Category: [Mixcloud]

HEY look what I just did! An honest to god/dess MIXCLOUD post! Yes, a MIX! Haven’t finished one of those since January, it seems. More to the point, I put this together for the estimable RM Brown, cos someone on a recent “quomments” episode for his Patreon subscribers said something to him about him knowing Australian music or not, and someone else put up a Spotify playlist of some, and that made me think “fuck, I should do something like that”. So, over the last couple of days, I did something like that, and here it is… focusing on the more punk/garage/post-punk end of things from 1977-88, with a few NZ acts of similar kind and vintage for additional texture; it ranges from the bleeding obvious to the “what was that?”, and has the additional benefit of you being able to hear Lubricated Goat without having to look at them naked. Hopefully Aroon finds this useful and interesting. and if he does I’ll do a followup that’s not quite as abrasive as this one sometimes get…

1. 1. Blam Blam Blam, There is No Depression in New Zealand
   2. Models, Atlantic Romantic
   3. Flowers, Sister
   4. Straitjacket Fits, Life in One Chord
   5. The New Christs, Sun God
   6. The Birthday Party, Waving My Arms
   7. The Saints, Know Your Product
   8. God, My Pal
   9. Hoodoo Gurus, Death Ship
   10. The Chills, I’ll Only See You Alone Again
   11. The Wreckery, Ruling Energy
   12. Laughing Clowns, Everything That Flies
   13. Radio Birdman, Descent Into the Maelstrom
   14. Danse Macabre, Torch
   15. The Mark of Cain, Lords of Summer
   16. Hunters & Collectors, Talking to a Stranger
   17. Beggars Court, Lipstick Blues
   18. Venom P. Stinger, Walking About
   19. Black Assassins, Death Take Me Now
   20. Proud Scum, Suicide 2
   21. Itchy Rat, The Sky is Falling
   22. Lubricated Goat, In the Raw
   23. Thug, Dad
   24. The Reals, Nothing to Say
   25. Box of Fish, Sex Cat Killer
   26. The Slugfuckers, Cacophony
   27. SPK, Mekano
   28. Whirlywirld, Sextronics
   29. Severed Heads, Adolf a Karrot
   30. Scattered Order, Swiss Like Knives and Forks
   31. Primitive Calculators, Pumping Ugly Muscle
   32. Died Pretty, Mirror Blues
   33. Scientists, Human Jukebox

Remember when I used to do these? Yeah. Just got the notion to do a new one a few days ago. Took a bit longer than usual cos instead of doing it my usual, i.e. picking a bunch of tracks I want to play and semi-randomly assembling them, I decided to be much more deliberate about it. The main problem was the end, which I had a particular song in mind for but getting the last 20 minutes or so to that point wasn’t working so I redid the entire bit (thnk it’s an improvement, fortunately). I think it works, the end result is maybe a bit chaotic… I don’t know, you decide.

Playlist:

1. 1. Can, Don’t Say No
   2. Peter Hammill, Nobody’s Business
   3. Lead Into Gold, Snake Oil
   4. Kraftwerk, Antenne
   5. Radiohead, I Might Be Wrong
   6. David Bowie, Blackout
   7. Yello, Basic Avenue
   8. Simon Raymonde, In My Place
   9. The Church, Mistress
   10. The Black Angels, You in Colour
   11. Tim Buckley, I Must Have Been Blind
   12. Beck, Turn Away
   13. Ulan Bator, Saint Mars
   14. Wire, Underwater Experiences
   15. Dead Kennedys, Bleed for Me
   16. Funkadelic, Super Stupid
   17. Cabaret Voltaire, Red Mask
   18. Brian Eno, Distributed Being
   19. Underground Lovers, Girl Afraid
   20. Tricky, Contradictive
   21. The Jesus & Mary Chain, Inside Me
   22. The Velvet Underground, I Heard Her Call My Name
   23. Spahn Ranch, Vortex
   24. Nine Inch Nails, Shit Mirror
   25. Black Ark Players, Jah
   26. 23 Skidoo, Coup Dub
   27. Joy Division, Twenty Four Hours
   28. The Sisters of Mercy, Nine While Nine
   29. The Damned, Therapy

I KNOW that’s not actually what the lyric is (it’s apparently “send my soul to bleed apart your ground”), but that’s what it sounded like when I first heard it… anyway, this week I bring you the following:

