Learning by doing, fear is overrated. No one cares if you make a pillock of yourself.
Friday, November 23, 2018
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Remix, Remaster, Re-Issue
I have mixed opinions on re-issues, sometimes they're good, and worth it, other times it really does seem like cashing in. In the digital age, it's great to be able to get our mitts on b-sides and demos and unreleased material that's not always easy to get a hold of. On the other hand it can be quite dull, particularly if the demos sound like weak versions of the final tracks, or live versions that don't stand out much,you have to ask yourself, what is the point in buying it.
Thankfully The Cure are a band where re-issues work in their favour. The original CD versions of 'Faith' and 'Pornography' suffered from sounding weaker and quieter than the cassette and vinyl versions, and with unreleased tracks and the instrumental film soundtracks to their tour films, Carnage Visors and Airlock.
Earlier this year, The Cure bestowed upon us the 3 CD deluxe edition of 1990s Mixed Up. Which served up the singles 'Never Enough' and under the sea 'Closer Mix' of 'Close To Me'.
CD1 - Mixed Up
Mixed Up itself is a strange beast, drawing together 12" mixes of Lullaby, Love Song and the near 9 minute long version of Fascination Street, which was released in the US. Also included are a re-recorded, more modern sounding, 'Everything Mix' of The Walk. The original master tapes had been lost. There is also the boring 'Tree Remix' of A Forest.
There's also the 12" mix of Hot! Hot! Hot! which is one of my personal highlights of Mixed Up. Sadly the album stumbles a bit, with the pretty awful 'Dub' mix of Pictures of You, which the baggy bass and drums just don't seem to sit comfortably in. The 'Flicker' mix of The Caterpillar and the 'Shiver Mix' of Inbetween Days feel they are lacking something, at least they tried something different but along with the mix of a Forest feel like these tracks are dragging down the album somewhat.
CD 2 - Remixes 1982-1990
This is where the dusty gems are hidden.
There are mainly 12" mixes, but the things is The Cure do good do a good 12" mix. There's of Let's Go To Bed and in particular Just One Kiss to remind you of why you want to be listening to The Cure.
Close To Me features again, along with the 1986 re-recorded mix of Boy's Don't Cry. The fun doesn't stop there, Why Can't I Be You? which originally only appeared on the Cassette and Double Vinyl of Mixed Up, but now available to everyone along with 12" mix of it's b-side A Japanese Dream. There's finally a place to the full extended single mix of Pictures Of You (my vinyl copy kept skipping).
There's also the b-side mixes from Close To Me and Never Enough, which comprise of the 'Milk Mix' of Let's Go To Bed, 'Dizzy Mix' of Just Like Heaven and the 'Red Mix' of Primary. Rounded off by what I was once led to believe was the 'demo' version of The Love Cats, it sounds better than the original and is actually the 'TC and Benny Mix'.
CD 3 -Torn Down
Robert Smith decided to remix one of his favourite tracks from each Cure album. The result is Torn Down, which is very much a mixed bag.
Three Imaginary Boys (Help Me Mix)
The original drums and bass are out the window, with a underwater arpy sounding synth plodding away in the background, with the guitar over the top. An interesting way to go about it.
M (Attack Mix)
Similar approach to the previous mix, but sounds less claustrophic and depressing.
The Drowning Man (Bright Birds Mix)
Here's one of the reasons you should buy this album, tracks like this one. This sounds like it could easily have been an unreleased mix of the song from the time of Faith. Different piano and strings along with the odd effect really add to the atmosphere of this song.
Strange Day (Drowning Waves Mix)
Another one of those tracks that is worth buying this for, there's additions of background synths of a 1985ish era that remind me of A-Ha for some reason. It just adds something extra to the tune.
Just One Kiss (Remember Mix)
This is an interesting alternative mix or the track, it doesn't take anything away from it, but it doesn't add that much either. That's not a bad thing.
Shake Dog Shake (New Blood Mix)
A bit boring really, similar to the previous track. I've never really been that partial to this song though.
A Night Like This (Hello Goodbye Mix)
Personally this is not my bag. The more pronounced saxophone on it, and the saw synth that is subtly in the background. Much prefer the original, this mix changes the atmosphere of the original song.
