The Hamsters - 'Condensed Hamsters'!!!! :sweet: :sweet:

R&B....like it should be!!!! :sweet: :sweet:

I went on holiday in a cottage near Barnard Castle about a month ago.
Mickleton was the place, near Middleton-in-Teesdale.
About forty houses there, no shop, the post office closed down, two pubs that never open in the day time which is no good when you've got little kids.
Anyhow, they do have a village hall - a tiny little thing.
The Hamsters played there on the Tuesday night.
I could hear the bass from my cottage down the road as I sat outside with my beer. Thats the only time I've ever heard them.
And I thought to myself, didnt they used to be canny big once?

This....probably the best Punk & New Wave collection....Ever!!!!




01. Complete Control - Clash
02. Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols
03. New Rose - Damned
04. Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones
05. Shadow - Lurkers
06. Thinking Of The USA - Eater
07. Ain't Bin To No Music School - Ed Banger
08. Borstal Breakout - Sham 69
09. I Hate School - Suburban Studs
10. GLC - Menace
11. One Chord Wonders - Adverts
12. Right To Work - Chelsea
13. Johnny Won't Go To Heaven - Killjoys
14. Bone Idle - Drones
15. Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone - Slaughter & The Dogs
16. CID - UK Subs
17. Can't Wait 'til '78 - Wasps
18. Ambition - Subway Sect
19. I'm Stranded - Saints
20. Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks
21. In The City - Jam
22. Your Generation - Generation X
23. First Time - Boys
24. Get A Grip (On Yourself) - Stranglers
25. Don't Dictate - Penetration
26. In A Rut - Ruts
27. Big Time - Rudi
28. Don't Ring Me Up - Protex
29. Just Another Teenage Rebel - Outcasts
30. Solitary Confinement - Members
31. Emergency - 999
32. 19 And Mad - Leyton Buzzards
33. I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher - Not Sensibles
34. Romford Girls - Riff Raff
35. Sick Of You - Users
36. Gabrielle - Nips
37. Where Were You - Mekons
38. Murder Of Liddle Towers - Angelic Upstarts
39. Oh Bondage Up Yours - X_Ray Spex
40. Sweet Suburbia - The Skids
41. Television Screen - Radiators
42. Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
43. Teenage Kicks - Undertones
44. Teenage Depression - Eddie & The Hot Rods
45. Rich Kids - Rich Kids
46. Baby Baby (I Know You're A Lady) - Vibrators
47. Suffice To Say - Yachts
48. Roadrunner - Richman, Jonathan & Modern Lovers
49. Don't Care - Klark Kent
50. Nervous Wreck - Radio Stars
51. Up Against The Wall - Robinson, Tom Band
52. So It Goes - Lowe, Nick
53. Police Car - Wallis, Larry
54. Hard Loving Man - Moped, Johnny
55. Love And A Molotov Cocktail - Flys
56. Where's Captain Kirk - Spizz Energi
57. Sonic Reducer - Dead Boys
58. Search And Destroy - Dictators
59. Born To Lose - Heartbreakers
60. Modern Dance - Pere Ubu
61. If You Don't Want To Fuck Me Fuck Off - County, Wayne
62. California Uber Alles - Dead Kennedys
63. I Belong To The Blank Generation - Hell, Richard
64. 10.15 Saturday Night - Cure
65. Rip Her To Shreds - Blondie
66. I Can't Stand My Baby - Rezillos
67. All I Want - Snatch
68. Looking After No 1 - Boomtown Rats
69. Take Me I'm Yours - Squeeze
70. Sex And Drugs And Rock 'n' Roll - Dury, Ian & The Blockheads
71. Spanish Stroll - Mink DeVille
72. Is She Really Going Out With Him - Jackson, Joe
73. Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
74. Part Time Punks - Television Personalities
75. Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart - Fitzgerald, Patrick
76. You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory - Thunders, Johnny
77. Psycle Sluts - Clarke, John Cooper
78. Jilted John - Jilted John
79. Kill - Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias
80. Paranoid - Dickies
81. Public Image - Public Image Ltd.
82. Warsaw - Joy Division
83. Staircase Mystery - Siouxsie & The Banshees
84. Damaged Goods - Gang Of Four
85. You - Au Pairs
86. How Much Longer - Alternative TV
87. Read About Seymour - Swell Maps
88. Young Parisians - Adam & The Ants
89. Monochrome Set - Monochrome Set
90. We Are All Prostitutes - Pop Group
91. Typical Girls - Slits
92. Mannequin - Wire
93. Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
94. Science Fiction - XTC
95. Do The Standing Still - Table
96. Another Girl Another Planet - Only Ones
97. Young Savage - Ultravox
98. Puppet Life - Punishment Of Luxury
99. Jocko Homo - Devo
100. Marquee Moon - Television

