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Shining Gloriously Through The Sky
Bright & Early – Love Is Overtaking Me (MP3)
Bright & Early – Planted A Thought (MP3)
I have a new favourite pop group and they’re called Bright & Early. Unfortunately they existed for about a week in the late 80’s and to the best of my knowledge only two of their songs ever made it on [...]
“You Fuckin’ Master Bastards!” *
Phoenix – 1901 (MP3)
MGMT are so last year, and things are looking pretty cloudy for Empire Of The Sun. On May 25th Phoenix rise, well, phoneix-like from out of the ashes of ‘It’s Never Been Like That’ with ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’ and if 1 minute and 20 seconds into ‘1901’ is any indication: folks, they’re [...]
Sans Chemise (No More)…
La Compagnie Creole – Sans Chemise, Sans Pantalon (MP3)
This post is nothing but a blatant plug for a new little venture of mine. wearetuktuk is an on-line (soon to be in a few independent shops, hopefully) store which sells bespoke shirts and accessories that are heavily inspired by their surroundings. Take a look over at [...]
In The City Tonight…
Empire – Big City (Extended Version) (MP3)
Released back in 1988, “Big City” is the B-side to the title track “Imagination”. I know absolutely nothing more on these guys, so feel free to shed some light…
Basically, this is one of those Balearic pop records that either really does it, or really doesn’t; I think Kev calls [...]
It’s Monday. Not Friday. That Sucks.
The Little River Band – It’s A Long Way There (MP3)
It’s Monday; I want it to be Friday.
Coming on like the antithesis of Stevo’s last post (seriously, who the hell puts 40 tracks up?!). Here is a 4 minute ditty from Australia’s finest (bar INXS, of course); the Little River Band. The 8 minute wig [...]
Where’s Yours…?
Raf – Self Control (Extended Version) (MP3)
Following on from the previous (re) post, here’s another Celso Valli affiliated track. A slightly obvious one, but there’s no denying that Raffaele Riefoli’s ‘Self Control’ is a total 80’s bomb (minus that dreadful rapping nonsense towards the end). Later ‘re-worked’ by Harold Faltermeyer for the Laura Brannigan mega [...]
I Won’t Flick The Switches, I Won’t Pull The Plugs; I Know It’s Just Glitches, Glitches N Bugs
Shortwave Set – Glitches ‘n’ Bugs (MP3)
When life really drops you in the shit some like to help get it all out to loud angry music, whilst others need the quiet contemplation of listening to sad music. Me, I turn to pseudo-Elephant 6 boy/girl scuzzle-gum Indie pop courtesy of a bunch of South East Londoners [...]
So Where Will You Be On Saturday Morning?
M83 – Kim & Jessie (MP3)
Whilst the John Hughes film soundtrack reference made in every review of M83’s new album ‘Saturdays = Youth’ might not be the product of the most insightful journalism (the press release does a good job of making it more than clear that that was what Anthony Gonzalez was going for), [...]
No Lives Were Saved…
Magic Wands – Black Magic (MP3)
Rubies – I Feel Electric (MP3)
… but despite not getting a chance to put our disco first aid skills to use, giving Kev a hand with last night’s Best Foot Forward was fun anyway, and it also brings my adventures in DJing dangerously close to double figures (but don’t worry, [...]
Balearic Love…
Chris Rea – Josephine (La Version Francaise) (MP3)
On inspection of our tag cloud “visual depicter” this morning, i was a little bit saddened to see that Indie was pulling all the punches in the battle of the bold. So, in a drastic attempt to re-align the Balearic to Indie ratio, what better way to [...]
