Episode 103 – Original Upload 1.5.22

and it’s 91% vinyl friendly. Near perfect

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Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune sonically might not sound quite how it originally did.

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Lyric of Playlist 103...

‘God, sometimes you just don’t come through... ‘

No shit!

Initially I’d forgotten ‘he’ was in my firing line here in the last show... so I’ll repeat. We’ve more chance of Donald Duck sorting things. No really, we have.

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00.00

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

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00.41

NEW ORDER – Someone Like You – Get Ready, LP – London Records – 2001

Daughter, Alice’s copy of Get Ready below, autographs acquired by herself in the dressing room of a Brixton 2001 gig. The Sharpie I’d bought the same day (red, to match the sleeve) has worn about as well as the sleeve itself, with the latter (spanking new at the time) having then been stuffed unceremoniously into Alice’s school locker for an age. Let’s be grateful for small mercies. If the album had been an autographed copy of whatever every other 12yr old was listening to, it might have been nicked. As for Someone Like You? The machines echo a slightly darker undercurrent of menace of the band’s earlier years and melded with the ‘brighter’ Barney’s vocals and BVs it works just fine.

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05.57

SEX PISTOLS – Problems – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols, LP – Sex Pistols Records – 1977

Att...i... tude!

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10.06

X-RAY SPEX – Let’s Submerge – 7′′ b-side – EMI International – 1978

Poly! Poly! Poly!

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13.28

PENETRATION – Money Talks – 7′′ b-side – Virgin – 1977

Another punk gal who showed the way. Up to this 41 Rooms show I hadn’t ever worked out whether my first and by default sighting of Penetration live had actually happened but an updated band gigography has confirmed as much. I went to the Marquee on June 29, ’77 actually to grab a chat with Ian Gillan, who I knew was going himself, to see Heron. Whilst at the bar with Ian I heard this scream from the out of sight support band and went and caught my first ever glimpse of Pauline Murray’s crew!

Mate, Dave’s early 80s poster...

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15.07

THE REZILLOS – Cold Wars – 7′′ – Sire – 1979

One of a bunch of highly entertaining singles they put out.

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18.01

23 SKIDOO – Ethics – 7′′ – Pineapple Products – 1981

Before their crooked, industrial funk side set in. They were well capable in both areas.

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21.23

INERTIA – Injury Time – Dancebeat Attitude (Pop Anguish En Route), 7′′ EP – Inertial Records – 1980

I’ve made numerous attempts to want to playlist this but the vocals have proved ‘difficult’ to sit next to... well, just about anything! Both Inertia’s first two singles (this was the second) were spun on John Peel’s radio show and he read out a band member’s address as to where to nab them... which I did. I sold them years later when ‘minimalist synth’/electronic bods were helping to up their value(s) – at one point later on both were fetching well over £100! – but the interest seems to have died off a bit since.

I still have the note (using a spare sleeve!) Inertial main man, D(ouglas) B(enford) sent me with this single back in 1980.

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23.46

THOMAS LEER and ROBERT RENTAL – Monochrome Day’s – The Bridge, LP – Industrial Records – 1979

Leer showing a vocal confidence that he’d later stretch much further, with Rental’s musical career pretty much drawing to a halt just a year after this album. Not sure about that apostrophe in the title, though.

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27.22

PETE SHELLEY – Homosapien – 7′′ – Genetic Records/Island Records – 1981

A slight swerve in between his Buzzcocks eras.

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31.46

THE BEATLES – Things We Said Today – 7′′ b-side – Parlophone – 1964

Well documented at 41 Rooms, the Dansette, plus bunch of early and second hand 60s 7′′s job lot purchase of my dad’s in the early ’60s (Peacock’s, Bedford auction/sales room) might just have beat this 7′′ into the Hickey household but our next door neighbour, Barbara Varney bequeathed the Beatles’ She L...