate ft. Bim Sherman (1983)

Side Two

5) Fight The Power: Dub Syndicate (1991)

6) Jungle (Wall Of China) (Version): Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Dub Syndicate (1987)

7) Japanese Record (Remix): Dub Syndicate (1996)

8) 2001 Love (Part 2): Dub Syndicate (1993)

9) Mafia (D.J. Scruff Remix) (Cover of Lloyd Parks/Black Expression Band): Dub Syndicate ft. Bim Sherman (1996)

10) Pressurized: Doctor Pablo & The Dub Syndicate (1984)

 

Side One (23:07) (Box) (Mega)

Side Two (23:22) (Box) (Mega)
 

An extensive Dub Syndicate back catalogue is available on Bandcamp. Ambience In Dub 1982-1985, which collects the first four albums plus a bonus disc of previously unreleased dubs, is highly recommended. Stoned Immaculate and Echomania are also essential albums but, really, you need them all in your life.

Sadly, on 9th October 2014, Lincoln "Style" Scott was found dead after shots were heard at his house in Manchester, Jamaica. A tragic, senseless loss.

Years & Years & Years

Nothing clever or sophisticated about today's post, just a mix of 'year' song titles, in chronological order. I've taken a liberal attitude to the song's actual meaning: I mean, 1234 by Feist could be a paean to the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty if you stretch your imagination, couldn't it? I'll also make no apologies for including the bowel-troubling Moby remix of The Smashing Pumpkins' 1979 over the original version for the simple reason that there's less Billy Corgan in it. Some are irreplaceable - The Clash, New Order, Prince - but hopefully a few surprises along the way. No surprise that Julian Cope and Andrew Weatherall have snuck their way into yet another playlist, of course.
 
2,111 years, 25 songs, 2 hours, done.
 
1) 1234 (Album Version): Feist (2007)
2) 1300 (12" Version): Putsch '79 (2003)
3) 1517 (Album Version): The Whitest Boy Alive (2009)
4) 1901 (Album Version): Phoenix (2009)
5) 1917: David Bowie (1999)
6) 1959: Patti Smith (1997)
7) 1963 (Single Version): New Order (1987)
8) 1967: The Auteurs (1999)
9) 1969: The Sisters Of Mercy (1983)
10) 1973: The Glimmers (2009)
11) 1977: The Clash (1977)
12) 1979 (Moby Mix): The Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
13) 1981: Public Image Ltd. (1984)
14) 1984 (Summer Of Lovefingers Mix): Lovefingers vs. John Martyn (2008)
15) 1987 (Prins Thomas Diskomiks): diskJokke (2010)
16) 1993: Dananananaykroyd (2008)
17) 1995 (Album Version): Julian Cope (1995)
18) 1997 (Doctor Rosen Rosen Remix): Department Of Eagles (2008)
19) 1999 (Edit): Prince (1982)
20) 2000 (Original Version): RPM (1994)
21) 2001 (12" Remix By Donald Ross Skinner & Hugo Nicolson): Melissa Etheridge (1992)
22) 2012: Gossip (2009)
23) 2013 (Andrew Weatherall Remix): Primal Scream (2013)
24) 2080 (Brenmar Remix): Yeasayer (2009)
25) 3345 (GHP Whole Lotta Velvet Mix By Mark Vidler): The Black Velvets (2005)

Years & Years & Years (1:55:22)

Say Captain, Say What

Elisabeth Esselink is a Dutch musician, DJ and artist known as Solex. Named after her cat, in turn named after a Hungarian motor scooter/bicycle hybrid, Solex first appeared on my radar with her debut album on Matador records in 1998, Solex vs. The Hitmeister. I saw her perform live to a small crowd in the bowels of the ship-cum-venue The Thekla in Bristol around 1999 (I think). Solex released several more albums after that, either self-released/solo or in collaboration with the Maarten Altena Ensemble, Cristina Martinez & Jon Spencer, the last being Solex Ahoy! The Sound Map Of The Netherlands in 2013. Apart from a remix of Psychopath by St. Vincent in 2014, Esselink has worked predominantly on sound & music for TV, although a 2019 interview promised a new album "next year". We all know what happened in 2020, but I hope that we will see more music from Solex in the near future.

