Podcast 5

Well here is number 5 with this weeks choice The Black Crowes and related. Chris & Rich Robinson are the two brothers in the band and this is them on their accoustic tour doing Gene Clark's Polly. Marc Ford, the guitarist from the band, Medicine Time is taken from his latest album Weary and Wired.
I hope you enjoy this weeks selection.

Wiser time - The Black Crowes
Chardonnay - Cerys Matthews
Mother Of Pearl - Nellie McKay
O Brother Ray - DJ Zebra
Polly - Chris & Rich Robinson
Marigold - Nirvana
Thin Air - Pearl Jam
Moonchild - Chris Cornell
Medicine Time - Marc Ford
Club Foot - Kasabian
Open Water - Thrice
Bitter End - Nine Black Alps
Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye - The Black Crowes
My Heart's Killing Me - The Black Crowes
When The Cold Wind Blows At The Dark End Of Night - Chris Robinson & The New Earth Mud

Download here: Popcast 5

Popcast 4

The Doors - The End

Thanks to one and all for your support last week so here is number 4. This month it is The Doors who get the treatment of flavour of the week.
In May 1967, The Doors made their television debut by recording a version of "The End" for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) at their Yorkville Studios in Toronto. It remained unseen since its original broadcast until the release of The Doors Soundstage Performances DVD in 2002. This is the video above.
For the first track on the Popcast I managed to mix in the start of The Doors film with a mash up by DJ Zebra, who is French and he uses a Noir Desire song along with Riders on a Storm. Also look out for Jacob Golden who was a find by my Dad and a good one too.

1. Jim Nous Portera - DJZebra
2. An End Has A Start - Editors
3. Detroit 442 - Blondie
4. Leave It Alone (Radio Edit) - Operator Please
5. The Movie - The Doors
6. Wild Child - The Doors
7. Out Come The Wolves - Jacob Golden
8. Run Rabbit, Run - The Hoosiers
9. Buick Mackane - T Rex
10. Lord Don't Slow Me Down - Oasis
11. Gloria - The Doors
12. Choo Choo - Artic Monkeys
13. Floating Away (In the Bath Tub) - Toploader
14. Pictures of Matchstick Men - Kasabian
15. How Will I Know - The Lemonheads
16. Whiskey, Mystics And Men- The Doors
17. Ghost Song- The Doors
18. Indian Summer- The Doors
19. When The Music's Over- The Doors

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Pops And Scratches Popcast 3

OK now I have cut the crap out (My voice), also I have moved back to my home and this is where I will stay. I started out here a while back doing albums of a certain theme so this is almost full circle for me to return here doing albums like this again.
Still the same format as before with an artist of the week music I like, but no speaking from me so that I can just let the music do the talking (my voice sounded shit recorded anyway, I am no Tommy Vance!).
I hope you enjoy this and the artist of the week is Radiohead.

1. Anyone Can Play Guitar - Radiohead
2. Go - Pearl Jam
3. 4-Day Weekend - The Bluetones
4. In My Darkest Hour - Sister
5. Kill The Director - The Wombats
6. Climbing Up The Walls (Zero 7 Mix) - Radiohead
7. Big Brother - David Bowie
8. Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeleton - David Bowie
9. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr
10. Allison - Pixies
11. Everything In It's Right Place - Radiohead
12. Tranquilize - The Killers (Feat. Lou Reed)
13. Never Ending - Wood
14. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
15. Going To A Town - Rufus Wainwright
16. El President - Drugstore (Feat. Thom Yorke)
17. Lull - Radiohead
18. Reckoner - Radiohead
19. Blow Out - Radiohead

Download here: Popcast 3

Pops and Scratches Podcast 1

I have got bored with all of the deleting that had been going on latley and I was getting messages off people requesting me not to post this that and the other so I have decided to do something that I was wanting to do for a long time. This is the first of many Podcast where I will be sharing music that I have found or I just like. It will be posted once a week and I hope that you will enjoy it.
http://popsandscratchespodcast.blogspot.com

The Sleeping Years

I inadvertently found this website and thought that I should share it with you. Please take the time to listen to this beautiful music. Dale sorry and hope this is OK.

