Some tunes for Monday

19-2000 Gorillaz 3:27 Gorillaz [UK]
Acid In My Heart The Sleepy Jackson 3:31 Lovers
Braxton Hicks Jebediah 3:53 Braxton Hicks
Broken Boy Soldier The Raconteurs 3:02 Broken Boy Soldiers
California Stars Billy Bragg & Wilco 4:58 Mermaid Avenue
Fortress Europe Asian Dub Foundation 3:51 Rock The Kasbah
Girl Beck 3:29 Guero
Hallelujah Custard 4:58 Goodbye Cruel World Bonus Disc
Hot Kids Riff Random 4:04 Kill Your Idols
Just Like Animals Paul Kelly 4:40 Wanted Man
Overkill Colin Hay 3:46 Going Somewhere
People ain't no good Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 5:42 The boatmans call
Pink moon Nick Drake 2:06 Pink Moon
Rich girl Augie March 4:57 Waltz
Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) De La Soul 5:06 Timeless
The Passenger Iggy Pop 4:44 Lust For Life
Wedding vows Sam Evans 2:53 Brown Couch Soundtrack
Where Is My Mind? Frank Black Francis 3:41 Frank Black Francis
You're The Reason I'm Leaving Franz Ferdinand 2:47 You Could Have It So Much Better

New stuff this week

Ciao!    Lush    3:31    Lovelife
No Going Back    Gold Mice    3:13    Kill Your Idols
My Pal    God    3:21    Tales From The Australian Underground - Singles 1976-1989 (Disc 2)
Ian Thorpe Was Bored    Justin Heazlewood    2:35    The Bedroom Philosopher - Living On The Edge Of My Bed
Chemical, chemical    Pretty Girls Make Graves    2:39    The New Romance
Hotel Yorba    The White Stripes    2:10    White Blood Cells
No Mercy For She    Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright    5:42    Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright
Don't Go Dancin Down The Darktown Strutter's Ball    C.W. Stoneking    3:38    King Hokum
Friends In Danger    Magic Dirt    4:45    Friends In Danger
Pink bullets    The Shins    3:53    Chutes too narrow
Mao Tse Tung Said    Alabama 3    5:16    Exile On Coldharbour Lane
The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying    The Devastations    4:58    Coal
Calling You    Paradise Motel    4:33    Still Life
Previous Crimes    Devastations    4:58    Devastations
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction    Otis Redding    2:48    The Ultimate Otis Redding
Wired For Sound    B(if)tek    3:51    2020
1am (Italo Workers Club)    Dark Network    7:09    Late Set
Our Way Of Life    EYE Vs The Commonwealth Government    1:17    Songs Of Protest
Vending machine    Snowbug    6:38    Inextricably intertwined

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Holiday tracks (if you are so lucky)

Well, once more I've been delving into the depths of the rockin and the slight odd - my fascination with unusual cover versions and mashups continues unabated and for your listening pleasure today I present Run DMC mashed up with Metallica, The Sugababes singing The Arctic Monkeys, Mousse T mashed with the Dandy Warhols and the Flaming Lips fairly radical reimagining of the White Stripes Seven Nation Army.

Enjoy

Fall at Your Feet Crowded House 3:18 Woodface
Freddie's Dead Curtis Mayfield 6:11 Live In Europe
Horny As A Dandy - Original Version Mousse T. Vs. The Dandy Warhols 3:17 Horny As A Dandy (Mashed By Loo & Placido)
Seven Nation Army (Harry Potter And George Bush's Severed Head Army Mix) The Flaming Lips 2:49 LateNightTales: The Flaming Lips
I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor Sugababes 2:44 Q: Best Of 86/06
Tricky Sandman (Run-DMC vs. Metallica) DJ M.I.F. 3:41 Best of Bootie 2006
Black sheep Konrad Lenz 3:05 Living With the spirits of the dead
Brown Bessy The Fuelers 2:20 Hot Dang
Caught Out In The Rain Tom Woodward 3:23 32-20 Blues
Nick The Stripper The Birthday Party 3:52 Prayers On Fire
Heavenly Bodies Lush 2:59 Lovelife
You Say You Lie The Raveonettes 2:55 Pretty In Black
How Does It Feel The Zutons 3:49 Tired of Hangin' Around
over and over Hot Chip 5:45 The Warning
Shark Fin Blues Drones 5:43 Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
I Thank You- The Powder Monkeys 3:32 Redball Soundtrack
More suicides please The Thought Criminals 2:31 Tales from the Aus Underground Vol.2
The Nature vs. Effect Bit By Bats 2:59 Bit By Bats
Master And Servant Depeche Mode 3:47 The Singles 81-85
Strasbourg The Rakes 2:30 Capture/Release
Modern Way Kaiser Chiefs 4:03 Employment
Wave Of Mutilation Pixies 2:04 Death To The Pixies

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Mo less.

