podcast | curious beast 4.5

thinking that number 4 was lost in the mists of time thanks to my tardiness in posting it, crayola went ahead and did another. and be thankful he has - this one is dedicated to the cover version and his selection is pretty damn special.

::: 14 iced bears - coming down (originally by the united states of america)
::: pale saints - fell from the sun (originally by opal)
::: the shrubs - another age (originally by phil ochs)
::: terry & jerry - bias binding (originally by yeah yeah noh)
::: polysics - my sharona (originally by the knack)
::: rapeman - just got paid (originally by zz top)
::: the creepers - baby's on fire (originally by brian eno)
::: big flame - testament to the slow death of youth culture (wake me up when it's over) (originally "wake me up before you go-go by wham!)
::: television personalities - biff bang pow! (originally by the creation)
::: a witness - tomorrow never knows (originally by the beatles)
::: the membranes - voodoo chile (originally by jimi hendrix)
::: harry pussy - showroom dummies (originally by kraftwerk)

get.

podcast | curious beast 4

finally a new podcast, though crayola actually recorded this last halloween - it's just taken me this long to get it online - prompted by the fact that he's just sent me another. so look out for that in a week.

meanwhile, this one is brimming with ace tunes, as always.

::: labor exchange band - anti-dam militia's march
::: birthday party - nick the stripper
::: summer cats - fulton girls
::: harry pussy - 1986
::: yat-kha - karangailyg kara hovaa
::: host - young and bulletproof
::: international karate plus - give it a name
::: au pairs - we're so cool
::: chorchazade - pie maker
::: rumblefish - theatre king
::: sisterhood of convoluted thinkers - sable
::: kenickie - come in
::: yummy fur - pink pop girls
::: red monkey - cakey pig
::: medusa - rockin' it
::: opal - my only friend

get.

podcast | curious beast 3: death to trad rock

whoops, went a bit quiet there for a bit... back again with another podcast.

i've been hugely enjoying john robb's "death to trad rock" book. for the uninitiated it covers all those difficult, angular, wonky uk bands from the 1980s that small numbers of men can't talk about without getting slightly breathless and/or misty-eyed.

sarandon has the distinction of being the only contemporary band to be included*, and while we wait for the release of the accompanying compilation album, crayola has dun a podcast:

ac temple - all hail discordia
dandelion adventure - fly on the wall documentary
bogshed - the story of bogshed
the membranes - penal landscape gardener
colgates - annotations of brian
death by milkfloat - ttyf
world domination enterprises - hotsy girl
pigbros - the way things currently are
stretchheads - housewife up yr fuckin' arse music
dog faced hermans - yellow girls
dawson - white colonial
the ex - state of shock

get. *link fixed*

* edit: simon morris has corrected me - there's ceramic hobs too!

podcast | curious beast: the blackened air 2

a second podcast from crayola, including two of my favourite songs from bob hund (didn't they get ripped off by blur or something?) and martin white, plus a bit more talking this time!

::: bob hund - instället för musik: förvirring
::: besh o drom - 9s
::: xerobot - huffing
::: richard hell & the voidoids - the kid with the replaceable head
::: chocolate overdose - tricky nose
::: the dragsters - albino
::: kate bush - army dreamers
::: luminous orange - puppy dog mail
::: the coachmen - thurston's song
::: martin white - mystery fax machine girl
::: big black - fish fry
::: the membranes - kafka's dad
::: the bonzo dog doo dah band - my brother makes the noises for the talkies
::: nina hagen - hit me with your rhythm stick
::: tubeway army - something's in the house

fill your boots.

podcast | curious beast

wooo yes a podcast! this could be the first of an occasional series or a one-off. who knows. anyway, this comes courtesy of our man just outside leicester, crayola, aka the man behind sarandon, drink milk design (he's just done john robb's new book cover) and my godson george.

he has excellent taste and indeed is responsible for providing me with some of the choicer rips available on tba in recent weeks. and this is his podcast:

::: carcass - festerday
::: kenny process team - ronald frazer munro
::: the spores - freezing point
::: the ambassadors of sorrow - if you loved me
::: camper van beethoven - take the skinheads bowling
::: steve beresford - the museum of towing & recovery, b3
::: datblygu - mynd
::: kaleidoscope - mr. small, the watch repairer
::: pop will eat itself - i'm sniffin' with you hoo
::: like a stuntman - hairy diamond breasts
::: laibach - tanz mit laibach
::: danbert nobacon - insectkind
::: the spo-its - fuck you elvis
::: friendly science orchestra - sutakina sora o
::: richard youngs - oh my stars
::: faust - j'ai mal aux dents

get.

let me know if you like this kind of thing and maybe i'll do more.