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The Show: Mixed Herbs.

Two cover versions on todays show.

The Ridiculous Trio drag The Stooges’ “No Fun” back through time and plant it firmly in the middle of a 1950’s U.S. strip club. Maybe that’s the life it was always meant to have, the opening track on a Las Vegas grind CD.

The second cover poses a philosophical question. Can a person be said to be covering a song when that same person both co-wrote and performed on the original? Answers to Jah Wobble, who has reworked the 1978 single “Public Image”. More of his PIL makeovers are available on Bandcamp.

Speaking of revisiting the past, today’s playlist also contains The Umbrellas with a song that could easily have seen them headlining Indie Club back in 1997, even though the tune itself was released in August of this year.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 27 November 2021

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • RICO NASTY – Money (featuring Flo Milli)
  • cktrl – safe
  • MIRIAM MAKEBA – Pata Pata
  • JOCKSTRAP – 50/50
  • DAMON ALBARN – Royal Morning Blue (Live Performance)
  • STRAWBERRY GUY – Sun Outside My Window
  • THE RIDICULOUS TRIO – No Fun
  • THE UMBRELLAS – Autumn
  • KIDENE FIGHTER – Ugai Gai
  • PARIS TEXAS – Girls Like Drugs
  • CONFIDENCE MAN – Holiday
  • COLA – Blank Curtain
  • BXKS – 321 (featuring Oscar #Worldpeace)
  • STRAWBERRY STATION – Stay With Me
  • JJJJJEROME ELLIS – Loops Of Retreat (Single Edit)
  • M.I.A. – Babylon
  • TADI – Seven Diamond Lines (featuring DJKR)
  • PYROPHORIA – Fuckery
  • WALLICE – Wisdom Tooth
  • DMA’S – Viol
  • JAH WOBBLE – Public Image
  • SPICE – A Better Treatment
  • MONOFLYY – BAZOOKA
  • THE BUG – Stoat (featuring Jason Williamson)
  • E L L E – time 2 die
  • SIR ROBERT ORANGE PEEL – Miss Diane *
  • A$AP ROCKY – Sandman
  • MORGEN – Of Dreams
  • RATIGAN ERA – Gan Dem
  • WENDY & BONNIE – By The Sea
  • CLAMS CASINO – Water Theme 2
  • MARK 4ORD – Oaths (featuring Trizz)
  • NEGGY GEMMY – California
  • HILDEGARD VON BINGE DRINKING – DiƤt
  • LET’S EAT GRANDMA – Two Ribbons

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: In ill-fitting Rupert The Bear trousers.

Video of the week goes to Geno Pacino – partly because it’s a timely, seasonal reminder to start digging out the Vince Guaraldi vinyl.Ā 

Or is video of the week Hedda Mae’s homage to various other 90’s and 00’s music clips?

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 13 November 2021

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • SILVIO RODRƍGUEZ – SueƱo Con Serpientes
  • DUMMY – Atonal Poem
  • CARTEL MADRAS AND DOM DIAS – FEAR & LOATHING
  • 1000 EYES – Soon Is Good
  • SPACE AFRIKA – U (featuring kinseyLloyd)
  • SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL – JamFlexEdit, Pt. 1 & 2
  • NUN PLUS – Listen To Your People
  • THE PARROTS – You Work All Day And Then You Die
  • HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM – Another Bottle Of Wine
  • SHAUN RYDER – Monster
  • NIXER – GENTRIFICATION
  • THE POP GROUP – She is Beyond Good & Evil (Dennis Bovell Dub version)
  • BOBBY KONDERS – Nervous Acid
  • RITON PRESENTS GUCCI SOUNDSYSTEM – Let’s Stick Around (featuring Jarvis Cocker)
  • GENO PACINO – Tears Of Joy
  • 187 FAMILY – Drinking
  • CARTEL MADRAS – Goonda Gold
  • YAEJI & OHHYUK – 29
  • ANTI VAIRAS X VAMPI – Kidogo
  • AFRORACK – Trance
  • SOLEMN BRIGHAM – Dirty Whip
  • THE MELANCHOLIES – Love Herself
  • HALSEY – I Am Not A Woman, I’m A God
  • ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL – Where Have All The Wayward Pop Art Eccentrics Gone *
  • DREAMSURFER – Never Alone
  • WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM – Spirit of Lightning
  • WHITE FLOWERS – Daylight
  • SPACE AFRIKA – Meet Me At Sachas
  • TENOR FLY – Don’t Dis The Jungle
  • SPIRITUALIZED – Always Together With You
  • HEDDA MAE – Take It Or Leave It

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: The Ku Klux Klan moved in with my Gran.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 30 October 2021

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • WHITE FLOWERS – Intro
  • WHITE FLOWERS – Night Drive
  • LISASINSON – Volverte A Enamorar
  • DADDY FREDDY – Yes, We A Blood
  • JULIAN COPE – I Come From Another Planet, Baby
  • PYROPHORIA – Bring Your Bitchass To Work Day *
  • EVERGREEN – En Douce
  • SOLEMN BRIGHAM – Sometimes You Lose
  • 1000 EYES – Minerals
  • PARI SAN – ALIEN
  • HIEROGLYPHIC BEING – WET PAPER 4 DRY INK
  • THE BLAPPS POSSE – It Can Only Get Better
  • BOY HARSHER – Tower
  • BOYLIFE – superpretty
  • NATION OF LANGUAGE – The Grey Commute
  • DAVID HOLMES – Hope Is The Last Thing To Die (featuring Raven) (Extended Mix)
  • LILY KONIGSBERG – Proud Home
  • HIPSTER CONSPIRACY – Empires
  • serpentwithfeet – Down Nuh River
  • ROODY – Tehran
  • BLACKSTARKIDS – FIGHT CLUB
  • LONE – Inlove2
  • BOUTROSS – Shrap Over The Rest
  • SLEIGH BELLS – True Seekers
  • RICO NASTY – Switch Places
  • MARISSA NADLER – If I Could Breathe Underwater
  • GEORGE T & JOHNNY AUX – Back
  • SIR ROBERT ORANGE PEEL – Cool Kids
  • FIYAHDRED – Anyway (Do It)
  • AUNTY RAYZOR – Tornado
  • MILDRED MAUDE – Glen Plays Moses

