Friday, 21 August 2020

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 402


Gather round the PVC jukebox for twenty tunes that will quicken your pulse and put a spring in your step. Maybe.


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Thee Songs:
Holes in Everything – The Stroppies
This Here Giraffe – The Flaming Lips
Eternal Summer – The Strokes
Instant Disassembly – Parquet Courts
Drunken Butterfly – Sonic Youth
30th Century Man - -Scott Walker
Fantastic Man – William Onyeabor
Hard to Handle – Otis Redding
(Drawing) Rings Around the World – Super Furry Animals
Hello Skinny – The Residents
Hair – PJ Harvey
And Then There’s You – Bill Ryder-Jones
San Francisco B.C. – Silver Jews
Sister Brother – F.J. McMahon
Foolish Situation – Shintaro Sakamoto
The Wanderer – Ling Uszniewicz and his Uszniewicztones
A Bruxa (She’s A Witch) – Cherry Pickles
Bulldog Skin – Guided By Voices
The Werewolf – Alan Vega/Alex Chilton/Ben Vaughn
Glad – Traffic

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 22 Redux


A dip in the vaults this week, back to August 2011, not heard this in nine years and the original notes suggest this was a boozy one!


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Thee Songs:
The Hurdy Gurdy Man – Butthole Surfers
Rocket Roll – Zolar X
The Jacques Tati – Frank Black and Teenage Fanclub
Carolina Days – Megafaun
L. Mansion – Sic Alps
Friday in Paris – Strange Boys
Bums on a Rock – The Rebel
Big New Prinz - The Fall
Let’s Build a Car – Swell Maps
Lava Man – Gee Mr Tracy
Degobah System – Wounded Lion
Time Flies By (When You’re the Driver of a Train) – Half Man Half Biscuit
Bad Vibrations – The Black Angels
Shut Down – The Sonics
Rare As a Yeti – Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds
Harry Irene – Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
In the Meantime – Betty Davis
Lovefingers – Silver Apples
Ennios Blues – Quickspace
Era Uma Not De – Loyce E Os Gnomes
Godstar – Psychic TV
Don’t Put Me on Trial – Elephant’s Memory
South African Man (Pt 1) – Hamilton Bohannon
If You’ve Got It You’ll Get It – Headhunters
New Year – The Breeders
Victoria – The Kinks
Medway Wheelers – The Buff Medways

Thursday, 6 August 2020

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 401

In thee shed this week; some jazz, some dusty flute funk, some Japanese psych and all sorts more.



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Thee songs:

Like Someone in Love – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) – Talking Heads

Is the Season for New Incarnations – Brigid Dawson and the Mothers Network

The Mole from the Ministry – The Dukes of Stratosphear

You Can Build A Palace, Or You Can Please People – Badge Epoque Ensemble

Purging the Demons – Shintaro Sakamoto

Out of the Unknown – Died Pretty

Weakness – Inspiral Carpets

Go Away – The Beets

No. 13 Baby – Pixies

Hana Ga Saitara – Mariah

Moskow Diskow – Telex

Cheree – Suicide

Don’t Be Nice to Me – Nick Lowe

Get A Job! – Silhouettes

Cockroach – Charlie Feathers

Get Out My Life Woman – Lee Dorsey

Living It for the Moment – Daniel Johnson

Bradley Manning – Cass McCombs

Can’t Hold On – Black Lips

Thursday, 30 July 2020

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 97 Redux


A dig in the vault this week, back to July 2013 for a resurrected Transmission 97.



