"45 45's until I'm 45" (#15/45)

Good morning y'all,

another one today I heard on Peel when I was much younger and still pretty as a picture and another one I immediately fell in love with and thus had to get me hands on. Which I managed to do, luckily enough.

Then again also it's one I cannot tell you anything at all about, but I found a little piece on the internet which describes today's choice perfectly well, I would think. Copyright by Spin Magazine. Sue me if you want to:

"John Wayne had a horse to kiss, but Terry Bradford has a lover neither Wayne nor his horse could beat. Over brashly strummed acoustic guitar that starts at barely a crawl but picks up to polka pace, Bradford, vocalist with the band July 14th tells about his lover in intimate detail. He met her in an old pawnshop, wrapped her and took her home, caressed her when he was alone and took her out on Saturday nights. With a soft sane voice punctuated by gnarly electric guitar twangs borrowed from a boogiefried American South, the story of 'me And My Gun', unfolds."

Wise words indeed. Here's your number fifteen, friends:

July 14th - 'Me And My Gun' (mp3)

Greasy Pop Records - GPR 110 (1984)

 

 

See you soon, all the best/take good care,

 

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#14/45)

Gooooood morning,

a R.E.A.L. corker today, I'm sure you'll agree: nevertheless a very hard choice for me ... and that's for sure! Those few of you who read Sexyloser not only occasionally will know that The Clash have always been my number one band, and this is rather unlikely to change until I drop down dead. Which, understandably, makes it rather difficult for me not to fill the entire 45 45's - rundown with every single they ever released. Then again, to my great dismay, I don't own all of them (yet) anyway, so I had to limit myself to what I regard as being one of their finest moments.

Here's your number fourteen, friends, so please enjoy:

The Clash - 'Pressure Drop' (mp3)

CBS - S CBS 7082 (1978)

Now, really clever folk amongst you youngsters may already have realised that the song I chose is in fact the B-Side to the above single, 'English Civil War'. Itself being a tune fine enough to play here as well, no question about that, but today I prefer the B-Side. Albeit it isn't a Clash - original, but a song which Toots Hibbert and the Maytals recorded back in 1969 in sunny Jamaica, but nothing wrong with that either.

I know that a lot of you will disagree with today's choice and would have suggested another one by the band, but, as I said: I don't have 'em all in my collection, well, not as 45's, that is. Then again: which one would you have chosen instead, ey?!

There's one more Clash - single to crop up in this series, so watch out and pay further attention!

Have fun,

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#13/45)

Good morning altogether,

a very quick/short one today as I write these things while being at work and today there's quite a lot of shit on my desk to my great dismay.

Again a standout single from an album which critically wasn't all that well acclaimed, if memory serves correctly. Then again it was the band's third longplayer, which isn't an easy task anyway. So, without further ado, here's your number thirteen, people. Enjoy.

Dinosaur Jr. - 'Freak Scene' (mp3)

Normal Records - NORMAL 89 (1988)

From the LP 'Bug' (and yes, I know, it's Dinosaur Jr's second LP, but what you young people don't know is that the band traded as 'Dinosaur' before and released their debut LP under that name).

A different source read as thus, wise words indeed: "There are no bad Dinosaur albums, but 'Bug' is Mascis's least-favourite, intra-band arguments souring the sessions. Recorded mostly by Mascis on his own, 'Bug' was less ambitious than what came before, coining a blueprint indie rock would proceed to ape to death. The brilliantly anthemic 'Freak Scene' aside, this is a sturdy record, just lacking the spark of its brethren."

Take good care,

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#12/45)

Good morning friends,

hey, a big shout out to all the civil servants out there – how many tracks are based on civil service selection procedures? “Not enough”, I hear you bay!

