Lindy Disco

It's Tuesday, it's mid-July and it's long past time for a spotlight on Lindy Morrison and Amanda Brown.

Obligingly, Lindy had a new single out earlier this month, which has been on rotation at Casa K, the latest from SnarskiCircusLindyBand, her current venture with Rob Snarski (The Blackeyed Susans), Shane O'Mara, Graham Lee and Dan Kelly.

After a couple of mini-albums, the first full-length record from SnarskiCircusLindyBand lands in late September. Ten songs, five brand new, five lifted from the mini-albums, What’s Said And What’s Left Unsaid is shaping up to be an impressive debut album.

I've included one song from each of the mini-albums, both of which will appear on What’s Said And What’s Left Unsaid, including My Sweetheart Always Comes Back, guest-starring Lindy's long-time rock 'n' roll friend and collaborator, Amanda Brown.

I've added a couple of blasts from Lindy and Amanda's past, too. Cleopatra Wong yielded a couple of EPs and a bright, shiny pop video in the early 1990s. And, inevitably, the band where I first encountered them both as musicians, The Go-Betweens. 

Whilst Lindy and Amanda have belatedly received some of the critical dues for their importance to the band, as someone who came in via the 1978-1990 compilation, and was fascinated by the band photos as well as the music, Lindy and Amanda were always an integral part of what made the band great for me. 

Both still smashing it in the here and now.

1) You're So Adorable: SnarskiCircusLindyBand ft. Lili Alaska (2025)

2) My Sweetheart Always Comes Back: SnarskiCircusLindyBand ft. Amanda Brown (2024)

3) Since I Slept With You Everybody Wants To Sleep With Me: SnarskiCircusLindyBand (2023)

4) Thank You: Cleopatra Wong (1992)

5) Streets Of Your Town: The Go-Betweens (1988)

 

 

 

 

Let's Burn This Land

A cassette compilation of The Go-Betweens, recorded 31st August 1990.

No diary extracts today, but sticking with my Australian reminisces, specifically The Go-Betweens mixtape that I recorded in readiness for my year-long adventure Down Under.

At the time, I was a relatively new fan. I'd heard odds and sods, but the only record that I owned was the 1978-1990 compilation, bought in the spring of that year. A simple but eye-catching front cover, a gatefold sleeve with photos of the band, a double vinyl album capturing 28 singles, B-sides, album cuts, radio sessions and demos, all for £5.99.

It quickly became one of my most treasured albums, although with the bittersweet knowledge that The Go-Betweens were already in the past tense as a band.

 

Although I eventually got all of the studio albums, the 'lost debut album released in 1999 and various radio sessions and live DVDs, all of that was long after I returned to the UK.

 

This 14-song selection was recorded and reordered from the 1978-1990 vinyl compilation, the only cassette compilation of an Australian band going into my Antipodean adventure. This C90 side (Talking Heads on the other) was one that got me through some long, long coach journeys around the continent, and also soundtracked some unforgettable moments in jaw-droppingly beautiful places.

A quick glance may induce outrage at what I didn't pick from the vinyl. No Cattle And Cane? Or Spring Rain? Or The Wrong Road? I also left off When People Are Dead, which deeply resonated with me when I first played the album. 

 

What can I say? I had a strict rule of one band per cassette side and I would have struggled to leave off any of my final choices. I mean, how had songs like The Sound Of Rain and You Won't Find It Again remained unreleased until the 1978-1990 compilation?

All in all, these are the songs that become inseparable in memory from my time in Australia, a snapshot of The Go-Betweens between 1978 and 1988. My go-to Go-Betweens, if you will.

I'm going to round off the week with another Australian artist tomorrow morning. To manage expectations, it won't be a Jimmy Barnes and/or Cold Chisel selection. But who will it be?

