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This mix was a special order kind of deal. Don't normally like to create them this long (attendant worries over sequencing and flow, etc.), but hey, whatever.

1. T-Rex: Prelude [1:05]
2. Liars - Freak Out [2:30]
3. Hüsker Dü - Chartered Trips [3:39]
4. Stephen Malkmus - Ramp of Death [2:37]
5. The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [3:17]
6. The Grifters - #1 [1:17]
7. Brian Eno - Backwater [3:44]
8. Allroh - In Rostock [4:41]
9. Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel [4:21]
10. Silkworm - Plain [3:55]
11. Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band - Mother Midnight [4:10]
12. Camper Van Beethoven - Wasted [1:55]
13. Monster Movie - Letting You Know [3:59]
14. Tom Verlaine - Coming Apart [3:00]
15. Lali Puna - Left Handed [3:44]
16. Spiritualized - Shine A Light [7:16]
17. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl [4:20]
18. Kevin Shields - Outro [2:39]

This was really meant to be a top 100, but when my girlfriend and I pulled together an initial "long list" a few weeks ago, that was way beyond 300 songs. So 200 it is, simply as I have far too much to even try and cull it further. There are things missing, I'm sure - I'll have committed a cardinal sin somewhere and have neglected one of my favourite bands, no doubt! - but then there a few deliberately missing as it will be easier to deal with them in the albums list, as I simply cannot pick a particular song. Anyway, here are the first forty (split over two posts), and to avoid stretching this out into sometime next year I'll be posting the next forty on Friday.

200
The Sisters of Mercy
Ribbons (video)
Vision Thing
1990

They might be the ultimate goth cliché nowadays, but it's easy to forget that Andrew Eldritch's band did many, many classic goth tracks. Aside from some of the more obvious tracks, though, it has been this track that I have loved the most for a good many years. …

It's time to delve into what is now some of the outer reaches of my music collection for this week's TT. Indeed, into a genre that I rarely buy anything from anymore - indie bands. And this one is in a slightly different format to usual, too - click on the Key Tracks links to find video links/track samples. Other suggestions for bands I may have missed welcome. So, here goes:

The mid-90s was not only a time of boorish, boozed-up "Cool Britannia" Britpop bands - it was also a time of seemingly limitless invention from some bands who might be considered to be a little more at the margins - but even so still notched up some respectable success.

Spiritualized: A band that had a brief moment in the full glare of the press, with the release of the extraordinary Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - a staggering career peak that Jason Pierce (and whoever he has in his band this year) will never top in any number of lifetimes of trying. The rest of their catalogue - hardly bad - pales in comparison. …

It doesn't matter how many times I listen to it.
I will never get tired of Lazer Guided Melodies. Never, I tell you - never.

Still shitty weather here. I know, it's utterly Swedish to complain about the weather. But it sort of takes away all of my energy.

Still, this Saturday has been better than I thought it would be. No fight, sleep pattern intact etc.

I know that I should be working on my thesis, but I just can't bring myself to spend half a day on trying to grasp /interpret my supervisor's blury handwriting. Sod it.


Shine A Light

by the irreverend J Spaceman is offically now the greatest song of all time!

Tip - try to find the alternative mix of the version on Lazer Guided Melodies (eh, Soulseek)!
Shine A Light