Christmas Advent #15 – Days In Between

Today’s treat is a storming set from The Stammer. It shoots across Philadelphia like Kerouac and Moriarty picking up the lost souls, broken dreams, faded friendships, aching hearts, small pockets of hope, and the burnouts and the left-behinds. Lines sparkle and shoot from guitars and explode in your mind like tiny fireworks letting you take from it what you need.

Christmas Advent #11 – London Bound

Today’s journey takes through Liverpool and London via Seattle’s Bleeding Gold Records. People//Talk’s version of Just Handshakes’ ‘London Bound’ burns like a long lost Joy Division nugget where light flickers and seeps though dark basement beats. Just Handshakes’ beautiful original has you simultaneously twisting and turning in melancholy dreams whilst losing your shit as if possessed under the disco ball.

Christmas Advent #2 – Take Me By The Hand, I Don’t Give A Damn

WESTKUST’s ‘LAST FOREVER’ LP sounds like all your favourite songs being played in a row between Veronica Falls and Makthaverskan in the ultimate Goth party of Dai Disco’s dreams. Spiking guitars and thundering choruses collide in a tidal wave that sweeps you off your feet, leaving you breathless for 33 minutes of storming fuzzed-up pop euphoria. Dai Disco, Lesher, and Dai Goth have all succumbed to its beauty, sacrificing what could have been a bottle of Crumpton Oaks to secure it, here. Even Lesher (who values Crumpton Oaks over almost anything), believes it to be his finest purchase ever for under a fiver, and was heard recently saying “ahhh not even Frosty Jacks on cold winter night comes close to this, lovely stuff.”

Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers

Merry Christmas to the Drunken Lovers.
Side 1      Side 2

1. Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
2. Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy
3. Little Baby Hefner's Xmas Song for Holland - Hefner 
4. Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops
5. Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight - The Ramones
6. I Mugged Santa Claus - The Thlyds
7. Hark The Herald Angel Sing - The Fall
8. All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit
9. Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music
10. Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons 
11. Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman
12. Frosty The Snowman - The Ronettes
13. Santa’s On His Way - The Pipettes
14. Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
15. Outer Space Santa - Lawrence Welk and The Lennon Sisters 
16. December Boy - The Loves
17. The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman
18. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
19. Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans
20. Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon
21. I Believe In Father Christmas - Keith TOTP & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
22. All I want for Christmas is an Action Man - Jonny Cola and The A-Grades
23. Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs
24. Lonely This Christmas - Carter USM
25. Stop the Revelry - Shrag
26. Just Like Christmas - Low

Trick or Treat Dancefloor

I've got some time to kill and I'd like it if you'd kill some time with me

1. Plastic Angels - LAKE R▲DIO
2. Hide and Seek - Flowers
3. Bed Dread - Tyrannosaurus Dead
4. Graveyard - Joanna Gruesome
5. Bury Me Now - Oli Spleen
6. Dig Up The Graves - Tullycraft
7. German Ghost Cat - Baby Ghosts
8. Trick or Treat Dancefloor - Cherry Glazerr
9. Gravitron - Au Revoir Simone
10. Here Come The Martian Martians - Jonathan Richman
11. Superstition Has Its Uses - Flipron
12. Frankenstein Twist - Crystals
13. Killing Time - Veronica Falls
14. Just a Ghost - I Am A Man With A St Tropez Tan
15. Who Ya Gonna Call Goatbuster! - The Spook School

My Heart Was Broken Long Before I Met You

There's no money, there's barely any love, but I see you... and you're not alone

1. Asleep - Makthaverskan
2. Not Alone - The Indelicates
3. Gary Glitter Fan Convention - The Bitter Springs
4. We Knew Your Name Until Your Heart Stopped - Tullycraft
5. Nobody's Son - Race Horses 
6. Alchemy - Fever Dream
7. Soft - Tyrannosaurus Dead
8. Concrete - Breathe Out
9. Can You Tell Me One Thing - The Organ
10. When We Were Still Friends - Herman Dune
11. Tina Waymouth - This Many Boyfriends 
12. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
13. Vesper Two - Trick Mammoth 
14. Bright Lights - Just Handshakes
15. Hymn For The Alcohol - Hefner
16. Roll Me in Cotton - Ooberman
17. The Air - Winter Villains 
18. Colors and the Kids - Cat Power

Pop Music For People That Don't Like People

 

Art Brut Top of the Pops, Art Brut's epic 10 year journey from 'Emily Kane' to 'Axl Rose', with 'Sealand' and 'Arizona Bay' in between is available to stream for 7 days here. It includes brand new songs, rare b-sides, live versions, and is without any doubt the greatest 'best of' of all time.

Forget your plans for the next few days, grab a crate of Special VAT and make enemies in the kitchens of multiple house parties to the sweet sounds of Art Brut, with all the intention of waking up under a pile of stranger's coats. Alternatively just buy the album. Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot!

You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

so kiss me before we run out of days

1. This Song Will Make You Love Me - The Great American Novel
2. Debbie Loves Joey - Eddie Argos
3. Boy - Chalk and Numbers
4. What a Day - The Death of Pop
5. German Ghost Cat - Baby Ghosts
6. The Art of Kissing - Ballboy
7. Family Hold Back - Songs For Walter
8. London Bound - Just Handshakes
9. Twisting to an Auld Tune - The Bobby McGee's
10. Kate Cleaver's House - Hefner
11. Who Would Want to Be Loved? - Kid Canaveral
12. You Can Hide Your Love Forever - Comet Gain
13. Angel Interceptor - Ash
14. Round and Round The Sun - Flipron
15. East Coast - A Little Orchestra ft Gordon McIntyre
16. Henrietta Maria - Darren Hayman and The Long Parliament
17. Julie (remix) - Jens Lekman
18. Hearts Are Trump - TRIO
19. True Love Will Find You In The End - Crybaby

Good Weekend

Went to London for the weekend and came back with 17 new favourite pubs, 10 new favourite ales, a new favourite Indie Disco in 'If You Tolerate Bis, Kenickie Will Be Next', and a comedown worse than the one encountered after a week of eating rhino tranquiliser sandwiches.

Cover the Walls – Internet Forever

Good Weekend – Art Brut

Full Moon Reggae Party - Tigercats

Memorize the City – The Organ

Something for the Weekend – Super Furry Animals

Disco Song – Au Revoir Simone

All Night Disco Party - Brakes

Party Out Of Bounds – The B-52’s

Disco Girl – BMX Bandits

Weekend – Ladytron

Dance Stance – Dexys Midnight Runners

The Safety Dance – Men Without Hats

Disco – Pete and the Pirates

Come to the City – The War on Drugs

We Love the City – Hefner

Those Days, Those Nights – The Notes

Man in my Mind/In a Party near You – Race Horses

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Hurricane to Heat Wave

One minute the wind and the rain are blowing a hurricane down the street, and you’ve resigned to the fact that summer, with its energy and warmth, is lost for yet another year, but suddenly… BOOM! From nowhere, the sun blasts out through the lifeless dull grey clouds clearing the skies and putting your sadness on hold for a while!

Hurricane to Heatwave:

Vashti Bunyan - Come Wind Come Rain
Au Revoir Simone - Hurricanes
Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Higginz vs Reardon
Veronica Falls - Misery
Half Man Half Biscuit - Little in the way of Sunshine
Voxtrot - Wrecking Force
Marissa Nadler - The Sun Always Reminds Me of You
Carter USM - Sunshine
Howling Bells - Setting Sun
The Primitives - (We've) Found a way to the Sun
Ladytron - Ninety Degrees
Plains - Heat