Listen and download here: Sleeping

A-ha - Scoundrel Days

This is one of my most played albums ever. Yip I know that it is A-ha but they are better than you think and they will suprise you. This I bought when I was a young lad and I remember playing it on my walkman. I was cool back then but this is still cool and Coldplay have said that A-Ha are a huge influence on their sound.
Try it you might like it. Go on.

1. Scoundrel Days
2. Swing Of Things
3. I've Been Losing You
4. October
5. Manhattan Skyline
6. Cry Wolf
7. Looking For The Whales
8. Weight Of The Wind
9. Maybe Maybe
10. Soft Rains Of April

Download Here: Days

The Beloved - Hello

Check out this great site and here is Hello from my previous post.

01. Hello
02. Hello (Honky Tonk)
03. Hello (Godfrey's Tonic)
04. Hello (Dolly)

Download here: Hello

The Beloved - Happiness

Among the first wave of British indie bands to trade in their tunnel- vision guitars for a more expansive dance sound after the acid house revolution, The Beloved were well ahead of the pack in their new direction. Jon Marsh's inspired use of Balearic beats, house synthesisers and lush harmonics are welded together by subtle guitars Not for nothing has "The Sun Rising", all glistening keyboards, backwards guitar and dazed, ethereal vocals, achieved near-mythical status. This is the sound of a craftsman taking the simplistic acid motif and honing it, decorating it, trying to make the perfect indie-dance hybrid and succeeding nearly every time. The daisy age lyrical gloss is never too syrupy; the hippy sentiments are more loved-up than cracked up and make this feel-good album feel even better. All that and they even manage to rhyme "Jean-Paul Sartre" with "Jeffrey Archer". --Ben Clancy

1. Hello
2. Your Love Takes Me Higher
3. Time After Time
4. Don't You Worry
5. Scarlet Beautiful
6. Sun Rising
7. I Love You More
8. Wake Up Soon
9. Up Up And Away
10. Found

Download here: Happiness

Happy Mondays - Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches

"Your twisting my melon man" Classic album so chilled out.

Track listing
1. Kinky Afro
2. God's Cop
3. Donovan
4. Grandbag's Funeral
5. Dennis And Lois
6. Bob's Yer Uncle
7. Step On
8. Holiday
9. Harmony

Album notes
Happy Mondays: Shaun Ryder (vocals); Mark Day (guitar); Paul Davis (keyboards, programming); Paul Ryder (bass); Gary Whelan (drums); Bez.Additional personnel: Rowetta (vocals); Tony Castro (percussion); Simon Machan (programming).From the opening bars of this near-masterpiece, the Madchester generation was defined, celebrated, and perhaps laid to rest. Combining the best elements of their earlier releases--stolen riffs, howling in a whisper, being generally rude and obnoxious yet somehow entirely endearing, the Happy Mondays created the ultimate sex, drugs, and rock & roll package. With the acoustic strumming of the LaBelle rip-off "Kinky Afro," PILLS 'N' THRILLS' scene is set. In "God's Cop," Ryder pontificates about the ease of drug procurement, from his position as a rock star with a mobile phone. From here all hell breaks loose. There's the song for Donovan Leitch (complete with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel's most famous lyric inserted for good measure), and "Bob's Your Uncle," the track for the ladies, where a foursome is conducted on Ecstasy. Right, Shaun. The highlight of PILLS'N'THRILLS (and perhaps of Happy Mondays' career in general) is the hit "Step On." Much more than an album for people who like some music with their drugs, PILLS'N'THRILLS is one of the coolest records ever made.

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Ride - Box Set

OX4 The Best of...

1. "Chelsea Girl"
2. "Drive Blind"
3. "Like a Daydream"
4. "Taste"
5. "Dreams Burn Down"
6. "Vapour Trail"
7. "Unfamiliar"
8. "Leave Them All Behind"
9. "Twisterella"
10. "OX4"
11. "Birdman"
12. "From Time to Time"
13. "How Does it Feel to Feel"
14. "I Don't Know Where it Comes From"
15. "Black Nite Crash"

Download Here: OX4

Live at Reading Festival 1992

1. Leave Them All Behind
2. Taste
3. Not Fazed
4. Sennen
5. Like A Daydream
6. Twisterella
7. Time Of Her Time
8. Nowhere
9. Vapour Trail
10. Seagull
11. Close My Eyes
12. Mouse Trap

Download here: Live Reading Festival

Firing Blanks

1. Something's Burning
2. Chelsea Girl (4 track demo)
3. Blue & Everybody Knows
4. Dreams Burn Down dub
5. She's So Fine
6. New Age
7. Tongue Tied
8. I'm Fine Thanks
9. Xmas Song
10. King Bullshit
11. Smile (4-track version)
12. Welcome To Paradise
13. BarneyS

Download here: Firing Blanks

EMF - Stigma

I used to blast this album out it was great. Put it on loud in your car with the windows down. Ah the follies of youth.

