Earle Mankey - Mau Mau

At post #1776, we come to Earle Mankey. You'd be forgiven for assuming this was a cover of this. (It's not, yet somehow I'm getting back-to-school vibes from this one too.)

Just the slightest dab of melancholy in the chord changes at 0:23 and ff. is all this writer needs for a good time.

#1 in the UK charts, nowhere on the US charts.

I wish I could go back in time and persuade David Gilmour to play the guitar solo.

Jermz - Power Cut

Japan - Adolescent Sex (album version)

Apparently they re-recorded this for the 45, but I prefer this version, in part because the entrance of the synth line is delayed until about one minute in, and comes as a surprise.

Speaking of, I'm obsessed with the eerily charismatic boredom of keyboard player Richard Barbieri in this video (see 0:57 and following). It's like it's too unspeakably tedious for him to even play those four chords.

X-Ray Spex - Warrior In Woolworths

Who could be so churlish as to chafe at classic rock moves in one's punk--especially when one hears shades of this, or the harmony in thirds and tubular guitar sound of this?

Remember the Curls

Adam Ant: Deutscher Girls
Lead track off the '82 compilation 'First Edition' as selected by Editions EG.

Gang of Four: Love Like Anthrax

The debut single.

Siouxsie and The Banshees: Hong Kong Garden

And, from Juju released 31 years ago this month:

Subway Sect: Ambition

Chris Spedding - Video Life

many thanks to Ted for the tip on this life-changer (on the RAK label, no less!)

Equals - Helèna

Amon Duul II - Another Morning

Thanks to JG for pointing me back to this one. It's all about the choral vocal part that kicks in at 1:37. Sounds like Ariel Pink or something? (or Mike + The Mechanics, "The Living Years"?)

Amon Duul II - Kirk Morgan

Thanks to Sorcerer for this one. The song structure is something like ABABCDCE and parts A,B,C,D, & E are all great. The rhythm guitar player in the right channel is a genius, as is pretty much everyone else involved in this, evidently.

Lyrics and album cover impenetrable.

Johnny Paycheck: Friend, Lover, Wife

Cleo & Patra - Marcus Antonius On The Run

Daddy likey.

Emmett presents: "The Waiting Is The Hardest Part"
Spring-Summer Megamix 2010

Face A
Grandstand - Soul Stage Orchestra
Hilly Fields (1892) - Nick Nicely
Just For Me - Manfred Mann
Skyline - Norman Greenbaum
Zoo Gang - Paul McCartney
The John Scene - Tigers On Vaseline

Face B
Morpha Too (rough mix) - Big Star
You Were So Warm - Dwight Twilley Band
Looking For The Magic - Dwight Twilley Band
Cantata Per Maryam - Piero Umiliani
Like We Were Before - Song
The Mess (live) - Wings

Face C
DK 50-80 - Otway & Barrett
Towering Inferno - The Green Arrows
Space (excerpt) - Georges Rodi
Magic - Unknown Artist
Strangers From The Light - Baltinore
Cosmic Surfin' - Haruomi Hosono

Face D
Brodovi - VIA Talas
Summertime City - Mike Batt with The New Edition
(Like A) Locomotion - Leftside
Cardboard Lamb - Crash Course In Science
Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme
Everyday - William Onyeabor

Face E
Doot Doot (extended version) - Freur
C'est Fab - Nancy Sesay & The Melodaires
Ain't You - Kleenex
Marcy - Norman Greenbaum
Petrol Flowin - Yan d'Ys
Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand

zip file with all 30 songs, plus m3u

This megamix is dedicated to my son Noah, born the day after this was posted!

compare / contrast

Emmett presents: Winter-Harvest

side one
Zmirneikos Balos - Maria Papagika
The Woman Of Our Day - Svanfridur
Pastels - Keith Cross & Peter Ross
Sidewalk Cafe - Todd Rundgren
Nice Age - Yellow Magic Orchestra

side two
Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement) - Gary Numan
I Can't Leave It Alone - Tony Wilson
Jalousie - Amon Düül II
Da Guadeloop (Prins Thomas edit) - Amon Düül II
Invitation - Earth and Fire

side three
Perspective - Yellow Magic Orchestra
He Needs Me - Shelley Duvall
Song Of A Sinner - Top Drawer
Hedi's Head - Kleenex
Groove On Down - Dunn Pearson, Jr.

side four
El Condor Pasa - Esther Ofarim
Gnostic Serenade - Esther Ofarim
Superlady - Jeff Phelps
You And I, Part II - Fleetwood Mac
Just Visiting - Lynsey de Paul

Get 'em all in one zip file, now with m3u file included!

Roy Ayers: And Don't You Say No

Off of You Send Me.

The Stranglers: Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)

...only country where the clouds are interesting

"Too much time to think, too little to do" has become all too meaningful to me lately.