Art Decade

Modern Sound Corporation - Safari (pt. 2) Produced by Barry Guard. Distributed K-Tel Sweden. ...and a very happy New Year to all the listene...

Ann Steel - My Time Too essential not to post. Music by Roberto Cacciapaglia, lyrics by Giada Di Villahermosa. Recorded in Milan. Does ...

Two tracks to help ring in your New Year. Cheers! David Ruffin: Anything That You Ask For Ray Barretto: A Deeper Shade of Soul

Gimmicks - Bermuda Inn They don't make 'em like this anymore; in fact, they never made them like this. Recorded in Stockholm and...

The Roches - Hammond Song Big thanks to Greg for featuring this one on his female folk mix . Produced by Robert Fripp, with Frippertroni...

Juanita Rogers - A Love Letter Full Of Promises Available on this . And I'm still looking for suggestions for an all-acapella playlis...

Johnny Paycheck: Friend, Lover, Wife

Inga Humpe - Do I Have To

Curved Air: Hide and Seek This slice of life goes out to Mr. Beer N. Hockey . The title is definitely fitting to the music -- with all t...

David Allan Coe: Funeral Parlor Blues

Cornershop Presents Bubbley Kaur - Topknot I wanted to do a vinyl rip of this, but records ordered on November 22nd still haven't arrive...

Ultravox!: Sat'day Night in the City of the Dead So, how many debut albums had Brian Eno & Steve Lillywhite as the production tea...

Nick Holder - Summer Daze

Mystic Slot - No Way Back File under: funking for fun. Zero complaints about whatever the effect is on that ride cymbal. Mystic slot taki...

Crack The Sky - Rangers At Midnight

Leo Sayer: More Than I Can Say Originally by The Crickets. I've always been partial to this version, which reminds me of childhood fo...

New Viva show ( #100! ) in the ark hive.

Family Fodder - Primeval Pony Essential new material from a band once deemed the G.B.O.A.T. I'll leave this up for 24 hours, because I ...

The Beach Boys: Stoked

The Crickets: It's Too Late

Pastor T.L. Barrett And The Youth For Christ Choir - Like A Ship (Without A Sail) Daddy likes the twin-tambourine attack (left and right ...

Taxi - Campari Soda Radiohead's got nothing on this baby!

Procol Harum - Grand Hotel

New York Dolls: Looking For A Kiss (Studio Demo)

Paul McCartney: Ram On The Clean: In the Dreamlife U Need A Rubber Soul

"She used my head like a revolver...." T. Rex: Planet Queen (remastered) and (acoustic)

Simon and Garfunkel - So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright

The Ether: Rue Des Jours

Ennio Morricone: Farewell To Cheyenne

Black on White Affair: A Bunch of Changes

Karin Krog and Archie Shepp - Steam Fuzzy vibes for a Friday. I heard this on FMU this morning while I was sitting in the car for street ...

Al Green: I'm A Ram I'm partial to Reverend Al Green but Teenie's guitar riffs on this track are tight.

Saturday Night Special Phil Wainman - Going, Going, Gone

Dana Gillespie - Andy Warhol I never noticed the melody of the verses in this tune until I heard this version. The chorus here sounds a t...

Harry Nilsson: Without Her

Bad Cash Quartet - Amuse You ...and so we draw a close to Year Four of the Decade. As Year Five begins, my new direction is clear: mostly Sw...

Jerry Garcia - Eep Hour

Boat Club - Nowhere Two dudes from Gothenburg with a yen to emulate Flesh + Blood -era Roxy. How can I resist this? Available on Caught The ...

Eggstone - The Dog More from Eggstone. I feel like this one starts off inauspiciously, then gets ruling in a very '90s-anthem way on the...

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Hold Tight!

Laetitia Sadier - Un Soir, Un Chien Oops... this is from a newish album so I probably shouldn't be posting it. I'll leave it up for ...

New Viva show ( #98 ) in archives. Thanks again to all who contributed to the 1997 project. I ended up using only a handful of the picks (i...

Eggstone - Taramasalata Huge thanks to Ely at Songblague for the tip on this slice of labyrinthine pop. I feel an Eggstone phase coming on....

photo courtesy of RVK Across the USA Eric Clapton: Black Summer Rain

Deerhoof - Polly Bee Getting pumped for the big show at Poisson Rouge tonight: Deerhoof. A band who continue to expand the rock idiom both h...

Beck - Deadweight (edit) I'm working on an all-1997 playlist for Viva Radio. This is one of the signature jams I remember from that glea...

Lifter Puller - Nassau Coliseum

Grateful Dead - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo Recorded "live" at Chicago's historic Auditorium Theatre, Thursday, May ...

John Lennon: Oh My Love

The Jam: Wasteland