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Records we bought 2010

Cassette

A christmas gift for you from Phil Spector

Searching for young sould rebel by Dexy's Midnight Runners

Love bites by Buzzcocks

Wild things by Bush Tetras

Electric mainline by Spiritualized

Songs for the sad eyed girl by Biff Bang Pow!

River deep, mountain high by Ike and Tina Turner

Music for 18 musicians by Steve Reich

Taking tiger mountain (by strategy) by Brian Eno

Relics by Pink Floyd

Behind the iron curtain, Soviet-era rock and pop, compiled by Calvin Johnson

The Monkees (a compilation)

Goo by Sonic Youth

Rank by The Smiths

Louder than bombs by The Smiths

12"

Nina Hagen Band

Isvolt compilation

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra Mini Album

Movin' with Nancy by Nancy Sinatra

Songs to swim to by Monoganon

The best of Francoise Hardy by Francoise Hardy

Black Tambourine

Baby you´re just you by The Pastels

Save yourself by Make Up

Lazy Days by Marine Girls

Beach Party by Marine Girls

Sweep the desert by Swell Maps

A different kind of tension by Buzzcocks

Metro music by Martha and The Muffins

With The Beatles by The Beatles

Best of Beach Boys by Beach Boys

The Graduate OST by Simon & Garfunkel

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel

Throughout the Ages by TITS / The seven sistered sea-secret of shh shh shh by Leopard Leg

Miniatures compilation

The Rutles by The Rutles

Flex Your Head (compilation)

Will anything happen by Shop Assistants

Here it comes by Shop Assistants

Music to climb the apple tree by by Beat Happening

Jamboree (with flexi disc) by Beat Happening

All the stuff and more by The Vaslines

We are very happy you came by Shonen Knife

The peel Sessions June Brides

Barbed Wire Kisses (b-sides and more) by The Jesus and Mary Chain

Vivian Girls by Vivian Girls

Everything Goes Wrong by Vivian Girls

Typical girls by The Slits

Touts va sauter by Elli & Jacno

7"

Sonf of Sam by Elliott Smith

On the radio by The Concretes

Please Please Please by Shout Out Louds

The Comeback by Shout Out Louds

Speed Trials by Elliott Smith

Sounds showcase 2

Fight the power by Public Enemy

Excursions into "oh, a-oh" by Stereolab

Impossible things by Loopers

Our Frank by Morrissey

All you need is me by Morrissey

Rip it up by Orange Juice

I can't help myself by Orange Juice

Krsna moja crna goro by Branca

Sad se vidi, sad se zna by Grupa CD

Pijem da je zaboravim by Hasim Kucuk Hoki

Uzmi sve sto ti by Gvozden

The tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Streets of your town by The Go-Betweens

Razorcuts/The Wolfhounds flexi from The Legend!

Bringing up baby by Talulah Gosh

Trance by Red Kross

600 000 bands by Felt Letters

New radio by Bikini Kill

Hedi's head by Kleenex

The last words by Animal World

Animal space by The Slits

Salad days by Minor Threat

Exhibit A by Pussycat Trash

How does it feel by Crass

Merry Crassmas by Crass

All systems go by Poison Girls

Bloody revolution by Crass / Persons unknown by Posion Girls

Reality asylum by Crass

Barbed wire halo by Annie Anxiety

Nagasaki nightmare by Crass

You win by Brilliant Colors / I lose by Girls Names

Familiar shapes and noises by Broadcast and The Focus Group

Town Topic Ep by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

One inch badge split series vol. 5

Theme From Shaft by Isaac Hayes

Like a rolling stone by Bob Dylan

Runaway by Del Shannon

Grands Boulevards by Yves Montand

A forest by The Cure

Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Lovesick by Orange Juice

Striving for the lazy perfection by The Orchids

Walk into the world by Brilliant Colors

Where do you go to (my lovely)? by Peter Sarstedt

Toi, tu l'entends pas by Edith Piaf

Pourvu que ca dure by Sandie Shaw

Non, je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf

(Just like) starting over by John Lennon

Je veux qu'il revienne by Francoise Hardy

C'est fab! by Francoise Hardy

Je t'aime...moi non plus by Serge Gainsbourg

Leader of the pack by The Shangri-Las

Poupée de cire poupée deson by France Gall

Itchycoo park by Small Faces

Beatles movie medley by The Beatles

Good vibrations by Beach Boys

The Model by Kraftwerk

Showroom dummies by Kraftwerk

Tour de France by Kraftwerk

The Passenger by Iggy Pop

Paranoid by Black Sabbath

You can call me Al by Paul Simon

Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners

Tryouts for the human race by Sparks

I feel love by Donna Summer

You think you're a man by Divine

A new England by Kirsty MacColl

Cassie by Melody Dog

You trip me up by The Jesus and Mary Chain

Some candy talking EP by The Jesus and Mary Chain

Room in your heart by The Rosehips

January 1989 by The Go Team

June 1989 by The Go Team

August 1989 by The Go Team

You trip me up (flexi) by The Shop Assistants

I'd rather be with you by The Shop Assistants

Mustard gas by Action Painting!

