Words by She Rocola (vocal/acoustic guitar/bass) music by She Rocola & JF Whitney (electric guitar/drums) recorded by JF Whitney 1999. Released on The Tropics Of Cancer album "Under The Covers" (Rim Records, 2007) 
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An easy addiction I have to admit
I'm so addicted I can't possibly quit
Sometimes you can give me all the soul that I lack
You can make me feel like giving something back
When you're in me I feel so cool
When I see me reflected in your pool
One more shot is all I've got but I won't stop until I've taken the lot
Breaking the habit is hard when you're hooked
Finding no longer that your time is booked
Making ways to fill the days without the precious drug
Managing to stay away from the grave I've dug

An Easy Addiction - JF Whitney & Rocola

Written by JF Whitney (guitar/bass drums/voc/production)& Paul-Ronney Angel (harmonica/voc)with She Rocola (voc) 
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77/13 Blues - JF Whitney & Paul-Ronney Angel

Traditional Norwegian lullaby, recorded by JF Whitney (guitar/bass/drums) 2003. With Paul-Ronney Angel (voc) and She Rocola: (scream) Released on The Tropics Of Cancer album "Introduction To A Rumour" (Rim Records, 2005)
From the "Murdered Ballads" cover version series.
"Schnapps soused" Stu Gibson, Sleazegrinder 
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Trollmors Vuggesang - The Tropics Of Cancer feat. Paul-Ronney Angel

Written by JF Whitney & She Rocola, recorded 1999. JF Whitney (bass/guitar/drums) She Rocola (voc) Released on The Tropics Of Cancer album "Under The Covers" (Rim Records, 2007) 

Good morning heartache still brings the tears to my eyes
The stomach growls as the ashtrays fill up sky~high
Another night with the wrong man~we still persist
I'm sick of looking for perfection where it don't exist
(She Rocola, 1999)

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The Man I Adorn - JF Whitney & She Rocola

Track written & recorded by JF Whitney(2015)for the short film "The Ego's Eye" by Wolf Howard & She Rocola. JF Whitney: Harp/Bouzouki/Bass/Keys.  She Rocola: Vocals. Wolf Howard: Drums & Percussion.  www.flytowhitneysmoon.com  www.wolfhoward.com

The Ego's Eye - JF Whitney

Written and recorded by JF Whitney (guitar/bass/drums/harmonica)2016 for Cavendish Music Library. Click the link to hear more of JF Whitney's Cavendish Music Library recordings: 
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Blue Cat Shuffle - JF Whitney

Medley from the "Carry On" films (Rogers/Whitney) Arranged & recorded by JF Whitney (guitar/bass/drums)1998.
From the "Murdered Ballads" cover version series.
RIP Barbara Windsor and Margaret Nolan.
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Carry On Twisting - JF Whitney

Written & recorded in 1998 by JF Whitney (perc/guitar/bass) The Flaming Stars also recorded a version that appears on their album "Pathway" (Vinyl Japan 1999)
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Sing Sing - JF Whitney

Written & performed by Magdalena Jean Whitney Morris (Voc: aged 3)and JF Whitney (Drums/Perc/Guitar/Bass/Liuqin/Bamboo Flute)
For Magdalena Jean's Fourth Birthday! XX
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The Japanese Song - Cirque De Pip & Pop

Written & recorded by JF Whitney (Guitar/Perc/Voc) 2018
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Kalavera  - JF Whitney

Written by JF Whitney (guitar/bass/drums/bv's)& She Rocola (voc) Released as 7" single (Kooky Records, 1997) with "Klo-Dean" under the name Joe Whitney. Also released on the Tropics Of Cancer album "Introduction To A Rumour" (Rim Records 2005)
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"...what makes this a killer 7" is "Sister Flora"- a frenzy of percussion punctuated by an easy-listening chorus reminiscent of the Pearl & Dean theme. Check out the handmade sleeves and the very limited pressing too."
(Record Collector, Sept. 1997)

Sister Flora - Joe Whitney

Written & recorded by JF Whitney (guitar/bass/drums) Released on The Tropics Of Cancer 7" single "Catch A Corner" (Stark Reality/Jazzman Records 2000)  Featured on Sean Hughes (BBC Radio) and Andrew Weatherall Presents: Music's Not For Everyone(NTS Radio)
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Moodswings

