JOE STRUMMER Deeply Missed - 10 Years

We miss you!!!

 

November 16th, 2003 - The Making of Redemption Song - New York, USA

 

For the whole bundle of 62 pictures click here!

 

THE TEARS Here Come The Tears (2005)

...and what I liked even more than recently posted SUEDE was the return of SUEDE under the name THE TEARS. The first single "Autograph" caught me unprepaired from a music journal sampler and pinned me to the floor... Eyes wide open just like me ears. Unable to say a word. I was abroad at that time and it lead me through a fucked up year at the balkans.

THE TEARS - Here Come The Tears (2005)

01 Refugees

02 Autograph

03 Co-Star

04 Imperfection

05 The Ghost Of You

06 Two Creatures

07 Lovers

08 Fallen Idol

09 Brave New Century

10 Beautiful Pain

11 The Asylum

12 Apollo 13

13 A Love As Strong As Death

SUEDE Singles (2003)

 

Cool as hell.

Marvellous.

Unique.

Who sings like brilliant BRETT ANDERSON?

 

SUEDE - Singles (2003)

01 Beautiful Ones

02 Animal Nitrate

03 Trash

04 Metal Mickey

05 So Young

06 The Wild Ones

07 Obsessions

08 Filmstar

09 Can't Get Enough

10 Everything Will Flow

11 Stay Together

12 Love the Way You Love

13 The Drowners

14 New Generation

15 Lazy

16 She's in Fashion

17 Attitude

18 Electricity

19 We Are the Pigs

20 Positivity

21 Saturday Night

 

"High on diesel gasoline..."

MARK HOLLIS (Same) 1996

 

The best TALK TALK album ever is actually by the unique MARK HOLLIS on his own.

I always thought that TALK TALK became better with every album and I loved them when they started playing this spheric carpet of sound that guided you to before unknown places.

 

MARK HOLLIS - Mark Hollis (1996)

01 The Colour of Spring

02 Watershed

03 Inside Looking Out

04 The Gift

05 A Life (1895-1915)

06 Westward Bound

07 The Daily Planet

08 A New Jerusalem

 

Inhale and relax, readers...

IAN BROWN Remixes Of The Spheres (2002)

He's not exactly a beauty but a fuckin' brilliant musician.

I love THE STONE ROSES but I admire IAN BROWN for what he was doing after the Roses.

Marvellous.

IAN BROWN - Remixes Of The Spheres (2002)

01 F.E.A.R [U.N.K.L.E. Mix]

02 Northern Lights [the Freelance Hellraiser Mix]

03 Gravy Train [Nightmares on Wax Mix]

04 Forever and a Day [Cedarblue Mix]

05 Shadow of a Saint [the Boy Bierton Mix]

06 Superstar

07 My Star 2002

08 Hear No See No Speak No

09 Cokane in My Brain [DJ Mix Nurenburg Scratch Mix]

10 Gravy Train [Nightmares on Wax][Instrumental]

11 Stardust [Instrumental]

12 Mundo Pequeno [Live Acoustic Version]

13 F.E.A.R [U.N.K.L.E.][Instrumental]

The idea for F.E.A.R. is simply wow!

For each a road
For everyman a religion
Find everybody and rule
For everything and rumble
Forget everything and remember
For everything a reason
Forgive everybody and remember

For each a road
For everyman a religion
Face everybody and rule
For everything and rumble
Forget everything and remember
For everything a reason

You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear

You got the fear
You got the fear
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.R.

Final eternity arouses reactions
Freeing excellence affects reality
Fallen empires are ruling
Find earth and reap

Fantastic expectations
Amazing revelations
Final execution and resurrection
Free expression as revolution
Finding everything and realizing

You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)

(Fantastic expectations
Amazing revelations
Finding everything and realizing
For everything a reason)

F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear

THE POGUES The Ultimate Collection (2005) LIVE

This is CD2 of the Ultimate Collection of THE POGUES.

Although Shane MacGowan is a wreck today his unique voice is incredible.

I really enjoy listening to them from time to time whenever I feel like having a whisky (without the "e" as I usually prefer the Scottish whisky).