But not to worry, Sexyloser will change this immediately for you of course with today's choice in the '45 45's' - series, your number twelve and - again - a record I will never get tired of listening to with great pleasure. Enjoy:

The Eggs - 'The Government Administrator' (mp3)

Hemiola Records - HEMIOLA 3 (1993)

I remember very well how complicated it was to get hold of this record back in 1993. Today you'd press a few buttons in the www and it'd be on your doorstep two days later, but 20 years ago it was somewhat slightly more complicated:

As many other records featured here, I also first heard this one on John Peel's Music on BFBS and was awestruck by its brilliance. So the next day I contacted both of the (only reliable) indie record shops in Aachen (which is the next town in accessible distance), in a "I NEED that record!" sort-of-way, but they couldn't help me. So I phoned up Peel (who I had met on a few occasions before when I was in England) in order to get hold of the label's postal adress in the States. He kindly gave it to me. Wrote a letter to Hemiola Records saying 'please give information about your European distribution channel'. But instead of an overall reply, guess what they send back? The record itself, for free, accompanied by a very nice letter from the band, saying how much they appreciated my efforts, perhaps I could send back "something cool in return" ....

And so I did, I send back a bottle of Els, which is a local Schnaps made of herbs and if you're not used to it, too much of it won't do you no good and that's for sure. The old people in the rural area where it comes from claim that it cures the stomach and your guts and that it helps you becoming as old as stone when enjoying it on a daily basis. The truth of the matter with this brew is, to be frank to you, it by and large also worsens your athlete's foot because it tastes like hell!!

Then, many many years later, by coincidence, I stumbled over Andrew Beaujon's (who was the singer with The Eggs) blog and outed myself as being the one who sent them the aforementioned bottle of booze. And, believe it or not, all those years later, he still remembered about the Els very well. Also about the headache after having enjoyed it .... great!

Enjoy the record, friends!

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#11/45)

Hello folks,

a bit of a copy/paste - job, this, I must admit. But then again there isn't pretty much to say about today's 7", perhaps apart from the fact that A) we don't have enough Ska here on Sexyloser anyway and B) it is an outstanding record indeed. Then again all of the ones in this rundown before have been outstandingly good, right?

This was the second single of the "More Specials" album. Released at the end of 1980 it reached a healthy No. 4 in the UK charts. It was a slightly different version than that which appeared on the album and contained what was listed as "The Ice Rink String Sounds".

Please enjoy your number eleven, friends:

The Specials - 'Do Nothing' (mp3)

Two-Tone Records - CHS TT 16 (1980)

To promote it the band made a Top Of The Pops appearance dressed in tartan trousers and very naff Christmas pullovers. As bad as this may seem it wasn't as bad as one of Jerry Dammers first suggestions which was that the band wear balaclavas. The Beat were also scheduled to appear on the same episode of Top Of The Pops to promote their Too Nice Too Talk To single and if you watch the video footage of this episode you can clearly see that bass players from each band have swapped places, with Horace joining The Beat and David Steele taking up bass for The Specials.

And just to keep the 2 Tone tradition of covers alive it was backed by a version Bob Dylan's 'Maggies Farm' which was more than a passing jibe at then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

Have fun and please let me know whether this met with your approval,

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#10/45)

Morning my lovelies,

some big names today for you in my little chart, really big ones and thus something you wouldn't normally expect to find here on Sexyloser .... which is commonly known as a place for the lesser known bands of our time, or, if you'd rather, stuff no-one cares for but me.

Also today's choice comes from an era which by and large is not my cup of tea really: the early seventies. Something I always connect with clapped out old hippies playing endlessly long and boring guitar solos. Not on this occasion, friends, and that's for sure!

I must admit I don't know pretty much about Faces' back catalogue, the truth of the matter might well be that below single is the only one I know. Nevertheless it is an outstanding record and I can only urge you to give it a listen, so please enjoy your number ten, folks:

Faces - 'Pool Hall Richard' (mp3)

Warner Bros. Records - K 16341 (1973) 

As far as the "big names" are concerned, the Faces' line-up was as follows:

Kenney Jones (dr), Ronnie Lane (b/ voc), Ian McLagan (kb), Rod Stewart (voc) and Ron Wood (git/voc) ... I think we all know that Rod Stewart became a megastar, but what you youngsters might not know is that:

- Jones joined The Who after the death of Keith Moon,
- Wood joined the Rolling Stones as a full member,
- Lane later worked together with Pete Townshend of The Who,
- McLagan joined the Rolling Stones as some kind of sideman.