The name "EMF" officially stands for "Epsom Mad Funkers," but there are unofficial alternatives, such as "Every Mother's Favourite," "Eat My Foetus," "Ever Music Forever," "Eat More Fruit", "Easy Mother Fuckers", "English Mother Fuckers," and "Ecstasy Mother Fuckers" (the last of which occurred in a track called "EMF", a live version of which featured on the B Side of the single "Unbelievable").

1. "They're Here"
2. "Arizona"
3. "It's You That Leaves Me Dry"
4. "Never Know"
5. "Blue Highs"
6. "Inside"
7. "Getting Through"
8. "She Bleeds"
9. "Dog"
10. "The Light That Burns Twice As Bright"

Download Here: Stigma

Tim Burgess - I Believe

The standout track on the album is "Be my Baby", which is a cracking accoustic track from Burgess which picks the album up after the slow dirge, "We all need love". Another poor track is "Spend a night with you", which is a dull piece which should really have been left in the recording studio. Tracks "Years ago", "All I ever do" and "Say Yes" are good additions to the album, with the latter being an upbeat singalong.

1. I Believe In The Spirit
2. Held In Straps
3. Only A Boy
4. We All Need Love
5. Oh My Corazon
6. Be My Baby
7. Years Ago
8. Say Yes
9. Spend The Night
10. Po’ Boy Soul
11. All I Ever Do

Download here: I Believe

Inspiral Carpets - Revenge of the Goldfish

I love the power of this, their third, album. It has some belting tracks. I think the balance of the whole album is just amazingly well done.

The band is named after a clothing shop on their Oldham estate. Their sound is based around psychedelic keyboards and jangly shaped guitars.

1. "Generations" (2:44)
2. "Saviour" (3:36)
3. "Bitches Brew" (3:43)
4. "Smoking Her Clothes" (3:36)
5. "Fire" (3:24)
6. "Here Comes The Flood" (3:50)
7. "Dragging Me Down" (4:30)
8. "A Little Disappeared" (2:48)
9. "Two Worlds Collide" (4:25)
10. "Mystery" (3:12)
11. "Rain Song" (4:42)
12. "Irresistible Force" (2:53)

Download here: Revenge of the Goldfish

Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung

More from the Fannies to come... I think!

1. Neil Jung (Blake) 4:51
2. Traffic Jam (Blake)3:16
3. Hi-Fi (McGinley) 2:11
4. I Heard You Looking (Hubley/Kaplan/McNew) 12:43

Download here: Jung

Oasis - Let There Be Love

1. "Let There Be Love" - 5:31
2. "Sittin’ Here In Silence (On My Own)" - 1:58
3. "Rock 'n' Roll Star" (live at City of Manchester Stadium – 2 July 2005) - 7:47

A demo for the track was recorded during demo sessions for Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. A bootleg of these demo sessions was leaked onto the Internet in early 2000. This track was given the unofficial title "It's A Crime" on many bootlegs as the track was unknown and unreferenced anywhere before then. The album version of the song is structurally almost exactly as the same as the demo with a slight change in melody in the part that Noel sings. The lyrics to the chorus remains intact, but the verses and bridge have totally rewritten lyrics.
The single version of the song omits the second verse and chorus.
A second, Noel-sung demo was released on the "Let There Be Love" DVD single. It has the same lyrics as the album version, and in fact the album version takes some elements from the demo such as the piano. It was probably recorded sometime in 2003 or 2004, prior to the main Don't Believe the Truth recording sessions.

