Plan B 84- The drunks

Another night of questionable requests and schtick from punters who should know better. Anyways, it's been quite some time and my early set was played out to near-empty pub (it was 11:30pm so this was a tad discouraging!). I've recently visited Brighton and picked up a few nice tunes including a great double LP of French pop. I've also gone for a long-time favourite that I eventually managed to track down on a white label boot. So that's your lot for this brief return to the mind of D.I. 

New Order- Shell shock

David Bowie- Blue Jean*

Richard Hell and The Voidoids- Blank generation*

Dexys Midnight Runners- Thankfully living in Yorkshire it doesn't apply*

Kenny Smith- Keep on walking baby

Barrabas- Shack up

The Temptations- Don't let the Joneses get you down

David Alexander White- Que'st que jai danse?*

Dave Clark Five- Inside and out

Luther Ingram- If it's all the same to you babe*

Bryan Ferry- Tokyo Joe

The Sweet- Hell raiser

The Doors- Love her madly

The Rolling Stones- Street fighting man

Velvet Underground- Rock and roll

The Fall- Big new prinz

New York Dolls- Looking for a kiss

The Smiths- London*

Pete Shelley- Telephone operator*

Plan B 81- These kids are too young to know 'World in motion'

Another night off for big brother hence the lengthy list above. I had an epiphany around 3am that the place really wasn't full of weirdos just a bunch of people too young to know 'World in motion' (which got the obligatory bi-annual airing). It all started nicely with some juiced-up guy proclaiming we were 'the best DJ's he'd ever heard' only to bail out when New Order & Chas Jankel were spun. The two I've picked for you is a pairing of two debuts. Banbarra is a fresh pre-disco disconotdiscoish tune that I first heard by A Certain Ratio. 'Exhuming McCarthy' was my pick when someone asked for R.E.M. It's easy to tar them with the crap brush what with the Bonoesque tediousness of Stipe. Anyway, this is one of their best...

Banbarra- Shack up

R.E.M- Exhuming McCarthy

Plan B 80: Pilled-up Kate Bush freak out

Yup I'm back with my first post for a long time with a set from Plan B where early doors I hit the spaced out masses with one or two new grooves and a smorgasboard of weirdness for their aural pleasure.

First outta the traps and creating a brain worm is the (apparant) star of 'Laverne and Shirley' Phil Foster (check that dudes coupon out!) with a record with a title that I just had to buy. I'm not entirely sure what a 'shuckle' is (to me it would be a cross between a shrug and a chuckle) and my idea can is boggled by what it would involve (particularly if it contained the shrug/ chuckle combo). Anyways check it below...

Another oddity is this teen; West Coast; White; Temptations. Snagged during a rather hot day in Notting Hill last summer this one is a great two-fer with a nice Egyptian number on the flip. Those guys at Norton blow my hat stand every time.

And a final tune from the fabby Dee Dee Sharpe with Ride! It's a brave woman who saddles a title with an exclamation point but this one sits nicely alongside 'Gravy (for my mashed potato)' and 'Do the bird'. A great tune from a singer always worth a punt on!

The rest of the set strayed into early 80's weirdness (Kate Bush), 70's soul (Rare Gems Odyssey) and 80's indie (REM) with all of them making their respective debuts. All killer (albeit old standbys) later on in set two, but that ain't no bad thing. It wont be 4 months 'til the next one...

Phil Foster- Shuckle twist*
The Temptations (Anaheim)- Blue Surf
Dee Dee Sharpe- Ride!*
Gene Pitney- She's a heartbreaker
James Brown- Funky President
Kate Bush- Sat in your lap*
Rare Gems Odyssey- What is funk*
The Doors- Hello I love you*
Stevie Wonder- Higher ground*
REM- Strange*
The Smiths- What difference does it make
XTC- Respectable Street
Johnny Thunders- You can't put your arms around a memory

Otis Redding- Papa's got a brand new bag*
The Isley Brothers- Get into something
Etta James- Seven day fool
Trio Valore- Rehab
Bob Seger System- Ramblin' gamblin' man
The Clash- London calling
Vince Taylor and The Playboys- Brand new cadillac
The Kinks- I need you
The Doors- Light my fire
Talking Heads- Life during wartime
Elvis Costello and The Attractions- Pump it up
The Damned- Smash it up
The Troggs- Wild thing
The Sweet- Hell raiser*
The Osmonds- Crazy horses

Plan B 76: Sha Na Na requests and talking to David Bowie

Not many newbies in the two lengthy sets from Plan B 76 but plenty of tunes getting a dusting down for the first time in a long time. I have grown particularly fond of Sailor's 'Glass of champagne' which surprises me after the 'orrid 'Girls, girls, girls' that I was exposed to last year. Can you tell the difference between their singer and XTC's??? Same vocal nuances 5 years before Andy Partridge?! (it's the way he sings 'shampayane'). It was inevitable there would be a smattering of the 'white album' after my recent posts but this was coupled with many Beatles requests and a question from someone who looked like they'd stumbled out of Height- Ashburyy circa 1968 of 'What are you trying to say through your music'? Which was responded with 'What do you think I'm trying to say through my music?'

Follow the links for the current ear worms!

Early Set

Mud- Rocket
Iggy Pop- China girl
Elvis Costello- My mood swings*
Dave Clarke Five- Maze of love
Blood, Sweat & Tears- Lucretia McEvil
The Beatles- Glass onion*
Blues Magoos- Gotta get away
Sailor- A glass of champagne*
XTC- Respectable Street
The Rolling Stones- Undercover of the night*
The Fall- I'm Frank*
The Go Go's- Head over heels
Magazine- Thank you (forlettinmebemyselfagen)
Tom Waits- Union Square
Kiss- Rock 'n' roll all night*

Late Set

The Beatles- Back in the U.S.S.R
The Sonics- Have love will travel
The Clash- London calling
Elvis Costello & The Attractions- Pump it up
Talking Heads- Life during wartime*
David Bowie- Modern love
The Beatles- She's a woman
The Strangeloves- Night time
Junior Walker & The All Stars- Shotgun
Otis Redding- Love man
Gloria Jones- Tainted love
The Standells- Dirty water
Eddie Cochran- Summertime blues
The Surfaris- Wipe out
Mike Pedicin- Burnt toast and black coffee
The Rolling Stones- Get off my cloud
Bob Seger System- Ramblin' gamblin' man
Chuck Berry- Club nitty gritty
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels- Jenny take a ride!
Small Faces- Almost grown
Elvis Presley- What'd I say
Aretha Franklin- Satisfaction

The Beatles 1968 Side 1 in covers

I told you I was gonna hit you folks up out there and after hearing a cover of 'Savoy Truffle' today on a CD done by my big bro my mind raced at all the covers of stuff from the 'White album'. It seems I was walking in to that one a lot of late. I examined a Russian copy the other day that had the photos on the inner cover done in a horrid 'sketch' style like them things you get in photo booths...I swallowed the album whole in Autumn '94 as a 15 year old but would frequently skip 'Ob la di' and 'Revolution 9' but that said it's still my fave Beatles LP!

You can't beat the twist king singing about Communist Russia! You should hear the one about the political prisoners in the Ural salt mines...

Chubby Checker- Back in the U.S.S.R

Always had a soft spot for this one but other than a version by Alanis M******e this is the only cover I'm aware of...Think this one was hawled in from a Dinnington car boot back in the late '90's...

Siouxsie and The Banshees- Dear Prudence

Tricky track 3 that I have begun to warm to as I age like a kipper under the settee. There is certainly not a better version of this out there than Macca in codreggaecmoonliveandletdieragga mode so here it is...

The Beatles- Ob la di ob la da Take 5

Argh! Mother-banger it's the Pixies! I didn't know this one existed until now...'Trompe le Monde' also getting some heavy action Chez Den at the mo...

Pixies- Wild honey pie

I kinda like this one as I'm assuming that Poopy is doing a nod to Yoko's backing vox on this by taking over the whole track...not easy on the ears peeps!

Poopy Lungstuffings- The continuing story of bungalow Bill

A panic came over me when I knew George was next. Too many lame-ass tributes from lame-ass rockers. This is the best cover version out there- go Floyd! Why he's doing it Christ only knows!!

The Muppets- While my guitar gently weeps

This is probably the only song on the album that I knew as a cover before gorging on the album in 1994. Great take that dispenses with a fair few of the lyrics...


The Breeders- Happiness is a warm gun