Playlist 19.09.08

As promised yesterday, the show highlighted some new Mercury Rev (which sounds like it was madly misdirected on the way to a Big Rave), plus TV On The Radio, which I mixed into 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence'. I don't mix as a rule, but instinct told me that the tunes would work together and I was in that rare but magical zone when you feel that cool things are possible.

Near the end, myself and Joe Lindsay enthused about The Charlatans, but reserved the right to critique Tim Burgess and his hairdo, which has gone a bit '20s flapper, a bit Louise Brooks. Maybe we're just jealous, but is that appropriate for a north country boy of a certain age? And is the new single an audacious steal from New Order, or what?

Playlist 19.09.08

BBC Radio Ulster, 92-95 FM

Online: www.bbc.co.uk/radioulster

Fridays, ten - midnight

Tom Waits- Come On Up The The House (Epitaph)

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive (Rough Trade)

Mercury Rev - Senses On Fire (V2)

Dennis Wilson - Time (Caribou)

Robert Holmes- I've Got This Feeling (Shanty Tramp)

Lucinda Williams - Circles And X's (Lost Highway)

TV On The Radio - DLZ (4AD)

Ry Cooder - Waiting For Some Girl (Nonesuch)

Vampire Weekend - A Punk ( XL)

O Death - Fire On Peshtigo (City Slang)

Damien Jurado - Gillian Was A Horse (Secretly Canadian)

Mercury Rev - Butterfly's Wing (V2)

Brian Houston - Feeling In The Morning (BHS)

Pete Molinari - Adelaine (Damaged Goods)

Orchestra Baobab - Foire Internationale (World Circuit)

Screaming J Hawkins - I Love You (Edsel)

The Charlatans - Oh Vanity (CV)

Jenny Lewis - Godspeed (Warner)

BB King - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Geffen)

The Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock - In Country Dark (Transduction)

TV On The Radio - Family Tree (4AD)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (Milan)

Port O Brien - Close The Lid (City Slang)

Nitin Sawhney - Distant Dreams (CV)

Johnny Cash - Where Did We Go Right (Columbia)

Kinnego Flux - Satsuma (white)