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Dizzee VU of the Preachers Ives


Not posted in a while, nothing meaningful anyway apart from the tracklistings below which hardly make scintillating reading. Nothing interesting to say I suppose. My SOTT tracklisting is basically there. Listened to it a bit much so I'm starting to get a wee bit jaded with it so probably the time to put it to bed and accept what it is. Not too different to what I posted below but some changes to help the flow and a couple of different tracks added. I'll post it in due course. Just have to dub 49 copies now!

Visited the library the other day and got another small pile of things to listen to. Dizzee Rascal's Showtime which I've only listened to bits of, Reed/Cale and Nico live at the Bataclan in 1972 doing some solo things and, of course, some VU stuff. It's acoustic so makes for some very pretty versions of the Nico tracks from the first VU album. Haven't had the stomach for the tracks from Nico's solo stuff yet. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. Also, The Essential Kris Kristofferson 'cause sometimes it's interesting to delve into these hard living country guys who can write and perform a country song without turning your stomach. There's a certain attitude to this that I like and a kinship with Johnny Cash which can't be a bad thing. The discs mainly cover the late 60's and early 70's which again is a good thing. No scrabbling about in the 1980's with synthesised drums trying to find a voice.

Not often classical music crosses my path but there's an article in the Look!Listen!Vibrate!Smile! book compiled by Dominic Priore that compares some of what Brian Wilson was doing with Smile with Charles Ives the American composer. I've heard something of his before which I seem to remember sounded like two marching bands crashing into each other. His 4th Symphony which I was listening to yesterday has elements of that and in places reminded me of Carl Stalling's work for Warner Brothers cartoons of all things. This is down to Ives taking popular American tunes and weaving them into the fabric of his work and this is evident in the second movement. This symphony was deemed unperformable until it was attempted in 1965 as it requires more than one orchestra plus choir on stage. It also needs two conductors so I can't imagine it's been attempted too often. An interesting listen though it won't be entering regular rotation.

Finally, I got the Manic Street Preachers 'The Holy Bible' which I haven't heard in 10 years and was impressive if only for James Dean Bradfield being able to fit the labyrinthine lyrics into any sort of tune. It's the only album of theirs that perhaps lives up to what they set out to be and if Richey Edwards hadn't gone missing who knows if they could have survived as a band having this album's weight on their shoulders. As it is he did go missing and they were able to move on with a fresh slate though maybe they were merely swapping one set of baggage for another. Can't get round to really liking them though, still can't get passed the fact that their drummer wears leather gloves for God's sake. For all the apparent rock 'n' roll posturing, 4 real and all that, I still can't get passed those damn gloves.

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SOTT 18 - Everything You Need


1. Ben Folds - Inbetween Days
2. Jason Falkner - Lost Myself
3. Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama
4. Bic Runga - Get Some Sleep
5. Teitur - I Was Just Thinking
6. Alfie - Stuntman
7. Belle And Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
8. Delays - Long Time Coming
9. Tue West - Du Er Min Sol
10. Mellow - Out Of Reach
11. Stereolab - Vonal Declosion
12. Air - Run
13. N*E*R*D - Wonderful Place (Edit)
14. Ivor Cutler - I Believe In Bugs
15. The Fiery Furnaces - Crystal Clear
16. The Streets - Fit But You Know It
17. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark Of The Matinee
18. Swan Lee - In Your Life
19. Morrissey - Irish Blood English Heart
20. The Divine Comedy - Come Home Billy Bird
21. Adem - Everything You Need
22. Graham Coxon - Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery

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SOTT 17 - Burn Baby Burn


1. The Boo Radleys - Lazarus
2. Tim Christensen - Whispering At The Top Of My Lungs
3. Saybia - The Second You Sleep
4. Tim Burgess - Only A Boy
5. Tahiti 80 - Get Yourself Together
6. Inside The Whale - Louise
7. Mew - Am I Wry, No
8. The Webb Brothers - I've Been Waiting
9. The Shins - New Slang
10. Todd Rundgren - We Gotta Get You A Woman
11. Roy Wood - Indiana Rainbow
12. Prince - When U Were Mine
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin
14. Wire - Outdoor Miner
15. The Raveonettes - Little Animal
16. Hawksley Workman - No Sissies
17. Ash - Burn Baby Burn
18. Motorpsycho - Neverland
19. The Coral - Pass It On
20. Roger J Manning Jr. - Sleep Children

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SOTT 16 - Notes From A Small Island


1. Supergrass - Sitting Up Straight
2. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
3. The La's - Feelin'
4. Kirsty MacColl - Free World
5. The Auteurs - Showgirl
6. World Party - Call Me Up
7. The Milltown Brothers - Here I Stand
8. Suede - Together
9. Electric Soft Parade - There's A Silence
10. The Jam - But I'm Different Now
11. Mull Historical Society - Watching Xanadu
12. Silver Sun - I'll See You Around
13. Blur - Look Inside America
14. Michael Head & The Strands - Someone Like You
15. Saint Etienne - Hobart Paving
16. The Coral - Dreaming Of You
17. The Montrose Avenue - Shine
18. Nick Heyward - Rollerblade
19. Duffy - Sugar High
20. Oasis - The Masterplan
21. Strangelove - Another Night In

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SOTT 15 - Plastic Ants And Wanna-bees


1. Aztec Camera - Oblivious
2. The Boo Radleys - Barney ...And Me
3. Super Furry Animals - Dim Bendith
4. Boedekka - Save Me
5. Simian - One Dimension
6. Pulp - Birds In Your Garden
7. Roy Wood - Any Old Time Will Do
8. Delta - We Come Back
9. Slade - How Does It Feel
10. The Delgados - 13 Gliding Principles
11. Jim O'Rourke - All Downhill From Here
12. Oranger - Sorry Paul
13. The Bees - A Minha Menina
14. Circulatory System - Yesterday's World
15. Millenium - It's You
16. Serge Gainesbourg - Bonnie And Clyde
17. Margo Guryan - Why Do I Cry
18. Mellow - Instant Love
19. Cornelius - Chapter 8:Seashore And Horizon

