Three Times In The Night

No, not a reference to the number of nocturnal bathroom visits now that I am of a certain age, but a nod to Beck's new single In The Night.

This is Beck in reflective, heart-aching mood once more, acoustic guitar and emotive strings underpinning his soft yet deep voice. It's a brief song, clocking in at just under three minutes, but enough to get under your skin and seep into your subconsciousness.

Stick with the video, it's forty seconds in before the first musical note strikes, but casting Denis Lavant was a masterstroke, minimalist performance, maximum emotional impact.

There are two other songs in my music collection titled In The Night that I've plucked for posting, the first by Bauhaus, from their 1982 album The Sky's Gone Out and a bit of overlooked gem. 

The song wasn't a single and therefore wasn't furnished with a video back in the day. However, someone has cleverly cut scenes from 1927 Gothic short Prelude to the music, to great effect.

Last but certainly not least, In The Night by Pet Shop Boys, which you'd be forgiven for thinking was a single, but wasn't. In fact, for me and many other teen fashionistas in the late 80s, it was instantly familiar as the theme tune to The Clothes Show on BBC1.

After such a dramatic intro, presenters Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin couldn't hope to be as cool as Neil and Chris. The Arthur Baker remix appeared in it's entirety on the Pet Shop Boys' first Disco album in 1986.

I had no idea that there was a video for this song!

Back On The Rack

My surprise that EMF seem to have snuck back in and have been releasing new songs for the past year or so was surpassed by discovering that they've also recorded a version of the Bauhaus classic Bela Lugosi's Dead.

What at first appears to be a fairly faithful rendition does eventually go sonically into more familiar Meff territory, but I guess the question was always going to be when rather than if.

On a couple of listens so far, I quite like it.

 

EMF are not the only ones to try their hands at Bela Lugosi's Dead, of course. Nouvelle Vague covered most of the indie disco bases in the mid-2000s, so it was perhaps inevitable that they'd have a go, slowing things down even further than you'd think possible.

No official video, but here's a version cut to footage of 2014 film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.

I was going to say that CHVRCHES delivered their take on the song "more recently" until I realised that it was over ten years ago! Lauren and co. deliver a punchy take, so in keeping with their singular sound that you'd think they had written the song.

Again, a fan-made video using excerpts from - what else? - the 1931 classic film adaptation of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi himself.

It would be a catastrophic failure on my part not to go back to the source, wouldn't it?

Not quite the original version, I've instead exhumed a 1982 performance by Bauhaus, a mere six minutes to close out music TV show Riverside. Judging by his opening position, Peter Murphy had clearly stocked up on Maxell cassettes by this point.

The first and the best, though respect to all of the above for their sterling efforts.

 

Three x3 x3 x3

Somehow, I'm not quite sure how, Dubhed is three years old today. Not something I imagined writing when I first started this blog in 2020. 

 

A piffling amount of time if you visit any of the blogs linked to this site and see what dedication and long-term commitment really looks like, but it's without a doubt the most sustained period of activity for any 'creative venture' that I've ever been wholly responsible for. 

Will it change your life? No, of course not. But it has helped mine in some subtle and more obvious ways. Especially since moving to the discipline of a daily post, it's given me a structured mindfulness activity that's been more of a help with my mental health that I can fully appreciate, both as a preventative and a curative exercise.

The best bit though, and the inspiration for doing it in the first place, is the lovely blogging community that I discovered and have since felt a part of, a reminder when you are surrounded by news and stories to the contrary that there are many, many wonderful human beings out there. And we all share a passion for music. Not necessarily the same music all of the time, but an appreciation and respect for the sheer love of it regardless.

It's not just about the music, though, this sense of community. Whenever I can, I try to make some time on a Saturday morning to drop by at My Top Ten to join in with Rol's excellent - and teasingly, pleasingly difficult - Saturday Snapshots quiz. Every month in 2023, John's Are We There Yet? blog has hosted a gallery of themed photos, which I started contributing to (albeit generally always just under the deadline wire - sorry, John!) and enjoy a lot. SWC at No Badger Required has run regular countdowns, based on votes from a musical jury and I'm privileged to have been a member on quite a few of these. And it all started for me with guest contributions to The Vinyl Villain, specifically JC's epic and ongoing An Imaginary Compilation album series, which has pretty much been the template for the Dubhed selections that have regularly featured here. 

 

That's just scratching the surface: there are so many fantastic music blogs out there, all saying something different, all opening up my mind (and ears) to new experiences and not just music, of course. Every single one of the blogs in the "Other Head Music" roll call on your right (in web view, that is) are a continual inspiration.