Like Cockatoos (Lonely In The Rain Mix)
This is different and unexpected, though the stabbing synth added to this, it could possibly do without. It makes it seem that Robert was running ideas a bit for mixes, following a similar pattern. It's an enjoyable enough track though.
Plainsong (Edge Of The World Mix)
Plainsong is a track that would be very difficult to improve. This mix, changes the atmosphere from the original, and makes it sound brighter and happier, it's not bad, it's just different.
Never Enough (Time To Kill Mix)
Robert said he went back to the demo to create this, and it shows. The demo isn't that far off the original and this feels more like a demo of Never Enough than a mix, you're better off listening to the single version.
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea (Love In Vain Mix)
It feels like there's lots of extra strings in this and it works really well.
Want (Time Mix)
It's like an angrier sounding version of Want, that isn't quite as good as the original. It feels it's been done in a rush, a bit copy'n'paste.
The Last Day Of Summer (31st August Mix)
Feels like an alternative mix of the album track, works well.
Cut Here (If Only Mix)
Looses some of the energy of the original, but doesn't lose anything else.
Lost (Found Mix)
This is the title track on the self titled album 'The Cure', which was pretty samey and indisinct apart from 'The End of The World' and 'Alt End' the musical rehash of Seventeen Seconds' track In Your House. I haven't listened to the original in ages, and a quick visit to YouTube reminds me why, it's fucking awful. Thankfully this mix sounds far better and less whiny.
It's Over (Whisper Mix)
I did like 4:13 Dream, but I never listened to it that much. This album felt like The Cure were getting their mojo back, partly I'm sure to long time Cure guitarist Porl Thomson returning to the fold. Another quick trip to YouTube, tell me that, this is different in a good way to the original, which was also enjoyable.
All in all, the deluxe version of Mixed Up is worth any Cure fan picking up. Even though it suffers in places, at least The Cure have tried different things rather than just churning out the same old thing.
Thankfully The Cure are a band where re-issues work in their favour. The original CD versions of 'Faith' and 'Pornography' suffered from sounding weaker and quieter than the cassette and vinyl versions, and with unreleased tracks and the instrumental film soundtracks to their tour films, Carnage Visors and Airlock.
Earlier this year, The Cure bestowed upon us the 3 CD deluxe edition of 1990s Mixed Up. Which served up the singles 'Never Enough' and under the sea 'Closer Mix' of 'Close To Me'.
CD1 - Mixed Up
Mixed Up itself is a strange beast, drawing together 12" mixes of Lullaby, Love Song and the near 9 minute long version of Fascination Street, which was released in the US. Also included are a re-recorded, more modern sounding, 'Everything Mix' of The Walk. The original master tapes had been lost. There is also the boring 'Tree Remix' of A Forest.
There's also the 12" mix of Hot! Hot! Hot! which is one of my personal highlights of Mixed Up. Sadly the album stumbles a bit, with the pretty awful 'Dub' mix of Pictures of You, which the baggy bass and drums just don't seem to sit comfortably in. The 'Flicker' mix of The Caterpillar and the 'Shiver Mix' of Inbetween Days feel they are lacking something, at least they tried something different but along with the mix of a Forest feel like these tracks are dragging down the album somewhat.
CD 2 - Remixes 1982-1990
This is where the dusty gems are hidden.
There are mainly 12" mixes, but the things is The Cure do good do a good 12" mix. There's of Let's Go To Bed and in particular Just One Kiss to remind you of why you want to be listening to The Cure.
Close To Me features again, along with the 1986 re-recorded mix of Boy's Don't Cry. The fun doesn't stop there, Why Can't I Be You? which originally only appeared on the Cassette and Double Vinyl of Mixed Up, but now available to everyone along with 12" mix of it's b-side A Japanese Dream. There's finally a place to the full extended single mix of Pictures Of You (my vinyl copy kept skipping).
There's also the b-side mixes from Close To Me and Never Enough, which comprise of the 'Milk Mix' of Let's Go To Bed, 'Dizzy Mix' of Just Like Heaven and the 'Red Mix' of Primary. Rounded off by what I was once led to believe was the 'demo' version of The Love Cats, it sounds better than the original and is actually the 'TC and Benny Mix'.
CD 3 -Torn Down
Robert Smith decided to remix one of his favourite tracks from each Cure album. The result is Torn Down, which is very much a mixed bag.
