When Big Joan Sets Up 11/2/09 – You just put your lips together and blow

whistlingThis week’s WBJSU (as all the cool kids are calling it) featured three tracks from the cracking new Lightspeed Champion LP “Life is Sweet , Nice to Meet You” and also threw the unforgiving spotlight on the lost art of whistling records – we know how to rock,us.

Maffia and Fluxy – “Tribulation Dub” (LP- “Dub Anthems”) (Black Arrow)
Brother Bones and His Shadows – “Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue” (LP- “Globetrottin’ With Bones”) (Arhoolie)
Home Blitz – “Is Anybody There?” (LP-“Out of Phase”) (Ritchie)
The Electric Pop Group – “We Never Made Up Our Minds” (LP- “Seconds”) (Matinee)
Unknown – “Minimal Elvis” (12″) (White Label)
Demon Claws – “It’s Over” (v/a LP – “Our Boy Roy”) (Telephone Explosion)
Roy Orbison – “Sweet Dreams” (LP – “Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson”) (MGM)
Autecre – “D-Sho Qub” (LP- “Oversteps”) (Warp)
Lightspeed Champion – “I Don’t Want to Wake Up Alone” (LP – “Life Is Sweet, Nice to Meet You”) (Domino)
Lightspeed Champion – “Madame Van Damme” (LP – “Life Is Sweet, Nice to Meet You”) (Domino)
Lightspeed Champion – “There’s Nothing Underwater” (LP – Life Is Sweet, Nice to Meet You) (Domino)
Mrs Alice Shaw and her Twin Daughters -“Spring Tide Revels” (from University of California Wax Cylinder Digitisation Project)
Don Carlos – “Rude Boy, Go Easy” – (LP-“Changes”) (Don Carlos)
The Afternoon Saints – “Round Trip Trinket” (LP – “Shirley Jangle”) (Kraak)
Best Coast – “Something In The Way” (EP – “Something In The Way”) (PPM)
Fred Lowry – “Sleepy Lagoon” – (LP-“Walking Along Kicking The Leaves”) (Decca)
Dillinger Escape Plan – “Farewell Mona Lisa” (download single) (Party Smasher Inc)

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3 thoughts on “When Big Joan Sets Up 11/2/09 – You just put your lips together and blow

  1. avatarAlbert

    Do you think it’s fair to say that the new Lightspeed Champion LP sound at times like Hefner and at times like The Dears? That’s not meant to be a criticism, just lazy journalistic referencing! 😉

  2. avatarPhil

    Hmm – not sure I’ll have to go back and listen to some Hefner again – as for the Dears – cheeky bastard!

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