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This playlist is 76% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Turntable 142 (RCA Victor, 1950's) - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Turntable-142-RCA-Victor-1950s-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] RCA Victor, 1950s. ‘No frills’ would be an understatement. Did the job though, no doubt. ---------------------------------------- Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] ---------------------------------------- Lyric of Playlist 142 ‘Trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading. God knows where we’re heading… ‘ Marv, via The Flams. ---------------------------------------- 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. ---------------------------------------- 00.41 NEW ORDER – Paradise – Brotherhood, LP – Factory – 1986 The album’s lead track. Played live late ’80s through the ’90s and though I would get the very slightest wiff of c&w with the occasional ‘mid period’ New Order song it’s unlikely Barney’s ‘Jolene’ is the same as Dolly Parton’s. New Order - All Day Long - 41 Rooms - show 130 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/New-Order-All-Day-Long-41-Rooms-show-130.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 04.16 ASHNYMPH – Saltspreader – Download only – 2025 A glorious, chugging, fuzzy racket from South London that band member, Jonny sees as ‘service station dance music.’ It’s also a rare example of a(nother) vocal rising from the bottom of a big barrel… that sounds OK! ashnymph - Saltspreader - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ashnymph-Saltspreader-41-Rooms-show-142.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 07.43 CHAKK – No. 3 SOUND (Peel session) – stream only – 1984 ‘Industrial funk’ back then and just as much so now. At the time of recording for their one and only John Peel session this track sounded like a sketch of an idea with vocalist, Jake Harries slightly ad-libbing/winging it. So new maybe, it had no title… other than it was the third track recorded for the session. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Tough, whatever and hello to anyone else who saw them at London’s Portobello Rd Electric Cinema or supporting The Smiths at Warwick Uni, both in early ’84 I think. Chakk - Sedative Ends (radio session) - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Chakk-Sedative-Ends-radio-session-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 11.04 ZAINICHI FUNK – Bakudan Kowai – 爆弾こわい, CD only – P-Vine Records – 2011 Bonkers Japanese homage to James Brown, with the vocalist throwing in the slightest of Godfather of Funk moves in the video. They do it their own way over there and on the evidence of this alone it’s hard to know whether it’s a deep love of funk, a total spoof or somewhere in between. Zainichi Funk - Bakudan Kowai - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Zainichi-Funk-Bakudan-Kowai-41-Rooms-show-142--scaled.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 15.04 NEW STREET ADVENTURE – Hangin’ On / Hangin’ Up – 7″ – Unmasked Recordings – 2012 Having had a stint as a solo artist Nick Corbin is currently back in 2025 action within his full band moniker. Here though it’s their mod-tastic debut single from back in the day. Sharp, especially with the flip side making it to the mega 7″ Heaven show 100 [https://41rooms.com/2022/02/06/episode-100-6-2-22-7-heaven/]. New Street Adventure - Hangin' On : Hangin' Up - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/New-Street-Adventure-Hangin-On-Hangin-Up-41-Rooms-show-142.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 17.41 THE STYLE COUNCIL – Money-Go-Round (Part One) – 7″ – Polydor – 1983 Paul Weller’s soul collective knocked out a cracking version of this live on UK TV back in the day (possibly not The Tube?) and though this is a slight cheat on the ‘play only once on 41 Rooms’ rule I set myself (the 12″ was spun about a hundred shows ago) it’s a set of lyrics as on point today as it was those forty plus years ago. The Style Council - Money-Go-Round (Part One) - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Style-Council-Money-Go-Round-Part-One-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 21.19 BOBBY BYRD – I Know You Got Soul (Original Full Album Version) – 12″ – S12 – 2001 If I’m honest, I wasn’t aware of Byrd’s original – either this album version or the original three minutes only 1971, King label 7″ – until after buying Eric B. & Rakim’s slightly slower 1988 cover but it still feels like I heard it a few years before the full version got released on this 12″. Bobby Byrd - I Know You Got Soul (Original Full Album Version) - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Bobby-Byrd-I-Know-You-Got-Soul-Original-Full-Album-Version-41-Rooms-show-142-.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 25.46 TROUBLE FUNK – Trouble Funk Express – 12″ – D.E.T.T. Records – 1982 The Washington D.C. Go-Go train chugging along the tracks slightly slower than its Dusseldorf-based inspiration. Suggesting (as it appears to do) that it’s actually a Trouble Funk written track is something Kraftwerk may have had something to say about. Trouble Funk - Trouble Funk Express - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Trouble-Funk-Trouble-Funk-Express-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 31.54 GURU (feat D. C. LEE) – No Time To Play – 12″ – Cooltempo – 1993 ‘Another jem from the ‘Jazzamatazz’ set, this crispy two-stepper boasting a C.J. MacKintosh remix of a chirpy rap tune featuring infectious backgrounds from D C Lee and jazzy guitar licks from Ronnie Jordan. Elsewhere in the proceedings string stabs, a warm bass line and live drum feel add to the joyous nature of the track, DC Lee’s chorus backgrounds definitely being the particularly effective riff that lodges in your grey matter‘. – Ralph Tee, Record Mirror (Music Week), 16.10.93 ‘CJ MacKintosh remixed jauntily jiggling 100bpm groove with Guru muttering through D.C. Lee’s mantra-like refrain and Ronny Jordan’s jazz guitar… ‘ – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 6.11.93  Yep, featuring in no small measure, D. C. Lee and with a big nod to the sounds bubbling underneath, yet another rap that passes me by as my ears wait to pick up on the chorus. Guru - No Time To Play (Album Version) - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Guru-No-Time-To-Play-Album-Version-41-Rooms-show-142.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 36.36 SOUL II SOUL – Just Right (Video version) – Stream only? – 1992 Not the first version of the song to grace 41 Rooms and it might not be the last, so props to all involved, most notably guest vocalist here, Rick Clarke and his melodies, and I’m wondering if it was nailed on that Jazzie B’s rap had to stay in, no matter who was remixing. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Soul II Soul - Just Right (Video Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Soul-II-Soul-Just-Right-Video-Mix-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 40.14 DONOR LENS – Inside Outside – As Warm As Summer, cassette only – My Pet Flamingo – 2025 Amazing how the kids have taken to a decades old format. The album is also available digitally but as of right now the now sold out cassette version is the only hard copy format out there. Re their ‘Vaporwave’-tagged sound? See their entry on the last show. Donor Lens - Open Your Eyes - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Donor-Lens-Open-Your-Eyes-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 43.12 SCALER (feat AKIKO HARUNA) – Salt – Endlessly, LP – Black Acre – 2025 Upcoming in September and we’re in slow beats terrain that you may not be surprised to hear, emanates from Bristol, UK. ‘Scaler (Alex Hill, Isaac Jones, James Rushforth and Nick Berthoud, alongside visual artist Jason Baker) are the electrifying Bristol-based band hailed as the city’s “next national breakthrough” thanks to their pulverising live show and meticulous, mind-warping sound. Now they’re back with ‘Endlessly’, a sublime and stylistically expansive new album. 10 potent tracks written and recorded more collaboratively than ever before, as SCALER explore what it means to make music with no ceiling… ‘. – Spindizzy Records Scaler (feat Akiko Haruna) - Salt - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Scaler-feat-Akiko-Haruna-Salt-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 46.32 LEON VYNEHALL (feat POISON ANNA) – Mirror’s Edge – Download only – 2025 Dub… step… Leon Vynehall (feat Poison Anna) - Mirror's Edge - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Leon-Vynehall-feat-Poison-Anna-Mirrors-Edge-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 50.28 SANDOZ – Inner Rhythms – Intensely Radioactive, 2LP – Touch – 1994 The late Richard H. Kirk sounding cinematic. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Sandoz - Inner Rhythms - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Sandoz-Inner-Rhythms-41-Rooms-show-142.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 59.34 JOI CARDWELL – What It Feels Like (Quentin Harris Club Mix) * – 12″ – BPM King Street Sounds – 2006 Not an R&B-style track then taken on a remix journey but co-written with and produced by Quentin Harris. Joi Cardwell - What It Feels Like (Quentin Harris Club Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Joi-Cardwell-What-It-Feels-Like-Quentin-Harris-Club-Mix-41-Rooms-show-142-2-1024x1024.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.05.40 TASHAN – Love Is Forever (Shadow Zone Vocal Dub) – 12″ – Columbia – 1993 ‘Now here on import with mixes to suit every persuasion. The three A-side soul-cum-swing versions are certainly reflections of the bum and easily the highlight here, sophistication and subtle urban flavours lending to its potential at an adult rather than street level. The three B-side mixes house it up‘. – Ralph Tee, Record Mirror (Music Week), 4.12.93 ‘Soulfully moaning guy’s superb wriggly cantering 123.8bpm David Shaw, lush jiggly swaying 109.8bpm Radio, chunkier rolling 110.2bpm Joe ‘The Butcher’ Mixes‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 4.12.93 I say ‘weirdly tagged’ on the show coz this ‘Vocal Dub’ sounds like a full vocal to me. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Back listening to this at the time on KISS FM (London style) it was the clattering snares that caught my ear first. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Tashan - Love Is Forever (Shadow Zone Vocal Dub) - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Tashan-Love-Is-Forever-Shadow-Zone-Vocal-Dub-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.09.51 BULLION – Long Promised – Young Heartache, 12″ EP – One-Handed Music – 2009 Depending on how you’re wired, this juttery approach may not be to everyone’s liking. Bullion - Long Promised - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Bullion-Long-Promised-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.12.31 EYELESS IN GAZA – John Of Patmos – Photographs As Memories, LP – Cherry Red – 1981 Martyn Bates sounding as like some distant folk style got hijacked by punk with bare bones electronica to hand. Eyeless In Gaza - No Noise - 41 Rooms - show 71 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Eyeless-In-Gaza-Fixation-41-Rooms-show-69.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.16.41 NORRIS MAN – Home And Away * – 7″ – Vertex Productions – 2005 I can’t stand the intro to this, so it got binned for the show. Apologies to Norris Man but after that it sounds great. Norris Man - Home And Away - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Norris-Man-Hoe-And-Away-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.20.06 MORGAN HERITAGE – Crying Out – 7″ – Firehouse Crew – 1998 Checking out Discogs, you never had long to wait for the next Morgan Heritage single, as there are 230 listed on there – on nearly as many different labels! Morgan Heritage - Crying Out - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Morgan-Heritage-Crying-Out-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.24.00 COURTNEY BUCHANAN – Heaven – 12″ – Conscious – 1994 Actually this was first out on MCA but then shifted to the above short lived label where gems shone in their few releases. Courtney Buchanan - Heaven - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Courtney-Buchanan-Heaven-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.27.49 THE FLAMINGOS – Inner City Blues (Extended Blue) – 12″ b-side – Robs Records – 1994 Maybe not for the soul purists and I can’t remember how we (Cliff, Dave and to a lesser extent myself) decided on having a stab at Marvin Gaye’s catalogue. All of us were fans… and that maybe included Rob(s Records) Gretton, too and it’s another set of lyrics that stands the test of time. The Flamingos - Inner City Blues (Extended Blue) - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-Flamingos-Inner-City-Blues-Extended-Blue-41-Rooms-show-142.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.32.48 ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO – Agolo – 12″ – Mango – 1994 By total coincidence, the third tune in a row from 1994 but in no way accounts for why this follows The Flamingos so well. Angélique Kidjo - Agolo - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Angelique-Kidjo-Agolo-41-Rooms-show-142-.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.37.05 DONOVAN – There Is A Mountain – 7″ – Pye – 1967 A Buddhist saying turned into a cheery poptastic tune and one of a lot of ’60s 7″ singles I as a teenager was belatedly catching up on five to ten years after their release. These days, Donovan sort of lives up the road from me (well, twenty miles of rural Ireland) and the chances are that from home he can actually see a mountain! Mount Leinster, in fact. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Donovan - There Is A Mountain - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Donovan-There-Is-A-Mounain-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.39.35 GNAG OF FOUR – Damaged Goods – 7″ – Fast Product – 1978 From Donovan to Damaged Goods… a link not often made over the ether. One for Damaged Goods label boss and mate, Ian Ballard (yes, the label was named after Gof4 and the song). Gang of Four - Damaged Goods - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Gang-of-Four-Damaged-Goods-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.43.00 NASMAK – Nothing But The Lyrics – 4our Clicks, LP – Plurex- 1982 I distinctly remember that any Nasmak track I played in our early ’80s Winkles (Bedford) club nights sounded particularly strong ‘sound system’… though I didn’t play this one… as I didn’t have the album. Nasmak - No Touch And Go - 41 Rooms - show 92 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Nasmak-Not-Your-Living-Doll-41-Rooms-show-76.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.45.50 JOY DIVISION – Transmission – The Peel Sessions, 12″ EP – Strange Fruit – 1986 A shade slower than the Strawberry Studios version but the blending of two greats as the band rolled in here for the first of their two 1979 sessions for Peel. Eventually released with a bunch of other artists’ visits to the Beeb’s Maida Vale studios in Strange Fruit’s first year, this release actually followed the New Order one in the sequencing. Joy Division - Colony (John Peel session) - 41 Rooms - show 114 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Joy-Division-Colony-John-Peel-session-41-Rooms-show-114-.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.49.52 NUYORICAN SOUL – I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun – Nuyorican Soul, 2LP – Talkin’ Loud / Giant Step – 1997 Written in 1971 by Rotary Connection’s Charles Stepney and Richard Rudolph, and featuring Minnie Riperton (the latter’s then husband) but more than confidently taken on here by Jocelyn Brown and Nuyorican Soul’s helmsmen, Louie Vega and Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez. Epic in both camps. Nuyorican Soul - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Nuyorican-Soul-I-Am-The-Black-Gold-Of-The-Sun-41-Rooms-show-142.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.54.46 MUCHO MACHO (feat JON LUCIEN) – Easy Living (41 Rooms Radio Edit Extend) * – Nuyorican Soul, 6×12″ box set – Talkin’ Loud / Giant Step – 1986 My ‘Extend’? Somewhere between the only-available-on-CD Radio Mix and the 12″ Full Length Version take… which dawdles a bit too much. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Whichever, as minimal as they are, it’s Lucien’s silky tones that are the key within this slinking groove. Mucho Macho (feat Jon Lucien) - Easy Living - 41 Rooms - show 142 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Mucho-Macho-feat-Jon-Lucien-Easy-Living-41-Rooms-show-142-1009x1024.jpg] ---------------------------------------- Show 143 should be here Sept 7. Dec x The post Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 142 – Original upload 3.8.25 [https://41rooms.com/2025/08/03/episode-142-original-upload-3-8-25/] appeared first on 41Rooms [https://41rooms.com].

This playlist is 52% vinyl friendly. Worst ever! Apologies to all vinyl enthusiasts. Turntable 141 (Miniot's Wheel) - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Turntable-141-Miniots-Wheel-41-Rooms-show-141-.jpg] The Miniot Wheel is as minimalist a stab at the record turntable as can be. ‘A modified Audio-Technica cartridge plays the record from underneath, with the spindle in the centre used to turn it on and off, skip tracks and adjust the volume if you have a pair of headphones plugged in‘. In action whilst laying flat or standing upright the original €650 model (above) has been superceded by subsequent Wheel 2, 3 and Black Wheel editions, the latter costing €4000. ---------------------------------------- Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Temporary Glitch! ENCORE! A slightly different problem to the last problem means that my vocal input still isn’t quite what it should/could be. Here’s hoping, next time I’ve got it sorted. ---------------------------------------- Lyric of Playlist 141 In Pete J, maybe the delicate sounding souls have it. ---------------------------------------- 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. ---------------------------------------- 00.41 NEW ORDER – Ruined In A Day (MK Extended Remix) – Stream only – ???? Nothing to do with the more famous ‘MK’ remixer, Marc Kinchen but someone chancing his arm on Youtube with some sympathetic (to New Order’s music) unofficial reworking. It helps that for me it’s a top class mid period (sort of) NO track to start with. New Order - Ruined In A Day (MK Extended Remix - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/New-Order-Ruined-In-A-Day-MK-Extended-Remix-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 06.44 DERADOORIAN – Digital Gravestone – Ready For Heaven, LP – Fire – 2025 Multi instrumentalist out of California here with the lead track from her fourth album. Deradoorian - No No Yes Yes - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Deradoorian-No-No-Yes-Yes-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 11.10 CLOCK DVA – Piano Pain – Thirst, LP – Fetish – 1981 At the time this album came out I wasn’t aware just how much material they’d released to that point and with the help of better production Adi Newton’s vocals maybe took until Thirst to sound as ‘threatening’ as they did. Clock DVA - Sensorium [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Clock-DVA-Sensorium.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 13.51 CABARET VOLTAIRE – Diffusion – Gasoline In Your Eye, VHS video – Virgin – 1985 Quite possibly a track never played live. Not at any of the seventeen or so gigs I saw them at, anyway. Cabaret Voltaire - Diffusion - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Cabaret-Voltaire-Diffusion-41-Rooms-show-141-.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 21.35 CHAKK – Sedative Ends (Peel session: 7.10.84) – Unreleased – 1984 For a couple of years around their tour de force, one and only session for Peely they were majestic. Chakk - Sedative Ends (radio session) - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Chakk-Sedative-Ends-radio-session-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 25.31 THE BLOOD BROTHERS – Transfusion – 12″ – Big World Records – 1990 The alter ego of the London downtempo, beats duo, Pressure Drop and seems like it could have sat next to their PD Back2Back 12″ release in the same year without a name change. I have three copies of this 12″, which will have been down to two of them languishing in the mid ’90s in a 10p section of Notting Hill’s Vinyl & Record store emporium… and me wanting to save them from the landfill they could easily have ended up in. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Blood Brothers - Transfusion - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Blood-Brothers-Transfusion-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 30.37 INCOGNITO – Castles In The Air (Vikter Duplaix Afrotech Remix) – Life Stranger Than Fiction, 2×12″ – Talkin’ Loud – 2001 A thumping remix that way outweighs the original for me. Incognito - Castles In The Air (Vikter Duplaix Afrotech Remix) - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Incognito-Castles-In-The-Air-Vikter-Duplaix-Afrotech-Remix-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 35.59 THE GREENHORNES (feat HOLLY GOLIGHTLY) – Season’s End (Max Josef Edit) – Tonic Edits Vol. 2, 12″ – Toytonics – 2014 Featuring Holly Golightly, The Greenhornes’ There Is An End, from their 2001 Dual Mono album, on Telstar, then remixed and namechecked on Soundcloud as ‘Holly Golightly – There’s An End (Max Josef Edit), from a Tonic Edits Vol 2 vinyl EP’… where on, it’s actually titled Season’s End. Phew! The Greenhornes (feat Holly Golightly) - There's An End (Max Josef Edit) - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Greenhornes-feat-Holly-Golightly-Theres-An-End-Max-Josef-Edit-41-Rooms-show-141-.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 39.25 CALIBRE (feat CIMONE) – Time To Breathe – Feeling Normal, 4 x 12″ LP – Signature – 2012 D&b heaven. Subtle and classy. Calibre (feat Cimone) - Time To Breathe - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Calibre-feat-Cimone-Time-To-Breathe-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 44.21 TRICKY (feat MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD) – Black Steel (Sessions at West 54th, 1997) – 1997 From the first season of a multi genre TV show, this live performance lets loose the ‘unease’ of the song better than the album take. Tricky (feat Martina Topley Bird) Black Steel (live) - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Tricky-feat-Martina-Topley-Bird-Black-Steel-live-41-Rooms-show-141.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 47.52 2PAC (feat DR. DRE & ROGER TRAUTMAN) – California Love – 12″ – Death Row – 1995 As it might have suited me better, there’s a cool instrumental take to be had but it’s none of the two official ones out and about. An idea… I’m thinkin’. 2Pac (feat Dr. Dre) - California Love - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2Pac-feat-Dr.-Dre-California-Love-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 52.29 BIG BLOOD – When I Was Young – Operate Spaceship Earth Properly, LP – Feeding Tube Records – 2018 They can be relentless in a tune the way I maybe wouldn’t take to with most others. Colleen Kinsella’s vocals are a big part of that. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Big Blood - When I Was Young - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Big-Blood-When-I-Was-Young-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 59.03 EMILIO PIANO (feat LUCIE) – Maison – Download only – 2025 Early teen’er (I’m guessing) with seemingly her first song… and search out a couple of live ‘shopping mall/airport/train station-just passing by’ versions that aren’t maybe as ‘chance situation’ as they appear. Either way, a beaut of a collaboration. Emilio Piano (feat Lucie) - Maison - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Emilio-Piano-feat-Lucie-Maison-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] Video: Director/Camera/Editor: Marcel Stefanowski ---------------------------------------- 01.01.52 THE MEMORY BAND with GRANTBY – The Ballad Of Imber Down – Further Navigations 10″ EP – Static Caravan – 2014 Sounding like incidental music to a ’70s-’80s James Herriot-sourced TV drama, it’s Folk… of the rural kind… what with ‘The Ballad of… ‘, Imber’s lost village Salisbury Plain setting… and rabbits on the menu… sorry, big in the ‘lyrics’, and in salute of the 10″, it was 500 copies via Record Store Day 2014. The Memory Band (with Grantby) - The Ballad Of Imber Down - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Memory-Band-with-Grantby-The-Ballad-Of-Imber-Down-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.07.26 THE SUNDAYS – Through The Dark – Cry, cassette single, extra track – Parlophone – 1997 Maybe a 41 Rooms first? A track only available on a cassette version, this of the band’s 1997 UK single, Cry and Japanese CD versions of the Static & Silence album the same year. The Sundays - Through The Dark - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Sundays-Through-The-Dark-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.11.41 MANU DELAGO (feat PETE JOSEF) – A Step – Metromonk, CD only – Tru Thoughts – 2017 Josef appearing at 41 Rooms on others peeps’ tracks as much as on his own. Manu Delago (feat Pete Josef) - A Step - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Manu-Delago-feat-Pete-Josef-A-Step-41-Rooms-show-141-.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.16.15 JON LUCIEN – Creole Lady – By Request, CD only – Shanachie – 1999 Better than the 1975 version original, I reckon. Jon Lucien - Creole Lady - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jon-Lucien-Creole-Lady-41-Rooms-show-141.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.19.58 JETHRO TULL – Living In The Past – 7″ – Island – 1969 Classic folk rock… not ‘arf. Jethro Tull - Living In The Past - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jethro-Tull-Living-In-The-Past-41-Rooms-show-141.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.23.03 MODERN NATURE – Pharaoh – The Heat Warps, LP – Bella Union – 2025 ‘A track influenced by Andrew Weatherall who, before he passed away in 2020, played Modern Nature on his NTS radio show and inspired them with his motto “Fail we may, sail we must”. Commenting on the track, Jack Cooper says: “It’s a song about the men we’re conditioned to respect and follow and it’s a song about the people who inspire us to think differently. It’s as much about Pharaoh Sanders as it is about the kings and politicians we’re meant to believe in. ‘Pharaoh’ makes the case for finding a personal philosophy and trying to live a life that might inspire others or at the very least not hurt them.” ‘ – wildfiremusic.net Modern Nature - Pharaoh - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Modern-Nature-Pharaoh-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.27.48 DANA GAVANSKI – The Wind (Blew You Away) – Spring Demos, Cassette only – Fox Food Records – 2017 ‘Alternative, Experimental, folk‘ says Bandcamp, for songs that got a cassette release in the UK and Japan in 2017 and 2018, respectively before a UK CD issue the next year. The Wind? It’s wonderful. Dana Gavanski - The Wind (Blew You Away) - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Dana-Gavanski-The-Wind-Blew-You-Away-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.32.35 DONOR LENS – Open Your Eyes – As Warm As Summer, cassette only – My Pet Flamingo – 2025 Slow beats doing it! The duo of Thom (Love in Dust, Wichita LimeWire) and Jay (Kid Neon, Timeshare 94) making ‘both sample-free and sampled music across a variety of vaporwave and vw-adjacent styles‘. ‘Vaporwave is an electronic music microgenre and aesthetic that emerged in the early 2010s, characterized by its nostalgic and surreal atmosphere, often drawing from 1980s and 1990s corporate muzak, smooth jazz, and early internet culture. It frequently utilizes slowed-down samples, chopped and screwed techniques, and a visual style that incorporates glitch art, retrofuturism, and corporate imagery‘. – AI Overview Vaporwave… ‘slowed down samples‘. In the vocal department it’s been a favourite trick in the Got-Ta-Scatta camp for as long, and there are two complete tracks (both singles) by noted artists (one in the ’80s, the other a bit later) that have been in the 41 Rooms possibles bag for the whole nine years waiting for me to be brave enough to spin at the wrong speed… coz they sound absolutely fine. Also, any John PeeI fan will know that he occasionally played a record at the wrong speed (he definitely did with Click Click) and it must have sounded ‘right’ to him for a certain amount of time. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] I think even I might have consciously done the same once or twice at Winkles back in the day. It might have involved lots of alcohol but Portion Control springs to mind. Could be wrong there. Donor Lens - Open Your Eyes - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Donor-Lens-Open-Your-Eyes-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.36.04 ACOLYTE – The Blue Dark – Download only – 2025 ‘An Edinburgh four piece comprising of lead-vocalist and poet Iona Lee alongside Lost Map regular Gloria Black (of Maranta) on synth and vocals, producer/multi-instrumentalist Ruairidh Morrison, and percussionist Daniel Hill. A cinematic dreamscape formed of shimmering synths and ominously unfolding rhythms – The Blue Dark is the perfect introduction to Acolyte’s singular sound‘. – Lost Map’ Facebook page The Isle of Eigg ref I mention on the show is for the Lost Map label. Their PostMap Club releases involve ‘printed postcards from the Lost Map collective, that come with download codes, containing exclusive tracks‘ – The Blue Dark being PostMap Club 217 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Acolyte - The Blue Dark - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Acolyte-The-Blue-Dark-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.40.06 RIVAL CONSOLES – Theme – MindsEye, 12″ EP – Erased Tapes Records – 2025 A feel of a plodding, stuttering and strained walk… encased in the most minimalist (visually) record sleeve ever to be seen on 41 Rooms. Rival Consoles - Theme - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Rival-Consoles-Theme-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.44.38 MASSEY & SUPERNATURE – Walk…Now Walk – Download only – 2025 On to a more purposeful, striding and strutting Mancunian walk, maybe. Massey & Supernature - Walk...Don't Walk - 41 Rooms - show 141 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Massey-Supernature-Walk.Dont-Walk-41-Rooms-show-141.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.51.45 CABARET VOLTAIRE – Crackdown (12″ version) – 12″ – Virgin/Some Bizarre – 1983 A band encore within the same 41 Rooms show is a rarity but as I’ve only just realised it’s the first sighting of any version of Crackdown sighting on 41 Rooms (I can only apologise), it had to happen. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (Loo & Placido Mash Up) - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Beatles-Eleanor-Rigby-Loo-Placido-Mash-Up-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- Show 142 should be here Aug 3. Dec x The post Episode 141 – Original upload 6.7.25 [https://41rooms.com/2025/07/06/episode-141-original-upload-6-7-25/] appeared first on 41Rooms [https://41rooms.com].

