Latest old greats on WFMU

New music, in no particular order of favouritism.



Sciflyer - Lush sounds teleported straight outta the nineties in some UFO accident. Listen to "Never Come Down" on the Andrew Lisfield Playlist (the preceeding tracks are ambiently nice) here.

Antibalas - Che Che Cola (Makossa) - Could be my new sound for the summer, maybe needs a techno remix before that happens. The Makossa remix heavy backbeat version certainly helps..... Listen to it here, from Hatch's playlist. I have to recommend listening to the whole playlist as well, apart from the 20 minute jazzy bit in the middle.

Lee Scratch Perry - Judgement in A Babylon - from the Brian Turner playlist here, this is a stinging attack on Chris Blackwell, which is also very funny and groovy. Listen to it here

Mogwai - Hunted by a Freak - from the Push Bin with Lou playlist - which was taken from the Peel Sessions. Listen here

The Ken playlist from 28 March 2001 - some good music on display here - from Little Axe's Ride On, which I remember from some years ago when my DJ friend got a promo and we played it to death, to Lee Scratch Perry and the Os Mutantes. Also my favourite Moby track Run On is here too!

Pseu's Thing With a Hook playlist from 24 June 2005. Starting with the Ramones, then the Jesus and Mary Chain ( a personal favourite of mine), then the Ravenonettes, David Bowie, it also introduced me to Joy Zipper's best song (in my humble opinion) a lot later on in the playlist. Unfortunately there is no accuplaylist, and I can't quite remember how long into the playlist that the song starts.... Before that incidentally is the Teenage Fanclub - a band I had the pleasure of seeing live in my home town.

My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When/Swallow - from the Karaoke Alarm Clock playlist, I hadn't heard the second MBV track before, and was immediately hypnotised. Listen here.

My Bloody Valentine - What you Want. Well caught up in a bit of MBV nostalgia, been listening to Joy Zipper as a susbstitute..... From the Push Bin with Lou, listen to it here.

Joy Zipper - previously mentioned above, listen to The Christmas Song here, from the Evan Funk Davies show

Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte - from the playlist for Scott Williams there is no accuplaylist, so click on realplayer and scroll along to 1 hour and 58 minutes to listen. One of my favourite finds of the last 6 months, it immediately became apparent where I'd heard the bassline before! and when that choir sound kicks in....!

Shelagh McDonald - Liz's Song - from the Hatch Sept 3 2005 playlist. Found via the WFMU beware of the Blog web ... well.... eh... blog. Listen here

Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day - Listen here. From the Acapulco Dance Party playlist, also found via the WFMU Beware of the Blog site. Yeah I love it.

Loads more Vashti Bunyan on the This is the Modern World with Trouble playlist here, plus an interview with said person. It's all good.


!SR

Me want beer

"homepub" fridge/freezer

- A fridge that delivers draught beer on tap!!

£649.00

Extend your warranty 12 months extra cover £72.00
Model: "AHP7316".
Chilled draught beer on tap - from the fridge!
Fridge capacity 220 litres gross (218 net), 7.9 cu.ft gross (7.7 net).
Freezer capacity 96 litres gross (83.net), 3.4 cu.ft gross (2.9 net). 2 glass shelves. Energy consumption 255.5 kwh hours per year.
Wine rack. Anti-bacterial linings.
Automatic defrost on fridge, manual on freezer.
Fittings for using a unit to store a 5-litre barrel of beer/lager together with a gas cylinder and valve. Beer is dispensed via a pump on the fridge door. H 185, w 60, d 60cms.
Details included inside of how to get extra kegs. Visit www.beersofeurope.co.uk for 24hr keg delivery service or phone

Link

!SR

Very, very something or other.

Very, very something or other.

Link

Crowley (125kb)
From PDC tape #18 (Dec 5, 1952)
"Now, he could simply say, "I have action." A magician - the magic cults of the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth centuries in the Middle East were fascinating. The only modern work that has anything to do with them is a trifle wild in spots, but it's fascinating work in itself, and that's work written by Aleister Crowley, the late Aleister Crowley, my very good friend. And he did himself a splendid piece of aesthetics built around those magic cults. It's very interesting reading to get hold of a copy of a book, quite rare, but it can be obtained. the Master Therion, T-h-e-r-i-o-n, The Master Therion by Aleister Crowley. He signs himself "The Beast"; "The Mark of the Beast, 666." Very, very something or other."

!SR

Broadside news

From the front page:

In the centuries before there were newspapers and 24-hour news channels, the general public had to rely on street literature to find out what was going on. The most popular form of this for nearly 300 years was 'broadsides' - the tabloids of their day. Sometimes pinned up on walls in houses and ale-houses, these single sheets carried public notices, news, speeches and songs that could be read (or sung) aloud.

The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions - all these and more are here

Link here

19th century transvestite!:

Female Foot Boy!

This is a rattling good yarn from the 1820's which would not look out of place in a modern tabloid. It concerns a young woman who had to dress as a man to earn a living.

When her true identity was discovered, she was forced into marrying an unmarried mother - a bizarre arrangement which happily did not prove to be permanent!

!SR