Having A Bit Of A Clear-Out
Kev’s already made his apology and so here’s mine, in the form of a light-on-words 40 song clear-out of everything I’ve been going to post but just haven’t been able to come up with a suitable tenuous sexually ambiguous rant and pun post title for. And even with a 40 song post I still can’t manage any sort of real variety. Sorry.
Not sure what to call this other than electronic indie pop. Anyway, it’s new and good and was apparently originally recorded with three others as b-sides to potential singles from their album from last year. It was decided that they were too good for that and so were released as the ‘Just Thoughts’ EP the other week.
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones (MP3)
The beats might be twenty years old but they’ve not lost it have they (and I’d say they’re very much IN fashion at the moment). I hope they take their tour outside the U.S.
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened (MP3)
Deerhunter’s ‘Microcastle’ is officially the first album I’ve ever *ahem* “acquired” before its proper release. Much tighter than ‘Cryptograms’ but just as much of a grower (ever wondered if ‘growers’ are just albums you’ve just forced yourself to not dislike after repeated listens?) and check out the so-simple but so-ace guitar riffage at four minutes and five seconds through my current favourite song on the album: suh-weeet.
Eels - Mr E’s Beautiful Blues (MP3)
Hidden track stuffed on the end of ‘Daisies Of The Galaxy’. “Worst Eels album” my arse Rob Bailey.
Erlend Øye & Morgan Geist - Ghost Trains (MP3)
Yeah so I love Erlend Øye, what are you gonna do about it eh? This is what happens when two chaps who can do no wrong get together and, well, do no wrong in a seriously impressive fashion.
My friend Ash makes me listen to stuff like this all the time in the office we share; and I love him for it. Check out the breakdown at around four minutes which heralds the arrival of some pretty fine keyboard work.
Jean-François Coen - La Tour De Pise (MP3)
I discovered this on a DVD of Michel Gondry music videos and it took me damn ages to track down even a naughty MP3 of it let-alone a legit copy of the EP. Nice twee French pop music.
Jim Ford - I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (MP3)
Awesome 1970-ish country/psyche/soul foot-stomper with some mighty fine bass guitar work.
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth (MP3)
Thanks to BBC 6 Music I wake up to gems like this every morning. God bless DAB radio.
Kate Bush - Watching You Without Me (MP3)
I think I speak for everyone here at beef towers in saying that each and every one of you should own a copy of ‘Hounds Of Love’. But ‘Hounds Of Love’ is actually only the name of the party-hit filled first side. The other side is called ‘The Ninth Wave’ and doesn’t really have anything you could play out on a Saturday night. It’s still good though as ‘Watching You Without Me’ attests.
Kelley Polar - Entropy Reigns (In The Celestial City) (MP3)
I meant to post this a good few months ago when I got the album from Dotshop but I forgot. It’s since had a 12″ release so you may well have heard it but it doesn’t stop it being awesome. You can just tell Mr Geist’s had his sticky fingers all over this.
Always a sucker for a bit of Kylie.
Martha & The Muffins - Women Around The World At Work (MP3)
Nice Post Punk/New Wave complete with sax solo. Who knew feminism could sound so good?
If you haven’t already given Matthew Dear’s ‘Asa Breed’ album from last year a listen then you really should.
From their ‘Come On Die Young’ album, even though it’s got singing on it I think this is probably my favourite Mogwai song.
I heard this lovely 1969 psych pop song when I was round at a friend of a friend’s house for tea last year. Look out for it coming to the soundtrack to a Wes Anderson film near you soon. Probably.
Let’s face it; their new album’s pretty rubbish. They did used to be pretty awesome though.
Rebelski - Little White Lines (MP3)
Martin Rebelski not only plays keyboards for Doves but also makes his own records. They’re nice.
The opener on the follow-up to the ubiquitous ‘Tropicalia’ compilation. And I’m sorry but she definitely sings “balls-up… magic magic balls-up”.
Speck Mountain - Summer Above (MP3)
“You’ll be in sun-drenched Indie bliss” Danny Webb told me when I asked him if Speck Mountain’s ‘Summer Above’ was any good. And he was right.
My musical ignorance never fails to amuse me. Thanks to four 22 year old gents for introducing me to Television. Especially good of them considering the crap I subject them to.
The Real Ones - Theme From Mikal Telle - The Movie (MP3)
I don’t really know much about these other than their ‘Outlaw’ EP was mis-pressed by the naughty people at Tellé which sent this particular track on an endless, seamless loop which was great for doing the washing-up to.
My two favourite songs from The Blow’s excellent ‘Paper Television’ album from 2006. ‘Pardon Me’ is all spiky and danceable and ‘Parenthesis’ has to be one of the geekiest love songs ever written.
TV-Resistori - Kontraposto (MP3)
Uusi Fantasia - Lattialla Taas (MP3)
Two little pieces of Finnish pop stupidity. And yes, the Uusi Fantasia track is the one on Erlend Øye’s DJ Kicks with him singing Shocking Blue/Bananarama’s ‘Venus‘ over the top of it.
Valerie Dore - The Night (MP3)
This is on some mix somewhere (ring any bells Mark?) but it’s begging for one of them trendy re-edits. If it just lost the chorus, the bit that goes “all my friends are talking to me… ” and then a bit of re-jigging. Just have a listen and you’ll know what I mean.
Chapterhouse - She’s A Vision(MP3)
Some proper classic Shoegaze from Chapterhouse and Slowdive: all distorted guitars, metronomic drumming and pop hooks.
Paul Simon - All Around The World Or The Myth Of Fingerprints (MP3)
Two from the Official Best Foot Forward Party Hits canon.
The Greenhornes Featuring Holly Golightly - There Is an End (MP3)
All songs from films with Bill Murray in. Three excellent selections by Wes Anderson (from ‘Rushmore’, ‘Darjeeling Limited’ and ‘The Life Aquatic’ respectively) and the magnificent ‘There Is An End’ opens Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Broken Flowers’.
Fallout - Morning After (Sunrise Mix) (MP3)
Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath (MP3)
Air - Le Soleil Est Près De Moi (Dopplereffekt Remix) (MP3)
A quintet of electronic treats in roughly chronological order.
There’s Tony Carey on his 1982 Explorer album (if you happen upon a copy at a car boot sale then by all means send it my why. Noooo, it’s not stupidly rare and worth a fortune at all).
It’s not that much of what’s on the ‘Warp+10 Influences’ hasn’t aged well, it’s just that I can’t listen to them without seeing stock footage of the halcyon days of the Hacienda in my head. I don’t find that a pleasant thing. 1987’s ‘Morning after(Sunrise Mix)’ by not-done-much-else Fallout doesn’t, and is also rather good. File alongside this.
Just some classic Aphex Twin.
Gerald Donald, choosing Dopplereffekt from his many pseudonyms, pretends to remix this early Air song by playing a filtered vocal sample from the original song and then he just does a whole new song that sounds like classic Drexciya.
This Death In Vegas track is from their otherwise pretty rubbish fourth album the name of which I can’t remember (or even be arsed to look up). I have to admit to being a bit of a sucker for their other three though, especially ‘Scorpio Rising’.
And that’s it. I hope there’s something in here for you. If not, well that’s what Mark’s here for.
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Floyd Sanders added these pithy words on Aug 31 08 at 4:22 pmExcellent post, I’m especially enjoying the Aphex Twin track:) Keep up the good work…
Mr Schools added these pithy words on Sep 01 08 at 7:32 amStevo - This is an obscene amount of mp3’s to be putting up. How can one compete with a post of such magnitude. About time you got your arse in gear though…;-) I doth my cap…
Gotta say I don’t recognise that Valerie Dore track? Also, Tony Carey’s Explorer LP, been after this for a while myself, that and some of the other X-Records stuff (No Human/Moebius). Expensive…not much?!
Good work Stevo.
Kev added these pithy words on Sep 01 08 at 3:11 pmWowzers. I see our bandwidth will be getting hammered for sure this month …
Moka added these pithy words on Sep 01 08 at 5:43 pmPhew enough songs to keep a month updated
I still haven’t heard them all but big ups for ‘la tour de pise’. It is one of those songs that was on my ‘mystery song’ list. I’ve been looking for this song more than 3 years(passively, mind you, I don’t want you to think of me as an obsessive person) after hearing it on the radio and they never mentioned who it was (I hate it when they do that).
Thank you so much! You have provided cathartic relief in my musical world.
Moka added these pithy words on Sep 01 08 at 6:22 pmConcerning Secos e Molhados: I love them, one of my favorite tropicalia bands. The singer is in fact a man not a woman, but it’s a common mistake he has both the androgynous looks and voice.
I’ll ruin your party with the ‘balls up’ but knowing a bit of portuguese I can tell you the first verse says:
‘Soft as a soft feather it settles on a simple and soft thing. Soft as nothing else.’
Granted it definitely sounds as ‘balls up’
Chris added these pithy words on Sep 01 08 at 8:49 pmRemember Mr Scholes it’s not the size of your post…
As for the Explorer LP, there are a couple of copies on Ebay at the moment for £107 a piece. If only I wasn’t buying my flat.
And the Valerie Dores track; it was on something that we played to death at Westworld. I’ll have to ask Danny Buckley what mix it was on.
Moka: I’m glad I could scratch that musical itch for you (I think we’ve all been stuck without a pen and paper or left screaming at the radio because they’ll happily tell you what they obvious stuff is but not the little gem that’s just stole your heart for 3 and a half minutes). And as for your lyric translation, it’s appreciated but I’m still going to sing my version.
joe stop making sense added these pithy words on Sep 14 08 at 12:30 amI enjoyed the post immensely until my hard drive got full up.
So, cheers Chris, now i’ll have to go and buy an external one. either that or force myself to delete all those embarrassing old bright eyes albums I have from 4 years ago.
i just can’t bring myself to do it.…and I was mildly shocked at your disclosure of Television ignorance!
Kev added these pithy words on Sep 30 08 at 7:04 pmJust so you know, having a big post doesn’t mean you can take a month off …
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