THE POGUES - The Ultimate Collection (Live at the Brixton Academy)

01 Streams of Whiskey

02 If I Should Fall from Grace With God

03 Boys from the County Hell

04 The Broad Majestic Shannon

05 Young Ned of the Hill

06 Turkish Song of the Damned

07 Rainy Night in Soho

08 Tuesday Morning

09 Rain Street

10 A Pair of Brown Eyes

11 Repeal of the Licensing Laws

12 The Old Main Drag

13 Thousands Are Sailing

14 Body of an American

15 Sally MacLennane

16 Lullaby of London

17 Dirty Old Town

18 Bottle of Smoke

19 The Sickbed of Cuchulaínn

20 Fairytale of New York

21 Fiesta

22 The Irish Rover

DOT DASH Countdown (2012)

 

 

Hi there in Indie-land.

 

After listening to the new DOT DASH album "Winter Garden Light" again and again and again on my way to work I simply have to offer this download.

 

DOT DASH - Countdown

 

which is my favourite track on the fantastic album.

It's a powerful and catchy box of good mood tunes.

I really don't know what to say except:

"Download, listen and enjoy" - because that's just what I did.

 

Good job, boys!

HELLO SUMMER Destination Dreamscape (2012)

You are listening to HELLO SUMMER, an all-girl pop rock/pop punk band from Paris, France.

HELLO SUMMER will be releasing their first EP, Sunrise Atlantic, on October 31st 2012, and they will be touring in France from October to early 2013 to promote it.

They mailed me yesterday and it is unusual of me to jump on that train so fast but I simply had to. HELLO SUMMER remind me of the wonderful unforgotten THE SUNDAYS and I actually had a lump in my throat when I first listened to them.

Merci bien, mesdames!!!!

HELLO SUMMER FACEBOOK

More to follow!!!

DOT DASH The Past Is Another Country (2012)

 

 

...and DOT DASH is a fuckin' brilliant Rock And Roll band.

BIFF BANG POW meet THE JAM and THE RIFLES... which to me is a great mixture!

 

There will be a review on their new album "Winter Garden Light" in a few days!

 

Enjoy this poppy punk experience as much as I do!!!

THE BRIGHTS Online shop and article

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From: The Brights
Sent: 19.10.2012 13:37
To:
Subject: Online shop and article

The 'Buy Now' button is available on the thebrights.co.uk mate. Thank you for the support.

And, I thought you'd like the article attached in a national UK Sports magazine today.

Best wishes
David

ORANGE JUICE The Glasgow School (2005)

 

"The Glasgow School" is a compilation album by ORANGE JUICE, released in 2005. It contains the band's four singles for Postcard Records, the greater part of the 1992 compilation album Ostrich Churchyard (which contained early versions of tracks that later appeared on the 1982 album You Can't Hide Your Love Forever), an alternate version of "Simply Thrilled Honey", and a cover of "I Don't Care" by the Ramones. This material was all recorded between 1978 and 1981, prior to the band signing with Polydor Records. (wikipedia)

 

ORANGE JUICE - The Glasgow School (2005)

01 Falling And Laughing

02 Moscow

03 Moscow Olympics

04 Blue Boy

05 Love Sick

06 Simply Thrilled Honey

07 Breakfast Time

08 Poor Old Soul (Part One)

09 Poor Old Soul (Part Two)

10 Louise Louise

11 Three Cheers

12 In A Nutshell

13 Satellite City

14 Consolation Prize

15 Holiday Hymn

16 Intuition Told Me (Part One)

17 Intuition Told Me (Part Two)

18 Wan Light

19 Dying Day

20 Texas Fever

21 Tender Object

22 Blokes On 45 (Unreleased Peel Session)

 

Cheers, Edwyn!

 

 

THE BRIGHTS Full Colour Sound (2012) Full Album Stream

Sorry, something went wrong yesterday with the post.

One day delay...

This is the album in its entirety:

THE BRIGHTS - Full Colour Sound (Stream)

If it wasn't fall in my part of the earth I would call the album "summer pop", perfectly suitable for a beach party BUT, then again, if you live on the opposite site of the earth, this might actually be fitting!!!

So stop searching for the right music for your next party at Great Barrier Reef...

Jangle pop at its finest! And I really love the voice!!!

The difficult second album...? This one matured in a LEMON POP cask. Brilliant! One step further!!!

The opener "Don't Look Back" starts with a touch of The Lightning Seeds and of course some Pale Fountains (Trumpets) again.

"Against The Wall (Into The Wind)" - wonderful bitter sweet pop

"Grace Under Fire" - some Teenage Fanclub / Pearlfishers / Lloyd Cole meet The Smiths

Check them yourselves! It's worth every minute...

THE BRIGHTS are unique. Of course you will always get a glimpse of the bands they are influenced by but they are definitely their own kind.

Buy the album!!!!
THE BRIGHTS www here!

THE BRIGHTS Our Teenage Years (2012)

Step one...:

Post the link to the download of "Our Teenage Years"...

Download here!

Recorded over the Spring of 2012 in rural Essex, the band collaborate once more with producer

Fraser Smith (Shed 7, Ian Brown), adding textures reminiscent of The Byrds, Shack and Teenage Fanclub, among others. Full Colour Sound is released on LemonpopRecords in the UK and Rimeout Recordings in Japan.

If you are a follower of THIS IS INDIE you will most likely already be a fan of THE BRIGHTS.
"Our Teenage Years" starts with a SMITHS-like guitar intro (which is of course meant as a compliment) and immediately finds its way to the typically BRIGHTS sound, very much characterized by David's unique voice. Very jangly, very catchy...

Support them!
Buy their stuff!!!

Remember: Full album stream link on THIS IS INDIE 15.Oct'12!

LOVE AND MONEY The Devil's Debt - Delivered!

It has been delivered yesterday.

How satisfying it must be to record and release such a wonderful album.

When I first listened to it it felt like a soft cushion of sound. A long forgotten feeling.

Thank you LOVE AND MONEY!

(All you need is LOVE AND MONEY! How true!)

THE BRIGHTS Full Colour Sound (2012)

Brilliant news reached me yesterday...

THE BRIGHTS will release their 2nd album "Full Colour Sound" on 15.Oct'12.

The new single "Our Teenage Years" will be released on 8.Oct'12.

There will be a download link to the single "Our Teenage Years" the next days and a soundcloud stream link to the album in its entirety as well on the day of the album release - 15.Oct'12

The Brights - Full Colour Sound   New Single: OUR TEENAGE YEARS - 8/10/12 New Album: FULL COLOUR SOUND - 15/10/12 Out on CD and Download. Tour Dates: 19/10/12 –THE CORNER HOUSE, Cambridge , UK 20/10/12 – THE BARFLY, London , UK 1/11/12 – CLUB ROCK AND ROLL, Nagoya , JP 2/11/12 – FLAKE RECORDS, Osaka , JP 3/11/12 – CLAPPER, Osaka , JP 4/11/12 – MARZ, Tokyo , JP

GRACE JONES Island Life (1985)

 

A very innovative piece of art.

GRACE JONES made me become aware of other stuff than punk and wave. It kind of opened my mind and my heart concerning different styles of music.

The coverart is incredible.

 

GRACE JONES - Island Life (1985)

01 La Vie En Rose

02 I Need A Man

03 Do Or Die

04 Private Life

05 Love Is The Drug

06 I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)

07 Pull Up To The Bumper

08 Walking In The Rain

09 My Jamaican Guy

10 Slave To The Rhythm

LOVE AND MONEY Goodbye Phoebus (from the forthcoming album The Devil's Debt)

 

And another wonderful track from "The Devil's Debt"...

 

LOVE AND MONEY - Goodbye Phoebus

LOVE AND MONEY - Piglet

LOVE AND MONEY - The Devil's Debt

 

Limited edition vinyl album and CD featuring 2 exclusive tracks and signed by the band £21(inc p+p)

Available to pre order now - be with you around 15th September..

Order here ;

http://www.verticalrecords.co.uk/vertical/

THE DEVIL'S DEBT available on general release

24th September

LOVE AND MONEY Piglet (from the forthcoming album The Devil's Debt)

 

What can I say.

Another classic milestone...