 

1) Karen (Single Version) (1978)

2) The House That Jack Kerouac Built (Album Version) (1987)

3) Man o' Sand To Girl o' Sea (Single Version) (1983)

4) Secondhand Furniture (John Peel Session) (1984)

5) People Say (Single Version) (1979)

6) The Sound Of Rain (previously unreleased) (1978)

7) Love Is A Sign (Album Version) (1988)

8) Streets Of Your Town (Album Version) (1988)

9) Draining The Pool For You (Album Version) (1984)

10) I Need Two Heads (Single Version) (1980)

11) World Weary (1981)

12) This Girl, Black Girl (Single Version) (1983)

13) Mexican Postcard (1988)

14) You Won't Find It Again (Acoustic Démo) (1988)

 

1978: Lee Remick EP: 1

1979: People Say EP: 5

1980: I Need Two Heads EP: 10

1981: Your Turn, My Turn EP: 11

1983: Man o' Sand To Girl o' Sea EP: 3, 12

1984: Spring Hill Fair: 9

1987: Tallulah: 2

1988: 16 Lovers Lane: 7, 8

1988: Was There Anything I Could Do? EP: 13 

1989: The Peel Sessions EP: 4

1990: 1978-1990: 6, 14

Let's Burn This Land (46:09) (KF) (Mega)

I posted a previous Dubhed selection of The Go-Betweens in October 2021 (still no Cattle And Cane!), which you can find here.

A month earlier, I compiled a side each of Robert Forster and Grant MacLennan's solo work, drawn from the 2007 2CD collection called Intermission, available here.

NYD In AUS

I discovered that both of my work shirts were in the washing bag last night, so I had to frantically wash and hang them out in the hope that they would be dry by the following morning. They weren't.

I walked to the freeway in a damp T-shirt. I lost my watch while hopping the fence. Work crawled by at a snail's pace. I was pissed off when, at 4.00pm, Norm looked at me as if to say, "Why are you still here?" I had to run for the bus. Not a good day, you may say. Not so bad, after all.

I'm currently in the midst of a drinks party with Ken, Takashi and Kazu. We've consumed an unhealthy amount of gin already and are carrying on with the same intentions for the remainder of the evening. Should be good.

Roger Waters is on TV. "The Wall" live in Berlin a few months back, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall, has just started. My friends are very intrigued by it all, but I couldn't really care less. I'm more interested that I'm seeing in a new year in a new land, a new home.

Sometimes, it's as if I have only just become aware of my situation: I break into fits of laughter, finding it hard to believe that I'm really living 10,000 miles away from my 'home'. Or maybe it's the alcohol.

 

Right now, I couldn't ask for anything more from life than to be here with my friends.

...

We appeared to be the only people in the building celebrating the New Year last night. When we ventured out of the flat at the stroke of midnight, it seemed that everyone else had gone to bed. Takashi and I stumbled around, drunk and aimless, but Ken and Kazu dashed off. 

Ken returned moments later, exclaiming that Kazu had become trapped on the roof, so we all raced to the seventh floor.

At the top of the stairwell was a retractable set of steps leading to a doorway and the roof. Kazu had gone through only to discover that the door had a one-way spring lock. Ken was too drunk to attempt to climb up to the retractable steps, and whilst I was squinting in an effort to see just one of him, Takashi leapt up without a second thought and grabbed the steps. Ken and I pulled both down to the ground, and Takashi freed Kazu. Unsurprisingly, Kazu was considerably more sober following this experience.

We returned to the flat and in an attempt to signify this moment of friendship, unity and heroic stupidity, we all had a glug from my bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale. We watched pop videos on TV until 2.00am, and we all passed out.

 

...

 

That was me in Perth, Australia, 1990 going into 1991, twenty years old and on my first really big adventure. The only time in my life that I've kept a diary. The picture above is adapted from the sole photo I took on NYE 1990: Ken, my flatmate, and our friends Takashi and Kazu, presumably before the gin consumed us all.

Not the most rock 'n' roll New Year's Eve, perhaps, but the setting and company were once-in-a-lifetime experiences. 

 

Fast forward to NYE 2024, swap Western Australia for South West England, my Japanese friends for Clan K, gin (and Newcastle Brown Ale) for whisky, and Roger Waters for Sophie Ellis-Bextor on TV, and it wasn't all that different.

