Snow snow go away come again another day, or preferably snow on all of the bankers, economists, capitalists, bus and train bosses and politicians in a large fuck-off snowdrift and we can go sledging over them, laughing.

First angry part of a 2-part podcast, apologies for the abrupt ending, the whole thing came to 2:45 so I split it.

Ice Ice baby, to go…oh actually not to go, can’t afford that. Do you do tap water? (66Mb, 79mins)

• Fleet Foxes – Blue Ridge Mountains
• Cosmo vs Flapsandwich – GEORGE BUSH RIP
• Steinski – Is We Going Under?
• Public Enemy – Party For Your Right To Fight
• Silver Bullet – 20 Seconds To Comply (Final Conflict Mix)
• Steinski – Everything’s Disappeared
• The Coup – MindFuck (A New Creation)
• Royal Family And the Poor – Art On 45
• Dead Milkmen – Life Is Shit
• Elton John – I Think I’m Gonna Kill Myself
• Meshuggah – New Millenium Cyanide Christ
• Fucked Up – Twice Born
• Danny Byrd – From Bath With Love (feat. T-Lace)
• 23 Skidoo – Fire
• London Elektricity – Bare Religion
• The Knife – Forest Families
• The Wedding Present – Interstate 5 (Extended version)

To those of a certain age, the porcine NOW! compilations (aka Now That’s What I Call Music) were a fundamental part of their youth….I remember the first ones, my sister had NOW 8. Well to make me feel utterly old they have now reached 25 years of age, and the 25th anniversary edition is soon to be out.

So let’s see:

Disc: 1
1. Backstreet Boys I Want It That Way
2. Belinda Carlisle Heaven is A Place On Earth
3. Beyonce feat Jay-Z Crazy In Love
4. Billy Joel Uptown Girl
5. Black Eyed Peas feat Justin Timberlake Where Is The Love
6. Bon Jovi Livin’ On A Prayer
7. Boyzone No Matter What
8. Britney Spears Baby One More Time
9. Cher Believe
10. Coldplay Fix You
11. Crowded House Weather With You
12. Culture Club Karma Chameleon
13. David Bowie Modern Love
14. Diana Ross Chain Reaction
15. Duffy Mercy
16. Duran Duran The Reflex
17. Elton John Are You Ready For Love
18. Eurythmics There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)
19. Fatboy Slim Praise You
20. Feargal Sharkey A Good Heart
21. Frankie Goes To Hollywood Two Tribes
22. Gnarls Barkley Crazy
23. James Sit Down
24. James Blunt You’re Beautiful
25. Jermaine Stewart We Don’t Have To
26. Kaiser Chiefs Ruby
27. Katy Perry I Kissed A Girl
Disc: 2
1. Kylie Minogue Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
2. Leona Lewis Bleeding Love
3. Mark Ronson feat Amy Winehouse Valerie
4. Mika Grace Kelly
5. Natalie Imbruglia Torn
6. Nelly Furtado Maneater
7. New Radicals You Get What You Give
8. No Doubt Don’t Speak
9. Oasis Wonderwall
10. Outkast Hey Ya!
11. Pet Shop Boys It’s A Sin
12. Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer
13. Phil Collins You Can’t Hurry Love
14. Phil Collins / Philip Bailey Easy Lover
15. Queen I Want To Break Free
16. R.E.M. Everybody Hurts
17. Ray Parker Jr Ghostbusters
18. Ricky Astley Never Gonna Give You Up
19. Rihanna feat Jay-Z Umbrella
20. Robbie Williams Angels
21. Roxette It Must Have Been Love
22. RUN DMC feat Aerosmith Walk This Way
23. S Club 7 Reach
24. Shaggy feat Ricardo ‘RikRok’ Ducent It Wasn’t Me
25. Shania Twain That Don’t Impress Me Much
Disc: 3
1. Simple Minds Don’t You (Forget About Me)
2. Sinead O’Connor Nothing Compares 2 U
3. Snow Patrol Chasing Cars
4. Spice Girls Wannabe
5. T’Pau China In Your Hand
6. Take That Patience
7. The Beautiful South A Little Time
8. The Killers Somebody Told Me
9. The Proclaimers I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
10. The Scissor Sisters I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
11. The Sugababes Push The Button
12. The Verve Bittersweet Symphony
13. Timbaland pts one Republic Apologise
14. Tina Turner The Best
15. Tony Christie (Is This The Way To) Amarillo
16. U2 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
17. UB40 Red Red Wine
18. Westlife You Raise Me Up
19. Wet Wet Wet Love Is All Around
20. Wham! Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
21. Whitesnake Here I Go Again (87 Remix)
22. Will Young Leave Right Now
23. Yazz The Only Way Is Up

