podcast #27...a day of collaborations

Firstly you can no doubt see that's not the "official sleeve cover" for Christine by Siouxsie & The Banshees !! Yeah I got it second hand somewhere one fine day..

Seems to be a lot of people either collaborating or playing on other people's records today... The Horizontalist is the Mary Hansen + friends from Stereolab/High Llamas joint effort ( on Mary's own label I believe ). The Go-Betweens used the piano/ivory services of Dan Wallace Crabbe ( most notably of The Laughing Clowns ). Chad's Tree roped in Amanda Brown for a bit of violin, from memory just before she'd joined The Go-Betweens and after she'd left The Lucky Dinosaurs ( aaaah now there's a name from my past !! ). And finally the incarnation here of Ya Ya Choral has Chris Morrow formerly of The Numbers on board.

I'm also experimenting with putting the times of the songs here as well...hope this helps ??

Podcast 27 - link



Sideroom 7 Inch Singles Podcast #27
1. Shimmer - The Flatmates ( Subway 1987 ) ( 0.00 - 3.31 )
2. Christine - Siouxsie & The Banshees ( Polydor 1980 ) ( 3.31 - 6.25 )
3. Tunnel Of Love - Fun Boy Three ( Chrysalis 1987) ( 6.25 - 9.30 )
4. Twenty Feet Behind - The Horizontalist ( Horizontal 2001 ) ( 9.30 - 12.27 )
5. Two Lines - Ya Ya Choral ( Red Eye Aust 1985 ) ( 12.27 - 14.46 )
6. Your Turn My Turn - The Go-Betweens ( Missing Link Aust 1981 ) ( 14.46 - 17.40 )
7. Dry Land - Harper Lee ( Matinee 1999 ) ( 17.40 - 20.48 )
8. Sweet Jesus Blue Eyes - Chad's Tree ( Nude Recs Aust 1986 ) ( 20.48 - 24.09 )
9. South Pacific - The Dugites ( Deluxe Recs Aust 1980 ) ( 24.09 - 27.28 )
10. Last Fond Goodbye - Grab Grab The Haddock ( Cherry Red 1985 ) ( 27.28 - 30.18 )
( duration 30 mins, 320kps mp3 )

podcast #26

Ok I'm pretty sure I have now exhausted all of the Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes singles I have, which is kinda sad ;(

Seems though I have a hundred Primitives singles because they keep appearing at a regular rate !

The Z-Cars ( not to be confused with the z-Scars from Latvia ! ) were a Melbourne band who the ravages of time have blurred my memory on totally. The Gist is of course Stuart Moxham ( and his brother Phillip ) who was also in Weekend.

If you look at the comments for this post a few people have made some great suggestions re the podcasts and being able to indentify the songs more easily, I'm seeing what I can come up with and will get back to you on that.

in the meantime...

Podcast 26 - link



Sideroom 7 Inch Singles Podcast #26
1. Burning Car - John Foxx ( Virgin 1980 )
2. This Is Love - The Gist ( Rough Trade 1980 )
3. Splashing Along - Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes ( Narodnik 1986)
4. Stop Killing Me - The Primitives ( Lazy 1987 )
5. Is There Someone Out There - Z-Cars ( Au Go Go Aust 1980 )
6. Cremation Town - The Poppyheads ( Sarah 1988 )
7. Testcard Girl - Talulah Gosh ( 53rd & 3rd 1988 )
8. Teh Anti-Midas Touch - The Wolfhounds ( Pink 1986 )
9. Belle Vue- Miaow ( Venus Recs 1987 )
10. Always - The Saints ( Larrikan Aust 1980 )
( duration 29 mins, 320kps mp3 )

wow I made it to podcast #25 !

Firstly to the girls in Houston, Texas who wrote to me and said they had a "sideroom singles all day party on the weekend" - oh my god !! that is so side splittingly funny !! Glad you had a fun day and it is making me laugh my head off !!

It's also highly "raisonable" of you but then my knowledge of French is limited to David Gedge of The Wedding Present's impressive bi-lingual skills in putting out "Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now" in the French version that appears here today as "Cadeau De Marriage". I'm sure I have the English 7" somewhere and that'll probably show up one today.

Something a little 'un-raisonable' is the slight ribbing they gave Vini Reilly of the Durutti Column in the movie 24 Hour Party People...poor old Vini !! Anyway Vini's on board today with the legendary Sketch For Summer.

The band The Products were from Sydney and an offshoot band of Fabian Byrne who was a member of Fast Cars who were on podcast#13 with Saturday's Girl. And bizzarely Echo & The Bunnymen showed up 8th again like last time...spooky !! And sometimes I don't really know exactly what it is Mark E Smith of The Fall is on about but I've always loved the strange little tale contained in Lie Dream of A Casino Soul.