If you read this whilst being in your twenties: both The Who and The Stones used to be very big back then, so there you are ....

A real corker, friends, and I do hope you played that one really loud!!

See you,

Dirk


Edit 15.08.14: mp3 file removed due to a DMCA complaint.

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#09/45)

Hello Sweethearts,

another fine one today in my little chart, I'm sure you'll agree after having had a listen!

Should you be wondering what this might all be about: I'm trying to post forty-five 7" singles out of my collection until my 45th birthday, which is in June. In no particular ranking, although my personal highlights will by and large crop up towards the end of the series. Also I only feature records which I physically own meself, means surely better ones have been released and would have been included, but, alas, I don't own them.

There ain't pretty much I can tell you about today's combo apart from the fact that A - they were Peel favourites back in their days and B - the song is extraordinarily brilliant, in my opinion the outstanding one on a 3-track - 7" EP. And again it's from 1979 which proves how good this year was for music.

This is your number nine, people:

The Glass Torpedoes - 'Morning, Noon And Night' (mp3)

from the 'Someone Different' - 7", Teen Beat Records - TBR 1 (1979)

Should you at all be interested, I found a little bit of additional information on The Glass Torpedoes on the net and of course I didn't hesitate to shamelessly copy and paste here for your satisfaction. This dates May 1982:

"Formed in October 1978 they released a single on Rough Trade in June 79. This got to number five in the alternative charts and was played on the radio a few times. A line up change followed the single, the bass player leaving the band to form a band in which he now sings – China Crisis. The Glass Torpedoes went on to do a John Peel session in January 1980 and the following October went on tour with Gary Glitter.

The history of the Glass Torpedoes is certainly one that is full of problems. Every time things have looked up something has gone wrong. The demo for the single ‘Something Different’ was well received but the master and resulting single suffered from bad mixing and sound quality. Men in black coats from record companies came to see them play at the Masonic to confirm a recording deal, but the Torpedoes had lost their singer three days previously. The replacement forgot the lyrics and they heard no more from the record company! The tales of woe go on − most last year was spent waiting in vain for promises of tours and record deals to be fulfilled. At the end of 81 the Glass Torpedoes thought they had come to the end of the road as a band. Their hopes seemed more distant than ever and inspiration was low.

By the end of 1981 the Glass Torpedoes line-up included Mark Coleridge (drums) as the only remaining original member, Paul Reason (guitars), from the formation that recorded the Peel Sessions and went on tour with Gary Glitter and John Milton, and new members Kate Gill (vocals) and Bernie Carroll (bass). The recorded their third and last single at the end of 1981 (then re-released in 1983), featuring as the a-side a re-recorded version of a number already performed during the Peel session of the previous year."

 

Enjoy the tune, friends: it is good throughout!

 

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#08/45)

Good morning, friends,

for a change today I have a little something that most of you might not have heard before. But believe me, it is a belter of a tune, so I very strongly recommend to have a listen: it will open your minds, friends, believe me!

As a young man, David Walker, a Washington D.C. native, was a heavyweight contender who sparred with Archie Moore. In the late 1950s, he joined an L.A. gospel group called the Sensational Wonders, which soon morphed into the Mighty Clouds of Joy. Though the group's leader, Joe Ligon, was noted for his rough, barking vocal style, Walker's voice was something else entirely.

In the early '60s, Walker met up with another D.C. product, Link Wray: Link Wray and his Raymen, which included the guitarist's brothers Doug and Vernon, brought Walker into Vern's home studio, where they recorded several tracks together. Given the insinuations of the songs they cut -- 'Hide and Go Seek,' 'Red Riding Hood and the Wolf,' 'The Girl Can't Dance' -- the churchgoing Walker was reluctant to put his name on the records. The Wray brothers decided to give him an alter ego, considering the kooky alias Four H Stamp before settling for the slightly more plausible Bunker Hill.

