Lost In Streams Of Sound

Celebrating David Robert Jones aka David Bowie, 8th January 1947 to 10th January 2016.

Ten years.

Hard to believe, isn't it?

On a personal level, it's hard to believe as I don't think that there's been a week since where a Bowie song or album hasn't popped up on my playlist. Although there has been no new music as such, there have been multiple releases, anthologies, live collections and previously unreleased outtakes that have expanded the legend, without demystifying the man.

There's still so much to discover, rediscover or experience in a whole new way. As Mike put it in his comment on Thursday, Bowie is the gift that keeps on giving.

But I miss him so much. There's been no-one else like him, before or after. 

The third and final of my selections enters the 21st century, beginning with the end. No Plan is one of four new songs that David recorded for the musical Lazarus, the original cast recording receiving a posthumous release nine months after his passing.

There are examples from each of the four albums that Bowie made in this century: Heathen (2002), Reality (2003), The Next Day (2013) and Blackstar, the latter released in 2016 on David's 69th birthday and two days before his passing. Steering his own course, right to the end.

I've also included a couple of songs from Toy, the album that David recorded in 2000 and intended to release in 2001. Record label shenanigans contributed to his departure from Virgin Records and the album remained unreleased until 2022.

A bootleg was leaked online in 2011 and this is the version I have in my collection. My first pick is Afraid, which was revisited and redone for the subsequent follow-up album, Heathen.

My other choice, and bringing this collection full circle, is Conversation Piece. The original 1969 B-side opened the first of my Bowie selections, and it felt right that it should also close the third and final compilation. 

Conversation Piece was one of many from David's 1960s Sixties songbook that he re-recorded for inclusion on Toy, and which did see the light of day on the bonus EP accompanying the limited edition CD of Heathen in 2002.

The bootleg version is an earlier, less polished mix, the drums a little lower, the voice just as wonderful. It's a beautiful remake and a fitting end to my 35 song cycle. 

Bless you, Bowie. Danke, David. 

1) No Plan (2016)

2) Try Some, Buy Some (Cover of Ronnie Spector) (2003)

3) I'd Rather Be High (Venetian Mix) (2013)

4) Safe (2002)

5) Afraid ('Toy' Version) (2000)

6) Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) (Album Version) (2016)

7) Sunday (Tony Visconti Mix) (2002)

8) The Stars (Are Out Tonight) (2013)

9) I Would Be Your Slave (2002)

10) Never Get Old (Album Version) (2003)

11) Conversation Piece (Re-Recorded Version / Early Mix) (2000)

2002: Everyone Says 'Hi' EP: 4, 7

2002: Heathen: 9

2003: Reality: 2, 10

2011: Toy (bootleg MP3): 5, 11

2013: The Next Day: 8

2013: The Next Day Extra: 3

2016: Blackstar: 6

2016: Lazarus (Original Cast Recording): 1 

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In celebration of the genius of Mr. Jones, I've resurrected links to my previous David Bowie mixtapes so that you can make a weekend playlist, if you wish...

16th May 1999: Femme Fatale Side One / Side Two

9th January 2021: Live Live Live 1974-2000 *

9th January 2024: Love You Till Tuesday

13th April 2025: Worlds Without Words 

* This originally featured as my 11th post on the Dubhed blog, less than a month since it's launch and with no concept that I might still be doing this thing five years later.

At the time, I tended not to keep my Dubhed selection files in any format, but this is one of the few mixtapes that I simultaneously posted to Mixcloud, albeit as a non-download post. 

With a little bit of villainy - and I'm sure Bowie would have appreciated this - I have bootlegged my own mixtape in order to present this Dubhed selection to you again, for the first time sinvce 2021. Enjoy!

It's Always Time

Celebrating the life of David Bowie with a selection of songs spanning the 80s and 90s.

I was nine years old in 1980, and although I was already aware of David Bowie, the sound and vision of Ashes To Ashes hit me hard and left an indelible mark on this impressionable young boy.

These two decades marked a period when I fell in and out of love with David Bowie. On the one hand, it was my voyage of discovery into his back catalogue, starting with Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), and going back to Bowie's classic albums and cut price compilations of his early recordings.

It was also a time where I dismissed albums such as Tonight, Never Let Me Down, 1. Outside and Earthling as a Bowie emulating rather than innovating, with only the occasional gem of a song to other a ray of light.

It's fair to say that the passage of time - and the time since David's passing - has significantly altered my relationship with all of his albums, these included. Admittedly, I'm always going to reach for Ziggy Stardust... over Tonight, "Heroes" over 1. Outside, but I've found much to love in each and every one.

My dozen choices still include six singles from the twenty year span, though not perhaps the most obvious choices and not the versions that you may be most familiar with. Intersperse these with some album deep cuts and a couple of soundtrack contributions (again, not the obvious choice of Absolute Beginners, classic though it is) and I've come up with a 45-minute selection that I think works pretty well.

By the start of the 21st Century, I was deeply in love with David Bowie again, and he realised some of the best music of his career in this period. Let's hope I manage to do it justice...

1) New Angels Of Promise (Album Version) (1999)

2) Neighborhood Threat (Cover of Iggy Pop) (1984)

3) Black Tie White Noise (Waddell's Mix (Edit) By John Waddell ft. Al B. Sure!) (1993)

4) Telling Lies (Album Version) (1997)

5) Within You (1986)

6) Without You (1983)

7) Fashion (Edited Version) (1980)

8) Blue Jean (MTV Video Version) (1984)

9) Cameras In Brooklyn aka Up The Hill Backwards (Demo) (1980)

10) New York's In Love (Album Version) (1987)

11) I Have Not Been To Oxford Town (Album Version) (1995)

12) When The Wind Blows (Album Version) (1986)

1980: Fashion EP: 7

1983: Let's Dance: 6

1984: Tonight: 2

1986: Labyrinth OST: 5

1986: When The Wind Blows OST: 12

1987: Never Let Me Down: 10

1993: Black Tie White Noise EP: 3

1995: 1. Outside: 11

1997: Earthling: 4

1999: Hours...: 1

2002: Best Of Bowie (DVD): 8

2015: Scary Monsters Sessions (Japanese bootleg): 9

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The World Is Full Of Life

Celebrating David Bowie, born 8th January 1947.

This is the first of three 12-song selections over the next three days, a daunting task when you consider how many superb songs emerged over a five decade career.

I've loosely divided each into a twenty-year span: today is the 60s and 70s; Friday covers the 80s and 90s; Saturday will look at the 00s and 10s.

Rather than attempt (and fail) to cover key songs or albums, I've taken a far more arbitrary approach, picking 12 songs that I simply fancied hearing again and thought might work well together. 

To manage your expectations, there's absolutely nowt from The Man Who Sold The World, The Lodger, Diamond Dogs, Hunky Dory or Low. A third of the selection is from the 1960s, a couple of singles, a third aborted single plus one of my favourite songs from Space Oddity.

A few songs and versions remained undeservedly unreleased until the 1990s/2000s and the extensive curation of Bowie's catalogue. 

And whilst I don't have Netflix and haven't seen a single episode of Stranger Things, apparently "Heroes" was featured in the final episode, so that's my accidental effort to remain relevant to "the kids". Although I plumped for the bilingual version, not the original!

If today's selection courts controversy, tomorrow should be interesting as it arguably covers Bowie's most commercially successful yet most critically panned period. This last statement may be completely inaccurate, but I found much to love in my dozen picks.

1) Conversation Piece (Single Version) (1969)

2) Rosalyn (Cover of The Pretty Things) (1973)

3) Let Me Sleep Beside You (Rejected Single Version) (1967)

4) Blackout (Album Version) (1977)

5) It Ain't Easy (Album Version) (1972)

6) Rubber Band (Single Version) (1966)

7) It's Gonna Be Me (Original Version) (1974)

8) God Knows I'm Good (Album Version) (1969)

9) "Heroes" / "Héros" (English / French Version) (1977)

10) Right (Alternative Early Version) (1974)

11) Golden Years (Single Version) (1975)

12) Panic In Detroit (Re-Recorded Version) (1979)

1966: Rubber Band EP: 6

1969: Space Oddity: 8

1970: The Prettiest Star EP: 1

1970: The World Of David Bowie: 3

1972: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: 5

1973: Pin Ups: 2

1975: Golden Years EP: 11

1977: "Heroes": 4

1982: "Heroes" EP (Germany 12"): 9

1991: Young Americans (Expanded Edition): 7

1992:  Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (Expanded Edition): 12

2016: The Gouster (previously unreleased, 1974) / Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976): 10

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"A Moment In Time...That Echoes Through Eternity"

...so says @keithrooks4567 in the comments for neXiumvideos posting of a German TV performance of Fade To Grey by Visage from 1981.

