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Yeah! Here we are again...with several consecutive MixTape submissions from other music fans for the next few weeks! The fourth MixTape this time comes from Brogues in the UK. I have always seen some of his setlists and wondered what songs he'd pick for a short MixTape and not a club setting! Lo and behold, they are quite great songs...always blurring the lines from the 60s to the 80s to our present time! My wish was that there were 30 songs instead of 20! Maybe next time?...so cheers to Brogues...and Happy Birthday too! Check out his playlist..(randomly played) Please play loud and enjoy!

What's on YOUR Tape 004 ~ No Present Like Time ~ by Brogues


Pencil Tin - "Poignant" (Quiddity) - Most people don't get to run one great label but Mike Babb has run 3: Quiddity, Drive-In and Microindie. Most people don't get to be in one great band but Andrew Withycombe has been in (at least!) 4: Pencil Tin, The Cat's Miaow, huon and Fog & Ocean. These scoundrels are just plain greedy … and talented, of course!
Katerine - "Je M'en Vais" (Rosebud) - Probably the first French indiepop band I ever heard. There used to be a great little French pop mail order called Cowly Owl who sold this kinda gear. My heart sings when the peppy little guitar line catches fire!
Daisycutters "Friends" (Accident) - This song just dropped through my letterbox this week thanks to Uncle eBay. It's on the Accident Records vinyl reissue of "Hoopla". Originally a La-di-da cassette, it also features my favourite song by The Siddeleys: "Bedlam on the Mezzanine".
Belmondo - "Goldfish And Chardonnay" (Papercut) - Pam Berry for president! I just put this on because I wanted to hear it again. It's been too long!
The Blue Aeroplanes - "Veils Of Colour" (Fire) - Poor old Blue Aeroplanes. History hasn't been especially kind to them but I still love everything that I've got by them up to and including "Beatsongs". After that I lost touch with them because my gaze turned to America after hearing Pavement and Polvo and bands of that ilk. I've always loved the "no present like time" line. It's a toss up between this and Rodney Allen's "Careful Boy" for the honour of being my favourite Aeroplanes cut.
The Would Be's - "I'm Hardly Ever Wrong" (Decoy) - John Peel's fondly remembered Radio 1 show introduced me to this fine 12". Apparently Morrissey was a fan. The vocals remind me a little of Julianne's from All About Eve but the music is so much better! I quote this song all the time when people watch a documentary or something news and say that it'll change their life. I'm surprised I haven't been slapped more often!
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - "Transparent Day" (Reprise) - For years the only things you could purchase by WCPAEB in the shops of Glasgow and Edinburgh were bootlegs (which I passed on) then finally Reprise repressed it on heavy vinyl and the world rejoiced. The Ropers' cover of this is darn fine, too.
Days - "Motion" (Shelflife) - Along with The Autocollants cd this is the best thing I've bought on Shelflife. Glasgow has a Sounds of Sweden evening and I'd love Days to play at it so that I can melt into this and 'Downhill'.
Brian - "You Don't Want A Boyfriend" (Detzi) - Ireland have won the Eurovision Song Contest a million and nine times but the irony of this is that if they'd entered this it would've got null points because the world isn't fair in any way. Again, some fantastic lyrics. "The more you give yourself away to someone the less they'll think of you" is very astute and always pops into my mind when I get a bit giddy and start divulging all sorts of embarrassing personal details.
Delphine - "Les Prisons De Sa Majeste" (Sasha Monett) - As with most folks I started with Francois Hardy and France Gall and then delved a little deeper. "Swinging Mademoiselle" is a fabulous compilation with this and Clothilde's "Saperlipopette" being the scene stealers.
April March - "Mon Ange Guardien" (Tricatel) - True the Chantal Goya version of this is unbeatable but April and Bertrand Burgalat did a mighty fine job of turning a 60s girlpop classic into something suitable for a 90s easypop club. Great sleeve, too! Additional points are awarded for being on The World's Greatest Format™: 10" vinyl.
Golden - "Don't Destroy Me" (Icerink) - It's not often that piano and bass suck me in but they did on this. Tucked away on the b-side of an Icerink Record 12" this atmospheric little Wiggs and Stanley groover was easy to overlook. Their other single for Icerink – the Jarvis Cocker penned "Wishful Thinking" – is a simply fabulous slice of perky, synthetic, danceable pop which is well worth tracking down.
Claudine Longet - "Wanderlove" (A&M) - An arrangement that can stun pigeons out of the sky! Claudine's vocals are so sweet that if you listen too much you'll need fillings.
Starpower - "Some Velvet Morning" (Visionary) - The Primitives were the first band I ever saw live. It's was years after their mid-80's season in the sun and they were on the slide commercially but they still sounded vital to my inexperienced ears. This came out shortly after they broke up and features ex-Primitives Traci and Paul in the Nancy and Lee roles. It would appear that nobody can do a bad version of this song.
The Cyrkle - "Don't Cry, No Fears, No Tears Comin' Your Way" (Columbia) - Sometimes my brain gets a little pickled. I bought this 10 years ago from Tower Records in Piccadilly thinking it was by the band who originally sang "Superman" as covered so memorably by R.E.M.. That, of course, was The Clique but I didn't feel to too much of a chump when the needle hit the groove and I heard this little topper!
The Marbles - "Go Marilee!" (Bus Stop) - The Apples In Stereo made some corking, effervescent pop in their early days. This is the best thing I've heard Robert Schneider do outside of that band. The fact that it's on Bus Stop simply adds to the charm!
Cessna - "Floating" (Jigsaw) - Way before Finland became the talk of the steamy for its out-there experimental folk bands, Cessna were turning pop heads. Radio Khartoum released their ace debut album as a super cute double 3" cd in tracing paper sleeve package which I seem to have either misplaced or lost custody of. That's the kind of the thing that keeps me up at night.
Rose Melberg and Dustin Reske - "The Love We Could've Had" (Double Agent) - What's the best birthday present anyone has ever given you? Legend has it that this song was written and recorded by Dustin for Rose's birthday one year. Sure beats the underpants and Argyle socks my granny used to give me!
The Loves - "Chelsea Girl" (Track and Field) - My friend Kris recently put the newer, slower version of this song on a cd-r for me and my heart flipped for it. It's easily the best thing I've heard by The Loves. I think the new version is slightly better but I still love the Cherry Red/El-ness of this version. They were tremendous at Indietracks last year, too.
Teenage Fanclub + Alex Chilton - "Patti Girl" (NME) - Although I read the singles reviews in WH Smith every week, I was never a regular reader of the NME so I was fortunate that my pal tipped me the wink that NME were pressing up this little smasher so I bought it that week and sent off my postal order and coupon. "Patti Girl" was originally by Garry and The Hornets (who were all very young hence the "you're only 12 years old" line! – phew!) and when Teenage Fanclub made one of their frequents visits to Radio Scotland's legendary 'Beat Patrol' show they explained to Peter Easton that they had heard it on a mixtape that Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening/K Records) made for Duglas from BMX Bandits. How exciting