Can you get a mostly blander set of hits than this? NOW used to be a mix of the shit and the good, cred and the crap…now sadly success is probably only measured in sales rather than whether it’s good or not.

There are some Pop Classics™:

Kylie, Yazz, UB40, RUN DMC, Beyonce, Bon Jovi (I hate to say it, but yes) Ray parker Jr., Sinead O’Connor, Scissor Sisters, Britney Spears, Robbie Williams (ditto), R.E.M, Queen, Gnarls Barkley, FGTH, Outkast, PSB’s, Peter Gabriel, Spice Girls (double ditto), The Proclaimers, Diana Ross

but there are a lot even with the benefit of hindsight which should have been suffocated at birth:

Will Young, Fergal Sharkey, U2 (ooh controversy!), Tpau, Roxette, Cher, Phil Collins, The Verve, Westlife, Tony Christie, The Killers, S Club 7, Shania Twang, Boyzone, Backstreet Boys, Rihanna, Duffy, Wet Wet Wet, Belinda Carlisle, Mika, Natalie Imbrooglywoogly, Crowded House, James Blunt, Katy Perry

and others which are like ‘yes but not that song?!?!’

David Bowie, Take That, Tina Turner, Wham, Elton John, Coldplay, No Doubt, Timbaland, Eurythmics, Kaiser Chiefs

And talking of DJ Timmy Tim as he was known, why no Missy? Distinct lack of Eminem too. As we all know Madonna has never graced a NOW album either, having been kept off the No. 1 slot by one, but Prince has, so why the no show?). And no New Order – not even Blue Monday.

So what would be your NOW 25 years wonder playlist?

Xmas comes early with a preview of tracks from the very-soon-to-be-launched Strummer mashup album from MutantPop ‘This One’s For Joe’. In fact listen carefully you might get it before anyone else as the URL is in the podcast

And absolutely no mention of Xmas, Xmas tunes, or anything from me. Promise.

Cum down my chimney and play with my sack (61Mb, 79mins)

Trackerdogs:

• The Clash – This is Radio Clash (Dunproofin‘ Mix – from This One’s For Joe)
• World Famous Audio Hacker – White Riot (Chaos Island Mix from This One’s For Joe)
• Super Furry Animals – Run Away (from Hey Venus)
• Von Sudenfed – Rhinohead (from Tromatic Reflexxions)
• Supermayer – Please Sunrise (from …Saves the World)
• The Kleptones – Cymbalicker (from Live-r than you’ll ever be)
• Justice – Stress (from Cross)
• Simian Mobile Disco – Sleep Deprivation (from Attack Decay Sustain Release)
• The Kleptones - Inferno (from Live-r than you’ll ever be)
• Celebrity Murder Party – Coma Girl Acid Test (from This One’s For Joe)
• Diplo ft Daft Punk – Work is never over
• High Contrast – Forever & a Day (from Tough Guys Don’t Dance)
• Instamatic - English Ghost (from This One’s For Joe)

S*cr*t S*n*t*

• Ned Muffleburger – Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
• DJ C - Jungle Bells (Bumba Clause Mix ft. Murderbot – from Santastic IIID)
• Voicedude – Imagine Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (from Santastic IIID)
• Wax Audio – Happy_Xmas_(War_Is_Over) (from Cut, Paste & Run)

