Polyvinyl Craftsmen's Most Played 2015

Here's our annual countdown of the most played artists on thee Polyvinyl Craftsmen for 2015.

You've got this year's position first, last year's position in brackets and then the number of plays.

=10. (-) Edwyn Collins - 7 plays

=10. (-) Captain Beefheart - 7 plays

=10. (7) Ty Segall - 7 plays

=10. (-) Make-Up - 7 plays

9. (8) Holly Golightly - 8 plays




=8. (-) The Wave Pictures - 9 plays




=8. (-) Vic Godard - 9 plays




=8. (-) Stephen Malkmus - 9 plays




=8. (7) Jack Oblivian - 9 plays




=8. (8) Billy Childish - 9 plays




=7. (-) King Khan & BBQ Show - 10 plays




=7. (9) Wreckless Eric - 10 plays




6. (-) Adam Green - 11 plays



5. (4) Ween - 12 plays



4. (6) Ben Wallers - 16 plays



3. (1) John Dwyer - 20 plays




2. (2) Greg Cartwright - 21 plays




1. (3) The Fall - 32 plays

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 211

A very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year from Laggers, Miggins and Coop. We've exhausted or festive tunes in previous Xmas shows so we've avoided them this time round. Thanks for listening in this year, we'll be back in January. X

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Thee songs: 

For Elise – Vince Guaraldi Trio

Strychnine – Rocket From The Tombs

I Live Off You – X-Ray Spex

Making Plans For Nigel – XTC

Thumbs Off – The Clean

Someone Must Have Nailed Us Together – The Len Bright Combo

Debris – Reigning Sound

Teenage Lust – MC5

Fortress – Thee Oh Sees

Do the Vibrate – The Black Lips

Heart To Heart – Daddy Long Legs

Poor Boy – Howlin’ Wolf

Bertha Lou – Tav Falco’s Panther Burns

Little Girl Blue – Nina Simone

What the World Needs Now – Jackie DeShannon

Geezer – Ultramarine

Peek-A-Boo – Siouxsie and the Banshees

This Will Be Our Year – The Zombies

Silver and Gold – Joe Strummer

Worm Tamer (A Place To Bury Strangers Remix) – Grinderman

As Sisters and Brothers – Black Merda

70’s Blues – Betty Davis

Dam Üstüne Çul Serer – Selda

Get That Girl – Vic Goddard & Subway Sect

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 210

No waffle, no talking, all music.

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Thee Songs: 

Tom Cat – Muddy Waters

Whip the Booty – Andre Williams

Nothin’ But – The Rabble

Fly Guy – Doug Hream Blunt

Watch It With That Thing – Make-Up

Jimmy, Rend-Se – Tom Ze

She’s On It/Jack the Ripper – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

I Was Denied – Thee Oh Sees

I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) – White Denim

L.A. Memphis Tyler Texas – Dale Hawkins

I Really Need Love – The Bees

Dirty Harry – Tommy McCook

Unfree Child – The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

Dance of the Doom – Frankie Stein

Three King Fishers – Gabor Szabo

Thunderstorm – Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts

Depression – Abner Jay

Now I’m Happy – Marvin Pontiac

Black Spring – Total Control

Lo Scoglio – Move

Holiday Hymn – Vic Goddard

Real True Love – A-Bones

Older Guys – The Flying Burrito Bros

Meigetsu Akagi Yama – Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 121 Redux

No show this week, we couldn't get together for various reasons, sorry! We had a request to re-post this show that had been lost because Meviocom that previously hosted it has gone kaput.

So here it is again from February 2014, Transmission 121.

