John Mellor Goes Over the Border with Jimmy Cliff

 

After gifting Joe Strummer's London Calling BBC radio shows, I couldn't stop listening to more of Joe's own music. I revisited The Clash, The Mescaleros, The 101'ers, & everything else. I decided heading into the new year I would post some that I though you all might like to hear.

First is Joe giving us that good old Eathquake Weather, then a few bootleg releases: When Pigs Fly (a previously unreleased soundtrack LP); Outtakes & Rarities; & the fantastic Collaborations.

Spend some time with Joe, it will be well worth the while & I'll hit you all again next year. 

 

Joe Strummer - Earthquake Weather, Epic EK 45372, 1989.
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Gangsterville    
King of the Bayou    
Island Hopping    
Slant Six    
Dizzy's Goatee    
Shouting Street    
Boogie with Your Children
Leopardskin Limousines    
Sikorsky Parts    
Jewellers & Bums    
Highway One Zero Street    
Ride Your Donkey
Passport to Detroit    
Sleepwalk

bonus tracks -
Punk Rock Blues
15th Brigade
Cholo Vest
Baby O'Boogie
Mango Street 

 

 

Joe Strummer - When Pigs Fly bootleg, 1992.

Side One -
When Pigs Fly    
Pouring Rain    
Rose of Erin    
Ellis Island Line    
Phantom Country Fair    

Side Two -
Storm in a D-Cup    
Free at Last    
When Pigs Fly (instrumental)
Burning Lights (from I Hired a Contract Killer)    
Afro Cuban Be-Bop (from I Hired a Contract Killer)    
Victory Lane (from Dr Chance)    
Junco Partner (acoustic) 

 

Joe Strummer - Outakes & Rarities bootleg, 2002.

War Cry
Yalla Yalla
15th Brigade - these come from the mid-nineties period prior to the creation of The Mescaleros.  

Louisiana Turnpike
Search Party
Plymouth Roadrunner
Outta Space
Detour
Japanese Cars
Nameless
Cholo Vest - these are the songs deleted from the Permanent Record OST as Joe had intended it.

Brand New Cadillac - encore from the Hollywood Palladium Pretenders show on Nov. 11,1994.

 

 

 

Joe Strummer - Collaborations bootleg, 2004.

Generations (with Electric Dog House)
Salsa y Ketchup (with Zander Schloss)
Yalla Yalla (Norro's King Dub)
Return of the Blues Cowboy (with Jools Holland)
Straight Shooter (with Latino Rockabilly War)
Over the Border (with Jimmy Cliff)
Redemption Song (with Jimmy Cliff)
Living in the Flood (with Horace Andy)
The Harder They Come (with The Long Beach All Stars)
Just the One (with The Levellers)
Time & a Tide (with the Mescaleros)
Turkish Song of the Damned (with the Pogues)
Ocean of Dreams (with Steve Jones)
Let’s Get a Bit of Rockin' (with the 101'ers)
Ride Your Donkey (with Latino Rockabilly War)
Guitar Slinger (with Brian Setzer)
MacDougall Street Blues (with Jack Kerouac)
Junco Partner (with Billy Bragg)
Rockets Galore (with Mikey Dread)
Ghetto Defendant (with Allen Ginsberg)

Enjoy,
NØ

London Calling the Punk Warlord, Come in Please!

This is the project I've been working on to gift to everyone everywhere who loves music. 

 

Also to anyone like myself who really, really misses Joe. Joe's goal in life was building a family of rebels to rebuild a better world in glory. He used his music as his ethos. 

 

 

Nearly 7 hours worth of excellent musick served up by Joe himself.  I've tried to serve these up as exact as I could.  I replaced any song that I noticed had major sound problems with cleaner, better takes.  I also added Don Letts' Radio 6 Tribute to Joe Strummer as a bonus. 

