Our combined Top 10 tracks for April 2025 collated from SoundCloud, Bandcamp, HearThis, Spotify, iTunes, YouTube and other streaming services.
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See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-april-2025-top-ten-published-at-soundcloud/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/soundcloud-charts/april-2025/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://hearthis.at/wud-records-hm/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/35k4zUxUmSeIW4kEpbtTrt
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0DmSEMmBbaDhHgCE79AWhL
https://open.spotify.com/artist/78osnm2a7EhvQvyt4FUg4R

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April 2025 Top Ten Tracks

Take Her Away by George.
From Volume I Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music by G. Davies.
Composed 6th October 1982 around 9:50pm.

Recorded May 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1982 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
A song about wonderings, and trying to move on from pain.
Verse chords are ||: G - Bm - Em - A - Em - C - D :|| C - G - C - B7
Chorus chords are Em - D - C - Em - G - C - D - Bb dim - B7

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-i-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume I Side B

Take Her Away

Band of Georges: Take Her Away

In The Snow by George.
From Volume II Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 24th November 1982.

Recorded June 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1982 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This is a song in D minor, the saddest of all keys.
The clean guitar is fingerpicked.
The dirty guitar has some extreme settings on the HM2 dirt pedal.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-a/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume II Side A

In The Snow

Band of Georges: In The Snow

I Don't Care Now by George.
From Volume II Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 21st January 1983, 9:15 to 10:30.

Recorded June 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
As this song was being recorded it seemed to grow in stature from something that was pretty ordinary to something that was actually pretty good.
It is a song of healing, fortitude and moving on.
The key is E major.
This was the very first time that George had recorded two-handed tapping.
Several months previously a girl who George was deeply fond of had been forced to move hundreds of miles away due to a new parental job.
When the advent of social media many years later allowed them to get in touch again, it turned out the young lady in question was also devastated by the sudden move.
I Don't Care Now was never added to the repertoire of any band and remained a piece of personal therapy.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume II Side B

I Don't Care Now

Band of Georges: I Don't Care Now

A Slightly More Optimistic Meteorological Outlook by George.
From Volume II Side B of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 10th January 1983.

Recorded June 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
A Slightly More Optimistic Meteorological Outlook is a weird sounding song.
This is mostly due to an experimental harmony vocal that didn't work particularly well.
This song was performed by Now and is in the key of D minor.
Much like One Thing You'll Never Know, it didn't quite manage to creep into the set of Wud.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-ii-side-b/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

A Slightly More Optimistic Meteorological Outlook

Band of Georges: A Slightly More Optimistic Meteorological Outlook

There Are Times by George.
From Volume III Side A of the Band of Georges.

Music and lyrics by G. Davies.
Composed 24th March 1983.

Recorded July 1986.
Mixed October 1986.
Lifted from cassette March 2025.

Copyright © 1986 & 2025 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
This was an attempt to build triads using three separate instruments.
It is in the key of C minor.
It was never performed by a band.
George described this song as a piece of "doomy self-indulgent twaddle".

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/band-of-georges/volume-iii-side-a/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/band-of-georges-release-permission-granted/
https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Volume III Side A

There Are Times

Band of Georges: There Are Times

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