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Lots I havent got there Muttley. Might have to make that a purchase of mine

An excellent collection there.

Reading that list makes me realise how lucky I am.

Jesus wept! theres no chance I'm suffering THAT twice!!
1st time round was bad enough!!

I've just bought that Punk and New Wave boxset from Amazon, used for 49 bloody pounds. If our lass sees the invoice she will kill me. We're skint and thats another chunk out of my overdraft.
And that was the cheapest price by a mile. The other four ranged from 86 quid to 149 quid (?????)
Good job I know its gonna be fantastic. I only have about 20 percent of the stuff on there, though have heard about 60-70 percent.
Cant wait now. Hopefully it will arrive when our lass is out.

Don't you go badding Fink Ployd you scallywag!

I'm Surprised to see Waters on there. Shows how much attention I pay to the news, eh? They're all sooooooo old. Not as old as the Stones, but still oooooooooold.

To be honest, in that punk compilation I reckon I'd have turned my attention to something else about half way through the intro to Blitzkrieg Pop. Sorry but I just can't get away with it. Some early Pistols maybe but that's about it.
The problem is I like melodies you see.

gerraway! it was the one of the most excrutiatingly tedious half hours i've spent in my life.........and i wanted to watch the whole event so i couldnt turn over, i had to get ridiculously drunk to dull the pain!!

Well if it's Melodies you like there's at least 70 songs on the Compilation with much much better melodies than the Sex Pistols!!!!

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That's why I said "maybe"

I will admit most of them have better melodies than death metal bands.

Death Metal is just noise with someone trying to sound like the Devil in the background!!!!

A bit like hard core techno with words you mean?

unusually for me, I really like Damien Rice's new single [on't radio just now], not sure what its called but its dead good


nine crimes apparantly,very nice tune

exactly... the ramones (for instance) came out with some of the simplest yet most effective melodies in musical history.

The pistols on the other hand were a fashion statement more than they were a band.

They're boppin in a straight line....

Go out and buy it kids, you know it makes sense!!

Or if you;re too idle to peel yersel' off the settee, order it from iTunes!!

Maybe I'll just download an illegal copy Kev, if thats alright with you
Seriously though, I do get a lot of 'free' cd's given to me, but then I buy them if they're any good, as in Maximo Park, Futureheads, Field Music, Antony and Johnsons, Arcade Fire, Damien Marley, Plan B and so on.
Most of them are shite mind and never get played more than half a time.
As for Hot Club, I already know they must be good because they're getting rave reviews everywhere, from the Observer, through the NME to the BBC website.
Reckon I might have to buy it then.

I shall put that to my nephew who's played every toilet in Britain since April while touring his stuff and slept on more floors than the CN tower has!!

Yep, three note melodies rule. Three Blind Mice is another good example.

Uh oh Ramones fight
I listen to some music and its so fucking overproduced
Others cram as many instruments as they possibly can into every available space to prove how clever they are
You need to give us some suggestions of real melodies (with more than three chords) Richard for this to be a proper fight.
Please dont come up with George Michael.
Sometimes you dont need any more than three chords.
Sometimes three chords says it all.
Sometimes less is more
And sometimes The Ramones are the best choice ever to put on the stereo.
Turn them up loud
True Rock n Roll

The Ramones are excellent. It's just a shame that 90% of their songs sound the same. In a good way though. Like Green Day's Warning album.

And I'm currently listening to...

Wasnt Rumbelows about where the Officers Club is ??