This playlist is 66% vinyl friendly. Very poor. Korg Handytraxx turntable - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Korg-Handytraxx-turntable-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ‘Reimagining the classic portable turntable and designed for DJs, vinyl enthusiasts, and creative performers in 2025, the Korg Handytraxx combines portability with cutting-edge features, including unique Korg digital effects, a built-in audio looper, and with a high-quality fader included‘, says the promo blurb. Another dealer added, ‘Optimised for scratching and portablism performances.’ £350 or thereabouts and if you’re questioning the word ‘portablism’ bit, it’s ‘the practice of DJing with easily transportable gear‘. ---------------------------------------- Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Temporary Glitch!!! A late on problem with the mic means I’m not sounding quite the way I should on this show. Normal service will be resumed next show, hopefully. ---------------------------------------- Lyric of Playlist 140 Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip. In… yer… face!!! ---------------------------------------- 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. ---------------------------------------- 00.41 NEW ORDER – Ecstasy – Power, Corruption and Lies, LP – Factory – 1983 Certainly never performed live in my time of hectic NO gigging but maybe a track that would have suited as a backdrop to some cheery ‘transition’ or incidental section of a film, etc. New Order - Thieves Like Us (New York Demo #1) - 41 Rooms - show 108 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/New-Order-Thieves-Like-Us-New-York-Demo-1-41-Rooms-show-108.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 04.50 JOHN FOXX with LOUIS GORDON – Walk This Away – Impossible, CD only – Metamatic – 2008 Reminds me of… nope, can’t think. Kraftwerk? John Foxx and Louis Gordon - Hiroshima Mon Amour - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/John-Foxx-and-Louis-Gordon-Hiroshima-Mon-Amour-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 10.08 CAN – Vitamin C – 7″ – United Artists – 1972 Not the format these German electronic heads are maybe most remembered (and revered?) for … but Vitamin C is from a whole bunch of Can singles that, with the wind blowing in their direction, suggested they’d have happily ‘infiltrated’ a pop chart or two, given the airplay/chance. Can - Vitamin C - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Can-Vitamin-C-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 13.09 DERADOORIAN – No No Yes Yes – Ready For Heaven, LP – Fire – 2025 Out of Los Angeles, it sounds like multi-instrumentalist, Angel Deradoorian has travelled a few journeys and ‘spaces’ in the fifteen years or so she’s been releasing music. Deradoorian - No No Yes Yes - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Deradoorian-No-No-Yes-Yes-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 17.43 U2 – Salomé (Zooromancer Remix) – 12″, promo only – Island – 1992 Supposedly released to promote the single, Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (though said track is nowhere here to be seen or heard) I remember this deep and eerie 1000 copies only promo 12″ being a major WTF! moment across the dance radio shows I was listening to at the time, and what with U2 being worldwide rock gods and (Pete) Heller & (Terry) Farley serious go to’s for a house/dance remix, I suspect the fee the latter got, paid the bills for a month or ten. U2 - Salomé (Zooromancer Remix) - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/U2-Salome-Zooromancer-Remix-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 25.27 THE ITCH – The Influencer / Co-Conspirator – Download only – Oh You Records / Fiction Records – 2025 Sounding like a revved, electro funkin’ Human League, duo Simon Tyrie and Georgia Hardy with a ‘twofer’ easily heard/mixed maybe as a single track! The Itch - The Influencer : Co-Conspirator - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Itch-The-Influencer-Co-Conspirator-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 32.21 DAN LE SAC Vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Thou Shalt Always Kill – 7″ – Lex Records – 2007 Even though they’d said all they needed to with 1min 50 of the track still to run this wonderful rant was blaring everywhere at the time, such was the aural impact of its UK culture-centric rap diatribe and though a healthy 7″ run of 1000, it’s still hugely collectable, and should you feel the need for a locked groove, side A has one. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Dan-Le-Sac-Vs-Scroobius-Pip-Thou-Shalt-Always-Kill-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 37.21 AVALON EMERSON – On It Goes * – Download only – Another Dove – 2025 More solo girls out of the US, with Avalon having skirted San Francisco, Berlin and New York. Snappy and punchy samples cut here in a style reminiscent of a certain period of Akufen. Avalon Emerson - On It Goes - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Avalon-Emerson-On-It-Goes-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 42.36 MYLES KAYNE – Visions of Love (Scat’s The Way To Do It Mix) – 12″ – Tomahawk – 1993 As with far too much house through the years, nothing sensational here but the summery scatting and the soaring vocals grabbing the ears back then lifted the spirits! Myles Kayne - Visions Of Love (Scat's The Way To Do It mix) - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Myles-Kayne-Visions-Of-Love-Scats-The-Way-To-Do-It-mix-41-Rooms-show-140-1024x945.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 47.06 JOSE FELICIANO – The Sad Gypsy – Souled, LP – RCA – 1968 Written by Carole King’s oft writing partner, Gerry Goffin, along with Barry Mann, who with his wife, Cynthia Weil wrote the Righteous Brothers’ You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling. Recorded on the same day as Jose’s cover of Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love (initially mooted as a follow up to Light My Fire… and then never released), The Sad Gypsy appears never to have been covered by anyone else. Never even on a 7″ b-side but on the Souled album that jiggles with Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On as my all time fave ‘long player’, I’ve adored this song since I was a kid and fifty five years down the line because it’s Jose it’ll always be ‘right up there.’ Jose Feliciano - The Sad Gypsy - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Jose-Feliciano-The-Sad-Gypsy-41-Rooms-show-140-.jpeg] Souled 1pg ad — Billboard, Nov 30, ’68. Billboard Souled 1pg ad, Nov 30, '68 - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Billboard-Souled-1pg-ad-Nov-30-68-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 50.44 HELICON – Château H (D.ross Remix) – Download only – 2025 Warning! Do NOT approach the original of Château H expecting some semblance of recognition. You will be disappointed. Helicon - Château H (D.ross Remix) - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Helicon-Chateau-H-D.ross-Remix-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 55.56 JALEN NGONDA – Just As Long As We’re Together – Download only – 2025 Back with his ’60s soaked soul and likely previewing a second album for Daptone Records. Jalen NGonda - Just As Long As We're Together - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Jalen-NGonda-Just-As-Long-As-Were-Together-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 58.45 BERES HAMMOND – Do This World A Favour (Album Version) * – 7″ b-side – 17 North Parade – 2010 Maybe best known as a Lovers Rock/roots reggae artist, this tune was originally to be found on his 1979 album, Just A Man but we’ll go with the new lease of life it got via a 7″ in 2010, cut at 33rpm to give the album version some breathing space. For the show I edited out some of the doodling keys bridge but to make the 7″ cut cooler I’d have taken the lot out… and called it an ‘Album Version Edit’. No problem for the soul fraternity, though. As rare as hens’ teeth it’s likely to be over £100 as and when a copy next turns up. Beres Hammond - Do This World A Favour (Album Version) - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Beres-Hammond-Do-This-World-A-Favour-Album-Version-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.03.54 MELBA MOORE – Do You Really Want My Love (Club Version) * – 12″ – Capitol – 1990 Funky, spacey and moody sounds. Melba Moore - Do You Really Want My Love (Club Version) - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Melba-Moore-Do-You-Really-Want-My-Love-Club-Version-41-Rooms-show-140.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.09.31 THOMAS LEER – Saving Grace – 12″ – Emotional Rescue – 2019 In reality, the melodies and arrangement of his lush 1982 debut single, All About You, minus the/any vocals. Thomas Leer - Saving Grace - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Thomas-Leer-Saving-Grace-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.14.40 BLAINE L. REININGER – Playin’ Your Game – 12″ – Les Disques Du Crépescule – 1983 Not unlike Thomas Leer in the lush vocals department. Blaine L. Reininger - Playin' Your Game - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Blaine-L.-Reininger-Playin-Your-Game-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.18.46 RINGDOWN – Run (part) * – Lady On The Bike, LP – Nonesuch – 2025 ‘Ringdown’s music is like calling your first love on a rotary telephone, percussively tearing out the hammers from a 1924 vintage upright, and flinging each of them into space while you wait for every heartache you’ve ever felt to quietly return‘. – Bandcamp I could easily die of old age before I decipher the above but Portland, Oregon duo, Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee are concocting some interesting music, and though I truncated Run very heavily here they’ll be back later. Ringdown - Run - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ringdown-Run-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.20.10 THOSE DANCING DAYS – Home Sweet Home – In Our Space Hero Suits, LP – Wichita – 2008 As frantic as they always seemed to be, and a very slightly different (in the vocals dept?) version to the one on the flip of the Run Run 7″. Those Dancing Days - Home Sweet Home - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Those-Dancing-Days-Speceherosuits-41-Rooms-show-20.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.22.49 PENETRATION – V.I.P. – 7″ b-side – Virgin – 1978 Pauline Murray’s vocals! 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Penetration - V.I.P. - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Penetration-V.I.P.-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.25.21 SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – Love In A Void – 7″ b-side – Polydor – 1979 The high priestess of punk? Maybe. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Love I A Void - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Siouxsie-and-the-Banshees-Love-I-A-Void-41-Rooms-show-140.