Th Show: Cult classic but I still pop

Who could have foreseen that 2024 would end with The Velvet Underground becoming part of Brat Summer?

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 14 December 2024

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

    • CHARLI XCX – Spring breakers (featuring Kesha)
    • coucou chloe – GUESS
    • SLEAFORD MODS & HOT CHIP – Nom Nom Nom
    • ELA MINUS – UPWARDS
    • PRIMAL SCREAM – Ready To Go Home

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #1]

    • ANNA ERHARD – Not Rick
    • LAST DINNER PARTY – The Feminine Urge
    • LEWSBERG – An Ear To The Chest
    • METRONOMY X PAN AMSTERDAM – Nice Town (Original)
    • JESUS AND MARY CHAIN – Silver Strings
    • BABY QUEEN – We Can Be Anything

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #2]

    • charlieeeee – XTREME CIRCUMSTANCES
    • 4AM KRU & PAPA LEVI – Ribena
    • NIA ARCHIVES – Crowded Roomz
    • JOHN GLACIER – Found
    • JODIE LANGFORD – Foefetti

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #3]

    • XIU XIU – Frosty the Snowman
    • BLAWAN – Fires
    • DEELA, BXKS, & GENIO BAMBINO – Big Deel
    • A.G. COOK – Without
    • CLIPZ & SHERELLE – MEET ME AT THE TEMPLE

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #4]

    • BILL RYDER-JONES – This Can’t Go On
    • SELF ESTEEM & MOONCHILD SANELLY – Big Man
    • BRITISH MURDER BOYS – Killer I Said
    • KNEECAP – I bhFiacha Linne

[Tim Key’s Christmas Poetry Programme #5]

    • ADDISON RAE – Diet Pepsi
    • CINDY LEE – Diamond Jubilee
    • JOHN GLACIER – Money Shows (featuring Eartheater)
    • ORBURY COMMON – Fantasy
    • CHARLI XCX – Von dutch *
    • VELVET UNDERGROUND – Heroin

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Your eyes are blue, mine are brown with a tint of hazel

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 29 June 2024

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

    • CHARLI XCX – Girl, So Confusing
    • COLA – Pulling Quotes
    • JPEGMAFIA – don’t rely on other men (featuring Freaky)
    • DUMMY – Nullspace
    • ROBYN & JAMIE XX – Life
    • CHARLI XCX – The 360 Remix with Robyn and Yung Lean
    • SWIFTUMZ – Never Impress
    • NIA ARCHIVES – Cards On The Table (Live on Later… with Jools Holland) *
    • GRAFH, 38 SPESH, & METHOD MAN – Fight For Love
    • NAP EYES – Demons
    • LILACS & CHAMPAGNE – Evil Has No Boundaries
    • FIDLAR – GET OFF MY WAVE
    • bar italia – sounds like you had to be there
    • MIKE, WIKI & THE ALCHEMIST – Mayors A Cop
    • CRACK CLOUD – The Medium
    • BLOC PARTY – Flirting Again
    • SBTRKT – VOLCA
    • HINDS – En Forma
    • JAMES CHANCE – Contort Yourself (Original Version)
    • RHYS LANGSTON & STEEL TIPPED DOVE – me saco el pulgar
    • MAVI – drunk prayer
    • DENZEL CURRY – BLACK FLAG FREESTYLE (featuring That Mexican OT)
    • KIM GORDON – ECRP
    • JOHN GLACIER – Whole Or None
    • TRENTEMØLLER – Dreamweavers
    • PROJECTO AZUL – New Sides
    • KODE9 – Eyes Go Blank
    • charlieeeee – XTREME CIRCUMSTANCES
    • BLACK DRESSES – LAST LOVE SONG ON THIS LITTLE PLANET
    • ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE, THE – Jealousy
    • MARUJA – Resisting Resistance
    • MUSTAFA – Gaza Is Calling
    • SELF ESTEEM & MOONCHILD SANELLY – Big Man

