Losing My Edge (25.07.09)

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This week's guest announcer is Alex Mazonowicz from Asia.

For those of us who couldn't quite get up with it. 50 minutes of songs from the madcap laughterers and hanging heroes of pop.

1) Deutscher Girls, Adam & The Ants, 7", CBS, 1978
Stewart Leslie Goddard, aka, Adam Ant, lost his rag and walked into a boozer in Camden with his dad's WWII starter pistol (having already thrown a car alternator through the window). Apparently, he had become agitated when patrons of the pub derided his appearance. Ridicule is nothing to be scared of, surely.

2) Avalanche, Leonard Cohen, Songs Of Love And Hate, CBS, 1971

3) Do You Remember Walter The Kinks The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society Pye 1968

4) Surfs Up, The Beach Boys, Surf's Up, Capitol, 1971

5) Gigolo Aunt, Syd Barrett, Barrett, Harvest/EMI, 1970

6) Outside My Door, Can, Monster Movie, Liberty, 1969

7) River Deep Mountain High, Tina Turner, River Deep Mountain High Philles 1966

8) Stepping Razor, Peter Tosh, Equal Rights

9)Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, Ice Cream for Crow, Virgin, 1982

10) The Green Manalishi, Fleetwood Mac, Jumping At Shadows, CBS, 1968

11) These Days, Joy Division, Substance, Factory, 1979

12) No Matter What, Badfinger, No Dice, Apple, 1970

Ashes to Ashes (18.07.09)

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1) Soul Limbo, Booker T and The MG's, Soul Limbo, Stax, 1968
It's not often we get to hear all of this tune and there's a reason why. It doesn't do much else (see Drag Racer, by the Douglas Wood Group).

2) Cricket, The Kinks, Preservation Act 1, RCA, 1973

3) We can win, Linda Lewis, 7", Reprise, 1971

4) Angels of Ashes, Scott Walker, Scott 4, Philips, 1969

5) When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease, Roy Harper, HQ, Harvest, 1975

6) Victory, Cardiacs, A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window, Alphabet Business Concern, 1988

7) Bat Macumba, Gilberto Gil And Caetano Veloso, Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses, Polygram, 1968

8) Sugar Bowl, Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, Unconditionally Guaranteed, Virgin, 1974

9) Hit and Run, Rose Batiste, 7", Revilot, 1967

10) Throw Me Away, James Chance and The Contortions, Buy, ZE, 1979

11) We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning, Gram Parsons, G.P., A&M, 1973

12) It Dread inna Inglan, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread Beat And Blood, sland

13) Dreadlock Holiday, 10cc, Bloody Tourists, Mercury, 1978

Vive La France (11.07.09)

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This week's guest announcer: Sylvain from Ankara (again)

1) French Film Blurred, Wire, Chairs Missing, 1978, Harvest

2) Aux armes et caetera, Serge Gainsbourg, Aux Armes et Cetera, 1979, Phillips

3) The Frenchman, John Phillips, John The Wolfking of L.A., 1970, Dunhill

4) Sckxyss, Magma, Magma, 1970, Phillips

5) Bastille Day, Rush, Caress of Steal, 1975, Mercury

6) And You Tried So Hard, Gong, Camembert Electrique, 1971, Virgin

7) Pompadour Swamp, Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, Blue Jeans And Moonbeams, 1974, Virgin

8) Look... Wa!, Baikonour, Your Ear Knows Future, 2008, Melodic

9) Radio #1, Air,10,000 Hz Legend, 2001, Astralwerks

10) Deu, Aquaserge, Tahiticoco, 2008, Manimal

11) French Disko, Stereolab, Refried Ectoplasm, 1995, Duophonic
Mrs Johns insisted.

Born in the USA (04.07.09)

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This week's guest announcer: Mrs Johns

1) The Star Spangled Banner, Jimi Hendrix

2) Way Down Yonder In New Orleans, Bix Beiderbecke, Volume I - Singing The Blues Okeh, 1927

3) Hobo Blues, John Lee Hooker, I'm John Lee Hooker, Vee-Jay, 1948

4) I Am A Pilgrim, Kentucky Colonels, Appalachian Swing!, EMI, 1964

5) Boogaloo Down Broadway, Fantastic Johnny C, 7", 1967

6) I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City, Harry Nilsson, Harry, RCA, 1969

7) The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Band, The Band, Capitol, 1969

8) Big Mouth USA, Jim Ford, The Sounds Of Our Time, Bear Family, 1969

9) Mississippi, John Phillips, John The Wolfking of L.A., Dunhill, 1970

10) Truckin', The Grateful Dead, American Beauty, Warner, 1970

11) Texas Rose Cafe, Little Feat, Sailin' Shoes, Warner Brothers, 1972

12) The American Ruse, MC5, Back In The USA, Atlantic, 1970

13) 200 Years Old, Zappa/Beefheart Bongo Fury, Discreet, 1975

14) California Stars, Billy Bragg and Wilco, Mermaid Avenue, Elektra, 1998