North Fork Sound Top 20 - May 23rd 2010

Jason Pierce, Alan Vega
Suicide dressing room, Hammersmith Apollo
London, May 3 '10
photo: ht

1.= Spiritualized: Broken Heart
1.= Suicide: Girl
3. Ray Charles: In The Heat Of The Night
4. Lorraine Ellison: I'll Be Home
5. John Lydon: Dog
6. Danny Dell & The Trends: Froggy
7. Sara Hickman: Before You Change Your Mind
8. JJ Cale: Since You Said Goodbye
9. Ray Wylie Hubbard: Drunken Poet's Dream
10. Ed Sanders: Some FEMA Trailers In Hope
11. Kim Simmonds: North Country Town
12. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Dog On The Run
13. Richard Lloyd: There She Goes Again
14. Sinner DC: Glass Alley (360/Patrice Baümel & Nunos Dos Santos Remix)
15. Brinsley Schwarz: Don't Ever Change
16. ZZ Top: Heard It On The X
17. Leslee 'Bird' Anderson w/Danny Gatton: Little Jonah
18. Al Kooper: Making Plans For Nigel
19. The Stooges: 1969 (alt. vocal)
20. Jackie Moore: Both Ends Against The Middle

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week
Buddy Holly: Not Fade Away
The Complete Studio Recordings And More

North Fork Sound Legend Of The Month
The Pretty Things

Last Week's Listener Favourites

Bill Kirchen w/Dan Hicks: Word To The Wise
Chris Farlowe: It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Chris Hillman: Eight Miles High
Christine Ohlman: A Shot Of You
Dave Berry: Don't Give Me No Lip Child
David Allan Coe: Death Row
Ed Sanders: Some FEMA Trailers In Hope
Elvis Costello: Sulphur To Sugarcane
Eric Burdon & War: Spill The Wine
Isaac Hayes: Theme From Shaft
Jeri Bo Keno: Here It Comes (And Here I Go Again)
Kim Weston: Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While)
Kris Kristofferson: Enough For You
Mary Gauthier: Jackie's Train
Miles Davis: All Blues

Bobby Gillespie, Alan Vega
Suicide dressing room,The Garage, London N5, November 2000
photo: ht

Primal Scream: Country Girl

Randall Bramblett: Queen Of England
Roky Erickson & The Aliens: Creature With The Atom Brain
Rupert Holmes: Studio Musician
The Rolling Stones: Pass The Wine (Sophia Loren)
The Rolling Stones: Tumbling Dice
The Records: Starry Eyes
Shpongle: No Turn Un-Stoned
Stevie Wonder: Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Will Bradley Trio: Down The Road Apiece

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22 Pistepirkko

The mail brought 3 cds from Finland today - the latest from 22 Pistepirkko, "(Well You Know) Stuff Is Like We Yeah!", their first EP "Ou Wee!" and "Monochromeset" by their cover version alter-egos, The Others which, quite brilliantly, opens with a rare Ray Davies classic "This Strange Effect". Somewhere in the back of my mind, I have a nagging feeling I might have brought this song to their manager, Tiina, a long time ago but don't take my word for it. Those days are hazy and I could be imagining it. I suggested this song to a few people back in the early 90s. Anyway, they do a terrific version (likely to chart next week!) and I'm going to enjoy listening to the rest of the package over the next few days. I once went to Helsinki to see 22P and they were fantastic. Lovely people, too. I did all the usual tourist stuff. Ate venison, drank lager, bought Stones bootlegs. They liked all the right music (Buddy, Beefheart, the blues, the Velvet Underground) and managed to sound like nothing I'd ever heard, then or since. I saw them in Amsterdam (they were good) and when they came to NYC in 91 to play a "Finland Rocks" night at CBGBs for the New Music Seminar, they managed to sound lost and out of place. Somehow that night, they couldn't find the magic and I couldn't persuade Elektra to open the chequebook. Too bad. They've released a series of wonderful records since the late 80's and regular listeners will recognize songs like "Swamp Blues", "Texacoson", "Birdy","Frankenstein", "Don't Play Cello", "Don't Say I'm So Evil", "This Time" and "Rally Of Love" when they hear them. Suicide's Martin Rev told me last month that he did some work on "Swamp Blues" so if anybody out there has a spare copy of their (now deleted) remix album, "Zipcode", let me know how much.