Kula Shaker - Hey Dude

Drop in the Sea is a great track and well worth getting this for.

CD 1
1. Hey Dude
2. Troubled Mind
3. Grateful When You're Dead (BBC session)
4. Into The Deep (BBC session)

CD 2
1. Hey Dude
2. Tattva (BBC session)
3. Drop In The Sea
4. Crispian Reading From The Mahabarata (BBC session


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Hey Dude CD1
Hey Dude CD2

Blur - Parklife CD2

Wikipedia say:
"Parklife" is a song by Blur. It is the title track of their 1994 album Parklife. When released as the album's third single, "Parklife" reached #10 in the UK singles chart. The song has spoken verses, narrated by actor Phil Daniels, who also appears in the song's music video.
A number of newspaper articles about the young middle classes' adoption of Estuary English - a phenomenon of which Blur's frontman Damon Albarn was a prominent example - appeared during the single's chart run, including one in The Sunday Times on the day the song entered the singles chart (although Daniels's accent is closer to Cockney).
The song played a part in Blur's supposed feud with fellow Britpop band Oasis when, at the 1996 BRIT Awards, the Gallagher brothers, Liam and Noel, taunted Blur by singing a drunken rendition of "Parklife" (with Liam changing the lyrics to "Shite-life"). The members of Oasis were collecting the "Best British Album" award, which both bands had been nominated for.
The song's video features Daniels as a smarmy double glazing salesman, with Albarn as his assistant and the other band members appearing as various characters from the song. At one point, Albarn is impressed to see a man carrying a placard reading "Modern Life Is Rubbish", the title of Blur's previous album; on the reverse is written "End of a Century", the title of their subsequent single from Parklife.
The song is still very popular today, with occasional radio plays and regular appearances on music television, in shows such as "The Best of... 1994" on The Vault.
In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Parklife" at number 41 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.

1. "Parklife"
2. "Beard"
3. "To The End" (French version)

Download here: Parklife

Blur - Girls and Boys

Wikipedia say:
"Girls & Boys" (or "Girls and Boys") is a song by British rock band Blur and is the lead track on their third album, Parklife. It was released 7 March 1994 as the first single from that album, charting at #5 in the UK Singles Charts (see 1994 in British music). The single was the band's first Top 5 hit.
Lead vocalist Damon Albarn's withering putdowns of trendy pansexuality and aimless hedonism satirise the party culture in the UK, where groups of youths go on holiday to places like Faliraki and Kavos with the sole intention of getting drunk in the local night-clubs. Ironically, it was a huge hit among them, as the electro-pop noise imitated by Graham Coxon gave it regular play among the clubs.
The single release also includes a remix of the track by Pet Shop Boys, who later covered the track live on tour in 1994.

1. "Girls & Boys"
2. "People In Europe"
3. "Peter Panic"

Download here: Girls and Boys

Revolver - Venice

This has one of my favourite cover versions, Since Yesterday was done by Strawberry Switchblade originally, this is such a great cover.

1. Venice

2. Red all Over

3. Since Yesterday

Download Here: Venice

Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough

Kickabout is a strange instrumental but quite catchy too.

1. Ain't That Enough (Love) 3:45
2. Kickabout (TFC) 3:38
3. Broken (Blake) 5:16

Download here: Enough

Teenage Fanclub - I Need Direction

Again a great cover of the Pixies classic.

1. I Need Direction (Love) 4:14
2. On This Good Night (Love) 3:52
3. I Lied (McGinley) 3:44
4. Here Comes Your Man (Black Francis) 3:02

Download Here: Direction

Starsailor - Fever

Starsailor's first single. I think that this band are fantastic and this is a great start to thier career. Check the second album out.

'Fever', the band's first single, was released in early 2001. The song, and its two B-Sides 'Love Is Here' and 'Coming Down' were cut from a demo recording session in the Summer of 2000. All three tracks went on to feature on Starsailor's first album 'Love Is Here', but the latter two were re-recorded.

1. Fever (Demo version)
2. Coming Down (Demo version)
3. Love Is Here (Demo version)

Download here: Fever

Supergrass - Richard III CD1

Just a great Pop/Rock single by a great band.

01: Richard III
02: Sometimes I Make You Sad
03: Sometimes We're Very Sad

Download Here: Richard III CD1

Supergrass - Going Out

Super Supergrass again.

01 Going Out
02 Melanie Davis
03 Strange Ones (live)

Download here: Going Out

Supergrass - Mansize Rooster

"Mansize Rooster" was the second single to be taken from the Britpop band Supergrass' debut album I Should Coco. It reached #20 in the UK Singles Chart, remaining on the chart for three weeks.

01 mansize rooster

02 sitting up straight

03 odd?

Download Here: Mansize

Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz

"Caught By The Fuzz" was the debut single (not including the two limited edition Backbeat Records releases) of Britpop band Supergrass. It was written around the true-life incident of leadsinger Gaz Coombes being arrested for being caught smoking cannabis in his youth. The single reached #43 in the UK Singles Chart and was only on the chart for two weeks.
It was used as the closing theme tune of the 2007 movie, Hot Fuzz, and features on the official soundtrack.

1. "Caught By The Fuzz" - 2:17
2. "Strange Ones" - 3:39
3. "Caught By The Fuzz (Acoustic)" - 3:02

Download Here: Caught By The Fuzz

The Shamen - Move Any Mountain

I thought I would put this on because this was such a huge tune at the time and I wanted to some differant music up here too. Granted I could have picked a better one than this but it is a start.

1. Beat Edit

2. Landslide Mix

3. F2 Mello Mix

4. Mountains In The Sky Mix

Download here: Progen 91

Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain

In his book 31 Songs, Nick Hornby names Songs From Northern Britain as one of his favourite ever albums. He names the introduction to the book after "Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From", and also praises "Ain't That Enough".

1. Start Again (Blake) 3:11
2. Ain't That Enough (Love) 3:42
3. Can't Feel My Soul (McGinley) 3:12
4. I Don't Want Control Of You (Blake) 3:08
5. Planets (Blake/MacDonald) 2:50
6. It's A Bad World (McGinley) 4:20
7. Take The Long Way Round (Love) 3:25
8. Winter (Blake) 3:46
9. I Don't Care (McGinley) 3:06
10. Mount Everest (Love) 5:15
11. Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From (McGinley) 3:29
12. Speed Of Light (Love) 3:53

Download Here: The North

Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix

Great Teenage Fanclub album. I saw them live on this tour and they were great, but I think I have already mention this.. blah blah blah...

1. About You (McGinley) 2:41
2. Sparky's Dream (Love) 3:17
3. Mellow Doubt (Blake) 2:42
4. Don't Look Back (Love) 3:43
5. Verisimilitude (McGinley) 3:31
6. Neil Jung (Blake) 4:48
7. Tears (Blake) 2:43
8. Discolite (Love) 3:07
9. Say No (McGinley) 3:12
10. Going Places (Love) 4:28
11. I'll Make It Clear (Blake) 2:33
12. I Gotta Know (McGinley) 3:27
13. Hardcore/Ballad (Blake) 1:48

Download Here: Grand Prix

Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows

This is my favourate Fannies song, Everything Flows. just amazing.

1. Everything Flows (Blake) 5:12
2. Primary Education (Blake) 2:50
3. Speeder (Blake/McGinley) 1:36
4. Don't Cry No Tears (Neil Young) 2:30


Download Here: Everything

The Animalhouse - Ready to Receive Promo (Single)

Sorry not much to say here nor can I find a cover. So crappy cover and no playlist, my standard will improove I promise.

Download here: Ready to Receive Promo

Kula Shaker - K

This is by far one of my favourate albums ever. Just listen to it and judge for yourself.

The Britpop quartet Kula Shaker appears to have raided the closets of its favourite bands in the making of its debut album. K contains a bluesy, retro ambience very much like The Stone Roses and Primal Scream. The full-throttled guitars sound like those of Oasis. And a hefty dose of Hindu mysticismruns rampant throughout--a la Cornershop.But Kula Shaker manages to make something original of all those borrowed parts. Rising above its influences, Kula Shaker creates a niche of Britpop in which transcendence is the goal. Amidst theblues-drenched guitars and the Hindi chanting, the band is hard at work building something spiritual and sensual. Kula Shaker isn't afraid of a tamboura, using the exotic instrument on several tracks. Nor is it afraid to be linked with theGrateful Dead, eulogising that band in the track "Grateful When You're Dead/Jerry Was There". But Kula Shaker is no freewheeling "jam" band; there's a precision to the musicianship on this record that cannot be ignored.

