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Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Approx. start time |
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| Sounds Of The Ocean |
Beach Sounds
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Oceans Sounds | Sounds Of The Ocean | 2009 | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
| The Damned |
Love Song
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Machine Gun Etiquette | Chiswick / Let Them Eat Vinyl | 1979 | The opening track from the third Damned album, the first without founding member Brian James, who had been the principal songwriter theretofore. | 0:01:00 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Stranglers |
Love 30
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La Folie (Expanded version) |
EMI |
1981 |
B-Side from arguably The Stranglers' most famous single "Golden Brown". This is more about the type of "love" you find when scoring a Tennis match. It features the sounds of, well, tennis; as accompanied by backmasked instruments. |
0:03:19 (Pop-up) |
| Joy Division |
No Love Lost
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An Ideal for Living | Enigma Records | 1978 | All tracks were recorded at Pennine Sound Studios in Oldham on 14 December 1977. The recording sessions were self-financed by the band, on a budget of £400.[ The release reflects the band's early punk influences, as opposed to the post-punk style they later developed. In an interview with Uncut magazine in 2001, drummer Stephen Morris stated that when making the EP, the band requested the engineer make the drums sound like "Speed of Life", the opening track on David Bowie's 1977 album Low. "Strangely enough he couldn't". Probably because he wasn't Tony Visconti.... | 0:07:27 (Pop-up) |
| Fad Gaget |
Love Parasite
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Under The Flag | Mute | 1982 | Written by Frank Tovey for the most part concerning his fear for the future of the world, in light of having just become a father. He was apparently afraid of the world his daughter was going to grow up in. Sampling, which was new technology back in the early 1980s is incorporated into the album and sequencing is also heavily used. It features backing vocals by fellow Mute Records artist Alison Moyet. | 0:11:07 (Pop-up) |
| The Futureheads |
Hounds Of Love (New Mix)
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The Futureheads | 679,679 | 2004 | An excellent, excellent Kate Bush cover, Hounds of Love . ['Hounds Of Love'] is really about someone who is afraid of being caught by the hounds that are chasing him. I wonder if everyone is perhaps ruled by fear, and afraid of getting into relationships on some level or another. They can involve pain, confusion and responsibilities, and I think a lot of people are particularly scared of responsibility. Maybe the being involved isn't as horrific as your imagination can build it up to being - perhaps these baying hounds are really friendly. (Kate Bush Club newsletter, 1985) | 0:14:22 (Pop-up) |
| The Precisions |
If This Is Love (I'd Rather Be Lonely)
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If This Is Love (I'd Rather Be Lonely)7" | Drew /Sidra | 1967 | This energetic group from Detroit has a recording career that spreads over at least nine different labels. Beset by personnel changes, the Precisions dropped singles on Strand, Golden Crest, Wild, Highland, and Debra Records from 1960 to 1963. This tune is an absolute banger in Northern Soul circles,,,and shall henceforth be labelled as a choooooooooooon | 0:17:28 (Pop-up) |
| Betty Davis |
Anti Love Song
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Betty Davis | Light In The Attic | 1973 | Wrote her first song at the age of twelve. recorded some of the dankest, dirtiest funk out there. Put up with Miles Davis' shit and made him cool again. Feminist icon. She has left us this week. | 0:20:12 (Pop-up) |
| Delroy Wilson |
Got to Get Away From You
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Moonstompers, Shufflers And Skankers... Ska | Metro Select | 2012 | Wilson is often regarded as Jamaica's first child star, having first found success as a teenager. The singer continued recording sporadically during the early '90s, having fallen into a coma shortly before his death, due to problems associated with alcohol abuse, he died March 6, 1995 in Jamaica at age 46 of complications from cirrhosis of the liver. | 0:24:45 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The New Synthesizer Experience |
Silly Love Songs (karaoke)
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Instrumental Hits of Paul McCartney |
Tam-Tam Media |
2009 |
But over the years people have said, "Aw, he sings love songs, he writes love songs, he's so soppy at times." I thought, Well, I know what they mean, but, people have been doing love songs forever. I like 'em, other people like 'em, and there's a lot of people I love -- I'm lucky enough to have that in my life. So the idea was that "you" may call them silly, but what's wrong with that? The song was, in a way, to answer people who just accuse me of being soppy. The nice payoff now is that a lot of the people I meet who are at the age where they've just got a couple of kids and have grown up a bit, settling down, they'll say to me, "I thought you were really soppy for years, but I get it now! I see what you were doing!" By the way, "Silly Love Songs" also had a good bass line and worked well live. |