 

Joe Strummer's London Calling BBC radio show.
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SERIES ONE - 1998

Program 1, August 31, 1998 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
This Land Is Your Land - Trini Lopez
Small Axe - U-Roy
Minuit - Earnest Ranglin & Baba Maal
Lokoko - Thu-Zahina
Long As I Can See The Light - Monkey Mafia
Martha Cecilia - Andres Landero Y Sus Conjuntos
Symbolic Language – Pacou

Program 2, September 7, 1998 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Elvis Presley
Ah, Ngai Nzambe - Luyeye Gaston
Daddy - Dust Junkies
Da Camino a la Vereda - Buena Vista Social Club
Carrick Fergus - Brian Ferry
Ja Gaita - Orquestra Emisoras Fuentes
Sandpaper Blues - Radar

Program 3,September 14, 1998 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Know Your Rights - The Clash
Groovin' - Young Rascals
Natty Rebel - U-Roy
Jullandar Shere - Cornershop
Colours - Donovan
To Love Somebody - Nina Simone
Day-O - Harry Belafonte
Izinkomo Zombango - Mzikayifani Buthelezi
Ba Boo La La - The Lion

Program 4,September 21, 1998 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Amazimuzimu - Dilika
La Cumbia Primero - Fiesta En Mi Pueblo
Domino - Van Morrison
Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
Boy in the Bubble- Paul Simon
Take Me with You My Darling, Take Me with You - The Master Musicians of Jajouka
(Recorded by Brian Jones)
Fever- Horace Andy
Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
La Vaca Vieja- Rufo Garrida Y Su Orquestra
It Wasn't God who Made Honky-Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells

SERIES 2 - 2000

Program 5,January 9, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
The Killer - Big Youth
Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
Nvule N'Delela - Brenda Fassee
Little Old Wine Drinker Me - Dean Martin
Y Su Conhuntos - Andres Landero Y Sus Conjuntos
Starting a New Cycle (Starting a New Life) - Van Morrison
Sala Molende - Tabu Frantal

Program 6,January 16, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Hit the Road Jack - Big Youth
Fire in Soweto - Sonny Okosun
Nursery Rhyme - Bo Diddley

I Got Life (Ain't Got No)- Nina Simone
Crawfish - Elvis Presley
Rez - Underworld

Program 7,January 23, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Cool Breeze - Big Youth
Stairway to the Stars - Ella Fitzgerald
Not Fade Away - Rolling Stones
Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jeeny- Afel Bocoum
Castles Made of Sand - Jimi Hendrix
Shoba (Let's Go to Johannesburg) - A Sambe Siye E Goli
Swingtown - Steve Miller Band
Junco Partner - The Clash

Program 8,January 30, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
The Freedom Fighters - Ricky & Bunny (to an The Upsetters riddim)
Tous Les Garcons et Les Filles - Francoise Hardy
Gwandir - Nasha
Corinna Corinna - Bob Dylan
Syncopate- The Astronauts
Nguellel - Baba Sek
Public Enemy #1 - Max Romeo

Program 9,February 6, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Mon Amour, Ma Cherie - Amadou & Mariams
Do it Again - Beach Boys
Baby, What You Want Me to Do - Jimmy Reed
The Man Who Sold the World - LuLu
Romal - DJ Gino's Gangsters featuring Surjit Bindrakhia
Chimta -Tariq Lohar
Mehabooba - Ravi Bal

Program 10,February 13, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Feeling Time - Joy White
Azara Al Hay - Rasha
Tippy Toes - The Meters
Cumbia Saramuya - Los Corraleros De Majagual
Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones
Hatisi Tose - Bhundu Boys

SERIES 3 - 2001

Program 11,June 24, 2001 -

Top Ranking - Johnny Clarke
The Sunnyside of the Street - The Pogues
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
Sanga Mbele Mbele - Thu Zahina
Gravel Pit - Wu-Tang Clan
Long Side Of The Old Santa Fe Trail - Jules Allen
Pennsylvania 6-5000 - The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Free, Single, & Disengaged - Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns

Program 12,July 1, 2001 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Rock & Roll Music - The Beatles
Couchie - Yellowman
Umfaan - Ricardo Bornman
Siwuhambile Umhlaba - Amaswazi Emvelo & Mahlathini
Nervous Breakdown - Eddie Cochran
Tell it Like it Is - Nina Simone
Cinderella - Eric Monty Morris
Long Hot Summer Night - Jimi Hendrix