There was a Solex website running in the noughties, which included a free download cover version of The Stooges' 1969 as well as a number of DJ mixes. This one dates from 2007, a 1980s-influenced excursion. None of the mixes included a tracklisting and, to be honest, I haven't a clue what half of the songs are. However, amongst them, you'll find J.J. Cale (twice) with Lean On Me and Right Down Here, Italo disco with La Bionda's I Wanna Be Your Lover, the 'Mutant Dance Move' mix of Move On by Fashion, Pump Up The Volume by M/A/R/R/S, The The's epic Giant and, giving the mix it's title, the 12" version of Wot! by Captain Sensible. All together, just over an hour of fun.

 

Say Captain, Say What (2007) (1:05:45) (KF) (Mega)

 

Psychopath (Solex Remix): St. Vincent (2014)

1969 (Cover of The Stooges): Solex (2002) (available to buy on Bandcamp) 

2019 interview with Elisabeth Esselink on the Polish website Porcys (in English)

 

Everything Blows Me Away

In a former life, I used to have another blog called Bellyflop, largely made up of reviews of music, books, comics, films, theatre, comedy gigs, you name it. I gamely kept it going for a couple of years, before abruptly coming to a halt a few months before my wife gave birth. There was a final post 5 years later, promising more, but that was it. Aside from the impact of parenthood, in those 5 years, I also had a change of job which meant a marathon daily commute to Birmingham. It was hardly surprising I didn't feel invested in creating regular blog posts, particularly as going to gigs or any form of live performance as well as 'disposable income' for buying stuff was almost completely wiped out. On a more mundane note, we must have changed internet provider at some point and I forgot to change my details on Blogger so I could no longer even log into my site. Clearly, it was all meant to be.

Looking back, I was trying a bit too hard: the reviews are rather worthy (& wordy), not particularly well-informed and laughably po-faced in parts. Arguably, I'm still travelling the same well-worn path, though these days it's pretty much all about the music.

I've been dusting off albums that I haven't played for ages, which has led me to Julian Cope's double whammy from 2005, Citizen Cain'd and Dark Orgasm. I reviewed both on my old blog on 28th December 2005, noting that the albums "mark a continuation of his return to form, likely strengthened by Cope’s reinvigorating live performances." I'll spare you the full post, but I concluded that "Neither of 2005’s albums will necessarily be a good starting point for the uninitiated, or those who gave up on Julian Cope after “Jehovahkill”. Yet, they’re proof that the Arch Drude hasn’t lost his muse, his passion for life, his desire to confront hypocrisy and injustice, or his ability to produce a coherent body of work that you can simply play loud as hell." 

 

I've played Citizen Cain'd a few times in the past week. Dark Orgasm is lined up for the rest of this week. I can see that I haven't played the latter in it's entirety since 2013 (!), which on the strength of the few songs I've sampled for this post, seems a little unjust. I'll stand by my comment above: this is Cope squarely in his Stooges/MC5 period, with scrappy-but-very-loud production and environmentally-unfriendly double CDs. However, there are some good songs in there too and both are worth a listen.

In the spirit of The Vinyl Villain, here's an Imaginary Compilation Album-style sampler of the two albums for your listening pleasure:

Side One

1) Gimme Head

2) She's Got A Ring On Her Finger (& Another One Through Her Nose)

3) Feels Like A Crying Shame

4) I Don't Wanna Grow Back

Side Two

5) World War Pigs

6) I've Found A New Way To Love Her

7) Stomping Dionysus

8) Mr. Invasion

9) Dying To Meet You

10) Nothing To Lose Except My Mind

 

1,3,5,7,9 taken from Citizen Cain'd

2,4,6,8,10 taken from Dark Orgasm

 

Everything Blows Me Away (45:51) (KF) (Mega)

 

Citizen Cain'd was a very long time in coming, with the title and live versions of songs being touted years before the album itself finally appeared in 2005. This is an early version of Stomping Dionysus, then titled Everything Blows Me Away, which was performed live on the Mark Radcliffe Show on BBC Radio 1 way back in 1998:

Everything Blows Me Away (Mark Radcliffe Session): Julian Cope (1998)

Bad Attitude

Side 1 of a mixtape, originally recorded 13th February 2002. I was too young for The Clash to be 'my' band at school, but Big Audio Dynamite were a different proposition. This Is Big Audio Dynamite is an incredible album and the 12" mixes were equally thrilling, chock-full with samples, beats and incisive lyrics. The original BAD line up - Mick Jones, Don Letts, Leo Williams, Dan Donovan and Greg Roberts - was unbeatable, but there was an added thrill when Joe Strummer reunited with Mick Jones to co-write and co-produce second album No. 10, Upping St. I never tire of listening to these records.