So, originally put out on Mala Records in 1963 (and God I wish I had a copy of this single!!), but fortunately re-released as a B-Side on a Norton Records 7" in 1996, here's to you, friends, the mighty Bunker Hill together with Link Wray And His Raymen, your number eight in my little rundown. Enjoy:

Bunker Hill with Link Wray and the Raymen - 'The Girl Can't Dance' (mp3)

Norton Records - 046 (released in 1996, originally recorded in 1963)

A lot of the material Bunker Hill recorded with the Raymen is great, but nothing, nothing matches this recording. Anyone who tells you that rock was unexciting before punk came along obviously never heard this cut, it blows most punk right out of the water by sheer sonic force: "This guy makes Little Richard sound like Pat Boone," comments one fan on YouTube, and that can't be argued.

Perhaps today's choice might possibly be only something for those of you with an appetite for the bizarre. I'm sure such creatures exist though, so, to the few of you, as I said before: enjoy!

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#07/45)

Hello my beauties,

today - again - a 7" everyone of you should know (and love?), at least when being of a certain age. I mean, this record is not the subject of my daydreams, you see, it's not that I sit in the office all day long thinking "boy, as soon as I get home, I have to rush upstairs and put it on the turntable
immediately without fail because this record is a much sought after prime example for music of quality and distinction!" ... not really ... then again every once in a while I listen to it and think to myself how marvellous it was and still is, in fact. Did it stand the test of time? Hmmm, dunno, most probably not for the bulk of you, but it did for me.

Here's your number seven, friends:

The Notsensibles - 'I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher' (mp3)

Snotty Snail Records - NELCOL-1 (1980)

Obviously Thatcherism didn't have the same impact on me (as a German) as it had for you over there in sunny England, but I remember it well. Somehow back then you just couldn't avoid to be confronted with Thatcher (and/or Thatcher together with Reagan) in the newspapers, on the telly and in school on a daily basis. Falkland comes to mind and the miners, so does unemployment and health care, but I know I'm on thin ice here, so I better shut up and finish with what The Notsensibles themselves thought about the record: "all we want to do is make silly records and play silly gigs".

Well, I'm all for that.

Enjoy,

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#06/45)

Morning my friends,

for a change today I have for you something you might not know, this relates to the fact that it is by one of the most grievously underrated artists of our time, the mighty "Metal Mike" Sauders.

He is credited with coining the music genre label "heavy metal" in a record review in the Rolling Stone magazine in 1970. He drummed and sang in various bands, most commonly known perhaps are the Angry Samoans.

Don't let that heavy metal - thingy put you off now, please, because the tune really is well worth downloading/listening to! The same is true for everything Saunders released as Metal Mike ... which is quite a bulk of stuff. I can highly recommend the debut Mini-LP 'Metal Mike Plays The Hits Of The 90's' for a starter, then again there isn't a bad one amongst the nine 7" singles he put out within the early 90's as well.

This is but one of them, a fine version of a Merle Haggard tune ... and your number six, friends:

Metal Mike - 'I'm A Lonesome Fugitive' (mp3)

Triple X Records - 51054-7 (1990)

 

 

You'll get this one - plus five other outstanding tunes of similar brilliance - on the aforementioned Mini - LP from '91 (Triple X – 51064-2). Get hold of it now before it's too late ....

 

Enjoy,

 

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#05/45)

Hello dearest friends,

first of all thanks a lot for all the nice comments so far, highly appreciated and, as I pointed out before, they are what keeps this series (and the blog as well) going by and large. Cheers!

1979 was an outstanding year musicwise, I always thought. I mean, I can't be arsed to calculate it through right now, but I'm willing to have a small bet that when we come to an end with this rundown more singles from 1979 will have cropped up than from any other year in comparison.