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: Is your muffin buttered? (Reprise)

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 16 October 2021

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • THE GOON SAX – Psychic
  • PHELIMUNCASI – Kolamula Ukusa (featuring DJ Ndaxy)
  • IAN SWEET – f*ckthat
  • BARTEES STRANGE – Flagey God
  • LEMONADE SHOELACE – Autopilot Paradise
  • METRONOMY Ā· PINTY – Half An Inch
  • DJ NAZ GURLPOWER – Mad Gyal
  • HOTLINE TNT – 4-H T
  • LESLIE WINER – Tree
  • LONELADY – (There Is) No Logic (Live on Later)
  • SILLA AND RISE – Anirniq
  • SOLEMN BRIGHAM – Future Brutha
  • PYROPHORIA – Professional
  • STRAWBERRY STATION – Stay With Me
  • SPACE AFRIKA – U (featuring kinseyLloyd)
  • (LORDMOBB) JNX X MEPHUX – Glory
  • cktrl – zero (featuring Mereba)
  • JARVIS COCKER Ā· LAETITIA SADIER – Paroles Paroles
  • DEREK CARR – Synapse 136
  • CUMGIRL8 – Pluck Me
  • GOD DAMN – Drop Me Off Where They Clean The Dead Up
  • RAJA KIRIK – DOR
  • LAURA LEE & THE JETTES – Caterpillar
  • MARINA – Purge The Poison (featuring Pussy Riot)
  • VSTYLEZ – Huh
  • E. BOBBY G. – Music Sounds Better w/u
  • CONCEPCION HUERTA – Onderbreken (featuring Luciana Russo)
  • THE ALCHEMIST – Miracle Baby (featuring Mavi)
  • TANYA TAGAQ – Tongues
  • MC YALLAH – No One Seems To Bother (featuring Lord Spikeheart)
  • STILL DREAMS – Drive All Night (Faster Than Light)
  • SIAL – Kita Dilahirkan Untuk Melawan
  • DUA SALEH – fitt (with Amaarae)
  • PAPA SAN & LIEUTENANT STITCHIE – One More Request
  • WET LEG – Chaise Longue (Live @ Green Man Festival) *

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: I’ve made a rod for my own back.

Stewart Lee decrying his own CD filing system.

Can we make a case for The Boo Radleys being filed in the Britpop shoebox, alongside such luminaries as Bennet, Jocasta and Thurman? Let’s not just limit them to Liverpool and Post-Punk / C86 / early Creation / Shoegaze. Here’s the proof – a 67% Britpop rating (courtesy of Top Trumps):

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And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 2 October 2021

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • PIRY REIS – Idade MĆ©dia
  • DEUCE ELLIS – Spit Acid (featuring Che Noir)
  • CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS – Comme L’Oiseau
  • OPEN MIKE EAGLE Ā· ARMAND HAMMER Ā· MICHAEL EAGLE Ā· BILLY WOODS Ā· ELUCID Ā· QUELLE CHRIS – Burner Account
  • RUN THE JEWELS – Ooh La La (Remix) (featuring Lil Wayne, Greg Nice & DJ Premier)
  • MOONCHILD SANELLY – Undumpable
  • PYROPHORIA – Just A Tad
  • BLAWAN – Fourth Dimensional
  • WATER FROM YOUR EYES – Quotations
  • ZOMBIES – ExtraƱos Juegos
  • RP BOO – Be Of It!
  • SOLEMN BRIGHAM – Left Feet
  • HOLLYWOOD HORSES – Houseworld
  • FLO – Baby
  • WET LEG – Wet Dream
  • RICO NASTY – Rico Nasty Grow Up
  • PULPFUSION – Where is the Money Honey?
  • MANDY, INDIANA – Bottle Episode
  • PARQUET COURTS – Black Widow Spider

[Stewart Lee’s Genre Taxonomy] *

  • HERBIE MANN – Hold On, I’m Comin’
  • AUDIOBOOKS – Black Lipstick
  • SOOFLE – Thrill
  • STILL DREAMS – Last True Love
  • THE GREEN CHILD – Tony Bandana
  • METRONOMY Ā· BRIAN NASTY Ā· FOLLY GROUP – Monday
  • SPACE AFRIKA – Indigo Grit (featuring Guest)
  • WATER FROM YOUR EYES – Monday
  • BAD WITH PHONES – REFRIGERATOR
  • JANELLE MONƁE – Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout) (featuring BeyoncĆ©, Alicia Keys, Chlƶe x Halle, Tierra Whack, Isis V., ZoĆ« Kravitz, Brittany Howard, Asiahn, Mj Rodriguez, Jovian Zayne, Angela Rye, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Alicia Garza)

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.