After 2 months (and a bit) it was time for a change. The mo is no more.

Looking backwards

After doing the retrospective thing on Monday Sunset yesterday, I thought I was pretty well going to get into looking forward and enjoying the best new music that people are making but my trip to the cd shop at lunchtime would say otherwise.

I had intended to look for some James Brown - I was in Melbourne when he died and 3RRR (one of the best radio stations around) played huge slabs of him (well - his music, you know what I mean) - anyway, I realised that there is a big Brown hole in the collection.

As it turns out, I found a best-of double cd in the collection of best-of double cds in the 3 for $20 pile so also scored some Curtis Mayfield (arguably cooler than JB) and some Cuban tunes.

Then I saw the Breakfast club soundtrack and before I knew it, I was in retro city.

I'd say that the Flaming Lips - Late Night Tales cd is more contemporary, but there's also a lot of their old retro faves on there, so what do you do?)

Now granted, there hasn't been a whole lot of 07 music released yet (or is that 007?) but I wonder what it all means.

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Happy New Tunes (ok, so they're the picks of 2006 but if you haven't heard them, they're new, right?)

Nausea    Beck    2:55    The Information   
Love handles    Boytown    1:59    Boytown Soundtrack   
No Backbone    The Lemonheads    3:07    The Lemonheads   
Two Can Play At This Game    Dallas Crane    2:49    Factory Girls   
Midnight Snack    You Say Party! We Say Die!    4:03    Hit The Floor!   
revision    love of diagrams    4:23    e.p.   
Paranoid Android    Easy Star All Stars    6:27    Radiodread   
Roscoe    Midlake    4:49    The Trials Of Van Occupanther   
The Future    Teddy Thompson    6:51    Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man   
Girl From The Tote    The Swedish Magazines    4:26    Eat More Baby   
Blue Monday    Nouvelle Vague    3:06    Bande À Part   
Together    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah    3:30    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah   
Further On Up The Road    Johnny Cash    3:25    American V: A Hundred Highways   
Broken Boy Soldier    The Raconteurs    3:02    Broken Boy Soldiers   
The Brotherhood Of Al Wazah    Radio Birdman    5:30    Zeno Beach   
Country Girl    Primal Scream    4:33    Riot City Blues   
The Clock    Thom Yorke    4:16    The Eraser   
Money Green    Bit By Bats    3:11    Let's Go Romeo   

Warm July    Sodastream    4:24    Reservations   

Cinnamon girl    Matthew Sweet&Susanna Hoffs    2:44    Under The Covers

over and over    Hot Chip    5:45    The Warning
Disco 2000 (Nick Cave Pub Rock Version)    Pulp    4:22    Different Class (Remixed 2006)
Common People (Vocoda Mix)    Pulp    6:18    Different Class (Remixed 2006)
Pop Star Girl    Tom Woodward    3:53    32-20 Blues
These walls have ears    Snowbug    2:06    Inextricably intertwined
Black Sabotage (Beastie Boys vs. Led Zeppelin)    DJ Moule    2:32    Best of Bootie 2006
Crazy Logic (Gnarls Barkley vs. Supertramp vs. Rockwell)    Arty Fufkin    4:27    Best of Bootie 2006
1150 Closer To The Boxer.mp3    The Kleptones    4:55    24 Hours (Disc 1)
My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)    Neil Young    3:47    Rust Never Sleeps (Live)
Worth The Wait    We Are Scientists    2:43    With Love And Squalor
You Will You Won't    The Zutons    2:54    Who Killed The...
Ambush    Figurines    3:08    Skeleton
Watch Out For Me Ronnie    Yo La Tengo    3:01    I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Why Won't She Marry Me?    Digger And The Pussycats    3:56    Watch Yr Back
Puttin' On The Dog    Tom Waits    3:39    Orphans: Brawlers
Fat Children    Jarvis Cocker    3:23    Jarvis
Bad boy for love    Ian Rilen    6:14    Love In Murder (Bonus)
Charley Bostock Blues    C.W. Stoneking    3:34    King Hokum
Fistful Of Dallas    Ground Components    5:37    An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Yakuza's Girls    Don Walker    2:19    Cutting Back
   

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Last for the year

Off to Melbourne for Christmas next week so I guess this is pretty well it. I'll spare you the obligatory best of 2006 list (well, this time at least) and hope you enjoy my selection of winding down tunes.

