Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Drive To Work 20 Jan

1. Woodstock - Joni Mitchell (Hits)
2. Haunted - The Pogues (Just Look Them … Box Set)
3. I Go To Sleep - The Pretenders (The Singles)
4. Videotape - Radiohead (In Rainbows)
5. Melancholy Soldiers - The Skids (The Very Best of …)
6. My Three Sons - Elvis Costello and the Imposters (Momofuku)
7. I Walk On Gilded Splinters - Paul Weller (Live at the BBC)
8. Neonlicht - Kraftwerk (Die Mensch-Maschine)
9. Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry (The Chess Story Box Set)
10. Wholly Holy - Marvin Gaye (What's Going On Deluxe Edition)
11. If Music could Talk - The Clash (Sandinista)
12. I Can't See Myself Leaving You - Aretha Franklin (Queen Of Soul The Best of)
13. With Or without You - U2 (The Joshua Tree)
14. Ready For Drowning - Manic Street Preachers (This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours)
15. A Hold Of You - Lambchop (OH (Ohio))
16. Feel - Big Star (#1 Record/Radio City)
17. Mr Window Pane - The Stairs (Mexican R'n'B)

Fave Track - Sweet Little Sixteen
Track that sounds even better in German than in English - Neonlicht

Gym 19 Jan

1. Send A Picture Of Mother - Johnny Cash (Live at Folsom Prison)
2. Happy - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins (Rabbit Fur Coat)
3. Girls Don't Like It - The Undertones (The Undertones)
4. Billericay Dickie (Live) - Ian Dury and the Blockheads (Do It Yourself Special Edition)
5. Weather To Fly - Elbow (The Seldom Seen Kid)
6. This Year's Girl - Elvis Costello and the Attractions (This Year's Model)
7. Down The Big Road Blues - Lucinda Williams (Car Wheels On A Gravel Road)
8. Russian R'n'B (The World Shall Not Be Saved) - The Stairs (Mexican R'n'B)
9. Bang A Gong (Get It On) (Live) - Blondie (Parallel Lines Reissue)
10. Adultery - Scars (Fast Product)
11. Seven Seas of Rhye - Queen (Greatest Hits)
12. East Easy Rider - Julian Cope (Peggy Suicide)
13. Think For a Minute - The Housemartins (Now That's What I Call Quite Good)
14. Big Shot (Live) - The Beat (Dance Craze)
15. Kids - MGMT (Oracular Spectacular)
16. Better Decide Which Side You're On - Tom Robinson Band (Power In The Darkness)
17. Cheated - The Beat (Wha'ppen)
18. Moving The River - Prefab Sprout (Steve McQueen)

Fave Track - This Year's Girl
Forgotten 'Classic' - Adultery

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Drive To Work 15 Jan

1. Psykick Dancehall No 2 - The Fall (Dragnet Expanded Edition)
2.. Bush Tea - Lee "Scratch" Perry (Muzik City: The Story of Trojan)
3. Boom Boom - Dr Feelgood (Down By The Jetty Expanded Edition)
4. Right Here Right Now - Fatboy Slim (The Anthems)
5. Blue In Green - Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)
6. Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)
7. So - Soft Cell (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Special Edition)
8. Crack In My Wall - The Yo Yo's (Pebbles vol 14-15)
9. Not Ready To Love - Rufus Wainwright (Release The Stars)
10. Drug Drug Druggy - Manic Street Preachers (Gold Against The Soul)
11. Don't Stop - The Rolling Stones (Forty Licks)
12. Sunset - Roxy Music (Stranded)
13. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve (Urban Hymns)
14. Streams of Whiskey - The Pogues (Just Look Them In The Eye ... Box Set)
15. Agnus Dei - Rufus Wainwright (Want Two)
16. Still Life - Kirsty MacColl (The Best of ...)
17. Curse of Love - The Pogues (Hell's Ditch Remastered Edition)
18. Steppin' Out - Michelle Shocked (The Texas Campfire Tapes)
19. You - Five Thirty (The Brit Box)
20. Avocado Baby - The Wave Pictures (Instant Coffee Baby)

Fave track of the journey: Psykick Dancehall No. 2
"I don't like jazz but I like this" track - Blue In Green

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Drive Back from Work after Job Interview

1. Dory Previn - Camera Obscura (Let's Get Out of This Country)
2. Living In Fame - The Clash (Sandinista)
3. Small World - Roddy Frame (Surf)
4. Burning Down The House (Live) - Stop Making Sense Expanded Edition)
5. This Perfect Day - The Saints (NME Classics)
6. Longtime - EMF (Schubert Dip)
7. The Club - Nick Lowe (At My Age)
8. Girl of an Age - EMF (Schubert Dip)
9. Little Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf (The Chess Story)
10. Don't Look Back - Bruce Springsteen (Tracks)
11. Southern Kind of Life - Kasey Chambers (The Captain)
12. Maybellene - Chuck Berry (The Chess Story)
13. The Great Beautician In The Sky - Magazine (Real Life)
14. Punk Boy - Ash (1977 - Deluxe Edition)
15. Heart and Soul - Joy Division (Closer)
16. Callbacks - We Are Scientists (With Love and Squalor)
17. Cadillac Ranch (Live) - Bruce Springsteen (Live 1975 - 1985)
18. Seven - James (Fresh As A Daisy, The Singles)
19. Somebody Remembers The Rose (Live) - Whiskeytown (Strangers' Almanac Deluxe Edition)

Absolute Classic Song - Little Red Rooster
Best Theme Tune To An Underrated TV Show - Small World

The Soundtrack to my Drive to Work for a New Job Interview

1. You're Hard - Half Man Half Biscuit (Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral)
2. Postcard of a Painting - Maximo Park (A Certain Trigger)
3. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones (1-2-3-4 Punk Box Set)
4. Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno (Here Come The Warm Jets)
5. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville - R.E.M. (Best of the IRS Years)
6. Salute Your Solution - The Raconteurs (Consolers of the Lonely)
7. Stand Up Comic Instructions - The Style Council (Our Favourite Shop)
8. Kevin Carter (live) - Manic Street Preachers (Everything Must Go - Deluxe Edition)
9. Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin II)
10. Prettiest Eyes - The Beautiful South (Carry On Up The Charts)
11. Factory - Martha Wainwright (Martha Wainwright)
12. One More Night - Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline)
13. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat - Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde)
14. Boat Train - The Pogues (Just Look Them In The Eye and Say Pogue Mahone! Box Set)
15. There She Goes - The La's (The Brit Box)
16. Motion Pictures - Neil Young (On The Beach)
17. Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - They Might Be Giants (Flood)
18. A Night To Remember - The Men They Couldn't Hang (Night of a Thousand Candles)
19. I'm Cramped - The Cramps (Songs The Lord Taught Us)
20. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones (An Anthology)
21. The Loved - Paul Weller (Wild Wood Deluxe Edition)

I don't believe in omens but to have two of my Top 10 tunes in there, and for the number one favourite to be played twice put me in a good mood.

Two Top 10 Tunes - Teenage Kicks and There She Goes
My, but that's dated badly - Stand Up Comic Instructions