Fortunately, we were less drunk, neither Mrs. K or Lady K got trapped on the roof and we went to bed before 2.00am, so I'm thankfully in a less fragile state in 2025 than I was in 1991.

This inevitably got me thinking about a Dubhed selection of Australian music that I was listening to during my time in the great continent. And so, for your listening pleasure, twenty songs and eighty minutes of sounds, mostly from 1990, with a few either side.

I came to Australia with a Walkman and a clutch of DIY compilations, such as a 'best of' The Go-Betweens. According to my diary, I bought CD singles by Big Pig and Stephen Cummings on 4th January 1991; later purchases included The Hummingbirds, Clouds (who featured here last summer), Tall Tales And True, INXS and Icehouse, as well as a 1987 compilation called Used And Recommended By. 

 

Triple J was my go-to radio station at home, although the place where I worked blasted out the usual ad-heavy commercial crap you will find in every country. The former offered proof - and hope - that there was an alternative to Jimmy Barnes' strangled and strained singing.

I only went to one gig in Perth, but it was a good one: Ramones, supported by local heroes Ratcat. It was a great night and I wrote about it in 2022. 

I should have included Divinyls' huge crossover hit, I Touch Myself, in today's selection and to be honest, I would have but I forgot! 

 

I also wanted to include Ruby's Arms by Killing Time, a Top 10 indie hit in Australia in early 1991. However, I didn't buy the single at the time and I've been unable to track a copy down...at least, in the couple of hours since I first had the idea for this post.

Some artists of course went on to enjoy global success: INXS, Midnight Oil to a lesser extent, and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, although the prospect of Nick being with us in 2025 let alone continuing to release vital albums seemed unlikely back in 1990/91. 

Paul Kelly's label were hoping for worldwide fame. 1987 album Gossip was prepped for a major push in the US, with R.E.M. producer Scott Litt drafted to remix several songs, including Tighten Up. Paul's band were called The Coloured Girls, allegedly named jokingly after the line in Walk On The Wild Side by Lou Reed. Nah, thought the label, and the Stateside release of Gossip was credited to Paul Kelly & The Messengers. 

Closing the compilation is a song from one of my favourite records of all, the 4-track Resisting Calm EP by Melanie Oxley & Chris Abrahams, released in 1990 on the independent label Spiral Scratch. Triple J played Benchtop (actually track 3/B1) to death, I was hooked and I had to track the record down. I bought Resisting Calm on 12" vinyl and eventually got it shipped by surface mail back to the UK.

Benchtop is a fantastic song and by rights should be on today's selection. That said, all four songs are wonderful and in the end, I chose Siren, the EP's opening song and fittingly, the closing moment here.

Enough looking back, time to look forward! I wonder what wonders 2025 will bring?

 

1) Miss Freelove '69 (Album Version By Hoodoo Gurus & Ed Stasium): Hoodoo Gurus (1990)

2) Man o' Sand To Girl o' Sea (Single Version By John Brand): The Go-Betweens (1983)

3) That Ain't Bad (Album Version By Nick Mainsbridge): Ratcat (1990)

4) Yes Sir, I Can Boogie (Album Version By Tim Cole): Not Drowning, Waving (1987)

5) Throw Your Arms Around Me (Re-Recorded Version By Hunters & Collectors & Clive Martin): Hunters & Collectors (1990)

6) Blue Sky Mine (Food On The Table Mix By Nick Launay): Midnight Oil (1990)

7) Rhythm Rude Girl (Live @ The Horden Pavilion, Sydney, Australia): The Angels (1990)

8) If A Vow: The Hummingbirds (1991)

9) Dream Baby (7" Version By Mike Duffy) (Cover of Roy Orbison): X (1987)

10) Hell (You Put Me Through) (7" Version By Stephen Cummings, Robert Goodge & Shane O'Mara): Stephen Cummings (1990)

