Playlist -- April 22, 2009

Ballboy -- Avant Garde Music (Guide for the Daylight Hours)
Suede -- The Drowners (Suede)
Pulp -- This is Hardcore (This is Hardcore)
Glasvegas -- Geraldine (Glasvegas)
Frightened Rabbit -- Heads Roll Off (Midnight Organ Fight)
Jesus & Mary Chain -- April Skies (Darklands)
Pet Shop Boys -- Love, etc. (Yes)
Madness -- It Must Be Love (Divine Madness)
Depeche Mode -- Personal Jesus (Violator)
Camera Obscura -- French Navy (My Maudlin Career)
St. Etienne -- You're In a Bad Way (Singles)
The Boy Least Likely To -- Saddle Up (Law of the Playground)
Radio Department -- Pulling Our Weight (Labrador 100)
Neil Halstead -- A Gentle HEart (Oh Mighty Engine)
Leisure Society -- Last of the Melting Snow (The Sleeper)
Superstar -- Barfly (Greatest Hits Vol. 1)
Stereolab -- Wow & Flutter (Mars Audiac Quintet)
Gene -- Sleep Well Tonight (Olympian)
Guillemots -- Trains to Brazil (From the Cliffs)
James -- Waterfall (Hey Ma)
Wonder Stuff -- Maybe (Never LOved Elvis)
The Fall -- Hey Luciani! (50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong)
Editors -- Smokers OUtside the Hospital Doors (An End Has A Start)
Flight of the Conchords -- Bowie (Flight of the Conchords)

Playlist for April 8, 2009

The Jam -- Going Underground (Sound of...)
Ikara Colt -- At The Lodge (Chat & Business)
The Fall -- Fiery jack (50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong)
Badly Drawn Boy -- Degrees of Separation (Born in the UK)
Camera Obscura -- Shine Like a New Pin (Biggest Bluest Hi fi)
Sean Lennon -- Headlights (Friendly Fire)
Robyn Hitchcok -- Belltown Ramble (Ole, Tarantula)
Lloyd Cole -- Music in a Foreign Language (Music in a Foreign Language)
Neil Halstead -- A Gentle Heart (Oh Mighty Engine!)
Echo & The Bunnymen -- Ocean Rain (Ocean Rain)
British Sea Power -- Waving Flags (Do You Like Rock Music?)
Divine Comedy -- I'm All You Need (A Short Album About Love)
Eurythmics -- When Tommorrow Comes (Revenge)
Black Box Recorder -- Girl Singing in the Wreckage (Child Psychology)
Cocteau Twins -- Rilkean Heart (Milk & Kisses)
Prefab Sprout -- Appetite (Steve McQueen)
Aztec Camera -- Walk Out To Winter (Retrospect)
Kinks -- Where Have All The Good Times Gone? (BBC Sessions)
Brian Eno -- The True Wheel (Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy)
Nick Cave -- Midnight Man (Dig Lazarus Dig!!!)
Jilted John -- Jilted John (UK Pop I)
Strawberry Switchblade -- Since Yesterday (Living In Oblivion)
Ride -- Twisterella (Going Blank Again)

Ahhhh, England....

At the risk of reducing my week in England to a single cliched image, here I am in the Truf Tavern pub in Oxford, pint in hand, fish & chips on the table in front of me.

NB: It's not raining. Or snowing.