 

I recently commented that Swiss Adam's Bagging Area "has always been more than a blog for music lovers, it’s a lesson in humanity." It's a humbling experience reading other people's raw and vulnerable thoughts and expressions - painful and inspiring often at the same time - and it's wonderful to see how people rally round, offer support and encouragement and just care.

Thank you all, you know who you are. Whether you have visited once or lots of times, left plenty of comments or none at all, have downloaded a Dubhed selection or had a glance through and moved on, thank you.

 

Anyhoo, before you start to wonder if you've stumbled on a Grammy award acceptance speech by accident, let's have some music.

If I've got my numbers right, today is my 970th post and my 654th Dubhed selection (if you count individual sides of a mixtape, which I am). No wonder my back up drive is looking full...!

I thought I'd struggle to find enough songs in my collection with 'three' in the title. No such trouble, as it happens, to the extent that I've left out some really obvious ones (apologies, De La Soul) and mix it up a little.

So, the name of this mix. Three multiplied by three three times is 81 so this selection is of course 81 minutes long (or as near as dammit). Each song contains 3 or three in the title. There are 20 tracks in total, which as you'll know is...not divisible by three. Well, you can overwork a theme sometimes, can't you?

 

Today's cover art is photo of Lagos - Resistance, Lagos Roads, a 1992 work by Otobong Nkanga, born in Nigeria, based in Belgium and whose exhibition was viewed and enjoyed by Clan K in Spain a few weeks ago. And yes, there's the 'three' theme again.

If you made it to the end of this post, an extra thank you. Rest assured, a return to the usual nonsense tomorrow.

 

1) 3 a.m. Eternal (Rankin' Club Version By Moody Boys & The Mad Professor): The KLF (1991)

2) Yeah x 3 (X-Press 2 Remix): David Holmes ft. Raven Violet (2023)

3) Three Card Trick: The Clash (1985)

4) #3 (In The Corn Belt) (Album Version By Arthur Russell): Dinosaur L (1981)

4.1) The Three Sneezes (Original Story by Roger Duvoisin) (Part 1): Martin Wallace (2006)

5) Three (Album Version By Massive Attack & Nellee Hooper): Massive Attack ft. Nicolette (1994)

6) Three MC's And One DJ (Album Version By Beastie Boys & Mario Caldato Jr.): Beastie Boys (1998)

7) Three Minute Hero: The Selecter (1980)

8) Three And Nine: Roxy Music (1974)

9) The Three Sisters: The Cure (1994)

9.1) The Three Sneezes (Original Story by Roger Duvoisin) (Part 2): Martin Wallace (2006)

10) 3 Gypsies In A Restaurant: Billy MacKenzie (1996)

11) Three Monkey Tango: Marc Almond (2006)

12) Spit Three Times (Album Version By Kieran Hebden): Neneh Cherry (2014)

13) Jltf 3 (Ambient): Moby ft. Melody Zimmer (2009)

14) 3 Of Us (4 Your Club Mix By Steve Thompson & Michael Barbiero): Humpe Humpe (1985)

15) Three Wishes: Let It Come Down (Kramer & Xan Tyler) (2020)

16) The Three Shadows Pt.1: Bauhaus (1982)

16.1) The Three Sneezes (Original Story by Roger Duvoisin) (Part 3): Martin Wallace (2006)

17) We Three Kings Of Orient Aren't: Jamie Wednesday (1986)

18) Three Girl Rhumba (Cover of Wire): Bark Psychosis (1996)

19) 3 a.m. Eternal (Almighty Radio Edit): People Of 'K' ft. Crystal (2014)

20) The Three Sneezes (Original Story by Roger Duvoisin) (Part 4): Martin Wallace (2006)

Three x3 x3 x3 (1:20:59) (KF) (Mega)

Another Kick Up The Eighties

Side 2 of a cassette compilation, recorded 22nd January 1990 and looking back on the 1980s.

 

Whereas Side 1 was firmly rooted in the first half of the decade, Side 2 is split 50/50, slightly favouring 1986 to 1989 and 7" and 12" single versions. A few songs have appeared previously, others albeit in different versions/remixes, whilst some I'm surprised to find haven't featured before now. Incredibly, this is the first time that Faith No More have been on this blog, full stop. Introduce Yourself, indeed.