When I say "Visage", this is all about Steve Strange, as Midge Ure, Rusty Egan et al do not join him. 

However, Steve is somewhat eclipsed by Perri Lister, Hot Gossip dancer, occasional Coconut and long-term partner of Billy Idol for most of the 1980s.

I had a crush on Perri back in the day and seeing this TV clip for the first time just made me fall for her all over again.

I think Keith was referring to the song in today's titular quote, but this welcome find on YouTube has been a memorable alternative to the unforgettable official video.

I've Never Met Anyone More Special Than You

Sometimes the link from one post to the next is purely down to serendipity, which is how I go to today's single by Mélanie Pain.

Yesterday's post featured a cover of The Undertones' Teenage Kicks by French artist Taggy Matcher, a song previously - and famously - covered by another French band, Nouvelle Vague.

Yesterday afternoon, a post popped into my social media feed advertising that Mélanie Pain is playing a Valentine's Day show at the Blakehouse theatre in Weston-super-Mare. 

In case the name doesn't immediately ring a bell (which was the case with me), the sub-title underneath Mélanie's name helpfully proclaims her as "the iconic voice of Nouvelle Vague".

Of course, that was immediately apparent from the moment I heard Mélanie sing a note.

The single in question follows the time-honoured Nouvelle Vague tradition of being a cover version - in French - of a 2009 song by Turkish rock band Duman, who I've never heard of, but are ten albums and a quarter of a century into their career, so they must be doing something right.

Senden Daha Guzel translates into French as "Plus Belle Que Toi" and into English as "More Beautiful Than You"; today's post title is a translation of another line from the song. 

If I had to choose between the two songs and videos, it'll be Mélanie's version every time. 

As it happens, Senden Daha Guzel is the sole cover on How And Why, Mélanie's fourth album released in November last year. The other nine songs are self-penned and in English, including Cold Hands, a duet with Brian Lopez, of Calexico and Giiant Sand.

If you enjoy that, you'll be pleased to know that Brian is supporting Mélanie on her February UK tour, in addition to Weston-super-Mare, taking in Shoreham-By-Sea, Southampton, Hastings and that other well-known coastal location, London.

Sadly, I don't think Mrs. K would consider a pair of tickets to Mélanie's show and the 85-mile round trip to Weston-super-Mare a suitably romantic gesture - and rightly so - but I think those in the audience in that 207-capacity venue are in for a special night.

How And Why has also been added to my shopping list for the next Bandcamp Friday.

A Different Kind Of Punky Reggae Party

Following hot on the heels of yesterday's reggae and dub selection is a recommendation by none other than Hifi Sean via his Bluesky account,  a cover version of Teenage Kicks by The Undertones by French producer Taggy Matcher aka Bruno Hovart, featuring Paris-via-New York singer Wolfgang Valbrun.

This reggae rework first appeared in 2023 and I've traced the song back to it's original inclusion on volume 5 of Paris-based Favourite Recordings subsidiary Stix Records' series Disco Reggae, where you can find the full length version, adding a further two minutes of easy grooves. 

There are two more Taggy takes on the 8-track album, Stevie Wonder's Superstition voiced by Phoebe Killdeer, and a reimagining of That's The Way (I Like It) by KC & The Sunshine Band.

 

I haven't listened to Disco Reggae Vol. 5 in full but, from sampling the other contributions by Mato, Simon Nyabinghi, Paula Mirhan and Soul Sugar, suffice to say that my curiosity is well and truly piqued.

The most recent release was Disco Reggae Vol. 6 last July, which again features three offerings from Taggy Matcher, including this bold take on a Bee Gees' classic with vocals by John Milk.

I'd not heard of the Favourite Recordings label before Hifi Sean's post sent me down a rabbit hole, but I'm going to be checking out more of their back catalogue from now on...

You're Gonna Need Somebody Else

The first Dubhed excursion into reggae and dub soundscapes of 2026, with thirteen irresistible grooves to transport and transform you.

The selection spans over half a century from Derrick Morgan in 1968, through to Panda Bear and Sonic Boom's dub extravaganza, courtesy of Adrian Sherwood in 2023.

Sherwood's not the only master at the controls, he's joined by Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Bunny 'Striker' Lee, Tapper Zukie, Mad Professor, Jah Thomas and Scientist.

The line-up alone should give you a heads up that this is heavyweight. Turn the bass up, turn your phone off and let yourself go.