1. "Hey Dude" – 4:10
2. "Knight on the Town" – 3:25
3. "Temple of Everlasting Light" – 2:33
4. "Govinda" – 4:57
5. "Smart Dogs" – 3:16
6. "Magic Theatre" – 2:38
7. "Into The Deep" – 3:49
8. "Sleeping Jiva" – 2:02
9. "Tattva" – 3:46
10. "Grateful When You're Dead/Jerry Was There" – 5:42
11. "303" – 3:08
12. "Start All Over" – 2:35
13. "Hollow Man Parts 1 & 2" – 6:10 (plus 0:12 hidden track after – 13:04 silence)

The cover art (by comic-book artist Dave Gibbons) consists of various images related to the letter K, including: John F. Kennedy, Lord Kitchener, Karl Marx, Gene Kelly, Katharine Hepburn, Ken Dodd, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Krishna, King Kong, 2 Knights (a pair of Keys on one of them), a Kettle and Rudyard Kipling's book Kim.

Download here: K

Michael Palin - Around the World in 80 Days The Full Set.

Here is the whole series.
Synopsis:
In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. This fascinating and humorous account tells the story of his travels: from Venice on the back of a rubbish barge to the Pyramids on a camel. Read by the author. Now with added music.

Download here:
Around the World in 80 Days part 1
Around the World in 80 Days part 2
Around the World in 80 Days part 3
Around the World in 80 Days part 4
Around the World in 80 Days part 5
Around the World in 80 Days part 6
Around the World in 80 Days part 7
Around the World in 80 Days part 8

Cigarettes and Alcohol Vol II

I am so sorry to you all who downloaded this and found it was the first volume. Here is the second. Again sorry. ;-)
Amazon says:
Cigarettes and Alcohol, the title of the 1994 Oasis hit, is undoubtedly an apt title for this album, which emphasises the laddish, rocky bands that predominate over 2CDs. It opens with 'Cum on feel the Noize[sic]', a typical, loud Oasis(ish) tune. The album also includes contributions from The Jam, The Clash, MSP, Thin Lizzy, Slade etc. Most of the album maintains a high tempo, high velocity sound, although there are notable omissions and strange choices. Crowded House's 'Don't Dream It's Over', although a decent song, certainly doesn't belong here. Likewise, the appalling JJ72 shouldn't feature. Amazingly, neither The Who nor Led Zeppelin are present at all. Mind you the album manages to squeeze 35 years of (generally) high-quality music onto the double album, from Mott the Hoople, up to Wheatus. Britpop features strongly, but there are representations from the 70s,80s and 90s. My verdict? Worth buying, if only for 'Whiskey in the Jar'

Disc: 1
1. Cum on feel the noize - Oasis
2. Should I stay or should I go - The Clash
3. Town called malice - The Jam
4. Stay with me - The Faces
5. Rocks - Primal Scream
6. All day and all of the night - The Stranglers
7. Do or die - Super Furry Animals
8. You stole the sun from my heart - Manic Street Preachers
9. Little respect - Wheatus
10. Cool for cats - Squeeze
11. Baggy trousers - Madness
12. Too much too young - The Specials
13. Connected - Stereo MCs
14. Hallelujah - Happy Mondays
15. Blue Monday - New Order
16. Unbelievable - EMF
17. The only one I love - The Charlatans
18. Sunny afternoon - The Kinks
19. All the young dudes - Mott The Hoople

Disc: 2
1. Have a nice day - Stereophonics
2. The riverboat song - Ocean Colour Scene
3. Lazy Sunday afternoon - The Small Faces
4. Don't let me down gently - The Wonderstuff
5. Save tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
6. Come back to what you know - Embrace
7. Don't dream it's over - Crowded House
8. Achilles heal - Toploader
9. Snow - JJ72
10. Everybody's happy nowadays - Buzzcocks
11. Love removal machine - The Cult
12. Another girl, another planet - The Only Ones
13. Whiskey in the jar - Thin Lizzy
14. What a waste - Ian Drury
15. 'Coz I luv you - Slade
16. Baby I love you - Ramones
17. Lucky you - The Lightning Seeds
18. This charming man - The Smiths
19. Here's where the story ends - The Sundays
20. 19-2000 - Gorillaz


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Cigarettes and Alcohol Vol. 2 disc 1
Cigarettes and Alcohol Vol. 2 disc 2

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Inspiral Carpet - She Comes in the Fall

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Elastica - Waking Up

The Boo Radleys - Lazarus

I just thought I would put this on as it is a good song.
Check out the Reading performance, I was there...