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.27.51 THE COURETTES – Here I Come – The Soul Of… The Fabulous Courettes, LP – Damaged Goods – 2024 White, clear or orange and ‘getcha, getcha, getcha, someday…‘ as opposed to Blondie’s ‘getcha, getcha, getcha, one way or another…‘ I saw them recently at a maybe sold out Set Theatre in Kilkenny (Ireland to those further afield) and they rocked. The Courettes - Here I Come - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Courettes-Here-I-Come-41-Rooms-show-140-Flavia-and-Dec-Kilkenny-Set-Theatre-3.5.25-2-1024x993.jpeg] And for a Bedford connection. Damaged Goods boss, Ian and his label charges outside The Bear during the second of their three (I think) gigs to date at Esquires. The pub has sort of been Outsiders Central for a whole bunch of alternatives through the decades and was certainly a home from home for me in the late ’70s through all the ’80s. The Courettes and Ian Damaged - The Bear, Bedford, June, '22 - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Courettes-and-Ian-Damaged-The-Bear-Bedford-June-22-41-Rooms-show-140-1024x1024.jpeg] Photo credit: Alison Wonderland ---------------------------------------- 01.30.24 THE YARDBIRDS – Heart Full Of Soul – 7″ – Columbia – 1965 For me, not many better than this lot from the ’60s. Looking back from nearly sixty years, with Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page in their ranks at various points, their singles feel just a shade too… ‘cerebral’ and ‘arty’? to have worried the charts but five did make the Top 40 and this one went to No. 2! The Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Yardbirds-Heart-Full-Of-Soul-41-Rooms-show-140.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.32.48 ? – ‘Little Miss Nancy’ – one-sided 8″ US acetate – Unreleased – Late 1960s I’ve no idea who this is… and if I bid on what was an auction item I sadly didn’t win it. AI Overview reckons ‘Little Miss Nancy can refer to a few things: a vintage doll, a character from a children’s television show, or a slag term for an effeminate person. It could also be a specific title for a Nancy Ann doll from the Storybook collection, like Little Miss Sweet Miss #110.’ Whatever, its late ’60s feel hints it could/should have soundtracked some psychedelic visuals/imagery. ? - 'Little Miss Nancy' - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Little-Miss-Nancy-unknown-822-acetate-b-side-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.36.10 YEASAYER – Final Path (unknown version) – ? – 2008-2010? I say ‘unknown’ but more the fact I can’t place it. It’s certainly not the version that backed the band’s second single, Wait For The Summer and updating on/repeating from the band’s only other 41 Rooms playlisting to date, I still can’t find a Yeasayer gig at the (Heavenly) Social in London in any gigography but via a mate of a mate who was personally overseeing their first ever UK visit, that’s definitely where I saw them. Indeed, as an introduction to the media, it might well have been their first UK gig. Recollections… singer, Chris Keating climbing on and around something on stage and looking slightly confused afterwards when I referenced (to him) that their sound reminded me of a band he’d never heard of… and one I still can’t remember. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Yeasayer - Final Pah (unknown version) - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Yeasayer-Final-Path-unknown-version-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.39.27 THE BEATLES – Eleanor Rigby (Loo & Placido Mash Up) – Stream only – 2014 approx It’s the Wild West out there even if you’re The Beatles. Not the smoothest of links ups but the idea works… and the news clip I threw in over the top was for real. Only in America… The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (Loo & Placido Mash Up) - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Beatles-Eleanor-Rigby-Loo-Placido-Mash-Up-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.42.40 ASHLEY THOMAS – Serenity * – A Tale Of Two Cities, CD only – Wah Wah 45s – 2008 Blue-eyed soul Pt 1, with a jaunty folk slant… sort of. Ashley Thomas - Kept On Running (Domu Remix) - 41 Rooms - show 94 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Ashley-Thomas-Kept-On-Running-Domu-Remix-41-Rooms-show-94.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.47.35 CLIVE GRIFFIN – Head Above Water (Full Length Version) * – 12″ – Mercury – 1988 ‘Extremely classy huskily tremulous attractive 107-0bpm swaying blue eyed soul jogger in Michael McDonald/Hall & Oates/George Benson-ish style, a bit amorphous as a song maybe but strong on atmosphere… ‘ – James Hamilton, Jocks, 6.89 Blue-eyed soul Pt 2, this with an r&b slant… sort of… and there’s no mistaking the late ’80s major label sheen (visually and aurally) and hopes of the crossover that never came Clive’s way. The following though is worth repeating from Clive’s debut on 41 Rooms just a few shows back… As a child and obviously long before three major label albums and a subsequent move then into session work, back in his very young days Clive provided the vocal for the Cadbury Fudge TV ad jingle, ‘A finger of fudge is just enough‘! Clive Griffin - Head Above Water (Full Length Version) - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Clive-Griffin-Head-Above-Water-Full-Length-Version-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.53.08 JONI MITCHELL – Sweet Bird – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, LP – Asylum – 1975 Has strumming ever underpinned such wonderfulness? ‘No’ is very possibly the correct answer. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Joni Mitchell - Don't Interrupt The Sorrow - 41 Rooms - show 17 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Joni-Mitchell-Dont-Interrupt-The-Sorrow-1024x768.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.56.54 RINGDOWN – Thirst * – Lady On The Bike, LP – Nonesuch – 2025 Back, as I promised earlier, with some ambling and stark moodiness. First class! Ringdown - Run - 41 Rooms - show 140 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ringdown-Run-41-Rooms-show-140.jpg] ---------------------------------------- Show 141 will be here July 6. Dec x The post Episode 140 – Original Upload 1.6.25 [https://41rooms.com/2025/06/01/episode-140-original-upload-1-6-25/] appeared first on 41Rooms [https://41rooms.com].

This playlist is 81% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Turntable 139 - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Turntable-139-41-Rooms.jpeg] ‘Winner of Best Domestic Design at the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2023, this Brian Eno turntable has a stunning LED light feature that changes according to your music. Created in collaboration with the Paul Stolper gallery, the psychedelic turntable sold out back in 2021 but hasn’t become any less popular since. You might not be able to buy it, but there’s no shame in staring‘. £ price not disclosed. – muddystilettos.co.uk ---------------------------------------- Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] ---------------------------------------- Lyric of Playlist 139 ‘Be Kind To My Mistakes‘ – Maybe more worthy as a usable turn of phrase, seeing as it only turns up once in the song. ---------------------------------------- 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. ---------------------------------------- 00.41 NEW ORDER – Hurt (Inst.) (Peppermint Lounge, New York: 22.11.81) – Movement, Definitive Edition boxset – Warner Music – 2019 Still being titled Cramp at this stage, but reminiscent of the dark new electronic tracks the band were road testing whilst still in development (here, with lyrics yet to surface), along with sometimes simultaneously also grappling with the equipment. It all gave the band’s gigs an edge and an air of the unknown but they’d have wanted for less stress. New Order - Truth (Cargo Demo) - 41 Rooms - show 95 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/New-Order-Truth-Cargo-Demo-41-Rooms-show-95.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 06.22 KATE BUSH – Be Kind To My Mistakes – 7″ b-side – EMI – 1989 In actuality, a track that was ‘released’ – on a split (with Brian Eno) German, promo only 7″ – two years earlier than on her The Sensual World album but was also available in the less-cluttered-by-other-tracks setting of another 7″… albeit as the b-side of the fully released This Woman’s World A-side. The version on the show though is actually the lead track from the soundtrack of the 1987 film, Castaway. With the old skool * record company ideal of singles being looked on to promote albums, here it might have been a battle between the artist going for the more stylish and sophisticated album track as the A-side… when the A&R and promotional team must have surely wanted Be Kind… to lead the way. So old skool, there was even a picture disc 7″ Kate Bush - Be Kind To My Mistakes - 41 Rooms -show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Kate-Bush-Be-kind-To-My-Mistakes-41-Rooms-show-139.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 10.07 TALK TALK – My Foolish Friend – 7″ – EMI – 1983 As might have been confirmed by Mark Hollis’ later releases before his untimely passing, maybe his band’s earlier ‘synth pop’ era was a shade too cerebral for the kids, and this wasn’t one of the few TT singles that did make the UK top 20. Talk Talk - My Foolish Friend - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Talk-Talk-My-Foolish-Friend-41-Rooms-show-139.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 13.24 JOHN FOXX with LOUIS GORDON – Hiroshima Mon Amour – Glimmer: Best Of John Foxx, 2CD only – Music Club Deluxe – 2008 A faithful recreation. I reckon this Best Of should have been titled Glimmer / Just For A Moment. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] IYKYK. John Foxx and Louis Gordon - Hiroshima Mon Amour - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/John-Foxx-and-Louis-Gordon-Hiroshima-Mon-Amour-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 18.09 CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE – Cardboard Lamb (Original Club Mix) – Signals From Pier Thirteen, 12″ EP – Press Records – 1981 With a quirkiness that seems to have leant towards the US new wave/no wave scene of the time, this EP has found a way to regularly get re-released through the decades since… but up until a month ago I’d never heard of them. Crash Course In Science - Cardboard Lamb - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Crash-Course-In-Science-Cardboard-Lamb-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 20.36 EYELESS IN GAZA – China Blue Vision – 7″ b-side – Ambivalent Scale – 1980 41 Rooms royalty, with the homepage 7″ back out for an airing! Stark punk folk! Eyeless In Gaza - China Blue Vision - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Eyeless-In-Gaza-China-Blue-Vision-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 23.24 NASMAK – Toy-Line * – Split 7″ flexi-disc – Vinyl – 1983 Ah, the dreaded flexi disc, this time via Dutch magazine, Vinyl‘s own label. Bit of a Nick Cave thing going on with these 41 Rooms regulars? Nasmak - Toy-Line - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Nasmak-Toy-Line-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 27.25 JOY ORBISON – Hyph Mngo * – 12″ – Hotflush Recordings – 2009 Was JO’s Peter O’Grady a fan of Joy Division or Roy Orbison, or both, or neither? Dub step? D&B? Who cares! It’s a jittery earworm here. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Joy-Orbison-Hyph-Mngo-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 31.07 THE FLAMINGOS (feat JOSE FELICIANO) – Icarus Descending – CD single only – So… Sparkle! – 1999 I’m biased but this is a lost epic… and it could easily have been in show 1. I may have known the seven time (at this point) Grammy award winning, Jose for twenty years plus at this juncture in time but it maybe still took some balls to ask him to guest with guitar on the recording… and it took a bit of co-ordinating to actually get it done. Firstly, no winging files via the internet back then, so Jose needed to be in the country, and I think that came about in between a run of dates he was doing at London’s Jazz Cafe and elsewhere around the rest of the UK. Having given him the track beforehand, I do remember realising in the car with him heading from central London to the Uni of Westminster’s Commercial Music dept, out in Harrow (where I was working at the time) that he hadn’t actually gotten around to listening to the track! A moments panic before I thought ‘He’ll be just fine’. Also, with Cliff’s lead vocal already done, when we got Jose in to the studio we mic’d him up just for guitar. Maybe I at least should have know better. As soon as the track started rolling it only took maybe a couple of takes for Jose to get in the groove and lay down more than enough guitar… along with some simple but just right backing vocals!