CD 12.18: Don’t Make It Work – Our Failed Pop 1980 – 1987

01 Garda Patrol – The Statistics Keep Growing
02 The Atrix – Treasure On The Wasteland
03 The Fountainhead – The Rhythm Method
04 TV Gaga – Interlude
05 Microdisney – Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost
06 Those Nervous Animals – The Business Enterprise
07 Disaffected Youth – Look At The Charts
08 Les Enfants – Slipaway
09 Minor Detail – Canvas Of Life
10 Josephine Maxi – Wagtails In O’Connell Street
11 Auto Da Fé – November November
12 In Tua Nua – Coming Thru’
13 Complete Spanner – Individual Sound
14 Blue In Heaven – Across My Heart
15 Tuesday Blue – Tunnel Vision
16 Liam Mackey vs Anonymous – Telephone Thing
17 Light A Big Fire – Mr Twilight
18 The Blades – Ghost Of A Chance
19 Nothing To It – Emigration Interrogation
20 Brush Shiels – Old Pal

My latest compilation.

CD 11.17: The World We Knew

01 Graham Walker Sound – Crossroads (Saga LP)
02 The In-Keepers – Stirrup Cup (Morgan LP)
03 Zack Laurence Orchestra – Son Of A Preacher Man (DJM LP)
04 Franck Pourcel – Francais, Francais (Studio 2 Stereo LP)
05 Bernard Cribbins – One Man Band (Parlophone LP)
06 Sakkarin – Sugar Sugar (RCA 45)
07 Cliff Richard – Take Action (Columbia LP)
08 Julie Felix – Mad John’s Escape (Fontana LP)
09 Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent – Gotta Get Away (Columbia LP)
10 Sounds Orchestral – Shackled (Pye LP)
11 Guitars Unlimited – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (Decca Phase 4 Stereo LP)
12 James Clarke + Sounds – One Morning (Aristocrat LP)
13 Unknown – The Italian Theme (Music For Pleasure LP)
14 Cilla Black – Faded Images (Parlophone LP)
15 Brian Abbs and Nola York – Mystery Man (Longman LP)
16 Paddy Kingsland – Wombulator Rock (Studio 2 Stereo LP)
17 Sir John Betjeman – Lenten Thoughts (Charisma LP)
18 Norman Percival Orchestra – The World We Knew (Readers Digest LP)
19 José Pirata – I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles (Deram LP)
20 Kenny Everett – And Now For Another Train Number (Deram 45)

This is my entry in the Very Good Plus Christmas CD Swap for 2011.

Comments and feedback are welcome.

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CD 11.16: No Girl On The Beach

01 David Ackles – Waiting For The Moving Van
02 The Survivors – After The Game
03 Cyrus Faryar – Drivin’ Daisy
04 Beach Boys – Lonely Sea
05 Martin Denny – Return To Paradise
06 Eden Ahbez – The Island
07 John Sangster – Currumbin Bird Sanctuary
08 G Wayne Thomas – Morning Of The Earth
09 John Simon – Last Summer Theme
10 Marvin Hamlisch – Easy Four
11 The Sandals – Theme From Endless Summer
12 Beau Brummels – Magic Hollow
13 Morton Stevens – Beach Trip
14 Taman Shud – Bali Waters
15 Brian Wilson and Andy Paley – In My Moondreams
16 Dick Dale and His Deltones – Those Memories Of You
17 The Surfmen – Paradise Cove
18 Dennis Wilson – Holy Man
19 Beach Boys – It’s Over Now
20 Marvin Hamlisch – Theme From The Swimmer (Reprise)
21 Jimmy Webb – Land’s End / Asleep On The Wind

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A new compilation – a loose concept album about a man who quits domestic life for solitude but finds the loneliness too difficult to bear.

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Photograph of Dollar Bay, Co Wexford, Ireland. (c) 2010 J Stapleton.

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CD 11.15: Anyone For Tennis?

01 Mort Garson – I Know You Gemini
02 Tim Buckley – Happy Time
03 Bonnie Dobson – Good Morning Rain
04 Janis Ian – Insanity Comes Quietly To The Structured Mind
05 Labi Siffre – Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying
06 My Friends – I’m An Easy Rider
07 Cream – Anyone For Tennis
08 Cal Tjader – Wear Your Love Like Heaven
09 Norrie Paramor and The Midland Radio Orchestra – The Frightened City
10 Soulful Strings – Inner Light
11 Chim Kothari – Cast Your Fate To The Wind
12 Paul Ryan and Barry Ryan – Pictures of Today
13 Trini Lopez – Sunshine Superman / Cry Like A Baby
14 Paul Jones – Aquarius
15 France Gall – Nous Ne Sommes Pas Des Anges
16 Alma Cogan – I Know
17 Kiki Dee – The Day Will Come Between Sunday And Monday
18 Abdullah – I Comma Zimba Zio
19 Donovan – Riki Tiki Tavi
20 The MGs – Jamaica, This Morning
21 The Bar-Kays – Midnight Cowboy
22 Lee Hazlewood – You Look Like A Lady
23 Enoch Light and The Light Brigade – Hot Pants
24 Botticelli and His Orchestra – T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)
25 Lalo Schifrin – Most Wanted Theme
26 Michel Legrand – Magic Concorde’s Bird
27 Slade – Kill ‘Em At The Hot Club Tonite
28 The Association – Dartmouth? Dartmouth!
29 The B-52s – Harparella

A new compilation for the summer. Hope you like it.

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