I thoroughly approve of adding sound effects to dub tracks. Mikey Dread did it a lot. True to all good and bona fide Jamaican pressings this one is off centre #DFCOC
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The Bard of Salford at his best: "I'm freezing Charlie, have you finished yet?" #DFCOC
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Norman Carl Odam. Guaranteed to brighten up any day #DFCOC
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Remember when there used to things called instrumentals in the charts? No? Oh #DFCOC
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I can't explain how exciting and magical this was at the time. I don't have the words #DFCOC #FallFriday
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Hong Kong Garden is one of those singles where the B side is so much better than the A side, and in this case gave us a much better inkling of what was to come from this remarkable band #DFCOC
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Another band who released one EP and vanished, but if you call one of the tracks 'John Peel' you're guaranteed at least one play on the wireless #DFCOC
Peel had to hit the mute button and ding the lampshade at about two minutes in but I can't make out why.
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"I won't reach 20 and I don't want to"
I'm 83 you know #DFCOC
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As you know I love a cover version that doesn't slavishly follow the original, makes it into almost a new song. This one takes it a step further by changing the entire focus of the song. Damn, wasn't Crossroads awful #DFCOC
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Two reasons for this musical #DFCOC. First, it happened to be one of the sessions on the John Peel show I was listening to today. Second, it was many South by Southwests ago that The Rezillos played the music store where I was working and I poured Fay Fife a beer.
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More weirdness from Manchester is today's #DFCOC. I was there at the time this came out and I have no recollection of it. I would certainly have bought it if I did. That bass line must be a devil to keep going. Could I...
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One of the best examples of a band covering a song, making it sound nothing like the original, and doing it in manner which a serious song like this deserves rather than being silly #DFCOC
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This musical #DFCOC is a gem from the truly wonderful Absurd label (ABSURD 10), and one of my favourite band names of all.
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This has come out of nowhere, as earworms usually do, so I'm having it as my #DFCOC for today.
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John Peel: "Those are The Desperate Bicycles from their mini LP I suppose you might describe it, selling for 70p when it becomes available, and that's called Holiday" #DFCOC
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A little bit of politics in today's #DFCOC? I couldn't possibly say. Either way it gives me another opportunity to say that I saw The Tubes at Hammersmith Odeon in November '77 supported by Wire, a strange combination. It worked for me.
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Do it Frank, do it Hank #DFCOC
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Sometimes the only musical #DFCOC that will do is in the form of dear old Jake.
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I always get this wrong and think it's called 'Nan's True Hole'. Something significant (or significan't at my age) there probably. Ends rather suddenly, as Peel would often say (see also "Fades in slowly").
#DFCOC
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Tired of the tango? Fed up with fandango? You know what to do #DFCOC
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With a band name like The Now and a song title like 'Development Corporations' you'd think YouTube's dreadful search facility would bury it under hundreds of results about, well, development corporations, but not so. #DFCOC
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'Smoking on the Bog' is a profoundly unpleasant thing for the next person who has to use it (both my parents did it) but a great name for an album by a folk rock band #DFCOC
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Debora or Deborah? Equal with Jeepster this is Marc Bolan's finest song for me, with Elemental Child close behind. I had a copy of it, possibly the blue label Regal Zonophone version. Wish I still did #DFCOC
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There's no mistaking a Residents... well I guess technically it is a song. Track? Creation? Whatever you want to call it, it's my musical #DFCOC for today.
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This sort of music never fails to make me feel happy. Maybe it does the same for you too #DFCOC
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A musician who has a low profile but is well worth investigating is Carmel McCourt, and her band Carmel. Proper sophisti-pop, this, and definitely a #DFCOC.
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Is it really nine days since I had a musical #DFCOC? Good grief. This one has a story. Our music teacher in secondary school must have been a fan of the original because he called this "a bastard song". WHAT??? Teachers aren't supposed to swear!
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Feliz Navidad tout le monde #DFCOC
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An often overlooked Christmas song, I think, and a very strange video #DFCOC
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The classic non-Christmas Christmas song. A damn fine musical #DFCOC
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