Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 91

Number ninety-one people, dive in! 

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Tracklisting

American Dream – Daniel Johnston

A Strange hand – Jacuzzi Boys

Fa Cé La – The Feelies

I Can’t Get Next To You – The Temptations

+81 – Deerhoof

Don’t Like People – Country Teasers

When You’re By Yourself – Jeffrey Lewis

Street Joy – White Denim

I Can Go Out – Moonhearts

It’s Your Thing – Cold Grits

Chapter 8-Seashore and Horizon – Cornelius

Oh Cody – Nobunny

Lips – Micachu & the Shapes

Grounded – Pavement

The Pot Headed Pixies – Gong

Reverse Shark Attack – Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin

Say Yeah – Tyvek

Wave Goodbye – The Ty Segall Band

Misty water – The Kinks

It wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels – Kitty Wells

Cold Cold Heart – Johnny Cash

I’ve Locked You in My Dungeon – The Frogs

Why don’t You Lie – King Khan & BBQ Show

Heaven On Earth – The Fat White Family

A Shropshire Lad – Wild Billy Chyldish and the Spartan Dreggs

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, One Wine – Los Chicos

The Painted Word – Television Personalities

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 90

Wednesday night Thee PVC did a bit of DJing in Support of Wobbly Lamps, J.C. Satan and Night Beats at The Railway in Southend. It was a top gig with ears taking a real hard beating, jst as it should be at a garage psych punk happening. We've got songs from both J.C. Satan and Night Beats on today's show straight from vinyl purchased at the show. 

Regular listener, Neil Harvey takes time out from listening to the show in his garage full of wonders in Cornwall to join us in the studio to enjoy the ultra professional PVC experience.

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This week's songs

They Came in Through the Window – Night Beats

Sweets Helicopter – Thee Oh Sees

Skeleton Rider – Thee Ludds

The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness – The Feelies

Crystal Smoke – J.C. Satan

From the Backyard – Matthew Hart

Crush – Jacuzzi Boys

Vacationnation – Hooded Fang

Wild Black Hair – Christmas Island

Safety Light – Monique Maasen & the Mauve

Anemone – The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Big Belly Giant – Tandoori Knights

Echo’s Answer – Broadcast

You Know I’m No Good – Wanda Jackson

Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) – Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Emily – Adam Green

You Can’t Polish A Turd – Sexton Ming

U – Kleenex

Always Make Your bed – Nodzzz

God Bless Her I Miss Her – Sic Alps

Perfect Day – Harlan T Bobo

Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam – The Vaselines

Cantalus – Belbury Poly

Memphis Tennesee – Silicon Teens

Master of My Craft – Parquet Courts

Someday Soon – Harlem

The Witch – Stud Cole

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 89

Thee PVC took to trip to London to see Thee Oh Sees at The Scala last night and had a blast. One of the best gigs the city will see this year we reckon. Minotaur from their latest LP Floating Coffin got an airing in King's Cross yesterday evening and features in this week's show too. 

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Ear nugget checklist

Glazin’ – Jacuzzi Boys

Run Around – Moon Duo

Lies – Country Teasers

Minotaur – Thee Oh Sees

Senses working Overtime – XTC

The Entertainer – The Intelligence

Yes It’s You – Sweet Charles

People Get Ready – Curtis Mayfield

I Know You Got Soul – Bobby Byrd

Up On the Hill – Ween

Workin’ – Black Lips

Just A Second – Faust

I Can’t Wait – Hard Times

Much Too Late – The Undertones

Old Man – Londons

Jesus Bulit My Hotrod – Ministry

Sleigh Ride – Fuzz

Sir William Wray – The Fall

Hey Bastard – STP

Please Ban Music/Gegen Alles – Country Teasers

Expansions – Lonnie Liston Smith

Home is where the Hatred Is – Esther Phillips

I’d Rather Be With You – Bootsy Collins

The Eyelash – John Smith and the Common Men

A Man Stuck In Your Mind – The Felines

Food For Clouds – Brian Jonestown Massacre

Racey Roller - Giuda

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 88

Well did you miss us while we were away? Did you hang our picture on your wall?

So here we are with our two fat ladies transmission, chock full of boss tuneage and nonsense from our word holes.

If you want to download one you can do it here.

The songs

Teenage Girls – Bad Sports

Everywhere You Were – White Wires

Mess Me Up – Nobunny

One More Time – Psychic Ills

Get A Buzz – The Pretty Things

Vacation Nation – Hooded Fang

7 Heures Du Matin – Jacqueline Taleb

The Bossa Nova Watusi Twist – Freddy King

Run Baby – Carol Ford

Circus With A Female Clown – The Fingers

Number One Enemy – The Slits

Mean Girls Give Pleasure - Daniel Johnston

Red Black and Green – Roy Ayers

Diana – Guantanamo Baywatch

Cream of the Young – Fat White Family

Desire Go Desire Be – Tame Impala

Willy the Pimp – Stackwaddy

Aire of Good Feeling – Ides of March

Skywatch – The Asphodells

Bloodshot Eyes – Wynonie Harris

You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly – Loretta Lyn & Conway Twitty

High Noon Blues – Night Beats

I’ll Come Again – Legends

Ire Africa – Chief Checker

Trails (White Rainbow Trail Blazer Edition) – Moon Duo

Melanie Davis – Supergrass

Late In the Day – Supergrass

How many can you spot?