… the latter caught slightly in the distance… through only the guitar mic. Doh! If only I’d been thinking. Another thing, we were a hairsbreadth from making the Radio 2 playlist. Blues & Soul, Tony Rounce 11.1.99 review… The Flamingos (feat Jose Feliciano) - Icarus Descending (Choice Mix) - Blues & Soul, Tony Rounce 11.1.99 review - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Flamingos-feat-Jose-Feliciano-Icarus-Descending-Choice-Mix-Blues-Soul-Tony-Rounce-11.1.99-review-41-Rooms-show-139-1024x636.jpeg] ‘Flamingos’ Icarus Descending is only their fourth single in 12 years. They obviously like to get things right if this remarkable release is anything to go by. Unreservedly recommended, it features Jose Feliciano and sounds like George Michael fronting Joy Division‘. – Paul Connolly, Metro, The Times on Saturday, 5-11.12.’98 Below: Flamingos’ Cliff Peacock and Dave Summersgill, with Jose and my daughter, Alice: Uni of Westminster, Harrow, June ’98. The Flamingos (Cliff Peacock, Jose Feliciano, Alice and Dave Summersgill) - Icarus Descending (Choice Mix) - 41 Rooms show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cliff-Peacock-Jose-Feliciano-Alice-and-Dave-Summersgill-Icarus-Descending-Choice-Mix-41-Rooms-show-139-.jpg] Below: Jose in the studio, guesting on Icarus Descending and engineer, Mark Cash doing exactly what was asked of him, mic’ing Jose up for guitar… only. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Jose Feliciano in the studio - The Flamingos - Icarus Descending (Choice Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Jose-Feliciano-in-the-studio-The-Flamingos-Icarus-Descending-Choice-Mix-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 34.45 GLEN CAMPBELL – Lonely, My Lonely Friend – 7″ b-side – Capitol – 1969 The abundance of 7″ single b-sides that get spun on 41 Rooms must come from the days (in my case, the very early ’70s) when buying a 7″ was an ‘event’ and getting your money’s worth meant also giving the flip side some serious attention. In amongst all the pop, glam and soul, I was more than happy to also do that with Glen back then. Glen Campbell - Lonely My Lonely Friend - 41 Rooms - show 139Glen Campbell - Lonely My Lonely Friend - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Glen-Campbell-Lonely-My-Lonely-Friend-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 36.59 PETE JOSEF – Utopia – Download only – 2023 Only two of his own albums to date in over twelve years of activity but Josef is a regular folk soul vocal gun for hire, having started to make his mark via Germany’s Sonar Kollektiv label. He’ll definitely be back here. Pete Josef - Utopia - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Pete-Josef-Utopia-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 41.20 DIONNE WARWICK – Walk On By – 7″ – Pye – 1964 A classic… and the sort of songwriting and production we may never hear again? I suspect this world’s equivalent of Dionne and Burt are surrounded by too much crap to tread this way. Dionne Warwick - Walk On By - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Dionne-Warwick-Walk-On-By-41-Rooms-show-139.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 44.04 SHAPE NAVIGATOR (feat EVON BRENNAN) – Flow (Like A River) (Mellow Delta Mix) – 12″ – Almo Sounds – 1995 Co-written by one Evon Brennan (though she’s only credited for her guest vocals on the CD formats of the single) but seeing as she for the most part changed careers, I’ll confidently claim 41 Rooms is the only show of any kind to spin two of her tunes. See show 115 for the other, plus her back story. Shape Navigator - Flow (Like A River - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Shape-Navigator-Flow-Like-A-River-41-Rooms-show-139.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 48.49 EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY – Maybe Nowhere – Weirdo, LP – ??? – 2025 Rather strangely the track first off the grid in promoting Weirdo, as it’s not only a bit ‘rockier’ than her previous leftfield soul, jazz and beats etc leanings, it’s also the only ‘rockier’ track on the album… which is all more down the (usual) road of her previous etc etc etc. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Emma-Jean Thackray - Maybe Nowhere - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Emma-Jean-Thackray-Maybe-Nowhere-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 53.34 SOAP&SKIN – Me And The Devil – 7″ b-side – Play It Again Sam – 2013 Not unlike Nico in the vocals, Austrian, Anja Franziska Plaschg with a sought after 7″. Soap&Skin - Me And The Devil - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SoapSkin-Me-And-The-Devil-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 56.34 YHWH NAILGUN – Animal Death Already Breathing – 45 Pounds, LP – AD93 – 2025 Their debut album’s second sighting at 41 Rooms… and there’s nothing quite like ’em around. YHWH Nailgun - Castrato Raw (Fullback) - 41 Rooms - show 137 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/YHWH-Nailgun-Castrato-Raw-Fullback-41-Rooms-show-137.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 59.06 ? – Fate Twisted & Turned – Unknown – 1980s I have absolutely no idea. Early Portion Control or the likes? Tumbleweed - 41 Rooms [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Tumbleweed-1024x507.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.04.10 CLICK CLICK – 15 Minutes – Rorschach Testing, LP – Play It Again Sam – 1988 And they would have deserved their 15 Minutes… Click Click - 15 Minutes - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Click-Click-15-Minutes-41-Rooms-show-139.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.09.49 CABARET VOLTAIRE – Searchin’ – Groovy, Laidback and Nasty, LP – Parlophone – 1990 Marshall Jefferson… Ten City… Stirling Void vocalist, Paris Brightledge. House was in this industrial Sheffield house! Cabaret Voltaire - Time Beats - 41 Rooms - show 40 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Cabaret-Voltaire-Time-Beats-41-Rooms-show-40.jpg] Diary hints that I hired a car and was in Sheffield visiting ex-Cabs drummer, Alan Fisch and wife, Linda on June 4, ’90 – the same day the Cabs were playing their home town, and that would all but confirm we went to the gig… only for the fact that I travelled up with girlfriend, Dan and our just 1yr old daughter, Alice. Maybe all the girls stayed in and us lads went on the town! 😂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f602.png] 🙄 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f644.png] I think the backstage pass for the next night at the Hacienda in Manchester (albeit a photo copy here) was ex-girlfriend of both me and Alan, Vivien’s. Cabaret Voltaire Hacienda 5.6.90 aftershow ticket, photo copy - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cabaret-Voltaire-Hacienda-5.6.90-aftershow-ticket-photo-copy-41-Rooms-show-139-1024x924.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.15.20 TEN CITY – Whatever Makes You Happy (New York City Mix) * – 12″ – Atlantic – 1990 And speaking of Ten City. Summer’s coming… Summer’s coming? Although I should have edited it a bit more, the sort of tune that feels right on a sunny beach. Ten City - Whatever Makes You Happy (New York City Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ten-City-Whatever-Makes-You-Happy-New-York-City-Mix-41-Rooms-show-139.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.22.48 BLAZE – If You Should Need A Friend (Friendship Mix) – 12″ – Debut – 1987 Originally on the US label, Quark and arguably their biggest hit. Skippety and bouncy. Blaze - If You Should Need A Friend (Friendship Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Blaze-If-You-Should-Need-A-Friend-Friendship-Mix-41-Rooms-show-139-1024x1001.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.28.50 THE B-52’s – Channel Z (Rock Mix) – 12″ – Warner Brothers – 1987 Another apostrophe alert! Channel Zeeeeee sounding better than Channel Zed could ever have done. The B-52's - Channel Z (Rock Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/The-B-52s-Channel-Z-Rock-Mix-41-Rooms-show-139.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.34.40 TALKING HEADS – Girlfriend Is Better (live) – 12″ Stop Making Sense, 2LP – EMI – 1999   From the genius Stop Making Sense film soundtrack gigs and album from 1984 but to get this longer version on vinyl you have to hunt around the re-issued/revamped/Special New Edition etc releases that followed from ’99 onwards. Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (live) - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Talking-Heads-Girlfriend-Is-Better-live-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.39.42 OH WELL – Oh Well – 7″ – Parlophone / 8ighty 8ighty Records – 1989 Yep! Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac fans look/listen away now! German (tongue in cheek?) chancers here with the first of a bunch of ‘classics’ they covered. To be fair, it’s a funky ‘kitch’ groove that might well have sounded better as an instrumental… and I just know I’d never want to see any TV performance they might have blagged. Oh Well - Oh Well - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Oh-Well-Oh-Well-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.42.54 ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS – Pump It Up – 7″ – Radar – 1978 Thumping pop. I had an Elvis ‘moment’ with some of his singles in ’77 and ’78 but never owned an album. Also, another Declan, to be sure, to be sure. Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Pump It Up - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Elvis-Costello-and-The-Attractions-Pump-It-Up-41-Rooms-show-139.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.46.03 ELECTRONIC – Tighten Up – Self-titled, LP – Factory – 1989 Pure coincidence but from Pump It Up… to Tighten Up… and with that crowd ‘jump up’ chorus lift, it should have been a single. Electronic - Tighten Up - 41 Rooms - show 139 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Electronic-Tighten-Up-41-Rooms-show-139.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.50.22 ADELE – Hometown Glory (High Contrast Mix)/ BROOKES BROTHERS – Tear You Down/CHASE & STATUS (feat TAKURA) – Streetlife – Live radio mix – 2008’ish D&B heaven!!! Jeeeeez, after all these years I still just love this! And it might still have or have had Chase & Status’ Hurt You in there somewhere at some point. A slightly ropey sounding but still blistering mix – by someone unknown – from a UK national radio show and along the way it was bounced a format or two down (including the compression of mini disc!)… and then I think, even slightly edited by me. For all that it’s still glorious! Street Choir - Rock Steady - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Street-Choir-Rock-Steady-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- Show 140 will be here June 1. Dec x The post Episode 139 – Original Upload 4.5.25 [https://41rooms.com/2025/05/04/episode-139-original-upload-4-5-25/] appeared first on 41Rooms [https://41rooms.com].

