Last Night A DJ Killed My Dog

This one is an experiment. I've taken 6 songs which go strange in the middle before kicking back in, and embedded them within each-other. I think it sort-of works. But judge for yourself.

Tracks:
1. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
2. Mogwai - Stereodee
3. Arab Strap - Trippy
4. Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
5. John Martyn - I'd Rather Be The Devil
6. Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous
7. John Martyn - I'd Rather Be The Devil (continued)
8. Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (continued)
9. Arab Strap - Trippy (continued)
10. Mogwai - Stereodee (continued)
11. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise (continued)

When I was at school I thought that Autumn was my favorite season,possibly in a misguided attempt to be mysterious and cool. In real life, though, everyone knows that spring is the best, those first days of sun after a miserable British winter when the year just looks like getting better and better.
This time I just have music for you. Couldn't find any good speeches. Just lots of fairly relaxed music to listen to in the garden.

1. Moondog - Voices Of Spring
2. Epic45 - The Stars In Spring
3. Rites of Spring - Comin' On Back To Me
4. The Jesus & Mary Chain - April Skies
5. Simon & Garfunkel - April, Come She Will
6. The Go-Betweens - Spring Rain
7. Andromeda Island - Springtime
8. Blossom Dearie - It Might As Well Be Spring
9. St Etienne - Spring
10. The Lemon Drops - I Live In The Springtime
11. June & Johnny - When it's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)
12. Crescent - Spring
13. James Morton - Spring Is Here
14. Carmen McRae - Silent Spring
15. Paul Giovanni & Magnet - Maypole
(Bonus track: Owen J. McCormack - When It's Springtime in Virginia)

This mix has been in the LNADJKMD pipes for ages, I'm just glad to get it out of the system. Thanks for all the suggestions, sorry I could only use a few.

1. The Raincoats - Fairytale In The Supermarket
2. The Yummy Fur - Supermarket
3. Bis - Shopaholic
4. Joe Jackson (Do The) Instant Mash
5. Rob Sonic - Shoplift (El-P Remix)
6. Joe Cornish - European Supermarket
7. The Modern Lovers - Abominable Snowman In The Supermarket
8. Ladytron - Paco!
9. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Shop Around
10. The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket
11. 60ft Dolls - Happy Shopper
12. Lipkandy - Shopping
13. Devo - Freedom Of Choice
14. Pulp - His 'n' Hers

Slightly late podcast to celebrate the year of the ox.
Ox-based songs, music, quotes, sketches, all that.
You know the drill.

恭喜发财

Tracks:
1. Aesop - The Oxen and The Butchers
2. Fieldtriqp - Goodnight Moo
3. The Who - The Ox
4. Oh No - Exp Out the Ox
5. Monty Python - The Background to History
6. Ilkae - Equate With Oxen
7. Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk (Take 5)
8. Donald Hall - Ox-Cart Man
9. Seven Central and Mountain - Oxen Only Want To Be Free
10. Sonic Youth - Bull In The Heather
11. Wildchild - Ox to tha D (feat. Frank-n-Dank)
12. Sufjan Stevens - Year Of The Ox

Back after another unavoidable break, here's my keepsake for the last decade. Next time you're feeling like things are a bit crap have a listen to this and remember they could be a whole lot worse...

1. The Mammals - The Bush Boys
2. The George W Bush Singers - Deep Thoughts Pt II
3. Radiohead - 2+2=5
4. Immortal Technique - Bin Laden
5. Chris Morris - Bushwhacked 2
6. The Rub - George Bush is an Islamic Fundamentalist
7. Bright Eyes - When The President Talks to God
8. The Legendary K.O. - George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People
9. Public Enemy - Hell No We Ain't All Right
10. Mitch Benn - Happy Birthday War
11. Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds (DFA Mix)

BlipBlop, otherwise known as Bitpop or Chiptunes (and quite possibly a number of other things) is a new type of music, but also a (slightly) old one. The idea is to make music using outdated consoles and computers. Bit Shifter, for example, composes entirely on the Nintendo Game Boy. Strict restrictions on creativity like this are counter-intuitive - the more you are handicapped, the more you think of clever ways to get around problems. Having said that, some of the tracks and artists here stray a fair bit from that idea. But you get the point.

1. Anamanaguchi - Sting Operation
2. Bit Shifter - Hexadecimal Genome
3. Teamtendo - Philippines Volunteers
4. Random - Sitges Savepoint
5. Kid Carpet - Jump
6. Boy vs. Bacteria - Get Naked (The Stomp)
7. Paza - Crazy Bird
8. Slagsmålsklubben - Malmo Beach Night Party
9. Linde - Ryssland
10. Nullsleep - Dirty ROM Dance Mix
11. Rob Hubbard - Commando

1. The Kinks - Autumn Almanac
2. Django Reinhardt - September Song
3. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Sand River
4. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground
5. Arab Strap - Autumnal
6. Bat For Lashes - Sad Eyes
7. Destroyalldreamers - Automne
8. Sr. Click - Autumn
9. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Autumn's Child
10. Tom Waits - November
11. Ralph Koster - November

This is a collection of the worst music I could find over the course of a week. Most of the 'bad music' compilations I found contained large quantities of novelty records and other deliberately bad or wacky music, which in my opinion isn't really fair. I set myself a rule with these that only genuinely non-ironically bad music was allowed - the performers must have at least tried, in fact often they are trying a little too hard. The only other rule I decided upon was that only universally bad music was allowed. My personal choices of Westlife, Celine Dion, James Blunt and Michael Learns To Rock were a temptation I had to resist. Here instead are 21 songs I'm sure everybody will hate. I for one hope to never hear any of them again.

1. Portsmouth Sinfonia - From The Nutcracker Suite
2. Elvis Presley - Old MacDonald
3. Vanilla - No Way No Way
4. Barney - I Love You
5. Nola Campbell - Searching For My Baby
6. The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed
7. St Winifred's School Choir - There's No-one Quite Like Grandma
8. Pat Campbell - Mother Went A Walking
9. Devastatin Dave - Zip Zap Rap
10. Eli Kaniel - The Impossible Dream
11. P.J. Proby - Only You (And You Alone)
12. Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing!
13. Maguerita Pracatan - Hello
14. Reginald Bosanquet - Dance With Me
15. Gloria Balsam - Fluffy
16. Roy "Chubby" Brown with Smokie - Alice
17. The Blue Smarties - Take A Look
18. Gypsy Boots and The Nature Boys - These Boots Are Made For Walking
19. William Shatner - Rocket Man
20. Peter Andre & Jordan - A Whole New World
21. Keith Harris & Orville - Orville's Song

Extended show notes with descriptions of each track are to be found below.

Click to download the extended notes for this fortnight's pod.

This fortnight's podcast started off as a selection of songs about sleep and moved within a few tracks to a selection of music that I could go to sleep to, getting more soothing and less intrusive as it goes on. A good deal of the sleep-based music I ound while making this was dull and artificial-sounding, which apart from being unimaginative could also be distracting. Good sleep music should be also be generally good music. This podcast is also the longest so far, as it can take me a while to get to sleep.

1. Madder Rose - Car Song
2. Robert Wyatt - Heaps of Sheeps
3. Cornershop - Sleep on the Left Side
4. Plaid - Eyen
5. Boards Of Canada - Zoetrope (Excerpt)
6. Múm - Green Grass of Tunnel
7. Curtis Mayfield - Think
8. Magnet - Willow's Song
9. Stars of the Lid - Articulate Silences Pt 2
10. Claude Debussy - Nocturnes 1: Nuages
11. David Behrman - On The Other Ocean
12. Nick Drake - Northern Sky
13. Black Tape for a Blue Girl - With a Million Tears
14. Brian Eno - Mu
15. Global Communication - 12.18
16. Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie
17. Hammock - Miles To Go Before Sleep
18. Kevin Ayers - Lullaby
19. Ronald Binge - Sailing By

 

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