Diana Ross cover, written by Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards, recorded 1997 by JF Whitney(voc/guitar/bass/perc)) Released on The Tropics Of Cancer album "Introduction To A Rumour" (2005) Also released on "The Rim Sampler" album (2006) and Andrew Weatherall's compilation "Sci-Fi Lo-Fi" (Soma Records, 2007)
From the "Murdered Ballads" cover version series.
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"The Tropics of Cancer's spooky take on Diana Ross' "Upside Down" is ace"
Tim Chester, NME

"The Tropics of Cancer turn Diana Ross' disco-lite "Upside Down" into a brooding, bass-heavy death-surf ballad"
Culturedeluxe.com

" A frankly bizarre cover of Diana Ross' "Upside Down" by Tropics of Cancer that features a rumbling, echoey bassline and a disturbingly inappropriate vocal."
Stylus Magazine

"Sci-fi Lo-fi offers some crazy interpretation of Diana Ross' 80's track "Upside Down" by The Tropics of Cancer"
Berlinista.com 

an excerpt from "Medicine" Stu Gibson's "Rumour" review in "Sleazegrinder"....."Fittingly for such a master-class in midnight mores our first sip is a surreal shiver through 'Upside Down'...yarse, Ms Ross' disco diva classic magicked into an exquisite mambo jive, hot under the collar vocals whispered like incantations and curses by a private eye straight outta Chandler as the indigenous poison administered by his lap-dancing Laotian goddess takes full effect...."

Upside Down - The Tropics Of Cancer

Cover of the TV sitcom theme by Ronnie Hazlehurst, arranged & recorded 1997 by JF Whitney (keys/voc/bass/drums/perc)
From the "Murdered Ballads" cover version series.
 Also recorded by The Flaming Stars as B-side to their "New Hope For The Dead" 7" single (1997)

Are You Being Served? (Going Up) - JF Whitney

Buzzcocks cover written by Pete Shelley RIP. Recorded by The Flaming Stars on their 6th John Peel Session, June 1999.
From  the album "The Six John Peel Sessions"  (BBC/Vinyl Japan 2000)
Max Decharne (voc)
Mark Hosking   (guitar/bv)
Huck Whitney   (guitar)
Paul Dempsey   (bass)
Joe Whitney       (drums/bv)

Six John Peel Sessions　[Disc 2]

What Do I Get?  The Flaming Stars

Written by She Rocola (voc)& JF Whitney (voc/guitar/bass) Recorded by JF Whitney 2008.
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Ill Wind Blow - JF Whitney & She Rocola

Written and recorded 2015 by JF Whitney (Liuqin/Guitar/Bass/Drums/Percussion) for Cavendish Music Library. 
Featured on Prima Zoom (Czech Republic) & Cielo News(Italy)
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The Courteous Threat - JF Whitney

Written & by JF Whitney (drums, bass, keys, backing vocals) & She Rocola (vocals)
With Chris Cornetto (trumpet) Released on the Tropics Of Cancer album "Introduction To A Rumour" (Rim Records 2005)
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Balls To Call - JF Whitney & She Rocola

Written & performed by Magdalena Jean Whitney Morris (Voc and Heartbeat)and JF Whitney (Keys/Voc/Guitar/Bass/Violin/Drum/Perc)
For Magdalena Jean's Fifth Birthday! XX

Bonjour, Wake Up! - Cirque De Pip & Pop

Written & recorded 1999 by JF Whitney (guitar/bass/toy piano/drums/perc) The Flaming Stars also recorded a version that appears on their album "A Walk On The Wired Side" (Vinyl Japan 2000)
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The Villain - JF Whitney

Written & recorded 1994 by JF Whitney (guitars, bass, percussion) Released on the Tropics Of Cancer album "Introduction To A Rumour" (Rim Records 2005)
Included on the soundtrack of "Playing with Piranhas" feature film (Australia 2006) 
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Her Eyes Held A Strange Paradise - JF Whitney

Written by Nino Rota, recorded & performed 1997 by JF Whitney (guitars/bass/vocal)
From the "Murdered Ballads" cover version series.
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The Godfather - JF Whitney

Written & recorded 1994 by JF Whitney (guitars, bass, drums) 
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The Love Dept. - JF Whitney

Cover of Slade classic (Holder/Lea) recorded 1998 by JF Whitney(voc/guitar/bass/drums)with Jake Vegas (voc) & She Rocola (bv's)                          Released on the Jake Vegas album "Nevada Gas" (Rim Records 2005)
From the "Murdered Ballads" cover version series.
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Don't Blame Me - JF Whitney & Jake Vegas