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: Eating dry cereal

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 18 May 2024

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

    • MOONCHILD SANELLY – Scrambled Eggs
    • RICO NASTY – BLEACH BROWS
    • THE BUG – Bodied(Send for the hearse)
    • wildkarduno – i dont give a fuxk bout da 808s
    • GLORILLA – Yeah Glo!
    • BROADS – Built Calypso
    • METZ – Light Your Way Home
    • UNIVERSE – mile away (featuring removeface)
    • COLD CAVE – Shadow Dance
    • SIM0NE – work it
    • cell m8 – mmm k. x
    • FAT DOG – Running
    • LAMBRINI GIRLS – Help Me I’m Gay

[Steve Albini – The Problem With Music] 

    • BIG BLACK – Colombian Necktie
    • PERENNIAL – Action Painting
    • PARDONER – Deadbeat
    • LIP CRITIC – In The Wawa (Convinced I Am God)
    • COLA – Pallor Tricks
    • POLO PERKS AND AYOOLII – Ricky Eats Acid
    • CHALK – Asking
    • THE KLITTENS – Reading Material *

[Steve Albini – Ethically Untenable]

    • AROOJ AFTAB – Whiskey
    • AMEN DUNES – Rugby Child
    • COLA – Albatross
    • DANNY L HARLE & SHYGIRL – encore
    • FCUKERS – Bon Bon
    • SALLY SHAPIRO – Rent
    • NILÜFER YANYA – Like I Say (I runaway)
    • MACKLEMORE – Hind’s Hall
    • JULIA FOX – Down the Drain
    • DJ PREMIER – Define My Name
    • FONTAINES D.C. – Starburster
    • CHIEDU ORAKA – Rhythm Of My Pain
    • CULTS – Crybaby

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

The Show: R.I.P. It Up & Start Again

In our last minute rush to celebrate the lives of Cathal Coughlan and Andrew Fletcher we completely overlooked including a musical eulogy to Vangelis. If we had time for a do-over, extracts from the Bladerunner soundtrack would be sitting alongside tunes from Microdisney, Telefís and Depeche Mode.

R.I.P. Cathal Coughlan

R.I.P. Andrew Fletcher

R.I.P. Vangelis

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 28 May 2022

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

  • DEPECHE MODE – New Life
  • MICRODISNEY – Loftholdingswood
  • DEPECHE MODE – Enjoy The Silence (Hands And Feet Mix)
  • TELEFÍS – The Symphonies Of Danny La Rue
  • NU GENEA – Tienaté
  • BRIJEAN – Shy Guy
  • DUNNE – Espiral
  • SHORTCUT – Hope
  • UNLOVED – Mother’s Been a Bad Girl
  • LITTLE MISS CORNSHUCKS – Waiting In Vain
  • GWENNO – Tresor
  • AUTOMATIC – Skyscraper
  • SUDAN ARCHIVES – Selfish Soul
  • BOBAN PETROVIĆ – Djuskaj
  • DON ZILLA – Buziba
  • L’ÉPÉE – Springfield 61
  • MOONCHILD SANELLY – Cute (featuring Trillary Banks)
  • J ROCC – One
  • BUGZY MALONE – Daily Duppy
  • ALOOF, THE – Never Get Out The Boat (Flying Mix)
  • PINKPANTHERESS – Where You Are (featuring Willow)
  • HAAI AND JON HOPKINS – Baby, We’re Ascending
  • NEW ORDER – Such A Good Thing
  • THE WAEVE – Something Pretty
  • RICO NASTY – Intrusive
  • PANIC SHACK – The Ick
  • HEAVENLY – Intro
  • SUGA ROY & THE FIREBALL CREW – Nah Go Run (featuring Conrad Crystal & Zareb)
  • KODAK BLACK – Grinding All Season
  • HTRK – Kiss Kiss And Rhinestones (Eurodance Version)
  • JOVIALE – UW4GM
  • OLIVER SIM – Hideous

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 Média
  • DEUCE ELLIS – Spit Acid (featuring Che Noir)
  • CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS – Comme L’Oiseau
  • OPEN MIKE EAGLE · ARMAND HAMMER · MICHAEL EAGLE · BILLY WOODS · ELUCID · 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 – Extraños 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 · BRIAN NASTY · FOLLY GROUP – Monday
  • SPACE AFRIKA – Indigo Grit (featuring Guest)
  • WATER FROM YOUR EYES – Monday
  • BAD WITH PHONES – REFRIGERATOR
  • JANELLE MONÁE – Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout) (featuring Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Chlöe x Halle, Tierra Whack, Isis V., Zoë 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.