Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 107

Welcome to the weekend Polyvinylists, have some of this. 

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The songs

Come Again – Au Pairs

9 ‘Til 5 – The Meters

Mr Adams – White Fence

Five Years Ahead of My Time – The Third Bardo

I Call My Baby Pussycat – Parliament

Five Long Years – The Yardbirds

Old Fangs – Black Mountain

Summer Round – The Belbury Poly

Inside My Head – Kelley Stoltz

Don’t Fit in My Head – The Beets

Los Angeles – Jacuzzi Boys

Let Me Show You – Glen Athens and the Trojans

We’ve Got A Long Way To Go – The Del-Vetts

Love Is All – The Rapture

The Gift – The Velvet Underground

Lift Up Your Hood – DMZ

Suffice To Say – Yachts

To the Ramones – Dustin’s Bar Mitzvah

I Get Hard – Country Teasers

Falling In Love Again – William S Burroughs

Help I’m A Rock – The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

Hamster In A Cage – Harlan T Bobo

There Ain’t No Other Baby For You (But Me) – Swampmeat

Lover Street – Heavy Trash

Blitz – Cult Maniax

Hammond Song – The Colourfield

Giant – The The

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 106

Welcome to the weekend PVC people, we've had a deep dig into the record boxes this week and have come up with a bunch of artists that have never featured in previous shows.

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The songs:

The Leper – Dinosaur Jr

Gloves – The Horrors

Straight Shooter – Reigning Sound

Some Fools Mess – Gallon Drunk

Blind Man with A Pistol – DM Bob & the Deficits

Girls Want You – The Devil

Keep in the Dark – Temples

Buffalo – Stump

Cream of the Crop – No Choice

Le Two-Step Du Motorcycle – Mama Rosin

Night of the Lotus Eaters – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

I Don’t Wanna Go Out – Graham Coxon

Strange – Wire

I Love Her – The Kubas

The Most Exalted Potentate of Love – The Cramps

Recorded By the Devil – The Dead Pirates

The Corner Man – Barrence Whitfield and the Savages

Sons of the Stage – World Of Twist

Pretty Suzanne – Monks

Last of the Buff Medways – The Buff Medways

Beaver Shot – The Periscopes

Upa Neguinho – United Future Organisation

Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordion? – The Lovely Eggs

Leroy Faster - Black Lips

I Am the Cosmos – Chris Bell

Black History Month – Death From Above 1979

Nothing Can Stop Us – Saint Etienne

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 105

Daily Mail readers, #105 is for you! Download it here.

This week's songs

Blew – Nirvana

Suicidal Flowers – Crystal Chandelier

Lady Godiva’s Operation – Velvet Underground

Southend Express – The Severed Limb

She’s Just Fifteen Years Old – The Milkshakes

Do You Remember Being A Roller? – Hunx

I Will – Sebadoh

Border Country – Swell Maps

Relentless Machines – Thomas Function

Human Fly – The Cramps

Ricky – Butthole Surfers

The Sun Don’t Shine – The Shivas

Contraption/ Soul Desert – Thee Oh Sees

Vertigo – The Libertines

The Upside Down Cross – Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard

Baby Baby Baby – Ty Segall

Unbelievable – Grass Widow

Summer Wine – Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood

Come Clean – Jeru the Damaja

Believe ESP – Deerhoof

I Don’t Need You – Coach Whips

Clear Spot – Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band

No Ideas – Parquet Courts

Heathen Child (Andrew Weatherall Remix) – Grinderman

Glitter and Gold – Cheap Talk

Egyptian Shumba – The Tammys

One For the Road – Ronnies Lane’s Slim Chance

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 104

So, this week we not only have 27 cracking songs to tickle and arouse your earholes, we also have the answers to our covers quiz from show 100.

To listen to all the goodness and find out how you got on you can download here.

If you'd rather listen while reading the tracklisting and the quiz answers below, here you go:

This week's playlist:

Hey Willy – Shannon and the Clams

Licorice Root & Chamomile Tea – King Lollipop

The Power – Shannon and the Clams

Help Out – Thee Headcoatees

Who Are You? – Ty Segall

The Criminal Inside Me – RL Burnside

Bobo Boogie – Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds

Cave In Italy – Subsonics

Tomboy – Acid Baby Jesus

Rocket USA – Suicide

Secret Surprise – Joanna Gruesome

It’s My Life – The Hammersmith Gorillas

Roxanne’s Revenge – Roxanne Shanté

Push th’ Little Daisies – Ween

Shake Shake – White Denim

Dear Dark J – J.C. Satan

Zed the Mythical Goat – Bazooka

Psycosis V – Los Peyotes

Sugar On Top – The Dirtbombs

Blue Bayou – Roy Orbison

Big Time – Rudi

Freestylin’ – Grey Boy

Funnel Of Love – The Fall

Preaching the Blues – The Gun Club

Moanin’ At Midnight – Howlin’ Wolf

The Wall – Hapshash and the Coloured Coat

Poor Man’s Prison – Gene Vincent

...and here are the competition answers, cover artist first, then song title followed by original artist. To find out who won you'll have to listen to the show!

1. The Briefs, Come Dancing, The Kinks

2. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, In The Ghetto, Elvis Presley

3. Renegade Soundwave, Can't Get Used To Losing You, Andy Williams

4. Psychic TV, Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys

5. Teenage Fan Club, Like A Virgin, Madonna

6. The Cute Lepers, Lonely Boy, The Professionals

7. Ronnie Spector, You Cant Put Your Arms Around A Memory, Johnny Thunders (bonus point for guest vocalist Joey Ramone)

8. J Mascis, Circle, Edie Brickell

9. Mary Weiss, Stop & Think Its Over, Compulsive Gamblers

10. Brian Auger Trinity, Green Onions, Booker T and the MG's

11. The Specials, You're Wondering Now, Andy & Joey

12. The Lemonheads, Luka, Suzanne Vega

PVC #100 competition closing Sunday

We are closing the covers quiz we ran to celebrate our 100th show on Sunday night. I know there are some of you out there who have started but not sent your answers in, so look lively, you've only got until the end of the weekend. 

You're not going to need to get 100% to win so don't be put off by the fact you don't know 'em all.

Here's what the winner will get.

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 103

Songs. 27 of them. All of them are mighty good. Listen to them. Download them. Come back next week and listen to some more. Good.

The Songs

Te Amo – Los Saicos

Slow Down – Jack Earls

The Rats Revenge Part 1 – The Rats

Call the Police – Oblivians

Raised Eyebrows – The Feelies

Neverminding – Hooded Fang

Jack On Fire – The Gun Club

Mater – Sic Alps

Please Stop Fucking Each Other – Country Teasers

Little Toys On a Shelf – The Pharmacy

A Foreign Play – Lost Sounds

Motorhead Mit Mir – Nobunny

Twist & Shout – The Cramps

I Just Don’t Understand – Ann-Margaret

I Wanna Go Home – Shannon and the Clams

That Man – The Fall

Circle – Wild Man Fischer

Bomb Disneyland – The Fat White Family

Run To Your Mama (Hookworms Remix) – Goat

Tenement Kid – Primal Scream

You and Me – Strange Boys

Willow Weep For Me – Pete Molinari

Faraway Land – J.C. Satan

I Told You So – The Hussy

Too Deep – Gang Starr

Tell Me (What’s On Your Mind) – Allah Las

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Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 102

Banana Splits or Animal Kwackers? Which slightly psychedelic fluffy animal men in suits band do you prefer? Were you an HR Pufnstuf fan? Anyone seen the Japanese Ultraman TV show? There's something undeniably appealing about watching men lumbering around in rubber or furry costumes in today's CGI dominated landscape.

What's that got to do with this week's show you might be wondering? Nothing really apart from the last song being the classic Tra La La Song by The Banana Splits. Here's your download, have fun.

The songs

Up And At Them – The Living Eyes

Editions of You – Roxy Music

Ain’t It Fun – Rocket From The Tombs

Double Line – Heavy Trash

No Pussy Blues – Grinderman

Straighten Out – The Stranglers

Brother Gog – Tony King

Winter’s Warm – Eddy Current Suppression Ring

The Rock – Atomic Rooster

If You Want This Love – The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

Futterman’s Rule – Beastie Boys

Innocent Little Doggie – George Coleman

Hey Orpheus – Make Up

Quiet – Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Jackpot – The Roulettes

Mud In Your Eyes – Hunx and his Punx

When I Get Off – DMZ

You Are My Sunshine – The Ted Taylor Four

What A Waster – Adam Green

The Alarm – Coachwhips

Cream of the Young – The Fat White Family

Hot Wax – Beck

Just Drums – Tapes ‘n Tapes

Born On The Floor – Make Up

September Gurls – Big Star

Monk Chant (Live) – The Monks

The Tra La La Song – The Banana Splits