Why this is? I dunno ... I think a lot of the records issued in 1979 captured a perfect mixture of the rawness of '77/'78 punk and the fragility of '80/'81 New Wave .... which, thinking about it, doesn't make any sense at all as they were obviously released before 1980, but I'm pretty sure you understand the point I'm trying to make here.

This is but one fine example for the above, your number five, friends:

Elvis Costello and The Attractions - 'Oliver's Army' (mp3)

Radar Records - RAD 17344 (1979)

 

 

Taken from the album 'Armed Forces', although I prefer the follow-up to this, 'Get Happy!'. You too?

 

Enjoy,

 

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#04/45)

Good morning friends,

here's to you one of T.H.E. perfect pop songs of our time, catchy, nicely to sing along to, a tune I never get tired of listening to ... not that I listen to the radio much at all, but every once in a while when I fumble thru my files on the computer I see it, press play and enjoy its simplicity again. And I hope you'll do too now ... so here's your number four, dear reader:

Babybird - 'Goodnight' (mp3)

Echo - ECS 24 (1996)

I also have Babybird's 'Ugly Beautiful' - CD somewhere, but I must admit I wasn't really convinced of it after the purchase. Sure, 'You're Gorgeous' is a neat tune as well, but apart from that ... uh, I dunno ... perhaps I should listen to it again in its entirety soon and give it a second chance.

Well, enjoy and ... depending on where on earth you are .... goodnight!

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#03/45)

Hello my beauties,

and yes, dear readers, the hits keep happening here on Sexyloser, 'cos, as my boss of the bar where I used to DJ in back in another century said to me: "Oh Dirk, can't you at least sometimes play something with some recognition value, please?!", here is a record you should indeed know if you are about to retire in not more than 20 years 'in your best years', as they say ... which I suppose is true for all of the five middle-aged men who occasionally read this blog.

This is for you, your number three:

 

 

Fad Gadget - 'Back To Nature' (mp3)

Mute - MUTE 002 (1979)

Ground breaking stuff indeed, I'm sure you agree, and, for a change, one of the very few records I was not introduced to by John Peel's BFBS programmes, in fact this one I discovered on the dancefloor (albeit not in 1979 (but a few years later ... I was too young, you know ...) and not on the dancefloor itself (more accurately most probably whilst crossing it on my way to the bar)).

Robster - in a previous comment - suggested I should give some details about when I first listened to the specific records. The thing is, you see, I'm getting 45, not 25, means my memory has started to decline quite a long time ago. Nevertheless I remember though that this tune was frequently played in a very strange (and, regrettably, short-lived) club I used to visit in the mid eighties, The Fleshtemple (sic) in Wijnandsrade in Holland, a very small village just behind the Dutch/German border. In order to be able to enter the venue itself you had to cross the local pub in which the pensioners sat and played their game of cards. I suppose it was rather odd for them to sit there and watch all those freaks coming in all evening long: Punks, Goths, Skins, Mods ... everyone was there and people even drove in from as far away as the Ruhr Area (which was quite a distance. Suppose it still is, to be precise).

But despite of the variety of the visitors, there never was a single outbreak of anger as far as I remember and I suppose this is what made the Fleshtemple so special. This and the fact that basically there was no decoration at all apart from stark naked display dummies all over (which explains the name, so there you are). Plus they offered 0.2 water glasses brimfull of pure white Martini for a little bit more than 1 Gulden ... which today would be something along the lines of 45p for British readers or $ 0.70 for the Americans ... prices too impossible to imagine nowadays!

And, of course, the music there was just awesome: they always had the newest stuff from Britain combined with an outstanding amount of great rare records from a few years before. I think after it shut down I never ever discovered a club again which offered music of comparable quality.

Enjoy,

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#02/45)

Hello friends,

part two in the '45 45's until I'm 45' - series and at least we got that far with it before coming to an abrupt halt. Which is a good sign, I would think. If you wonder what this may all be about, please scroll down to the last post and get yourself some explanation.