Trip To Kalu-Ki-Bar Louis Tillett & Charlie Owen 3:45 The Ugly Truth
These walls have ears Snowbug 2:06 Inextricably intertwined
Tambourine Bay Trouser Trouser 3:04 I'm Too Busy (Baby)
Troubled in mind Konrad Lenz (w/Genevieve Elmes) 2:21 One of the missing
Dirty Dancehall The Zutons 4:09 Who Killed The...
look after me Hot Chip 4:47 The Warning
Lies The Rolling Stones 2:46 Some Girls
Little Drop Of Poison Tom Waits 3:09 Orphans: Bawlers
Ballad Of A Yobbo Soursob Bob 2:00 Living In The Long Grass
Ghost Town Figurines 2:56 Skeleton
Mr. Tough Yo La Tengo 4:05 I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Dead City Patti Smith 4:13 Peace And Noise
Left Side Clouded The Sea And Cake 3:15 One Bedroom
Spinner Soma Rasa 4:28 Soma Rasa
The Metal Tenacious D 2:45 The Pick Of Destiny
Cash Cow We Are Scientists 2:35 With Love And Squalor
pace of the patience love of diagrams 3:12 e.p.
Our Sunshine Ground Components 4:39 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Four In The Morning Don Walker 4:40 Cutting Back
Cay's Crays Fat Freddys Drop 7:07 Based on a True Story
Don't Worry About It N*E*R*D 3:41 Fly Or Die

Black Bird The Beautiful Girls 3:55 Learn Yourself
King Of New York Fun Lovin' Criminals 3:44 Q Mmmmm
Red Light The Strokes 3:11 First Impressions Of Earth
Feltham Is Singing Out Hard-Fi 4:36 Stars Of CCTV
Wild Flower Soul Sonic Youth 9:04 A Thousand Leaves
She bangs the drums The Stone Roses 3:50 Very Best of
So La Bailterspace 3:31 Capsul
Nothing Much Bidston Moss 2:42 Ep03 Bang
Smokescreen Amusement Parks On Fire 4:11 Amusement Parks On Fire
Supermoves Overseer 4:18 Animatrix
Krack Soulwax 2:32 Any Minute Now
What It Means Barry Adamson 3:59 As Above So Below
Cold Sweat The Grand Wazoo 4:04 At Crossroads of Collingwood and Fitzroy
Special K Placebo 3:52 Black Market Music
What's eating you? Deadstar 3:01 Deadstar
Now Or Ever Again Even 3:30 Free Kicks
Hot Kids Riff Random 4:07 In Space There Is No Sound
Better Then You The Hellacopters 2:44 New Blood Vol 3
The Good Ones The Kills 3:29 No Wow
Metal and Hair Mess Hall 2:35 Notes From A Ceiling

Tunes

Muphin Smart Risk Big Benifit 4:12 Diggin Deep
London In Love I Heart Hiroshima 3:00 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Westgate Bridge Sleepy Township 2:11 Set Sail
Ever Fallen In Love Nouvelle Vague 3:19 Bande À Part
The Weakest Part Yo La Tengo 3:04 I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Vending machine Snowbug 6:38 Inextricably intertwined
Caught Out In The Rain Tom Woodward 3:23 32-20 Blues
Target's Air Conditioner Baterz 3:48 Out of Hell
Come on home Franz Ferdinand 3:46 Franz Ferdinand
Popcorn Hot Butter 2:33 Single
Dory Previn Camera Obscura 4:16 Let's Get Out Of This Country
Shazam Spiderbait 2:07 Greatest Hits
Spooky 3DS 4:55 The Venus Trail
Alone With You (Orig) Sunny Boys 3:13 Do The Pop - Oz Garage Rock 76-87
Blasphemous Rumours Depeche Mode 5:09 The Singles 81-85
Remember Figurines 2:38 Skeleton
Raskolnikov Soursob Bob 2:57 Living In The Long Grass
Pale My Disco 3:33 Cancer
Why Won't She Marry Me? Digger And The Pussycats 3:56 Watch Yr Back
Blue Poles Patti Smith 5:19 Peace And Noise
Young At Heart Tom Waits 3:41 Orphans: Bawlers

News Update (neh, just kidding)

I've got a new apartment baby, interior colour of red
(Ok - it's actually a room in a house and it's not red but it's still worth singing about anyway).

Lots of new treats for you this week - still enjoying the tracks from local outfit Snowbug as well as (finally) getting my hands on the new(ish) Yo La Tengo album "I'm not afraid of you and I will beat your ass". Huzzah.

There's also the Tenacious D movie ("The Pick of Destiny") soundtrack, new stuff from Jarvis Cocker and particularly exciting is the new Tom Waits 3 disc collection of oddities (does the guy do anything else?) called Orphans - Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards.