 

1) This Is Big Audio Dynamite (12" Mix By Mick Jones & Paul 'Groucho' Smykle) (1985)

2) Stone Thames (Album Version By Mick Jones) (1985)

3) V. Thirteen (Extended Remix By Mick Jones & Alan Moulder) (1986) 

4) Medicine Show (Album Version By Mick Jones) (1985)

5) The Bottom Line (12" Version By Mick Jones) (1985)

6) Sudden Impact! (Album Version By Mick Jones) (1985)

7) E=MC² (Extended Remix By Mick Jones & Paul 'Groucho' Smykle) (1985)

Side One (45:53)

 

Cosmic Intervention

From goth to groove in 24 hours. Today, I was up early and not in the mood to move. Thankfully, Australia's Angus Gruzman aka Dreems has remedied that with the infectious Opium Tiger, Flying Again. It's a rework of a 2019 song and all the better for it, nearly 13 minutes of groove, that changes tack about halfway. There's also a very indie guitar snippet, which got me thinking of Pink Industry at one point. The remix EP, out today, includes further versions of Flying Tiger by Japan's Zongamin and two from Canada's The Mole, all worth your time and hard earned pennies.

Opium Tiger, Flying Again: Dreems (2021)

Next up, and out earlier this month, is the UNKLE remix of Krust's Hegel Dialect from his 2020 album, The Edge Of Everything. In typical back-to-front fashion, I haven't heard the album yet, but this remix package (TEOE Remixes #3) is spot on. I think the last UNKLE remix I picked up was in 2015 so this is a welcome surprise.

Hegel Dialect (UNKLE Reconstruction): Krust (2021)

What will come as no surprise is that Sean Johnson aka Hardway Bros delivers a killer groove on his remix of French producer Margee's Wrong Dream, from the In My Sleep EP released last Friday. 11 minutes of pulsing beats and shimmering synths that feels way too short. Both the Krust and Margee packages include essential remixes from Bristol legend and founding member of The Wild Bunch, Milo Johnson, in his DJ Nature guise. 

Wrong Dream (Hardway Bros Cosmic Intervention): Margee (2021)

 

 

Dreems (Bandcamp)

Krust on Crosstown Rebels (Bandcamp)

The Edge Of Everything: Remixed (out 6th August on Bandcamp)

Margee (Soundcloud)

DJ Nature (Soundcloud)

Floorshow

Mix CD-R, originally compiled November 2004 by Atom Boy for my wife & I, and "kind of dedicated to the mighty Phil Sainsbury and the various clubs where he DJ'd" in Bristol in the 1980s/1990s. By his own admission, some liberties were taken with the tracklisting: the Ofra Haza version of Temple Of Love over the original, for example. I've taken a few more liberties by re-inserting the 12" mix of Psychic TV, which wouldn't fit on the original CD-R, time-wise. I've also replaced the 7" version of Cccan't You See... with the 12" French mix, which (for me) is the definitive version and wasn't originally included as Atom Boy's vinyl was "unlistenable". As a consequence, I've split the compilation into two sides, which would comfortably fit onto a C90 cassette and is more fitting with the period of the music. Image is by Atom Boy, taken from the front cover of the CD-R. Draw the curtains, get some dry ice and low lighting on, down a pint of Snake Bite and forget it's Sunday morning...

Side One

1) A Day (Re-Mixed By Ivo & John Fryer): Clan Of Xymox (1985)

2) Singing Rule Britannia (While The Walls Close In): The Chameleons (1985)

3) The Shadow Of Love (The Ten Inches Of Hell Mix): The Damned (1985)

4) Israel (Single Version): Siouxsie & The Banshees (1980)

5) She Sells Sanctuary (Album Version): The Cult (1985)

6) Live For Today (Extended Version By Todd Rundgren): Lords Of The New Church (1983)

7) Temple Of Love (Touched By The Hand Of Ofra Haza): The Sisters Of Mercy ft. Ofra Haza (1992)

8) Lorelei: Cocteau Twins (1984)