A cover today, folks (always helpful to keep people interested, I found out, at least a bit) for your enjoyment, and also one which is better than the original, which doesn't happen all that often. And on nice black and white marbled vinyl as well ... which I'm sure will impress you mightily ... that's if you are impressed rather easily, of course!

Here's your number two:

The Lemonheads - 'Luka' (mp3)

Taang! Records - TAANG! 31 (1989)

 

 

A neat tune indeed, I'm sure you'll agree. I would also have included their fantastic version of 'Mrs Robinson', but I only have that on a 10" ... then again this also would play at 45 RPM. But I have to draw the line somewhere, so it's 7" singles only ...

Enjoy,

Dirk

"45 45's until I'm 45" (#01/45)

Hello dearest friends and followers,

 I really sincerely do hope that this is the start of something which will not turn out to be dead again after a few weeks, but as per today I’m rather confident to keep up with the project until its finalisation.

 Some of you may recall this post’s title, which of course is shamelessly stolen from the mighty Vinyl Villain (although I asked for his approval to do this beforehand and he very kindly obliged. More importantly he even persuaded me to get the thing going and who am I to argue with the great man?).

 And for those of you who can’t remember Jim’s original series, here’s the idea behind it:

 I’ll become 45 years of age mid of June this year and until then I’ll provide you with 45 different 7” Singles (which all spin on 45 RPM obviously). The records in result will by no means be chosen from a comprehensive list of everything that was fine within the last 2000 years …. basically I - rather quickly - rifled through my boxes with 7”s and picked out 45 of those which I still like a lot these days. Also I didn’t even bother to try to rate those in one form or another, so I’ll make the sequential arrangement up as I go along … in other words don’t be astonished that #39 might be worse than #4, for example. There are very few though which I regard as being outstandingly good and I’ll try to keep them until the end of the series. Hope this works out ….

 Also I try not to bore you with long and uninteresting stories about which girl I fell in love with although she thought I was just a twat when I bought a specific record, a little bit of info perhaps about the band and there you are ….

 Needless to say that comments are very highly appreciated, the more the merrier of course. The truth of the matter is that those will keep the series going at the end of the day …

 Okay, so, without further ado, here’s to you …. my number one:

 

 

The MightyWah! – ‘Come Back’ (mp3)

(Beggars Banquet – BEG 111, 1984)

 

1984 was an outstanding year for music in my humble opinion. So much great stuff was released and I must have spent a fortune on records back then. This is just one of my purchases, but I still like it a lot. This record never bores me, then again this is true for many things Pete Wylie did over the years.

Enjoy,

Dirk

Same shit, different year ...

Oh mighty God of New Year's Eve, may I kindly ask for a little bit more than the ten minutes I had on me fucking own within this year for 2013?! Please ..... !!!

The Blue Orchids - 'A Year With No Head' (Peel Session Version '82) (mp3)

As Joe Strummer said in his wisdom: "Arrrghhhgorra Buh Bhvh Do Arrrrgggghhhhnnnn!!!!...."
(which, I'm sure, translates as 'and in 20 minutes again the house will be filled with a bulk of people who talk a lot of nonsense and eat and drink way too much ...)

Oh boy ...

Dirk

Holiday Post

Hola friends,

we'll be off to the North German coast tomorrow morning for a week and earlier today I finished putting together a very nice CD which we can listen to on the four hour drive. You see, my wife's musical taste doesn't exactly cope with mine, to put it mildly. So in order not be forced to listen to boring crap on the radio and/or the entire fucking Tote Hosen back catalogue or ludicrous nonsense by slim white guys sounding as if they were currently being crucified, I now have my own little CD. Put together in a bit of a rush, I admit, but nevertheless I'll be enjoying it a great deal, I'm sure. The same will be true for Little Loser (still three, four in September), because - much to the dismay of Mrs Loser - it continues a tune he currently likes a lot and it always puts a smile on my face when he imitates the title, which is:

'Olga, I Cannot' (Toy Dolls, 1985) - mp3

Great stuff throughout and I listened to a fair bit of old Toy Dolls stuff recently. I mean, I already did so some 25 years ago, but what never occured to me until today is what a marvellous guitar player Olga is in fact. Apparently I'm not alone in this, as to be seen on Wikipedia: "Olga plays a yellow Fender Telecaster with a Seymour Duncan bridge pick up, he is recognized as a virtuoso guitar player and in 2007 was voted number 1 Punk Guitarist in the international Punk Polls^.
He was even quoted as being the best guitarist on the planet in The Guitar Magazine and the All Music Guide describes Olga as being a guitar hero "capable of jaw-droppingly fast guitar picking"."

