Polyvinyl Craftsmen's Most Played 2017

It's time for our annual countdown of the most played PVC artists from the last 12 months. Here is how 2017 played out.............

Joint 6th place with 9 plays are:

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band




and

Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintops




Joint 5th place with 11 plays are:

The many guises of Billy Childish




and

Ian Svenonius' various incarnations




and

Baxter Dury




4th place with 12 plays:

Parquet Courts/Fergus & Geronimo




3rd place with 13 plays:

The Wave Pictures/Surfing Magazines




Equal 2nd with 14 plays:

The Fall




and

Greg Cartwright for solo, Reigning Sound, Compulsive Gamblers and Oblivians




and

Ben Wallers' many projects





Which means that keeping the top spot for another year with 15 plays:

John Dwyer for Thee Oh See/Oh Sees, Coachwhips and Damaged Bug




See you in 2018!

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Lou Reed Special Redux

No new show this week so here is our Lou Reed Special from 2013 which was lost on the black hole for the last 4 years. 

A selection of Lou, VU, covers and artists influenced by the man.

Happy Christmas from your PVC pals.




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Thee songs:
White Light/ White Heat – Velvet Underground
Blue Boy – Orange Juice
Heroin – Burnt Ones
Your Love – Lewis Reed Group
Femme Fatale – Big Star
You Trip Me Up – Jesus and Mary Chain
Train Round The Bend – Velvet Underground
Kingsmeet – Thee Oh Sees
Show Me The Coast – The War On Drugs
Sunday Morning – Velvet Underground
Caroline Says – Marc And The Mambas
You’re Just Too Dark To Care – Primal Scream
Andy’s Chest – Lou Reed
Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground
The Organisation – The Herms
The Ostrich – The Primitives
Buzz Buzz Buzz – The Primitives
Frankenstein – Subsonics
I’m Waiting For The Man – Warm Soda
The Modern Age – The Strokes
Inside My Head – Kelley Stoltz
Who Loves The Sun – Teenage Fanclub
Pale Blue Eyes – Paul Quinn and Edwyn Collins
Perfect Day – Lou Reed
What Goes On - Velvet Underground
Run Run Run - Velvet Underground
Vicious – Blitz
Sweet Jane – Cowboy Junkies
Goodnight Ladies – Lou Reed

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 305

Join us in thee shed for this week's fez-tivities!

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Thee Songs:

Walking in the Dark – Escape-ism

Message to the Messengers – Gil Scott-Heron

Elephant Pao Pao – Shonen Knife

I’m An Old Cowhand – Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks

Exit Plexit – Simply Saucer

Electricity – Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

A Part of Me – Country Funk

Paranoiaclaustrophobia:Dub – Basement 5

Motorbike – Flat Worms

I Am ‘Cosmetic Man’ – The Yummy Fur

The Colonel – Terry

Bad Education – The Blue Orchids

The Rabbit's Nose – Shannon & the Clams

Turn Your Damper Down – Rufus Thomas

Daddy Rollin’ Stone – Derek Martin

Lovings Machine – Rob Jo Star Band

Masterplanned – Soulwax

Lorelei – Thee Jezebels

Cosoco – Juana Molina

Spanish Dance – John Fahey

Into My Arms – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Delirium and Persecution – Nap Eyes

Hits Hits Hits – The Fat White Family

Vitamin C – Can

Dirty Money – Antibalas

The Dark End of the Street – James Carr

Winter Wonderland – The Ramsey Lewis Trio

Francesca’s Party – Baxter Dury

Vidual – King Krule

Goodnight Irene – Spike Milligan & Jeremy Taylor

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 304

Twenty seven aural delicacies............

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Thee songs:

Le Beefteak – Forever Pavot

Shrinking Particles – Suzanne Ciani

Big Fuckin’ Party (Pt. 1) – The Devil Dogs

Please Ban Music/Gegen Alles – Country Teasers

Fall Sound – The Fall

The Jungle Swing – C.W. Stoneking

I Think I Smell A Rat – Diff’rent Strokes

Julie’s Resolution – The Rebel

Adeus Maria Fulô – Os Mutantes

Je Voudrais Dancer Avec Toi – Les Bois Sirop

Can’t Take It – Schitzophonics

Forgiveness – Emma de Angelis

Now Your Smile Comes Over In Your Voice – The Wave Pictures

A Year With No Head – Blue Orchids

Graffiti – Digable Planets

L.F.O. – Grandaddy

Fucker – Eels

Sun Hits the Sky – Supergrass

Teenage Kicks – Thee Headcoatees

Space Oddity – The Flaming Lips

Expectation – Roger Roger/Nino Nardini

Gingham Smalls 2 – Baxter Dury

Let’s Be Bad – Childbirth

Target – Fugazi

New Drug Queens – The Pink Mountaintops

Return to Foam – The Intelligence

Where – Little Wings

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 303

Here you go shadowlickers, it's transmission three oh three.....