1) Midnight Calling: Roger Rivas ft. The Brothers Of Reggae  (2014)

2) Kaya (Album Version): Bob Marley & The Wailers (1971)

3) The Sun: Burning Spear (1977)

4) No Man Is An Island (Single Version) (Cover of Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians): Johnny Clarke (1975)

5) Siren Dub: Danny Red (2016)

6) Zion: Knowledge (1978)

7) Rebel Rock: Mad Professor (1983)

8) Whirlpool Dub (Adrian Sherwood 'Reset In Dub’ Version): Panda Bear & Sonic Boom (2023)

9) Do The Beng Beng: Derrick Morgan (1968)

10) Yipee I Aah: New Age Steppers (1981)

11) Magic Touch: Glen DaCosta (1976)

12) Trade It All For More: Pama International (2009)

13) Keep On Dubbing: The Roots Radics (1981)

1968: Do The Beng Beng EP: 9

1971: Soul Revolution Part II: 2

1975: No Man Is An Island EP: 4

1976: Soldier & Police War / Magic Touch EP: 11

1977: Dry And Heavy: 3

1978: Hail Dread: 6

1981: Roots Splashdown: 13

1981: Wild Paarty Sounds: 10

1983: Dub Me Crazy Pt.3: The African Connection: 7

2009: Pama Outernational: 12

2014: Last Goodbye: 1

2016: Red And Conscious: 5

2023: Reset in Dub: 8

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I've created many dub-inflected selections in the past five years, too many to share them all today, but here's six from the archives to keep the vibe alive.

May 2021: Dubhed Excursion To The Outer Limits

June 2022: Tomorrow Is Promised To No One

July 2022: SunDub

April 2023: Dubby Happy People

June 2024: Growing In My Backyard

June 2025: Keep The Fire Burning Inside

Every Single Tiny Little Imperfection Has A Beauty To Behold

What better way to kick off the first Saturday selection of 2026 than with 77 minutes of Fluke?

Hands down one of my favourite artists of all time, Fluke's comeback in 2024 was a triumph and I can't wait to see/hear what comes next.

In the meantime - and for the first time - I've pulled together a selection of a dozen tunes that draws on their rich back catalogue. I don't go all the way back to the first Fluke releases in 1988; the earliest song here is from a John Peel session transmitted on 26th January 1992. However, the selection does bounce around a lot, much like their beats.

Most of the picks are Fluke's remixes of their own songs but I have included a few remixes of other artists, namely Juno Reactor, Soft Ballet and Sensation (formerly Soul Family Sensation). 

I've also included a remix of Real Magnificent by Justin Credible, who had created and posted top notch unofficial remixes via YouTube for years, until Fluke gave him the nod in 2024 and made it official.

Resolutely unofficial is the closing song, a version of Insanely Beautiful by yours truly. There's no skill or artifice in this particular mash-up. I was curious to hear Jon Fugler duet with Leah Cleaver so I literally laid the original single version and Leah's Mix together. It's a busy mix, but I love it.

2026 will hopefully see more from Fluke. I dare to dream that it will be a full album, and some live shows including Bristol or Bath would be, well, insanely beautiful.

For now though, I'm going to spend the weekend with Fluke on constant rotation and turned up loud. Everyone needs some beauty to behold.

1) Bullet (Percussion Cap) (1995)

2) I Wanna Be (All Buttons In) (2025)

3) Amp (Geographic Long Mix) (1997)

4) The Allotment Of Blighty (John Peel Session) (1992)

5) Pistolero (Fluke "Hang 'Em High" Remix): Juno Reactor ft. Mercedes Luque, Taz Alexander & Steve Stevens (1999)

6) Absurd (Whitewash) (1997)

7) Real Magnificent (JC Remix By Justin Credible ft. Leah Cleaver) (2024)

8) Spindle (The Fluke Remix): Soft Ballet (1994)

9) Atom Bomb (Atomix 1) (1996)

10) Beautiful Morning (Fluke's Magimix): Sensation (1993)

11) Setback ('Oto' Album Version) (1995)

12) Insanely Beautiful (Khayem's Double Take Mash-Up ft. Leah Cleaver) (2025)

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For your further Fluke fulfilment, I've reactivated links to the couple of mixtapes that I compiled in 1997:

Fluke (Singles) Side One and Side Two

Fluke (Mixes) Side One and Side Two

26 In '76

Sometimes I get an idea for a post and I commit to it, even when there are signs that it's not going in quite the direction I expected. Today is one of those posts.

An idle thought that it's now half a century since 1976 - and the creeping realisation that my formative years are ancient history! - got me wondering what was #26 in the UK Top 40 on 2nd January 1976.

The fact that it was (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop by The Fatback Band, an absolute classic, sold me on the idea of a 12-track Dubhed selection, plucking the #26 hits from the 2nd of each month throughout 1976.

I'll be upfront with you, it's a mixed bag. After a supremely strong start, next up is The Who, a band that I guess I'm supposed to like but whose music often does nothing for me. Squeeze Box is okay, as long as I tell myself that it really is all about an accordion-playing spouse...

I have no recollection of Let's Do The Latin Hustle by M. & O. Band aka Muff Murfin and Colin Owen, though I'm sure that Van McCoy's lawyers were listening with interest. 

Watching with even greater interest was Eddie Drennon who had actually written Let's Do The Latin Hustle and released it with his B.B.S. Unlimited band, only to see M. & O. Band's version peak four places higher than his own. Allegations that Murfin and Owen had literally lifted recorded sections of the original for their own version were enough to put paid to any further UK chart hits for M. & O. Band, though sadly for Eddie Drennon too.

I Love To Boogie by T. Rex also courted controversy, due to its resemblance to Teenage Boogie, a 1956 single by Webb Pierce, "prompting rockabillies to attempt to burn copies of the single at an event held in a pub on the Old Kent Road, South East London". Well, according to Iffypedia anyway. 

It's a striking image, though the fact that it was an "event" held in a pub which at best was "an attempt to burn copies of the single" makes me think it was an ad-hoc effort by a bunch of pissheads on a Saturday afternoon, who possibly couldn't even light a fart, let alone a 7" slab of vinyl...

It's not Marc Bolan's finest moment (I Love To Boogie, that is, not the Saturday afternoon in a South East London pub) but I have a soft spot for the song, and it's frankly one of the highlights of this selection.

I loved Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band...as did Radio 1, as I remember hearing it all the time when I was a kid. I had no idea that it was a cover of a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen until a few years ago, when I belated began delving into The Boss' back catalogue. I haven't listened to the song in years and it was nice to pick up on the lyrical reference to Go-Kart Mozart, which proved to be an inspiration to a certain Lawrence Hayward decades later.

If I'd waited a week, this selection would have closed with So Sad The Song, a soulful classic by Gladys Knight & The Pips, resting at #26 on 9th December 1976, having peaked at #20 a couple of weeks previously.

Instead, the #26 hit on 2nd December 1976 was Portsmouth by Mike Oldfield, clearly hoping to replicate the success of #4 hit (and subsequent Christmas staple) In Dulci Jubilo. Well, it worked; a month later, Portsmouth did one better and got to #3. Fifty years on, it's still bloody irritating but at least Mike was canny enough to keep it under two minutes...

A final nod to today's cover photo, my personal copy of (deep breath) Super Spider-Man With The Super-Heroes #158, which hit the newsagent's shelves on Valentine's Day in 1976. It was a landmark issue in as much as it followed the path of The Titans weekly, launched in October 1975, by presenting the comic in a landscape format.

It was a great concept as far as value-for-money was concerned: five comic strips every week for your hard-earned 9p; the flip-side was that two US comic pages were squeezed onto one UK page, straining the eyes of the nation's young with life-changing consequences in some cases.

It also pissed off the newsagents, who couldn't decide which way up to present the comic on the shelves. Marvel UK had obviously considered this with the two-way titles, but it often made for a very cramped, word-heavy cover. 

Still, Marvel persisted with the format for over a year, even as The Titans failed and merged with the Spider-Man comic and collectively, the titles were getting through comic material at an exhausting and unsustainable rate.

Do I detect an analogy...?

1) (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop (Album Version): The Fatback Band (#18, 18th Jan)

2) Squeeze Box: The Who (#10, 22nd Feb)

3) Let's Do The Latin Hustle (Cover of Eddie Drennon & B.B.S. Unlimited): M. & O. Band (#16, 21st Mar)

4) Ships In The Night (Single Edit): Be Bop Deluxe (#23, 21st Mar)

5) No Charge: J.J. Barrie (#1, 30th May)

6) The Flasher: Mistura ft. Lloyd Michaels (#23, 6th Jun)

7) It Only Takes A Minute: 100 Ton And A Feather (#9, 18th Jul)

8) I Love To Boogie: T. Rex (#13, 11th Jul)

9) Blinded By The Light (Single Edit) (Cover of Bruce Springsteen): Manfred Mann's Earth Band (#6, 19th Sep)

10) Afternoon Delight: Starland Vocal Band (#18, 29th Aug)

11) Queen Of My Soul: Average White Band (#23, 24th Oct)

12) Portsmouth (Cover of traditional song): Mike Oldfield (#3, 2nd Jan 1977)

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Start Anew

Welcome to 2026!

