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The Potatomen - That Girl

Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream

Black Lips - 'New Direction'

Sunday Funnies 1st Album -
recorded 1971 at Studio B RareEarth/motown
Richard Fidge - sings
Ron Aitken -  bass & vocals
Richard Koz Kozinski - organ & Piano & vocals
Richard Mitchell - dums

Walk Down the Path of Freedom - 1st Album - Sunday Funnies

The Feelies - Dancing Barefoot

Ezra Furman - I Can Change (LCD Soundsystem Cover)

Hot Heros 2

Tough Age - Ooh Ah Oh Wow

Starry Eyes

Big Fugitive Sunshine

Ezra Furman - The Refugee

Taken from the Chook Race 'Around The House' LP, out in September through Tenth Court (AUS/NZ) and Trouble In Mind (Rest Of World).

Chook Race- Sometimes

I recorded this with my mates in 1981 as a parody of the then-massive "Stars On 45" craze; grimly cheerful medleys of Beatles and other '60s classics sung over disco beats. We loathed those records, seeing them as a shallow nostalgic diminishment of what had once been great. So we made our punk version as a protest/pastiche, complete with moronic intro music a la Stars On 45, dodgy DJ talkover (brilliantly done by real DJ and Ensign Records man Chris Hill), and a melee of punk songs. At the end we morphed into reggae and let the words of The Clash's immortal White Man In Hammersmith Palais make the point. 

We almost released it under the name The Rolling Grundies (after Bill Grundy, the drunk TV presenter who encouraged the Sex Pistols to swear on TV and so unintentionally turned punk into a national phenomenon) but changed our minds because we we didn't want to have to deal with it if the record took off. Especially if people missed the angle and thought we were simply cashing in on the medley craze.

I sing lead on two of the songs - if you can guess which, post a comment in the timeline. The chap in the picture is my old skool-pal Crigg who sang three of the others.

There was a 'b' side too - "Noise On 45" - 6 minutes of random musical bashings, dog growlings and chants of "noise noise noise" over the same disco beat. But I will spare you that.



Punks On 45

From the album Gymnastics, out September 9, 2016 on Merge Records.


Gymnastics

Sneaks "True Killer"

The Rivieras were made up of teenagers from South Bend Central High School. The group was originally called the Playmates, but was forced to change their names as there was already a group playing under that name. As a result, the group decided to rename themselves after the Buick Riviera.

The Rivieras were one of the many groups in America that became part of the "frat rock" movement in the early 1960s. The group had their greatest hit in 1964 with "California Sun". It reached #5 in the main U.S. pop chart. In fact, "California Sun" was one of the last songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart before the "British Invasion"

The Rivieras - California Sun

Crumble

The Skills of the Star Pilot

Speeders - Go go anywhere - 1969

From the kitchen to the garage... Dutch girls and girlgroups in the sixties

Linda van Dyck - Stengun (1967)

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

The Wild Angels (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Bongo Party

The Speedies - You Need Pop

The Chocolate Watchband - Living In The Past

Been blogging, music sharing, etc. for a while now (see blog under this name) & DJing since 1982. I like all kinds of music.

Most of my playlists are not organized & just hold songs I'm interested in, many of which I haven't listened to yet. The "freeform current listening" playlist is as it says & will be updated regularly. Many of my reposts were unintentional, they were just random tracks I was trying to add to a playlist using my phone & I've got clumsy fingers.

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