Marsbar Playlist ~ 12-14-2013

December 14, 2013

David Marsden on the Rock.FM every Saturday and Sunday night from 7 p.m. until midnight. Streaming live via the Internet. Join the fun and get some interesting (and always entertaining) information at the new forum on Marsden Global.

The complete list thanks to much-appreciated help from TheBarron:

Alarm – Unsafe Building
And One – Timekiller
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Art Of Noise feat. Max Headroom – Paranoimia
Aztec Camera – Walk Out To Winter
Bill Haley & His Comets – Rock Around The Clock
Bill Nelson – Flaming Desire
Blue Peter – Shellshocked
Brian Eno – Baby’s On Fire
Cabaret Voltaire – Sensoria
Capital Cities – Safe And Sound
Carole Pope – Francis Bacon
China Crisis – African & White
Colourfield – Castles In The Air
Dave Gahan – Dirty Sticky Floors (Junkie Xl Vocal Remix)
David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
Depeche Mode – Route 66
Diodes – Tired Of Waking Up Tired
Dream Academy – The Love Parade
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Rage Hard
Freedom Or Death – Inside
Freur – Matters Of The Heart
Front Line Assembly – Vanished
Gentlemen Husbands – Wandering Eye
Ian Drury & The Blockheads – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Jerry Lee Lewis/Champs/Wanda Jackson/Little Richard/Danny & The Juniors/Contours – Great Balls Of
Fire/Tequila/Let’s Have A Party/Tutti Frutti/At The Hop/Do You Love Me (Mash-up)
Japan – Gentlemen Take Polaroids (2003 Digital Remaster)
Lotus Eaters – You Don’t Need Someone New
Marcus Kihn – Air
Mick Jagger v. Ludacris – Sweet Thing Stand Up
Midge Ure – After A Fashion
Dee Long – Zero Gravity (Make Love In)
Muse – Uprising (live)
NeuroRythm – Voice Of Dissent
Pete Shelley – Homosapien (Dub)
Pretty Lights – The Last Passenger
Raine Maida – Montreal
Rammstein – Du Hast
Royal Canoe – Hold On To The Metal
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Atari Baby
Slave To The SQUAREWave – Poor Man’s Fight
Stranglers – The Raven
Tegan & Sarah – Closer
Thought – I had Too Much To Dream Last Night
Timber Timbre – Magic Arrow
Tom Robinson – War Baby (12″ Single)
Wallflowers – Reboot The Mission

For previous David Marsden lists starting from 2003, visit RalphD’s blog “Marsbar Theater.” Ralph is the creator and original caretaker of the lists.

Marsbar Playlist ~ 12-8-2013

December 8, 2013

David Marsden on the Rock.FM every Saturday and Sunday night from 7 p.m. until midnight. Streaming live via the Internet. Join the fun and get some interesting (and always entertaining) information at the new forum on Marsden Global.

The complete list (minus one unidentified song) thanks to late-night help from JerusalemSlim:

Alabama 3 – Hotel California
Bob Segarini – Gotta Have Pop
Brian Eno feat. John Cale – Spinning Away
Champion Heartache – Things I Left Behind
City Boy – Dinner At The Ritz
Cliks – Red & Blue
Conjure One – Sleep
Cure – A Forest
Dave Stewart feat. The Secret Sisters – One Way Ticket To The Moon
David Johansen & The Harry Smiths – James Alley Blues
David Usher – Black Black Heart
Dee Long – Good Night Universe
Eight Seconds – Kiss You (When It’s Dangerous)
Elliott Murphy – Anastasia
Euphoria – Keeps You Going
Frank Zappa – Flakes
Frank Zappa – Peaches En Ragalia
Front Line Assembly – Fragmented
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Gentleman Reg – We’re In A Thunderstorm
Grapes Of Wrath – Picnic
Hidden Cameras – In The Na
Horslips – The Man Who Built America
Imaginary Cities – Water Under The Bridge
Inspiral Carpets – This Is How It Feels
It’s Immaterial – Driving Away From Home
Japan – Quiet Life
John Lennon – Imagine
John Lennon – #9 Dream
John Lennon – Woman
Kane Gang – Gun Law
Klaatu – Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
Lemon Jelly – In The Bath
Leon Russell – A Song For You
Level 42 – Lessons In Love
Lighthouse – 1849
Lightning Seeds – Life Of Riley
Perry Farrell’s Satellite Party – Wish Upon A Dog Star
Peter Murphy – Indigo Eyes (’98 Recall version)
Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home)
Plastic Ono Band – Give Peace A Chance
Plastic Ono Band – Instant Karma!
Project Pitchfork – Souls
Robbie Robertson – Showdown At Big Sky
Roger Waters feat. P.P. Arnold – Perfect Sense (Parts I & II)
Simply Red – Positively 4th Street
Slave To The SQUAREWave – Poor Man’s Fight
Stranglers – Skin Deep
Ten Years After – Bluest Blues
Thomas D’Arcy – I Can’t Wait
Ultravox – Vienna