1. Lazarus
2. At The Sound Of Speed
3. Let Me Be Your Faith
4. Petroleum

Download here: Lazarus

Supergrass - Lenny

I remember hearing this on the Mark and Lard show and they extended the start to well over 3 minutes, or at least it felt that long, and and I thought that the CD was jumpiung and they did not realise.

01: Lenny 02:42

02: Wait for the Sun 04:09

03: S.E.X 02:35

Download Here: Lenny

Kula Shaker - Govinda

I love this band and there will be a lot more to come.

Govinda was the band's fifth single, released in the UK on 11th November 1996 where it reached #7. Like all the band's first 6 singles, it was reissued in the UK on 28th July 1997 with the same catalogue number as the first release. Govinda was not released as a single in Japan.

CD 1
1. Govinda
2. Gokula
3. Hey Dude (Live at the London Astoria)
4. The Leek

CD 2
1. Govinda, Hari & St. George
2. Gokula
3. Govinda (Monkey Mafia Pigsy's Vision)
4. Govinda (Monkey Mafia Ten to Ten)

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Govinda CD1
Govinda CD2

Animalhouse - Animal

Here is a Ride related entry.
Mark and Loz were involved in this band. They were good but not fantastic. The singles are now going for a wee fortune on E-Bay and the like.

1: Animal
2: Sodium Glow
3: Essence

Download here: Animalhouse - Animal

The Charlatans - Us and Us Only

I think that this is such an under-rated album please read this review from Amazon.

Quavering Hammond organ? Check. Sixties-throwback guitar riffs? Check. Climbing bass lines? Check. Ecstasy-blessed dreamscape that branded nearly all music coming out of Manchester, England, in the early '90s? Check again. With each new album, the Charlatans peel away the layers of hypnotic haze that enveloped their landmark debut, Some Friendly. Us and Us Only, their sixth studio release, reveals the core of the band's influences with greatest clarity. The opening track, "Forever," lives up to its name, an epic seven-and-a-half-minute free-wheeling tributary of free-association psychedelia. But after that, the jams are lifted nearly verbatim out of the Rolling Stones' proverbial songbook. The reigning "Madchester" champs don roots-rocker hats, as lead singer Tim Burgess occasionally works in his best Bob Dylan impression, the wah-wah gives way to twangy hooks, and piano and harmonica fill out melodies. Us and Us Only is an archetypically derivative album; but the honesty in its production has resulted in the Charlatans' most enduring collection. --Beth Massa

1. "Forever" – 7:25
2. "Good Witch/Bad Witch 1" – 0:51
3. "Impossible" – 5:04
4. "The Blonde Waltz" – 4:31
5. "A House Is Not A Home" – 4:50
6. "Senses (Angel On My Shoulder)" – 4:45
7. "My Beautiful Friend" – 4:32
8. "I Don't Care Where You Live" – 2:55
9. "The Blind Stagger" – 4:56
10. "Good Witch/Bad Witch 2" – 3:23
11. "Watching You" – 5:35

Download here: Us and Us Only

RIP Lee Hazelwood

I just heard about this so I thought I would upload a few of my favoute albums of his. I loved all of his stuff and for some reason every time I listen to his music I say to myself that I should not like this stuff although it keeps on drawing me in.

I think I first heard of him not too long ago, three years ago on BBC Radio Two. I have bought so many of his albums since then and I just love the style of the sound and production.

I have uploaded a few of the things that I have downloaded over the years and I hope that you fall in love with his stuff the way that I do.

Download here:
Nancy and Lee
Love And Other Crimes
Fridays Child
45rpm
13

The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis

I forgot how good this album was until I dusted it down and ripped it. There are some fantastic album tracks here. The singles are class too.

1. "Mission Drive"
2. "Play"
3. "False Start"
4. "Welcome to the Cheap Seats"
5. "The Size of a Cow"
6. "Sleep Alone"
7. "Donation"
8. "Inertia"
9. "Maybe"
10. "Grotesque"
11. "Here Comes Everyone"
12. "Caught in My Shadow"
13. "38 Line Poem"

Never Loved Elvis is the third album by The Wonder Stuff. from June 1991. Guest musicians on the album include Kirsty MacColl and Linda McRae.
The song "Mission Drive" was inspired by Wonder Stuff singer Miles Hunt's fall out with best friend and former flatmate Clint Mansell of Pop Will Eat Itself.