Three Imaginary Boys (Help Me Mix)
The original drums and bass are out the window, with a underwater arpy sounding synth plodding away in the background, with the guitar over the top. An interesting way to go about it.
M (Attack Mix)
Similar approach to the previous mix, but sounds less claustrophic and depressing.
The Drowning Man (Bright Birds Mix)
Here's one of the reasons you should buy this album, tracks like this one. This sounds like it could easily have been an unreleased mix of the song from the time of Faith. Different piano and strings along with the odd effect really add to the atmosphere of this song.
Strange Day (Drowning Waves Mix)
Another one of those tracks that is worth buying this for, there's additions of background synths of a 1985ish era that remind me of A-Ha for some reason. It just adds something extra to the tune.
Just One Kiss (Remember Mix)
This is an interesting alternative mix or the track, it doesn't take anything away from it, but it doesn't add that much either. That's not a bad thing.
Shake Dog Shake (New Blood Mix)
A bit boring really, similar to the previous track. I've never really been that partial to this song though.
A Night Like This (Hello Goodbye Mix)
Personally this is not my bag. The more pronounced saxophone on it, and the saw synth that is subtly in the background. Much prefer the original, this mix changes the atmosphere of the original song.
Like Cockatoos (Lonely In The Rain Mix)
This is different and unexpected, though the stabbing synth added to this, it could possibly do without. It makes it seem that Robert was running ideas a bit for mixes, following a similar pattern. It's an enjoyable enough track though.
Plainsong (Edge Of The World Mix)
Plainsong is a track that would be very difficult to improve. This mix, changes the atmosphere from the original, and makes it sound brighter and happier, it's not bad, it's just different.
Never Enough (Time To Kill Mix)
Robert said he went back to the demo to create this, and it shows. The demo isn't that far off the original and this feels more like a demo of Never Enough than a mix, you're better off listening to the single version.
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea (Love In Vain Mix)
It feels like there's lots of extra strings in this and it works really well.
Want (Time Mix)
It's like an angrier sounding version of Want, that isn't quite as good as the original. It feels it's been done in a rush, a bit copy'n'paste.
The Last Day Of Summer (31st August Mix)
Feels like an alternative mix of the album track, works well.
Cut Here (If Only Mix)
Looses some of the energy of the original, but doesn't lose anything else.
Lost (Found Mix)
This is the title track on the self titled album 'The Cure', which was pretty samey and indisinct apart from 'The End of The World' and 'Alt End' the musical rehash of Seventeen Seconds' track In Your House. I haven't listened to the original in ages, and a quick visit to YouTube reminds me why, it's fucking awful. Thankfully this mix sounds far better and less whiny.
It's Over (Whisper Mix)
I did like 4:13 Dream, but I never listened to it that much. This album felt like The Cure were getting their mojo back, partly I'm sure to long time Cure guitarist Porl Thomson returning to the fold. Another quick trip to YouTube, tell me that, this is different in a good way to the original, which was also enjoyable.
All in all, the deluxe version of Mixed Up is worth any Cure fan picking up. Even though it suffers in places, at least The Cure have tried different things rather than just churning out the same old thing.
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Postcard Town
It is generally regarded that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. This is true when it comes to sofas. Did you really believe we go through enough cattle in the UK to supply enough leather for all the sofa shops? You can blame Paul McCartney for that one. There has been a need to find another source. An initiative from the Conservative government to allow relax rules regarding the actual source of leather to keep the sofa industry buoyant.
Did you ever notice the large number of tanning salons? Do you remember the family of orange neighbours you knew well who moved away? You've lost touch with them haven't you? Everyone else has too.
Did you ever notice the large number of tanning salons? Do you remember the family of orange neighbours you knew well who moved away? You've lost touch with them haven't you? Everyone else has too.
Monday, May 14, 2018
Spoiler Versions - Jack Adaptor
It has been over 10 years since I bought an album by Jack Adaptor. I got their debut self titled CD and single 'No Logos'. I'd been really into The Family Cat, so with singer Paul Frederick having a new project with Christopher Cordoba was something I was interested in.
In those 10 years life got in the way of a lot. Not to fear, with the joys of social media, I was pointed in the direction of 'Spoiler Versions', the new Jack Adaptor album. My default "want" for a new album is something fast and catchy, this had been my ingrained feeling for years, I want something exciting. As I've matured over the years, my ears are more open to more styles and slower tempos. Though I still wonder why Garbage ever bothered with 'Milk'. I just can't warm to that song. That's off topic though.
