From the 1940s through to the 21st Century, this week's show features nine different songs from six different decades, proving that the best music can be both of its time and timeless.
Featuring:
The Ventures - Perfidia
The Cavaliers - Hold to my Baby
The Fourmyula - Nature
The Cure - Killing an Arab
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Don't Fence Me In
Momus - Eleven Executioners
The High Fidelity - Nothing Left to Fight
Earwig - You Don't Even Come Close
Twin Roots - Know Love
Listen on the file factory player or download here
Further Listening:
The complete back catalogue of Momus albums from his period on Creation Records are currently available to download for free from Nicky Currie's own website, alongside copious notes about the recording and meanings behind the songs. Feast on these treasures here. Also highly recommended is an hour long interview with the songwriter on Cherry Red TV, which also gives a fascinating insight into the history of Creation and some of the other big independent labels of the 70s/80s. Watch it here
The High Fidelity were formed by former Soup Dragons' member Sean Dickson and released 2 albums Demonstration and The Omnichord Album in the first two years of the new millenium. John Peel played on and co-wrote one of the tracks on the band's second album. Now best known as a DJ, for the latest on what Sean Dickson is up to, check out his myspace page here
Earwig were a 3 piece band from Brighton who released two albums in the early 1990s, Under My Skin I Am Laughing and the singles collection Past, from which the track featured on this week's show comes. Subsequently two members of the band had some success with the more ambient sounding Insides project. Both Earwig albums are out of print, so searching the internet is the best way to try and track them down.
Although The Cure have had a long and successful career as one of the world's top goth bands, it's often overlooked just how good they were in their brief pre-goth phase. Debut album Three Imaginary Boys and the US version, Boys Don't Cry, contain a number of excellent pop/new wave tunes.
The wonderful Twin Roots track comes from a Lee Perry compilation Open The Gate which also featured on an earlier show and remains one of the greatest reggae compilations out there.
My copy of Nature by The Fourmyula comes from a CD compilation Kiwi Classics Volume One; the band released four albums back in the 60s/ early 70s and a compilation CD The Very Best of The Fourmyula was released by EMI NZ in 1999 and may be available on import if you search for it. The band will be playing two shows in NZ this March to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their biggest hit.