11) Justifier (Single Mix By Daddy-O & Femi Jiya): Big Pig (1990)

12) Tighten Up (Re-Mixed Version By Scott Litt): Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls (1987)

13) Lock It (Album Version By Falling Joys & Adrian Bolland): Falling Joys (1990)

14) Miss Divine (Album Version By Nick Launay): Icehouse (1990)

15) Suicide Blonde (Earth Mix By Paul Oakenfold & Steve Osborne): INXS (1990)

16) Black Betty (Cover of Leadbelly): Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1986)

17) White Rabbit (Cover of The Great Society with Grace Slick): The Shower Scene From Psycho (1985)

18) Superstition Highway (Single Version By Nick Mainsbridge): Tall Tales And True (1990)

19) Cloud Factory (Single Version By Clouds & Tim Whitten): Clouds (1990)

20) Siren (Single Version By Melanie Oxley, Chris Abrahams & Guy Dickerson): Melanie Oxley & Chris Abrahams (1990)

 

1983: Man o' Sand To Girl o' Sea EP: 2

1985: White Rabbit/Cinnamon Girl EP: 17

1986: The Singer EP: 16

1987: Cold And The Crackle: 4 

1987: Dream Baby EP: 9 

1987: Gossip: 12

1990: Beyond Salvation Live (VHS): 7

1990: Blue Sky Mine EP: 6 

1990: Cloud Factory EP: 19

1990: Code Blue: 14

1990: Hell (You Put Me Through) EP: 10

1990: Justifier + Taste EP: 11

1990: Resisting Calm EP: 20

1990: Suicide Blonde EP: 15

1990: Superstition Highway EP: 18

1990: Throw Your Arms Around Me EP: 5

1990: Tingles EP: 3 

1990: Wish List: 13

1991: If A Vow EP: 8

1991: Kinky: 1

 

NYD In AUS (1:19:06) (KF) (Mega)

Junk Garage Clear Out

Side 1 of a cassette compilation recorded by my friend Stuart in late August 1991.

 

This was the closing paragraph when I posted Side 2 in January 2022:

 

Junk Collage (do you see what I did there?) by me, ripped from various magazines and adverts. I can easily spot Buddy Holly and Christian Slater in there. I think the main picture was a toilet wall backdrop to a photo of a music artist, but I've forgotten who.

Some of the typeface has worn away, but you get a sneak preview of what will eventually pop up when I post Side 1. The reason I didn't go with that one today is that the tape opens with an expletive-ridden intro, but one which segues perfectly into a Neil Young & Crazy Horse track. I'm debating whether it stays, goes or is edited in some way before posting. Watch this space...it might be a while.

 

A glance below and a few seconds into today's selection and you'll see and hear that I decided to keep Dumpy's Rusty Nuts in. It's now so ingrained after three decades of listening to this mixtape that it's almost impossible for me to hear Over & Over by Neil Young & Crazy Horse without it.

Many years later, I repaid the 'favour' by including the Dumpy's Rusty Nuts intro on a birthday CD that I compiled for Stuart. One for a future post.

I'd returned to Bristol after a year travelling, so this cassette served as a kind of 'this is what you missed whilst you were away' round up of music in 1991. In addition to a tremendous comeback albums from Julian Cope and Throwing Muses, Teenage Fanclub released the Star Sign EP, a precursor to the mighty Bandwagonesque album later that year.

 

The Fat Lady Sings made two appearances on this compilation, having blown Stuart away when we saw them supporting The Psychedelic Furs in 1990. They didn't - and have never - quite had the same impact on me but I like the B-side featured here, a good example of the quality and quantity of their music at the time.

Stuart had also been delving into some rock classics, this tape probably being my first introduction to Horses by Patti Smith and Exile On Main Street by The Rolling Stones. I'd taken the Neil Young & Crazy Horse and Mazzy Star albums with me on my travels, so these were already classics, in my opinion.

 

It's another much-loved and much-played cassette, containing songs that have stayed with me over the last thirty-odd years and sound every bit as good now as they did then. 