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Thee songs:

Tread Water – De La Soul

Rhythm Changes – The Counts

Pusherman – Curtis Mayfield

The Twitch – Danny White

Ad Kahan Jayenge Ham – Hemant Bhosle

Rouge-Rouge - Christie Laume

Eighteen is Over the Hill – The West Coast Experimental Pop Art Band

New. New Minglewood Blues – The Grateful Dead

Please Write – The White Wires

I’m A Pretender – The Exploding Hearts

Tallahassee Lassie – Flamin’ Groovies

Voice In the Mirror – Thee Oh Sees

Enthusiasm – White Fence

Gonna Put You Down – The Clydes

Run, Run, Run – Scotdrakula

White Tears – The Shine Brothers

L.S.D. – Brain Washington

Who Do You Think You’re Fooling – Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

Forever Gone – NGC 4594

Big Boss Man – Bobbie Gentry

No Expectations – The Rolling Stones

I Must Be High – Wilco

Life Is Not A Rehearsal – Country Teasers

Dating – Ty Segall

Sheela-na-gig – PJ Harvey

This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody) – Talking Heads
Don’t Try and Tell Me – The Headcoatees

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 209

Japanese aristocratic ape posse in the house!

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Thee songs:

Kiss My Sister’s Fist – The King Khan & BBQ Show

Zeinabou – Alkibar Gignor

Words of Advice – Material

The Feed-back – The Group

Going Through the Motions – Prefects

People – Silver Jews

Caligari’s Mirror – Pere Ubu

Welcome to the New Dark Ages – Rocket from the Tombs

Decadence – Nots

Shrug/Good – Officer!

Tango No – The Lounge Lizards

Pearline – Son House

Goin’ Down South – R.L. Burnside

Moanin’ – Mr Airplane Man

So Long Child – Spider and the Mustangs

Boy Band – Wreckless Eric

Crossed Mind Blues – Kelley Stoltz

Hickory Wind (Alternate Version) – Gram Parsons

Swan Lake (Vocal) – Blackalicious

Hooligan 69 – The Ragga Twins

Tech Bro – Childbirth

‘Til I Die (Alternate Mix) – Beach Boys

Reactor (Mikey Young Remix) – Nots

It’s Not Your Fault Brother – Tunji Oyelana

Heartful Of Soul – The Yardbirds

Serial Killer – Los Peyotes

Memories of You – Robert Wyatt

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 208

Fuck Black Friday, you get a top bargain every Friday with thee PVC.

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Transmission 208

Trade Winds – Archie and the Bunkers

Watch Your Back – The Coathangers

Funnel of Love – The Fall

Fire Corner – King Stitt

Phantom – The Dynamites

Coffin Maker – Chrissy Zebby Tembo

Whiskey Man – Doug Hream Blunt

Scowling Crackhead Ian – Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts

Don’t Let Your Dream Die – Willie Weird

Call the Police – Quintron and Miss Pussycat with Oblivians

Emerald Red – The Rabble

Why Spend the Dark Night With You – Moondog

Rockit – Herbie Hancock

Any Time Cowboy – Country Teasers

The River Rushes (To Screw Me Over) – Thee Oh Sees

Ghost In the Trees – Thee Oh Sees

The Dream – Thee Oh Sees

Air – Onyx

No Trophy – The Bees

Freedom Fries – The Black Lips

Mum’s Drunk – The Amps

Distant Dreams (Part Two) – Throbbing Gristle

Vowels of Love – Poets

Mess of Pottage – The Headcoatees

Birthday Blues – Wreckless Eric

Neuschnee – Neu!

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 207 - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

A rare themed show for you this week with 9 animal, 9 vegetable and 9 mineral songs.

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Thee songs:  

