James's favourite vinyls - a Spotify playlist
 

James made a video this year of his favourite vinyl records (didn't even mention Lifeblood or Lipstick Traces!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy01vJOVswE

If you wanted to listen along, I've made a Spotify playlist of all the tracks (about 98% were available)

James's Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3p...R9asTgIac_uFmQ

The songs/albums were:

01 - Big Flame - Rigour (not available) - used the song Debra
02 - The Skids - Woman in Winter (Song)
03 - Echo and the Bunnymen - Silver and Angels and Devils (songs)
04 - Bodines - Therese (song - not available)
05 - Husker Du - Sorry Somehow (song)
06 - The The - The Beat(en) Generation (song - inspired Boy From the Plantation)
07 - The Wah - Story of the Blues, Pt. 1 & 2 (song - produced by Mike Hedges, A Design for Life's sound)
08 - Diana Ross - My Old Piano (song)
09 - R.Seiliog - Doppler
10 - The Cult - Dreamtime
11 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
12 - Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade (one of Richey's favourite songs)
13 - Rush - Moving Pictures
14 - Simple Minds - Waterfront and Hunter and the Hunted live in Newcastle
15 - Victor Jara - Manifesto (not available, added most songs individually)
16 - Demis Roussos - Forever and Ever
17 - Tom Jones - I Who Have Nothing
18 - Time Zone - World Destruction (song)
19 - That Petrol Emotion - V2 (song)
20 - Ernst Busch ‎– 6 Songs For Democracy (not available, added separately)

Also mentions

21 - Shop Assistants - All Day Long (not available)
22 - Ultramagnetic MCs - ?
23 - Sly and the Family Stone - ?
24 - The Jasmine Minks - ?

Oh cool thanks ! Hadn't heard most of those

Nor me. I’ve long got the feeling he doesn’t really ‘do’ mainstream

Added a few more

https://blogs.taz.de/popblog/2020/10...TAjKtydfbnW_7s

Translation: https://blogs.taz.de/popblog/2020/10...TAjKtydfbnW_7s

25 - Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
26 - Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory (covered by MSP in 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLQjXlgM5M)
27 - The Saints - I'm Stranded
28 - Love Unlimited - Under the Influence of Love
29 - Nina Simone - Compensation
30 - Sault - Wildfires
31 - Holly Near - It Could Have Been Me
32 - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Falling Thunder
33 - John Cale - I Keep a Close Watch
34 - Nico - Desertshore (album)
35 - Rammstein - Sennsucht (album)
36 - Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind

That Rammstein album sounds very THB/JFPL'ish

I've been slowly making my way through this.

My biggest takeaway so far is that early Tom Jones is actually great. The Wah, I can definitely see the Manics falling in love with that. The jump from Jara to the artist following him was a bit like the last Simon & Garfunkle on your mp3 player giving way to Stone Sour. There's actually loads, and it's equal parts a fascinating insight into what makes JDB JDB, a splendidly curated adventure in New music, and just really enjoyable.

On that note, cheers for taking the time to compile it and share it with us, uef. I really appreciate it.

I thought the same, about Tom Jones. Some bangers on that.

Not sure about the 6 songs for Democracy, guessing some of the appeal is the old fashioned “album” format it came in...