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 87

Happy Friday PVC'ers, pop these in your ear 'oles and give you brain a little aural tickle.

Here be your download.

thee selection

Coldest Morning Light – The Pharmacy

In India You – The Brian Jonestown Massacre

I Like LA – The Intelligence

I Come From the Mountain – Thee Oh Sees

Say Goodbye – The Wrong Words

Blow Dumb – Nobunny

Do You Understand Me – Jujus

When You Sleep – My Bloody Valentine

Convinced of the Hex – The Flaming Lips

Get Out Of My Life Woman – Allen Touissant

Sebastiana – Gal Costa

Eleanor Rigby – Booket T and the MGs

Hilly Fields (1892) – Nick Nicely

Lenny Valentino – The Auteurs

Beach Bums Must Die – Thee Headcoats

What – A Tribe Called Quest

Asshole – Beck

The Gift – Velvet Underground

Houses in Motion – Talking Heads

Do You Remember – The Horrors

I Am With You – Ty Segall

Look Now – The Fall

In Your Night of Dreams – The Masonics

Teenage – Veronica Falls

I Can’t Get Over You – Monks

Minotaur – Thee Oh Sees

Money to Spend – The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

7 Inches review Wobbly Lamps' "Drella"

7 Inches is a blog that reviews a different 45 every day and is one of the blogs that I make sure I keep up to date with as their reviews are always spot on. It was a treat then when Jason who runs the site tweeted that he'd reviewed the Wobbly Lamps this week. It's a cracking good review and the most in depth piece that's been written about the record. Cheers Jason, very much appreciated.

The Wobbly Lamps - Drella EP on Polyvinyl Craftsmen Records

The best singles come from fans that are obsessed with records so much that they end up being compelled to press their own. The Polyvinyl Craftsmen began as a great podcast playing Pavement next to Pere Ubu or The Modern Lovers right after Deerhoof while generally having a drunken good time (highly recommended). It didn’t take long before this group of UK hooligans came across The Wobbly Lamps and put together a second single with the label, Drella. Not much factual information about the Lamps out there, other than being from Sarfend, which I can’t find on any google map and I have a hunch that the Wobbly Lamps may in fact be the guys behind the podcast…and that gentlemen is a CHECKMATE.

A-Side " Never Ever Bloody Anything Ever" finds the Lamps getting extra heavy here, the mellower psych has gone sinister, I don't remember them having such a deep streak of thundery garage on their last one. This double kick throbbing beat has some serious low end under the jangle and snare snap. The bass and rhythm section is plowing away back there, almost feeling early heavy metal inspired…or the slogging long hair grooves of Hot Lunch. A tom beat drops in with far off distortion and the track gets optimistic, showing their expansive side. They have huge dreams of pop drums and indie aspirations with guitars dueling in either channel. That vocal is blowing out the infinity delay while a repeated riff slowly grows, getting bigger with cymbal crashes and fluttery picking. Inevitably going hypnotic in a combination of English shoegaze and Happy Mondays, rom a San Francisco perspective. Drawing out the repeated pop riff, faster, slower, strip out the beats and lay the attitude back in .

Switching up the rpm to 33 on the B-Side (thanks, giant red numbers) they jam in "Haxan" with rumbling, rattly reverb and clean drums adding up to a full bassline rhythm again, another freight train flying along the tracks. Beating the hell out of the tom. When that fantastic melody finally rolls in they've committed to their dark ways. “If the money’s good!!! / my hands are tied!!!” They’re compelled to do something bad, synthy low end chorus yelling underneath in a wavery raspy distortion like some kind of werewolf pop. The full moon shining on the hood of the hotrod and that guitar blasts in with serious underworld blues. Almost in line with the great Deadbolt or the Mummies, they've taken these riffs and attached them to a solid low end. It's not enough to be overdriving this into the red if you can't back it up. 

"Gretchen Fetchin" has a three chord surf style but they have to break the verse chorus structure with a Sonics scratchy dance party sound and a menacing reverb that starts to border on dangerous. Reverb from the Chuck Berry decade. The Dirtbombs or Bassholes...those proimal garage blues players come to mind with this similar feedback and rattling cones, which might as well become an instrument to these guys. Ear splitting shrieks are dropped like melodies. The cymbal crash is just an appetizer; you want hissed out “sssssss”? Do you? Another drop out to a quieted tom and muted barred chords. We all know this is all going to blow again, why are they torturing you? At 33 the speed only improves this, jam the grooves as close together as you want mastering guy it’s only going to get better.