Program 13,July 8, 2001

Not Fade Away - The Rolling Stones
Unza Unza Time - Emir Kusturica & the No Smoking Orchestra
Noisy Place - U-Roy
Raise the Alarm - Big Dog
Check Your Bucket - Eddie Bo
Gotta See Jane - R.Dean Taylor
Can I Get a Witness - Marvin Gaye
Co-operation - Franco & Sam Mangwana

Program 14,JULY 15, 2001

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Global a Go-Go - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Good to Be on the Road Back Home Again - Cornershop
Peno - Saban Bajramovic
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
Roots & Culture - Shabba Ranks
Aida Baoury - Orchestra Baobab - N'Wolof
Beat on the Brat - The Ramones

 

 

Don Letts' Radio 6 Tribute to Joe Strummer

Surf City - The 101'ers
Complete Control - The Clash
Rudie Can't Fail - The Clash
Straight to Hell - The Clash
Beyond the Pale - Big Audio Dynamite
This is England - The Clash
Know Your Rights - The Clash
King of the Bayoo - Joe Strummer
Love Kills (Sid & Nancy OST) - Joe Strummer
Gangsterville - Joe Strummer & Latin Rockabilly War
Coma Girl - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
All in a Day - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
At the Border, Guy - Joe Strummer
The Harder They Come - Joe Strummer

 

 

Enjoy & Peace,
NØ

Dance Amongst the Stars

A special gift for Pablo from the deep vaults of Woody Dumas & C’est La Mort.

This rare recording features the great vocalist Caroline Seaman (of This Mortal Coil & 808 State) along with didgeridoo player & saxophonist Tony Waerea (This Mortal Coil), bassist Scott Rodger & drummer James Pinker (both of Dead Can Dance). With the band name Heavenly Bodies & the album title Celestial, it's easy to infer that this will be some lush, ethereal music.

 

Heavenly Bodies - Celestial, C'est La Mort CLM CD010, 1990.
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Intro   
Rains on Me   
An Obsession   
Time Stands Still   
The Icon   
Stars Collide   
Road to Maralinga   
Shades of Love   
Cavatina   
Sendero Luminoso
Exit   

bonus tracks -
Anima (live)   
Coercion (instrumental)   
Rains on Me (Robin Guthrie remix)

Enjoy,
NØ

Naughty for Satan Claus

 

Although MrDave should be on the naughty list, we like naughty around here (& we like MrDave, too). So these numerous gifts are hand wrapped for him. He took some wishes from others who weren't using theirs & he claims one of the bands were his college friends, so here goes. I love a good story, ya know. I'll start with my favorite of these...Bill Fay.

 

UK-based singer, songwriter, & pianist Bill Fay began writing in the early 1960s while studying at university. In 1966 he recorded a demo using the mobile studio of John Boden. Impressed by the demo, ex-Them drummer Terry Noon helped Fay to sign a recording contract with Decca. Between 1967-1971 Fay released a single ("Some Good Advice" / "Screams in the Ears") & two albums, the lush, orchestrated eponymous debut & the rawer second album Time of the Last Persecution. Unfortunately, these recordings did not sell well & Decca decided to end Bill's contract shortly after the second release. He returned to the studio in the late 1970s to record a third album Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow which finally saw release in January 2005 on Durtro/Jnana Records.

After not releasing any newly recorded material for over four decades, Bill released a new album of original material in 2012, titled Life Is People. This was followed in 2015 by another new album, Who Is The Sender?, a darker but more poignant affair all together. 

 

 

Bill Fay - Who is the Sender?, Dead Oceans DOC097, 2015.
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The Geese are Flying Westward    
War Machine
How Little    
Underneath the Sun    
Something Else Ahead    
Order of the Day    
Who is the Sender?    
The Freedom to Read    
Bring it On Lord    
A Page Incomplete    
A Frail And Broken One    
World of Life
I Hear You Calling (Studio Reunion) 

 

 

Dieselhed formed in 1989 in Arcata, California & later moved to San Francisco, California, playing a blend of country, punk, & pseudo-classic rock. Drummer Heifetz spread his time between Dieselhed & the genre-bending experimentalists Mr. Bungle. Singer-songwriter Virgil Shaw previously played in Arcata outfit Brents T.V.. Bassist Ellis had been a founding member of the local disbanded funk rock band Psychefunkapus while Jonathan Segel was a former member of local indie-faves Camper Van Beethoven. 

 

Dieselhed - Tales of a Brown Dragon, Amarillo Records ACM-601, 1995

Brown Dragon
Butcher Boy
Wedding Song
Gravy Boat
Wipe Down the Vinyl
Pizza Box
M & M
Fork Lift Test
Aladdin's Lamp
Baby Song
Snow Blind in the Liquor Store 

Dieselhed - Shallow Water Blackout, Amarillo Records ACM-608, 1997.

Fog it Up
Produce Section
Yellow Kitchen
Inches of Air
Tea Leaves
Betsy
Carving Soap
Asphalt Bib
Safety Glass
Blue Hawaiian 

 

Shira Small's The Line of Time & the Plane of Now was recorded in 1974 under the auspices of a senior project at The George School, a small Quaker boarding school in Newtown, Pennsylvania. It is the product of Shira Small's four years away from the Wagner Projects in East Harlem. The songs came together from scribblings on a bathroom wall ("Change is life's only constant factor") & a troubling remedial math class ("The line of time & the plane of now").

Recognizing Shira's talent, her music teacher Lars Clutterham convinced Shira to record an album of original material as her senior project. The money to press the album was drummed up by pre-sales & a few generous parents, with all 500 copies being distributed to students & faculty of the George School. As far as I can tell, it is Small's only recordings except for the track “Gimme Magic” from this album which was used in the musical Journey of Persephone which was performed at the George School & released on its soundtrack.

 

Shira Small - The Line of Time & the Plane of Now, Lars Clutterham LC7475, 1974.

Side 1 -
Lights Gleam Lonely
Here I Stand
Cool Dude
My Life's All Right
I Want to Lay with You

Side 2 -
Eternal Life
Gimme Magic
Touch of Blue
Fingerpainter
In an Open Field

 

 

 

David Holmes began DJing in Belfast in 1985. His first DJ appearance was at the Abercorn Mod Club. His first hit was the 1992 track "De Niro" as the Disco Evangelists, with Ashley Beedle & Lindsay Edwards (later of Tin Tin Out). In the early to mid-1990s, he ran two club nights in the Belfast Art College.

Holmes released his first full length album This Film's Crap Let's Slash the Seats, in July 1995. Inspired by movies & movie soundtracks, this would become a recurring theme throughout Holmes' work. The opening track "No Man's Land" was featured in the film Pi.

Holmes had spent time in New York City in the late 1980s. Minidisc recorder in hand, he
traveled throughout the five boroughs recording the sounds & voices he heard around him.

In the late 90s these recordings were blended with Holmes' production work. The final product was a 59-minute cinematic aural journey through New York's city streets. Let's Get Killed caught the attention of a large listening audience.

He continued blending recorded urban sound into his releases until the early 2000s.

In 1998 Holmes' love of cinema paid off. Actor Danny DeVito commissioned him to do the score for Steven Soderbergh's film Out of Sight. He was tapped to do the 2001 score a for Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven remake.

Finally eschewing the sound bits style he had become infatuated with, he released The Holy Pictures in 2008. Holmes has continued to score movies & television shows to date.

 

 

The Disco Evangelists - De Niro, Positiva – CDTIV-2, 1993.

De Niro (edit)

De Niro (The Spaceflight remix)

De Niro (Full Circle remix)

De Niro...The Jazz

Choirs in Vietnam (reprise)
De Niro...The Journey (93 E.Q.)

David Holmes - This Film's Crap Let's Slash the Seats, Go! Discs – 31455 9923 2, 1998.

