Episode 3 - Mary & The Swedes

Wed 4th Jun, 2008

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We're back. More songs, more mumbling and a brand new feature called "ShoutBox!" (don't get exicited, it's pathetic and there's no prizes).

We both have a theme this time and the first two tracks complement each other nicely, quite by accident. Gareth's way too close to his mic in the first link - sorry about the popping and the heavy breathing. Unless that's the kind of thing you like.

Here's what we played:

1. Madder Rose - "The Altar Boys"

   (from Bring It Down, 1993)

2. A Camp - "Hard As A Stone"

   (from A Camp, 2001)

3. The Willard Grant Conspiracy - "Another Lonely Night"

   (from Mojave, 1999)

4. The Ark - "Ain't Too Proud To Bow"

   (from We Are The Ark, 2000)

5. Seafood - "What May Be The Oldest"

   (from When Do We Start FIghting?, 2003)

6. bob hund - "Skall Du Mango Hed? Naa!"

   (from Stenaldern kan borja, 2001)

Notes & Errata:

Madder Rose's Swim was the Number 2 track in John Peel's Festive Fifty in 1993, just behind Chumbawamba & Credit to The Nation.

Intelligencia Vs Cognoscenti was indeed recorded by The Cuban Boys - good call Nick.

BBC Radio One's annual event was not (and never was) "In The City", but "Sound City".

The blog comments that inflamed Nick Peter's ire regarding Madder Rose "being a poor person's Juliana Hatfield" were on becausemidwaystillarentcomingback.blogspot.com and this post in particular.

Nina Persson first saw Sparklehorse perform at a gig in Lund, Sweden. It wasn't a festival.

The newspaper that Nina Persson was quoted in regarding the 2nd A Camp album was Dagens Nyheter (the Kultur supplement more specifically)

Mojave is Willard Grant Conspiracys FOURTH album.

Ah yes, the wine:
Hardy's Nottage Hill Chardonnay, Aus, 2006 (tropical fruit and melon flavours with an oak character)
Alba Pinot Grigio, Veneto, 2006 (Straw coloured with greenish overtones)
Chateau Pierrousselle Semillon/Sauv Blanc, Bordeaux, 2004 (crisp gooseberry overtones and a hint of fresh toast)

The cover art this time is a pastiche of the cover for Soft Cell's "Bedsitter" single. It took ages to glue all that cutlery to the wall, so I hope you appreciate it...

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