Download here: Elvis

Cigarettes and Alcohol Vol. 2

Amazon says:

Cigarettes and Alcohol, the title of the 1994 Oasis hit, is undoubtedly an apt title for this album, which emphasises the laddish, rocky bands that predominate over 2CDs. It opens with 'Cum on feel the Noize[sic]', a typical, loud Oasis(ish) tune. The album also includes contributions from The Jam, The Clash, MSP, Thin Lizzy, Slade etc. Most of the album maintains a high tempo, high velocity sound, although there are notable omissions and strange choices. Crowded House's 'Don't Dream It's Over', although a decent song, certainly doesn't belong here. Likewise, the appalling JJ72 shouldn't feature. Amazingly, neither The Who nor Led Zeppelin are present at all. Mind you the album manages to squeeze 35 years of (generally) high-quality music onto the double album, from Mott the Hoople, up to Wheatus. Britpop features strongly, but there are representations from the 70s,80s and 90s. My verdict? Worth buying, if only for 'Whiskey in the Jar'

Disc: 1
1. Cum on feel the noize - Oasis
2. Should I stay or should I go - The Clash
3. Town called malice - The Jam
4. Stay with me - The Faces
5. Rocks - Primal Scream
6. All day and all of the night - The Stranglers
7. Do or die - Super Furry Animals
8. You stole the sun from my heart - Manic Street Preachers
9. Little respect - Wheatus
10. Cool for cats - Squeeze
11. Baggy trousers - Madness
12. Too much too young - The Specials
13. Connected - Stereo MCs
14. Hallelujah - Happy Mondays
15. Blue Monday - New Order
16. Unbelievable - EMF
17. The only one I love - The Charlatans
18. Sunny afternoon - The Kinks
19. All the young dudes - Mott The Hoople

Disc: 2
1. Have a nice day - Stereophonics
2. The riverboat song - Ocean Colour Scene
3. Lazy Sunday afternoon - The Small Faces
4. Don't let me down gently - The Wonderstuff
5. Save tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
6. Come back to what you know - Embrace
7. Don't dream it's over - Crowded House
8. Achilles heal - Toploader
9. Snow - JJ72
10. Everybody's happy nowadays - Buzzcocks
11. Love removal machine - The Cult
12. Another girl, another planet - The Only Ones
13. Whiskey in the jar - Thin Lizzy
14. What a waste - Ian Drury
15. 'Coz I luv you - Slade
16. Baby I love you - Ramones
17. Lucky you - The Lightning Seeds
18. This charming man - The Smiths
19. Here's where the story ends - The Sundays
20. 19-2000 - Gorillaz

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Cigarettes and Alcohol Vol. 2 disc 1

Cigarettes and Alcohol Vol. 2 disc 2

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Read By Roald Dahl

Here is a special treat. This is my favourate book ever and it is read by Roald himself.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) is a children's book by Welsh author Roald Dahl. This story of the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric candymaker Willy Wonka, and is often considered one of the most beloved children's stories of the 20th century.
Read the rest of this here: Wikipedia

Download here:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Part 1
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Part 2
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Part 3

Teenage Fanclub - Mellow Doubt

When they did this live at Newcastle Riverside they had to restart it twice because Blake kept laughing every time he started to whistle. Great gig, great song.

1. Mellow Doubt (Blake) 2:44
2. Getting Real (Love) 2:03
3. Some People Try To Fuck With You (Blake) 2:32
4. About You (acoustic version) (McGinley) 2:48

Download here: Mellow Doubt

Michael Palin - Around the World in 80 Days 3 & 4

Here is part 3 and 4 of a 8 part series
Synopsis:
In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. This fascinating and humorous account tells the story of his travels: from Venice on the back of a rubbish barge to the Pyramids on a camel. Read by the author. Now with added music.

Download here:
Around the World in 80 Days part 1
Around the World in 80 Days part 2
Around the World in 80 Days part 3
Around the World in 80 Days part 4

Teeanage Fanclub - Have Lost It

I think that the newer version of Everything Flows is great.

1. Don't Look Back (acoustic) (Love) 3:22
2. Everything Flows (acoustic) (Blake) 5:31
3. Starsign (acoustic) (Love) 4:57
4. 120 Mins. (acoustic) (McGinley) 2:51

Download Here: Have Lost It

Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream

Check out the Neil Young cover.

1. Sparky's Dream (Love) 3:17

2. Burned (Neil Young) 2:23

3. For You (McGinley) 3:25

4. Headstand (Love) 3:03

Download Here: Dream