Ah but my entire being has been destroyed by the immaculate compilation A John Waters Christmas - in particular, the uber-cutsie 'Santa Claus Is A Black Man' by Akim & The Teddy Vann Production Company - and I can barely function right now, but damn it. Here it is anyway. Hope you can dig it. (The R means I was listening to it for work-related reasons, and clicking on the hypertext will take you through to the review - usually.)
1 (-) ? and the Mysterians
2R (13) Songs
3R (-) Mika
4R (-) The Slits (the new album)
5R (5) I Heart Hiroshima
6 (-) The Specials
7 (-) Nirvana
8 (-) Buzzcocks
9 (-) Bridezilla
9R (-) Editors
11 (15) The Skatalites
12 (-) Theo Beckford
12 (-) The Selecter
14 (-) Akim & The Teddy Vann Production Company
15 (-) Rico Rodriguez
16R (-) Dizzee Rascal
16 (3) Herman Düne (the new album)
18 (-) Alton Ellis
19 (-) Bright Eyes (for my Christmas compilations)
20 (-) Dandy Livingstone
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ReplyDeleteI heard Editors for the first time ever yesterday. Wrote a review for www.thevine.com.au.
04 November at 22:15 · Comment · Like · Share
Gina Davidson
I LOVE Editors,and i surprised myself,i didn't think they were my kind of thing,i like a musical surprise.
04 November at 22:17 · Delete
Nthn Hwdshll
the second album is superior, there best album, thought the new one was boring personally
04 November at 22:19 · Delete
Kai Jones
they're like the IKEA Interpol
04 November at 22:20 · Delete
Darragh Bee-bop Murray
I'm with Kai. They're a poor interpol ripoff.
04 November at 22:21 · Delete
Everett True
Hold up. Who's this Interpol you talk about so freely?
04 November at 22:32 · Delete
Darragh Bee-bop Murray
The band who are a poor-man's Joy Division.
04 November at 22:50 · Delete
Everett True
so...um...editors are like a poor man's version of a poor man's version of a band that ceased to exist roughly 30 years ago?
04 November at 23:00 · Delete
Kai Jones
I couldn't be bothered to follow the line through to Joy Division.... Interpol do a better version of Joy Division than Editors do of Interpol if that helps! self-perpetual rock and roll!!
04 November at 23:13 · Delete
Manuel Afonso
Editors doing Interpol doing Joy Division is something like Nickelback doing Bush doing Nirvana...
04 November at 23:20 · Delete
Darragh Bee-bop Murray
Oh, and I forgot to mention, Joy Division are a poor man's Johann Sebastian Bach.
04 November at 23:24 · Delete
Kai Jones
I blame Robert Johnson
04 November at 23:47 · Delete
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ReplyDelete? And The Mysterians, dudes!
06 November at 18:42 · Comment · Like
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Joe Foster
Oh yes!
06 November at 18:44 · Delete
Everett True
man alive, they're great!
06 November at 18:47 · Delete
Jules Toogood
Saw a thing on the on You Tube recently......selling their tour bus. Weird.
06 November at 18:53 · Delete
Susanna Patten
gooood band
06 November at 18:57 · Delete
Keir Hardie
he had a house fire and lost all his shit a few years ago I recall
06 November at 21:40 · Delete
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ReplyDelete96 Tears!!!
07 November at 08:48 · Comment · Like
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Keir Hardie
Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying!
07 November at 08:50 · Delete
Huw Williams
Not the Stranglers version!?
07 November at 08:50 · Delete
Keir Hardie
i guess it's connected with his ? And The Mysterians shout out 14 hours ago!
07 November at 08:51 · Delete
Kevin Coultas
96 eyes
07 November at 08:54 · Delete
Everett True
no. not the Stranglers version! Hey, Huw - you heard the Specials version? Demo made the time around of 'Why'?
07 November at 09:00 · Delete
Everett True
P.S. Anyone else notice the debt Suicide owe ? And The Mysterians?
07 November at 09:00 · Delete
Keir Hardie
First version I heard was Inspiral Carpets around 1986, at Royton Cricket Club I think. A year or two later I bought some 80s reunion live tape on ROIR, because it was the first ? And The Mysterians product I'd actually seen. It was all orange, in an orange case, with an orange cassette shell etc.
07 November at 09:02 · Delete
Everett True
yeah, my wife knows the Rugs' version best as well. What the hell. Clint's keyboard was pure Mysterians - it was the reason I liked the Rugs so.
07 November at 09:06 · Delete
Huw Williams
Not heard the Specials cover no.Any good?
07 November at 09:15 · Delete
Everett True
it's incredibly weird. good? yeah. well, it's the Specials! PM me your email and I'll send you an MP3
07 November at 09:24 · Delete
Huw Williams
Thank you sir.
07 November at 09:29 · Delete
Keir Hardie
it's essentially a Fun Boy Three demo from 1981, Terry, Lynval & Neville, although they hadn't left The Specials yet!
07 November at 09:31 · Delete
Everett True
really? that would make sense.
07 November at 09:34 · Delete
Chris Estey
In terms of riffs "96 Tears" fits real well with "I'm Waiting For The Man" for a superb medley.
07 November at 09:47 · Delete
Keir Hardie
Roddy gives the story here http://marcoonthebass.blogspot.com/2009/06/roddy-byers-tells-story-behind-rare.html
07 November at 09:48 · Delete
Nthn Hwdshll
proto-Suicide
07 November at 10:04 · Delete
Ilya Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvK638yKuY
Proto-Bobby Gillespie, more like.
07 November at 18:38 · Delete