 

I realise I could have waited a couple of days to post this on the 33rd anniversary of originally recording this compilation but I saw that I'd previously uploaded Side 1 on a Friday and I decided to do the same here. Let's face it, Side 2 is definitely more Friday than Sunday listening!

 

This one's for Dave. Fourteen years and still miss you lots.

1) Burning Down The House (Album Version): Talking Heads (1983)

2) House (Flashback Mix): The Psychedelic Furs (1989)

3) How Soon Is Now? (Single Edit): The Smiths (1985)

4) Spellbound (Album Version): Siouxsie & The Banshees (1981)

5) We Care A Lot (Album Version): Faith No More (1987)

6) River Euphrates (Single Version): Pixies (1988)

7) Never Let Me Down Again (Tsangarides Mix): Depeche Mode (1987)

8) All We Ever Wanted Was Everything: Bauhaus (1982)

9) Deus (10" Remix): The Sugarcubes (1988)

10) Kiss (Leeds v. The Bronx) (Remix By DJ Chakk) (Cover of Prince): Age Of Chance (1986)

11) Perfect Blue (Album Version): Lloyd Cole & The Commotions (1985)

 

1981: Juju: 4 

1982: The Sky's Gone Out: 8

1983: Speaking In Tongues: 1

1985: Easy Pieces: 11

1985: How Soon Is Now? (7" single): 3 

1986: Kiss (Jack-Knife Remixes) (limited edition 12" single): 10

1987: Introduce Yourself: 5

1987: Never Let Me Down Again (limited edition 12" single): 7

1988: Deus (limited edition 10" single): 9

1988: Gigantic / River Euphrates (12" single): 6

1989: House (12" single): 2

 

Side Two (45:45) (Box) (Mega)

Side One here

Sandwich Bars & Barbed Wire

Cassette compilation recorded 5th October 1986, which I think makes it the oldest surviving C90 in my DIY collection. Strangely enough, I couldn't seem to manage to stretch a compilation over two sides. Side 2 was dedicated to a slight rejig of Prefab Sprout's Steve McQueen, adopting the amended (and lawsuit-dodging) name used for the album's release in the USA.

So, what was the 15 year old me listening to? Well, the first two were more of a nod to my friend Stuart, who was a huge fan of U2. I didn't own any of their albums at the time but I had Sunday Bloody Sunday on an import 12" single. 

 

The Bridge by Cactus World News originally appeared on U2's Mother Records label, so again would have been of interest. I had the subsequent reissue on MCA Records, I suspect as part of a hard sell from Dave at Sound Seekers as I ended up with the 12" single and the limited edition 7" with free 2-track cassette. The original mixtape featured the album/single version but the running time was so short that I've swapped it here for the 12" remix.

Little needs to be said about Perfect Skin by Lloyd Cole & The Commotions. Simply one of the best singles of the 1980s from one of the best albums of the 1980s. I still get a joy from listening to it, nearly 40 years on.

 

I rescued the 7" single of Shakespeare's Sister by The Smiths from the ex-chart bargain bin at Woolworths. Worth the (reduced) price alone for the cover picture of Pat Phoenix alone, but a killer A- and B-side. 

 

Another slight tweak here, as the cassette originally featured the NME Version of Uncomplicated by Elvis Costello & The Attractions, from a cover mounted 7" single. I do still have it somewhere but I haven't got around to ripping it to MP3. Instead I've included the album version which I don't think is all that different, to be honest. 

 

Kick Over The Statues was also from a cover mounted 7" single, this time from the premiere issue of short-lived music magazine, The Hit. This was probably my first introduction to Redskins, although I would also have seen them on TV, on Channel 4's The Tube.  This song inevitably resurfaced when the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol was pulled down and dumped into the Harbour water in 2020.

 

A brace of Liverpool bands produced by Ian Broudie. First up, The Icicle Works with Understanding Jane. I became obsessed with the band after buying their Seven Singles Deep collection. This was another Sound Seekers special purchase, as I recall. I got the 7" single with a free 7" single featuring two live songs and then the 5-track 'cassingle', with three more live songs. I managed to resist the temptation to buy the 12" single with an exclusive cover of Van Morrison. Understanding Jane is not the band's finest moment but the song gained an added resonance a few years later when I fell in love with a woman called Jane and it became one of 'our' songs.

 

The second Broudie production is of course Echo & The Bunnymen, with the brilliant The Back Of Love. At the time, I only owned their 'greatest hits' collection Songs To Learn & Sing, which I played constantly. It hasn't aged a bit.