Throw in some CW Stoneking, some Ground Components and a rediscovering of a band called the Sea and Cake and I think we have the fixings of a pretty cool show.

(Of course, you could swap over to JJJ if you prefer - or should I say if you are the kind of person who would vote for Dark Side of the Moon as favourite album of all time - or Anthony Callea & Delta Goodrem over the Stones in the top 100. Says it all really)

Apartment Custard 2:26 Goodbye Cruel World (The Best Of Custard)
Point And Shoot Yo La Tengo 4:18 I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Electioneering Radiohead 3:50 Ok Computer
Electioneering Easy Star All Stars 4:34 Radiodread
The dead step out Konrad Lenz 2:12 Film Music
Vending machine Snowbug 6:38 Inextricably intertwined
Why Won't She Marry Me? Digger And The Pussycats 3:56 Watch Yr Back
Don't Say Nothing Patti Smith 5:52 Peace And Noise
Another Episode Sleepy Township 1:29 Set Sail
Four Corners The Sea And Cake 5:44 One Bedroom
Fish In The Jailhouse Tom Waits 4:22 Orphans: Brawlers
Black Magic Jarvis Cocker 4:21 Jarvis
The Metal Tenacious D 2:45 The Pick Of Destiny
The Salty Knowledge Of Tears Soulwax 2:42 Much Against Everyone's Advice
Bad boy for love Ian Rilen 6:14 Love In Murder (Bonus)
Sister Morphine The Rolling Stones 5:34 Sticky Fingers
She's A Bread Baker C.W. Stoneking 3:17 King Hokum
Fistful Of Dallas Ground Components 5:37 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Candidate David Bowie 2:40 Diamond Dogs

Monday music

For your pleasure (and by the way, if you're out there and listening, please leave a comment - it's an odd experience sitting in the studio talking to a microphone - it would be great to think I'm talking to people)

Our Sunshine Ground Components 4:39 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Hands In The Air Ground Components 3:33 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Sparrow Love Outside Andromeda 2:48 Longing Was a Safe Place to Hide
12 Gates To The City Suzie Higgie 4:56 Songs Of Habit
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Half Way Round The World X 3:08 Tales From The Australian Underground - Singles 1976-1989 (Disc 2)
Stuck on you Sardine V 4:14 Tales from the Australian underground Vol.2 1977-1990
Then You Appear The Panda Band 4:35 Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town
Superman's Black In The Building (Mauly T Remix) Public Enemy 4:09 Bring That Beat Back - The Public Enemy Remix Project
Valder Fields Tamas Wells 2:39 The Kids Who Kill For Sugar: Popboomerang Records 5th Birthday Sampler
If I Had My Way Four Hours Sleep 4:29 The Kids Who Kill For Sugar: Popboomerang Records 5th Birthday Sampler
The Black Sea Waltz Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen 3:24 Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Four In The Morning Don Walker 4:40 Cutting Back
I Am Not Approachable The Fauves 3:27 Nervous Flashlights
No Complaints Beck 3:00 The Information
No Backbone The Lemonheads 3:07 The Lemonheads
Muddy Water Dallas Crane 4:07 Factory Girls
City Of Refuge Grant-Lee Phillips 3:36 Nineteeneighties
You Did It! You Say Party! We Say Die! 2:25 Hit The Floor!
Glider Smoosh 2:19 Free To Stay
revision love of diagrams 4:23 e.p.

The future of Rock (RAWWWWK) is in safe hands

I caught Airbourne at the Green Room in Phillip last night - for those who don't know, Airbourne is an AC/DCesque 4 piece from Warrnambool who released an EP in 2004 and were picked up by Capitol records for a 5 album deal in 2005 - and rawwwk they did.

They play simple rock - very loud, driving, sweaty and flailing around in a way that makes Iggy Pop look comatose. I don't think I've ever seen a band work that hard and at the same time they keep an incredibly tight sound. Everyone there absolutely loves being up on stage in a rock band and while they know they are good (in the way that only a bunch of 18-22 guys can) they aren't arrogant about it, they're just having a ball.

I'd say I only heard the singer say half a dozen words (and only between songs) that weren't screeched out in a very rock'n'roll Bon Scott style - even the between song banter was screamed at the crowd (the first time I've ever heard the word Canberra sound rocklike - I loved it) and it was nice to see that they had customised the banter to bring some local relevance.

Even the song intros were classic dumb rock (dumb in the best way, don't get me wrong) - "This one's for all the heartbreakers out there - It's called Heartbreaker" "This one's for the girls in black out there - it's called Girls in black" (and so on)

As the singer walked past me (literally, within a metre or so) in the middle of a song doing a rock thing where he leaves the stage and goes behind the bar to pour himself a beer and brings it back onstage, I remember thinking to myself, this is a special moment. (And yes, I tried to get the cameraphone working but it was too dark)

Great band, great show. Keep an eye on them.

