Selection Box in 2010 seems to have become an inordinately fractured affair. Having been sidelined due to maleness a few weeks ago for International Women’s Day (solidarity, sisters), Selection Boxes 126 & 127 were separated by a an unscheduled hiatus due to spectacular bout of viciously violent vomiting and Olympic-standard diarrhoea. Fear not, I will spare you the gruesome details, except to say that bizarrely this stems back nearly two years ago to a visit to Ireland when I accidentally poisoned myself on a daffodil, and somehow repeating this trick a few weeks ago despite best efforts to avoid the yellowy little buggers. It takes a special type of idiot to poison yourself on a daffodil. It takes a spectacular pillock to manage to repeat the trick. Hello there.
If you want to murder me, now you know how to do it. But please don't - I have a child and a wife and a full biscuit tin.
Well, there’s much I could have covered here, what with the suicide of Sparklehorse‘s Mark Linkous and the fatal heart attack of Big Star‘s Alex Chilton. However, BCB’s musical fulcrum and all-round good egg Albert Freeman has already covered both these deaths on these pages (here for Linkous and here for Chilton) with such heartfelt erudition I think anything I would add here would be hollow by comparison. However, I would be an ingrate if I didn’t say a quick thanks to Albert for accepting an impromptu invite onto the show to fill in some of the Mark Linkous-shaped gaps in my musical knowledge.
So, I guess all there is left to do is give you all them thar records that spaced out my inane ramblings on the last two shows:
This was probably the height of cool in 1977. Probably.
Selection Box Show 126
Transmitted 15/3/2010
1. Bryan Ferry – Tokyo Joe
from: In Your Mind
2. Texas Wanderers – Sundown Blues
from: Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935 – 1947 (various artists)
3. Baby Bird – Unloveable
from: Ex-Maniac
4. Sparklehorse – Morning Hollow
from: Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
5. Har Mar Superstar featuring Samaire Armstrong – Dope, Man
from: Dark Touches
6. Joanna Newsom – Easy
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from: Have One On Me
7. Gil Scott-Heron – New York Is Killing Me
from: I’m New Here
8. Eldon Rice – Don’t Let Love Break Your Heart
from: Stomper Time 7 (various artists)
9. The Fall – Bury! Parts 2 & 4
from: Your Future Our Clutter
10. MGMT – Flash Delerium
from: Congratulations
Selection Box Show 127
Transmitted 29/3/2010
1. Big Star – Kangaroo
from: Third/Sister Lovers
2. Major Lance – Investigate
from: The Golden Age of Northern Soul Vol 2: The Golden Torch (various artists)
3. Ocie Stockard & His Wanderers – Bass Man Jive
from: Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935 – 1947 (various artists)
4. S Express – Super Fly Guy
from: Original Soundtrack
5. The Fall – Bury! Parts 2 & 4
from: Your Future Our Clutter
6. Bill Taylor – Little Jewell
from: Buffalo Bop: Rock & Roll Riot (various artists)
7. Joanna Newsom – Kingfisher
from: Have One On Me
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8. MGMT – Flash Delerium
from: Congratulations
9. Kris Drever – The Banks of the Nile
from: Mark The Hard Earth
10. El Guincho – Palmitos Park
from: Alegranza
12. Paul Weller – No Tears To Cry
from: Wake Up The Nation
12. The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home
from: Ma Fleur
13. Kath Lynn & The Playboys – I Got A Guy
from: Girls With Guitars (various artists)