Otis Rush cover, recorded 1998 by JF Whitney(guitar/bass/drums)with Jake Vegas (voc) Released on the Jake Vegas album "Nevada Gas" (Rim Records, 2005)
From the "Murdered Ballads" cover version series.
Featured on "Balling The Jack" (Resonance FM)
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All Your Love (I Miss Loving)- JF Whitney & Jake Vegas

Written & recorded in 1996 by JF Whitney (guitars/bass) The Flaming Stars also recorded a version that appears on their album "Songs From The Bar Room Floor" (Vinyl Japan 1996)which is featured on the soundtrack to the movie "Bruna Surfistinha" (Brazil 2010) 
Click the link for this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGxEv0jt9HM
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Who's Out There? - JF Whitney

Instrumental recorded with and written by fellow-Flaming Star Mark Hosking (guitar/bass)with JF Whitney (drums) From the film "The Porno Family" (1999)

Ginger Pussy's Granny - Mark "Pick" Hosking & JF Whitney

Bazouki-driven instrumental written & played by JF Whitney using loop pedal. Video link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpFHENoWS54&list=UUQQdhAx_ZH2mQD3u0kPXdZA&index=1&feature=plcp

"Joe Whitney is an all-round friggin genius. The One Man Cinema Band has to be seen to be believed."
(PETER THOMAS - EXPLODING CINEMA)

"Amazing musical scientist and experimenter of genres" (JAMBOREE)

"Your set was magic! Very energetic and clever"
(JOWE HEAD)

"We really did like yer films and thanks for a grand set, I'm a fan!" (CHARLIE FINKE-THE CAESARIANS)

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Cold Feet Run Fast - One-Man Cinema Band

Russian-language Stranglers cover Black/Greenfield/Cornwell/Burnel) recorded  2012 by JF Whitney (guitar/bass/keys/drums) featuring Ben Hell (voc/keys)
From the "Murdered Ballads" cover version series. 
"What a fine mutilation!" (Jello Biafra)                                                                            "This is COOL!" (Jesse Townley-Alternative Tentacles)
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(Get A)Grip(On Yourself)- JF Whitney & Ben Hell

Written by Matlock/Cook/Jones/Lydon, recorded 1999 by JF Whitney(guitar/bass/drums) with Sexton Ming (voc) www.flytowhitneysmoon.com

Seventeen - JF Whitney & Sexton Ming

Anglo-Japanese language Public Image Limited cover version. 
From the "Murdered Ballads" cover version series.
Originally released as a 7" single (Jazzman/Stark Reality Records, 2002) Recorded/produced: JF Whitney (guitar/bass/drums/keys) with Ruth from Tokyo (voc) "Very nice..like the vocals-interesting version..I'm flattered.." (Keith Levene)
"A remake of PIL's classic "Poptones" – and done on a funky 45 label, too! The track is a lot trippier than most of the rest of the Stark Reality catalog – with a slow hypnotic groove that's very much in keeping with PIL's original, but also more of a fuzzy psych approach to the cut – one that takes it into some mighty nice spaced out territory! "
(Dusty Groove America, Inc.)


Video link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP9mYknU3Ls&list=UUQQdhAx_ZH2mQD3u0kPXdZA&index=27

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Poptones- The Tropics Of Cancer

Welcome kind stranger, to a selection of musical peculiarities I have been recording since 1992...
"Absolutely crazed but beautiful"   The Village Voice
"Sultry, seductive and entrancing"   Maverick
"Ace"   NME
"Jazzy, quirky and thoroughly bohemian"  Penny Rimbaud
"A fine mutilation!"  Jello Biafra
"The last of the true English bohemians"  Greg Foat (Author of "Gigolo")
"Amazing musical scientist and experimenter of genres"  Jamboree
"The best beatnik in the world"   Yvan Serrano Fontova
"The Eric Ambler of the drums"   Jake Vegas

Mr Whitney has played live shows all over the world and appeared on 70+ recorded releases, while having performed & collaborated with:
The Flaming Stars, The Urban Voodoo Machine, The Tropics Of Cancer, Billy Childish, The Sting-Rays, Minxus, Jello Biafra, Jake Vegas, Glen Matlock, Paloma Faith and many others.

​BBC Radio sessions/broadcasts include John Peel, Radio 6, Clive Anderson,  Marc Riley, Mark Radcliffe, Mark Lamaar, Sean Hughes, Resonance FM, GLR. 

TV: BBC2, ITV, C4, MTV, Rockpalast (WDR Germany)

​Music compositions in own short films and feature films "Bruna Surfistina" (Brazil)& "Playing With Pihranhas" (Australia)

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