Download here: There Be Love

Oasis - Don't look Back in Anger

1. "Don't Look Back in Anger" - 4:48"
2. "Step Out" (Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/Moy) - 3:40
3. "Underneath the Sky" - 3:20
4. "Cum on Feel the Noize" (Holder/Lea) - 5:09

Noel said of the song, "[It] reminds me of a cross between 'All the Young Dudes' and summat the Beatles might've done." Of the character "Sally" referred to in the song he commented, "I don't actually know anybody called Sally. It's just a word that fitted, y'know, might as well throw a girl's name in there. It's gotta guarantee somebody a shag off a bird called Sally hasn't it?". Noel claims that the character "Lyla", from Oasis' 2005 single is the sister of Sally. In the interview on the DVD released with the special edition of Stop the Clocks, Noel also revealed that a girl approached him and asked him if Sally was the same girl as in Stone Roses' track "Sally Cinnamon". Noel replied that he'd never thought of that, but thought it was good anyway.
Noel admits that certain lines from the song are lifted from John Lennon: "I got this tape in the United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He's going on about 'trying to start a revolution from me bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.' I thought 'Thank you, I'll take that'!" "Revolution from me bed" most likely refers to Lennon's infamous bed-ins in 1969, both in the quote and in the song. The piano during the intro of the song highly resembles Lennon's "Imagine". Like many other popular songs, the chord progression for both the verse and the chorus are based on the classical piece Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel. The songs only differ slightly at the end of each phrase. Gallagher also admits that he was under the influence of substances when he wrote the song, and to this day he claims he does not know what it means.
The song has become a favourite at Oasis' live performances. Noel encourages the crowd to sing along and often keeps quiet during the chorus, allowing the fans instead to sing along while he focuses on his guitar playing. The volume of crowd noise that usually descends on the chorus at concerts is easily audible on the rendition of "Don't Look Back in Anger" on Familiar to Millions.
In a 2006 radio interview, Liam Gallagher said that it was he who came up with the line "so Sally can wait" as Noel was struggling with that particular line at the time. (Bootlegs of demos of the song feature Noel singing 'Crowley' — as in Aleister Crowley — rather than 'Sally' so there may be some truth in Liam's claim.) Noel confirms this on the bonus DVD, entitled Lock the Box, released with the Stop the Clocks retrospective album. In the interview with Colin Murray, Noel admits, "I was doing it in the sound check and the so Sally bit, I wasn't singing that...and he [Liam] says, 'Are you singing so Sally can wait?' and I said, 'No.' and he said, 'Well you should do.'"

Download here: Anger

Oasis - Don't Go Away

Sad Song is such a cool tune and if I am right Noel wrote it on the train on the way to the studio.

1. "Don't Go Away"
2. "Cigarettes & Alcohol" (Live from GMEX, Manchester, December 14, 1997)
3. "Sad Song"
4. "Fade Away" [Warchild version]

The song, according to Noel, is about losing someone close and it was written when his mother, Peggy, was hospitalised and suspected of having cancer. His mother did not have cancer, but the experience gave Noel the idea to write something "quite bleak." It has also been claimed that rhythm guitarist Bonehead requested Noel write a song along those lines after the death of his own mother. The line "Cold and Frosty Morning" appears to have been lifted from the Kinks' "Dead End Street".
Liam Gallagher claims to have cried whilst recording the song, as a result of dwelling on "a certain thing". He said, in a 1997 interview, "I just thought 'fuck that, I can't be singing this song' and I had to go away and sort meself out". Listening back to the song he admits to being very proud of his vocal performance.

Download Here: Don't Go

Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean?

1. "D'You Know What I Mean?" - 7:22
2. "Stay Young" - 5:06
3. "Angel Child" (demo) - 4:28
4. "Heroes" (David Bowie/Brian Eno)- 4:09

