Sober Sounds

The excesses of Saturday meant that I was strictly on softs on Sunday night, and Dave was taking it easy with the Moscow Mules. The last playlist of the year, hope you had a good night.

James Brown - Funky Drummer (d)
MGMT - Kids (s)
The Clash - Guns of Brixton (d)
Grandmaster Flash & The Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight (Radio Edit) (s)
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous! (d)
The Go! Team - Ladyflash (s)
David Bowie - Fame (d)
Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums (s)
Sonny & Cher - The Beat Goes On (d)
Chemical Brothers - Out of Control (s)
Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric (d)
Goldfrapp - Strict Machine (s)
Ian Dury - Wake Up & Make (d)
The Jam - Eton Rifles (s)
John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through the Night (d)
Air - Kelly Watch the Stars (d)
Blur - Music is my Radar (d)
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance (s)
Belle & Sebastian - If She Wants Me (s)
Talking Heads - Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town (d)
Beach Boys - Wild Honey (s)
Nick Drake - Hazey Jane II (d)
CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (s)
Snow Patrol - Tiny Little Fractures (s)
Modern Lovers - Old World (d)
Bloc Party - One Month Off (s)
Radiohead - Planet Telex (d)
The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (s)
Toots & The Maytals - 54 46 Was My Number (d)
Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun (s)
Supermode - Tell (s)
Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump (d)
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me (s)
Paul Simon - Graceland (d)
The Zutons - Valerie (s)
Bob Dylan - Absolutely Sweet Marie (d)
Chemical Brothers feat. Fatlip - The Salmon Dance (s)
Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants (d)
The Cult - Wild Flower (s)
Blondie - Rapture (s)
Lee Dorsey - Get Out of my Life (d)
Outkast - The Way You Move (s)
Les Rythmes Digitales - Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat) (s)
1990's - See You at the Lights (s)
The Submarines - Boys Don't Cry (s)
King Creosote - Homeboy (d)
T-Rex - Children of the Revolution (s)
The B52's - Rock Lobster (d)
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta (s)
Elvis Costello - Pump It Up (s)
Moloko - Sing It Back (s)
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (d)
Mylo - Drop the Pressure (s)
The Clash - Train in Vain (Stand by me) (d)
We are Scientists - The Great Escape (s)
Datarock - Princess (d)

Songs marked (d) are David's choices. (s) are Stuart's

All Killer No Filler!

Sunday's playlist folks, larger than normal as we were open 'till 1 and will be for the rest of the year.

Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil (Live)
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
Blur - Tender
Stereophonics - Long Way Round
David Bowie - Absolute Beginners
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
Pulp - Do You Remember the First Time?
Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants
Beck - Broken Train
The Killers - A Crippling Blow
The Strokes - This Modern Age
Stereolab - Daisy Click Click
Talking Heads - The Book I Read
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Susan Cadogan and The Upsetters - Hurt So Good
Of Montreal - Gallery Piece
The Shins - Phantom Limb
ELO - Mr. Blue Sky
Radiohead - Paperback Writer
Athlete - Hurricane
Elvis Costello - So Young
Hot Chip - Hold On
Belle and Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby
Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
Fratellis - A Heady Tale
The Clash - Guns of Brixton
Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams
Tom Waits - Singapore
paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind
Freemasons feat. Katherine Ellis - When You Touch Me
King creosote - A Month of Firsts
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
The Roots - Adrenaline
Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop
The Modern Lovers - Astral Plane
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
The Who - The Seeker
The Streets - Fit But You Know It
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Paul Simon - Kodachrome
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
T-Rex - Bang-a-Gong, Get It On
LCD Soundsystem - Time to Get Away
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
Stone Roses - Waterfall
B-52's - Give Me Back My Man
The Jam - Down the Tube Station at Midnight
Prince - Cream
Ladyhawke - My Delerium
Ladytron - The Way That I Found You
Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to Me
Nick Drake - Hazy Jane II

Sunday 7th December, Including the First Seasonal Play of the Year!

It must be December, as the classic by The Waitresses, Christmas Wrapping, got a blast! An unmistakable introduction bringing with it sighs and joys!

Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar
Jesus & Mary Chain - April Skies
The Vaselines - Molly's Lips
The Beta Band - It's Not Too Beautiful
E Z Rollers - Walk This Land
A Certain Ratio - Shack Up
Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
Booker T & The MG's - Time is Tight
Marcia Griffiths - Gypsy man
MGMT - Kids
Lily Allen - The Fear
Moby - Run On
Ting Tings - Be the One
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Manic Street Preachers - You Stone the Sun From My Heart
Elvis Costello - 45
Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection
Devo - Mongoloid
Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
The Idle Race - Days of Broken Arrows
The Smiths - Shakespeare's Sister
No Doubt - Just a Girl
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
The Rapture - Whoo! Alright-Yeah-uh-huh
The Chemical Brothers Feat. Fatlip - The Salmon Dance
Ramones - Rockaway Beach
Bloc Party - Banquet
Joy Division - Disorder
Yazoo - Situation (US 12" Mix)
Tom Waits - Walking Spanish
Elvis Costello - Radio Radio
Radiohead - Where I End & You Begin
The Fall - Classical
R. Dean Taylor - There's a Ghost in my House
Interpol - Slow Hands
The Associates - Party Fears Two
The Go! Team - Doing it Right
The Pipettes - Really That Bad
Young Knives - Weekends & Bleak Days (Hot Summers)
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
REM - Radio Free Europe
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky

Covers That Are Better Than the Original...

Cover versions, a constant source of debate which rears its head every now and again. Recently, her from X-factor covering Run by Snow Patrol, a high regarded song in my opinion, brutally re-hashed. However, each to their own.

Another one is David Watts, JC likes the Kinks version, I prefer The Jam. Somebody to Love, a Jefferson Airplane hit from 1967 which is one of many to have a dance remix, this time by the Boogie Pimps. We've all seen the video, and I think it is absolutely fantastic. Time and time again we see scale models of landscapes which are pieces of cut up sponge, green paint and a few fences. However, the director has taken time to re-create what is clearly a post-WW2 agricultural landscape displaying properties of arable and pastoral farming. These are represented by the variety of mosaics we are familiar with whenever we take to the skies on a clear day, developed due to the requirement of large scale machinery which took over from tractors. It is not just the field mosaic, but we also see a detailed township and also what looks like deciduous managed woodland possibly used for coppicing or pollarding in bygone years. Shame the CGI's a bit crap but the girl's not too bad!

St. Andrews Night in the Tams

The Irish give it big licks, the Yanks have their moment and even the Aussies are infiltrating into our hostelries to partake in a celebration of their national day. Despite the celebration of other national days, we neglect our own. However, steps were taken to ensure not blanket coverage but jovial recognition that we can get involved in this national day celebration business and maybe, just maybe, get a holiday out of it in the future!

I decided to shape up a St. Andrews themed round, and set myself the challenge, that every song coming out of my iPod had to be, in some way, connected to Scotland. I'm pleased to say that, despite strains with half an hour to go, this was achieved! Dave also managed to get a few Scottish artists in there too. Well done to the winners and hope you all had a good night! Here's the tracklisting:

David Bowie - Space Odyssey (d)
Idlewild - American English (s)
Gomez - Get Miles (d)
Mull Historical Society - Watching Xanadu (s)
Barbarossa - Burning Daylight (d)
Aberfeldy - Summer's Gone (s)
Pixies - Where Is My Mind (d)
Edwin Collins - A Girl Like You (s)
Beta Band - Dance O'er the Border (d)
Belle and Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby (s)
Alasdair Roberts - Firewater (d)
Sergeant - Sunshine (s)
She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? (d)
Snow Patrol - Chocolate (s)
Bridget Bardot - Harley Davidson (d)
Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter (12" version) (s)
Tom Waits - 16 Shells From A 30 Ought 6 (d)
Travis - Flowers In The Window (s)
Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream For Crow (d)
Orange Juice - Rip It Up (s)
Talking Heads - Pulled Up (d)
Sons and Daughters - This Gift (s)
The Skids - Into the Valley (s)
Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives (d)
The View - Superstar Tradesman (s)
Skoubhie Dubh Orchestra - How's Your Tongue (d)
Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Lounger (s)
Fiery Furnaces - Ex Guru (d)
Lloyd Cole - My Bag (s)
R Dean Taylor - There's a Ghost in My House (d)
1990's - See You At the Lights (s)
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place(d)
Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee (s)
Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso (d)
K.T. Tunstall - Suddenly I See (s)
Deerhoof - Believe E.S.P. (d)
Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse (s)
Big Country - In a Big Country (s)
Bjork - Alarm Call (d)
Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens (s)
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You (s)
Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants (d)
Calvin harris - Acceptable in the 80's (s)
Smiths - A Boy With a Thorn in His Side (d)
Mylo - Drop the Pressure (s)

Songs marked (d) are David's choices. (s) are Stuart's