This playlist is 82% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Turntable 138 (Gearbox MKII Transparent Turntable) - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Turntable-138-Gearbox-MKII-Transparent-Turntable-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] The Gearbox MKII Transparent Turntable, made in Europe by Pro-ject to North London’s Gearbox Records’ specifications and retailing around £549. Plays at both 33 rpm and 45 rpm and in being equipped with Bluetooth it can also play through desktop speakers. Just a thought… the transparent body showcasing the internals gives the impression of a drone looking down by a helipad onto a cityscape. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png]https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Gearbox-MKII-Transparent-Turntable-3.jpg ---------------------------------------- Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] ---------------------------------------- Lyric of Playlist 138 It’s that man, Ian C again… ---------------------------------------- 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. ---------------------------------------- 00.41 NEW ORDER – Angel Dust (Pier 84, New York, 1987) – Brotherhood, Defintive Edition boxset – Warner Music – 2024 A track that slightly passed me by back in the day but our heroes are sounding particularly on it here. New Order - Evil Dust - 41 Rooms - show 135 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/New-Order-Evil-Dust-41-Rooms-show-135.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 03.51 THE SANDALS – Feet (Dust Brothers Vocal Mix) – 12″ – Open Toe Records – 1994 The Dust Brothers were the Chemical Brothers, in waiting – the name change needed due to an act with a similar name, if I remember rightly… and years before you could do a quick Google or Discogs search to see if anyone else has already used your chosen moniker. I took to a lot of these ’90s, tougher ‘progressive house’ dance tunes at the time. Sandals - Feet (Original Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 45 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Sandals-Feet-Original-Mix-41-Rooms-show-45.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 10.42 ARNOLD JARVIS – The Way U (Ricky Montanari Vocal Club Mix) – Promo only split 12″ – Freetown Inc – 1998 Moody and edgy stuff, a mix that didn’t surface at the time of the tune’s initial release and one that myself and Dave S (as Got-Ta-Scatta) quietly errr… ‘borrrowed’ from one time. Arnold Jarvis - The Way U (Ricky Montanari Vocal Club Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Arnold-Jarvis-The-Way-U-Ricky-Montanari-Vocal-Club-Mix-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 16.13 DIALECT – Sitting in the Sun (Derrick Carter’s Winter Crazy Dub Reprise) – 2×12″ promo only – Distance – 1998 Snappy garage mix from one of the genre’s classier exponents. Not the US mid ’60s ‘garage’… obviously. Dialect - Sitting In The Sun (Derrick Carter's Winter Crazy Dub Reprise) - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dialect-Sitting-In-The-Sun-Derrick-Carters-Winter-Crazy-Dub-Reprise-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 19.48 SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL ’66 – Ye-Me-Le – 7″ b-side – A&M – 1970 Albeit a few decades after its release, I think I may have happened on this tune being performed on a US TV show and although it’s been well serviced on SM&B Greatest Hits releases through the years since, it quietly sat on the above UK 7″ where a stock copy is way harder to find than the promo. One of the lead female duo, Lani Hall was later to marry one half of A&M, Herb Alpert… and very coincidentally she’ll be back here later. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Ye-Me-Le - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Sergio-Mendes-Brasil-66-Ye-Me_le-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 21.52 JETHRO TULL – Alive And Well And Living In – 7″ b-side – Chrysalis – 1970 More 7″ b-sides and it’s easy to see how Ian Anderson’s vocal and storytelling fitted snugly into a ‘folk’ setting, though the band’s rock side throws in a strident passage or two. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Jethro Tull - Alive And Well And Living In - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Jethro-Tull-Alive-And-Well-And-Living-In-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 24.33 JONI MITCHELL – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns * – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, LP – Asylum – 1975 Maybe somewhere around the very late ’70s and certainly a couple of decades (at least) before the internet slowly helped to spread the anecdote that this song’s lyric was storytelling the life(style) of my boyhood hero, Jose Feliciano I got told the same from someone that knew Jose very well and a few years later I asked him myself and he confirmed as much. I’ve never seen Joni admit it’s the case, though. Joni Mitchell - Dont Interrupt The Sorrow, 41 Rooms [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Joni-Mitchell-Dont-Interrupt-The-Sorrow.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 27.23 MIA DOI TODD – What If We Do? – Manzanita, LP – Plug Research – 2005 A track that’s made it to 41 Rooms before – though in a different take – and Mia’s been making albums constantly ever since. Mia Doi Todd - What If We Do? - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Mia-Doi-Todd-What-If-We-Do-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 30.53 ROBIN GUTHRIE – Prayer – Download only – ?? – 2025 ‘Prayer’, another little something that’s been uselessly gathering dust for a few years. It became orphaned when the scene that I wrote it for was cut (from a soundtrack back in 2018). Now it’s found a new purpose, that of cheering people up in these uncertain times. Every little helps, right? The photo, taken on my kitchen window here in Bretagne‘. – Robin, via Bandcamp / Discogs A game of two halves from the ex-Cocteau Twin’er and I notice from a recent interview that anyone hoping on a CT reunion shouldn’t be holding their breath. He won’t see this but Mr G, I hope life is treating you well. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] Robin Guthrie - Prayer - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Robin-Guthrie-Prayer-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 33.03 ECHO and THE BUNNYMEN – Read It In Books (Original 7″ version) – 7″ b-side – Zoo Records – 1979 The enthusiasm of yooof as the Bunnymen launched their recording career… and a track that bounced between Ian Mac and his ex-Crucial Three colleague, Julian Cope and his subsequent crew, The Teardrop Explodes. Echo and The Bunnymen - Read It In Books - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Echo-and-The-Bunnymen-Read-It-In-Books-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 35.57 JOY DIVISION – She’s Lost Control (Peel session) – The Peel Sessions 12″ EP – Strange Fruit – 1986 Recorded Jan 31, 1979 at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studio 4 for John Peel’s radio show and broadcast on Feb 14. A to be iconic track in an iconic setting. Joy Division - Colony (John Peel session) - 41 Rooms - show 114 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Joy-Division-Colony-John-Peel-session-41-Rooms-show-114-.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 40.02 THE SOUND – I Can’t Escape Myself – Jeopardy, LP – Korova – 1980 The Jeopardy album has been well serviced here. The Sound - Winning - 41 Rooms - show 74 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/The-Sound-Judgement.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 43.43 THE KINKS – Till The End Of The Day – 7″ Pye – 1965 Even within the best of British ’60s pop/beat bands, The Kinks are maybe held in higher regard with a lot more listeners than with me but this was a highlight when I was backtracking and collecting from the ’70s. I even had the Pye white label demo 7″ back then. The Kinks - Till The End Of The Day - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/The-Kinks-Till-The-End-Of-The-Day-41-Rooms-show-138.png] ---------------------------------------- 45.53 THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP – Somebody Help Me – 7″ – Fontana – 1966 Half a dozen or so singles in at this point and vocalist, Steve Winwood was still only 18! The Spencer Davis Group - Somebody Help Me - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/The-Spencer-Davis-Group-Somebody-Help-Me-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 47.45 THE YARDBIRDS – Shapes Of Things – 7″ – Columbia – 1966 The Jeff Beck era and a track that suited vocalist, Keith Relf’s style more than most, I’d say. He was never a rocker of a vocalist. The Yardbirds - Shapes Of Things - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/The-Yardbirds-Shapes-Of-Things-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 50.07 SMALL FACES – Lazy Sunday – 7″ – Immediate – 1968 Possibly at the top of the list of my ’60s bands and with an absolute fave of mine… and I certainly wouldn’t mind owning the acetate below… but I don’t. Small Faces - Lazy Sunday - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Small-Faces-Lazy-Sunday-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] UK 2-sided 7″ acetate… Small Faces - Lazy Sunday 7 acetate (+ Song Of A Baker) - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Small-Faces-Lazy-Sunday-722-acetate-Song-Of-A-Baker-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 53.12 LANI HALL – Ocean Song – Sun Down Lady, LP – A&M – 1972 The lady returneth… and all is calm. Lani Hall - Ocean Song - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Lani-Hall-Ocean-Song-41-Rooms-show-138-1024x1003.