The song also shows more of Noel's influences. While the lyrics may seem inane and banal, references are included to Bob Dylan ("Blood on the tracks and it must be mine"), and The Beatles ("Fool on the hill and I feel fine"), and even their own earlier work ("Don't look back cos you know what you may see"). The song also features a drum loop from N.W.A.
The Morse code in the background translates to include such sayings as "Bugger All", "Pork Pies" and "Strawberry Fields Forever."
However, despite the critical coldness to the A-side, one of the B-sides, "Stay Young", has become a popular Oasis song, so much so that fans voted it onto the B-sides collection The Masterplan - one of only two B-sides from the Be Here Now period which made the album. The song was originally intended to be the "Digsy's Dinner" of Be Here Now (the lighthearted novelty track, such as "Digsy's Dinner" on Definitely Maybe and "She's Electric" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?), until Noel set it aside in favour of "Magic Pie". Gallagher claims not to be particularly fond of the track.
The song also shows more of Noel's influences. While the lyrics may seem inane and banal, references are included to Bob Dylan ("Blood on the tracks and it must be mine"), and The Beatles ("Fool on the hill and I feel fine"), and even their own earlier work ("Don't look back cos you know what you may see"). The song also features a drum loop from N.W.A.
The Morse code in the background translates to include such sayings as "Bugger All", "Pork Pies" and "Strawberry Fields Forever."
However, despite the critical coldness to the A-side, one of the B-sides, "Stay Young", has become a popular Oasis song, so much so that fans voted it onto the B-sides collection The Masterplan - one of only two B-sides from the Be Here Now period which made the album. The song was originally intended to be the "Digsy's Dinner" of Be Here Now (the lighthearted novelty track, such as "Digsy's Dinner" on Definitely Maybe and "She's Electric" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?), until Noel set it aside in favour of "Magic Pie". Gallagher claims not to be particularly fond of the track.The song also shows more of Noel's influences. While the lyrics may seem inane and banal, references are included to Bob Dylan ("Blood on the tracks and it must be mine"), and The Beatles ("Fool on the hill and I feel fine"), and even their own earlier work ("Don't look back cos you know what you may see"). The song also features a drum loop from N.W.A.
The Morse code in the background translates to include such sayings as "Bugger All", "Pork Pies" and "Strawberry Fields Forever."
However, despite the critical coldness to the A-side, one of the B-sides, "Stay Young", has become a popular Oasis song, so much so that fans voted it onto the B-sides collection The Masterplan - one of only two B-sides from the Be Here Now period which made the album. The song was originally intended to be the "Digsy's Dinner" of Be Here Now (the lighthearted novelty track, such as "Digsy's Dinner" on Definitely Maybe and "She's Electric" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?), until Noel set it aside in favour of "Magic Pie". Gallagher claims not to be particularly fond of the track.
The song also shows more of Noel's influences. While the lyrics may seem inane and banal, references are included to Bob Dylan ("Blood on the tracks and it must be mine"), and The Beatles ("Fool on the hill and I feel fine"), and even their own earlier work ("Don't look back cos you know what you may see"). The song also features a drum loop from N.W.A.
The Morse code in the background translates to include such sayings as "Bugger All", "Pork Pies" and "Strawberry Fields Forever."
However, despite the critical coldness to the A-side, one of the B-sides, "Stay Young", has become a popular Oasis song, so much so that fans voted it onto the B-sides collection The Masterplan - one of only two B-sides from the Be Here Now period which made the album. The song was originally intended to be the "Digsy's Dinner" of Be Here Now (the lighthearted novelty track, such as "Digsy's Dinner" on Definitely Maybe and "She's Electric" on (What's the Story) Morning Glory?), until Noel set it aside in favour of "Magic Pie". Gallagher claims not to be particularly fond of the track.

Download here - D'you Know

Oasis - Whatever

This is one of the greatest singles ever released, in my opinion of course.

1. "Whatever" - 6:21
2. "(It's Good) to Be Free" - 4:18
3. "Half the World Away" - 4:25
4. "Slide Away" - 6:31

"Whatever" was released as a contender for the coveted position of Christmas #1, 1994. It is a testament to Noel Gallagher's all-conquering self confidence that he should predict "Whatever"'s success before he was even given a record contract, saying "In the beginning, there was a masterplan, to the extent that I knew that 'Whatever,' one of the first songs I ever wrote, would be a Christmas Top Five hit, but I think anyone who heard the song could have told you that."


Download here - Whatever

Kula Shaker - Tattva

CD KULACD3
1. Tattva
2. Dance In Your Shadow
3. Moonshine
4. Tattva (Lucky 13 Mix)

CD KULACD3X
1. Tattva On St.George's Day
2. Dance In Your Shadow
3. Red Balloon (Vishnu's Eyes)

Download here: Tattva

Oasis - Hindu Times

Sorry there has been a lack of post but seeing we have had some great weather I have been making the most of it.
Here we go again

This is really for the Just Getting Older track which is fantastic

1. "The Hindu Times" - 3:53
2. "Just Getting Older" - 3:17
3. "Idler's Dream" - 2:57
   

Download here: Hindu

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