Art Decade

The Space Lady - Ghost Riders In The Sky

Lio - Speedy Gonzales

Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd: And Then I Turned Away

Pink Floyd: Grantchester Meadows Basking in the sunshine Of a bygone afternoon Bringing sounds of yesterday Into my city room

Dreamworld - Summerdays No time to do my own digging at the moment, so here's a nutty little jam I heard in a nutty Moonboots mix ...

new Viva show ( #114 ) in the archive

The Paragons - Abba August 11th? Time to party.

Hot Chocolate - You Could've Been A Lady (scratchandsniff re-rub) A cursory glance through today's papers has led me to an ine...

Robert Wyatt - The Age Of Self

Mau Mau - Mau Mau Enjoyably empty and lonesome back-to-school sounds from Germany's Mau Mau. Thanks to Elena Reimeryte of the new "...

Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra - Russian Lullaby 1927. The Lower East Side of Manhattan. A hot August night. A young Jewish mother, a ...

new Viva show ( #113 ) in the archive

Rattles - You Can't Have Sunshine Everyday Thanks to Ted for peeling this one off in his now-legendary Turtle Dov mix. This song is a f...

Ketty Lester - Love Letters Big thanks to G. Condon for peeling this one off in a nice summer mix available here . Composed in 1945 by Edwa...

The Marvelettes - The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game So sultry.

new Viva show ( #112 ) in the archive

Haruomi Hosono with Friends Of Earth - Alternative 3 Pretty abstract stuff here from Harry, but ultimately successful (I think) as a self-co...

The Antennas - Just Your Love The hugest of thanks to Jimmy Virkki at Prejka.se for the rip. Shades of Once In A Lifetime in the bassline. ...

Return To Forever - Earth Juice

Johnny Russell - Catfish John Thanks to my friend Jerry for turning me on to this one. Written by Bob McDill and Allen Reynolds. Vocal accom...

Sadistic Mika Band - Hi Jack (I'm Just Dying) Some choice pre-YMO here of sorts (Yukihiro Takahashi is the drummer in this band). Music ...

David Sylvian / Ryuichi Sakamoto: Bamboo Houses (12" version) And the '00 remix from David Sylvian's Everything and Nothing ...

Haruomi Hosono - Sports Men (細野晴臣 - スポーツマン) The world of YMO and related configurations is such a rich musical seam; the dedicated seeker ma...

new Viva show ( #111 ) in the archive

Marlon Asher - Ganja Farmer

Miharu Koshi - Bara No Yakai~Arui Wa Amai Mitsu No Imashime Japanese title: 薔薇の夜会～あるいは甘い蜜の戒め English translation (as per Google translate): ...

The Soft Rocks - Whore Your Love Disco Power Play, The Album , now available from all the finest European record-sellers . The drummer does ...

The July Four - Mr. Miff I'm down with this instro mainly because of the mellow strums that kick in at 0:05 and again at 0:57, foreshado...

The Sensational Nightingales - My Sisters And Brothers Great ramshackle rhythm backing on this, and empyrean reverb on the vox (only fitting...

Cream - Dance The Night Away I like that you can pretty much see the revellers spilling out into the streets when the psychedelic part kicks...

SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Franck Dervieux - Present Du Futur

Radar - Una Splendida Emicrania A search for more Italian new wave on discogs.com turned up this nugget. Old news for some but new to me. T...

new Viva show ( #110 ) in the archive

Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Observatory Crest A descendant of For What It's Worth, arrangement-wise, this popped up on a coup...

Ramases - Balloon If you're thinking, "Gee, that sounds like Lol Crème on lead guitar, moog synthesiser, and possibly background vo...

Electric Light Orchestra - Letter From Spain

Miharu Koshi - パラレリズム [Parallélisme]

Big Star - The India Song (alternate version) Words and music by Andy Hummel, with whose sentiments I completely agree. Available in this bo...

Blackway - Follow Me

The Stepkids - Shadows On Behalf If this were a lost electro-psych-soul obscurity from '73, it would be one of the greatest crate-digs o...

Flyer - Get Back Your Love If you like Flayer, you'll love Flyer. Lead vocals / Piano / Synthethizers (sic) & Lead Guitar by Alain ...

Slapp Happy - Jumpin' Jonah Avant-gospel moves from Slapp Happy, on the b-side of their first single. Perhaps Dagmar & co. caught th...

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 1:3...

Vic Chesnutt: Dodge

Toots & The Maytals: Reggae Got Soul

new Viva show ( #109 ) in the archive

Flowers - For Real I hope one day to have dinner with this bass player.

from the archives Bob James - El Verano Summer is back... and that phased guitar riff reminding you it's been here all along. original a...

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 al...

Dave & The Diamonds - Think About Love It sounds like a Yardbirds-era Jimmy Page may have snuck in to play guitar on this. Available on ...