 

1) Intro / Over & Over (Album Version): Dumpy's Rusty Nuts vs. Neil Young & Crazy Horse (1990)

2) Fall On Me (Album Version): R.E.M. (1986)

3) Free Money: Patti Smith (1975)

4) To Reach Me: The Go-Betweens (1986)

5) Be My Angel: Mazzy Star (1990)

6) Happy: The Rolling Stones (1972)

7) Safesurfer (Album Version): Julian Cope (1991)

8) Momento Mori: The Fat Lady Sings (1991)

9) Counting Backwards: Throwing Muses (1991)

10) Like A Virgin (Cover of Madonna): Teenage Fanclub (1991)

1972: Exile On Main Street: 6

1975: Horses: 3

1986: Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express: 4 

1986: Life's Rich Pageant: 2

1990: bootleg live cassette / Ragged Glory: 1

1990: She Hangs Brightly: 5

1991: Arclight EP: 8

1991: Counting Backwards EP: 9

1991: Peggy Suicide: 7

1991: Star Sign EP: 10

 

Side One (45:07) (Box) (Mega)

Side Two here

Another Happy Jolly Tape Thing

Side 2 of a mixtape, recorded sometime in 1992 for my then-girlfriend.

 

We went on a couple of camping holidays, the first of which was a return to Bowleaze Cove in Weymouth where my parents used to keep a static caravan for several years. There's a photo in a dusty album somewhere of me as a baby, having a bath in the caravan's tiny sink. I suspect I looked as bemused as I do now. 

 

We also used the take the cat with us, which seems bizarre in retrospect, but I guess we just didn't have the money to afford the luxury of a cattery for a week. I remember one trip where the cat hadn't returned from their daily patrol on our last day and we were actually driving (albeit very slowly) along the track out of the holiday park, windows open, shouting their name, when they suddenly appeared at the top of the hill, racing down to join us. I don't think my parents really would have left without the cat...would they? The cat was named Sacha, after the popular French singer, although my folks had never shown any particular fondness for his music. Parents are weird like that.

 

We swapped a caravan for a tent in 1992. I hadn't admitted to my girlfriend that I'd actually done very little camping at this point in my life and putting up a tent almost proved to be beyond my capabilities. Relatively early in our relationship, she may not have experienced quite the level of expletives that undoubtedly burst forth as I took about four times longer to get the darn tent up and staying up than any other complete novice.

 

Little had changed in the decade and a half since I'd last visited Weymouth, not least the shift from pebble (& tar) beach at the Bowleaze Cove end to golden sand as you got further along the promenade and into town. At the far end of the beach, before the pavilion and pier, the sand sculptor was still at work, creating scenes and still life art to wow and delight. We ventured into town to the fishmongers, sampling jellied eels (still disgusting) and whelks. All in all, a great few days away and some happy new memories to treasure. 

 

I've been back a couple more times since with Clan K and whilst the town and seafront have experienced more dramatic changes - and the beach-based sand sculptures have now moved slightly inland and upscaled to become Sandworld - we have had a great time, each time.

I like to think that Happy Jolly Tape Thing was playing on the drive from Bristol to Weymouth and home again, back in 1992. It's certainly chock full of travelling, sing-a-long tunes from Depeche Mode, Primal Scream, Talking Heads and Prefab Sprout. The Undertones are the only act to appear on both sides of the cassette, whilst my girlfriend was a huge fan of The Smiths and liked The Doors, although I think that was more to do with Jim Morrison in leather trousers than their music in particular.

Tacked onto the end of the compilation was a hidden track that played out following the closing seconds of the final song on Adam & The Ants' 1981 album, Prince Charmng. Sounds of waves lapping on a beach, guitar strums and a 'wimoweh' refrain, what better way to end, then and now?