Playlist for March 25, 2009

Badly Drawn Boy -- You Were Right (Have You Fed the Fish?)
Delgados -- Coming in from the Cold (Hate)
Blur -- End of a Century (Best of)
James -- Whiteboy (Hey Ma)
Lightning Seeds -- Sense (Sense)
Belle & Sebastian -- Another Sunny Day (Life Pursuit)
Stereo Total -- Dactylo Rock (Stereo Total)
Southside Stalkers -- Five (Sound of Speed)
Cocteau Twins -- Seekers Who Are Lovers (BBC Sessions)
St. Etienne -- Like a Motorway (Travel Edition)
Black Box Recorder -- The English Motorway (Facts of Life)
Bjork -- Play Dead (Greatest Hits)
Nick Drake -- Hazey jane II (Bryter Layter)
Neil Halstead -- A Gentle Heart (Oh Mighty Engine!)
Sondre Lerche -- You Know So Well (Faces Down)
Ballboy -- A Day in Space (Club Anthems)
Acid House Kings -- This & That (Labrador 100)
Club 8 -- Missing You (Labrador 100)
Lasse Lindh -- C'Mon Through (Labrador 100)
Leslies -- Dear Friend (Labrador 100)
Maps -- Elouise (We Can Create)
My Bloody Valentine -- Blown a Wish (Loveless)
Slowdive -- When the Sun Hits (Souvlaki)
Hidden Cameras -- Builds the Bone (Mississauga Goddam)
Dire Straits -- Going Home, theme from Local Hero (Alchemy -- Live)

Playlist from March 11, 2009

Longpigs -- She Said (The Sun is Often Out)
Suede -- So Young (Suede)
Radiohead -- Climbing the Walls (OK Computer)
The Fall -- Sparta FC (The Real New Fall LP)
The Jam -- In The City (The Sound of the Jam)
Ballboy -- You Can't Spend Your Whole Life Hanging Round With Arseholes (Guide for the Daylight Hours)
Supergrass -- Richard III (In It For The Money)
Teenage Fanclub -- Personality Crisis (Velvet Goldmine)
The Futureheads -- A to B (The Futureheads)
Looper -- Impossible Things #2 (Up a Tree)
Pipettes -- Pull Shapes (We Are The Pipettes)
Trashcan Sinatras -- Hayfever (I've Seen Everything)
Frightened Rabbit -- Fast Blood (Midnight Organ Fight)
Brian Eno & John Cale -- Empty Frame (Wrong Way Up)
Travis -- Battleships (The Boy With No Name)
Elbow -- Scattered Black & Whites (Asleep at the Back)
Neil Halstead -- A Gentle Heart (Oh Mighty Engine)
Divine Comedy -- Frog Princess (Casanova)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -- Let Those Blue Skies (How I Long to Feel That Summer In My Heart)
Lloyd Cole -- Margo's Waltz (Don't Get Weird on Me Babe)
The Cure -- Pictures of You (Disintegration)
Clinic -- Harvest (Visitations)
Camera Obscura -- Let's Get Out of This Country (Let's Get Out of This Country)
British Sea Power -- It Ended on an Oily Stage (Open Season)

Eyebrow Dance

When I try to tell people that ads in the UK are far more creative and funny than ads in the US, this is the kind of thing I am thinking of.

Playlist from February 25, 2009

Inspiral Carpets, feat. Meak E. Smith -- I Want You (Saturn 5)
KT Tunstall -- If Only (Drastic Fantastic)
British Sea Power -- Carrion (The Decline Of...)
My Bloody Valentine -- When You Sleep (Loveless)
Elbow -- The Bones of You (The Seldom Seen Kid)
Ed Harcourt -- The Birds Will Sing For Us (From Every Sphere)
Belle & Sebastian -- I'm Waking Up to Us (Push Barman to Open Old Wounds)
Strawberry Switchblade -- Since Yesterday (Living in Oblivion, 1980s collection)
Stereo Total -- I am Naked (Do The Bambi)
Kate Bush -- Hounds of Love (Whole Story)
George Harrison -- When We Was Fab (Cloud Nine)
The Cure -- Catch (Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me)
Madness -- Michael Caine (Divine Madness)
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset -- Sea Song (The Bairns)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -- Where Does Yer Go Now? (How I Long to Feel That Summer In My Heart)
Stina Nordenstam -- Hopefully Yours (And She Closed Her Eyes)
Jens Lekman -- You Put Your Arms Around Me (Night Falls Over Kortdala)
Flight of the Conchords -- Bowie (Flight of the Conchords)
Neil Halstead -- Sometimes the Wheels (Oh! Mighty Engine)
Nick Cave -- Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! (Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!)
Frightened Rabbit - Heads Roll Off (Midnight Organ Fight)
James -- Tomorrow (Best Of)
Turin Brakes -- Hidden Track (Ether Song)