The Pigeon – Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts

Ride the Tiger – Doug Hream Blunt

Do the Duck – Autographs

Collard Greens – Freddie McCoy

Red Cabbage – Peter Jay & the Jaywalkers

Horror Asparagus Stories – The Driving Stupid

Nickel Bags – Digable Planets

Diamond Shine – The Clean

Crystal Lake – Grandaddy

Green Beans – The Lovely Eggs

Pumpkin Pie – Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds

Potato – Tyvek

Slates, Slags Etc. – The Fall

Sapphire – Digital Leather

Mr Fire Coal Man – Stiff Little Fingers

Steak For Chicken – The Moldy Peaches

The Cows Are Strong – Sexton Ming

Pink Gorilla – White Fence

You Take Everything For Granite When You’re Stone – Strange Boys

Lovely Gold – Michael Yonkers

Diamond Skull – Atomic Suplex

Rat City – Jack Oblivian

Zebra – Youngsters

The Weasel – Little Eddie

Spunky Onions – Johnny Adams

Black Potato – The Rabble

Call Any Vegetable – The Mothers

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 206

Welcome to the shed people; 3 tools and 27 tunes for you!

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Thee tunes: 

Detour – Bo Diddley

Rock ‘n’ roll/ Ega – Daniel Johnston

You Will Never Be – Graham Coxon

Susan’s House – Eels

Going Out – Supergrass

Little Girl – The Banned

Guilty Of Love – Unloved

April Skies – The Jesus and Mary Chain

Dog Is Life/ Jerusalem – The Fall

Oh Brother – Sister Irene O’Connor

Atomic Bomb – William Onyeabor

Owed T’ Alex – Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Dou You Like Gospel Music? – Make-Up

Never Knew I Had It So Bad – Thee Midnighters

Tear the Club Up – The Dirtbombs

So What’cha Want – Beastie Boys

It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World – The Residents

Laying Down Rock – Drinks

Ring-A-Ding-Dong – Liliput

You’re Not My Real Dad – Childbirth

Feel Like Giving In – Dutronc! Dutronc! Dutronc!

Let the Heartaches Begin – Long John Baldry

Beaver Shot – The Periscopes

Time of the Scab – Black Lips!

Dimples – John Lee Hooker

I Fought the Law – The Bobby Fuller Four

Granny Scratch Scratch – Sound Dimension

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 205

#205 is open for business.

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Tunes: 

I Remember – Walter Rizzati

Killing Car – Philippe Brejean

Six Days –DJ Shadow

Don’t Throw Your Love Into the Garbage – Vicki Anderson

Gonna Get Along Without You Now – Skeeter Davis

The Plan – Richard Hell and the Voivoids

Mrs Robinson – Simon and Garfunkel

What A Waste – Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Empty Heart – Question Mark and the Mysterians

Pick the Cat’s Eyes Out – The Scrotum Poles

Get Up, Get Out – Timmy’s Organism

Candy Clock – Thee Oh Sees

Big Shot – Bonzo Dog Band

Piledriver – Dennis the Fox

Wrong Time Capsule – Deerhoof

Ethio Song – Amen Dunes

Opus 40 – Mercury Rev

Vegetable – Acid Baby Jesus

Alcohol – The Kinks

(I Don’t Like) The Man I Am – Thee Headcoats

I Will Miss the Jasmine – Shannon & the Clams

A Non Person – Dan Melchior

I Want It, I Need It (Death Heated) – Death Grips

Message the Messenger – Gil Scott-Heron

Hard Times of Old England – The Rebel

All Above – Mr Airplane Man

My Two Cents On Crime – Bikes

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 204

Extended show for you this week with a little bonus selection of Halloween tunes at the end.

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Transmission 204

The Spider and the Fly – Andre Williams and the A-Bones

Dedicated – Funkdoobiest

Spoon Out My Eyeballs – Benjamin Booker

Bellbottoms – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Dry Heat – Shocking Pinks