 

1) Boom! There She Was (Sonic Property Mix By Steve Thompson & Michael Barbiero) (UK Edit): Scritti Politti ft. Roger Troutman (1988)

2) (Keep Feeling) Fascination (Extended Version): The Human League (1983)

3) The Meaning Of Love (Single Version): Depeche Mode (1982)

4) Movin' On Up (Album Version By Jimmy Miller): Primal Scream (1991)

5) Tell All The People: The Doors (1969)

6) Road To Nowhere (Album Version): Talking Heads (1985)

7) Downtown ('Shag Times' Album Version): The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu (1988)

8) It's Going To Happen! (Album Version): The Undertones (1981)

9) Faron Young (Truckin' Mix By Thomas Dolby): Prefab Sprout (1985)

10) Ask: The Smiths (1985)

11) Streets Of Your Town (Album Version): The Go-Betweens (1988)

12) untitled: Adam & The Ants (1981)

 

Side Two (46:55) (Box) (Mega)

Side One here

Here Comes June

How did we get here already?!

 

1) Winter In June: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve ft. Percy Thrower (2007)

2) Seven Days In Sunny June (Album Version): Jamiroquai (2005)

3) June Bug (Album Version By Don Was): The B-52's (1989)

4) Night In June: Autumn (1981)

5) Uncle June And Aunt Kiyoti: Kristin Hersh (1994)

6) June Last Year: Kate Walsh (2009)

7) Wait Until June (Acoustic Demo): The Go-Betweens (1988)

8) Junebug (Cover of Sparklehorse): Cherry Ghost (2007)

9) June 55: SAULT (2022)

10) Flaming June (B&J's Reconstruction) (Cover of BT): Blank & Jones ft. Elles De Graaf (2004)

 

1989: Cosmic Thing: 3 

1994: Your Ghost EP: 5

1996: 16 Lovers Lane Acoustic Demos (Les Inrockuptibles magazine promo CD): 7

2004: A Forest: The EP: 10

2005: Dynamite: 2 

2007: Mathematics EP: 8

2007: West EP: 1 

2009: Light & Dark: 6

2011: Synthesize: 4

2022: Air: 9

 

Here Comes June (40:46)

I Know What You Did Last Sombre

Side 1 of a mix CD-R, burned on 4th December 2006. This was originally compiled for my brother, who was living overseas at the time so in an uncharacteristic feat of organisation, I had this and a clutch of other gifts ready in time for the last airmail posting date for Christmas.

 

The mix runs for the maximum burn time, just under 80 minutes, with a split into two 'sides'. I'd loosely describe this as the 'downtempo side'. The title itself is both a twist on the popular horror film franchise and perhaps a comment on the winter chill surrounding me as, on the other side of the world, my brother was experiencing a seasonal opposite. 

 

In the summer of 2005, my wife and I also travelled to stay with my brother and his wife for a week, I think the first time we'd seen each other in person for nearly six years, so the title is probably a nod to the sadness of separation, 18 months on. Ho ho ho and festive cheer, indeed. Bloody hell, I should have sent a jangly pop compilation, in retrospect...!

Glancing at this tracklist, you'd be forgiven for thinking that I only bought one album in 2006, although if that had been the case, it still would have been White Bread Black Beer by Scritti Politti. The rest of the collection is made up of songs from the previous 5 years, a couple of which I had discovered in the bargain bins of Virgin Megastore in Bristol.

 

On such discovery was Your Love Means Everything by Faultline aka David Kosten. I was drawn in by the photo of a wrench on the cover and the list of guest vocalists on the back cover: Michael Stipe, Jacob Golden and Wayne Coyne. Okay, Chris Martin also pops up on a couple of tracks, but I didn't let that stop me from shelling out a couple of quid for what turned out to be a good record. I was surprised to find that this was the second and final (to date) Faultline album. Even more surprisingly, The Colossal Gray Sunshine was released as a promo single in 2004, with a remix by Paul Oakenfold, Apart from a one-off cover of Send In The Clowns featuring Lisa Hannigan in 2017, David Kosten seems to be largely working as a producer and programmer these days, with the likes of Bat For Lashes, Keane and Steven Wilson.