 

Check

LOVE AND MONEY - Piglet

 

Of course I already ordered the limited edition...

LOVE AND MONEY The Devil's Debt (Teaser)

 

 

Listen to the incredible title track:

 

LOVE AND MONEY - The Devil's Debt

THE DEVIL'S DEBT special limited Collectors edition vinyl album with CD featuring 2 exclusive extra tracks and signed by the band available from the 12th September.

Pre order now from http://www.verticalrecords.co.uk/vertical/

Price £21 (incl p+p).

Available for general release on CD from 24th September 2012.

Check James Grant's website here!

LOVE AND MONEY The Devils Debt (Pre-Order Now!)

 

LOVE & MONEY

After their triumphant sell out shows at Scotland's Celtic Connections and The SECC in Glasgow and a handful of shows throughout Britain Love & Money now felt the time was right to revisit a forgotten element of their past..

The Mother's Boy was an ambitious double album which for various reasons was abandoned, with some of the songs surfacing on the classic Dogs In The Traffic.

The band have re-recorded some of these songs, which, allied to some completely new songs has resulted in their first album for 20 years..THE DEVIL'S DEBT.

Put simply; this is classic Love & Money.

Featuring the elements which they became renowned for;

Pristine production; learned from the masters the band worked with - Tom Dowd and Gary Katz..soaring vocals, guitars and strings and the impeccable lyricism of writer James Grant.

Both statuesque and guilefully catchy, this is the essence of Love And Money..2012

THE DEVIL'S DEBT special limited Collectors edition vinyl album with CD featuring 2 exclusive extra tracks and signed by the band available from the 12th September.

Pre order now from http://www.verticalrecords.co.uk/vertical/

Price £21 (incl p+p).

Available for general release on CD from 24th September 2012.

 

Check James Grant's website here!

NEW STREET ADVENTURE Forever Unmasked

When did your heart miss a beat the last time when you listened to a new band for the first time?

Your time is here and it's now!

Listen to this incredible Northern Soul anthem:

NEW STREET ADVENTURE - Forever Unmasked (2011)

from their 2011 EP "Just The Kind Of People"

You can also check my YouTube to watch it... here

Check their www here.
NSA podcasts on soundcloud.

The new EP is called "Say It Like You Mean It".

Buy their stuff!!!

You made my day, boys...

THE WHO ainehpordauQ (noitidE exuleD repuS) (2011)

I hope to delay the deletion by the DMCA fuckers (who already deleted the post a few weeks ago) by writing the title backwards as I think they might have some kind of machine checking the www for posts like this.

Considering all information from the box, this one is the original QUADROPHENIA tracklist as it was planned by PETE TOWNSHEND:

THE WHO - QUADROPHENIA (SUPER DELUXE EDITION) (2011)

01 I Am The Sea

02 The Real Me

03 Quadrophenia - Four Overtures

04 Cut My Hair

05 Fill No.1 - Get Out And Stay Out (Demo)

06 Quadrophenia - Four Faces (Demo)

07 We Close Tonight (Demo)

08 You Came Back (Demo)

09 Get Inside (Demo)

10 Joker James (Demo)

11 The Punk And The Godfather

12 I'm One

13 The Dirty Jobs

14 Helpless Dancer

15 Is It In My Head

16 Anymore (Demo)

17 I've Had Enough

18 Fill No.2 (Demo)

19 Wizardry (Demo)

20 5-15

21 Sea And Sand

22 Drowned

23 Bell Boy

24 Doctor Jimmy

25 Finale - The Rock

26 Love, Reign O'er Me

The above mentioned demo recordings are offered here as downloads to complete your QUADROPHENIA experience.

A Message from THE JAZZ BUTCHER and MAX EIDER - 6th July 2012

The Butcher is my friend...

Millions of years ago Dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

Today the Jazz Butcher and Max Eider announce their intention to make a new album of original songs, Last of the Gentleman Adventurers.

We've got a bunch of new songs which we plan to record at Richard Formby's studio in Leeds for that full-fat, big-tape, Bakelite sound.

Today we're launching an appeal for funds to record the album with Pledgemusic, a brilliant site where, by pre-ordering the album, you help us raise the funds to make it.

