North Fork Sound Top 20 - July 18th 2010

M.I.A.

1. M.I.A: Born Free
2. Patto: Sugar Cube 1967
3. HTRK: Rentboy
4. Peaches: Jonny
5. Yvonne Fair: It Should Have Been Me
6. The Rutles: Eine Kleine Middle Classe Music
7. Gillian Welch: Paper Wings
8. Mother Earth: Jesse
9. Dynamoe: Clowns And Prophets, Bitches And Backers
10. Chris Isaak: Wicked Game (live)
11. Dwight Yoakum: Give Back The Key To My Heart
12. Anthony Moore: Dreams Of His Laughter
13. Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Chris Barber: Midnight Special
14. Scotty Moore: Don't
15. Desmond Dekker & The Aces: The Israelites
16. John Brannen: Hoodoo Highway
17. The Small Faces: The Universal
18. The Jesus And Mary Chain: About You
19. V.A.S.T: Pretty When You Cry (Trailermen Electro Bump mix)
20. Naked Orchestra: Brief Repairs On The Gradually Unraveling Spool In The Sense Continuum

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week

Jimmy Vaughan: Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites

North Fork Sound Legend Of The Month
Doug Sahm

Last Week's Listener Favourites

Aaron Neville: Jailhouse
The Action: I'll Keep On Holding On
Adam Ant: High Heels In High Places
Alabama 3: Ain't Goin' To Goa
Albert Lee: Country Gentleman
Allen Toussaint: Bright Mississippi

Clare Grogan/Altered Images
The Venue, London - Jan '82
photo: Alan Short

Altered Images: Dead Pop Stars
Amy Rigby: All I Want
Andy Fairweather Low: One More Rocket
The Big Three: What'd I Say (live)

Billy Bragg
photo: ht

Billy Bragg: Must I Paint You A Picture
Blind Faith: Presence of The Lord
Blind Willie Johnson: Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Ice Rose
The Deltamatics: Hold Your Mouth Right
Dennis Linde: DR-31
Detroit: Rock & Roll
Dorothy Moore: Misty Blue
Doug Sahm: Huggin' Thin Air
Doug Sahm: Poison Love
Drumbo: Bus Ticket Outa Town
Flywheel: I've Got Time
The Fugs: Kill For Peace
George Jackson: Aretha Play One For Me
Geraint Watkins: Unto You
Happy Mondays: W.F.L. (Think About The Future mix)
If: I'm Reaching Out On All Sides
The Inmates: Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie
Jackie Brenston: Rocket 88
James Brown: I'm A Greedy Man
John Cale: I Keep A Close Watch On This Heart Of Mine
Johnny Dynell & New York 88: Jam Hot (Rhumba Rock)
Johnny Rivers & His LA Boogie Band: Barefootin'
Laurie Anderson: Strange Perfumes
Leon Russell: Big Lips
Lonnie Mack: Wham!
Los Lobos: It Didn't Even Bring Me Down
Lou Reed: Sad Song
Loudon Wainwright III: New Paint

Martin Rev
photo: ht

Martin Rev: Baby Oh Baby
Mem Shannon: You Ain't Nothing Nice
MX-80 Sound: Someday You'll Be King
Neil Young: The Painter
New Power Generation: Black MF In The House
The New York Dolls: Ridiculous
Peter C Johnson: I Can't Paint For You
Pink Floyd: Paint Box
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band feat. Dr. John: Winin' Boy Blues

The Prissteens
I.I.W.I.I. Studios, Weehawken, NJ
photo: ht

The Prissteens: Run Back To You
The Pulsars: Tunnel Song
The Ramones: Needles And Pins
The Records: Paint Her Face
The Rolling Stones: Faraway Eyes
Richard Berry & The Pharoahs: Louie Louie
Ry Cooder: Little Sister
Sierra Leone's Refugee Allstars: Jah Come Down
Sir Douglas Quintet: Backwood's Girl
Sir Douglas Quintet: Huggin' Thin Air
Skip McDonald: Hammerhead
Solomon Burke: Dreams
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Wall Of Denial
Sugar Minott: Rub A Dub
Tim Buckley: Sweet Surrender
Todd Rundgren: Bang The Drum All Day
Unit Four Plus Two: Concrete And Clay
Wreckless Eric: Joe Meek

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Suicide again

Suicide

Suicide

Suicide: 'Wipeout Beat'
Alan Vega: vocals
Martin Rev: electronics
Deitch Projects, Wooster St, NYC
February 22 '02

Martin Rev

Martin Rev
signed manuscript

Bruce Springsteen, Suicide

Last night I dreamed Alan Vega cycled past my car's open window (in the rain) wearing a turqoise, red and black striped wooly rasta hat and shouted "Juicers!" at me.
I think that, and the 10" limited edition import that arrived today (Blast First Petite, UK) warrants a "dream" play-list next week.

Martin Rev

Martin Rev (Suicide)
Blarney Stone, NYC
June 22 '08

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.

Suicide: Live '77-'78

For those that just can't get enough Suicide, Blast First Petite has just released a 6 cd box containing 13 shows recorded the year (or so) following the release of their classic debut. Some of the shows were recorded by me directly onto cassette, some by Eric Maché. Both of us were fans and recorded while standing in the audience. All the shows were mixed by Marty Thau and/or Charles Ball. Venues represented here include Max's Kansas City, the Palladium & CBGB's (NYC), The Music Machine (London), Eric's (Liverpool), Anciennes Belgiques (Brussels), the Olympia (Paris), Audiomax (Hamburg) and Kant Kino (Berlin).
Last Sunday afternoon, a group of people gathered downtown to celebrate Alan Vega's birthday (6/23). Folks flew in from Finland, London, and came from all over to be there. It was a pleasure seeing Alan looking so happy, surrounded by his family, Marty Rev, friends, peers and admirers.

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it. - AV

Alan Vega
Lower Manhattan, NY
June 22nd '08

"Suicide - The Future Of Music Since 1975..."

Suicide
Club Europa, Brookyn, May 15th '08

...that's what the voice said over the PA as Alan & Marty left the stage last night. The crowd clamored for more and a good 7 or 8 minutes later, the guys blessed us by playing 'Staying Alive' and a beautiful down-tempo piece straight outa the 50s probably called 'I Love You' for the encore.
It didn't used to be like that, as anyone checking out their "Live '77-'78" box set will hear. Sets used to end early and occasionally bloody. Sometimes they'd be ducking hurled objects (coins, shoes, chairs, the occasional axe) or fending off irate audience members. In Brussels, a mic was stolen right out of Alan's hand to curtail the set. Back then, the band would have to endure no end of abuse, humiliation, spit, violence and hatred just to be heard. Shame, really, because their underlying message is really about living. And love. That was then. Now, Suicide is on the top of their game and the audience loves them back.

Alan Vega, Martin Rev