Let's start with the artwork, like a section of a finger painted rainbow with many layers, across it a rain of mainly white and silver. Is it a metaphor for the record? Is it art? Am I reading too much into it and it's just a nice design?
The album begins with Paul's familiar voice drifts over the top of a slow beat with piano and subdued guitar. It all fits together nicely, I just want to put the big headphones on to block out the world, close my eyes, tune in and listen.
I hate writing things, mainly because I always think of a better way to have written something later, once it's been released into the wild. As I write this particular sentence, I'm getting perhaps some helpful wisdom from the second track 'Proven Warrior'. Oh it's not perfect, but it will have to do for now. A track that sounds like it means business.
A harpsichord and acoustic guitar provide the vehicle for guest vocalist Claudia Brücken (of German 80s synthpop band Propaganda) on 'Say When'. Propaganda, I've just gone off to investigate on YouTube, and Claudia's vocals are not what I'd thought would work with Jack Adaptor's sound, given Propaganda's sound. She sounds less harsh and the vocals fit the song like a glove.
'Glue Man' has me heading back off to chill out land, like the opener. I have trouble trying to describe the sound of both tracks, other than they are both uniquely Jack Adaptor!
For me, one of the signs of a good artist, is taking type of sound that I'm really not that into and using it in a way that changes my mind. Here the 70s influenced funk sounds of 'Navigating The Amazon' manage to do that.
'Pionus', a slow and sad track, that my mind says would be how musically the Cocteau Twins would sound without their distinctive chorus effects. The guitar has a deeply reflective feel, and I imagine I'm a slowly floating down a river.
I'm half expecting a vocoded Sexy Boy! to jump out of the next track when I hear familiar sounding synth kicking off the 'The Road To Bali'. However, this is Jack Adaptor not Air, and this not a rip off, or homage to Air. Before telling the tale of not managing to be with the girl he wants.
What follows sounds like the ballad of a drag queen's lost love on 'Queen of the Universe' before heading out onto the stage. I could have this completely wrong, but that's what I've taken from the lyrics: The butterflies have flown into another soul. Behind the scenes of the loveless, putting on my mascara as I fill my role. I'm going on...
The tone changes to a more upbeat sounding 'Oppenheimer in Manhattan', though given Oppenheimer being the director of the institute that developed the Manhattan project. When you know this, the the children's backing vocals on the chorus, give the song an unnerving quality at what feels like the the normalised outlook of the destructive nature of the project, though from the lyrics, this sounds exactly the point. Oppenheimer himself was opposed to the development of the hydrogen bomb.
A riff on a piano in an empty village hall, sets off the final track 'I Wish It Could Be Better'. It appears to be a lament on a current love. As it goes on a nicely understated, very quiet, noisey, perhaps shoegazey guitar that slowly swells without ever intruding.
These days I need to music to take me somewhere, even if I've been there before, as long as it does it in it's own way, that's good. Spoiler Versions takes me somewhere I didn't know I wanted to go, but am glad it did. This is perfect music for chilling out. This album tells me I've been missing out on Jack Adaptor, so time to look at filling in the back catalogue.
In those 10 years life got in the way of a lot. Not to fear, with the joys of social media, I was pointed in the direction of 'Spoiler Versions', the new Jack Adaptor album. My default "want" for a new album is something fast and catchy, this had been my ingrained feeling for years, I want something exciting. As I've matured over the years, my ears are more open to more styles and slower tempos. Though I still wonder why Garbage ever bothered with 'Milk'. I just can't warm to that song. That's off topic though.
Let's start with the artwork, like a section of a finger painted rainbow with many layers, across it a rain of mainly white and silver. Is it a metaphor for the record? Is it art? Am I reading too much into it and it's just a nice design?
The album begins with Paul's familiar voice drifts over the top of a slow beat with piano and subdued guitar. It all fits together nicely, I just want to put the big headphones on to block out the world, close my eyes, tune in and listen.
I hate writing things, mainly because I always think of a better way to have written something later, once it's been released into the wild. As I write this particular sentence, I'm getting perhaps some helpful wisdom from the second track 'Proven Warrior'. Oh it's not perfect, but it will have to do for now. A track that sounds like it means business.