Enjoy ;)

Podcast 25 - link



Sideroom 7 Inch Singles Podcast #25
1. Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul - The Fall ( Kamera 1981 )
2. Pale Shelter - Tears For Fears ( Mercury 1982 )
3. Pourquoi Es Tu Devenue Si Raisonable ? - Cadeau De Marriage ( Reception 1988)
4. Somewhere South - The Railway Children ( Virgin 1988 )
5. Sketch For Summer - The Durutti Column ( Factory 1979 )
6. Love & Remains - Sportique ( Matinee 1999 )
7. Power Plant - The Products ( Method Aust 1980 )
8. Seven Seas - Echo & The Bunnymen ( WEA 1984 )
9. Spinning ( pt 1) - Loop ( Head 1987 )
10. What A Wonderful World - BMX Bandits ( 53rd & 3rd 1986 )
( duration 32 mins, 320kps mp3 )

the lads from Yeovil !! podcast #24

The Beat Hotel are/were from Yeovil ! My mind immediately wanders onto the image of them catching the 18:10 from Yeovil Junction with Bubblegum Splash....

The B-52's single is the original original original totally indie "raw as" version of Rock Lobster...straight outa Athens,Georgia...PO Box 1906 to be exact. Oh and I had to choose the b-side of the Jesus and Mary Chain single because the a side wouldn't play properly...somehow it's warped and sounds like my cat is sleeping on it as I try to play it ( like she used to try and do when she was a kitten ) ( er not specifically the Jesus and Mary Chain single, the turntable I mean ). The Makers of The Dead Travel Fast are from the Sydney label M Squared which I have had an mini rave on about before in an earlier post :)


Podcast 24 - link



Sideroom 7 Inch Singles Podcast #24
1. Smile - The Beat Hotel ( Household Recs 1988 )
2. I Think It's Raining - Spencer Spencer ( Cleopatra Recs Aust 1981 )
3. Kill Surf City - The Jesus And Mary Chain ( Blanco Y Negro 1987)
4. Rock Lobster - The B-52's ( Boo Fant Tunes 1978 )
5. Ahead - Wire ( Mute 1987 )
6. Cold - Airport Girl ( Sorted Recs 2001 )
7. The Dumb Waiters - The Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast ( M Squared Aust 1981 )
8. Lips Like Sugar - Echo & The Bunnymen ( WEA 1987 )
9. Love's Easy Tears - Cocteau Twins ( 4AD 1986 )
10. Wide Open Road - The Triffids ( White/Hot Aust 1986 )
( duration 36 mins, 320kps mp3 )

podcast #23 - don't you love it when...

..when you find a record you had forgotten you had...AND it's a good one !

Seems in 2005 I bought an EP on Tragadiscos from Spain, "A Pop split" ( number 26 of 250 ) with The Lucksmiths, Nice Man, Sodastream, The Shermans, Pipas & Charm Filter. Wow. It's a really good EP and I don't even remember buying it !! My head was in a weird spot in 2005 for various reasons and I must have blocked this record. Oh well, I've found it again. Juicy.

Next, a confession.

One of the records featured here doesn't technically belong to me. I borrowed it from a library in 1991 and..er..."forgot" to return it. It also happens to be a very unusual little gem, so to be quite truthful at this point I can predict my memory only getting much worse in the 'remembering to take it back' stakes. Unless the Library SWAT Police kick my door down now.

It's the one called Cowboy Kulla below, which is a Bollywood 7" - yeah it's the one with the library card ;p

There was a period when I went through this particular record library ( which had a very extensive collection of music from other countries ) and went through the 500+ Bollywood albums. Mostly trying to find the ones which had a crossover into Western music, and found some great stuff !! & taped a lot of them but also then went out and bought quite a few albums. Inspired by the appearance today of the Cowboy Kulla single I have made a full Bollywood podcast on a new blog I've started called The Burning Train, which will have some of the more unsual Bollywood efforts discovered in this period of my life, well the ones I could locate today in a hurry. If you feel inclined for a very "different listening experience", go over to that blog and check out the Bollywood Podcast !!

But back to Cowboy Kulla, it's in the Kannada language, so most likely from the Kerala region in southern India, and Cowboy Kulla is the name of the film. I can only guess it has a Cowboy theme, never haven seen the film, this is not to say the songs on the single have that goin' on. It definitely has it's own thing going on. Which you will discover, is how I will leave it. Other than to say I love it !!


Podcast 23 - link



Sideroom 7 Inch Singles Podcast #23
1. The Night We Flew Out The Window - Fantastic Something ( Blanco y Negro 1985 )
2. All This World - Arco ( Dreamy 2000 )
3. Now I'm Even Further Away - The Lucksmiths ( Tragadiscos 2005)
4. January - Pilot ( EMI 1975)
5. All Day Long - Shop Assistants ( Subway 1985 )
6. Spit It Out - And So To Bed ( Timebox 1987 )
7. Sunshine Superman - The Sports ( Mushroom Aus 1981 )
8. Ondennu Onti Hennu - P Susheela & Chorus ( Odeon 1973 )
9. Animal Cannabus - Mull Historical Society ( Rough Trade 2001 )
10. Block Of Wood - The Bats ( Flying Nun NZ 1987 )
( duration 31 mins, 320kps mp3 )

mmm...an interesting idea

that I'm mulling over

someone has suggested I do a "flipside" blog...playing the flipsides of all the singles

mmmmmm, I've been thinking about the maybes and maybe nots of this ...not sure yet !!

good idea though

possible name - flipsideroom ??