 

Beggars Banquet seemed to be a label that had an inadvertent draw on me: the aforementioned The Icicle Works, The Cult, The Fall, Gary Numan; The Go-Betweens would come to me years later. And then these two: Gene Loves Jezebel and Bauhaus. I almost certainly encountered both in my brother's record collection, but then I'd also bought the One Pound Ninety-Nine various artists compilation, 12 songs for the bargain price of (you guessed it) £1.99.

 

I've previously written about buying the Bauhaus collection 1979-1983 and the first Gene Loves Jezebel album I bought was Discover, which came with a free live album, Glad To Be Alive. It's a patchy album but Sweetest Thing is a highlight. I'd liked All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Bauhaus since I first heard it on my brother's copy of The Sky's Gone Out and it's still up there for me.

 

The final three songs are a rather odd bit of sequencing. I suspect I had lost a grip on my timings at this point and was just looking for songs to fill the remaining space with less of a care about whether they fit with the rest of the compilation...!

 

I had Public Image Ltd.'s 1986 album on vinyl, so it was titled Album. The title changed to reflect the format, i.e. Cassette and Compact Disc. I also had the 12" single of Home, which also featured the album version of Round as a B-side. It's a good song (and album), albeit with a 'heavy' production characteristic of the time. 

 

The same can be said of Tears For Fears and Chris Hughes, with their huge, none-more-Eighties commercial smash Songs From The Big Chair. Broken was a recycled B-side that was used on the album to sandwich Head Over Heels. When the latter was released as a single, the same approach was adopted for the 12" single's Preacher Mix. The mixtape used the opening segment of Broken, Roland Orzabal doing a pretty ropey Martin Luther King impression, the rest of the song thankfully remaining instrumental. I've less love for Tears For Fears than I had in the early to mid Eighties and this track is definitely out of place on this compilation.

 

To bring things back to a suitable finish, The Jesus & Mary Chain crash in with Taste Of Cindy. This featured along with Redskins, The Style Council and Simply Red on The Hit magazine freebie 7" single and it was some years later before I bought Psychocandy, and a considerable time after I'd seen them live in concert, which seems bizarre in retrospect. A great song, over and done in one hundred seconds. 'Nuff said.

 

1) Sunday Bloody Sunday (Album Version): U2 (1983)

2) The Bridge (12" Remix): Cactus World News (1986)

3) Perfect Skin (Album Version): Lloyd Cole & The Commotions (1984)

4) Shakespeare's Sister (Single Version): The Smiths (1985)

5) Uncomplicated (Album Version): Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1986)

6) Kick Over The Statues (Ramsey McKinnock Mix): Redskins (1985)

7) Understanding Jane (Album Version): The Icicle Works (1986)

8) The Back Of Love (Album Version): Echo & The Bunnymen (1982)

9) Sweetest Thing (Album Version): Gene Loves Jezebel (1986)

10) All We Ever Wanted Was Everything: Bauhaus (1982)

11) Round: Public Image Ltd. (1986)

12) Broken (Preacher Mix): Tears For Fears (1985)

13) Taste Of Cindy (Album Version): The Jesus & Mary Chain (1985)

1982: The Back Of Love EP: 8

1982: The Sky's Gone Out: 10

1983: War: 1

1984: Rattlesnakes: 3

1985: Head Over Heels EP: 12 

1985: Psychocandy: 13

1985: Shakespeare's Sister EP: 4

1985: The Hit RED Hot EP: 6 

1986: Album: 11

1986: Blood & Chocolate: 5

1986: Discover: 9

1986: The Bridge EP: 2

1986: Understanding Jane EP: 7

Sandwich Bars & Barbed Wire (45:15) (Box) (Mega)

Your Cassette Pet!

Side 2 of a cassette compilation, recorded September 1991. 

 

Essentially, this is a trawl through my brother's collection of albums on tape, cherry picking favourite songs to stick on two sides of a C90. The title is nod to 1980's cassette-only album by Bow Wow Wow, which my brother didn't own and therefore isn't featured here, but I had a copy of a copy which my friend had given me.

It's an eclectic mix albeit firmly in 'alternative' territory, with Flesh For Lulu, Marc Almond (here with The Mambas), Bauhaus and Howard Devoto. I was arguably the bigger Depeche Mode fan as a teen but I bought only the singles, whilst my brother had their first three albums, all on cassette. 

Part of the appeal of cassettes was the 'double play' format, where you'd either get two albums for the price of one or a slew of bonus tracks on Side 2. Quite a few examples here: Fashion's Fabrique contained a whole side of remixes, whist Laibach paired Opus Dei with their cover of The Beatles' Let It Be album. 