No Mans Land
Slash the Seats   
Shake Ya Brain
Got Fucked Up Along the Way
Gone
The Atom & You   
Minus 61 in Detroit   
Inspired by Leyburn
Coming Home to the Sun

bonus CD -
Gone (First Night Without Charge)
Gone (The Kruder & Dorfmeister Session TM)
Mosh It +
Slash the Seats (Slash the Beats)
The Connecting Flight Syndrome
Smoked Oak
Gone (Alter Ego Decoding Gone Part 2)
Gone (Second Night Without Charge)

All versions of Gone featuring Sarah Cracknell

 

 

David Holmes - The Holy Pictures, Mercury 1777275, 2008.

I Heard Wonders    
The Story of the Ink    
Love Reign Over Me    
Theme / I.M.C.    
Holy Pictures    
Kill Her With Kindness    
Melanie    
Hey Maggy    
Birth    
The Ballad of Sarah & Jack

 

 

 

According to many: Monoshock was one of the best bands of the 90s. If they were from Seattle instead of Illa Vista & Oakland, California you would already know that. During their six years they released a handful of 7"s, served as a backing band for Von Lmo, & created one of the classic psych albums of all time, Walk to the Fire. They were raved up by Julian Cope as one of the great unknown bands of the 90s & cited as an influence by Comets on Fire, as well as a whole slew of Japanese psych bands. Monoshock is fuzz-fueled, wah-wah damaged, riff-crazed punk rock which draws upon Hawkwind, the Stooges, Simply Saucer, & other psych-punk gods.

I don't get it, but you decide.

 

 

 

 

Monoshock - Lost Shock Vol 1 cassette, Silver Current Records DC 26, 2014.

Side A -
An Interview W/ The Monoshock
You Must be a Witch
Nobody Parts
Plain Strap Blues
Ice Gazelle

Side B -
Pour Man
No Genies in My Bottle
City Kids
19th St. Shuffle
Give Us Back Our Hands

 

 

 

Monoshock - Lost Shock Vol 2 cassette, Silver Current Records SC 27, 2014.

Side A -
Daylight Streakers
Obsolete
Submarines & Tangerines
It's Not There
This is Pop Rock

Side B -
Shrink Big Things
1945
Wreck
Chicken Boy
Two Fingers for a Top

Enjoy,
NØ

Arcane Theories about Dayton

 

These gifts are wrapped specially for aboynamedstew

 

The Jai-Alai Savant - Flight of the Bass Delegates, Gold Standard Laboratories GSL 119, 2007.
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Data Massaganna
Arcane Theories
Scarlett Johansson Why Don't You Love Me
White on White Crime
The Low Frequent See
When I Grow Up
Transmissions from the Dub Delegate
30's in the Thousands
Sugar Free
Murder Pon the Dance Hall Part II
Transmissions from the Delegate
Vengeful Blade of the Desperate
Akebono

 

 

Indigenous Resistance - Dubverse, Dub Reality IR25, 2010.

Ivere...The Land (Soy Sos Remix)
This Land is Not for Sale (Attenco Emergency instrumental mix)
Luana
Brothers & Sisters (Deeder Zaman's Burning Babylon mix)
Galdino Pataxo Warrior (Swandi's Defiance in the Shadows mix)
She's Crying for Many (Freshmint mix)
Sacred Land (Dr Das Ragga mix)
Krikati (Steven Stanley Empowerment Mix)
Gladino. Truth is What We Need Dub (Delroy "Fatta" Pottinger Dub mix)
Gladino Jesus dos Santos 2010 (D. Watts Riot mix)
Continue to Fight (Ramjac's Gloriously Funky mix)
Galdino 20100 (Adrian Sherwood karaoke mix)

Enjoy,
NØ

Alone on Penguin Island for the Holidaze

This gift specially wrapped for Anonymous from Patagonia.

Des was a guitarist, songwriter, & singer with a long history of creative, boundary-pushing music. He was an inspiration for many other musicians, particularly Colin Newman & the gang from Wire. 

 

Desmond Simmons - Alone on Penguin Island, WMO WMO 1CD, 1995.
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A Caste from Hawaii    
To be Lost    
Beacon Hill Six    
April Waits    
The Gymast    
Bing Crosby's Hat    
They Fly Information    
Man the Lifeboats    
Phone Ringing    
Counterpane    
By Air or By Sea    
Pathenon    
Tracers    
Alone on Penguin Island - Desmond Simmons
Phone Ringing (rehearsal)
A Caste from Hawaii (Live) - The Amorphons
Man the Lifeboats (home demo) - Desmond Simmons
The Gymnast (Live) - Soft Option
Counterpane (Live)
To be Lost (Live) - Beacon Hill Six

Enjoy,
NØ

Jackie St. Doll

These gifts are wrapped with loving care specially for Stupiddle. 

 

Blog-friend Stupiddle asked for a gift of Couch Flambeau which I was unfortunately unable to give him. He was kind enough to accept my weak apology & make his second wish of some Jackie Leven. That I was happy to gift.

I came rather late to the Jackie Leven table. My dear friend & fellow blogger Ib Sibling turned me on to Doll by Doll & thence Jackie Leven. He also filled in the gaps here, so I name him officially Satan's little helper.

Jackie was born in 1950 into a Romany family & lived his childhood/teenage years in Fife, Scotland. His father was an Irish Cockney & his mother was from a large Northumberland (Geordie) family so Jackie was an outsider from the get-go. This seemed to give birth to an independence of mind. In his school day Jackie had few friends & the ones he had were considered 'oddball'. His attendance at school was spotty at best, but his truancy spent alone in glens, hills, & by the rivers of Scotland formed the basis for many of his songs' imagery.

In his late teens Jackie hit the road, leaving Fife & Scotland behind. The following years were filled with aimless wandering, sleeping outside, living hand to mouth, including a four months living on the streets of South Bank Centre, London, where he busked for a living.

During this period (late 60s - early 70s) he also lived in County Kerry, Ireland, as well as abroad in Berlin & Madrid. It was there that he released his first album Control under his stage name of John St Field (now considered a psychedelic underground classic).

Back in the UK & living on the street & squats, he met fellow musicians Joe Shaw, David MacIntosh, & Robin Spreafico. Together they formed Doll by Doll (1978 - 1982). They were a controversial live act at odds with the cartoon violence of punk, a sonic slap in the face, the house band from hell killing their guitars at the end of the world. This was head swirling psychedelic blues rock meeting psychotic poetry down a very dark alley. They made five albums: Gypsy - 1979; Remember - 1979; Doll by Doll -1981; Grand Passion - 1982; & Revenge of Memory - unreleased until 2003) before accepting the fact that they just weren't meant for those times &  went their separate ways.

After a late night recording session for a solo album due for release by Charisma/Virgin (1983) Jackie was the subject of an unprovoked street attack during which he was nearly murdered by strangulation. Unable to speak or sing, he lost his record deal, most of his friends, & his own way. He entered an intense period of psychic disorder, became addicted to heroin & living in isolation.

By1985 he had kicked heroin using traditional Chinese five-element acupuncture & psychic healing (his personal demons led him to co-found The CORE Trust...a holistic approach to addiction...the Trust still operates a center in London, working with people with all forms of addiction).

Shortly after kicking drugs, Jackie went to live in Oban on the west coast of Scotland. He spent the nights in bars with his country-folk & the days writing the songs that became the basis of his return to music. He released nearly forty albums before his untimely death in November 2011.

These tunes cover a bit of this heroic journey & I gift them to stupiddle with overwhelming gratitude to Ib. These songs present a timeless edge with vivid insights into the human condition, funny & scary & beautiful all at once.  Listen particularly to "Saint Judas" on Fairy Tales for Hard Men. Saint Judas was Jackie's first band from 1969. They recorded one album, When I Went Out To Kill Myself  (recorded during some BBC sessions in Newcastle) which was never released until 1998. The song "Saint Judas" tells the tale of that album & that time.

 

John St. Field - Control, Movieplay S-32 738, 1975.
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Side A -
Soft Lowland Tongue   
Ruins   
The Problem   
Dune Voices   

Side B -
Raerona   
I'm Always a Prinlaws Boy   
Mansion Tension   
Dog Star   
Sleeping In Bracken 

 

 

Doll by Doll - Remember, Automatic Record Co K 56618, 1979.

side one -
Butcher Boy
Chances
Sleeping Partners

side two -
More than Human
Lose Myself
Janice
The Palace of Love

 

 

 

Doll by Doll - Doll by Doll, Magnet MAGL5039, 1981.

Stereo 1 -
Figure It Out   
Caritas   
Soon New Life   
Main Travelled Roads   
Those In Peril   
I Never Saw The Movie   

Stereo 2 -
The Perfect Romance   
Fantastic Sensation   
The Street I Love   
Be My Friend   
Up   
A Bright Green Field

 

 

 

Doll by Doll - Caritas, Magnet 12", 12 MAG 195, 1981

Side A -
Caritas (long version)

Side B -
Murder on the Highway
An Honest Woman 

 

 

Jackie Leven - Fairy Tales for Hard Men, Cooking Vinyl Cook CD 115, 1997.

Boy Trapped in a Man
Desolation Blues
Extremely Violent Man
Old West African Song
Saint Judas
Poortoun
Fear of Women
The Walled Coves of Ravenscraig
Sad Polish Song
Sexual Danger
Jim O'Windygates
Mad as the Mist & Snow
Kirkconnell Flow
Listening to Crows Pray
Sir Patrick Spens
Sunflower 

 

 

 

Jackie Leven - Elegy for Johnny Cash, Cooking Vinyl COOKCD331, 2005.

Blue Soul Dark Road   
Museum of Childhood   
Elegy for Johnny Cash   
The Law of Tide
All the Rage
No Honour in This Love   
Vibration White Finger   
King of the Barley   
And You'll Never Hear Surf Music Again   
In Memory of My Mother
Gladly Go Blind
Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen 

 

 

As a special treat, here's a disc that in some parallel universe would have been a smash, four songs from the band Concrete Bulletproof Invisible, one of Glen Matlock's post-Pistols projects which included Glen on bass plus Jackie with former Doll by Doll band-mates Joe Shaw on guitar & David Macintosh on drums with additional help from James Hallawell on keyboards & Mike Spencer on harp. These are great songs with all the punch of Matlock's best power-punk swagger combined with Jackie's powerful voice. "Love Kills" was recorded for the film Sid & Nancy although the track was not used in the film. 

 

 

Concrete Bulletproof Invisible - Big Tears 12",  Restless Records 7 72331-1, 1988.

Side One -
Big Tears
Love Kills

Side Two -
Braid on My Shoulder
Good Thing

Enjoy,
NØ

Just Beating the Clock

 

Capt. Clark 23 slid in a last minute request. In his request he stated that this was something he could neither afford nor find. I can't think of a better reason to add him to the pile of gifts. This has been specially wrapped for the Captain... 

Clock DVA is an industrial post-punk group from Sheffield, England, one of the first groups to arise during the formation of the Sheffield Electronic Scene. Adolphus 'Adi' Newton formed the first lineup of Clock DVA in 1978, after his departure from The Future (whose other members went on to form The Human League & Heaven 17) with Steven 'Judd' Turner -bass, David J. Hammond - guitar, Roger Quail - drums, & Charlie Collins - saxophone, clarinet. The name Clock DVA (as well as Heaven 17) was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange...Dva is the Russian word for two. 

 

Originally focusing on experimental music inspired by science fiction & the occult, then evolving toward a more industrial/electronic body music sound. In their early days, they released a handful of privately produced cassettes, most of which have since been collected in the Horology boxed sets of lps from the German label Vinyl-On-Demand. 

 

Clock DVA - Horology 3:Tape, Reel-Recordings 1979-80,Vinyl-on-Demand VOD154, 2019.
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Vol. 1 -
PTI (Through Latex Mirrors)
Theatre of Eroticism 2
Reversal of Light
TSO(Throbbing Sweeping Obscene)
Time Loops (The Texture of Two Tape Recordings Genitals & Genosis)
Butcher Bacon Window Pain
Fragment 3 Through Later Mirrors PTI Soundtrack
Mass
Resonator
Chronons

Vol. 2 -
Tape Treatment
The Time Come
The Transfiguration of Memory by Liquid Pain
Installation Section 1 (Genitals & Genosis: The Texture of Two Tape Recordings)
Fragment 1 Through Latex Mirrors PTI Soundtrack
Fragment 2 Through Latex Mirrors PTI Soundtrack
Oedipus
The Girl
Room
The Theatre of Erotism (extract)
Post Future Theme 1
1.51
Ocean