Head Shop – The Head Shop

Mass “Emmanuel” – Sister Irene O’Connor

Cowgirl Blues – Jessie Mae Hemphill

UFO – ESG

Die Alone – Lost Sounds

All You Really Have To Do – White Denim

Getting’ Plenty Lovin’ – The Lyres

Mashed Potato Time – Dee Dee Sharp

Girl Roper – DM Bob & the Defecits

Trickle Down – Silver Sun

Familiar Stranger – Institute

Cadillac Woman – Stephen David Heitkotter

Restless – Johnny Kidd & the Pirates

Dry Bones Twist – The Drivers

Born To Be A Rebel – Vic Godard & Subway Sect

Time Has Come Today – The Chambers Brothers

Nineteen – Christmas Island

That’s All I Know (Right Now) – Sonic Youth

Super Kiwi – Yo La Tengo

Small Car – Marvin Pontiac

New Wave Jacket – Polysics

Mr Smith Goes To Rhodesia – Ake Hodell

Bonus Halloween Tunes

Moanin’ For My Baby – Howlin’ Wolf

Kill Yourself – The Lewd

The Witch – The Sonics

Candyman – Serpent Power

Haunted House – Wreckless Eric

Halloween II Theme – John Carpenter & Alan Howarth

I’ve Locked You In My Dungeon – The Frogs

Ghouls – Wooden Shjips

I’m Your Witchdoctor – John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 203

Hurry, Hurry! Gather round and gasp at the anatomical wonder that is the Pigboy, a true human oddity. Thrill to the music that plays on a never ending loop inside his porcine head.

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Thee songs: 

Something I Can’t Have – The Jesus and Marychain

Cherie De Mon Coeur – Don Cavalli

Sea Song – Robert Wyatt

Her Father and Her – Adam Green

I Walk By Your House – Reigning Sound

I Am Not A Game – Ty Segall & White Fence

The Cursed Streets – Concretism

Don’t Rhyme No Mo – David Holmes Presents the Free Association

I Heard It Through the Grapevine – The Slits

Empty Rooms – Dividers

How Much Longer – Paul Leary

Mexico Or Bust – New Kingdom

Beer Trap – The Jon Spenser Blues Explosion

Work Song – Baby Face Willette

Down In the Basement – King Coleman

It’s Kinda Funny – Josef K

Pop and Ice – Goldberg

No Views – Blank Realm

Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine – Bob Dylan

Revolution Blues – Neil Young

Out My Window – Doc Corbin Dart

C.R.E.E.P. – The Fall

Magnetic Moon – Crystal Stilts

Last Letter – Fergus & Geronimo

Be Thankful – Bunny Clarke

12XU – Wire

Bird On A Wire – Johnny Cash 

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 202

Extracting cheese from horses every week so you don't have to.

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Transmission 202

Goodbye Cruel World – James Darren

Hit the Road Jack – The Residents

Wolf – Nash the Slash

Seven Years of Bad Luck For Fun – The Gaslamp Killer

Switchboard Scientist – Pow!

Nast Girl – Childbirth

Underwater To – Tyvek

Florida – Grandaddy

No Spell – Thee Oh Sees

Layin’ Up With Linda – Lemonheads

Soul and Fire – Sebadoh

In Good Time – The Beau Brummels

I Man Free – King Burnett

Message From A Black Man – The Heptones

Ten Dollar High – Medeski Martin & Wood

In the Mouth A Desert – Pavement

Jibber Jabber – Heavy Trash

It’s All Your Fault – Bobby Lee Trammell

I Got To Put the Hammer Down – Ween

Holding Hands – The Wave Pictures

Penelope Tuesday – The Optic Nerve

Why Don’t You Do Right – Bob Harrison

Spread Eagle Cross the Block – Death Grips

Nardis – Officer!

Pastiche – Slim Twig

The Seasons – Ela Orleans

Her and I (Slow Jam 2) – King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Saturday...........not Friday.

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 201

Lizard people not welcome. 