 

The The's Soul Mining was perhaps the strangest of the lot. The original album on Side 1, the flip side containing 6 songs purportedly planned for The The's aborted album The Pornography Of Despair. Things get off to a reasonably normal start with the re-recorded version of Perfect. And then Three Orange Kisses From Kazan, a real WTF? moment. Initially, I was both shit-scared and morbidly fascinated by the song, but it's long since become a highlight of The The's back catalogue for me. 

 

Many of the artists have 2 or 3 songs on this compilation. This Mortal Coil is no exception, though the late inclusion of a 1:30 edit of Waves Become Wings was clearly to pad out Side 2's running time. With apologies to Lisa Gerrard, who is just getting into her stride when she's unceremoniously faded out, I've retained the edit for this recreated selection.

 

Last but not least, a brace of cover versions by Laibach (a third from Let It be is on Side 1). In both cases, they take songs - by Queen and Opus - that I didn't particularly care for and create bruising, industrial marching songs that take the clichéd phrase "...and make it their own" to a whole other place. 

 

Side 1 may take a while to come, as it features a track from Bristol-band Renegade Flight, who I saw live several times in the late 1980s and picked up a couple of their DIY cassettes from their merch stall. I think I've still got them - and a tape deck - somewhere in a box in the attic, so hopefully I can find and convert to MP3 format in the next 12 months. Just don't hold your breath!

 

1) The Sun And The Rainfall (Album Version): Depeche Mode (1982)

2) Rainy Season (Album Version): Howard Devoto (1983)

3) Subterraneans (Album Version): Flesh For Lulu (1984)

4) Something In Your Picture (Alternative Playback) (Half Frame) (Remix By Zeus B. Held): Fashion (1982)

5) Shame (Album Version): Depeche Mode (1983)

6) Geburt Einer Nation (Album Version) (Cover of 'One Vision' by Queen): Laibach (1987)

7) Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?: Bauhaus (1983)

8) Three Orange Kisses From Kazan: The The (1982)

9) Caroline Says II (Cover of Lou Reed): Marc & The Mambas (1982)

10) Waves Become Wings (Edit): This Mortal Coil ft. Lisa Gerrard (1984)

11) Opus Dei (Album Version) (Cover of 'Live Is Life' by Opus): Laibach (1987)

1982: A Broken Frame: 1

1982: Something In Your Picture EP / Fabrique (Special Edition Double Play Cassette): 4

1982: Untitled: 9

1983: Burning From The Inside: 7

1983: Construction Time Again: 5

1983: Jerky Versions Of The Dream: 2

1983: Uncertain Smile EP / Soul Mining (Special Edition Double Play Cassette): 8

1984: Flesh For Lulu: 3

1984: It'll End In Tears: 10

1987: Geburt Einer Nation EP / Opus Dei: 6, 11

Side Two (45:55) (KF) (Mega)

Rejection, Abduction, Addiction, Protection

Side 2 of a cassette, compiling Bauhaus singles, recorded sometime during the summer of 1990 and featuring The Godfathers on Side 1.

 

When I turned 14, I went into my local WH Smith, clutching my birthday money and came away with a clutch of vinyl. I think several were bargain bin 12" singles (Heaven 17 was definitely one) to use up the "loose change" from my main purchase, the glorious double vinyl Bauhaus compilation, 1979-1983, which had come out a few weeks before.

 

My brother had a couple of the latter albums on cassette - The Sky's Gone Out and Burning From The Inside - and I'd heard enough to know I wanted more, even though I knew that the band were no more. 

 

1979-1983 was a beautiful articfact: the classic Bauhaus icon in shiny gold leaf, black background on the front cover, white background on the back. Opening up the gatefold sleeve, there was a central shot of the band by (I think) Mitch Jenkins, as well as a limited edition, numbered 4-page glossy insert featuring individual close ups of each member by Antoine Giacomoni. The inner sleeves contained an illustrated discography of Bauhaus, as well as off-shoots Tones On Tail, Dali's Car, David J (solo and with Jazz Butcher), Love And Rockets and even The Sinister Ducks. It truly was a thing of beauty.

 

Less than a decade and a half later, I ended up flogging it to Replay Records as part of a huge vinyl cull. Needs must, and all that. I wasn't too sad about losing the item itself: the booklet, though not lost, had long since detached from the main album. The white areas of the cover and inner sleeve were mottled with spots of mould from living in a succession of damp bedsits in the 1990s. The vinyl itself was crackly from repeated plays and less than ideal storage conditions. So, in fairness, I got a fairly decent price for it.