Side Two

1) I Can Smell Your Thoughts (Remix): The Leather Nun (1987)

2) Turn To The Sky (The Spiral Tribe Edition): The March Violets (1995)

3) Heartbeat (Album Version): The Psychedelic Furs (1984)

4) Native Love (Step By Step) (Remixed By Rudy Turner): Divine (1982)

5) Good Vibrations (Kundalini Mix By Phil Harding): Psychic TV (1986)

6) Cccan't You See... (French Extended Mix): Vicious Pink (1984)

7) The Number One Song In Heaven (Long Version By Giorgio Moroder): Sparks (1979)

8) A Day (Re-Mixed By Ivo Watts-Russell & John Fryer) (Reprise): Clan Of Xymox (1985)

 

Side One (44:04)

Side Two (44:16)
 

The Silence Won't Crack Though We Heave And Hack

Viva Dead Ponies has been back on frequent rotation again this week. I felt the urge to listen to some "angry" music - I wonder why - and The Fatima Mansions are more than up to the task. I bought this on CD from Kay's record shop in Yate, a place which holds the dubious pleasure of being the birthplace of J.K. Rowling and named 45th worst place to live in Britain in the 2003 book Crap Towns. Kay's is long, long gone now but at the time was arguably the only reason for a trip to Yate. It stocked all the usual chart and mainstream stuff but Simon the manager also had a knack for slipping in some unexpected gems. I remember buying this on spec for £7.99 in the early 1990s. It was a brand new CD but had clearly sat unloved and unsold for sometime, and may have been at a discounted price at this point. This was the 1990 first issue of the album with 19 tracks, before it was reissued and rejigged to include Blues For Ceausescu and Only Losers Take The Bus. I love both of these songs and have the singles, but the original album was perfect and the song Thursday didn't deserve to be a casualty of the 1991 revision. The production and some of the synth sounds place the album in time, but Cathal Coughlan's songwriting and performance is unbeatable. As a proper introduction to The Fatima Mansions, the album blew me away and still resonates today. I finally got to see The Fatima Mansions live in concert in 1994, in support of their - as it subsequently transpired - final album, Lost In The Former West. It was an incendiary performance.

1) Angel's Delight (Live at the Academy, New York, 18 November 1994)

2) Concrete Block (#1) (Album Version)

3) Mr. Baby (John Peel Session, 25 March 1990) 

4) The Door-To-Door Inspector (Demo, 1989)

5) Start The Week (Album Version)

6) You're A Rose (Video Version) 

7) Legoland 3 (Album Version) 

8) Thursday (Fan Video) 

9) Ceausescu Flashback (Album Version) 

10) Broken Radio No. 1 (John Peel Session, 25 March 1990) 

11) Concrete Block (#2) (Album Version) 

12) Look What I Stole For Us, Darling (Fan Video) 

13 & 14) Farewell Oratorio / The White Knuckle Express (Album Version) 

15) Chemical Cosh (Album Version) 

16) Timo Mansio Speaks (Album Version) 

17) A Pack Of Lies (Bleeped Version) (Live on The Late Show, BBC TV, 1991) 

18) Viva Dead Ponies (Live, 1991) 

19) More Smack, Vicar (Album Version) 

 

How Do We Start?

I had a couple of lovely comments on yesterday's post from Stevie (Charity Chic) and Brian (Linear Tracking Lives). At some point in the future, there will be a post that does Joe Strummer more justice than a 10-second snippet in reverse, but today's is inspired by Brian's comment that he was looking forward to seeing and hearing what else I had up my sleeve. Well, there was only one to go with that and it is of course Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, a collaboration between Erol Alkan and Richard Norris, both much loved here at Studio K. This is a cassette-friendly side of remixes and shorter selections from their Birth, Spring, West and George EPs. This selection spans 2005-2015, but both have continued to release consistently excellent music since. 