I don't wanna be friends with you by The Shop Assistants

My love will followme by Vivian Girls

Wild eyes by Vivian Girls

Mexican ghost (on a boat) hello? by La La Vasquez

Happy Hour by The Housemartins

California Girls by Beach Boys

CD

Twinkle echo by Casiotone for the painfully alone

Singapore a-go-go (sublime frequencies compilation)

The solo recordings (the collection1 ) by Martha Argerich

Coals to Newcastle by Orange Juice

Everything and more by Dolly Mixture

After nature by Gülcher

Unboxed by Free Kitten

The enraged will inherit the earth (plus rarities) by McCarthy

Music for the amorphous body study centre by Stereolab

The very best of The Byrds by The Byrds

Et moi et moi et moi by Jacques Dutronc

The Rutles by The Rutles

VHS

Live by Black Flag

Thanks to Oxfam Music, Vinyl Hut (RIP), Monorail, Missing, Crocodisc, Monster Melodies, Gibert, Boulinier and various gigs

WIAL issue 2

We are happy to say that the second issue of WIAL is finally here now. The issue contains interviews with Amelia Fletcher, Marit Bergman, Jeffrey Lewis and Pol Dodu/JC Brouchard.

We know that it have taking ages and we're sorry for that. But now it's here and if you want a copy, just contact us and we sort it out.

Tonight you belong to me

Dear everyone,

we're lazy. but we're working on it. slowly. we know. but one day soon.

in the meantime, read tobi vail's blog. it's fantastic.

Jigsaw #5 basically kind of says "fuck you" and "get away from me" and "we don't need you" and "we go with the kids yeah yeah yeah yeah" over and over and over again

DI

Golden Grrrls, La La Vasquez, Brilliant Colors, 10/06/10, The 13th Note, Glasgow

After getting Di at work at 9, having a drink, going from a vegan place to another, arriving to the 13th Note late and missed Red Heat, which is certainly really sad.

Boo-boo, life is not easy.

Well, anyway, we can start:

Golden Grrrls

To keep it short:

[ (cute Flipper + early Happy Flowers drones + acid-liquid Helios Creed guitars) x morbid Beat Happening ] + the-coolest-drummer-in-the-world-since-Tobi-Vail = Golden Grrrls.

For a longer development, you have to add an intensity of out-of-the-world hyper active kids lost in massive, hypnotic blocks of noise. With hesitant, yet poppy, small voices, an adorable Lo-Fi/DIY/cassette culture/amateurism edge and a between songs longer than the songs themself.

So, they are currently the best band in the world, shortly surpass by the "Jonathan Richman, frontman of a TVP composed of members of Pastels, Song For Children era" that are Boredom Boys.

For the rest, they are a fucking brilliant and cute band playing a pure panda & kitten music.

La La Vasquez

Oh! Raincoats' Odychape in a folky gothic Residents' Fingerprince mood!

Errr... No, that's the Next Big Thing of the DIY indie scene. Hello La La Vasquez.

What's better than 3 girls playing with a fake innocence? (Ok, Bikini Kill). But, also 3 girls on acid playing with a fake innocence.

When, on records, La La Vasquez give an absurd (from absurdity, not an other word for "shit") version of the Marine Girls, on stage, they give an almost-arid abstract version of it.

On the simple base drums + bass and eerie double vocals of an amateurish Shangri-Las, the guitar fly above and launch dive attacks of groups of notes, almost unrelated to the rest.

Which give:

La La Vasquez = Illyushin IL-2 on a scout girls fire camp.

OK, the fact that the drummer was sick to death during the gig didn't help, I guess.

But, at the end, I rather liked it. They got for them this weird practice of psych-vocal on thin and un-deep sound. They're really cool, honestly.

Hum, what else? Oh yeah, on their cover of Blue Monday, the Tchak-Tchak-Tchak of the beginning remplaced by a Paf-Paf-Paf of cymbals. That made me laugh a lot. But I'm really childish. (and I mean, REALLY)

Last thing, the drummer, before her gig was taking pictures with a one-time camera. That's make them even cooler.

Last trio of girls of the night *: Brilliant Colors

The Ramones is obviously the cliché of any band playing fast and noisy pop, so I guess I have to name-drop it in the case of Brillant Colors. So I drop it:

RAMONES

Well, honestly, despite the brillant "We've got 15 minutes left, let's do 14 songs!", they reminded me more of a punchy Amen Dunes because of the strange echo vocals and of the Sterling Morrison solos style, which is always a good thing.

And Shop Assistants.

They actually don't sound or even look like it, it just get stuck in my head: Shop Assistants. I really don't know why, maybe the semi-punk, fast pulsation, in-your-head -without the ordinary macho pose of it- feeling they give to all their song. And the girls vocal as well.

Once again, really good, feeling even a bit more professional than the others (OMG, a band who don't do any false starts!).

All those beautiful red and blurry pics by Di on her non-working mobile phone.

* Two things: 1) I know there's a guy in Golden Grrls 2) about the 3-girls bands: I am sure it's actually significant and that I could build a whole bullshit theory about that. But not now, I don't feel concentrate enough. You should ask Ian Svenonius, I'm sure he've got something to say about it.

The point is the 3-girls garage/indie pop group has emerge from those last errr, let's say 3 years as a real archetype (like, before that, the 4 skinny guys doing dance-punk or the 2 Vice-type guy + 1 part-time American Apparel model doing forgettable synth-pop) in the underground field. Or something like that.

That's remind me a discussion some years ago with a friend about what could come after the noisy post-whatever wave of 2005-2008 and we agreed about a wave of rather melodic and direct bands like the 80's C-86 style bands could have been after all the post-punk and industrial experiment. We wasn't that far with all those pop-punk band, finally.

And, yes,I've got some really interesting discussion with my friends.

YM