Vol. 3 -
Windscale
Film of Our Death
Synchromesh
Plastic
Sex Textures
Lomticks of Time
Post Future Theme 2
Susan's Party
Somnambulist
Tape Treatment 2
Mass 2
Mechanism
Live Intro Chainsaw Massacre Treated Excerpt

Vol. 4 -
2.28
Pretty Strangely Girl
Primal Synthesis
I Am David the One
Post Future Theme 3
Film of Our Death V2
Clockwork People V2
Chronons Pt 2
Lomticks of Time Instrumental
Throbbing Sweeping Obscene End Sequence
Oedipus
Post Future Theme 4
The Time Come Instrumental
1958

Enjoy,
NØ

Wrapping up Some Rabid Fish for the Holidaze

These gifts wrapped specially for my dear friend Jonder. I hope all your fish are mad. 

 

Pescado Rabioso was one of many short-lived bands helmed by singer-songwriter Luis Spinetta, who many consider to be the godfather of Argentine rock. He rose to fame in the late Sixties as frontman of Almendra, an experimental band that dared to rock under the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía. Spinetta would continue writing & performing audacious guitar songs until he died of lung cancer in 2012. 

 

Pescado Rabioso was: Luis Alberto Spinetta - guitar & vocals; Osvaldo 'Bocón' Frascino - bass & vocals): &  Black Amaya - drums. In 1972 Carlos Cutaia joined the group as a keyboardist while David Lebón replaced Bocón for the recording of their first album Desatormentándonos.

Their second album Pescado II was released in 1973. Due to production problems with the record company, the band called it quits. However, that same year Artaud came out. It is really a Spinetta solo album but is credited to Pescado Rabioso. 

 

 

Pescado Rabioso - Desatormentándonos, Microfon 2-493911, 2003
all decryption codes in comments

Blues de Cris
El Jardinero (Temprano Amaneció)
Dulce 3 Nocturno
Algo Flota en la Laguna
Serpiente (Viaja por la Sal) 

 

 

Pescado Rabioso - Pescado 2, Sony S.A. 2-478895, 1996.

Panadero Ensoñado
Iniciado del Alba
Poseido del Alba
Como el Viento Voy a Ver
Viajero Naciendo
Hola Dulce Viento
Nena Boba
Rock de la Selva Madre
Amame Peteribí
16'' de Peteribí
Señorita Zapada
Credulidad
¡Hola, Pequeño Ser!
Mi Espiritu se Fue
Sombra de la Noche Negra
La Cereza del Zar
Corto
Aguas Claras de Olimpos 

 

 

Pescado Rabioso - Artuad, Microfon C-61, 1992.

Todas las Hojas Son del Viento
Cementerio Club
Por    
Superchería
La Sed Verdadera
Cantata de Puentes Amarillos    
Bajan
A Starosta, el Idiota
Las Habladurías del Mundo


Enjoy,
NØ

It’s da Bomb

Because I haven't done much Dub since September, I decided that this was my first stop. 

 

This gift specially wrapped for Carlo.

Wicked dub albums from Lee Perry at The Black Ark studio originally released in 1983 but recorded around 1977-79.  Featuring heavyweight dubs of tunes by Jolly Brothers, Leroy Sibbles, Earl Sixteen, & Mikey Dread. 

 

Lee Perry - Megaton Dub 1, Seven Leaves Records SLCD 2, 2001.
decryption codes in comments

Dem No Know Dub
Conscious Man Dub
Such is Dub
Corn Picker Dub
Rasta Dub
Freedom Dub
Megaton Dub
Dreader Dub
School Girl Dub 

 

 

Lee Perry - Megaton Dub 2, Seven Leaves Records SLCD10,1992.

        
Traveling in Dub
Fisherman Dub
Zion in Dub
Groovy Dub
Groovy Situation (vocal)        
Dub Crisis
Green Bay Killing
Big Neck Dub
Living in Dub

Enjoy,
NØ