Art Decade

2011: The Year In Review Igor Stravinsky - Otche Nash Brenda Lee - The Crying Game Zoo - Hard Times, Good Times Tuesday - Sewing Machine Fra...

Marie Moor - Illusions Since no one has offered to send me their copy of this record yet, I'm posting a sweet youtube rip of it for now....

Je Demain - L'Hiver Au Bord De La Mer Special thanks to TV Disko for the tip on this one. Lordy, we haven't posted any hibernian Fr...

Roy Panton - Endless Memory

Subway Sect: Ambition

Oak Cliff String Band: Dallas Rag song history " an old-timey howdy-do "

Tom Zé - Defect 2: Curiosidade

Does anyone have a copy of this record they want to give me?

The Seldom Scene: Doing My Time and a more popular cover Baby Blue ; Live at the Cellar Door

Duran Duran - Save A Prayer (after disco rough edit)

Cooley-Munson: Sightly Sue Nice bit of history on this stellar track here . Thanks to KnowPhase for introducing me to Sue.

The Twistin' Kings: Xmas Twist This tune comes courtesy of a pal in Memphis.

Igor Stravinsky - Otche Nash Neo-renaissance moves from Igor on this setting of the Slavonic "Our Father." Composed in 1926 and re...

A bit of goth for the Yuletide. Bauhaus: Dark Entries

Virgin Prunes - Sandpaper Lullabye

X: Come Back to Me

Lone Star - She Said, She Said Dear Santa, For Christmas this year, I would like an eight-and-a-half minute, totally overblown prog-boogie c...

new Viva show ( #118 ) in the archive

Wizzard - See My Baby Jive From an era when 3-minute pop songs were sometimes 5 minutes long (c.f. Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Hot Love", ...

Miller - Baby I Got News For You

Marvin Gaye: Star-Spangled Banner Marvin singing the national anthem at the 1983 NBA all-star game. This one goes out to NBA legend Earl Mon...

Le Orme - Ad Gloriam

new Viva show ( #117 ) in the archive

Jacky Chalard - Superman, Supercool (extended version) A track featured on a very worthwhile subscription series the lads at Finders Keeper...

Beautiful Zion Choir - Let's Ride To The Mountain Top More Duaneology while I'm waiting for records in the mail. The organist in th...

Great Pride - She's A Lady Analog delay on the vocals and a chorus that sounds like Styx? Now we are finally getting somewhere. Plaudits...

Tsurubami - Gekkyukekkaichi palate-cleanser

5th Anniversary Spectacular! Moons - Standard Planet So we've been trawling through the audio archives of this standard planet for five ...

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