Pain Teens - The Way Love Used To Be

Jinny - I Need Your Love (extended version)

for PSH

Renegade Soundwave - Thunder II

(art by Jim Harris)

The Field Mice - Let's Kiss and Make Up

Most mp3 blogs have posted this already, but it's new to me, so whatevs.

I love that the chiming guitar figure in the right channel isn't just "dum Dum dum", etc., but is (sometimes? always?) "dum DA-DUM dum", etc. Feel me?

What I'm talking about can perhaps most clearly be heard at the 1:27 mark.

Cocteau Twins - Watchlar

Here's one of the songs I enjoyed "discovering" for the 1990 project. Fortunately it's a B-side so I can post it! :) This track proves once again that if you have Elizabeth Fraser in your band, you are instantly better than every other band. Does the melody remind anyone else of Big Yellow Taxi?

Dusty Springfield - Arrested By You

Eternal gratitude to new Viva Radio contributor Wombleton Records for introducing me to this enchanting Rupert Hine cover. This track has inspired me to once again turn to you, dear readers, and ask for suggestions for an all-1990 playlist. This is admittedly a pretty obviously bad idea. (What am I going for here, anyway? Vaguely dated adult contemporary? And if so, why?)

In any case, let me know if you have any tips for hot tracks from the MCMXC, and enjoy the Dusty in the meanwhile.

There was never any chance that there wouldn't be a key change in this.

Grateful Dead - KY Jam

I'm closing a chapter and turning over a new leaf, and in these moments one turns to Jerome.

Recorded "live" on Friday, July 6th, 1990, at Cardinal Stadium, Louisville, Kentucky. Thanks to Brent for ultimately arriving at pure vacuum cleaner sounds at the 7:15 mark.

Rebirth Brass Band: Ain't No Shame In My Game

The Space Lady - Ghost Riders In The Sky

Inga Humpe - Do I Have To

The Cure: The Funeral Party

I wonder if Angelo Badalamenti was a Cure fan. Coincidence?

emmett's october playlist



Le Nozze Di Figaro (Overture) - Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Wind - Sons Of The Pioneers
Holiday On Saturn - Del Kent
Liquidation - Ernest Ranglin
Georgia On My Mind - Bob Summers Revival
Lazy Bones - Bob Summers Revival
No More White Horses - T2
Blue Boots - Eric Donaldson
Blue Boot - Eric Donaldson
Just Wanna See His Face - Rolling Stones
Be Thou By My Side - The Honeybus
Life And Death In G & A - Chairmen Of The Board
Give It Up - Billy Nicholls
I Need More - Pat Thomas & Marijata
Fantastic Man - William Onyeabor
Parigi - Paolo Conte
Pilotes - Performance
Comin' At Ya - Pyramid Plus
The Deep - Eye To Eye
Cherry-Coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins
Everything Flows - Saint Etienne

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JOURNEY IN THE SHADOW OF THE MEMPHIS MAFIA PART II: GLASGOW CHILTON FC

Glasgow, Gorbals, 1970: picture by Harold Chapman

Scratch away at the surface of the Scottish indie scene at virtually any given point over the last thirty years or so, and you will sooner or later discover a deviant abiding passion for west coast U.S. acts from the Beach Boys to the Monkees, from the Electric Prunes to the Byrds - all perpetually at odds with the dictates of contemporary pop fashion.

Delve a little deeper, and get both hands in on the open heart surgery, and of course you will sooner or later grasp the arterial route 66 that runs through the Glaswegian Psyche and stops off transiently from Texas to Memphis and snacks out on a diet of Tabasco soaked underdogs from Roky Erickson to Johnny Cash.

Not for nothing was the flag of the confederacy fashioned on a St. Andrew's saltire, but that alone opens up an entirely different can of worms.

No other group i can think of wears their passion for Big Star and Alex Chilton more brazenly than Bellshill's Teenage Fanclub, formed in a north-eastern suburb of Scotland's premier industrial city.

Released on Paperhouse Records in 1990 and distributed on the (then) tiny U.S. imprint, Matador in the States, Teenage Fanclub maxxed out their influences on the Geffen released "Bandwagonesque" (Creation Records in the U.K.) a year later, but it's this Norman Blake penned track, i believe, that first staked out the idolatory territory immediately recognisable to every Alex Chilton fan born near the Clyde with the fantasy of walking out into downtown Memphis on the sultry late August breath of a Saturday night.

Everything flows, indeed it does.

Recorded between July and December 1989. Produced by Teenage Fanclub: released on Paperhouse Records (PAPER 003) 1990




download: TEENAGE FANCLUB: EVERYTHING FLOWS

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Lou Reed & John Cale: Smalltown

From one of my favorite albums.

Buy it here.

Jerry Garcia Band: Tears Of Rage [1990]

written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel

recorded live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, sometime in 1990

Listen to Jerry's solo on this. It's a good one, and I should know -- I've heard more than one of Jerry's guitar solos.

available on CD