Enjoy. The tune and your own holidays. Should you (still) have any.

Dirk

Vinyl Villain returns: The Man Is Back In Town!

Morning all,

astonishing news this morning: Jim is back, after a well-deserved break, so have a look at The Vinyl Villain quickly! He decided not to continue to blog on a daily basis, but only when he feels like he wants to: something I can fully understand and appreciate ... as you probably will be be able to tell from the constant lack of fresh posts here on Sexyloser recently.

As I am at work currently I don't have access to my music files at home, therefore I can only choose from a handful of songs, those I already had uploaded on BoxNet previously. Nevertheless I found one which describes my feelings about Jim's return pretty well: yes, I posted it before at least once, but as it is a neat tune indeed by The Crimea, I feel no shame when giving it to you again today .... I mean, c'mon: the site we all (well, most of us) look at first thing each and every morning is back and running again, so don't/shouldn't we all feel like:

Lottery Winners On Acid (mp3)

Jim: thanks, mate, for the many many bands you pointed me to in the last years: I do hope there'll be much more to come in the future!

Cheers,

Dirk

A second helping, anyone?

Good morning friends,

a quiet Sunday morning in the Sexyloser household is a rare thing indeed, but I'm having one more or less right now: Little Loser is playing in his room whilst Mrs Loser is downstairs. So I thought I'd check me mails and also see what the usual suspects have posted last night. Nothing much worth downloadable though.Then I thought, why not listen to a record in the background and I went for one I hadn't heard for ages: some Blancmange 'Best Of' - compilation. I mean, I have one or two regular albums of theirs plus a few singles as well, but this one was the one I picked and it is a good listen throughout, especially the quieter tunes. A perfect soundtrack to go along with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and sweet nothingness ...

Then I thought why not share those with all the three readers Sexyloser has? So, quickly ripped from the - rather worn - LP mentioned above, 'Second Helpings' on London Records, here's to you:

Blancmange - 'Waves' ('83) (mp3)

Blancmange - 'I've Seen The Word' ('82) (mp3)

The strange bangs you might ot might not hear throughtout the latter tune actually derive from Little Loser constantly crawling fron my desk onto the left speaker and jumping down on the bottom during the rip: the quiet Sunday is now over, all too soon I'm afraid. Oh boy ....

Hope you enjoy yours though!

Cheerio,

Dirk

"Things I very much liked indeed ... back in 2003!!" ... Pt. 3

Greetings bothers and sisters,

I do hope you are enjoying your few days off. Nothing much new to tell you today, I am enjoying myself as much as possible, spending time with Little Loser and feel pretty good altogether.

I hope you're still with me in this 2003 - thingy, if you are: today we have all-female stuff ... and why not?

First a band which impresses me mightily with every single song they put out and believe me that your life is incomplete if you have not listened to their entire back catalogue: The Detroit Cobras. Normally being more dedicated to 60's soul/Rock n' Roll, I found a cover of theirs which is a bit different to what they usually do:

The Detroit Cobras - 'Last Nite' ('03) (mp3)

Secondly a belter of a 12" from Belgium, if memory serves this topped Peel's Festive 50 in 2003. Again perhaps not the kind of stuff you would usually expect to find here on Sexyloser, but there you are: simply great and I won't get tired to listen to this until I retire:

Viva La Fête - 'Noir Desir' ('03) (mp3)

Now, top entertainment for you today, isn't it?

Enjoy the rest of your Easter break, there's more to come soon!

Dirk