(As for their recorded stuff - have only heard the one track on their myspace page - here and it's well put together, heavily ACDC inspired rock. Nothing mindblowing but fortunately that's where the live shows come in.

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Old as the station but still kicking

Back on track - tunes for today

Got a few new treats for your listening pleasure today (and I would have had some Snowbug but - well, um - lent that cd to a friend - next week for sure. In the interests of disclosure, my new housemate is in the band but what I've heard so far I actually do quite like, which helps).

Anyways, we have some delta blues style offerings from CW Stoneking, Ground Components, Love outside Andromeda and a tune from the new album from those sadly underrated workhorses The Fauves.

As ever, if you liked something or didn't like something or have a request (that's anatomically possible), leave us a comment.

cheers - oh, by the way, the Movember thing is still in full swing, check out the full story (with day by day progress pictures - here)

Cold Blooded Old Times (Smog) 4:12 High Fidelity
Jets Decoder Ring 5:00 Fractions
Bad boy for love Ian Rilen 6:14 Love In Murder (Bonus)
Cathedral Bells Justin Grounds 4:36 Cathedral Bells
Conversation Intercom Soulwax 3:06 Much Against Everyone's Advice
Overkill Colin Hay 3:46 Going Somewhere
Salvation Jane Hugo Race & True Spirit 3:38 Valley of Light
Miss Fortune Sixfthick 4:49 Traincrash - live
Stockholm Syndrome Yo La Tengo 2:53 Prisoners Of Love [Disc 1]
She's A Bread Baker C.W. Stoneking 3:17 King Hokum
Keep looking at the sky Love Outside Andromeda 4:17 Longing Was a Safe Place to Hide
Hands In The Air Ground Components 3:33 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Thin Eyebrows Suzie Higgie 3:25 Songs Of Habit
Then You Appear The Panda Band 4:35 Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town
Im Too Busy (Baby) Trouser Trouser 3:04 I'm Too Busy (Baby)
Daniel Morgan Konrad Lenz 3:26 One of the missing
I'll Work When I'm Dead The Fauves 3:32 Nervous Flashlights
This Room Fat Freddys Drop 5:00 Based on a True Story
Karma Police Easy Star All Stars 4:48 Radiodread

Music for a rainy day

Wow, quite tempestuous outside - kind of wish I'd brought my brolly. (Ok, I kind of wish I owned one)

Anyways, here are the songs du jour.

Don't forget, I'm still doing the Movember thing, check out my mo-blog here

For A Short Time Weddings Parties Anything 5:11 Riveresque
Words Fail Me Tex, Don Charlie 5:01 All Is Forgiven
I love my leather jacket The Chills 2:54 Topless women
This Charming Man The Smiths 2:43 The Best Of The Smiths
Sailor The Brian Jonestown Massacre 3:43 Bravery, Repetition and Noise
Vaporizer Lupine Howl 5:20 The Carnivorous Lunar activities of Lupine Howl
Walking Through Babylon Thievery Corporation 4:26 Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi
Jacob's ladder Chumbawumba 2:53 Peace Not War
Hey Nonny Nonny Violent Femmes 4:34 Why Do Birds Sing?
Atmosphere Joy Division 4:10 Substance 1977-1980
I see a darkness Bonny Prince Billy 4:49 I see a darkness
Everything Reminds Me of Her Elliott Smith 2:37 Figure 8
A Clean Slate Sealifepark 3:55 We Get What You Deserve
Drive Blu Mar Ten 3:52 The Six Million Names Of God
Whats A Place Like That Doing In A Girl Like You Devastations 4:57 Coal
Everything breaks the heart The Beautiful Few 3:06 Metal for Melbourne
Godless The Dandy Warhols 5:20 Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Caribou Frank Black Francis 3:01 Frank Black Francis (Demos)
Take A Run At The Sun Dinosaur Jr 3:28 Ear-Bleeding Country

Greater Head Crime And The City Solution 4:22 The Brideship
Buy me a pony Spiderbait 1:43 Garage Days
Not That Social The Von Bondies 3:01 Pawn Shoppe Heart
Arse Grabbin' 2UP 3:42 Player's Club
Dope fiend beat Chaos Maths 3:49 Dope meaning good
Growing on me The Darkness 3:31 Permission to land
Batman Neal Hefty 1:11 Single
Paper Doll Louis XIV 3:25 The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Total Trash Sonic Youth 7:33 Daydream Nation
La Di Doh Ed Kuepper 6:34 With A Knapsack On My Back
Sides Full Fathom Five 3:39 Sides
Venus In Cancer Amusement Parks On Fire 3:37 Amusement Parks On Fire
Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo 3:57 Rage II
Lick The Bacon Osterberg 2:08 Osterberg
Immigrant Song Led Zeppelin 2:23 School of Rock
Rock'n'Roll worm Hoss 3:34 You get nothing
Bizarre love triangle New Order 6:43 International
Kill All Hippies Primal Scream 4:57 Xtrmntr
Best Of Both Worlds Midnight Oil 4:05 20,000 Watts R.S.L.
Descent Into The Maelstrom Radio Birdman 4:24 Essential Radio Birdman

Mo-nday Sunset

Sorry - just trying to maintain the string of Mo based puns I've committed to for Movember. (Pun or wordplay?)

Anyways, as I mentioned before, couple of tracks from the new Ground Components cd for your listening pleasure and the usual grab bag of odds and ends that hopefully you haven't heard too much of. (I'm a big fan of the kind of radio that makes you go - cool, what was that song?)

There's also a small tribute to a man some have dubbed the cross between Iggy Pop and Dorian Gray of Australian Rock, Ian Rilen. Ian Rilen died last week of bladder cancer after having been diagnosed earlier in the year. He played bass in Rose Tattoo (and co-wrote their biggest hit Bad Boy for Love) and went on to play in seminal outfit X as well as Sardine v and a bunch of others. Rest in peace.

Our Sunshine Ground Components 4:39 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Hands In The Air Ground Components 3:33 An Eye For A Brow. A Tooth For A Pick.
Sparrow Love Outside Andromeda 2:48 Longing Was a Safe Place to Hide
12 Gates To The City Suzie Higgie 4:56 Songs Of Habit
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Half Way Round The World X 3:08 Tales From The Australian Underground - Singles 1976-1989 (Disc 2)
Stuck on you Sardine V 4:14 Tales from the Australian underground Vol.2 1977-1990
Then You Appear The Panda Band 4:35 Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town
Superman's Black In The Building (Mauly T Remix) Public Enemy 4:09 Bring That Beat Back - The Public Enemy Remix Project
Valder Fields Tamas Wells 2:39 The Kids Who Kill For Sugar: Popboomerang Records 5th Birthday Sampler
If I Had My Way Four Hours Sleep 4:29 The Kids Who Kill For Sugar: Popboomerang Records 5th Birthday Sampler
The Black Sea Waltz Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen 3:24 Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Four In The Morning Don Walker 4:40 Cutting Back
I Am Not Approachable The Fauves 3:27 Nervous Flashlights
No Complaints Beck 3:00 The Information
No Backbone The Lemonheads 3:07 The Lemonheads
Muddy Water Dallas Crane 4:07 Factory Girls
City Of Refuge Grant-Lee Phillips 3:36 Nineteeneighties
You Did It! You Say Party! We Say Die! 2:25 Hit The Floor!
Glider Smoosh 2:19 Free To Stay
revision love of diagrams 4:23 e.p.

Late Breaking News: I'm growing a Mo

I'm going to paste this blurb in directly from the Movember people because they explain it better than me, but essentially, I'm going to grow a Mo during November to raise money for Men's health. (The health, not the magazine)

Hi all,

During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I’ll be growin a moustache. That’s right I’m bringing the Mo back because I’m passionate about changing the state of men’s health.

Male health is a major issue, did you know:

Men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy of males is 6 years less than females.
Every year in Australia 2,700 men die of prostate cancer – more than the number of women who die from breast cancer.
Depression affects 1 in 6 men…Most don’t seek help. Untreated depression is a leading risk factor for suicide. Rates of suicide are more than double the national road toll.
Help me change the face of men’s health by sponsoring my mo.

Please go to http://www.movember.com.au/au/sponsor, enter my Rego number which is 25953 and your credit card details. All donations of $2 and over are tax deductible.

The money raised by Movember will be used to change the face of men's health by creating awareness and funding research into prostate cancer and male depression.

Movember culminates at the end of the month at the Gala Partè where I’ll be parading my Mo on the cat walk for a chance to be crowned the Man of Movember. If you want to be part of this great night you’ll have to purchase a Gala Parte ticket for $33.00 (inc GST).

Cheers

Colin

More info is available at www.movember.com.au

I'm also running (yet another) blog, this one focussing on my mo progress which you can check out here

Expect regular postings (better than here,hey) and pics and at least one bad mo pun each day.


In unrelated news, just picked up the new Ground Components (Melb) album and it's a cracker - lots of rock weirdness and a ripper cover of the Paul Kelly song Our Sunshine (about Ned Kelly). Tune in on Monday to hear a little.

Try these on for size

I'm falling Halfday 3:50 Now We're Happy
Nature Boy Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 4:54 Abattoir Blues (Disc 1)
Ten Little Pills Slumber Party 4:11 Slumber Party
Braxton Hicks Jebediah 3:53 Braxton Hicks
Gutter for two The Tremors 3:03 Cash up front, no kissing
Would You Love A Monsterman Lordi 3:02 The Monster Show
Devil Is A Loser Lordi 3:29 Get Heavy
She bangs the drums The Stone Roses 3:50 Very Best of
Quiet Room Meatbee 3:46 Caught In The ACT 2001
You're Not Cool Baterz 2:17 Out of Hell
It's A Crime I Heart Hiroshima 3:19 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Bubblegum Gun I Heart Hiroshima 3:26 A Three Letter Word For Candy
Shock And Awe Neil Young 4:52 Living With War
Let's Impeach the President Neil Young 5:10 Living With War
Midweek morning The Lucksmiths 3:05 Naturaliste
The Ballad Of Lachlan And Sarah Ripe 3:50 Galaxies And Stars
Sharkfin Blues The Drones 4:32 Single
Cinnamon girl Sid'n'Susie (Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs) 2:44 Under The Covers
Secret Track The Drugs 0:41 The Very Next Of
Nightmares By The Sea Jeff Buckley 3:49 Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk [Disc 2]
Pleased To Meet You Sekiden 2:52 Sound Instincts
Hott Date The Gossip 2:17 That's Not What I Heard

Cameo or Guest Host - you be the judge

Ok, so filling in for Friday Sunset today (the second hottest spot in the Sunset calender - can you guess which is number 1? :) )

So here are the tracks I'll be selecting from today, hope you enjoy them.

Is there something you liked/hated? Let me know, I'm flying blind here people.
Requests, feedback on my ranting and raving, cries of "My 4 year old could do better" - it's all welcome.

cheers then

Col

Don't Worry About It N*E*R*D 3:41 Fly Or Die
Pila Pila Not Drowning, Waving 2:20 Follow the geography
Exit Music (For A Film) Easy Star All Stars 4:23 Radiodread
Karma Police Easy Star All Stars 4:48 Radiodread
I Don't Ever Want To Change The Drones 3:59 Gala Mill
The Future Leonard Cohen 6:41 The Essential Leonard Cohen (Disc 2)
Heroes [Live] Blondie 6:20 UNCUT - Starman: A Tribute To David Bowie
Roscoe Midlake 4:49 The Trials Of Van Occupanther
A Midlife's Tale My Friend The Chocolate Cake 3:26 Parade
Kiss of Fire (Allen/Hill) Monsieur Camembert 5:43 Absynthe
Dugdig YT Cracker 2:44 Nerd Rap
Previous Crimes Devastations 4:58 Devastations
Disco 2000 Pulp 4:33 Different Class
Sabotage The Beastie Boys 2:58 Ill Communication
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Sufjan Stevens 3:19 Illinois
Adelaide Paul Kelly 3:37 Post
The Stone Roses (Grooverider's Mix) Stone Roses Vs. Grooverider 4:30 Old School Vs. New School
1980 the Inches 3:44 Trust me

Bing Bang Bang Bong Kong Messer Chups 2:52 Crazy Price
What is lost Konrad Lenz 4:05 Living With the spirits of the dead
Red Sally Tom Woodward 4:21 32-20 Blues
Make Me Your Picture Huski 3:34 Word 43 - Now Hear This! September 2006
Come With Me Grandadbob 3:43 Word 43 - Now Hear This! September 2006
Shining Path Decoder Ring 5:18 Fractions
The trumpet song The Particles 4:47 Tales from the Aus Underground Vol.2
Stuck on you Sardine V 4:14 Tales from the Aus Underground Vol.2
Severed Heads Dead Eyes opened 3:21 Tales from the Aus Underground Vol.2
Arawan Tinariwen 4:06 Amassakoul
Two Can Play At This Game Dallas Crane 2:49 Factory Girls
Yakuza's Girls Don Walker 2:19 Cutting Back
I'm Jim Fix And I'm Dead Now The Fauves 4:26 Nervous Flashlights
Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town The Panda Band 3:07 Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town
Cay's Crays Fat Freddys Drop 7:07 Based on a True Story
Devil Went Down On Betty Autopilot 4:14 Bride Of Monster Mashup
In Passing The Lemonheads 2:50 The Lemonheads
BoyTown '89 BoyTown 2:35 BoyTown
Heartattack And Vine Tom Waits 4:50 Heartattack And Vine
Double Dare Adalita 3:06 Suburban Mayhem OST (ep)

So did you miss me?

Took a week at the coast last week - many thanks to the incomparable Sylvie for filling in for me - but back now and with a swag of musical goodies for your aural pleasuring.

(And I turned 35 yesterday - yikes - but fear not, no sign of growing up just yet - no wife, no kids and no mortgage on no house in the burbs - (after all, what else defines being a grown up?)

Small change Gersey 5:23 Eyes Are Wide Tonight
Intersect Glorybox 4:34 This Is The Glory Box Compilation
Mote Sonic Youth 7:37 Goo
Fingerpops Garageland 2:50 Feel Alright
The Haunting The Golden Palominos 5:32 Drunk With Passion
In Places, Empty Spaces The Most Serene Republic 4:50 Underwater Cinematographer
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
Black sheep Konrad Lenz 3:05 Living With the spirits of the dead
Best intentions Mid-State Orange 3:38 Odds
Dancing Shoes Arctic Monkeys 2:21 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Dory Previn Camera Obscura 4:16 Let's get out of this country
Acid Food Mogwai 3:40 Mr. Beast
When The Bomb Drops Primal Scream 4:36 Riot City Blues
Que N'ai-Je Keren Ann 3:26 So Frenchy, So Chic (Disc 2)
The Clock Thom Yorke 4:16 The Eraser
Strange Days The Doors 4:23 Versions
No Wonder Neil Young 5:45 Prairie Wind
The Fox In The Snow Belle & Sebastian 4:23 If You're Feeling Sinister Live

No No Never Weddings Parties Anything 5:20 They Were Better Live (Disc 2)
Radio #1 Air 4:22 10,000 Hz Legend
My Nan Really Likes Radiohead Justin Heazlewood 2:07 The Bedroom Philosopher - Living On The Edge Of My Bed
Spidermother Baterz 2:21 Out of Hell
Point that thing somewhere else The Clean 5:27 Topless women talk about their lives
Did You See Me? Ween 5:11 Shinola (Vol. 1)
You Never Give Me Your Money The Beatles 4:02 Abbey Road
Everything in it's right place Radiohead 4:11 Kid A
Heaps Essendon Airport 3:57 Melbourne Water 2
Easy Money Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 6:43 The Lyre Of Orpheus
Airwaves Kraftwerk 4:40 Radioactivity
Shake Your Mood Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males 4:08 Pirate Radio EP
Mexican Radio Wall of Voodo 3:57 Rage - More Of The Songs Most Chosen By Rage Guest Programmers (Disc 2)
On the radio The Killjoys 3:21 Stealing Horses
A.M. Radio Hugo Race & True Spirit 5:55 The Goldstreet Sessions
Tessalit Tinariwen 3:58 The Radio Tisdas Sessions
Give Me Tonight Art Of Fighting 4:38 Wires
Surfing Magazines The Go-Betweens 4:33 The Friends Of Rachel Worth

Tunes just for you - enjoy

Bits and pieces from all over the shop - including new stuff from Jet (sadly pretty well the only half decent track on the album), Beck (pretty well back in form), Boytown (yeah, it's probably all over commercial radio but, well, I like Mick Molloy), The Lemonheads (same as their old stuff but still good) and Dallas Crane (good rockin'). You say party! We say die! are still kicking goals as well.

eleanor Jet 3:34 Shine On
We Dance Alone Beck 3:56 The Information
Elevator Music Beck 3:38 The Information
Love handles Boytown 1:59 Boytown Soundtrack
Special time (of the month) Boytown 1:07 Boytown Soundtrack
Magdeline Konrad Lenz 2:53 Living with the spirits of the dead
Pop Star Girl Tom Woodward 3:53 32-20 Blues
'Til The Money Runs Out Tom Waits 4:25 Heartattack And Vine
Double Dare Adalita 3:06 Suburban Mayhem (ep)
Pittsburgh The Lemonheads 2:55 The Lemonheads
Colour The Black Of My Heart Dallas Crane 2:54 Factory Girls
Bring that beat back Public Enemy 5:17 Single
She Wants To Move N*E*R*D 3:33 Fly Or Die
City Of Refuge Grant-Lee Phillips 3:36 Nineteeneighties
Vicious Girl The White Room 3:08 Single
Stockholm Syndrome Part Two You Say Party! We Say Die! 1:55 Hit The Floor!
Back On The Booze Again Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males 4:05 Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth
theme love of diagrams 2:33 e.p.
Young folks Peter Bjorn And John 4:39 Writers block
Down South Tom Petty 3:27 Word 43 - Now Hear This! September 2006
Old Friends Wild Pumpkins At Midnight 7:46 Sending A Vampire
On The Waterfront Saints, The 3:16 Scarce Saints: Hymns Of Oblivion 1977-1984