A harpsichord and acoustic guitar provide the vehicle for guest vocalist Claudia Brücken (of German 80s synthpop band Propaganda) on 'Say When'. Propaganda, I've just gone off to investigate on YouTube, and Claudia's vocals are not what I'd thought would work with Jack Adaptor's sound, given Propaganda's sound. She sounds less harsh and the vocals fit the song like a glove.
'Glue Man' has me heading back off to chill out land, like the opener. I have trouble trying to describe the sound of both tracks, other than they are both uniquely Jack Adaptor!
For me, one of the signs of a good artist, is taking type of sound that I'm really not that into and using it in a way that changes my mind. Here the 70s influenced funk sounds of 'Navigating The Amazon' manage to do that.
'Pionus', a slow and sad track, that my mind says would be how musically the Cocteau Twins would sound without their distinctive chorus effects. The guitar has a deeply reflective feel, and I imagine I'm a slowly floating down a river.
I'm half expecting a vocoded Sexy Boy! to jump out of the next track when I hear familiar sounding synth kicking off the 'The Road To Bali'. However, this is Jack Adaptor not Air, and this not a rip off, or homage to Air. Before telling the tale of not managing to be with the girl he wants.
What follows sounds like the ballad of a drag queen's lost love on 'Queen of the Universe' before heading out onto the stage. I could have this completely wrong, but that's what I've taken from the lyrics: The butterflies have flown into another soul. Behind the scenes of the loveless, putting on my mascara as I fill my role. I'm going on...
The tone changes to a more upbeat sounding 'Oppenheimer in Manhattan', though given Oppenheimer being the director of the institute that developed the Manhattan project. When you know this, the the children's backing vocals on the chorus, give the song an unnerving quality at what feels like the the normalised outlook of the destructive nature of the project, though from the lyrics, this sounds exactly the point. Oppenheimer himself was opposed to the development of the hydrogen bomb.
A riff on a piano in an empty village hall, sets off the final track 'I Wish It Could Be Better'. It appears to be a lament on a current love. As it goes on a nicely understated, very quiet, noisey, perhaps shoegazey guitar that slowly swells without ever intruding.
These days I need to music to take me somewhere, even if I've been there before, as long as it does it in it's own way, that's good. Spoiler Versions takes me somewhere I didn't know I wanted to go, but am glad it did. This is perfect music for chilling out. This album tells me I've been missing out on Jack Adaptor, so time to look at filling in the back catalogue.
Spoiler Versions - Jack Adapter
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Are Your Normal?
It's the summer of 1992 and an impressionable 14 year old is watching 'Top Of The Pops' and a band called Ned's Atomic Dustbin are performing their new single 'Not Sleeping Around'.
I'd heard it on the Top 40 countdown the previous Sunday and liked it, this live performance was something else. They had two bass players, one playing normal bass, the other playing at the higher end like New Order, but they don't sound like they're copying Peter Hook, no no no, they sound better than New Order. This would lead me to the album that was part of my formative years. The band was named after an episode of the legendary Goon Show, who couldn't like that?
That didn't matter though because this, this was the 2nd album, that meant there was another album with songs to unearth out there. 'God Fodder' was a cracking album, but it wasn't 'Are You Normal?'. Was it because it was my introduction to Ned's or was it because it was a more evolved and matured?
Listening to this again, it doesn't sound dated, it sounds fresh and exciting as it ever did. Go hunt it out and listen to it, from the opener 'Suave and Suffocated' through to the closer 'Intact', via 'Legoland', 'Tantrum' and 'Spring'. It's a soundscape that never fails to impress. My favourite Ned's song 'Who Goes First?' also lives here, when the guitar changes on the middle eight, I get that looping in my head for hours.
Who Goes First?
The energy of this song resonates with me and makes me want to pick up an instrument and go come up with a tune with similar energy. When did a song last make you feel like that? Ok, it was 'Wiggy Giggy' by the Lovely Eggs, but I'm focusing on Ned's Atomic Dustbin here! To me, they sounded like no one else, yet other people seems to think 'they were alright', but never quite got it, probably in the same way I never 'got' Nirvana.
Are You Normal? Thankfully not.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Old Mix Tapes
I found some old mix tapes... this was circa 1999/2000.
