Playlist 29.11.10
I'm getting enthused about the imminent arrival of The Arcade Fire in Dublin. The album is helping plenty. I'm currently enjoying the track 'Ready To Start', with all its bristling intent. I like the opening lyric also:
"Businessmen drink my blood / like the kids in art school said they would".
It's a nod to Dylan and 'All Along the Watchtower'. Which in turn is a reference to the Last Supper. But if the New Testament story was about self sacrifice and empathy, Dylan and the Arcade Fire are fearful and paranoid. They know that commerce can murder your creative heart. It's a recurrent theme in popular music, from The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again', to 'Complete Control' by The Clash and perhaps most famously on Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'.
The ritual may never end, but that doesn't take away from the intensity of a band like The Arcade Fire. They are still revving the engines, trying to keep their art unsullied, keeping The Man out of their plans. Long may they run.
BBC Radio Ulster, 92-95 FM
Online: www.bbc.co.uk/radioulster
Mondays, ten - midnight
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said (Mercury)
The Arcade Fire - Ready To Start (Mercury)
Mavis Staples - I Belong To The Band (Anti)
The 1930s - I'm A Vapour (white)
The 1930s - Break My Heart (white)
The Gaslight Anthem - The Diamond Church Street Choir (Side One Dummy)
Broken Records- You Know You're Not Dead (4ad)
Badly Drawn Boy - I Saw You Walk Away (One Last Fruit)
Eamon McGrath - Dark End Of The Street (white whale)
Bob Dylan - Man On The Street (Columbia)
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (demo) (Year Zero)
Mavis Staples - Wrote A Song For Everyone (Anti)
Squeeze - Tempted (A&M)
Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It (Apple)
Matt McGinn - Life (white)
Chris Brokaw, Geoff Farina - Take Me Back To Baltimore (Damnably)
Belle And Sebastian - This Is Just A Modern Rock Song (Jeepster)
Ailie Bradley - Sincerity (White Mountain)
Nick Cave - O Children (Mute)
The Loves - December Boy (Fortuna Pop)
Sandy Denny - Late November (Island)
War Paint - Shadows (Neon Lights remix) (Rough Trade)
Sly Stone - Que Sera Sera (Epic)
Comment number 1.
At 12:54 1st Dec 2010, Fanning Sessions wrote:Hi Stuart, is your show available online? I keep meaning to check it out but never get the chance.
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Comment number 2.
At 04:07 2nd Dec 2010, norriemaclean wrote:@Fanning Sessions check out this link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cl8nv
Thats how I mostly manage to catch it in Glasgow.
Cheers
Norrie
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Comment number 3.
At 04:40 2nd Dec 2010, johnconm wrote:I loved that Eamon McGrath track. I found the video for the tune you played here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzSeZwKlAog
great talent from canada.
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At 15:32 3rd Dec 2010, Fanning Sessions wrote:Thanks @norriemaclean don't know why I was never able to find that before!
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Comment number 5.
At 15:35 3rd Dec 2010, Fanning Sessions wrote:Stuart, the start of the online show is missing! The same thing used happen to Mickey Bradley's show but when I got on to Mickey someone fixed it :-)
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