• Juxtaposeur – Jungle Appleseed (from This One’s For Joe)
• B.A.D. – Must be the Music
• DJ Earlybird – Straight to the hair farmer
• Dawn Landes – Young Folks

If bootlegs are dead, then they are the undead party zombies of the world…last Bastard gets the ‘best funeral ever’; GYBO gets a C&D and remains unrepentant and keeps going, and Tim gets on (down with) the mashup/download offensive armed with a shotgun and a cricket bat…

They’re coming to get you, bootlegs: http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_63.mp3

Notes:

• Voicemails from Ross from Mashup Podcast / bw ‘The Gonk’ from Dawn of the Dead
• MC Lars – Download this Song (more about Elisa and Nettwerk at the Future of Music blog)
• totom - John the TV Eye (that Feeds)
• Rant about GYBO’s Cease and Desist and The Last Bastard Picture Show
• Irn Mnky – Ordinary Trousers
• Cut Copy – Saturdays
• Voicemail from Tony Valenzuela
• Report about the Last Bastard – see pics at link above!
• Lenlow – My Shiny Gun Mosey
• Loo & Placido – Black Beatles
• Instamatic - Alison She’s So Horsey (White Powder mix – exclusive demo)
• The Knife – Heartbeats
• Jose Gonzalez – Hand on your Heart (Kylie cover - his Myspace blog)
• tbc - Mary Was a Cowboy (Scissor Sisters vs Boards of Canada – exclusive demo)
• Popchor Berlin – How Soon Is Now? (from copy,right blog)

Feeding BritCaster.com

Strange transient noise bursts here (86mins, 51Mb): http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_62.mp3

Revenge and return of the Aural pOddities show (31 shows since show 31!) where I talk about outsider music, from song poems to gay patriots, homosexual ghosts and really bad pop music!

Longest RC show yet; but it didn’t seem right to split it – stick with it, there’s a great chilled middle section long-mix…

Notes:

• The Fall – I’m Going to Spain (from The Infotainment Scam)
• Katie Lee – Will to Fail (from Incredibly Strange Records vol 1)

Strange woolwear fixation

• Jess Conrad – This Pullover (from The World’s Worst Record Show)
• Dickie Lee – Laurie (from The World’s Worst Record Show)

Strange songpoems

• Shelley Stuart and the Five Stars – Vampire Husband (from WFMU – More about Song Poems – the ASPMA)
• My Daddy He Died in 1969 (from WFMU)

Strangely Patriotic

• Dick Kent – Rat A Tat Tat America (from WFMU)
• Peter Grudzien – Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere (from Songs in the Key of Z)
• B.J. Snowden – In Canada (from Songs in the Key of Z)

Strangely soothing mix

• Harry Paartch / Newband – Daphne of the Dunes 1958
• Charles Ives – The Unanswered Question
• Syd Barrett - Golden Hair (vocal version from Opel)
• Space Lady – Major Tom (from 365 Project)
• Tiny Tim with Miss Sue – True Love (from Songs in the Key of Z)
• Frogs – I Only Play for Money

Strangely shoobydoobydoo

• Shooby Taylor – Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing (from Songs in the Key of Z – Shooby WAS eventually found – read more here)
  
• Bob Vido – Boo-Bah-Bah (from 365 Project)
• Legendary Stardust Cowboy – Paralyzed (from The World’s Worst Record Show/ Incredibly Strange Records)
• Helloween – Focus (originally by Hocus Pocus) Hocus Pocus (originally by Focus? – thanks Richard Todd for pointing that out)

Strange scale usage

• Wing – Back in Black
• Florence Foster Jenkins – Liadoff / Die Musikdose
• Mrs Miller – Strangers in the Night

Strangely sexual spirits

• Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back (from The World’s Worst Record Show)
• Wesley Willis Fiasco – Casper the Homosexual Friendly Ghost
• Daniel Johnston – The Story of the Artist (from The Late Great Daniel Johnston CD also find out more at Rejected Unknown)