1. 1. Gina X Performance, Nice Mover
   2. Bauhaus, Antonin Artaud
   3. Ramones, Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
   4. The Chameleons, Here Today
   5. Public Image Limited, Rules and Regulations
   6. Fields of the Nephilim, Phobia
   7. Ministry, Primental
   8. He Said, I Fall Into Your Arms
   9. Abecedarians, Wild Flowers Grow From the Trash
   10. The Embarrassment, (I’m a) Don Juan
   11. Gary Numan, M.E.
   12. Wipers, Romeo
   13. The Modern Lovers, She Cracked
   14. The The, Flesh and Bones
   15. Pure Hell, I Feel Bad
   16. ABC, Hey Citizen!
   17. David Bowie, Look Back in Anger
   18. Play Dead, Shine
   19. Cabaret Voltaire, Walls of Jericho
   20. Lou Reed, Waves of Fear
   21. MX-80 Sound, Metro-Teens
   22. My Bloody Valentine, Several Girls Galore
   23. Sonic Youth, Rain King
   24. Thomas Leer & Robert Rental, Day Breaks Night Heals
   25. The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Little Underground
   26. Soft Cell, Sex Dwarf
   27. Buzzcocks, Airwaves Dream
   28. Altered Images, Dead Pop Stars
   29. Icon AD, Fight for Peace
   30. Wire, Strange
   31. The Adverts, The Great British Mistake

This week’s set:

1. 1. The Vibrators, Flying Duck Theory
   2. Wall of Voodoo, Back in Flesh
   3. Siekiera, Ludzie wschodu
   4. Cowboys International, Thrash
   5. Revolting Cocks, We Shall Cleanse the World
   6. The Comsat Angels, Be Brave
   7. The Birthday Party, Say a Spell
   8. Gang of Four, Capital (It Fails Us Now)
   9. The Gun Club, Death Party
   10. Simple Minds, Wonderful in Young Life
   11. Crawling Chaos, Arabesque
   12. Slab!, Gutter Busting
   13. The Anti Group, Morpheus Baby
   14. The Clash, Police on My Back
   15. The Hollywood Brats, Sick on You
   16. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Strange Dream
   17. 23 Skidoo, Another Baby’s Face
   18. Jean-Jacques Burnel, Euroman
   19. Skids, Thanatos
   20. Executive Slacks, Wide Fields
   21. The Saints, New Centre of the Universe
   22. Primitive Calculators, Pumping Ugly Muscle
   23. Dead Kennedys, I Am the Owl
   24. The Avengers, Car Crash
   25. Fad Gadget, Coitus Interruptus
   26. Keith Leblanc, No Sell Out
   27. Voigt 465, State
   28. The Professionals, Join the Professionals
   29. The Danse Society, Somewhere

In similar vein to last week, as you may notice. I’m kind of enjoying putting these two-hour things together, and I’ve already got the next couple prepared.

This week’s playlist:

1. 1. Fad Gadget, State of the Nation
   2. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The New Stone Age
   3. Basement 5, Ball Games
   4. The Undertones, Hypnotised
   5. The Fall, Rebellious Jukebox
   6. Liquid Liquid, Scraper
   7. The Cure, The Hanging Garden
   8. The Pretenders, Time the Avenger
   9. Cabaret Voltaire, Animation
   10. Chrome, Meet You in the Subway
   11. A Certain Ratio, The Fox
   12. The Snivelling Shits, Bring Me the Head of Yukio Mishima
   13. Material, Conform to the Rhythm
   14. The B-52’s, Lava
   15. Yello, Bostich (12” version)
   16. Middle Class, Mosque
   17. Alan Vega, Wipeout Beat
   18. Devo, Love Without Anger
   19. Dead Can Dance, A Passage in Time
   20. Public Image Limited, Go Back
   21. Killing Joke, Primitive
   22. Snake Corps, Another Monday
   23. The Wall, Ceremony
   24. Gang of Four, Love Like Anthrax (Fast Product version)
   25. The Mighty Lemon Drops, Pass You By (C86 version)
   26. Psyche, The Crawler
   27. Jacno, Triangle
   28. Joy Division, Glass
   29. Tubeway Army, Bombers
   30. The The, Giant

So let’s be honest, I am disappointed in the response, or lack thereof to be more accurate, to these mixes I’ve been making… thus far, the most listeners any of them has been 29, several of the others have barely made it into double figures, and some haven’t even made it that far. It’s hard not to feel like I’m wasting my time and effort a bit… so, obviously, the logical thing to do was really waste my time and effort by making a two-hour extravaganza… but the thing is, I’m particularly happy with the result, rather more so than many of the other episodes I’ve done so far, and I’m particularly happy with next week’s too which is in pretty much the same vein. I possibly should’ve been doing two-hour mixes all along, even though they do take more effort… anyway, for the three people who are likely to be interested, here’s this week’s episode.