Hodge
Side One
Ich Bin Ein Auslander [Die Krupps Mix] - Pop Will Eat Itself
Whatchamacallit - Esqivel
Fuck You and Your Cat - Goldfinger
The Onion Bhaji Song - Lord Leamington
Stripper Vicar - Mansun
TAXLO$$ - Mansun
Drastic Sturgeon - Mansun
This Is For Real - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
I'm Not Even Going To Try - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Ginger - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Ballroom - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Side Two
Radar - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Take A Deep Breath - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Birdhouse In Your Soul [Live] - They Might Be Giants
Why Does The Sun Shine? - They Might Be Giants
Spiralling Shape - They Might Be Giants
Dolphin Square - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Germaine Greer - Carfax
Modern World - The Pogues
Cocaine Socialism - Pulp
Hit The Hi-Tech Groove - Pop Will Eat Itself
Steamroller - The Family Cat
New 1
Side One
Ich Bin Ein Auslander [Die Krupps Mix] - Pop Will Eat Itself
The Onion Bhaji Song - Lord Leamington
Spring - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Desperate Journalist - The Cure
You Don't Care About Us - Placebo
Just About Glad - Elvis Costello
Vivid - Electronic
Suedehead - Morrissey
Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins
One To Another - The Charlatans
Radar - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Eurodisco - BIS
Side Two
True Faith '94 - New Order
Gecko - The Creatures
You're The One For Me Fatty [Live] - Morrissey
Karmadrome [12"] - Pop Will Eat Itself
Haze - Electronic
I Think I'm Paranoid [Live] - Garbage
Not In My Plans - Miles Hunt
Carolyn's Fingers - Cocteau Twins
My Life For Yours - Holy Roman Empire
Inside You - Pop Will Eat Itself
Supervixen - Garbage
New 2
Side One
Nancy Boy [Sex Mix] - Placebo
Modern World - The Pogues
God Only Knows - James
Pretty Pretty - Pop Will Eat Itself
Seven - James
Pony Street - Elvis Costello
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - Morrissey
Theme From Gutbuster - Bently Rhythm Ace
The Perfect Kiss [12"] - New Order
20% Amnesia - Elvis Costello
A Kissed Out Red Floatboat - Cocteau Twins
Legoland - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Side Two
When I Grow Up [Live] - Garbage
North Country Boy - The Charlatans
Ring The Bells - James
Bernice Bobs Her Hair - The Divine Comedy
Def Con One - Pop Will Eat Itself
Push It [Live] - Garbage
The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
Legacy - Mansun
For Tomorrow - Blur
Look Out Tomorrow - Jesus Jones
Going Underground - The Jam
New 3
Side One
The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show
Leave - REM
Beats at the Office - BIS
Germaine Greer - Carfax
Special/Blown It [delete as appropriate] - Mansun
Bizarre Love Triange [12"] - New Order
Perfectly Rounded - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Chemical World - Blur
Wax and Wane - Cocteau Twins
Jesus Hairdo - The Charlatans
Side Two
Manna From Heaven - Miles Hunt
Laid - James
Tuesday Morning - The Pogues
36 Degrees - Placebo
Ski Jump Nose [Live] - Mansun
Harborcoat - REM
Born of Frustration - James
Stupid Girl [Live] - Garbage
That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Graham Coxon
Advert - Blur
You've Got A Lot To Answer For - Catatonia
Someone Like Kingbird - Miles Hunt
New 4
Side One
Accelerator - Primal Scream
Get The Girl and Kill The Baddies - Pop Will Eat Itself
13 Steps Lead Down - Elvis Costello
Pure Morning - Placebo
Stripper Vicar - Mansun
Vow [Live] - Garbage
Every Day Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
Y2K: The Bug Is Coming
Wake Up Bomb - REM
Black Country Chainstore Massacre - Pop Will Eat Itself
This Is For Real - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Lost Cat - Catatonia
SideTwo
Love Is The Law - The Seahorses
A New England - Kirsty MacColl
The Pop Singers Fear of the Pollen Count - The Divine Comedy
Wise Up, Sucker! - Pop Will Eat Itself
Only Happy When It Rains [Live] - Garbage
November Spawned A Monster - Morrissey
Kinder Murder - Elvis Costello
Everything Is Not Okay - Miles Hunt
Until You Find Out - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Going To London - Carfax
Hodge
Side One
Ich Bin Ein Auslander [Die Krupps Mix] - Pop Will Eat Itself
Whatchamacallit - Esqivel
Fuck You and Your Cat - Goldfinger
The Onion Bhaji Song - Lord Leamington
Stripper Vicar - Mansun
TAXLO$$ - Mansun
Drastic Sturgeon - Mansun
This Is For Real - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
I'm Not Even Going To Try - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Ginger - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Ballroom - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Side Two
Radar - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Take A Deep Breath - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Birdhouse In Your Soul [Live] - They Might Be Giants
Why Does The Sun Shine? - They Might Be Giants
Spiralling Shape - They Might Be Giants
Dolphin Square - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Germaine Greer - Carfax
Modern World - The Pogues
Cocaine Socialism - Pulp
Hit The Hi-Tech Groove - Pop Will Eat Itself
Steamroller - The Family Cat
New 1
Side One
Ich Bin Ein Auslander [Die Krupps Mix] - Pop Will Eat Itself
The Onion Bhaji Song - Lord Leamington
Spring - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Desperate Journalist - The Cure
You Don't Care About Us - Placebo
Just About Glad - Elvis Costello
Vivid - Electronic
Suedehead - Morrissey
Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins
One To Another - The Charlatans
Radar - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Eurodisco - BIS
Side Two
True Faith '94 - New Order
Gecko - The Creatures
You're The One For Me Fatty [Live] - Morrissey
Karmadrome [12"] - Pop Will Eat Itself
Haze - Electronic
I Think I'm Paranoid [Live] - Garbage
Not In My Plans - Miles Hunt
Carolyn's Fingers - Cocteau Twins
My Life For Yours - Holy Roman Empire
Inside You - Pop Will Eat Itself
Supervixen - Garbage
New 2
Side One
Nancy Boy [Sex Mix] - Placebo
Modern World - The Pogues
God Only Knows - James
Pretty Pretty - Pop Will Eat Itself
Seven - James
Pony Street - Elvis Costello
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - Morrissey
Theme From Gutbuster - Bently Rhythm Ace
The Perfect Kiss [12"] - New Order
20% Amnesia - Elvis Costello
A Kissed Out Red Floatboat - Cocteau Twins
Legoland - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Side Two
When I Grow Up [Live] - Garbage
North Country Boy - The Charlatans
Ring The Bells - James
Bernice Bobs Her Hair - The Divine Comedy
Def Con One - Pop Will Eat Itself
Push It [Live] - Garbage
The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
Legacy - Mansun
For Tomorrow - Blur
Look Out Tomorrow - Jesus Jones
Going Underground - The Jam
New 3
Side One
The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show
Leave - REM
Beats at the Office - BIS
Germaine Greer - Carfax
Special/Blown It [delete as appropriate] - Mansun
Bizarre Love Triange [12"] - New Order
Perfectly Rounded - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Chemical World - Blur
Wax and Wane - Cocteau Twins
Jesus Hairdo - The Charlatans
Side Two
Manna From Heaven - Miles Hunt
Laid - James
Tuesday Morning - The Pogues
36 Degrees - Placebo
Ski Jump Nose [Live] - Mansun
Harborcoat - REM
Born of Frustration - James
Stupid Girl [Live] - Garbage
That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Graham Coxon
Advert - Blur
You've Got A Lot To Answer For - Catatonia
Someone Like Kingbird - Miles Hunt
New 4
Side One
Accelerator - Primal Scream
Get The Girl and Kill The Baddies - Pop Will Eat Itself
13 Steps Lead Down - Elvis Costello
Pure Morning - Placebo
Stripper Vicar - Mansun
Vow [Live] - Garbage
Every Day Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
Y2K: The Bug Is Coming
Wake Up Bomb - REM
Black Country Chainstore Massacre - Pop Will Eat Itself
This Is For Real - David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Lost Cat - Catatonia
SideTwo
Love Is The Law - The Seahorses
A New England - Kirsty MacColl
The Pop Singers Fear of the Pollen Count - The Divine Comedy
Wise Up, Sucker! - Pop Will Eat Itself
Only Happy When It Rains [Live] - Garbage
November Spawned A Monster - Morrissey
Kinder Murder - Elvis Costello
Everything Is Not Okay - Miles Hunt
Until You Find Out - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Going To London - Carfax
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