Hello, fellow music fanatics, and welcome to a new episode of the Listening Party. Please pull up your favourite chair and settle in for another trawl through David’s extensive music collection.
This week we start a new mixtape: Stephanie Felice’s second, which she informed Dave was for her boyfriend who liked Joy Division. Dave immediately jumped at the chance to put together a fabulous post-punk mixtape extravaganza!
What Mary – who has more than once declared a strong aversion to music from the 1980s – will make of this is anyone’s guess. Tune in for possible outrage!
Thanks for listening.
This week we are listening to:
- Kleenex – “Ain’t You” – from the Rough Trade single b/w “Hedi’s Head”, 1978
- Sleaford Mods – “Under the Plastic and N.C.T.” – Divide and Exit, 2014
- Low – “What Part of Me” – Ones and Sixes, 2015
- The Super Friendz – “!0 lbs.” – Mock Up, Scale Down, 1995
- XTC – “Are You Receiving Me?” – Go2, 1979
- Ezra Furman – “Lousy Connection” – Perpetual Motion People, 2015
- The Raincoats – “In Love” – The Raincoats, 1979
- Sparks – “Metaphor” – Hello, Young Lovers, 2006
- Pavement – “Grave Architecture” – Wowie Zowie, 1995
- Field Music – “Luck Is a Fine Thing” – Field Music, 2005
- The Fall – “Hip Priest” – Hex Enduction Hour, 1982
Also played on this week’s show:
- John Cooper Clarke – “Evidently Chickentown” – Snap, Crackle & Bop, 1980
Here is Ed Draganski’s 2017 Playlist in full without our interruptions:
- Shattered – The Rolling Stones
- All The Young Dudes (David Bowie_Ian Hunter) – Mott the Hoople
- Magic – Pilot
- Movie Star – Harpo
- Pick Up The Pieces – Average White Band
- Song 2 – Blur
- Clap Your Hands – Parov Stelar
- Blue (Da Ba Dee) – Eiffel 65
- Flathead – The Fratellis
- God Only Knows – John Legend & Cynthia Erivo
- Both Sides Now Oscars 2017 – Sara Bareilles
- Comedy Tonight (Stage Version) – Zero Mostel & Company
- The Sound of Fear – Eels
- Just Another Day – Lady Gaga
- Living (feat. Alex Clare) – Bakermat
- ust A Little – Beau Brrummels
- City Lights – Glen Iris
- Suddenly I See – KT Tunstall
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D Minor – Franz Liszt
- Never My Love – The Association
- Words Of Love – The Mamas and The Papas
- Popsicles and Icicles – The Murmaids
And if you would like to see Ed’s great cover designs for his mixes, follow this link.
Thanks for sending in your playlist, Ed!
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Well, that was a whole truckload of awesomeness, and Mary showed mucho restraint in spite of her stated aversion to ’80’s music. Kudos to you!
David, I liked your talk about the punk and post-punk thing; reminded me of the Impressionists (there were only three of them) and the post-Impressionists (so many!!). But, back to the music: I also really liked how you took the post-punk thing and were able to find songs in that genre that span so many decades.
Basically, I loved them all, in particular, The Fall and Pavement. Sleaford Mods I had never heard before and really loved, too.
I like Edward’s list too – in particular, his very strong #2 song, All the Young Dudes. That’s a whole lot of awesomeness!
Thanks Lezah! And this was one of the better playlists of mine! You should have seen one of the older ones…
All the Young Dudes is a song that my late friend liked, so really, Thank You. He was a whole lot of awesomeness too.
“Why did the punk rocker cross the road/Because he was stapled to the chicken…”
…is still the most entertaining thing to come of the punk music era as far as I’m concerned. But I did enjoy broadening my musical horizons with these post-punk selections. (The post-er, the better!)
Thanks, Ed, for including that cover of God Only Knows on your playlist. I hadn’t heard it before, but it’s a really beautiful interpretation of the song.
For the record (as it were) polkas are in 2/4 time. Speaking of polka, Dave, if you aren’t a fan Lady Gaga’s Poker Face, maybe you should check out the music video for Weird Al’s “Polka Face”, a medley of a several recent pop hits accompanied by vignettes in different styles of animation.
Many Thanks to David and Mary (who is absolutely precious) for taking the time to discuss my goofy, old playlist! I do want to clarify a few things about it since I just dropped it on you with very little explanation.
