Peel Festive Fifty Favourites Volume ??

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John Peel with Laura Cantrell, 2004

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been very impressed with the amount of feedback I’ve been getting over the last few weeks since I started doing the Peel Festive Fifty posts. It’s great, and I just wish that when I posted about new music I got the same response (did no-one like the Vampire Weekend tracks?)

Anyway, here are another ten;

Gregory Isaacs -‘Nightnurse.’ mp3 (1982 Festive Fifty no.52)

Butthole Surfers -’22 Going On 23.’ mp3 (1987 Festive Fifty no.44)

Public Enemy -‘Night Of the Living Baseheads.’ mp3 (1988 Festive Fi

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fty no.50)

Mighty Lemon Drops -‘Like An Angel.’ mp3 (1986 Festive Fifty no.34)

Helen Love -‘Does Your Heart Go Boom.’ mp3

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(1997 Festive Fifty no.3)

White Town -‘Your Woman.’ mp3 (1996 Festi

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ve Fifty no.31)

Marine Research -‘Parallel Horizontal.’ mp3 (1999 Festive Fifty no.47)

Nina Nastasia -‘Ugly Face.’

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mp3 (2002 Festive Fifty no.4)

Aztec Camera -‘Oblivious.’ mp3 (1983 Festive Fifty no.29)

Massive Attack -‘Teardrop.’ mp3 (1998 Festive Fifty no.21)

Hope you like them, and leave feedback

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Album Review: Vampire Weekend

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{I know, it’s been all over the blogs recently. But sometimes it’s interesting to investigate

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what all the hype’s about].

Album Review:

Vampire Weekend-‘Vampire Weekend.’ (XL Recordings)

By the time you read this, most of you who are regular blog readers will wonder why on earth I’m adding my twopence worth, to a record that has already been fawned over, raved about and sneered at in the matter of weeks since it’s been out. Heck, I was even ready to hate them. According to their website: ‘The name of this band is Vampire Weekend. We are specialists in the following styles: “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”, “Upper West Side Soweto”, “Campus”, and “Oxford Comma Riddim.” ‘ Oh good grief. So, an internet sensation band, who might be the next Arcade Fire or not, a

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nd who have the capacity to be as bloody annoying as Canada’s Bare Naked Ladies.

Well, as I’m learning every day, you can’t always go by what your senses tell you (empiricism wi

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ll only take you so far with rock music). Yes, they graduated from Columbia University, yes there is a certain amount of cleverness…yet damn it, it feels so good. They may write songs about grammar (‘oxford comma’) or Architecture (‘Mansard Roof’), but damn it, thye’re good, no, great songs. So they may sing about life on US College campuses, but at least they’re singing about what they know. And the music is just…great. Nice little pop songs, with orchestration that knows South African township jive and baroque as well.

Well, yeah there’s a lot of press and coverage about them. Yes, some people will genuinely hate them. But I tried, and I’ve ended up starting to love this band. You might just do too…

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Vampire Weekend is out now on XL Recordings, but you probably knew that already.

My two favourite songs from this record:

Vampire Weekend -‘The kids Don’t Stand A Chance.’ mp3

Vampire Weeke

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nd -‘M79.’ mp3

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Ten more from John Peel’s Festive Fifty

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John Peel with Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley in 1999.

Yup, kids, just like it says, ten more tracks that made John Peel’s Festive Fifty, and I’ve tried to go for even less predictable stuff this time…

Gang Of Four -‘Damaged Goods.’ mp3 (1979 Festive Fifty no.23, 1980 Festive Fifty no.50)

Bluetones -‘Slight Return.’ mp3 (1995 Festive Fifty no.21)

Detroit Cobras -‘Shout Bama Lama.’ mp3 (2001 Festive Fifty no.21)

Dead Kennedys -‘California Uber Alles.’ mp3 (1979 Festive Fifty

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no.33 , 1980 Festive Fifty no.31, 1981 Festive Fifty no. 42)

Soup Dragons -‘Whole Wide world.’ mp3 (1986

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Festive Fifty no.25)

Camper Van Beethoven -‘Take The Skinheads Bowling.’ mp3 (1986 Festive Fifty no.47)

PJ Harvey -‘Dress.’mp3 (1991 Festive Fifty no.2)

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p3 (1998 Festive Fifty no.37)

Helen Love -‘Long Live The UK Music Scene.’ mp3 (1998 Festive Fifty no.10)

Broadcast -‘Come On Let’s Go.’ mp3 (2000 Festive Fifty no.5)

As always, if you want to find out more about John Peel start here and for more music featured in his annual Festive Fifties, an excellent place to start is the Teenage Kicks blogspot, especially for music long since deleted.

Album Review: Lightspeed Champion

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Lightspeed Champion -‘Falling Off Lavender Bridge’ (Domino)

[Dev Haynes’ first solo album has been written about and discussed across the blogs and the media over the past few weeks. I’d like to chip in with my views, without mentioning so much of what keeps getting covered and detracting from the album itself].

