Episode 125 – Original Upload 3.3.24

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. 

From 2022, with this being the Pro-ject Metallica Limited Edition turntable – though I have the band, Kiss in my head for some reason – it’s the only time you’ll see either group mentioned on 41 Rooms. This set up came in at around $1600 and I can’t help thinking that as soon as you put the needle to the vinyl, the record would stay still, with the turntable then doing the spinning. You could even play 78s on it as well… but who would?

Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.

Lyric of Playlist 125…

‘As the veneer of democracy starts to fade… ‘

Is there a country on this planet run by something other than true democracy that can be trusted?

Not closely followed by ‘Doo-doo-wop, hey-hey-hey, doo-doo-wop, whoa-whoa-whoa… ‘

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

00.41

NEW ORDER – Spooky * – Republic, LP – London – 1993

The fourth single from its parent album, this is fab in my world but possibly one of the band’s own least favourite friends? I’ve never clocked it having been played live (though I could be wrong) and it was also to be eight years before they put out another, so maybe when you live and breathe the actual making of music some of it maybe later on reminds you too much of tough times – and in New Orderland these were. I often get the same feeling with my library shuffle throwing up sounds I had zero to do with in creating but straight off remind me of ‘uncomfortable’ times. Time to shuffle, indeed.

05.16

LONDON GRAMMAR – Hey Now (Bonobo Remix) – 10″ – Metal & Dust Recordings – 2014

A limited edition Record Store Day single from 2014, in ‘Transparent Black & Blue Marbled’ versions, with this Bonobo remix definitely on the mark.

10.13

W. H. Lung – High Pressure Days – Download only (for now?) – Melodic – 2023

I mistakenly mention on the show this was from 2022, which would have seemed a bit of a large’ish gap for a band still building an audience. An album later in the year?

14.01

MIEKO SHIMIZU – Tobira Ga Akanai – 桃天夢-Totem-, CD only – Wolf Records – 1988

A thirty year or so disconnect between the sound and the photo here but the former was only on CD and their visuals pretty much get given short shrift round these parts.

17.43

Vee VV – Keepbeat – Boomslump, 12″ EP – Vinyl Drip – 1986

Mid ’80s indie from Blackpool; with a nod to some Bristol sounds from a year or five earlier, plus the Gang of Four?

21.46

GNAG OF FOUR – Why Theory? – Solid Gold, LP – EMI – 1981

Speaking of the daddies of them all?

24.17

LONDON POSSE – Jump Around – Gangster Chronicle, LP – Mango / Island – 1990

Some dubious imagery, lyrics and testosterone flying around, but groundbreaking UK rap all the same. I maybe first heard this on London’s KISS FM a couple of years later, with a DJ live mixing in a bunch of the station’s jingles. Did a fine job, too.

29.17

MARXMAN – Dark Are The Days – 12″ EP – Talkin’ Loud – 1993

Faith in the rap lyric quickl