 

1) Before We Start, If?: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve (2007)

2) Ulysses (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation): Franz Ferdinand (2009)

3) Get Ready To Fly: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve (2007)

4) Young Folks (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation): Peter, Björn & John ft. Victoria Bergsman (2006)

5) You Will Always Find Alice In The Kitchen At Parties: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve (2005)

6) Raise The Roof (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation): Tracey Thorn (2007)

7) Space: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve (2007)

8) Sand Dance (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Reanimation): Temples (2015)

9) The Fifth Note: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve (2006)

10) Roscoe (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Remix): Midlake (2007)

How Do We Start? (43:07) (KF) (Mega)
 

101

When I started this blog on 7th December 2020, I didn't really have any thought of how often or how long I'd keep going with posting music. After a fairly relaxed start, I gradually built up some momentum and started posting daily from mid-May and today I bring you post #101. Even a casual glance around at the many blogs that I enjoy and have been inspired by, who have been going for years, decades even, and have thousands of posts to enjoy, means that this is no big deal in the scheme of things. If anything, getting this far has made me admire them even more. I really appreciate everyone who stops by to visit and read my offerings to cyberspace and it's great to receive your comments. Thanks to you all.

On that note, here's a little 101-themed playlist. Yes, arguably another excuse for yet more Andrew Weatherall. My positive bias aside, Weatherall's prodigious work as an artist, remixer, producer and DJ is such that you could probably play Six Degrees Of Separation with my music collection and find him in three. As a counter for Weatherall's ubiquity on this blog, I am pretty confident that this is the only time you'll see Sheena Easton here. Unless there's a Prince-themed post at some point in the future.

 

1) Electribal Memories: Electribe 101 (1990)

2) 101 (101% By Scooby Doo & Shaggy 2): Finitribe (1991)

3) Karma Sitar: 101 Strings (1972)

4) 101 (Def House Mix (Extended Club Version) By David Morales): Sheena Easton (1989)

5) 101 (Intensity Mix By Andrew Weatherall) (Full Length): Finitribe (1991)

6) 101 Rainbows Ambient Mix: Caustic Window (1994)

7) The Golden Age (CD101 Version) (Cover of Beck): The Flaming Lips (2002)

8) Desert Wind (Interstate 101 Mix): Banco De Gaia (1994)

9) Bossa Nova 101: Money Mark (1998)

10) Keys To Your Heart (Khayem's Reverse Reprise): The 101'ers (2021)

 

101 (1:01)
 

I Recorded Them Once And I've Never Played Them Again

I was a little surprised to find that I've only featured Green Gartside/Scritti Politti on this blog three times. Criminal behaviour. Call myself a fan?!

 

To remedy this, here's a short but sweet mix of radio session performances from 2006-2007, featuring a few songs from the White Bread Black Beer album and a couple of beauties that have to date remained otherwise unreleased. Excuse the pun, but they're all absolutely wonderful.

 

1) Snow In Sun (Acoustic Version) (Live, Planet Claire (Radio Show), Paris, 10 May 2006)

2) Unfrozen (Live, Charles Hazlewood Show, BBC Radio 2, 16 May 2007)

3) Robin Hood (Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2, 23rd May 2006)

4) Forgiven (Live, Charles Hazlewood Show, BBC Radio 2, 16 May 2007)

5) Road To No Regret (Acoustic Version) (Live, Planet Claire (Radio Show), Paris, 10 May 2006)

Scritti Politti Radio Sessions (13:46)

 

You can find the complete Charles Hazelwood session and interview on the very wonderful bibbly-o-tek blog

 

The full Planet Claire session, including a version of Robin Hood, is available on YouTube and (naturally) bibbly-o-tek.

 

Finally, bibbly-o-tek also has the full Mark Radcliffe session and interview, including versions of Snow In Sun and Road To No Regret.

 
 

Freedom Day

Well, I very nearly didn't manage to get a post in today, which would have broken an otherwise continuous daily run since early May. No family crisis, no melting IT, no lack of inspiration, but very nearly a casualty of yesterday's so-called 'Freedom Day'. 

 

This is clearly not what Ken Boothe was thinking about when he co-wrote and sang the song of the same name, released 45 years ago on his classic album, Blood Brothers. However, when applied to the current mess that we’re navigating through, I really can say it won’t be Tuesday or Wednesday, next month is unlikely, but a year? Let’s hope so.

 

Freedom Day (and it's parent album) was released in the UK on the legendary Trojan Records in 1978. 

