Theatre Of Hate : Westworld

I was gonna wax lyrical about the old GLC one-day festies that Red Ken used to put on back in the '80's and how this lot always seemed to be middle of the bill, usually coming on just after Bill Bragg.

But I can't 'cos Wiki tells me they split up in Spring '83 which is a year or so too early for that particular time-line. Ho hum, must upgrade my RAM on of these days.

Listening to it freash after 25 years, although Kirk Brandon can't sing and ignoring the fact that this lot spawned all that pompous Cult/Mission/Sisters Of Mercy tosh that came later on (difficult I know but . . . ), there's some very interesting stuff here.

Currently unavailable, I'd been looking for this for a good couple of months until UBS Dave came to the rescue and dug up a copy of the 1996 release on the Dojo label for you.

01 Do You Believe In The Westworld?
02 Judgement Hymn
03 63
04 Love Is A Ghost
05 The Wake
06 Conquistador
07 The New Trail Of Tears
08 Freaks
09 Anniversary
10 The Klan
11 Original Sin
12 Rebel Without A Brain
13 Nero
14 Propaganda (Ministry Of Broadcast)
15 Do You Believe In The Westworld (Version)
 

Louis Jordan - Jivin' With Jordan - 4 CD Set

Well worth spending 5 minutes reading his Wiki entry if you're unsure about this essential download.

100+ tracks over 4 CDs, obviously all the favorites are here. To my mind, this stuff is the missing link between the swing orchestra 1930's and the early rock and rollers in the 50's.

Wtf they were smoking back in those days to come up with titles such as "You Run Your Mouth And I'll Run My Business" and "If You're So Smart How ComeYou Ain't Rich" is anyone's guess, but if I find some, I'll let you know.

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Like this? Then also check out The George Washingmachine Quartet album I posted last year.

Clangers - Original Television Music

This, surely, needs no introduction. Just add beer for instant nostalgia.

Edit : Oliver Postgate sadly died on December 8th 2008 at the ripe old age of 83. Here are links to his obits in the Times, Telegraph and Grauniad

Nik Turner's Sphinx : Xitintoday

A by-request repost of Nik Turner's frankly bizarre late-70's Egyptian themed escapade

1 Mstrkft Remix

2 Avalanches Millstream Remix

We like Wolfmother at Blade Mansions, so much so in fact that we missed out on the first night of Twickenham Alan's stag-weekend to catch them live.

The Standells – Dirty Water / Why Pick On Me

A “first two albums that now fit on a CD” release for you today.

File under “60’s garage-punk”, these guys were contenders in the mid '60's (TV guest-slots, supported the Stones) after being given an image upgrade by producer Ed Cobb and releasing "Dirty Water".

19 slices of goodness in this release including a couple of obligatory Stones covers and a version of Hey Joe

1  Medication 
2  Little Sally Tease 
3  There Is A Storm Comin' 
4  19th Nervous Breakdown 
5  Dirty Water 
6  Pride And Devotion 
7  Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White 
8  Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go? 
9  Why Did You Hurt Me? 
10 Rari 
11 Why Pick On Me 
12 Paint It Black 
13 Mi Hai Fatto Innamorare 
14 Black Hearted Woman 
15 Girl And The Moon 
16 Mr Nobody 
17 My Little Red Book 
18 Mainline 
19 Have You Ever Spent The Night In Jail

The Primal's are a group who, when I see them, something happens . . .

Like being charged £3 a can in 1991 . . . 

A long story involving beer being spilt over my new leather jacket and a bloke being glassed . . . but it was a plastic glass (doh!)

After two unavoidable cancellations (Diana's death and a transport strike) this one finally took place in a half-empty marquee on a cold, wet September's night.

All things War Of The Worlds posted by Nothing Better To Do. You've got the original 1938 Orson Wells radio broadcast, the OST of the recent film version, Fettdog's brilliant remixes of the Jeff Wayne masterpiece as well as the ULLAdubULLA official remix version.

If you visit, also grab this Devo  (Jocko Homo / Mongaloid) and Jonathan Richman (Roadrunner) vinyl rips, they deffo fall in the "music you should hear before you die" catagory 

That old-school techno version of Das Boot was posted by Hypnotic Techno a couple of weeks ago

Finally, Birds With Broken Wings has a superb Mike Nesmith post here . . .  

Danger Mouse : Viva Dangermouse Vol1

He's the greatest, he's fantastic, wherever there is danger he'll be there . . . 

Nearly but not quite beating Rhubarb in my personal "favourite kids cartoon" catagory, this CD has David Jason and Terry Scott hamming it up brilliantly in three episodes of this early '80's classic

"Senor Dangermouse with the aid of his bumbling sidekick,  Penfold, embark on some death-defying adventures that take them into space, Mey-Hi-Co and even back in time. Is it time to say "Adios Amigos" or will DM manage to save the day?"