For previous David Marsden lists starting from 2003, visit RalphD’s blog “Marsbar Theater.” Ralph is the creator and original caretaker of the lists.

Marsbar Playlist ~ 12-7-2013

December 7, 2013

David Marsden on the Rock.FM every Saturday and Sunday night from 7 p.m. until midnight. Streaming live via the Internet. Join the fun and get some interesting (and always entertaining) information at the new forum on Marsden Global.

The complete list thanks to invaluable help from TheBarron:

69 Eyes – Betty Blue
Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Artists United Against Apartheid – Sun City
Bill Nelson – Suvasini And Contemplation
Carole Pope – Francis Bacon
China Crisis – Wishful Thinking
Cliks – Savanna
Colin Blunstone & Dave Stewart – What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
Cut Copy – Need You Now
Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus (Pump Mix)
Diodes – Catwalker
Echo & The Bunnymen – Silver
Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People (The Shapeshifters Vocal remix)
Fixx – Red Skies At Night
Front Line Assembly – Vanished
Gary Clail – Human Nature
Gary Numan – We Are Glass
Gene Loves Jezebel – Desire (Come And Get It)
Genesis – I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
I Am Your Auto Pilot – Little Neutrino
Intaferon – Get Out Of London
Juluka – Scatterlings Of Africa
M/A/R/R/S – Pump Up The Volume
Members – Radio
National Velvet – Flesh Under Skin
Nightwish – I Wish I Had An Angel
NeuroRythm – Voices Of Dissent
New Order – Blue Monday (Hardfloor Mix)
Parachute Club – Rise Up
Pink Floyd – One Slip (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason)
Primal Scream – Loaded (Terry Farley remix)
Prodigy (feat. Pop Will Eat Itself) – Their Law
Project Pitchfork – I Live Your Dream (Gary Numan Remix)
Psychedelic Furs – President Gas
Ray Charles with Ruben Studdard & The Harlem Gospel Singers – Imagine
Rocky Horror Picture Show – The Time Warp
Romeo Void – Never Say Never
Royal Canoe – Today We’re Believers
Scissor Sisters – Invisible Light
Slave To The SQUAREWave – Dirty Disco
Slave To The SQUAREWave – Texan Thugs ‘N’ Rock ‘N’ Roll
Stranglers – Golden Brown
Teenage Head – Wild One
Thomas D’Arcy – The Price You Pay
Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science
Unheilig – Sei Mein Licht
Violent Kin – Keep Your Balance
Yello – Oh Yeah
Zeus – Love/Pain

For previous David Marsden lists starting from 2003, visit RalphD’s blog “Marsbar Theater.” Ralph is the creator and original caretaker of the lists.

Marsbar Playlist ~ 12-1-2013

December 1, 2013

David Marsden on the Rock.FM every Saturday and Sunday night from 7 p.m. until midnight. Streaming live via the Internet. Join the fun and get some interesting (and always entertaining) information at the new forum on Marsden Global.