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Transmission 201

There She Goes Again – The Mallard

Different Story – Vic Goddard

Ballad of A Lost Man – Wild Billy Childish and the Chatham Singers

Fan the Flames – Sheer Mag

Bubblegum – Clinic

Red Rocket 88 – Vince Ray’s Lose Machine

You Are My Heart – Rex Williams

Golden Phone – Micachu

Cocaine Man – Baxter Dury

Kili Wacht – Korafas

Centre of the Earth – Make Up

Rock n Roll Soldier – Roy & the Devil’s Motorcycle

Seven Wonders – Holly Golightly

He’s Got the Power – The Exciters

Point of Being Right – Shannon & the Clams

The Road Is Rough and Rocky – Danny Kroha

Why Are We Sleeping – Soft Machine

Red Flag – Robert Wyatt

Dr Bag and the Pomada Nature Giants – Sic Alps

Make It Right – Tim Buckley

Bananas and Blow – Ween

Determination Skank – Tommy McCook

Stephanie Says – The Velvet Underground

Staring At the Rude Boys – Ruts

Punch in the Nose – Sebadoh

Clouds – The Stark Reality

Passing Me by – The Pharcyde

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 200

Two hundred, that's a lot of shows. We now have listeners in 98 countries and every state in America which is nuts for a trio of herberts playing records in an Essex shed. Thanks for sticking with us, we love you all. Sob!

In time honoured fashion we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our families, our agents, our gynecologists, our therapists, our postmen, our corporate lawyers, our plastic surgeons and anyone else involved in what has been a very emotional journey. Blub!

We're not gonna bother listing the songs this week, there might well be a prize for the listener who can name the most. Answers on a postcard or sealed down envelope via Facebook message to the Polyvinyl Craftsmen page....and no cheating via the powers of Shazam or whatever.

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Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 199

Oink, oink! It's Plan 199 From Outer Space (or from out of a shed in Essex).

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This Week's Porky Prime Cuts:         

Bad Temper – Straight Arrows

Lonely I – The Warner Brothers

Virtually Happy – Holly Golightly

Whatcha Wanna Do Pt. 1 – Johnny Talbot

All Angles – The Frowning Clouds

Hey Mama, Look At Sis – Oblivians

Watch It With That Thing – Make-Up

I Don’t Wanna Go Home – The Black Lips

Citadel – The Rolling Stones

Walking the Dog Shotgun – Ricky and the Lexingtons

Blew My Mind – Reatards

Isolation – Joy Division

Freestylin’ – Greyboy

Statesboro Blues – The Holy Modal Rounders

How Do You Feel – The Primitives

Torment the Insects – Billy Childish & Sexton Ming

The Boy Looked At Johnny – The Libertines

Sweet Jane – The Velvet Underground

Kaw-Liga – Hank Williams

Wade In the Water – Ramsey Lewis

Spoonful – Howlin’ Wolf

Peasants, Cripples & Retards – The Gaslamp Killer

Here Come the Fleas – White Noise

Garbage – The Deviants

Hallo Excentrico – Neu!

Si Un Jour – La Femme

Sunshine Superman – Gabor Szabo

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 198

The Hoxton Creeper's got his eye on you, make sure you listen to this week's show or he'll pay you a visit in the wee small hours.

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Thee songs:       

Three King Fishers – Gabor Szabo

Mash Potato – Witch

Ma Tafou Gnin O – Orchestre Poly Rythmo De Cotonou

Seven Deadly Finns – Eno

Hermits On Holiday - Drinks

What You Want – Sheer Mag

Ineffable Dresscode – Hayvanlar Alemi

Fuck _ The Gaslamp Killer

Voodoo Chile – The New Piccadillys

All the Time- Los Mockers

Alone Again – King Khan & BBQ Show

Wasting My Time – The Jackets

Hummingbird – The Fresh & Onlys

Penny Lane – The Better Beatles

It’s Lame – Figures Of Light

In Her Kitchen – The Wave Pictures

Liberty – Kitchen & the Plastic Spoons

Ruins – Wooden Shjips

This Is Madness – Umar Bin Hassan

The Wig – Lorenzo Holden

Dance of the Doom – Frankie Stein

Parasites – Subsonics

Being Boiled – Human League

Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes) – Dee Dee Sharp

Hey Little Rich Girl – Amy Winehouse

No Romance – The Fates

Will O’ The Wisp – Miles Davis

Strong Island – J.V.C.F.O.R.C.E.