Episode 99 – 2.1.22

PLAYLIST 99 uploaded Jan 2, 2022

and it’s 88% vinyl friendly. Impressive.

As of 2018 or so Audio Consulting’s R-evolution Meteor-Stealth turntable was arguably the third most expensive turntable on the market. At $176,000 there sure as hell needs to be some back story – so, this is it and being a Switzerland-based company it might be handy for all those very wealthy bods visiting their Swiss bank accounts who might want to ‘Call and collect’ a turntable whilst they’re there... to save on the P&P

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Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop.

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Lyric of Playlist 99...

With little real competition, it’s Marv and Tammi’s dualling. Hearts on their sleeves.

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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 – The Him (Cargo Demo) (2019 Remaster) – Movement, Definitive Edition boxset – Rhino / Warner Music – 2019

From the band’s Jan ’81 Cargo Studios, Rochdale demos sessions, that would also make up the bulk of their immediate live sets leading to the album’s debut in November of that year.

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05.29

THE WAKE – Here Comes Everybody (Peel session, 14.7.83) – Harmony & Singles, 2LP – Factory Benelux – 2013

Always a fave Wake track with me, the Peel session was a couple of months before I put them on for the first time in Bedford, at Winkles.

The Wake, outside Revisited vintage clothes shop, Bedford, pre their gig at Winkles, 7.9.83

Photo credit/copyright: Dec Hickey

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12.26

GERALD SHAPIRO (and THE ELECTRIC PHOENIX) – Phoenix – Electro Acoustic Music II, v/a CD only – Neuma Records – 1991

Anyone of a certain age who got ambushed by the French a-cappella group, the Swingle Singers turning up on early 70s, variety-type UK TV might struggle to learn there was a personnel connection between them and this recording... but there was.

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17.45

SWEDISH FISH – Voices Move Me – How Can You Sleep At Night, 7′′ EP – Bullseye Records Of Canada – 1986

Just two mid 80s 7′′ singles and then just the twenty years later (in your own time) a more ‘polished and accomplished’ but less interesting (for me anyway) debut album. It did though manage to involved the same main personnel in both eras, so that’s no mean feat in itself.

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21.38

CRISPY AMBULANCE – The Presence – Live On A Hot August Night, 12′′ b-side – Factory Benelux – 1981

This does always genuinely bring to mind a summer’s evening, at the Hickey family home in Bedford back in those times. Not sure if it was in August, though. Either way, very strange.

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29.38

THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND – Who Called The Dandy? – CD single extra track – City Rockers – 2006

Leeds via some US West Coast sensibilities.

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34.18

BJÖRK and DAVID ARNOLD – Play Dead (Tim Simenon 7′′ Remix) – 7′′ – Island – 1993

Released as the only single from the soundtrack of the 1993 crime drama, The Young Americans... written by Jah Wobble and notable more so for Björk’s co performer, David Arnold’s strings and stuff than Tim Simenon’s remix work.

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37.42

THIEVES – The Night – 7′′ b-side – Hut Recordings – 1993

One of the earliest public sightings of David McAlmont’s soaring voice, he’ll be back here at some point.

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41.24

EDDIE HOLMAN – It’s All In The Game – 7′′ b-side – ABC – 1969

The best and only version of the song that will grace 41 Rooms it’s also almost certain to be the only one involving a Vice President of the USA in waiting, the music for the tune having been written by Charles Dawes in 1911. The words were added in the 1950s.

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44.48

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD – Everything’s Tuesday – 7′′ – Invictus – 1970

Beyond my first ever record buy (50p pocket money given to Dad to grab Elton John’s Your Song in Hockliffe’s, Bedford) this was one of three singles that followed. One of the other two, America’s Horse With No Name, has already made it to 41 Rooms but it might have to be a strange day for the third one to get here.

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47.38

THE ORIGINALS – Don’t Stop Now – Portraits Of The Originals, LP – Soul – 1970

Never a single in its own right first time around but a growing affection from...