I had to adjust to being back on my own this week, and despite missing having people to talk to and flowing conversation, I enjoyed returning to a flowing musical selection. Inspired by my chat with Herida, it was great to play some Foo Fighters from the One by One album which Dave Grohl returned to after his sojourn with Queens of the Stone Age, then Pearl Jam who played at the Esplanade pub in Southend at the dawn of their career. Then, after being given a run down of what is useful in a disaster situation by KRS-One, we headed towards Faith No More and Everything’s Ruined from their Angel Dust album which, after a recent listen, made me reflect that it might be one of their best.
We also headed down memory lane, personally with Lamb and Iron & Wine who I enjoyed at the Secret Garden Party and Latitude festivals in the past, and quite literally in the case of Memory Tapes. I played Yes I Know from their Player Piano album of last year and it’s a beautiful, haunting song that I heard for the first time at a screening of wonderful music videos at the London Animation Festival near Holborn in London last year. It showed people developing unusual holes in their bodies as demonstrated by a still from the video you can see above. When playing the song I reflected on how some of life’s harder lessons are ones we have perhaps known intellectually, but until we’ve integrated them fully they can return more uncomfortably until we do.
I eventually ended up rocking into some psy trance and enjoyed celebrating the release of the Degenerate EP by Fagin’s Reject on Psynon records by playing Goat Leg from it. The Psynon label are throwing a party on the 8th of December in London to celebrate the release of that and their Ritual Emulations compilation. On that note, it felt appropriate to play a song by Beardy Weardy as he’s on Wildthings records who are throwing a party on the 22nd of December at the Crucifix Lane club by London Bridge. I played Stroke it from his debut album of this year, Squelch Monster.
Here is the playlist for 27th November 2012 (Albums in brackets)
1. Foo Fighters – Have It All (One By One)
2. Pearl Jam – Once (Ten)
3. Herida – Elias (Ghost of the Sun)
4. KRS-One – Disaster Kit
5. Lamb – Build A Fire (5 Special Edition)
6. The Cure – Plainsong (Disintegration)
7. Faith No More – Everything’s Ruined (Angel Dust)
8. Renu – Through The Fire (Midnight Radio)
9. Memory Tapes – Yes I Know (Player Piano)
10. Iron & Wine – Walking Far From Home (Kiss Each Other Clean)
11. Tori Amos – China (Little Earthquakes)
12. Time In Motion – Multizone
13. Rinkadink – Call Em Wintermute
14. Fagin’s Reject – Goat Leg (Degenerate EP)
15. Beardy Weardy – Stroke It (Squelch Monster)
16. Lapsus – Holocron (VA – Erta Ale)
17. Aphod Moon and Lucas – Hat Trick
18. John Trudell & Bad Dog – Crazy Horse (Live à Fip)