A new year brings a new selection of 26 songs for '26, all featuring a new something or other.

99 minutes of top tunes, starting with Beady Eye, Liam's better-than-Oasis band.

There are a handful of '70s and '80s artists, including The Undertones, The Adverts, Breathless, Beastie Boys and Asleep At The Wheel covering Huey Lewis & The News.

A fistful of '90s fun (well, depending on your definition of fun) comes courtesy of Arab Strap, Epic Soundtracks, The Magnetic Fields and Martin Stephenson & The Daintees.

It's mostly 21st century music though, some old, some new, something for everyone from The Isley Brothers ft. De La Soul to Tokyo Police Club, BANKS to Beverly Kills.

A couple of 2025 highlights from Xan Tyler & Dusty Stray and Bedford Falls Players and, to wrap things up, Billy sings Billy, that is, Billy Nomates sings Billy Bragg.

Fingers crossed, this year's going to be a good one.

1) Start Anew (Remix Of 'Dreaming Of Some Space' By JC Of RKID003): Beady Eye (2014)

2) New Moon: Bedford Falls Players (2025)

3) Happy New Year Next Year: Violent Femmes (2015)

4) New Church: The Adverts (1978)

5) A New Chapter: Breathless (1984)

6) New Birds: Arab Strap (1998)

7) Window Shopping For New Clothes: The Undertones (1983)

8) Something New Under The Sun: Epic Soundtracks (1994)

9) New New Song: Tokyo Police Club (2008)

10) Your New Normal: Nine Inch Nails (2020)

11) I Think I Need A New Heart: The Magnetic Fields (1999)

12) I Want A New Drug (Cover of Huey Lewis & The News): Asleep At The Wheel (1987)

13) Big Sky New Light: Martin Stephenson & The Daintees (1992)

14) New Berlin: Beverly Kills (2022)

15) It's The New Style (Vocal) (Remix By Rick Rubin): Beastie Boys (1986)

16) The End Of A New Beginning: Xan Tyler & Dusty Stray (2025)

17) I've Found A New Way To Love Her: Julian Cope (2005)

18) Kinda New (Album Version): Spektrum (2004)

19) New Brat In Town (Unreleased Version By Steve Albini): The Auteurs (1996)

20) New Years (Cover of Asobi Seksu): Boris (2012)

21) Someone New (Album Version): BANKS (2014)

22) New Love Cassette (Album Version): Angel Olsen (2019)

23) A New Chance (Tanlines Remix): The Tough Alliance (2007)

24) Feels Like A New Morning: The Blow Monkeys (2013)

25) It's A New Thing (It's Your Thing) (D-Nat & Onda Reconstruction): The Isley Brothers ft. De La Soul (2004)

26) New Ingland (Demo) (Cover of Billy Bragg): Billy Nomates (2024)

1978: Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts: 4

1983: Chain Of Love EP: 7

1984: Ageless EP: 5

1986: It's The New Style EP: 15

1987: 10: 12

1992: The Boy's Heart: 13

1994: Sleeping Star: 8

1998: Philophobia: 6

1999: 69 Love Songs: 11

2004: Enter The...Spektrum: 18

2004: ...Taken To The Next Phase: 25

2005: Dark Orgasm: 17

2005: Luke Haines Is Dead: 19

2007: A New Chance EP: 23

2008: Elephant Shell / Extras (ltd 2x CD): 9

2012: Asobi Seksu x Boris Split EP: 20

2013: Feels Like A New Morning: 24

2014: Flick Of The Finger RKID003 EP: 1

2014: Goddess: 21

2015: Happy New Year EP: 3

2019: All Mirrors: 22

2020: Ghosts VI: Locusts: 10

2022: Kaleido: 14

2024: New Ingland EP: 26

2025: Home: 16

2025: New Moon EP: 2

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If you're feeling nostalgic, check out my previous New Year's Day posts from 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.