There is, in fact, a lot more to it than that: check out our page on Pledgemusic and you will see that there are all manner of strangely diverting things available to those of you who choose to support us.

Pledgemusic is an international company which has successfully funded projects for the likes of Cornershop, Viv Albertine, Amanda Palmer and Ian McCullough. They can deal with international payments, exchange rates and all that stuff. Your money is safe with them and, if for any reason the album doesn't go ahead, you will get it back. The fundraising project runs until the beginning of September.

Please help us out with this one. Check out our page here or click the picture.

THE VINYL VILLAIN is back

I stumbled over THE VINYL VILLAIN back in 2010 whilst searching for anything I don't yet have from EDWYN COLLINS, PAUL QUINN, THE TRASH CAN SINATRAS, of course MORRISSEY, and JOY DIVISION and it turned out that THE VINYL VILLAIN was Bull's Eye for each of them.

Talking of EDWYN COLLINS and PAUL QUINN...
Here is
QUINN & COLLINS - Pale Blue Eyes 12" version

Jim had to have a break but he will be back TODAY!

Check his blog THE VINYL VILLAIN!

When EDWYN COLLINS played in Hamburg on his "Hope And Despair"-Tour in 1989 Edwyn and I had a bottle of whisky together backstage and he not only signed my Scotland flag but also gave me his address and telephone number...

FLUKE Six Wheels On My Wagon (1993)

Still electronic weeks on THIS IS INDIE.

I found FLUKE on a compilation back in 1993. Together with BJÖRK and other now famous stuff.

It sounds very 90's. Of course electronic again.

FLUKE - Six Wheels On My Wagon (1993)

01 Groovy Feeling - Make Mine A 99

02 Letters

03 Glidub

04 Electric Guitar - Humbucker

05 Top of the World

06 Slid - Pdfmone

07 Slowmotion

08 Spacey (Catch 22 Dub)

09 Astrosapiens

10 Oh Yeah

11 Eko

12 Life Support

BRAN VAN 3000 Glee (1998)

Electronic weeks on THIS IS INDIE...

Another electronic niche band.

BRAN VAN 3000 - Glee (1998)

01 Gimme Sheldon

02 Couch Surfer

03 Drinking in L.A.

04 Problems

05 Highway to Heck

06 Forest

07 Rainshine

08 Carry On

09 Afrodiziak

10 Lucknow

11 Cum on Feel the Noize

12 Exactly Like Me

13 Everywhere

14 Une Chanson

15 Old School

16 Willard

17 Supermodel

18 Oblinging

19 Mama Don't Smoke

FRAZIER CHORUS Ray / The Baby Album (1991)

 

The best FRAZIER CHORUS album's limited bonus disc "The Baby Album" including 4 mixes.

FRAZIER CHORUS - The Baby Album (1991)

01 Cloud 8 (Raid Mix)

02 Nothing (Raid Mix)

03 Heaven (God Like Instrumental)

04 Walking on Air (Dub Instrumental)

Very airy, ambient...

FRONT 242 Headhunter (CDN) (1989)

This one is a real killer!!!

FRONT 242 - Headhunter (CDN) (1989)

01 Headhunter (V1.0)

02 Welcome To Paradise (V1.0)

03 Headhunter (V2.0)

No sex until marriage!

THE BLOW MONKEYS Choices (1989)

Hey, what did I hear you say...?

I loooooved THE BLOW MONKEYS.

There was nothing that could compare to the coolness and funkyness.

Dr.Robert rules!

THE BLOW MONKEYS - Choices - The Singles Collection (1989)

01 Wait

02 Choice?

03 Slaves No More

04 Celebrate (The Day After You)

05 Wicked Ways

06 Digging Your Scene

07 It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

08 Out With Her

09 This Is Your Life

10 It Pays to Belong

11 Wait [Long]

12 Choice? [Long]

13 Man from Russia

14 Atomic Lullaby

15 Wildflower

16 Forbidden Fruit

..you know, it doesn't have to be this blog!"

And as a gift from DR.ROBERT here is some new stuff from his new album.
Dr.Robert - Coldheart

Check their www here!