 

I've since recovered the music via various CD compilations and my teenage love for the band was reignited. I was gutted to see Bauhaus go out in Round One of the Knock-Out Stage of the ICA World Cup (by one point!) over at The Vinyl Villain last week, so here's a consolatory compilation from 1990.

 

I essentially cherry-picked the singles from 1979-1983, presenting them in chronological order by release date, albeit with a few version variations. The compilation swapped the 1979 debut single, Bela Lugosi's Dead, for the live version from Press The Eject And Give Me The Tape. I didn't actually hear the original until I bought the 1998 compilation Crackle, so the 1982 live performance has remained the definitive version for me.

 

Kick In The Eye preceded The Passion Of Lovers as a single in 1981 but was re-mixed and re-issued on the Searching For Satori EP the following year. This is the version that was featured on 1979-1983.

Both Ziggy Stardust and Third Uncle were recorded for the David 'Kid' Jensen show on BBC Radio 1 on 1st July 1982 and broadcast on 22nd July 1982 and subsequently released as a single. The full length version of Third Uncle also opened penultimate album The Sky's Gone Out. The version on 1979-1983 was a single edit which appeared on the 7" single.

The 7" version of She's In Parties was also used for 1979-1983. There was an extended mix on the 12" single which is identical to the album version opening swansong Burning From The Inside. I had a copy of the 12" single and to stretch out the running time on the C90 cassette, I opted for this, doing a quick fade during the latter dub section when it looked like the tape was about to run out. I've recreated here for the sake of completeness.

I loved - and still love - the Bauhaus albums but looking at this selection, they were a pretty damn fine singles band too.

 

1) Bela Lugosi's Dead (Live @ The Old Vic, London, 24 February 1982)

2) Dark Entries (Single Version) (1980)

3) Terror Couple Kill Colonel (1) (Single Version) (1980)

4) Telegram Sam (Cover of T. Rex) (1980)

5) Kick In The Eye (Searching For Satori) (Single Version) (1982)

6) The Passion Of Lovers (Album Version) (1981)

7) Spirit (Single Version) (1982)

8) Ziggy Stardust (David Jensen Session/Single Version) (1982)

9) Third Uncle (David Jensen Session/Album Version) (1982)

10) Lagartija Nick (1983)

11) She's In Parties (Extended Mix/Album Version) (Early Fade By Khayem) (1983)

 

Rejection, Abduction, Addiction, Protection (45:40)

Into Numberless Reflections

A slightly premature celebration of the birth of Christa Päffgen aka Nico, who would have been 84 on 18th October. Sadly, Nico passed on 18th July 1988, shy of 50, a bicycle accident bringing an untimely end to a complex, troubled and brilliant life.

 

Today's selection is pretty much all I have by Nico, a mixture of her lead vocals with The Velvet Underground, solo and live tracks from the mid-60s and early 70s, a mid-80s album track from the excellent One Pound Ninety-Nine compilation and a few live covers of David Bowie, the Velvets and The Doors. Pops, crackles and hisses betray the original source material.

The title is a line from Nico's 1968 song Frozen Warnings, here presented as a John Peel session a few years later. The photo is a chance discovery in September of a mythical beast, carved in wood, and seemingly abandoned atop a shipping container in a yard on the outskirts of Gloucester Quays.

 

Oh, and we've got hot water again. Hooray for Clan K.

 

1) All Tomorrow's Parties (Album Version By Andy Warhol): The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

2) Win A Few (Album Version By John Cale): Nico + The Faction (1985)

3) "Heroes" (Live @ Saltlageret, Copenhagen) (Cover of David Bowie): Nico ft. Smarkand (1982)

4) Femme Fatale (Mono Single Version By Andy Warhol): The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966)

5) I'm Not Sayin (Single Version By Andrew Loog Oldham) (Cover of Gordon Lightfoot): Nico (1965)

6) Waiting For The Man (Live @ Fagins, Manchester) (Edit) (Cover of The Velvet Underground): Bauhaus ft. Nico (1981)

7) Frozen Warnings (John Peel Session): Nico (1971)

8) I'll Be Your Mirror (Album Version By Andy Warhol): The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

9) Afraid (Album Version By John Cale): Nico (1970)

10) The End (Live @ The Rainbow Theatre, London) (Cover of The Doors): Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno & NIco (1974)

Into Numberless Reflections (50:01)