January can seem an odd time to release new albums, given that most of us are still too broke to buy anything after Christmas, and there is a flurry of anticipation about who the new acts of this brave new year are going to be (guilty, your honour). When an album is by yet another singer-songwriter -how wearying must it have been in the sixties with every new Bob Dylan that was touted – the risk of them being judged without the album being properly listened to but me considered high.

In this case, the surprise about this record coming out in January is because this is such a summery record (with apologies to any southern hemisphere readers). With every listen, the lush arrangements that enhance what may be pretty angry songs at times, this is an album for summer days rather than winter nights.

Like Scritti Politti’s ‘The Word Girl’ the record feels angry when encountered between the lines and whilst it’s easy to listen to, repeated and considered listens will reveal the charms and intensity within. Highlights the ten minute long ‘Midnight Surprise’ and ‘Galaxy Of The Lost.’ He also does a mean cover version of Amy winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ that stands pretty damn strong on its own terms.

So, it bears no relation to what he did as part of Test Icicles. Yes, there are other men out there who are performing with acoustic guitars, get over it. This album is only MOR to those listening with half an ear. Give it a listen and see what you make of it, rather than listening to lazy comparisons.

****

Falling Off Lavender Bridge is out now on Domino

Lightspeed Champion -‘All To Shit.’ mp3

Lightspeed Champion -‘Midnight Surprise.’ mp3

Lightspeed Champion’s website

Lightspeed Champion’s MySpace

Some Covers For Saturday Part V

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Emma Pollock, of The Delgados

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so here’s have a dozen for you.

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f all time. So here’s a cover of a Delgados song, and the Delgados covering the Dead Kennedys’ California Uber Alles:

Comrade Down -‘American Trilogy (Delgados’ cover).’ mp3

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(Dead Kennedys cover).’ mp3

I will post my review of the Lightspeed Champion album here very soon. In the meantime, here is his cover of Olivia Newton-John and The Electric Light Orchestra’s song ‘Xanadu.’ mp3

Lightspeed Champion -‘Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra cover).’ mp3

I’ve posted cover versions by Nirvana before, so why not other bands taking on Nirvana songs?

Patti Smith -‘Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover).’ mp3

Tori Amos -‘Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover).’ mp3

Kathryn Williams -‘All Apologies (Nirvana cover).’ mp3

There will be more music, including album reviews and more John Peel-related posts over the next few days, so keep checking back…

have a good weekend, Ed X

Six By Seven

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OK, a mixture of covers, rarities and Peel-stuff now.

Six By Seven formed in Nottingham in the nineties, and have released at least five albums, my favourite remaining The Things We Make, which lived in my walkman for about six months when it came out in 1998. I only saw them live once, in 1998, when they played a joint headliner at the Union

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Chapel in Islington, London, with my favourite ever scottish band, The Delgados.

John Peel was a fan, and the band did no fewer than five sessions including this one, a cover of a David Bowie song -in german (as you do), which was their only Festive Fifty entry, n

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o.43 in 1999. If you don’t speak German…well, you’re just going to have to listen and find out which David Bowie song, aren’t you?

Six By Seven -‘Helden (David Bowie cover in German).’ mp3

They made some great singles, and are still active, with the original lineup having come back together, as I understand it. One cover version from about six years ago saw them tackle The Soft boys’ I Wanna Destroy You.’

Six By Seven -‘I Wanna Destroy You (The Soft Boys cover).’ mp3

I mentioned earlier that Six By Seven played with the Delgados. It must have rubbed off, in 1998 Six by Seven record

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ed a cover of ‘Pull The Wires From The Wall,’ the Delgados song that reached no.27 in the 1997 Festive Fifty (a session version) and no.1 in the 1998 Festive Fifty (the album version from Peloton). The Six By seven version was eventually released in 2001 on a Fierce Panda six track various artists double 7″ EP called Cheffing and Blinding. I heard this on Peel, too…

Six By Seven -‘Pull The Wires From The Wall.’ mp3

(NB The last reco

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rding is a little scratchy in places, due to surface noise from the vinyl. Still, as the great man himself said: ‘listen, mate, life has surface noise…’)

More Peel, anyone?

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John Peel engaging in one of his and my favourite activities

OK, some more from Peelie’s Festive Fifty…

Mo-Dettes -‘White Mice.’ mp3
(1980 Fes

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tive Fifty no.56)

Shop Assistants -‘Safety net. ‘ mp3 (1986 Festive Fifty, no.8) (For AJ!)