0:27:22 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Trans Am |
Love Commander
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Surrender To The Night |
Thrill Jockey |
1997 |
"a blend of Wire-esque jaggedness, arena-rock machismo, and the occasional dance-friendly beat." Babs: I still think Futureworld was their best record. |
0:32:49 (Pop-up) |
| Dog Faced Hermans |
Love Is The Heart Of Everything
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Hum of Life | Konkurrel / Project A Bomb | 1993 | Speaking of love, I love this band so much... They migrated from Scotland to The Netherlands and crossed paths many times with The Ex, eventually sharing member Andy Moor, who is still with The Ex to this day. As for this song, the liner notes point out: "Title is Mayakovsky's - letters to Lili Brik." | 0:34:50 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: DJ Speaks |
0:43:14 (Pop-up) |
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| Congo Norvell |
Love
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Music To Remember Him By | Basura!/Priority | 1994 | "Congo Norvell was a band led by Kid Congo Powers (Cramps, Gun Club, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds) and Sally Norvell (Prohibition & the Norvells). Congo Norvell formed in 1990 after Powers and Norvell met at the deathbed of a friend in Los Angeles. They embarked on a series of gigs meant to benefit friends dying of AIDS, and were noticed and signed to a record deal. They went on to record 3 studio albums (Music to Remember Him By, The Dope, the Lies, the Vaseline, & Abnormals Anonymous) and multiple EPs and compilations. After having been based in LA for a few years, they relocated to New York City in 1994 and played the NYC & East Coast circuit frequently. They toured Europe and the North America, often opening for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds." | 0:45:42 (Pop-up) |
| Public Image LTD |
Fodderstompf
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Public Image | Virgin / Light In The Attic | 1978 | My cousin and her husband loved this song so much that they danced to it on their wedding day. One of PiL's (many) shining moments. As the lyrics themselves state: "We only wanted to finish the album with the minimum amount of effort Which we are now doing very suc-cess-fully" | 0:49:50 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Jah Wobble |
Fodderstompf
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Metal Box Rebuilt In Dub |
Cleopatra |
2021 |
Original Public Image LTD bassist Jah Wobble recently re-imagined the second PiL album in Dub. This track, however is from PiL's first album from 1978, therefore this is considered to be an extra track. Find the entire album here: Metal Box Rebuilt In Dub Bandcamp |
0:57:14 (Pop-up) |
| King Tuff |
I Love You Ugly
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Black Moon Spell | Sub Pop Records | 2014 | Kyle Thomas aka King Tuff has been releasing material on Sub Pop and Burger Records since 2006. Also played in Ty Segall's backing band "The Muggers", formed following the release of Emotional Mugger. this tune sums up true love in just over a minute. | 1:05:39 (Pop-up) |
| The Vaccines/Wllliam Onyeabor |
Do You Want A Man
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What?! William Onyeabor Remixed | Luaka Bop | 2014 | He studied cinematography in Russia (USSR) for many years, returning to Nigeria in the mid-1970's to start his own Wilfilms Records music label and to set up a music and film production studio, Wilfilms (Recording Studios) Ltd. Enugu, Nigeria. This remix/rework record is very good and highly recommended! | 1:06:30 (Pop-up) |
| Primal Scream |
The Glory of Love
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Beautiful Future | B-Unique | 2008 | This album is criminally underrated and often overlooked! To taste the sweetness of love one must first feel its bitter sting...totes worth it! | 1:08:54 (Pop-up) |
| Au Pairs |
Love Song
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Playing With a Different Sex | Human | 1981 | The Au Pairs were a British post-punk band that formed in Birmingham in 1978 and continued until 1983. They produced two studio albums and three singles. Their songs were said to have "contempt for the cliches of contemporary sexual politics", This tune belies that tuff exterior because this is the schmoopiest song in the set IMHO... | 1:12:02 (Pop-up) |
| Add N To (X) |
Sheez Mine
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Loud Like Nature | Mute Records | 2002 | Love as possession. A highlight tune on this perfect album. Its intensity proved too much for Shenton, who left the band after this tour. | 1:14:58 (Pop-up) |
| Scream Club |
Fine As Fuck
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Life Of A Heartbreaker | Crunks Not Dead | 2006 | "2 wierd girls who met, fell in love in Olympia, and started a band. They broke up, stayed best frien" One of the more fun and catchy of the hardcore feminist electroclash crews, Scream Club hail from Olympia, WA and featured a number of collaborators. I saw them live and it was rather joyful and extremely fun. | 1:18:49 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Dev79 |
