Vietnamese Baloney [WFMU Playlist 8.3.09]

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J.D. Emmanuel - "7 Note Trance" - Solid Dawn: Electronic Work 1979-1982 *
Scritti Politti - "Sweetest Girl" - Early
Heidi Brühl - "Berlin" - Funky Frauleins * [compilation]
Nomads - "The Way (You Touch My Hand)" - Outburst!
Versus - "Insomnia" - 7"
Brilliant Colors - "Over There" - Brilliant Colors EP *
Arpanet - "NTT DoCoMo" - The Kings of Techno [compilation]
Abba - "The Visitors" - The Visitors [Stolen from Trent. Hi Trent.]

 

Tommy McCook & the Supersonics - "Tracking Dub" - Pleasure Dub *
Getatchew Mekurya - "Shellela" - Ethiopiques Volume 14: Negus Of Ethiopian Sax [compilation]
Zola Jesus - "Clay Bodies" - The Spoils *
Dredd Foole - "Everybody Gotta Go" - Songs to Despond Ya * [Live, 2008]
9353 - "Famous Last Words" - To Whom it May Consume
Special Ed - "Taxing" - Youngest In Charge * [Re-issue, 1989]
Super Som Lord - "BR Samba" - Black Rio 2: Original Samba Soul 1971-1979 * [compilation]
Personal & the Pizzas - "Brass Knuckles" - 7" *
Radio Birdman - "Hanging On" - Living Eyes

Dan Bryk - "The Next Best Thing" - Pop Psychology *
The Marketts - "Theme from 'The Avengers'" - MP3
Cold Cave - "Life Magazine" - Love Comes Close *
Soft Black - "Time Gets Away and Has Its Way With You" - The Earth is Black
Nazz - "Open My Eyes" - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
Yo La Tengo - "Moby Octopad" - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Frankie Avalon - "Venus" - 7"
The Urinals - "Surfing with the Shah" - 7"
Talibam! - "Ghost Cloud" - Boogie in the Breeze Blocks *
La Peste - "Better off Dead" - Killed by Death #9 [compilation]

  

Flipper - "Way of the World" - Fight *
Reigns - "Mab Crease" - The House on the Causeway *
Massive Attack - "Teardrop" - Mezzanine
The Cultural Decay - "Song of Joy" - Eight Ways To Start A Day * [Singles & demos, 80-82]
Ikue Mori - "Redeye Skimmer" - Class Insecta *
Chromeo - "You're So Gangsta" - DJ Kicks--Tiga [compilation]
Axemen - "The Church of the Loosely Brethren" - Scary! Pt. III 2xLP * [orig. 1989 NZ cassette release]
Starlite Desperation - "It Rhymes with Bitch" - 7"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "That Smell" - Street Survivors
Gary War - "What You Are" - Horribles Parade
Nine Nine Nine - "Homicide" - High Energy Plan
Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers - "End Theme" - Buckaroo Banzai [OST]

 

Comments

[Ricky]

holy crap i can't believe you played that scritti politti song! i think i had that on a promo cassette put out my NME magazine back in the day - if not that, another similar compilation. i can remember hearing that song for the first time like it was yesterday - what a gem. thanks.

[r:m:b]

Awesome, thanks Ricky! I've had that song on the brain since watching the amazing Rough Trade records documentary. (Which features its backstory rather prominently, and to fascinating effect.) Check it here, if you haven't seen it already: http://hiptran.typepad.com/blog/2009/04/rough-trade.html

[Tim Kastelle]

Geez - I finally found time to listen to a whole show! Nice one too Mike... A couple of quick comments:

- NTT DoCoMo is the biggest mobile phone carrier in Japan, just in case the need for that fact ever arises again
- I'd like to request pictures of Diana Rigg in all future playlist posts, please
- I'm still thinking you might have paid too much for that Skynyrd tune...

[r:m:b]

Cool, thanks Tim! Roger on the Diana Rigg request... (ahem)... As for Skynyrd, is 89 cents too much to pay for a classic rock confessional? Distanced from all the usual cultural baggage (and then dropped into a set that also features Gary War, Flipper, and Massive Attack), southern rock deepcuts are nothing to fear! -mike

[Tim Kastelle]

You can tell the experienced DJs - soon you'll be walking around trying to figure out how to make the Gustav Mahler to Pat Benatar to Banana Melt segue that you've always been dreaming of...