Sunday 27 December 2009

2009 favourites

Broken Horse releases:

AC Newman Get Guilty
Patrick Cleandenim Orange Moonbeam Floorshow
Andrew Morgan Please, Kid Remember
Liam Hayes and Plush Bright Penny

All of the above would have without doubt made my albums of the year list but have been excluded for impartiality's sake.

Favourite Albums

Jeremy Jay Slow Dance (K)
The Broken Family Band Please And Thank You (Cooking Vinyl)
Jeffrey Lewis Em Are I (Rough Trade)
Joe Pernice It Feels Good When I Stop (Ashmont)
Eddy Current Supression Ring Primary Colours (Melodic)
The Lemonheads Varshons (Cooking Vinyl)

also enjoyed

The Kingsbury Manx Acenseur Ouvert (Odessa)
Telekinesis Telekinesis! (Morr)
The Clean Mister Pop (Morr)
The Bats The Guity Office (Yesboyicecream)
Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonsuch)
The Clientele Bonfire On The Heath (Pointy)
Girls Girls (Fantasy Trashcan)
Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City)
Death For The Whole World To See (Drag City)
Richard Swift Atlantic Ocean (Secretly Canadian)
Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy (Matador)
Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career (4AD)

Favourite Shows

Jeremy Jay Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds.
Liam Hayes and Plush/Amor de Dias The King's Arms, Crouch End, London
AC Newman/Andrew Morgan The Luminaire, Kilburn, London
Wilco The Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, Wales.
Telekinesis/The Rosebuds Dulcimer, Chorlton, Manchester
The Sexual Objects The Kings Arms, Salford
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Chorlton Irish Club, Manchester

Looking foward in 2010 to new music/albums by

Kevin Tihista, Andrew Morgan, New Pornographers, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Endless Boogie, Amor De Dias, East River Pipe, The Sexual Objects, Jeremy Jay, Joe Pernice, The Autumn Defense.

Thursday 10 December 2009

goin' back




The Nectarine No 9 Sea With Three Stars (Postcard) CD
Nick Drake Heaven In A Wild Flower (Island) CD
Pete Astor Hal's Eggs (Static Caravan) CD
Spiritualized Songs In A&E (Sanctuary) CD
The Byrds The Notorious Byrds Brothers (Edsel) LP
You Am I #4 Record (Roo Art) CD
Richard Davies Barbarians (Kindercore) CD
The Magnetic Fields I (Nonsuch) CD
Bernard & Edwyn Message For Jojo (Setanta) CD single
East Village Hotrod Hotel (Summershine) CD
Felt Gold Mine Trash (Cherry Red) LP
Michael Jackson Billie Jean (Epic) 7"

Monday 23 November 2009

thought of you as my mountain top, thought of you as my peak



Fire Engines Big Gold Dream (Pop Aural) 7"
Bob Dylan S/T (Columbia) LP
You Am I Hourly Daily (Warner Bros) CD
Josef K Heaven Sent (Supreme International Editions) 12"
Hush Arbors Yankee Reality (Ecstatic Peace) CD
Daniel Johnston Is And Always Is (Feraltone) CD
Josef K The Only Fun In Town (Postcard) LP
Prefab Sprout Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone) (Kitchenware) 7"
The Jesus And Mary Chain Some Candy Talking (Blanci Y Negro) DBL 7"
Black Sabbath Greatest Hits (NEMS) LP
Danny And The Champions Of The World Streets Of Our Time (Loose) CD
Girls The Album (Fantasy Trashcan) CD
Destroyer The Music Lovers (Sub Pop) 7"
The Broken Family Band Love Your Man, Love Your Woman (Track & Field) 7"
John Fogerty The Old Man Down The Road (Warner Bros) 7"
Pigbag Dr Heckle And M Jive (Y) LP
Big Chief Locked Out (Revolution) 7"
Edsel Auctioneer Our New Skin (Decoy) 7"
The Wedding Present My Favourite Dress (Reception) 7"
The Sexual Objects Merrie Englan (A&B) 7"
The Sexual Objects Here Come The Rubber Cops (Music 70) 7"
Andy Votel Girl On A Go-Ped (Twisted Nerve) 7"
Headless Heroes The North Wind Blew South (Names) 7"
Paul Quinn & Edwyn Collins Pale Blue Eyes (Swamplands) 7"
Sammy Babe Come Down (Smells Like Records) 7"

Tuesday 6 October 2009

thank you friends




China Crisis African White (Inevitable) 7"
Screaming Trees Nearly Lost You (Epic) 12"
Big Star Keep An Eye On The Sky (Rhino) 4 CD set
Joe Pernice It Feels So Good When I Stop (One Little Indian) CD
Urge Overkill Saturation (Geffen) LP
Richard Swift Atlantic Ocean (Secretl Canadian) CD
Telekinesis Telekinesis! (Morr) CD

Monday 7 September 2009

the dark don't hide it




John Cale Paris 1919 (Reprise) CD
Patrick Cleandenim Orange Moonbeam Floorshow (Broken Horse) CD
Proud Simon Anchors Aweigh EP (Proud Simon) free download
Royal City Little Heart's Ease (Rough Trade) CD
Mark Robinson Origami and Urbanism (Teenbeat) CD
Endless Boogie Focus Level (No Quarter) DBL LP
East River Pipe She's A Real Good Time (Sarah) 7"
Radar Bros Auditrium (Chemikal Underground) CD
The Beatles Abbey Road (Parlophone) CD
Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth Jacobites (Secretly Canadian) CD
Magnolia Electric Co What Comes After The Blues (Secretly Canadian) CD
Loose Fur Born Again In The USA (Drag City) CD
Stephin Merritt Pieces of April (Nonesuch) CD

Sunday 19 July 2009

electricity comes from other planets



Taken from their excellent (and new to the UK) album Primary Colours on Melodic

The Bee Gees Best Of Bee Gees (RSO; compilation of early singles) LP
The Jesus & Mary Chain Darklands (Rhino) CD
The Clientele The Night A Forest Grew (Acuarela) CD EP
UB40 Food For Thought (Graduate) 7"
Eddy Current Supression Ring Primary Colours - S/T (Melodic) 2 CD
Beat Happening Angel Gone (K) 7"
The Moles Tendrils & Paracetomol (Seasick) 12" EP
Lissy Trullie Boy Boy/You Bleed Me (Make Mine) 7"
Jock Scot & Gareth Sager The Caledonian Blues (Invada) CD & DVD
Pell Mell Rhyming Guitars (SST) 12" EP
That Petrol Emotion V2 (Noise and Noise) 12" EP
Midnight Cowboy - Original Motion Picture Score (United Artists) LP
The Velvet Underground VU (Polydor) LP
The New Pornograhphers Myriad Harbour (Matador) 7"
The Tyde Strangers Again/Improper (Track & Field) 7"

Monday 29 June 2009

i dream of strange inventions scratching at my window every night


Patrick Cleandenim Orange Moonbeam Floorshow (Broken Horse) CD
Wilco Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch) CD
Jeremy Jay Airwalker (K) CD EP
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard Roll Buss Roll (Rough Trade) 7"
The Lemonheads I Just Can't Take It Anymore (Cooking Vinyl) 7"
Daniel Carlson Aviary Jackson (label tbc) CD
Andrew Morgan Please Kid, Remember (Broken Horse) CD



Monday 8 June 2009

politicians in my eyes


Destroyer City of Daughters (Triple Crown) CD
Wwax Pumpkin (Leopard Gecko) 7"
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions My Bag (Polydor) 7"
Rapeman Hated Chinee (Fierce) 7"
Happiness is Dry Pants (Chemical Imbalance EP feat Yo La Tengo/Big Black) 7"
Richard Davies Telegraph (Blue Rose) CD
Prefab Sprout Swoon (Kitchenware) CD
Iron & Wine Fall 2007 (Iron & Wine) Free Download
V/A Sub Pop Cybersex Digital Sampler (Sub Pop) Free Download
The Low Anthem Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Bella Union) CD
Death For the World To See (Drag City) CD
The Pastels Comin' Through (Glass) 7"

Thursday 28 May 2009

Just Got Paid



Lou Reed Coney Island Baby (RCA expanded issue) CD
Teenage Fanclub The Concept (Creation) 12"
The High Llamas Gideon Gaye (Target) CD
ZZ Top The Best of (Warner Bros) LP
Felt Prinitive Painters (Cherry Red) re-issue 12"
Felt Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty (Cherry Red) LP
Felt Rain of Crystal Spires (Creation) 12"
Luna Puptent (Beggars Banquet) LP
David Bowie Let's Dance (EMI) 7"
Destroyer Trouble in Dreams (Rough Trade) CD
Jeremy Jay We Were There (K) 7"
The Bounty Hunters Threads A Tear Stained Scar (Creation) LP
Nikki Sudden/Dave Kusworth - Jacobites (Glass) LP
REM Dead Letter Office (IRS) CD
REM Lifes Rich Pageant (IRS) CD
It's Jo and Danny Lank Haired Boy To Bearded Boy (Double Snazzy) CD

Tuesday 12 May 2009




Lissy Trullie Boy Boy/You Bleed Me (Make Mine) 7"
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele Meet Me In The Garden (Make Mine) 7"
Adam Schmitt Demolition (Parasol) CD
Adam Schmitt Illiterature (Reprise) CD
Jeremy Jay Slow Dance (K) CD
Galaxie 500 Today (Aurora) LP
Luna Lunapark (Summershine) LP
The Velvet Underground VU (Polydor) LP
Scritti Polliti Songs To Remember (Rough Trade) LP
Elvis Costello This Year's Model (Edsel) 2 CD
Pigbag Dr Heckle & Mr Jive (Camden) CD
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love (Rough Trade) CD
Jeffrey Lewis Em Are I (Rough Trade) CD
Pink Mountaintops Outside Love (Jagjaguwar) CD

Monday 23 March 2009

blues still run the game
















Booker T & The M.G.s Green Onions (Atlantic) 7"
Jeremy Jay Slow Dance (K) CD
Jeremy Jay A Place Where We Could Go (K) CD
The Donkeys S/T (Antenna Farm) CD
Jackson C Frank S/T (Castle) CD
Lloyd Cole & The Commontions The Singles (Universal) CD
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash (Domino) DBL LP
The New Pornographers Challengers (Matador) CD
Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees (Reprise) CD
The Sisters of Mercy Temple of Love (Merciful Release) 7"
Lynyrd Skynyrd Freebird (MCA) 12"

Monday 2 March 2009

day of the locusts




Oh the benches were stained with tears and perspiration
The birdies were flying from tree to tree
There was little to say, there was no conversation
As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree
And the locusts sang off in the distance
Yeah the locusts sang such a sweet melody
Oh, the locusts sang off in the distance
Yeah, the locusts sang and they were singing for me.

I glanced into the chamber where the judges were talking
Darkness was everywhere, it smelled like a tomb
I was ready to leave, I was already walkin'
But the next time I looked there was light in the room
And the locusts sang, yeah, it give me a chill
Oh, the locusts sang such a sweet melody
Oh, the locusts sang their high whinning trill
Yeah, the locusts sang and they were singing for me.

Outside of the gates the trucks were unloadin'
The weather was hot, a-nearly 90 degrees
The man standin' next to me, his head was exploding
Well, I was prayin' the pieces wouldn't fall on me
Yeah,the locusts sang off in the distance
Yeah the locusts sang such a sweet melody
Oh, the locusts sang off in the distance
And the locusts sang and they were singing for me.

I put down my robe, picked up my diploma
Took hold of my sweetheart and away we did drive
Straight for the hills, the black hills of Dakota
Sure was glad to get out of there alive
And the locusts sang, yeah, it give me a chill
Yeah, the locusts sang such a sweet melody
And the locusts sang with a high whinning trill
Yeah, the locusts sang and they were singing for me
Singing for me, well, singing for me.

Sunday 22 February 2009

dolphins make good friends but sharks give you the truth in the end




The Donkeys S/T (Antenna Farm) CD
The Broken Family Band Please and Thank You (Cooking Vinyl)CD
The New Pornographers Myriad Harbour (Matador) 7"
Velvet Crush In The Presence of Greatness (Creation) LP
The Sexual Objects Merrie England (A&B) 7"
The Sexual Objects Here Come The Rubber Cops (A&B) 7"
Zumpano The Only Reason Under The Sun (Murder) 7"
The Clientele That Night A Forest Grew (Acuarela) CD EP
The Replacements Tim (Sire - remastered + bonus tracks) CD

Sunday 8 February 2009

sunday morning




Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan Sunday at Devil Dirt (V2) CD
Nick Drake Heaven in a Wild Flower (Island) CD
Elvis Costello & The Attractions Almost Blue (Edsel) CD
Damion and Naomi With Ghost (Drag City) LP

Sunday 1 February 2009

February 1st playlist



Doves Jetstream (Virgin) mp3
The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me (Sire) LP
The Chills Brave Words (Flying Nun) LP
School of Seven Bells Alpinisms (Full Time Hobby) CD
Her Space Holiday Xoxo Panda and the New Kid Revival (Wichita) CD
Bishop Allen Grrr... (Dead Oceans) CD
AC/DC Back in Black (Atlantic) CD
Belle & Sebastian Tigermilk (Jeepster) CD
The Decemberists The Rake's Song (Rough Trade) mp3