Inspiral Carpets featuring Mark E. Smith -‘I Want You.’ mp3

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(1994 Festive Fifty no.1)

Prince -‘Sign O’ The Times.’ mp3 (1987 Festive Fifty no.32)

Sluts Of Trust -‘Leave You Wanting More.’ mp3 (2004 Festive Fifty no.5)

The Fall -‘Don’t Call Me Darling.’ mp3 (1995 Festive Fifty no.24)

M/A/R/R/S/ -‘Pump Up The Volume.’ mp3 (1987 Festive Fifty no.46)

10,000 Maniacs -‘Can’t Ignore The Train. ‘ mp3 (1985 Festive Fifty no.59)

Ride -‘Dreams Burn Down.’ mp3 (1990 Festive Fifty no.3)

Aphex Twin -‘Girl/Boy.’ mp3 (1996 Festive Fifty no.29)

More vinyl goodness will be appearing here later today…watch this space…

Primal Scream- Velocity Girl and more!

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Every record collector has a list of the records they are absolutely desperate to get above all others. Mine is just too long (and there are other factors like, y’know, eating, getting to work, clothes etc..) to reproduce here, but it includes the first four Orange Juice singles on Postcard, all The Cure stuff I still

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haven’t got, and the first singles by both Primal Scream and the Jesus and Mary Chain.

However, one gap that was filled last year was the second Primal Scream single ‘Crystal Crescent’/’Velocity Girl.’ The latter opened the seminal c-86 tape (will have to post that here if anyone’s interested…?), which made no.4 in the 1986 Festive Fifty, even though its’ A-side wasn’t included. The three tracks come to less than six minutes in tot

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al, but it is a peach of a single.

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Primal Scream -‘Crystal Crescent.’ mp3

Primal Scream -‘Velocity Girl.’

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Primal Scream -‘Spirea -X.’ mp3

Anyway, hope you enjoy these…

The Shop Assistants

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This is, quite possibly, going to be a new series on 17 Seconds. The aim is to post singles that have become legendary or mythical and are downright near-impossible to get hold of. If appropriate, I may also be including details of Peel Festive Fifty positions, so consider it a mixture of Fe

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stive Fifty and Great lost single posts.

This first single is the Shop Assistants’ All Day Long EP. Released in 1985 before the band signed to Chrysalis, releasing the Will Anything Happen? LP and the Safety Net and I Don’t Want To Be Friends With You singles,

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both of which made it into the 1986 Festive Fifty. (This sole LP and the two singles are on the Shop Assistants Anthology compilation, which I have never seen in a shop, but IS available on both eMusic and iTunes). the band split then, before reforming in the late eighties to issue two more singles.

The Shop Assistants -‘All Day Long EP’ (Subway Organisation)

1. All Day Long
2. Switzerland
3. All That Ever Mattered
4. It’s Up To You

The line-up was on this single was:
Alex -vocals
David -guitar
Sarah- bass
Ann- drums
Laura -drums (yes, two drummers)

The line-up changed over the years, at one point the singer had been Aggi, would later join Bjork in The Sugarcubes, Margerita of Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes would drum and David eventually joined the Pastels. (Did you follow all that?)

As a couple of bonuses, here is the very first single, credited to Bubba and the Shop Assistants, released in 1984.

Bubba and the Shop Assistants -‘Something To Do.’ mp3

(If anyone has a copy of the b-sdie to this, please could they send it to me. Address above)

Finally, towards the end of the eighties, a limited version of one of the singles had this as an extra track, a cover of the Jesus and Mary Chain’s You Trip Me Up:

Shop Assistants -‘You Trip Me Up.’ (Jesus and Mary Chain)

In the 1985 Festive Fifty, ‘All Day Long’ made no.50, while ‘All That Ever Mattered’ made no.17.

For an excellent Shop Assistants web page, try here.

Part two of this series will be Primal Scream’s Crystal Crescent 12″…

Peel Festive Fifty Favourites

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Apologies for the lack of posts over the last few days, there have been other, non-blog related matters to attend to.

Anyway, here are ten more tracks from John Peel’s Festive Fifty. As my bandwith has been exceeded on two Fileden accounts (glad people are enjoying sampling the music which I hope they will buy, but it would be nice if a few more of you left comments) these are via Mediafire.

Eggs -‘Government Administrator.’ mp3 (1993 Festive Fifty no.10)

New Order -‘Fine Time.’ mp3 (1988 Festive Fifty no.44)

The Flatmates -‘I Could Be In Heaven.’ mp3 (1986 Festive Fifty no.42)

Cocteau Twins -‘Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops.’ mp3 (1984 Festive Fifty no.2)

McCarthy -‘Should the Bible Be Banned?’ mp3 (1988 Festive Fifty no.38)

Sleeper -‘Delicious.’ mp3 (1994 Festive fifty no.20)

Camera Obscura -‘Eighties Fan.’ mp3 (2001 Festive Fifty no.8)

Pastels -‘Truck Train Tractor.’ mp3 (1986 Festive fifty no.23)

Billy Bragg -‘Levi Stubbs’ Tears.’ mp3 (1986 Festive Fifty no.24)

Wedding Present -‘Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft.’ mp3 (1987 Festive Fifty no.3)

Whilst here, I should mention that Teenage Kicks, a John Peel-related blog that is so essential I check it every day has done a couple of excellent posts (as usual but even more essential) r

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music from 1977. Yes, 1977 the year of punk. Go check them out here.