Crack cocaine is a solid.

floyd are ok.

stuck 90 mins of the jam on in a live gig in 1980 somewhere in the bosch shortly after - couldnt be arsed really.

got off my arse and out this on - haven't played it in years

Now you mention it I remember the York Road one too,but fraid I cant remember the one at Specsavers,
In the meantime (Damian Marley)

Do you know when you don't listen to something for a long time and then you realise just how good it is - it's in the car from tomorrow and i'll be feeling even more melancholy but so refreshed after a few days blasting of it - that's what DS's music does.

visage - class - borrowed a lot from kraftwerk if you asked me - but fade to grey in my opinion is possibly one of the most important british tracks ever - hear it's presence in so many tracks from them until today. - mr strange - a (nother) flawed genuis.

not so much a music-oid to know ure wrote that track - fook me - midge ure then another genuis then!!

fade to grey still sounds 'today' today

go on then give it a go

Kev's had them!!!! :sweet:

:sweet: :sweet: :sweet: :sweet:

Labelmates of my nephews band.

'What do you do when the music starts...THROW SHAPES!!!'

Good funny stuff, it shouldn't all be deep

You're probably better trying crystal meth Chip, starting to take off in the North East. Its in rock form but you can melt it on a teaspoon and if you inject enough you wont be able to sleep for a week. Just think of all the things you could get done!
And while I'm here...

They're in session on BBC6 tonight with Mark Riley.

Yep, they did Steve Lamacq a couple of weeks ago too. Clever little buggers...

I'm going to see them pipettes at Newcastle in a couple of weeks. I'm being dragged along by me mate who likes them. hope they aren't too crap.

I didn't say three chords I said three notes!

Some great melodies:
Love is Full of Wonderful Colours
Up the Junction
Still Lovin' You
Candy (by Mr Iguana Pop)
Perfect Day
All Around My Hat
Anything (really, really anything!) by Nitin Sawhney
Is it 'Cos I'm Cool

I give up - there are simply too many to do them justice

But a good melody on its own isn't enough. You also need diminuendo and crescendo, rubato, counterpoint, or any of a whole range of mood devices that Punk seems to completely overlook.
Still, I can see its advantages.
Like chuck a loud guitar at someone and he's immediately operational.

Japan ('cos there's no difference really) just shut themselves up for a couple of days at a time with a whole load of Eastern percussion instruments and NO SONGS and improvised the whole of that album. "Every Colour You Are" and "Pocket Full of Change" are dangerously hypnotic. Mick Karn blasts your mind away with his woodwinds on the instrumental tracks and with his weird Chinese instruments on the single-oriented Black Water. And Cries and Whispers is the best out track of an album there's ever been, bringing you back down to earth as gently as a feather and leaving you so, so sad the album's finished.

Sorry punkers, I never ever go through those sort of emotions with your kind of music. Horses for courses I guess.

Horses for courses indeed. Punk cant turn you hypnotic its true. Just makes me want to get drunk, jump up and down and shout out loud.
Nothing wrong with that.
Plenty of other music for other emotions. I dont want to feel like jumping up and down all the time.
Your dimunendo and rubatos are all a bit technical for me sir but I'm sure you know what you're talking about. Enjoying music, whatever your tastes, is what its all really about

" another girl another planet" is s hit

Aw come on now, Another Brick in the Wall is just too easy a target.

Knocking that particular song is as easy as me knocking "You spurn my natural emotions, you make me feel like dirt and I'm hurt.
And If I start a commotion I run the risk of losing you and thats worse."

I'm glad you think that sounds like a group who believes in what it's singing!

Maybe you think Deep Purple don't believe in the real fire that inspired Smoke on the Water or that Mike Oldfield is only kidding about being "Five Miles Out" (sorry by the way for quoting two god-awful songs).
And Leo Sayer certainly convinced me he'd been busking down Ladbroke Grove more than a few times. It sounds very much to me like a social comment on the lack of opportunity afforded young aspiring musicians. How many people did "Meet the new boss same as the old boss" strike a chord with?
And what did punk ever offer that beat the Edgar Broughton Band's "Out Demons Out" for raw energy and outright anarchy.

None of that heritage has been blown away.

hey man we agree on something.

tonight's little treat is


now this i like a lot.

i'm not being! it is!

Where & When ??