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Artists: Electroscope & The Castaway Stones
Title: Just Like Geoff
Format: 7″ single
Label: Boa Records
Cat. Num.: HISS 18
Year: ?

Tracklist:

Side a: Electroscope (with Mount Vernon Arts Lab) – Sky Men
Side b: The Castaway Stones – My Friend Bobby

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The Sundays revival is now in full swing, as you can see … I actually meant to rip just one show and then I got carried away (by Harriet’s voice of course If you own some live recording of The Sundays please, please share.

This show was a bit tricky to rip. I own two different recordings of it, and none of them is complete. So what I did was rip the best recording and then added the missing tracks (tracks 8, 9 and 10) from the second recording which is unfortunatelly of a lesser audio quality. But at least this way the show is complete.

Artist: The Sundays
City: Köln (Germany)
Venue: Luxor
Date: March 16, 1990

Tracklist:

01: Here’s Where The Story Ends
02: I Won
03: I Kicked A Boy
04: A Certain Someone
05: Joy
06: What Do You Think?
07: Skin & Bones
08: Something More
09: My Finest Hour
10: Hideous Towns
11: Turkish
12: Can’t Be Sure
13: Here’s Where The Story Ends

Download (new links): Part 1 / Part 2

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This is a show that I received back in my high-school days when me and a friend of mine used to run a live tapes trading list. This Manchester recording of The Sundays came from a trading list called ‘Lost At C’. The sound isn’t as good as my own recording of The Sundays in Brussels but it’s still very good and enjoyable.

NB: track 7 is called ‘Something More’, you’ll need to add the title yourself because I forgot to do it before uploading the archive to Mediafire.

Artist: The Sundays
City: Manchester (UK)
Venue: International
Date: February 24, 1989

Tracklist:

01: (intro)
02: Can’t Be Sure
03: Here’s Where The Story Ends
04: I Kicked A Boy
05: A Certain Someone
06: My Finest Hour
07: Something More
08: Skin & Bones
09: Hideous Town
10: I Won

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“And it’s you and me in the summertime,
We’ll be hand in hand down in the park,
With a squeeze and a sigh and that twinkle in your eye,
And all the sunshine banishes the dark.”

- Summertime (1997)

Ah! Me and Harriet in the summertime… Although this show happened in March and at that time of the year Belgium can be rather cold.

The sound of this recording could have been even better but I wanted to stand as close as I could to Harriet … and so did much of the male audience that evening Since then I always wondered how many break-ups Harriet Wheeler was responsible for?

There are a lot of live videos of The Sundays on ComeBackHarriet, especially a terrific version of the song ‘Goodbye‘. Sadly I don’t think they’ll ever make a come back …

Anyway, I hope you’ll enjoy this show as much as I did. There’s a couple of songs unknown to me, so if you can help with the titles please leave a comment or email me.

Update (17/8): many thanks to ComeBackHarriet for the missing titles’ names Don’t forget to add them when you open the file (tracks 7 & 13).

Artist: The Sundays
City: Bruxelles (Belgium)
Venue: Ancienne Belgique
Date: March 21, 1990

Tracklist:

01: (intro)
02: Here’s Where The Story Ends
03: I Won
04: I Kicked A Boy
05: A Certain Someone
06: Joy
07: What Do You Think?
08: Skin & Bones
09: Something More
10: My Finest Hour
11: Hideous Towns
12: (break)
13: Turkish
14: (applause)
15: Can’t Be Sure
16: (break)
17: Here’s Where The Story Ends

Download (mp3): Part 1 / Part 2

Download (flac): Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4

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Anyway, my point is that I have uploaded some of the latest compilations on Mediafire. If anyone wants to have a listen just follow the links here below. If you want the list of tracks of each compilation before downloading, simply send me an email with the title ‘Compilation Tracklisting’, and I’ll email you back with the list. Each compilation collects songs from the late 80’s to the present day, with an emphasis on indie stuff but not only (can Sigur Ros or Sufjan Stevens be considered indie?) Also, the songs are encoded in 160 kbs so that each compilation’s size is just under 100 MB. Not the best quality I know, but enough for an MP3 player I think. And, finally, the latest compilation dates back as you can see from winter 2007. I haven’t been able to make any since then due to a hectic work schedule this past year (I’ve changed employer 4 times since September 2008!!) I’ll try to catch up this year, good music never ages anyway

. Compilation #13 (winter 2005) [20 tracks] download

. Compilation #26 (summer 2007) [18 tracks] download

. Compilation #27 (autumn 2007) [20 tracks] download

. Compilation #28 (winter 2007) [24 tracks] download

PS: English is not my first language, so the selection of songs is based mostly on music and melody, and more rarely on the lyrical content. Usually great sounding songs have clever or at least interesting lyrics, but not always, and tastes differ from one person to another. If you think that I’ve missed a great song on an album don’t hesitate to let me know.

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Artist: Salako
Title: Land And Freedom EP
Format: 7″ single
Label: Elefant Records
Cat. Num.: ER-221
Year: 2000

Tracklist:

Side a1: Look Right
Side a2: Six Bridges

Side b1: Morning After Midnight
Side b2: Sky At Night

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Artists: Velocity Girl & Tsunami
Title: Season’s Greetings
Format: 7″ single
Label: Simple Machines
Cat. Num.: SMR 014
Year: 1992

Tracklist:

Side a: Velocity Girl – Merry Christmas, I Love You
Side b1: Tsunami – Could Have Been Christmas
Side b2: Velocity Girl & Tsunami – Untitled

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Artist: Desert Hearts
Title: No More Art
Format: 7″ single
Label: Tugboat
Cat. Num.: TUG S 015
Year: 2000

Tracklist:

Side a: No More Art
Side b: 29

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Thank you to all those who have left comments or sent emails during this past year, it’s very much appreciated since it’s the only reward I get for doing this blog. I hope that you were able to download some long sought after record or to discover something new. I’m hoping to get this blog going for at least another year

Artist: The Motorcycle Boy
Title: Big Rock Candy Mountain
Format: 7″ single
Label: Rough Trade
Cat. Num.: RT 210
Year: 1987

Tracklist:

Side a: Big Rock Candy Mountain
Side b: Room At The Top

Trivia: Etchings read “A Tribute to the King!” on side-a, and “Who are you Looking at?” on side-b.

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Pyrolyse Bred

2/8/08 – 2/8/09

One Year Old Today

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