Toyah : Safari Records Singles Collection 1979-81

Hmmmmm . . . a surprisingly listenable nostalgia-fest from the chronological music space between Punk and New Romantisism. 

All the ones you remember are here, Victims Of The Riddle, Neon Womb (pure Souxxie), Danced (great riff but could do with being two minutes shorter), Ieya and It's a Mythstewy (sorry, couldn't resist!)

01 Victims Of The Riddle (Part I) 
02 Victims Of The Riddle (Part II) 
03 Neon Womb 
04 Indecision 
05 Waiting 
06 Our Movie 
07 Danced 
08 Last Goodbye 
09 Bird In Flight 
10 Tribal Look 
11 Ieya 
12 The Helium Song 
13 Danced (Live) 
14 Ghosts (Live) 
15 Neon Womb (Live) 
16 It's A Mystery 
17 Revelations 
18 Warboys 
19 Angels And Demons

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You'll Have Had Your Tea : The Adventures Of Hamish & Dougal Series 3

Messrs Cryer and Garden returned to the hallowed airways of BBC Radio4 in the Autumn of 2006 with the third season of Hamish & Dougal.

Grabbed from Slimoo's torrent on the  spoken word radio archives (together with the 30 minute Hogmanyand Burns Night specials) and packaged into 128kbs mp3's.

Sample gag . . . 

Mrs Naughtie : "I've just had this in the post . . . it's my Uncle Nad . . ."

Dougal : "What, in that wee envelope?"

Mrs Naughtie : " . . .  he's dead . . . "

Hamish : "I'm not surprised he couldn't breath in there"

Mrs Naughtie : " . . . this is a letter from his solicitor, he passed away last week"

Dougal : "Oh no, not the two of them"

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The Wombles - Remember You're A Womble - Vinyl Rip 

Can't say it's a must-have, but the the tunes are pleasent enough and, if you're a couple of years younger than me, your Gran prolly bought this for you for Christmas circa 1974 much to the disgust of your older brother.

01 Remember You're A Womble

02 Minuetto Allegreto

03 Non-Stop Wombling Summer Party

04 Wombling In The Rain

05 Womble Burrow Boogie

06 Wellington Goes To Waterloo

07 The Return Of Cousin Yellowstone

08 The Womble Square Dance

09 Wimbledon Sunset

10 Banana Rock

So begins this recording. And the last words heard at the end are, "You would not tell with such high zest to children for some desperate glory the old lie : Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori" (To die for one's country is sweet and proper).

Between these lines lies the legacy of a pitifully wasted life. These are the blood-drenched words of a young English poet named Wilfred Edward Salter Owen , born 1893, killed in France at the age of 25.

01 Preface
02 Send-Off
03 Arms And The Boy
04 Sonnet : On Seeing A Piece Of Our Artillery Brought Into Action
05 Strange Meeting
06 Le Christianisme
07 Soldier’s Dream
08 The Last Laugh
09 At A Calvary Near The Ancre
10 The Sentry
11 Anthem For A Doomed Youth
12 Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
13 The Show
14 Conscious
15 Greater Love
16 Asleep
17 Futility
18 The Next War
19 Dulce At Decorum Est

Best Of The Rest - Currently on heavy rotation at Blade Mansions . . .

V.A. Serge Gainsbourg: Version Femmes

All things Serge are worth a d/l. This is floating around the blogoshere atm, 19 Gainsbourg covers from Petula Clark, Brigit Bardot, Jane Birkin et al. Jensen In Brazil's posted a 320kb version here

Ray Conniff - The Lost Dub Sessions (1977) 

What can I say?  Even my cat digs this and I havn't even got a cat.

The track listing includes gems such as (I Never Promised You) Rizla's Garden and The Bah, The Dah, and the Ugly. Another quality post from Heino & Jerry im Uber Space

Don Harper - Homo Electronicus

Fans of early UK electronica (BBC Radiophonic Workshop stuff) could do worse than check out Third Island

Marine Girls - Lazy Ways-Beach Party

There are two albums from 1982/3 that, when I hear them, send me straight back to student bed-sit land. Billy Bragg’s “Life’s a Riot” EP is one, the second is this album of lo-fi musical whimsy from Tracy Thorne’s pre-EBTG days.

It’s an album of 31 laid-back tracks, most coming in at the 2 minute mark, played by three girls, two guitars and a drum-kit. 

This is a “very much of it’s time” sound that is impossible to fully appreciate these days imo. But if you were a student in the pre-Aids Thatcher-Regan era, you may want to d/l and spend a hour wallowing in nostalgia.

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Found this in the in-box recently,  curtesy of We're Late For Class

PRESS RELEASE

A "bits and bobs" selection for y'all this week as things have to be tidied up and generally re-arranged after indulging in some serious hi-fi porn recently.