Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 285

July's last show brings some jazz-funk-kiddie-fusion from Laggers, a particularly cracking trio of songs in the middle from Miggins and a final flourish of Bs from Coop.

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Thee Songs:

Living In A Memory – The Growlers

Solar Envy – The Bellybuttons

Goodbye Butterfly – Brian Jonestown Massacre

Can’t Just Be Friends – Bad Sports

Sissyneck – Beck

Take My Hand – Matt Berry

Todo Termino – Juan Waters

Animal Song – Shonen Knife

Wild Man – Thee Headcoatees

Miranda – Phil Ochs                  

Tell Her – The Movement

I Won’t Be Your Fool – Melvin Davis

Surrender to the Rhythm – Brinsley Schwartz

Schweinerei – Kid Creole & the Coconuts

Two Thieves – Compulsive Gamblers

Dinner Where I’m Staying – Ryan Sambol

Texas Jail Cell – Jon Wayne

The Cruel Pang of Beauty – Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue

Si Un Jour – La Femme

Certain Kinds of Trash – Chain & the Gang

Memories Can’t Wait – Talking Heads

Pills – Bo Diddley

Armagideon Time – Willie Williams

Do You Realise – The Flaming Lips

Tumblewash – Daphne Oram

All You Need to Make Music – Stark Reality

Too Shy – Moe Tucker

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 284

More Killer Bs from Coop, Miggins and Lagger utilise a far wider range of letters.

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Thee Songs: 

Transport Overseas – Ten Benson 

Slug Song – The Clean 

Several Yards (Foxtrot) – Stack Waddy 

Every Night – Joe White 

Bounce Me Johnny – The Slickers 

Wind Storm – Crystalites 

She Don’t Care About Time – The Byrds 

Farmer John – Bloods 

Fearless Vampire Killers – Bad Brains 

Daddy’s Going to County Jail – Wesley Willis 

Defcon 3 – Man Or Astro-Man? 

Brahma – Hooded Fang 

Kowalski – Primal Scream 

Before the Evening/s Thru – The Vacant Lots 

Spoon – Can 

Something’s Got to Give (Live) – Beastie Boys 

Click Click – The Beat 

Who Care What the Version Is? – The Bees 

City Hoppers – Ten Benson 

By You – Fugazi 

My Infatuation – The Contortions 

Last Letter – Fergus & Geronimo 

Sugar Baby – Crystal Stilts 

I’d Much Rather Be With the Boys – Reigning Sound 

I Wanna Be A Star – The Black Jaspers 

Time’s Up – Buzzcocks 

Yellow Brick Road – Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 283

Today's show is brought to you in conjunction with the letter B (at least Coop's songs are, and two of Miggins coincidentally). Laggers keeps the B card firmly hidden in the back pocket of his beige crushed velvet leisure suit.

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Thee Songs: 

Maybellene – Chuck Berry

Have Fun – Bleeding Knees Club

Izhar Bhi Mushkil Hai – Nisar Bazmi

The Claw – Ten Benson

My Own Private P. Swayze – The Male Nurse

Precaution – Pylon

La Llarona – Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds

Entrance Song – The Black Angels

Stone Cold – The Black Lips

Brave Exhibitions – Boys Next Door

Grilled Cheese – Boris the Sprinkler

Mambo Sun – The Bongos

No Golden Throat – Lizzie Mercier Descloux

We Ain’t Coming Back – Yussuf Jerusalem

Lucie – Fungi Girls

Kim’s Watermelon Gun – The Flaming Lips

Yonder Is Closer to the Heart – Parquet Courts

I Can Make It Without You Baby – The Innovations

I Love the way You Love – Bunny Brown

Seven Day Weekend – Gary U.S. Bonds

A New England – Billy Bragg

Turn Me Well – Micachu

The Mayor of Emerald City – Die Goldenen Zitronen

Just Let Go –The Seeds

By Water – Stratis

Kindling for the Master (Major Swellings Remix – Vocal) – Stephen Malkmus

Listen to the Music – David Candy

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 282

The usual luverly mixture of newies and oldies from Laggers and Miggins. Coop starts a twice monthly alphabetical trawl through his record boxes and shelves in a bid to dig a bit deeper into his collection. This show is brought to you by the letter A.

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Thee Songs: 

Christopher Robin – Melanie 

Slow Peace – Stanley Brinks and the Kaniks 

Dried Out Dream – The Pheromoans 

Take Me To The Girl (12” Mix) – The Associates 

Busted (Michaelangelo Version) – Barry Adamson 

Oh, Aurelia – Acid Baby Jesus 

Red Right Hand – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 

Do You Like Me – Fugazi 

I Do Dream You – Jennifer Gentle 

Tablet of Linear B – Wild Billy Chyldish and The Spartan Dreggs 

Eyes On the Floor – Omni 

Mum’s the Word – Chain & the Gang 

Guess I’m Falling In Love – The A-Bones 

Animal and Men – Adam and the Ants 

White Shoes – Atomic Suplex 

El Camino – Ween 

Stairway to Croydon – Dan Melchior 

Estalacticas – Juana Molina 

Mary Jane – Slim Twig 

Unwrap the Fiend Pt 2 – Thee Oh Sees 

That’s What You Get For Falling Out of Bed – Grandaddy 

(If You Think You’re) Groovy – P.P. Arnold 

29 – The Abigails 

Dr Fantastic – Apple Pie and Custard 

The Gardener – Rudimentary Peni 

Animals – Spider King 

Piledriver – Dennis the  Fox