TripleX

9 Nov 2015

8 November 2015

Show 259

Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles. On a double bill at The Palais just a couple years ago. They were ok…had never been a favourite of mine anyway. Best part was hearing the young women behind us complain that Belinda Carlisle wasn’t there… 🙂

Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees. 1981 release from Juju, their 4th studio album. I’m counting them in my LGBTIQ content this week due to a 2007 interview Siouxsie Sioux did with The Independent in the UK where she said: men and women aren’t really suited to each other as partners and “I’ve never particularly said I’m hetero or I’m a lesbian. I know there are people who are definitely one way, but not really me. I suppose if I am attracted to men then they usually have more feminine qualities.” She was married to a male drummer for awhile.

Sans Contrefacon by Mylene Farmer. Request.

Love Like Blood by Killing Joke. Second single from their 5th album, Night Time, released in 1985.

So Good to be Back in Love by The Tourists. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart’s band prior to founding The Eurythmics, also featured Peet Coombes, Eddie Chin and Jim Toomey. This is a 1980 single from their second album, Reality Effect, which came out in 1979.

Manimal by The Germs. Featuring gay singer Darby Crash, who committed suicide with an intentional heroin overdose in Dec 1980. This is from their only album, GI, produced by Joan Jett and released in 1979. They were part of the LA punk scene. LGBTIQ

Grimly Fiendish by The Damned: They were the first of the British punk bands to release a single, album and tour the United States. This is a 1985 single, the first from Phantasmagoria, their 6th studio album.

Sonic Reducer by Dead Boys. This is from their 1977 debut album, Young Loud & Snotty; it was also released as a 7” single. They were a Cleveland, OH based punk band active for just 3 years in the late 70s but with a couple of revisits in the 80s and early 2000s.

Do you think of me by Mariah Carey. Request.

Cool for Cats by Squeeze. second single released from the album Cool for Cats. It featured a comparatively rare lead vocal performance from Squeeze lyricist Chris Difford, one of only two occasions he sang lead on a Squeeze single A-side (the other was 1989’s “Love Circles”). Difford brought a cockney accent to the way the lyrics were sung which makes it distinctive as well.

You Can’t put your Arms around a Memory by Johnny Thunders. From his 1978 album, So Alone. He was born born John Anthony Genzale, Jr. and is best known for playing with the New York Dolls and The Hearbreakers. He died in 1991 in mysterious circumstances, without enough drugs in his system to kill him…but dead nonetheless.

Aussies from 1983

*Eat City by The Angels. 1983 single that hit 22 on the Australian chart. It was also on their 6th studio album, Watch the Red.

*Whispering your Name by Ignatius Jones. His second solo release after Jimmy and the Boys; it came out in 1983 (this was the title track) and didn’t do quite as well as his debut, Like a Ghost, from the previous year. LGBTIQ – Jones is openly gay.

*Tacky by Pat Wilson. B-side to her only hit, Bop Girl, from 1983. It was also written by her then-husband, Ross.

*Listening by Pseudo Echo. 1983 single, also included on their 1984 debut album, Autumnal Park.

*This House is on Fire by Ac/Dc. From Flick of the Switch, their 9th album. Came out in 1983.

*Blue Day by Mi-Sex. A 1983 single from Where Do They Go?, their final studio album, also from 1983.

Irresistible by Audrey Wheeler. Request.

Pandemonium by The Time. Request.

*History Never Repeats by Split Enz. Request.

Free, Gay and Happy by Coming Out Crew. LGBTIQ request.

Sweet Jane by Cowboy Junkies. 1988 cover of the 1970 Velvet Underground original. From The Trinity Sessions, their second album. Lou Reed has also covered it as a solo artist, in 1974.

Another Girl, Another Planet by The Only Ones. English rock band formed in London in 1976 and disbanded in 1982. They were associated with punk rock, yet can be seen to be in between punk, power pop and hard rock, with influences from psychedelia. This is from their self-titled debut released in 1978.

Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead. 1995 single, also found on The Bends, their second album.