 

Freedom Day: Ken Boothe (1976)

Friends, brethrens, people
Every day you hear one talking about
Love, peace and liberty
Well, can you tell me one thing

A tell me which day is gonna be the freedom day
Well, I don't know, hmmmm
Well, I don't know (freedom)
A tell me which day, is gonna be a peaceful day
Well, I don't know (freedom)
I'd like to know (freedom)

When freedom comes


Well, I hope it will stay


(Stay a while, stay a while)


But I really can't say


Whether it will be Tuesday or Wednesday


 

So, tell me which day is gonna be a peaceful day


Well, I don't know (freedom), hmm


I'd like to know (freedom)


A tell me which day


You gonna hear the people say


Freedom (freedom), whoa, freedom (freedom)


When freedom comes


Well, I hope it will stay


(Stay a while, stay a while)


But I really can't say


Whether it will be Tuesday or Wednesday


So tell me which day is gonna be a peaceful day


Well I don't know (freedom), hmmmm


I'd like to know (freedom)


A tell me which day


You're gonna hear the people say


Want freedom (freedom), more freedom (freedom)


(Tell me which day) Tell me, tell me


(You're gonna hear the people say) 

Somebody tell, tell me


If it's gonna be (freedom) tomorrow or today (freedom), yeah


(Tell me which day) Tell me, tell me


(You're gonna hear the people say) 

Somebody tell, tell me


If it's (freedom) gonna be next month or a year, or today…

Too Much Trouble And Not Enough Time!

Side 2 of a 1997 mixtape, rescued from the loft. Going South was the hit that should have been for The Wolfgang Press. The Sabres Of Paradise and The Grid had their biggest UK chart successes, with Wilmot crashing in at #36 and Swamp Thing achieving the dizzy heights of #3. Apollo 440 and Björk both made the Top 10, whilst the single version of Open Up by Leftfield / Lydon reached #13 in 1993. Together with Side 1, possibly the closest I got to a "Now That's What I Call Dance Music" hits compilation.

 

1) Wilmot (Full Length Version By The Sabres Of Paradise & Mr. Scruff): The Sabres Of Paradise ft. Wonder (1994) 

2) Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub (Joey The Butcher Remix): Apollo 440 (1997)

3) Hyperballad (Subtle Abuse Mix By Outcast aka Beaumont Hannant & Richard Brown): Björk (1996)

4) Open Up (Album Version): Leftfield / Lydon (1995)

5) Swamp Thing (Deep Piece Mix By Stuart Crichton & Michael Kilkie): The Grid (1994)

6) Going South (@440 Mix By Apollo 440): The Wolfgang Press (1994)

 

Side Two (46:02)
 

Faye Dunaway

Barney (... And Me) from The Boo Radleys' 1993 magnum opus Giant Steps popped up randomly this week during my drive to work, which itself randomly name checks Faye Dunaway. This then got me thinking - as you do - whether it would be possible to compile a half-decent playlist of songs named after Faye Dunaway movies. The answer is yes, yes you can. I've thrown in The Boo Radleys song which inspired this particular rabbit hole, for good measure.

 

1)  Chinatown: Romeo Void (1982)

2) Bonnie And Clyde: Mick Harvey ft. Anita Lane (1995)

3) Barney (... And Me) (Album Version): The Boo Radleys (1993)

4) The Chamber: The Last Shadow Puppets (2008)

5) The Happening: Pixies (1990)

6) Towering Inferno: The Green Arrows (1975)

7) Barfly: Monaco (2000)

8) The Arrangement: Ryuichi Sakamoto ft. Robin Scott (1982)

9) Casanova: Roxy Music (1974)

10) Last Goodbye (Album Version): Jeff Buckley (1994)

 

Faye Dunaway (38:17)
 

Dirty Discollision!

Further inspired by yesterday's post, I realised that every track had subsequently been covered by other artists. So, here for your listening (dis)pleasure, is the dirty disco diversion from the Discollision compilation, 15 years later.

 

1) Pop Muzik: Tricky (1999)
2) Funky Town: World Domination Enterprises (1988)

3) Relight My Fire (Single Version): Tokyo Discotheque Orchestra ft. Silva (2015)

4) Stayin' Alive (12" Edit By Paul Oakenfold & Steve Osborne): Happy Mondays (1992)
5) Love Hangover (Remix By Mark Arthurworrey): Associates (1982)
6) Moskow Diskow: Señor Coconut & His Orchestra (2008)

7) Supernature: Lene Lovich (1987)
8) Everybody Dance (Chic Inspirational Mix): Evolution ft. Yvonne Shelton (1993)
9) I’m A Man: Ty Segall (2018) 

10) More, More, More (Demo): Babes In Toyland (1995)

11) Heart Of Glass (Auchterhouse Mix By Robert Gordon): Associates (1988)
12) Disco Inferno: Age Of Chance (1986)

Dirty Discollision! (54:06)

 

And here's yesterday's compilation, ever so slightly extended, as a palliative.

