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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 30 August 2009 CE
Aug 30, 2009, 22:03
Seems to have come round very quickly this week. Spent much time on trains this week, so most of this is ipod-ery:

Obligatory R'n'R, R'n'B (the real type not the rubbish that calls itself r'n'b these days), etc:

Mr Sad Head - "Butcher Boy"
Muddy Waters - "Rollin' Stone"; "Got My Mojo Working"
Price Lloyd - "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"
Professor Longhair - "Rockin' With Fess"
The Clovers - "Hearts of Stone"
Little Junior's Blue Flames - "Love My Baby"; "Feelin' Good"
Bobby Mitchell - "Rack 'em Back"
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson - "Space Guitar"
Bo Diddley - "Bo Diddley"
Little Richard - "Tutti Frutti" (still the definitive rock and roll song ever); "Rip It Up"
Elvis Presley - "Mystery Train"; "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"; "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care"
Eddie Cochran - "Twenty Flight Rock"
Larry Williams - "Bony Moronie"
Link Wray - "Rumble"
Frankie Lymon - "Little Bitty Pretty One"
Gene Vincent - "Brand New Beat"; "Say Mama"
Johnny & The Hurricanes - "Red River Rock"

Plus plenty of pop:

Frank Sinatra - "Come Fly With Me"
The Beatles - "Money"; "And Your Bird Can Sing"
The Crystals - "Da Do Ron Ron"
Martha and The Vandellas - "Dancing in the Street"
The Who - "Happy Jack"
The Monkees - "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
The Small Faces - "Get Yourself Together"
The Kinks - "Victoria"

Scott Walker - Scott 4 LP
The Velvet Underground - "Candy Says"
David Bowie - "Station to Station"

Some ska:

Prince Buster - "Ska Town
Bob Marley & the Wailers - "Simmer Down" (okay that's rocksteady)
Tommy McCook & the Supersonics - "Out of Space"
The Cats - "Swan Lake"

And then the usuals:

XTC - "Science Friction"
Joy Division - "Digital"/"Glass" from A Factory Sample
Kraftwerk - Man Machine LP
Buzzcocks - "I Don't Know What To Do With My Life"
The Fall - "Dice Man"
The Human League - "Almost Medieval"
Joy Division - most of the studio tracks from Still
Killing Joke - "Nervous System"
The Pop Group - "She Is Beyond Good and Evil"
Simple Minds - "Factory"
The Slits - "So Tough"
The Teardrop Explodes - "Camera Camera"
X-O-Dus - "English Black Boys"
Dexys Midnight Runners - "Liars A to E" and "Let's Make This Precious" both from the Radio 1 Sessions CD
OMD - Organisation LP
New Order - "Ceremony", "Procession", "Temptation", "True Faith", Technique LP
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge LP
Joe Crow - "Compulsion" (again!)
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder LP
The Railway Children - "A Gentle Sound" 12", with two great b-sides
Stockholm Monsters - "Partyline"
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights LP

Autechre - Basscadet maxi-mixes

Radiohead - "Videotape"

Some recent stuff:

Madness - "Africa" stand-out track from The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe; starting to grow on me a little
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
Section 25 - Nature + Degree (again!)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
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