 

Another favourite at the time was Pony Club, not to be confused with New Young Pony Club. Much as I'm loathe to admit it, Pony Club first came to my attention in 2004 via cover mounted CD with NME, curated by the Manchester Racist. The track in question was from the debut Pony Club album, 2002's Home Truths, and I was sufficiently intrigued to pick up a copy, again troubling the bargain bins in the local megastore. Pony Club is essentially a vehicle for Mark Cullen and Home Truths is a claustrophobic and cutting depiction of a life trapped in housing estates and martial discord. Cullen also co-wrote a number of songs with Ian Broudie for Lightning Seeds, which is about as diametrically opposed as you can get.

 

Amongst the other sombre gems are Daníel Ágúst, on his first solo detour from GusGus, the much-missed Anita Lane, a Calexico rarity, a classic from former Voodoo Queen Anjali and Jah Wobble dropping his trademark bass into a remix of Norwegian Sami musician Mari Boine's 1994 song, Ĉuovgi Liekkas. Luke Haines resurrected The Auteurs in 2003 to air a combination of new songs and re-recordings on the excellent Das Capital, whilst The Go-Betweens returned for what would sadly prove to be their final album of new material, Oceans Apart, which is also one of their finest.

 

Likewise, Scritti Politti. Hard to believe - or accept - that it's now been sixteen years since White Bread Black Beer, with no immediate prospect of a further album. This is the third outing for Petrococadollar on the Dubhed blog, following it's appearance in my opening series 50@50 in December 2020 and again as part of a Scritti Politti selection in October 2021. I make no apologies, it's an exceptional song, even by Green Gartside's standards.

1) The Gray (Album Version): Daníel Ágúst (2005)

2) The Next Man That I See (Album Version By Mick Harvey): Anita Lane (2001) 

3) Ballad Of Cable Hogue (Version Française): Calexico ft. Marianne Dissard (2000)

4) The Colossal Gray Sunshine (Album Version): Faultline ft. Wayne Coyne & Steven Drozd (2002)

5) Lazy Lagoon (Album Version): Anjali (2000)

6) No Reason To Cry: The Go-Betweens (2005)

7) Satan Wants Me (Album Version): Luke Haines & The Auteurs (2003)

8) Ĉuovgi Liekkas (Jah Wobble Remix II): Mari Boine (2001)

9) CCTV: Pony Club (2002)

10) Petrococadollar: Scritti Politti (2006)

2000: Ballad Of Cable Hogue EP (French promo CD single): 3

2000: Lazy Lagoon EP / Anjali: 5 

2001: Remixed / Oðða Hámis: 8 

2001: Sex o'Clock: 2

2002: Home Truths: 9

2002: Your Love Means Everything: 4

2003: Das Capital: The Songwriting Genius Of Luke Haines & The Auteurs: 7

2005: Oceans Apart: 6

2005: Swallowed A Star: 1

2006: White Bread Black Beer: 10

Side One (38:36) (KF) (Mega)

W.O.R.K. Is A Four Letter Word

After what simultaneously seems like a long time and no time at all at home, Christmas and New Year is well and truly over and I'm back at work. I've mixed feelings, but today's selection will get me through the commute, at least.

Sadly, I couldn't find a place for this stone cold classic.

1) Welcome To The Working Week: Elvis Costello (1977)

2) Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad: The Clash (1978) 

3) Don't Work That Hard: Scritti Politti (1985)

4) Women Around The World At Work (Album Version): Martha & The Muffins (1981)

5) From Bed To Work: Pony Club (2004)

6) Hard Work: Teitur (2013)

7) Finest Worksong (Album Version): R.E.M. (1987)

8) Model Worker (Live @ The Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica): Magazine (1980)

9) Barnaby, Hardly Working (Version): Yo La Tengo (1989)

10) All Work And No Play (Extended Mix): Hüsker Dü (1986)

11) I Work In A Health Spa: The Go-Betweens (1986)

12) Right To Work: Chelsea (1977)

13) Birth, School, Work, Death (Extended Mix): The Godfathers (1989)

14) This Woman's Work (Director's Cut Version): Kate Bush (2011)

15) How To Hate The Working Classes: Luke Haines (2001)

16) I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue): Tom Waits (1976)

17) Fit And Working Again: The Fall (1981)

18) Let's Work Together: Canned Heat (1969)

19) At Home, At Work, At Play: Sparks (1974)

 

1969: Let's Work Together 7": 18

1974: Propaganda: 19 

1976: Small Change: 16

1977: My Aim Is True: 1

1978: Give 'Em Enough Rope: 2 

1978: The Outrageous Soundtrack From The Motion Picture "Jubilee": 12

1981: Slates: 17

1981: This Is The Ice Age: 4 

1981: Urgh! A Music War: 8

1985: Cupid & Psyche 85: 3

1986: Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely 12": 10

1987: Document: 7 

1989: Out On The Floor EP: 13

1989: President Yo La Tengo: 9

2001: Christie Malry's Own Double Entry. OST: 15

2004: Family Business: 5

2004: Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express (Expanded Edition): 11 

2011: Director's Cut: 14

2013: Story Music: 6

W.O.R.K. Is A Four Letter Word (1:14:19)

She's My Groovy Good Luck Friend

Celebrating Janice Long, 5th April 1955 to 25th December 2021.

 

This is a later-than-usual post, for obvious reasons. I had something else lined up for today but after reading the sad news last night of Janice's passing on Christmas Day, I wanted to pay tribute instead.

 

I probably listened to Janice Long more than John Peel on Radio 1 as a teen, mainly because her evening show slot usually coincided with doing homework or otherwise avoiding my family in my bedroom. The sessions on her show were every bit as essential to my discovering new bands and artists, who have stuck with me for a lifetime. I haven't got as many Janice Long sessions in my collection as I thought, so there are some glaring anomalies (Primal Scream's Velocity Girl, for one) and this is another of those selections that doesn't begin to do justice to the breadth of Janice's shows and her passion for music.

Instead, this is quite alternative/indie-heavy and mainly focuses on 1984 to 1988, the period when I was a regular listener to her Radio 1 show. I've acquired a quite few songs retrospectively over the years, including quite a few that I didn't hear when originally broadcast (e.g. the Gold Blade track from the 1990s). I didn't follow Janice's move from Radio 1 and I've rarely listened to the radio from 2000 onwards, but it's clear from the tributes that her joy and enthusiasm for music remained undimmed. A genuine trailblazing DJ and presenter. Thank you, Janice.

 

1) Feminine Gender: Ranking Ann (4th August 1985)

2) Turkish Song Of The Damned: The Pogues (22nd October 1986)

3) Groovy Good Luck Friend: BMX Bandits (8th June 1986)

4) Christmas Mourning: Julian Cope (12th December 1984)

5) Home Is Where The Heart Is: The Chameleons (13th March 1985)

6) Ballad Of The Band: Felt (12th February 1986)

7) Winter Coat: The Bible (5th November 1986)

8) The Whole World Is Turning: Toots & The Maytals (19th August 1987)

9) Gave You My Love: Aswad (13th September 1984)

10) Ruthless: Cabaret Voltaire (10th October 1984)

11) Piece Of You: Soho (8th November 1987)

12) America: The Communards (13th October 1985)

13) Independence Day (Cover of Comsat Angels): Voice Of The Beehive (7th March 1988)

14) What Do You Mean?: The Blue Aeroplanes (15th February 1987)

15) Frenz: The Fall (13th May 1987)

16) Traumas Traumas Traumas: Marc Almond (16th January 1985)

17) Is This The Life: Cardiacs (29th November 1987)

18) The Word Around Town: David Westlake & The Go-Betweens (14th January 1987)

19) Ostrich: Danielle Dax (1st December 1985)

20) Football Hooligan: Tippa Irie (26th June 1985)

21) 5 True Believers: Gold Blade (17th March 1997)

22) Take Me To The Girl: Associates (8th September 1985)

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