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Thee songs:

I’m Insane – T-Model Ford

Sun Zoom Spark – Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

Harder Than It’s Ever Been – Fergus & Geronimo

Oi – Baxter Dury

Freedom of Choice – Devo

Work Dub – Basement 5

Why Don’t You Do Me Right – Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

They Took the Waves – Escape-ism

For All This – Holly Golightly

Funny – The Black Lips

All You Really Have To Do – White Denim

Liars Beware – Richard Hell & the Voivoids

Pantherman – Pantherman

Everybody – Brinsley Schwarz

I Call On One’s Muse – Rob Jo Star Band

Cut – Minutemen

Blue Water – PiL

Riding Like Rommel – Dan Melchior

Virgin Mary – Nots

Skeleton Rider – Thee Ludds

The Hanging Garden – The Cure

I Shouldn’t Have Said That – The Lovely Eggs

Yü-Gung (Futter Mein Ego) – Einsturzende Neubauten

Melting Pot – Booker T & the MGs

Sister Sister – Baxter Dury

Sunflower River Blues – John Fahey

Oily Way – Gong

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 302

Sorry it's late, stuff happened! Frenchness abounds again this week.

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Thee songs:
Salsa Boogaloo – Sexteto Miramar

A Child of A Few Hours Is Burning to Death – West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

Baby Lemonade – Syd Barreett

I Won’t Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar – The United States of America

Death Patrol – Ariel Pink

Half Man Half Shark – King Crule

Mind – Kas Product

Chaise Electronique – Electrochoc

El Beach – The Limiñanas

No Romance – The Fates

I Feel So Wrong – Sleaford Mods

A Letter to the New York Post – Public Enemy

California Hippie Murders! – Red River Dave

My Life Beats Me – Strange Boys

Orange and Blue – The Surfing Magazines

Shu Ba Du Ba Lou Ba – Serge Gainsbourg

Rocket Man (Instrumental) – Rockets

Danse De L’Enfant Et Le Roi Des Mouches – Jean Claude Vannier

The Intro and the Outro – Bonzo Dog Band

Forsythia – Veruca Salt

Evil Son – Coachwhips

Let’s Spend the Night Together – Muddy Waters

The Organization – The Herms

Se Ba Ho – Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou

Un Soir D’Eté – Nelly Perrier

Champs Élysées – Christine Pilzer

Le Blue Beat – Myriam Martin

Polyvinyl Craftsmen Transmission 301

Some Gallic nuggets from Coop as he'll be in Paris when #301 hits the airwaves, Miggins and Laggers bring you tunes from other parts of the globe. Eclectique!

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Thee Songs:

Main Theme From More – Rosebud

Glenn – Nicolas Godin

Un Soir Chez Norris – Pierre Cavalli

When You Cut – Moon Duo

Le Jour Se Leve – Visible

Moma Yendodo – Ata Kak

Dum Surfer – King Crule

Maryanne – The Shivas

Something for your M.I.N.D. – Superorganism

Do You Dream? – Jack of Heart

Gunblow – Regal

Abandon – J.C. Satan

New York Town – Peter Grudzien

Spidey’s Curse – Black Lips

Don’t Bother Me – George Brigman

Missing – John Martyn

Whiskey Neat – Ed Askew

The Laughing Song – Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks

Connais-Tu L’Animal Qui Inventa Le Calcul Integral? – Evariste

Le Chanson Bête Et Mêchante – Clothilde

J’Ais Mis Un Tigre Dans Ma Guitar – Jacques Dutronc

Inner City Boundaries – Freestyle Fellowship

Overcome – Tricky

Pablo Picasso – The Modern Lovers

Bom Senso – Tim Maia

It’s A Man’s World – James Brown

Git In There – Betty Davis