This will probably make your head explode, but I really have no order to my playlists and I usually play all of them on shuffle when I’m listening to them. With the exception of the first tracks from my 2017 to honor my friend Sean, I just throw the songs on chronologically as I hear them. But there is some methods to my madness and why I have some of these on the list.
Magic by Pilot has a connection to the 70’s for me, I can remember waking to this on a sunny, summer morning as a kid.
Movie Star by Harpo is sappy I’ll admit, but I listen to it as if it were being used to intro an awards show like the Oscars. Remember when they used to do that?
Song 2 by Blur and Clap Your Hands by Parov Stelar were Shazamed from TV commercials, I’m pretty sure of it. So Mary, you were being very astute when you mentioned that they sounded like ads.
Blue Da Ba Dee by Eiffel 65 was from the intro to Iron Man 3…it’s also my wife’s ringtone!
Flathead by The Fratellis….I’m not sure why it’s there, but it’s funny you mentioned Chelsea Dagger because it’s on my 2011 Playlist!! Go Blackhawks!!
God Only Knows – John Legend & Cynthia Erivo is very good and that song never gets old for me. I think I heard them sing this on an award show, the same way I did Both Sides Now by Sara Bareilles
Comedy Tonight by Zero Mostel makes me think of a segment I saw on TV once featuring a bunch of clips of classic comedians…yep, you guessed it, The Marx Brothers.
The Sound of Fear by Eels was played by my boss on his boat years ago. I think of that one experience when I hear it like it’s from a soundtrack from my time with my work friends.
I kind of like Lady Gaga, not great…but something about her thrills me when I hear her.
When you mentioned Living (feat. Alex Clare) by Bakermat from my playlist, even I couldn’t remember it. The runt of the list I guess.
Dude! How great are The Beau Brummels?? Right?
Okay, let me explain why Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt is there. It’s reminiscent of Roger Rabbit! I really do love classic music of all kinds and eras, but I woke up one morning and heard this on my Dallas station and had to have it because it reminded me of the Who Framed Roger Rabbit trailers. I usually have at least one classical track on every playlist, it’s like a tradition…
The Association is wonderful and I love pretty much all their work.
Words Of Love by The Mamas and The Papas….nobody can belt it out like Mama Cass, I binged them on Spotify to find this.
Oooops! I just realized I left off “So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star” by The Byrds!!! DAMN!!
Popsicles and Icicles by The Murmaids is at the end because it reminds me of a song they’d end an episode with and roll the credits…like a murder or something awful with this sweet, sappy song.
So I guess these playlists of mine evoke all sorts of personal memories and feelings for me, they’re kind of like a digital song journal of sorts to me. I used to take a 45 minute train ride every morning to work and I need stuff to listen to on the way, that’s how these playlists started.
Thanks again for taking the time for these, a very kind gesture! And by the way, we have awesome Barbecue in Dallas, we also have great Tex-Mex food as well. If you guys ever visit Dallas I’ll take you out for some!!
Hugs! Not Drugs!!
Edward
I almost forgot to comment on the content from this week’s show! I’m not a huge follower of punk or post-punk, which means I’ll probably listen to this show again just to get the flow a little better and prepare me for part 2. XTC and Sparks were familiar and I favored those over everything. Another Great Show Guys!!!
Wow, that brought back some nice memories of my teenage years, when I would stay up late listening to John Peel on Radio 1. The point with that show was never to enjoy all the songs – I suspect even Peel and his producer John Walters didn’t actually like everything they played – but to explore new sounds and challenge your boundaries. That’s something all of Dave’s Listening Party playlists do for me, and I’m really grateful for this experience. Think I’m really getting into Field Music now too!
Kudos to Ed for sharing a really eclectic and interesting playlist. It ertainly passed the four likes test for me, and then some. I also usually create unordered playlists these days and enjoy hearing what a random shuffle will do with them, and I like the contrasts of different genres rubbing up against one another – er, if that’s the phrase I’m looking for.
Dave, I think the Mamas and Papas cover you were thinking of might have been Dream a Little Dream of Me, which Cass sings sublimely (of course).
For anyone new to John Cooper Clarke, I wouldn’t judge him on the early albums that put those big, clanking beats behind his poems. These always did his work a disservice, in my opinion, and he’s much better and funnier when left to riff away on his own. Here’s a very short clip of one of my favourites: