. . . . this is lovely #cluster [track of the day] . . . might sign off for the day with this . . . . .
#dieter moebius#hans joachim roedeliusThursday, April 09, 2026
Going Underground - 66 Smash New Wave Hits [2011] (3 x CDs) | Butterboy
VA - Going Underground - 66 Smash New Wave Hits [2011] (3 x CDs)
This is a fun collection and I have pretty much all of these but as Butterboy excels at this the compiling is enough for me to want it. Grteat stuff and the HITS just keep right on coming
NEW WAVE
A set like Going Underground 66 Smash New Wave Hits doesn’t really begin at track one. It starts somewhere in the middle of a feeling, like switching on a late-seventies radio and catching whatever happens to be playing.
Three discs, sixty six tracks, and a wide spread of bands that once shared chart space for a brief, restless stretch of time.
The sequencing leans into that restlessness. Short, punchy songs arrive in quick succession, rarely staying long enough to settle. A wiry guitar intro, a clipped vocal, a chorus that lands and disappears, then something slightly colder or more melodic takes its place.
The set moves quickly, but not randomly.
There is a quiet sense of balance between the sharper edges of early new wave and the more polished pop that followed close behind.Names drift in and out without ceremony.
The Jam bring urgency and precision, Blondie shift the tone toward something lighter on its feet, and Elvis Costello adds a more deliberate phrasing that sits somewhere between punk energy and classic songwriting. None of them dominate for long. The compilation keeps moving.
What becomes noticeable over time is how varied the term new wave actually was.
Some tracks lean close to punk in their directness, others carry traces of earlier pop or rhythm and blues, and a few hint at the synthesiser driven sound that would take hold in the early eighties.
The set does not separate these strands, it lets them sit together as they once did.
Heard straight through, the collection feels like a compressed version of a changing scene.
Styles overlap, moods shift, and the edges between genres blur without needing explanation.
It does not try to define new wave, it simply places the records side by side and lets the shape appear gradually.
Leave it running and the energy holds, quick, bright, and slightly unpredictable,
just long enough to suggest how that moment sounded while it was still unfolding.
Track lists
CD1
01 Jam - Going Underground 2:54
02 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden 2:53
03 Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone you Shouldn't've?) 2:40
04 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Pump it Up 3:17
05 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno 3:26
06 Vapours - Turning Japanese 3:43
07 Cars - My Best Friend's Girl 3:41
08 Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi 2:56
09 Adam & The Ants - Dog Eat Dog 3:13
10 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number 2:46
11 Motors - Airport 4:28
12 Patti Smith Group - Because The Night 3:20
13 Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap 4:55
14 Stranglers - No More Heroes 3:27
15 Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet 3:00
16 Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do 4:02
17 XTC - Making Plans for Nigel 4:11
18 Flying Lizards - Money 2:29
19 Jilted John - Jilted John 2:53
20 Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy 2:41
21 Dickies - Banana Splits 1:54
22 Sham 69 - If The Kids Are United 3:45
CD2
01 Blondie - Hanging on The Telephone 2:20
02 Knack - My Sharona 4:01
03 Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him? 3:34
04 Squeeze - Up The Junction 3:10
05 Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 3:04
06 Jags - Back of My Hand 3:19
07 Split Enz - I Got You 3:25
08 B-52's - Rock Lobster 4:53
09 Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Start 3:18
10 Pretenders - Stop The Sobbing 2:37
11 Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway 3:15
12 Skids - Into The Valley 3:09
13 Members - Sound of The Suburbs 3:15
14 Ramones - Sheena is A Punk Rocker 2:46
15 Dr Feelgood - Milk & Alcohol 2:46
16 Generation X - King Rocker 2:16
17 Tubes - Prime Time 3:15
18 Devo - Whip It! 2:37
19 Rezillos - Top of The Pops 3:14
20 Ruts - Babylon's Burning 2:34
21 Public Image Limited - Public Image 2:55
22 Wire - I Am The Fly 3:08
CD3
01 Cure - Boys Don't Cry 2:35
02 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 3:25
03 Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink 3:58
04 Kim Wilde - Kids in America 3:24
05 Kirsty MacColl - They Don't Know 3:00
06 Teardrop Explodes - Reward 2:41
07 Tenpole Tudor - Swords of A Thousand Men 2:55
08 Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day 3:09
09 Slits - I Heard it Through The Grapevine 3:58
10 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae 2:36
11 Specials - Gangsters 2:46
12 Selecter - On My Radio 3:01
13 Grace Jones - Private Life 5:11
14 Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love 3:28
15 Marianne Faithfull - Broken English 4:35
16 X Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents 3:11
17 Passions - I'm in Love With A German Film Star 3:57
18 Sparks - The No 1 Song in Heaven 3:29
19 Human League - Being Boiled 4:16
20 Japan - Life in Tokyo (Part 1) 4:01
21 Go-Go's - We Got The Beat 2:30
22 Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go! 3:03
(Butterboy)
Care - Temper Temper (1984) | Guess I’m Dumb
Care - Temper Temper (1984)
"Care were a short lived Liverpool group featuring vocalist Paul Simpson (Wild Swans) and Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds). If you like Echo and the Bunnymen, give this one a listen.” Guess sez!
He's not wrong either . . . like this one. I believe you can hear ‘echoes’ [geddit!?] go all three bands here . . . . .
Birthdays: Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins was born in Tiptonville, Tennessee on this day in 1932.
You can do anything but lay off my blue suede shoes.
Carl Perkins early EARLY (1956?) Blue Suede Shoes
Remembering Carl Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998)
Carl Perkins was a rockabilly pioneer who sang with Elvis Presley, hung out and toured with Johnny Cash and wrote classic rock and roll tunes like “Blue Suede Shoes,” the first recording to top the pop, country and R&B charts simultaneously.The country-inflected guitar licks he coaxed from his 1953 Les Paul Goldtop inspired George Harrison’s early electric leads and solos with the Beatles. The group’s admiration ran deep: They covered at least seven Perkins songs onstage and in the studio, including “Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby,” “Matchbox” and “Honey Don’t.” As Paul McCartney declared, “If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.”
Michael Nyman - Great Death Game (The Draughtsman’s Contract by Peter Greenaway] | jt1674
. . . I have mentioned my tutor at college several times and that composer Gavin Bryars held the somewhat unusual post in a Fine Art (Painting) Dept of a polytechnic in Leicester (now De Montfort University) alongside renowned historian Fred Orton and they arranged for Brian Eno to come visit as an outside lecturer. I also I mention perhaps less frequently that Gavin knew the equally extraordinary composer Michael Nyman and he visited as an external lecturer too.
Thus began life long interests in all three composers and Fred too had an indelible effect upon me through the study group on the iconic avant garde artist Marcel Duchamp. I wrote papers on Francic Picabia and Man Ray also. A life long interest in Richard Hamilton followed for the so called Pop Art master was an authority on Marcel Duchamp (and recreator of the Large Glass) and Eno and of course through Michael’s beautiful work engendered a lifelong interest in iconoclastic filmmaker Peter Greenaway too.
Chris Kenner - Anybody Seen My Baby (1964) | Guess I’m Dumb
Chris Kenner - Anybody Seen My Baby (1964)
Raw and pleading R&B from New Orleans singer Chris Kenner
From the writer and performer of the classic Nawleans pop hit I Like It Like That one might be forgiven for thinking he was a one hit wonder and in broader terms he may have appeared so but back home in Louisiana this was very much not the case and this is why!
Nawleanz as a hit factory was to try to combat other hit making cities (Stax etc, New York’s 'Tin Pan Alley' was Toussaint’s dream) and areas and New Orleans was mostly ruled by one man and his team Allen Toussaint, Doctor John, (Mac Rebbenack) Huey Smith and the rest including Chris Kenner
Allen Toussaint with Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
Chris Kenner - Topic
Wednesday, April 08, 2026
David Bowie - 50 Dead Dogs : Madison Square Garden New York 1997 | Floppy Boot Stomp
David Bowie - 50 Dead Dogs
David Bowie - 50 Dead Dogs
1997-01-09 Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York
Liberated Bootleg
David Bowie, ever the showman, decided to celebrate his 50th birthday in 1997 with a working concert in New York City. The setlist included seven songs off the upcoming album Earthling, but was notable for a huge variety of guests - plenty from the 90s, some working as Bowie's contemporaries - that contributed. Soundboard recording of an excellent show that contributed one of the most cursed photographs ever. Featuring: Frank Black, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Robert Smith, Sonic Youth, Gail Ann Dorsey, Lou Reed, Billy Corgan.
1.Little Wonder
2.The Hearts Filthy Lesson
3.Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) [with Frank Black]
4.Fashion [with Frank Black]
5.Telling Lies
6.Hallo Spaceboy [with Foo Fighters]
7.Seven Years in Tibet [with Dave Grohl]
8.The Man Who Sold the World [rework]
9.The Last Thing You Should Do [with Robert Smith]
10.Quicksand [with Robert Smith]
11.Battle for Britain (The Letter)
12.The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty)
13.I'm Afraid of Americans [with Sonic Youth]
14.Looking for Satellites
15.Under Pressure [with Gail Ann Dorsey]
16."Heroes"
17.Queen Bitch [with Lou Reed]
18.Waiting for the Man [Velvet Underground song; with Lou Reed]
19.Dirty Blvd. [Lou Reed song; with Lou Reed]
20.White Light/White Heat [Velvet Underground song; with Lou Reed]
21.Moonage Daydream
22.Happy Birthday to You [performed by Gail Ann Dorsey]
23.All the Young Dudes [with Billy Corgan]
24.The Jean Genie [with Billy Corgan]
25.Space Oddity
26.Little Wonder [Canal+, 1997-02-17]
27.Telling Lies [Canal+, 1997-02-17]
David Bowie, ever the showman, decided to celebrate his 50th birthday in 1997 with a working concert in New York City. The setlist included seven songs off the upcoming album Earthling, but was notable for a huge variety of guests - plenty from the 90s, some working as Bowie's contemporaries - that contributed. Soundboard recording of an excellent show that contributed one of the most cursed photographs ever. Featuring: Frank Black, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Robert Smith, Sonic Youth, Gail Ann Dorsey, Lou Reed, Billy Corgan.
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