The complete list thanks to late-Sunday night assistance from JerusalemSlim:

69 Eyes – Wasting The Dawn
Amanda Lear – Hollywood Flashback
Big Supreme – Don’t Walk
Bob Rivers – Walking ‘Round In Women’s Underwear
Bobby “Blue” Bland – Ain’t No Sunshine
Booker T. with Steve Cropper, Keb’ Mo’, Blake Mills, Matt “Guitar” Murphy & Albert Lee – Green
Onions (live)
Boomtown Rats – Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
Boxer The Horse – Sentimental/Oriental
Boys Brigade – Melody
Cliks – Savanna
Conjure One – Sleep
Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane (‘Natural Born Killers’ edit)
Danny Marks – Back To The Blues
David Bowie – Sound & Vision
Dee Long – Good Night Universe
Dee Long – Negative Muse
Dee Long – Wicked
Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (live, Mandela Birthday Concert, 1988)
Earons – Land Of Hunger
Elliot Murphy feat. Bruce Springsteen – Everything I Do (Leads Me Back To You)
English Beat – Twist & Crawl
Evermore – It’s Too Late
Fools – It’s A Night For Beautiful Girls
Harrison Fjord – Open Spaces
Hidden Cameras – Colour Of A Man
INXS feat. Rob Thomas – Original Sin
Japan – I Second That Emotion
Leon Russell – Back To The Island
Lewis Furey – The Sky Is Falling
Long John Baldry – Mr. Rubin
Love & Rockets – Ball Of Confusion
Mick Jagger v. Ludacris – Sweet Thing Stand Up
Mother Mother – Infinitesimal
Motherlode – When I Die
Oingo Boingo – You Really Got Me
Patti Smith – Gimme Shelter
Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
Powder Blues Band – Thirsty Ears
Psychedelic Furs – Heartbreak Beat
Raine Maida – Rising Tide
Rammstein feat. Sharleen Spiteri – Stirb Nicht Vor Mir (Don’t Die Before I Do)
Reuben And The Dark – Rolling Stone
Scissor Sisters – Return To Oz
Shins – It’s Only Life
Silversun Pickups – Dots & Dashes (Enough Already)
Slave To The SQUAREWave – Zombies
Steppenwolf – Snowblind Friend
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Sebastian
Stranglers – Walk On By
Tegan & Sara – Closer
The The – Sweet Bird Of Truth
Thinkman – The Formula
Thomas Dolby – Europa & The Pirate Twins
Tony Joe White – Polk Salad Annie
Van Morrison – Cyprus Avenue

For previous David Marsden lists starting from 2003, visit RalphD’s blog “Marsbar Theater.” Ralph is the creator and original caretaker of the lists.

80’s Music Rules ~ Criminally Underrated Artists/ Bands ~ Malcolm Burn/ Boys Brigade

 It is difficult to find information of substance about Malcolm Burn. Apparently, he is one of the fortunate souls who has been able to keep his personal life out of the limelight, while working like a madman writing, recording, and producing music. This prolific Canadian-born artist has had his hands in a significant number of projects, and unfortunately, many of his earliest creations are largely unknown in the lower 48.

Burn was born in Cornwall, Ontario. In the 80’s he was part of a short-lived Canadian New Wave band called Boys Brigade, which yielded one album of the same name, produced by Geddy Lee of Rush. The group was made up of Billie (Bucko) Brock (drums, vocals), Malcolm Burn (vocals, keyboards), Tony (Tones) Lester (vocals, guitar, synths), David Porter (percussion, vocals), Wayne Lorenz (bass), and Jeff Packer (percussion, vocals). The Boys Brigade album had three minor hits called “Melody,” “Passion of Love,” and “Into The Flow.”

Burn struck out on his own and recorded an album solo titled Redemption. This album is out of print and difficult to find, but it is worth a place in any 80’s music collection. Ed-FM played “Humans Can Talk” from Redemption this past week, a favorite of mine. Other notable cuts from Redemption are “Walk Don’t Run,” “Indian Summer,” and House of Glass.”

Malcolm Burn clearly found his niche as a producer/ support musician. His musical collaborations, starting in 1988 up until the present, include teaming with such esteemed names as Daniel Lanois, Blue Rodeo, Bob Dylan, The Neville Brothers, Iggy Pop, John Mellencamp, and Midnight Oil. His work with Emmylou Harris has netted him a 2001 Grammy Award and a 2004 nomination for a Juno Award. For a more comprehensive listing of his accomplishments, check out his web page  and his MySpace page.

Listen to some of Burn’s music as part of the Boys Brigade and also look into some of his noteworthy collaborations. You just may find a new direction towards which your underrated 80’s musical tastes will gravitate.

 

“Passion Of Love” via Youtube user kurdtss:

“Melody” via YouTube user kurdtss:

“Into The Flow” via YouTube user FilmSound0001: