Friday, January 4, 2008

Some Goodies to start the New Year ...

First of all, dear folks: a very happy 2008 to all of you! Stay healthy, that's the main thing, I would think.
As usual I would like to draw your attention to the last three episodes of the mighty Contrast Podcast: Tim managed to convince his listeners to make up a Festive Fifty of their favourite songs from last year. I know that a quite a lot of such lists are currently being blogged, but I promise you that this particular one is a real treat throughout. Not only the musical choices are excellent, the same is true for all of the intros.


As you might imagine I spent a lot of time listening to rather moody Christmas tunes in the last few weeks, nothing wrong with that I would say. But now is the time for a little more straight and uptempo stuff, so here are a few tunes I always liked quite a lot. They have nothing much in common apart from the fact that I think they're rather awesome and not frequently heard elsewhere. So there is a little chance that you might not know them and will like them as much as I do. If this should turn out to be the case, leave a comment: I would be more than pleased ...


1.: The Rezillos - 'Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite' (mp3). From the classic 1978 album 'Can't Stand The Rezillos' on Sire Records. Try Amazon, for example ... at least for the CD version.

2.: The Damned - 'Jet Boy, Jet Girl' (mp3). From 'Another Great Records From The Damned', an early compilation on S.P.I. from Italy. Deleted, of course. The sleeve says it was recorded by Captain Sensible and The Softies and I think the recording was done in 1982. You will of course all know the original by Plastic Bertrand, but this version is comparably good ....



3.: The Untouchables - 'City Gent' (mp3). From their 1985 'Wild Child' album on Stiff Records. Hmmm ... ebay, perhaps?



4.: The Nomads - '16 Forever' (mp3). A band from Sweden and recorded in 1987 ... when coming from Sweden or any other Scandinavian country wasn't 'hype' .... Taken from the 12" on Amigo Musik. Deleted. Originally done by The Dictators back in 1978, of course ...



5.: The Beasts Of Bourbon - 'The Hate Inside' (mp3). From their LP 'Sour Mash' on Red Eye Records. The Beasts come from Australia, this one is from 1988. You wouldn't detect it from the song, but they are a very nice bunch of people indeed: a friend of mine used to manage them when they were in Europe in the early 90's and I did some gigs together with them then .... the record is deleted as well.

That's it for today, my beauties ... enjoy, have fun and sing along if you want to. Buy the records if you find them and leave a comment should you need more info from me in order to do so. Also leave a comment if this is not the case ...

Take good care,

Dirk

2 comments:

lucy said...

i love jet boy, jet girl and the rezillos! this post is keen.

i'm also digging hearing another girl, another planet while reading your blog.

nice to meet you.

lucy.

Anonymous said...

goodies indeed, a great selection of tracks on this post and little gems 2; could i ask youno BEG, to reactivate these links as i would love to hear again the first 3 in paticular on this posting, and also the standells - dirty snarling 60s rnb at its best, and splodgenessabounds - have to agree the b side is by far the better track
many thanks, matt