 

1) Pop Muzik (Full Length Disco Mix By Nick Launay): M (1979)
2) Funky Town (12" Disco Mix): Lipps, Inc. (1979)

3) Relight My Fire (12" Progressive Vocal Edit By John Luongo & Michael Barbiero) (Re-Edited By Ben Liebrand): Dan Hartman ft. Loleatta Holloway (1979)

4) Stayin' Alive (Tom Moulton Disco Mix): Bee Gees (1977)
5) Love Hangover (12" Disco Mix): Diana Ross (1976)
6) Moskow Diskow (Disco Mix) (English 12" Version): Telex (1979)

7) Supernature (Full Length Album Version): Cerrone (1977)
8) Everybody Dance (12" Disco Mix): Chic (1977)
9) I'm A Man (Khayem's So Macho Outrovert Re-Edit): Macho (1978) 

10) More, More, More (A Tom Moulton Mix): Andrea True Connection (1976)

11) Heart Of Glass (Long Version By Mike Chapman): Blondie (1978)
12) Disco Inferno (Full Length 12" Disco Mix): Trammps (1976)

 

Discollision! (1:25:19)

 

 

Discollision!

Inspired by JC's disco diversion over at The Vinyl Villain yesterday, this is a You Tube recreation of a CD-R, compiled for my friend Kate in February 2006. Genuinely contains some of my favourite and most played songs.

1) Pop Muzik: M (1979)

2) Funky Town: Lipps Inc. (1979)

3) Relight My Fire: Dan Hartman ft. Loleatta Holloway (1978)

4) Stayin' Alive: Bee Gees (1977)

5) Love Hangover: Diana Ross (1976)

6) Moskow Diskow: Telex (1979)

7) Supernature: Cerrone (1977)

8) Everybody Dance: Chic (1978)

9) I'm A Man (Cover of The Spencer Davis Group): Macho (1978)

10) More More More: Andrea True Connection (1976)

11) Heart Of Glass: Blondie (1978)

12) Disco Inferno: Trammps (1976)

I should note that Loleatta Holloway was uncredited for her (epic) vocal performance on Relight For Fire. Similarly, Lene Lovich wasn't credited for writing the lyrics for Cerrone's Supernature but did her own version in 1987 for the Animal Liberation compilation.

 

What’s Ya Flava, Flavor Flav?!

Mix CD from April 2003, compiled for my friend Paul. A hip-hop/rap/dancefloor sample-heavy mish-mash.

1) American Household (Front Hug Mix By Her Space Holiday): Logic (2001)

2) 1,2 Mic Check: Smith & Mighty ft. Kelz (2002)

3) Television, The Drug Of The Nation (Ultimatum Remix By The Stereo MC's): The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy (1991)

4) Never Again (Extended Mix): JC-001 (1993)

5) The Worst MC: Gonzales (2000)

6) Killer Inside Me (Killer Long Version): MC 900 Ft. Jesus (1991)

7) Pick It Up Y'all (Dust Brothers Vocal Mix By The Chemical Brothers): Justin Warfield (1994)

8) Concrete Schoolyard (Album Version): Jurassic 5 (1998)

9) Mr. Wendal (Perfecto Mix By Paul Oakenfold & Steve Osborne): Arrested Development (1992)

10) Stoned Island Estate (Les Rythmes Digitales Remix By Stuart Price): Glamorous Hooligan (1998)

11) What Time Is Love? (Live At Trancentral) (12" Version): The KLF ft. MC Bello & The Children Of The Revolution (1990)

12) World Tour Sessions (Album Version): Public Enemy ft. Kyle Jason (1999)

13) Bashment Boogie (Shadowless Tomz Remix): Roots Manuva (2002)

14) Bug Powder Dust (Radio Mix): Bomb The Bass ft. Justin Warfield (1994)

15) New New York: Tes (2003)

16) Bonita Applebum (12" Why? Edit By CJ Mackintosh): A Tribe Called Quest (1990)

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