Art Decade

new Viva show ( #116 ) in the archive

NRBQ - That's Alright Any band that shows love for the pre- Help! Beatles can only win points in my book, especially when brilliant cha...

France Gall - Les Petits Ballons A thousand thanks to Davy across the pond for helping me to acquire this precious mp3. Written by J.C. Van...

Headstone - Turn Your Head best singing of the word "cloud"

Erton Revelation - Free Show written by Erton-De Piscopo-Chiaravalle

Brenda Lee - The Crying Game music & words by Geoff Stephens

Ilitch - Peripherikredcommando Patrick Muller : Guitares, Traitements, Synthetiks (intro) Philippe Doray : Synthetiks Ruth Ellyeri : Guitare...

Philip Lynott - Yellow Pearl I'm still trying to track down the demo version heard in this video , but in the meanwhile here's the O...

Clinic - Video Life One of the better German-language Chris Spedding covers I've heard lately. Thanks again, Tedward .

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

Drip-Dry eyes - I Believe In You Drip-Dry eyes is a Japanese musician and, not surprisingly, a huge Yukihiro Takahashi fan. Here's his m...

Dif Juz - Cs

Mitchell's Christian Singers - Who Was John?

Ennio Morricone: Una Spiaggia a Mezzogiorno From the soundtrack to Vergogna Schifosi

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - Goody Goody Thanks to Glen of Viva Radio fame for helping me realize that Frankie's voice is the tops...

The best part of this video is everything.

The Jam: In The City I wanna say, I wanna tell you About the young ideas But you turn them into fears

Equals - Helèna

Take two of these and thank me in the morning.

Jimmy Cliff - Struggling Man Here's another one from the "Roots of Jerry" mix I put together about a month ago (show #11...

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...