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SOTT 14 - Windmills Of Choruses


1. Kenickie - Nightlife
2. Logan's Sanctuary - Search For Tomorrow
3. A Camp - I Can't Buy You
4. McCalmont & Butler - Yes
5. Superstar - Superstar
6. Super Furry Animals - Ysbeidau Heulog
7. Money Mark - Tomorrow Is Like Today
8. Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up
9. The Divine Comedy - Bad Ambassador
10. The Diggers - Waking Up
11. The Webb Brothers - Fluorescent Lights
12. Ed Harcourt - She Fell Into My Arms
13. Plush - Found A Little Baby
14. Brave Captain - Hermit vs. The World
15. The Tages - I Read You Like An Open Book
16. Orange Juice - Felicity
17. Teardrop Explodes - Traison
18. The Pets - Wind Blows Through Your Hair
19. Neil Innes - Godfrey Daniel
20. Stereolab - Captain Easychord
21. Ryan Adams - Goodnight Hollywood Boulevard
22. Andy Sturmer - Sweet Wingless Angel (unlisted track)

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SOTT's gone by


Since I've been working on a tracklisting for my new CD swap compilation I've dug out what I've done previously. Looks like this latest one is definitely going to have the highest proportion of older tracks on it. I don't even think I've got my own CD copies of these comps but by the looks of them it's going to be worthwhile trying to recreate them as playlists in iTunes as I quite fancy giving them a listen. In any case, I'll post my previous tracklistings in case anyone is interested and so at least I've got a copy of them somewhere other than on the cover art saved on my PC.

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SOTT 19 Update


As it stands the following is what I have for SOTT 19, though the last third needs some work on its pacing. I just got two rather nice compilations of sixties soft pop and psychedelia which might be good to mix in. Also in the quest for some spurious theme for the compilation I did a couple of playlists of songs of a particular length. The perfect pop song is supposed to be three minutes long so I did one list of those along with a couple of others. So I may scrap this altogether and end up with a themed comp where all the tracks are 2:58 in length! Need to do more listening over the next couple of weeks to determine the way forward.

1. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Dance Stance
2. The Soul Survivors - Expressway To Your Heart
3. The Jam - Shopping
4. Granny's Intentions - Nutmeg, Bitter Suite
5. Lulu - Love Loves To Love
6. Chrysalis - Summer In Your Savage Eyes
7. Mouse & The Traps - Sometimes You Just Can't Win
8. Suzanne Vega - When Heroes Go Down
9. Sondre Lerche - Suffused With Love
10. Danny Wilson - Second Summer Of Love
11. Motorpsycho - B.S.
12. Mellow - Mellow (Part 2)
13. Joy Zipper - 33X
14. Magnet (with Gemma Hayes) - Lay Lady Lay
15. The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love
16. Charlotte Hatherley - Summer
17. Billy Nichols - London Social Degree
18. Glen Campbell - If This Is Love
19. The Searchers - Popcorn Double Feature
20. The Bystanders - Jesamine
21. Jim O'Rourke - Something Big
22. Laura Nyro - Stoned Soul Picnic (Demo)
23. The Go! Team - Feelgood By Numbers
24. The Zombies - I'll Call You Mine
25. The O'Jays - Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)
26. The Poppy Family - Free From The City
27. Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street

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I like to watch 2


Super-size Me features one man's mission (the personable Morgan Spurlock) to apparently kill himself by eating burgers, and he gets suprisingly far along the path in the space of the 30 days documented in this film. Even the Doctors who examine him every step of the way are shocked at the state his body is in. From someone with above average fitness and health to someone with a noticeable paunch, no sex drive and a liver that's turned to pate in 30 days is impressive. When the heart palpitations start in the middle of the night he almost chucks it all in but just for us sticks it out to the end.

This film made me think twice about what I put into my body and I don't even eat at MacDonalds. It would seem like a silly gimick to eat all your meals at McD's for a full month but as it's pointed out in the film, a lot of people aren't too far away from doing this. Apart from the changes in Spurlock's body there are a lot of fairly shocking statistics that help support the fact they, hey, maybe you should eat at home once in a while.

It's tragic when a spokesperson for the Subway sandwich chain turns up at a high school to talk about how he was able to lose so much weight. Afterwards an upset overweight student gives an interview where she's crying because she'd love to lose weight but she can't afford to eat at Subway twice a day like the speaker suggested he had done to lose weight. Not only are you shocked at the tactics that fast food outlets will go to to promote their chains but you also end up screaming mad at the laziness of some people. Not necessarily for the fact that they don't exercise but simply for the fact that it wouldn't occur to them to make some food at home and take it to school/work with them. It doesn't take much effort or money and it would be a whole lot healthier than eating out.

Spurlock's girlfriend is a vegan chef and even with her planning a special diet for him it took him 14 months to get back to the shape he was before the month of burgers and thankfully his internal organs returned to normal after two. Entertaining and educational.

Mean Girls I had read a bit about, it's 87% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes but at the same time I didn't expect that much from a teen comedy starring Lindsay Lohan. Basically it's similar in plot to the Winona Ryder film Heathers but sanitised for a younger audience, nobody dies for a start, but there are also many times when you feel the filmmakers reigning in the swearing for example. Thankfully it's still a smart and funny 100 minutes. It's let down slightly by an icky ending and what happens to the characters at the end is pretty disappointing but on the whole what could have been a horrible film is made good by an excellent script with many a funny and barbed aside.

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