Shower Together
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Street Bass Anthems |
Seclusiasis |
2008 |
Dev7Nine aka Dev79 is a Philadelphia based producer/DJ, who has been banging it out as an OG of the bass music underground. He effortlessly weaves elements of grime, garage, rap, and juke, among a plethora of other styles into a tapestry of urban music that he (along with lablemate Starkey) have dubbed “Street Bass. |
1:22:23 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Dieter Zimmermann and his Orchestra |
Whole Lotta Love
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The In-Kraut Vol 3: Hip-Shaking Grooves Made In Germany 1967 -1974 |
Marina Records |
2008 |
Though he never found the same success as James Last, good old Dieter did lead a few orchestral bangers, |
1:26:13 (Pop-up) |
| Magazine |
I Love You, You Big Dummy
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Scree - Rarities 1978-1981 | Virgin | 1978 | Howard Devoto was the lead singer of Magazine (after he left Buzzcocks.) A Captain Beefheart cover, which had been released as a B-side to "Give Me Everything" in 1978. I love this cover dearly, from the outset "We are on..." vocal, to all the staccato guitar vamps, keyboard squiggles, saxophone squawks and so forth. Barry Adamson holds down the bluesy origins of the song on bass, but in a way that has so much throttle that you can hardly tell. A playful, yet savage performance. | 1:28:58 (Pop-up) |
| Buzzcocks |
I Love You, You Big Dummy / Don't Mess Me 'Round ('76 demos)
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Time's Up | Buzzcocks / Mute | 1976 | This represents Buzzcocks in their earliest form, back when Howard Devoto was lead singer (he went on to form Magazine.) This, of course, is the early version of the Captain Beefheart cover Devoto would revisit w/ Magazine. This version is more bluesy, performed in stuttery/punky haphazard fashion. It seamlessly segues into an original (otherwise unreleased) composition "Don't Mess Me 'Round" - I believe you can hear some of the roots of Fiction Romance in it. "No-remix demos, all recorded live, no overdubs... October 1976, 4 track, cost about £45." | 1:32:52 (Pop-up) |
| Buzzcocks |
Fiction Romance (Demo)
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Chronology | EMI | 1977 | Recorded at Morgan Studios on Dec 14, 1977 in demo sessions for the newer songs to be added to the debut album. I find this version superior to the album version, it has a bit more pep and lightness; the guitar hooks are less prominent, but the vocals are much more up front & sprightly. | 1:36:54 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Velvet Underground |
Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental Version)
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White Light / White Heat (Expanded Vinyl Version) |
Polydor / Universal Music |
1967 / 2014 |
Recorded Sep 5, 1967 w/ the original lineup (ie. with John Cale.) I actually had several ongoing debates with someone who didn't believe there was a vocal version of the song. It wasn't resolved until I finally found the vocal version and played it. Always found it strange that a debate could be so lengthy and passionate about something so anodyne. |
1:41:02 (Pop-up) |
| Röyksopp feat. Robyn |
I'm In Love With A Robot
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Junior | Wall of Sound | 2009 | Luuuuuuuuush. Unabashedly grand and romantic, Also very sad. Sometimes we fall in love with robots. It usually doesn't work out unless you're into that sort of thing. Robot fetishism (also ASFR, technosexuality and robophilia) is a fetishistic attraction to humanoid robots; also to people acting like robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A less common fantasy involves transformation into a robot. In these ways it is similar to agalmatophilia, which involves attraction to or transformation into statues or mannequins. | 1:45:09 (Pop-up) |
| Phèdre |
Death of Cupid
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Golden Age | Daps Records | 2013 | Two years ago, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in Germany launched a major restoration to make visible a Cupid buried beneath layers of paint in Johannes Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (ca. 1657). The museum has since removed the overpainting from the famed work, which now shows an image of Cupid hanging on the wall behind the forlorn young woman. Scholars believe that the newly revealed picture is meant to indicate that the woman is reading a love letter. The existence of the concealed Cupid was first detected in 1979 during an X-ray analysis of the painting. | 1:49:10 (Pop-up) |
| Iggy Pop |
Sea of Love
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Party | Arista | 1981 | One of Iggy's best, IMHO. Perfection. Party has been poorly received by critics. Charlotte Robinson of PopMatters called it "a bizarre train wreck of an album". Mark Deming of AllMusic wrote "Part of Iggy Pop's unique sort of integrity is that the man doesn't seem to know how to sell out, even when he tries, and Party, one of the strangest albums of his career, is living proof." critics know shit this album is great, | 1:54:54 (Pop-up) |
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