5AD: The Rest of Request

Fellow blogger Mooz requested Various - Shaving the Pavement

This is one I didn't have. 

I reached out to friends & thanks to Reb Jukebox & Cosmas, here it is in glorious FLAC. This was a compilation of 4AD artists. The cassette was given out at the "Shaving the Pavement" tour, spring 1996. 

 

Various - Shaving the Pavement cassette, 4AD PRO_C8096, 1996.
all decryption codes in comments

Side A -
Ladykillers
Tinkerbell - Lush
Where is the Love
Mercy (KCRW acoustic) - Mojave 3
Screaming
You Said (Electric version) _ Scheer

Side B -
Team Player - Liquorice
Small Heads - Lisa Germano
The Devil _ Heidi Berry
ESP Summer _ His Name is Alive
Halfway to Madness - Tarnation
Pacer - The Amps

 

 

 

 

Not a request but a suggestion from DownUnderground. Great fellow blogger that deserves these next three... 

 

Lush - Spooky, 4AD cad2002cd, 1992.

Stray   
Nothing Natural   
Tiny Smiles   
Covert   
Ocean   
For Love   
Superblast!   
Untogether   
Fantasy   
Take   
Laura   
Monochrome

 

 

 

 

Lush - Ladykillers CD1, 4AD BAD6002CD, 1996.

Ladykillers
Matador
Ex
Dear Me (Miki's 8-track home demo)

 

 

 

 

Lush - Ladykillers CD2, 4AD BADD6002CD, 1996.

Ladykillers
Heavenly
Carmen
Plums & Oranges

 

 

 

 

 

Longtime Frenz of NSS Five Guns West requested Throwing Muses - The Fat Skier.

For this vinyl, A side is 33rpms while B side is 45 rpms. Also, the version of "Soul Soldier" here is a different version from the one on their self-titled release.

Here's my best shot...

 

 

Throwing Muses - The Fat Skier mini-album, 4AD MAD706, 1987.

a -
Garoux des Larmes   
Pools in Eyes   
A Feeling   
Soap & Water   
And a She-Wolf after the War   
You Cage   

b -
Soul Soldier

 

 

 

 

 

Last one, made it just under the wire. Brian requested some 4AD Wolfgang Press which can be found here & here or one somewhere in this mess. But here's the Xymox - Blind Hearts 12" request.

 

 

 

Xymox - Blind Hearts 12", 4AD BAD711, 1987.

Side A-
Blind Hearts
A Million Things

Side B -
Scum (Dance mix)

 

 

 

 

 

Oops!

Jonder dropped his request after-hours, but because he's a personal friend of mine, I'm going to make this exception...

 

 

His Name is Alive - Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth, 4AD CAD2101CD, 2001.

Nothing Special   
Interlude   
Happy Blues
Solitude
Write My Name in the Groove   
Your Cheating Heart   
Our Last Affair   
One Year   
Interlude   
Karins Blues   
Are We Still Married   
Some Day My Blues Will Cover the Earth   
Last Time

bonus track -
Some Day My Blues Will Cover the Earth (Ectomorph Electro Storm mix)

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

5AD: Visitor Requests

These are the requests I have received for additional 4AD releases.

The first requests are from Frenz of NSS Marky D. He asked for some Gang Gang Dance & U.S. Girls. These are the ones I have to share... 

 

Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact, 4AD CAD 3107CD, 2011.
all decryption codes in comments

Glass Jar
∞
Adult Goth
Chinese High
MindKilla   
∞ ∞   
Romance Layers (vocals by Alexis Taylor)
Sacer   
∞ ∞ ∞   
Thru & Thru

bonus track -
Mindkilla (Lee Scratch Perry remix)

 

 

 

 

Gang Gang Dance - Kazuashita, 4AD 0079CD, 2018.

( infirma terrae )   
J-TREE
Lotus
( birth canal )
Kazuashita
Young Boy (Marika in Amerika)   
Snake Dub   
Too Much, Too Soon   
( novae terrae )
Salve on the Sorrow 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Girls - Half Free, 4AD CAD3520CD, 2015.

Sororal Feelings
Damn that Valley
Telephone Play No.1
Window Shades
New Age Thriller
Sed Knife
Red Comes in Many Shades
Navy & Cream
Woman's Work

 

 

 

 

U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited, 4AD 00046CD, 2018.

Velvet 4 Sale   
Rage of Plastics   
M.A.H.   
Why Do I Lose My Voice when I Have Something to Say?   
Rosebud
Incidental Boogie   
L-Over   
Pearly Gates   
Poem   
Traviata   
Time

 

 

 

 

U.S. Girls - Heavy Light, 4AD 0208CD, 2020.

4 American Dollars
Overtime
IOU
Advice to Teenage Self   
State House (It’s a Man’s World)
Born to Lose
And Yet it Moves / Y se Mueve
The Most Hurtful Thing
Denise, Don’t Wait
Woodstock ‘99
The Color of Your Childhood Bedroom
The Quiver to the Bomb
Red Ford Radio

 

 

 

 

U.S. Girls - Bless this Mess, 4AD 0506CD, 2023.

Only Daedalus
Just Space for Light
Screen Face
Futures Bet
So Typically Now
Bless this Mess
Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)
R.I.P. Roy G. Biv
St. James Way
Pump
Outro

 

 

 

Next, Frenz of NSS FlaccusMUC requested B. C. Gilbert, G. Lewis – 8 Time. It is basically the 1988 reissue of the Cupol single, the 3R4 EP, & two additional songs. Here goes... 

B.C. Gilbert, G. Lewis - 8 Time, 4AD CAD16CD, 1988.

Like This for Ages   
Kluba Cupol - Cupol   
Barge Calm
3.4...   
Barge Calm II   
R   
Ends with the Sea
Hung Up to Dry Whilst Building an Arch 

 

 

Request pt. 2 tomorrow

Enjoy,
NØ

Totally

        Thanks to everyone who commented on the last post.   Back in Bumfuck again. Just a little update before I get back to 4AD. 

 

Here's a picture of The Eclipse Party Wagon. Borrowed from a Mennonite Shyster from Altoona. 

 

29 foot, sleeps five, full shower & bathroom, stove & microwave, all the comforts of home away from home. We partied down.

Sunday was a beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky. Woke up Monday to total overcast & rain clouds brewing. Started raining about 10:30am. By 1:00pm we were getting a bit apprehensive, so we whipped up a Crowleyan Sun chant, chanted & did a Sun Dance. Figured if primitive peoples could do weather magic, so could we. About 1:30 the clouds started breaking up & by the beginning of the eclipse process shortly after 2:00pm, it was nearly clear sky. Had eclipse glasses & I had bought a sheet of lens material & made lenses for our binoculars, so we had a perfect view of the proceedings. There was a bit of high altitude haze so the contrast of light & dark wasn't 100%, so no Ripple Effect unfortuneately. But at total eclipse we threw off the glasses & watched the ring & beads & solar flares with unshuttered eyes. It was an incredible, once in a lifetime event for me.

I thought instantly of primitive humans observing this event & understood the unexplanable awe it must have instilled. With all the knowledge I had, it still was overwhelmingly powerful. The temperature dropped twenty degrees in minutes & was very freaky.

So glad I got to experience the whole thing once before I slip off this mortal coil. 

& with that segue, back to 4AD in a few.

Enjoy,
NØ

See You in a Few

 

Just a brief note. 

I'm heading up to the Path of Totality on Lake Erie. Be back sometime after the Total E. I'll finish up with 4AD when I get back. That gives everyone a few extra days if you've got any 4AD request. I'll try to sum things up then & then trudge onward.

For now, I'll leave you with this, from Sailor Song by Ken Kesey...
     "Greer was right about the weird silence. The gulls were silent. The wind. It's like the silence that preceded an eclipse of the sun. He and Jeannie drove to Mexico to watch the last total eclipse of the twentieth century...everybody pulled over to the side of the road, drinking and jiving, watching the sun across the sagebrush being eaten away like a big cookie...Then just before it goes total a thing happens. It's called the Ripple Effect. Sheets of grey light suddenly come fluttering across the ground toward you, like butterfly wings going a thousand miles an hour. Waves of cold grey flame. Even when you have prepared yourself by reading about the Ripple Effect, and halfway understand that it's caused by Einstein's bending of the sun's rays around the moon so they synch up on the earth with other yet unbent rays - Gravity's Rainbow - you still are not prepared for the Effect's impact. Nobody is prepared. No thing. For miles around every entity sucks in its breath and goes dead quiet. Singers, drinkers, birds, donkeys, dogs; the cells in the flesh and probably the charged particles in the cells. Dead quiet. An awe beyond theories and explanations."

I want to experience that...

See you on the darkside of the sun,
NØ

4AD: The Rest of 4

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas, 4AD Cad0012cd, 1990.
all decryption codes in comments

Cherry-coloured Funk    
Pitch the Baby    
Iceblink Luck    
Fifty-Fifty Clown    
Heaven or Las Vegas    
I Wear Your Ring    
Fotzepolitic    
Wolf in the Breast    
Road, River, & Rail    
Frou-frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires

 

 

 

 

Red House Painters - Self-titled (Rollercoaster), 4AD dad3008cd, 1993.

Grace Cathedral Park    
Down Through    
Katy Song    
Mistress    
Things Mean a Lot    
Funhouse    
Take Me Out    
Rollercoaster    
New Jersey    
Dragonflies    
Mistress (piano version)    
Mother    
Strawberry Hill    
Brown Eyes

 

 

 

 

The Breeders - Last Splash, 4AD CAD3014CD, 1993.

New Year    
Cannonball    
Invisible Man
No Aloha    
Roi
Do You Love Me Now?    
Flipside    
I Just Wanna Get Along
Mad Lucas    
Divine Hammer
S.O.S.    
Hag    
Saints    
Drivin' on 9
Roi (reprise)

 

 

 

Lush - Split, 4AD CAD4011CD, 1994.

Light from a Dead Star
Kiss Chase    
Blackout    
Hypocrite    
Lovelife    
Desire Lines
Invisible Man    
Undertow    
Never-Never
Lit Up    
Starlust    
When I Die

 

 

 

 

Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl, 4AD CAD4017CD, 1994.

My Secret Reason    
Trouble    
Geek the Girl
Just Geek
Cry Wolf
...A Psychopath    
Sexy Little Girl Princess
Phantom Love    
Cancer of Everything
A Guy like You    
...Of Love & Colors    
Stars

 

 

 

 

Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow, 4AD CAD5013CD, 1995.

Love Songs on the Radio    
Sarah    
Tomorrow's Taken    
Candle Song 3
You're Beautiful    
Where is the Love    
After All
Pictures    
Mercy 

 

 

 

 

note: Because of the depth of the 4AD label & the length of time they have been around, I would like readers to chime in with any request they might have for anything I have not shared. If I have it I will share it in a final 4AD Requests post (but ya better be quick now because I’ve got to get it ready by tomorrow).

Enjoy,
NØ

4AD: The Best of 4

Ivo Watts-Russell moved to Los Angeles in the mid 90s resulting in the label being largely run from California for the rest of that decade. Ivo sold 4AD in the late 90s to give himself time to further his interests in book publishing. Since then his involvement in 4AD has mostly been on a consultancy level, for catalogue releases. Ivo currently lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico with his dogs.

Here are some of my picks from 4AD up until the exit of Ivo. Let’s start with one he's in...

 

This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears, 4AD CAD411, 1984.
all decryption codes in comments

SIDE ONE -    
Kangaroo
Song to the Siren
Holocaust
Fyt
Fond Affections
The Last Ray

SIDE TWO -
Another Day
Waves Become Wings
Barramundi
Dreams Made Flesh
Not Me
A Single Wish

 

 

 

 

Cocteau Twins - Treasure, 4AD CAD412, 1984.

SIDE ONE -
Ivo    
Lorelei
Beatrix    
Persephone    
Pandora (for Cindy)

    
SIDE TWO -
Amelia    
Aloysius    
Cicely    
Otterley    
Donimo

 

 

 

 

 

Dead Can Dance - Spleen & Ideal, 4AD CAD512, 1985.

this side -
De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)
Ascension    
Circumradiant Dawn    
The Cardinal Sin
 

over -
Mesmerism    
Enigma of the Absolute    
Advent    
Avatar    
Indoctrination (A Design for Living)

 

 

 

 

 

This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow, 4AD DAD609CD, 1986.

Velvet Belly
The Jeweller
Ivy & Neet
Meniscus
Tears
Tarantula
My Father
Come Here My Love
At First, & Then
Strength of Strings
Morning Glory
Inch-Blue
I Want to Live
Mama K (1)
Filigree & Shadow
Firebrothers
Thaïs (1)
I Must Have Been Blind
A Heart of Glass
Alone
Mama K (2)
The Horizon Bleeds & Sucks its Thumb
Drugs
Red Rain
Thaïs (2)

 

 

 

 

 

Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun, 4AD CAD705, 1987.

Side A -        
Anywhere Out of the World    
Windfall    
In the Wake of Adversity    
Xavier

    
Side B -
Dawn of the Iconoclast    
Cantara    
Summoning of the Muse    
Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers)

 

 

 

 

 

Pixies - Surfer Rosa, 4AD CAD803, 1988.

Side One -
Bone Machine    
Break My Body    
Something Against You    
Broken Face    
Gigantic    
River Euphrates

Side Two -
Where is My Mind?    
Cactus    
Tony's Theme    
Oh My Golly!    
Vamos    
I'm Amazed    
Brick is Red

 

 

 

 

 

Pale Saints - The Comfort of Madness, 4AD cad0002cd, 1990.

Way the World Is    
You Tear the World in Two    
Sea of Sound    
True Coming Dream    
Little Hammer    
Insubstantial    
A Deep Sleep for Steven    
Language of Flowers    
Fell from the Sun
Sight of You    
Time Thief

 

 

 

 

 

note: Because of the depth of the 4AD label & the length of time they have been around, I would like readers to chime in with any request they might have for anything I have not shared. If I have it I will share it in a final 4AD Requests post.

Enjoy,
NØ

Public Service Announcement

That loving smile, smiling down on us from the other side now. 

 

R.I.P. Keith LeBlanc

 

Go here for some KLB tastes.

 

Rapper's Delight & upward,
NØ

3AD: 23 Envelope pt. 2

The Breeders - POD, 4AD CAD0006CD, 1990.
all decryption codes in comments

Glorious
Doe
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Oh!
Hellbound
When I was a Painter
Fortunately Gone
Iris
Opened
Only in 3‘s
Lime House
Metal Man

 

 

 

 

 

Swallow - Blow, 4AD CAD2010CD, 1992.

Lovesleep
Taste like Honey
Sugar Your Mind
Mensurral
Peekaboo
Lacuna
Oceans & Blue Skies
Follow Me Down
Halo
Cherry Stars Collide
Head in a Cave

 

 

 

 

 

Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill, 4AD CAD2014CD, 1992.

24
Medicine Bottle
Down Colorful Hill
Japanese to English
Lord Kill the Pain
Michael

 

 

 

 

 

Liquorice - Listening Cap, 4AD CAD5008CD, 1995.

Trump Suit
Team Player
Keeping the Weekend Free
Drive Around
Cheap Cuts
Trump Suit Edit
Jill of All Trades
No Excuses
Breaking the Ice
Blew It

 

 

 

 

 

His Name is Alive - Stars on E.S.P., 4AD CAD6010CD, 1996.

Dub Love Letter
This World is Not My Home
Bad Luck Girl
What are You Wearing Tomorrow
The Bees
What Else is New List
Wall of Speed
Universal Frequencies
The Sand that Holds the Lake in Place
I Can’t Live in This World Anymore
Answer to Rainbow at Midnight
Famous Goodbye King
Across the Street
Movie
Last One

note: Because of the depth of the 4AD label & the length of time they have been around, I would like readers to chime in with any request they might have for anything I have not shared. If I have it I will share it in a final 4AD Requests post.

Enjoy,
NØ

3AD: Vaughan Oliver's Favorite Cover Art

One of the unique features of the 4AD catalogue was the beautiful cover artwork on their releases. If the 4AD sound was instantlt recognisable, so was the cover art of their line of output. 

 

Many of the best covers were the works of 23 Envelope. This is the name given to the partnership between graphic designer Vaughan Oliver (v23) & photographer/filmmaker Nigel Grierson from 1983-1988 although Vaughan contributed artwork much later. They artistically created a distinct visual identity for the label 4AD through their record sleeve designs for bands on the 4AD roster. 

 

In an article, Vaughan named these as some of his favorites...

 

Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox, 4AD CAD503, 1985
all decryption codes in comments

Tracklist Side -
A Day
No Words
Stumble & Fall
Cry in the Wind

Info Side -
Stranger
Equal Ways
7th Time
No Human Can Drown

 

 

 

 

Colourbox - Colourbox, 4AD CAD508, 1985.

Side 1 -
Sleepwalker
Just Give ‘em Whiskey
Say You
The Moon is Blue
Inside Informer

Side 2 -
Punch
Suspicion
Manic
You Keep Me Hanging On
Arena

 

 

 

 

Various - Lonely is an Eyesore, 4AD CAD703, 1987.

Side A -
Hot Doggie - Colourbox
Acid, Bitter, & Sad - This Mortal Coil
Cut the Tree - The Wolfgang Press
Fish - Throwing Muses
Frontier - Dead Can Dance

Side B -
Crushed - Cocteau Twins
No Motion - Dif Juz
Muscoviet Mosquito - Clan of Xymox
The Protagonist - Dead Can Dance

 

 

 

 

Throwing Muses - House Tornado, 4AD CAD802, 1988.

side one -
Colder
Mexican Women
River
Juno
Marriage Tree
Run Letter

side two -
Saving Grace
Drive
Downtown
Giant
Walking in the Dark

 

 

 

 

Ultra Vivid Scene - Ultra Vivid Scene, 4AD CAD809, 1988.

side one -
She Screamed
Crash
You Didn’t Say Please
Lynn-Marie #2
Nausea
Mercy Seat
A Dream of Love

side two -
Lynn-Marie #1
This isn’t Real
The Whore of God
Bloodline
A Kiss & a Slap
How Did it Feel
Hail Mary

 

 

 

 

Pixies - Doolittle, 4AD CAD905, 1989.

Monkey Side -
Debaser
Tame
Wave of Mutilation
I Bleed
Here Comes Your Man
Dead
Monkey Gone to Heaven

Other Side -
Mr. Grieves
Crackity Jones
La La Love You
Number 13 Baby
There Goes My Gun
Hey
Silver
Gouge Away

note: Because of the depth of the 4AD label & the length of time they have been around, I would like readers to chime in with any request they might have for anything I have not shared. If I have it I will share it in a final 4AD Requests post. 

 

Next up: 3AD part 2

Enjoy,
NØ