Once more unto the 80s pop stuff. Playlist:

1. 1. Phil Seymour, Precious to Me
   2. Pete Townshend, And I Moved
   3. Tears for Fears, Pale Shelter
   4. Duran Duran, Careless Memories
   5. Thomas Dolby, Hyperactive
   6. INXS, Love Is (What I Say)
   7. Talking Heads, This Must Be the Place
   8. Grace Jones, Pull Up to the Bumper
   9. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Forever Live and Die
   10. The Moody Blues, Gemini Dream
   11. Fischer Z, So Long
   12. Icehouse, Love in Motion
   13. James Freud & The Radio Stars, Modern Girl
   14. Stevie Wonder, Do I Do

Parenthetically, I was fascinated to discover the other day that Pete Townshend wrote that song for Bette Midler, who ultimately chose not to record it for whatever reason, so Pete did it himself. It does make more sense, I suppose to be sung by a female singer, but it’s a lot more interesting with a male one. Especially when you remember it was 1980 when he did it…

As promised last week, another batch of late 60s goodness, this time focusing on the psychedelic rock movement, featuring some of the more wilfully out-there examples of same. I’m kind of impressed that Hendrix just hid that track on a single B-side; if he’d stuck that on Axis instead of “If 6 Was 9”, I’d like that album more than I do…

1. 1. The 13^th Floor Elevators, Reverberation (Doubt)
   2. The Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows
   3. The Bees, Voices Green and Purple
   4. Art, Supernatural Fairy Tales
   5. The Pretty Things, Defecting Gray
   6. Cream, Tales of Brave Ulysses
   7. The Electric Prunes, Long Day’s Flight
   8. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice
   9. The Valentines, Peculiar Hole in the Sky
   10. Pink Floyd, Point Me at the Sky
   11. The Hooterville Trolley, No Silver Bird
   12. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
   13. The Gods, Misleading Colours
   14. Love, Your Mind and We Belong Together
   15. Arzachel, Azathoth
   16. Kaleidoscope, (Love Song) For Annie
   17. The Dave Miller Set, Mr Guy Fawkes

Back to the 60s (well, the period 1966-70) again this week. Much like I went for fairly common and well-known 80s acts in the previous mix, I kind of did the same this time round, only going back a decade or so, obviously. I’ve already got next week’s mix done, it’s another 60s mix, and will feature some more obtuse and out of the way bands and song choices. In the meantime, however, here’s this week’s selections:

1. 1. The Beatles, Rain
   2. Love, 7 and 7 Is
   3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Stone Free
   4. The Byrds, Have You Seen Her Face
   5. The Rolling Stones, We Love You
   6. Moby Grape, Omaha
   7. The Who, I Can See for Miles
   8. Cream, White Room
   9. The Kinks, Picture Book
   10. The Doors, Touch Me
   11. Small Faces, Tin Soldier
   12. The Velvet Underground, What Goes On
   13. Neil Young, I’ve Been Waiting for You
   14. Crosby Stills & Nash, Long Time Gone
   15. Led Zeppelin, Out on the Tiles
   16. Santana, Hope You’re Feeling Better
   17. Fleetwood Mac, The Green Manalishi

Submitted as evidence that not everything I play here is fuzzy obnoxiousness, weird post-punk, and so forth. A fair bit of it is, to be sure, but sometimes a man’s just got to submit to the pleasures of perfectly mainstream pop/rock.

1. 1. Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Accidents Will Happen
   2. Japan, Quiet Life
   3. Split Enz, One Step Ahead
   4. Ultravox, The Thin Wall
   5. Roxy Music, More Than This
   6. The Church, Almost With You
   7. Depeche Mode, Leave in Silence
   8. Simple Minds, Glittering Prize
   9. ABC, All of My Heart
   10. Duran Duran, My Own Way (Carnival remix)
   11. John Foxx, Endlessly
   12. Lou Reed, I Love You Suzanne
   13. INXS, Johnson’s Aeroplane
   14. New Order, Thieves Likes Us

Well, then, let’s get on with something comparatively frivolous. Stuffed to the gills with uptempo chart smashes and pop hits that’ll have you snapping your fingers, tapping your feet, singing in the shower and all that jazz, it’s nothing if not colossal and upbeat… or at least it might be if it actually were, which it isn’t. This is what it actually is instead:

1. 1. The Jesus & Mary Chain, Kill Surf City
   2. Slab!, Fourth Warning
   3. Age of Chance, Bible of the Beats
   4. Killing Joke, Bloodsport
   5. Yello, Crash Dance
   6. Johnson Engineering Co., Full Circle
   7. Loop, Black Sun
   8. Play Dead, In Silence
   9. Executive Slacks, In and Out
   10. Crime & The City Solution, Her Room of Lights (For Lisa)
   11. Helios Creed, Sex Voodoo Venus
   12. Virgin Prunes, Theme for Thought
   13. Material, Detached
   14. Scientists, Human Jukebox