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 56.32 LUCY ROSE – Pale Blue Eyes – Download Only – Communion Records – 2025 Slow pop beats for now. Lucy Rose - Pale Blue Eyes - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Lucy-Rose-Pale-Blue-Eyes-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 59.29 MASSIVE ATTACK (feat TRACEY THORN) – Protection (The Eno Mix) – 12″ – Wild Bunch Records – 1995 Nothing radical done to the input of either the band or Ms Thorn. A classic sound, whichever which way. ---------------------------------------- Massive Attack - Protection (Brian Eno Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Massive-Attack-Protection-Brian-Eno-Mix-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.05.03 FOOTSHOOTER (feat ALLYSHA JOY) – Folding – Download only – ?? – 2025 Soulful, electronic d&b-style. Footshooter (feat Allysha Joy) - Folding - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Footshooter-feat-Allysha-Joy-Folding-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.10.18 DOCTOR BIONIC – Put The Work In – The Island of Doctor Bionic, LP – Chiefdom Records – 2025 Bouncy instrumental head nodder. Doctor Bionic - Put The Work In - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Doctor-Bionic-Put-The-Work-In-41-Rooms-show-138--1024x1024.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.13.01 NEW STREET ADVENTURE – Why Should We Do Anything? – Stubborn Sons, LP – Acid Jazz – 2017 With the band now into their second era, here it’s mainman, Nick Corbin’s social commentary consciousness during their first. 🙂 [https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png] New Street Adventure - Why Should We Do Anything? - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/New-Street-Adventure-Why-Should-We-Do-Anything-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.16.17 PASKAL & URBAN ABSOLUTES (feat. PETE JOSEF) – Bits Of Me – Lux, 2LP – Sonor Kollektiv – 2013 European beats with class guest vocalist. Paskal & Urban Absolutes (feat. Pete Josef) - Bits Of Me - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Paskal-Urban-Absolutes-feat.-Pete-Josef-Bits-Of-Me-41-Rooms-show-138-.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.19.28 JACANA PEOPLE (Feat TEMM) – Fall Again – Download only – ?? – 2025 Buckinghamshire, UK calling. ‘Caught halfway between city noise and rural British landscapes, producer-duo Jacana People meld bittersweet electronica with sprawling organic textures‘. – Bandcamp And by including the voice of Temm, here on this track, more than the sum of its parts, I’d say. Jacana People (feat Temm) - Fall Again - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Jacana-People-feat-Temm-Fall-Again-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.25.59 LUSCIOUS JACKSON – Naked Eye – Jukebox (promo?) only 7″ – Capitol – 1996 ‘This US import is the first track from the girls’ new album and features perhaps the catchiest chorus this year. The original is bass-heavy pop with a breakbeat feel and this is accompanied by another five mixes ranging from beat heavy crunchers to tripped out instrumentals. Definitely worth catching. **** ‘ – Brad Beatnik, Record Mirror (Music Week). 2.11.96  Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Luscious-Jackson-Naked-Eye-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 01.26.38 ETERNAL – Sweet Funky Thing (DHL Mix) – Sweet Funky Thing – The House Promo 12″ – EMI / 1st Avenue – 1994 ‘ ‘Juicy Fruit’ type wailing groin grinder in 98bpm Album, New York City Radio, 97bpm K&T Atlanta, K&T Southern and trickily unsteady 99(intro)-98.3bpm WBLF New York Radio Remixes, with (separately promoed) a gospelish strong romping 0-122.9bpm Una Clio Remix or just chorus prodded cantering 124bpm West End Master, monotonous throbbing Puff The Blunted Dragon, better bassily burbling 123.6bpm DHL Mixes‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 29.10.94 I’m not even sure the Eternal girls are anything to do with the voices on here but it’s an urgent groove. Eternal - Sweet Funky Thing (DHL Mix) - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Eternal-Sweet-Funky-Thing-DHL-Mix-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.31.04 STREET CHOIR – Rock Steady – 12″ – Street Choir – 2003 Most probably masked as it’s a less than legal release, but let’s hail the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, for it’s her Rock Steady that’s holding court here. Street Choir - Rock Steady - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Street-Choir-Rock-Steady-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 01.35.55 RALFI PAGAN – Make It With You – 7″ – Fania / Wand – 1971 A David Gates and Bread tune, sounding vocally more ‘soulful’ than the very fine original? Ralfi Pagan - Make It With You - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ralfi-Pagan-Make-It-With-You-41-Rooms-show-138.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 1.39.29 SPRINGFIELD – Different Sky – Unreleased – Late 1990s Unreleased indeed, and from a Leeds-based duo. Only to hand to me right now is a short note and fully hand written lyrics to what looks like five newer tracks that followed Different Sky. In a short ‘A&R’ role I had at the time, I certainly remember talking to the male half of Springfield on the phone and I remember he mentioned the live audience applause on this track was actually lifted from a well known recording :)… but whose is now lost in time. I think the demo CD or tape with Differently and at least one other track is possibly around here somewhere but for now it’s the return of the tumbleweed! Differently? A class track that I reckon, in the hands of a well established female singer/songwriter of the time (or maybe even now?), would have more than stood up for itself. Tumbleweed - 41 Rooms [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Tumbleweed-1024x507.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 1.43.30 JAH WOBBLE and JULIE CAMPBELL – Phantasms Rise – Psychic Life, CD only – Cherry Red – 2011 Another highlight from the album as I hint on the show, the feel of Julie’s approach slightly reminds me of Italian sometimes duo, Costume. Jah Wobble and Julie Campbell - Slavetown (Pts 1 & 2) - 41 Rooms - show 133 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jah-Wobble-and-Julie-Campbell-Slavetown-Pts-1-2-41-Rooms-show-133.jpg] ---------------------------------------- 1.54.00 WORKFORCE – Cut To Pleasure (Peel session) – Unreleased – 1986 Recorded Jan 5, 1986 and broadcast eight days later, I and Mick Lowe (Rorschach Testing) were in the throws of releasing the band’s second single, Back In The Good Books 12″ and getting some European dates together and even though this is the only John Peel session I ever attended I can’t remember next to nothing about it (extremely poor on my part), with my diary adding ‘London. Peel’s Workforce session. Viv and the lads (gave me) lift home.’ Drummer, Alan Fish had the foresight to acquire a reel of the session from the BBC, so here’s the cassette tape I copied the unedited session tracks to. Workforce - Cut To Pleasure (John Peel session) - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Workforce-Cut-To-Pleasure-John-Peel-session-41-Rooms-show-138-1024x681.jpeg] Early ’86 promo and tour poster Workforce poster - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Workforce-poster-41-Rooms-show-138.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 1.51.39 DAVID SYLVIAN – Pulling Punches – Brilliant Trees, LP – Virgin – 1984 In a purer form (for 41 Rooms purposes, anyway) the track was also on a UK 12″ – the same ‘extended’ version as used on this, his first solo album after the Japan years. David Sylvian - Pulling Punches - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/David-Sylvian-Pulling-Punches-41-Rooms-show-138-1024x1014.jpeg] ---------------------------------------- 1.56.41 MRCY – Man – Volume 2, LP – Dead Oceans – 2025 How many peeps will kick this track off thinking something’s up with their player? UK duo, Barney Lister and Kojo Degraft-Johnson with Latin’y soul jazz vibes and the most uplifting tune on this show, downloadable now but also on a coloured vinyl release [https://deadoceans.com/news/mrcy-announce-new-project-volume-2-due-for-release-on-may-30-2025-new-single-and-video-man-out-now/] coming in May. MRCY - Man - 41 Rooms - show 138 [http://41rooms.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MRCY-Man-41-Rooms-show-138-1024x1024.jpg] ---------------------------------------- Show 139 will be here May 4. Dec x The post Episode 138 – Original Upload 6.4.25 [https://41rooms.com/2025/04/06/episode-138-original-upload-4-6-25/] appeared first on 41Rooms [https://41rooms.com].