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Thee songs:

Celestial Empire – Dragonfly

Old Man – Londons

Troubled Mind – Buff Medways

Religious Experience (Singing a Song in the Morning) – Kevin Ayers featuring Syd Barrett

Jet Set – Dave Pike

Woke Up in a Police Car – Oblivians

Turquoise Hotel – Fungi Girls

Cheeseburger and Fries – King Lollipop

Temptation Inside Your Heart – Velvet Underground

Goodbye Johnny – Primal Scream

Taking Off – The Fall

No Come Down – Brian Jonestown Massacre

Spirit or Spell - Plantman

Fuzzy – Grant Lee Buffalo

California Über Alles – Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

CIA Man – Fugs

Tosta Mista – Hooded Fang

Libras and Zebras = Jacuzzi Boys

Stoned and Starving – Parquet Courts

Vile Cranian (Circles) – Sun Araw

Drugs – Talking Heads

Sunrise – New Order

Hard Act to Follow – 21st Century

I Want My Woody Back –The Barracudas

Is It Raining in Your Mouth – The Fat White Family

Black Potato – The Rabble

Pick A Dub – Keith Hudson

Thursday, 23 July 2020

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 400


Our four hundredth show brings you tunes from a full house of Pauls (in spirit at least) plus three local luminaries we found lingering and loitering with a song each to play.



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Thee Songs:
Feels So Bad – Junior Kimbrough
Cowgirl – Underworld
Who’s My Eugene? – Tropical Fuck Storm
Smile, Love – The Cool Greenhouse
Woe Is Me – The Composers
Procissão – Gilberto Gil
Deep Blue Sea – Art Lown
Radio Drill Time – Josef K
Humor Me – Pere Ubu
The Water Was Bad – Vic Godard & Subway Sect
Rag Doll - -Kevin Rowland
A Certain Kind – Weyes Blood
Victoria – Sonic Youth
You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory – Ronnie Spector
Viva Las Vegas – Dead Kennedys
All My Happiness Is Gone – Purple Mountains
A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off – The Magnetic Fields
Dungeon – The Frogs
I’m So Worried - Monty Python
Pay No Mind (Snoozer) – Beck
It’s On You – Happyness
Sad Sorry Soul – The Stroppies
Down In The Basement – Viagra Boys
The Sweet Smell of Florida – Warmduscher
They Say I’m Different – Betty Davis
Come Dancing – The Briefs
Different Drum – Lemonheads
I’d Much Rather Be With The Boys – Reigning Sound
Only Love Can Break Your Heart – Saint Etienne
You Give A Little Love – Silvery
Why Must I Pay – The Rebel
Three Years On – Light Fantastic
Psycho Mafia – The Fall
Shake and Black - Snuff

Thursday, 16 July 2020

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 399


Transmission 399, a cranial black hole of aural delights. 




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Thee Songs:
She Is Mine – WITCH
Ene Yewodedquat – Tamrat Molla
You Me Bullets Love – The Bombay Royale
Contort Yourself – The Contortions
321 – Hierophants
Salted Tangerines – Andy Votel feat. Malcolm Mooney
Ravenspoint - Jane Weaver feat. Malcolm Mooney
The Storm – World of Twist
Sludge – Squid
Do They? (Glasser Remix) – Crass
Sweet Saturn Mine – The Moonlandingz
Tuesday Makes Me Cry – Snapped Ankles
Jungel Jenny – Omni
Gold on the Shore – Ty Segall
Uh! – Juana Molina
Medway Wheelers – The Buff Medways
The Soul of My Suit – T-Rex
Crying Inside – Nick Lowe
Star of Bethlehem – Neil Young
Come Monkey With Me – Geno Washington

Friday, 10 July 2020

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 398


Treat yourself to a Morricone sandwich.



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Thee Songs:
L’Ultima Diligenza Di Red Rock #2 – Ennio Morricone
Bomb (rLr Remix) – Crass
Texas Drums Part 1 & 2 – Pottery
James Brown – Cabaret Voltaire
U.F.O. – Jim Sullivan
Miami Alive – Kimya Dawson
Blonde on Blonde – Harlem
Roses Are Free – Ween
Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It – Kelley Stoltz
Look to the Wind – Pete Molinari
The Space Program – A Tribe Called Quest
Wack Wack – Young Holt Unlimited
More – Paul Weller
Time (You and I) – Khruangbin
BHS – Sleaford Mods
Harry K-Tel – Momus
Broke – Scott Lavene
Funny Thing – Reigning Sound
Skull – Misfits
60 Seconds to What – Ennio Morricone