Category Archives: Carl’s living room

#512

March 29, 2022

Carl’s living room series means vinyl LP tracks played on a real turntable in real time – a bunch here. We start with prog rock, move to private press, Dutch reggae, Texas reggae… Ramones reggae. Many surprises, all held together by an invisible thread that runs through my mind and into the selections. Hope you enjoy!

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Fruupp	Annie Austere	The Prince Of Heaven’s Eyes	Music On Vinyl
Screed	Sucker In Love	Point Of Confusion	Canned Music
Doe Maar	Is Dit Alles	Doris Day En Andere Stukken	Music On Vinyl
Melody Beecher	Illusions	Illusions	Shella Records
Bobby Ramone	I Don’t Wanna Stand Up	Rocket To Kingston	Pinhead Records
The Rubinoos	Walk Don’t Run	The CBS Tapes	Yep Roc Records
Bernard Jolink	Bad Luck Swamp	Post Normaal	Music On Vinyl
Geraint Watkins & The Dominators	Man Smart Women Smarter	Geraint Watkins & The Dominators	Jungle Records
Dr. John, The Night Tripper	Where Ya At Mule	The Sun Moon & Herbs	Run Out Groove
Nikki Sudden • Johnny Fean • Simon Carmody	Dead Man’s Shoes	The Last Bandits In The World	Seventeen Records
George Baker Selection	I Wanna Love You	Little Green Bag	Music On Vinyl

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Anthony Moore	The River	OUT	Drag City
Kip Carmen	Uptown Lady	Just For Tonight	Long Island Sounds Records
The Nightingales	It Lives Again!	Pigs On Purpose	Call Of The Void
Versus	Seaweed Rising	Let’s Electrify!	Teenbeat
Martin Thulin	Not Afraid To Die	Into The Light	Empty Music
Japan	In-Vogue	Quiet Life	BMG
O Yuki Conjugate	Alia Ma	Peyote	B.F.E Records
Gerhard Heinz	Cheaters Theme	Library Music	Private Records
Soursob	Blow	Soursob	HoZac Records
Cha Cha Guitri	Hymne Au Confort…	French Synth Wave – St Etienne – 1981	Born Bad Records
Cha Cha Guitri	Jonque Chinoise	French Synth Wave – St Etienne – 1981	Born Bad Records

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March 22, 2022

Carl’s living room week 2 of 7 – LP tracks played in real time from physical copies on a turntable. I love every track here (by definition), but urge you to be sure to hear the ALRN (early Scott Miller of Game Theory) and The Students, a one-off French band that should have more ears on them, current band Johnny! And the non-LP Tom Verlaine track ‘Call Me The’ – very glad to bring every track in this show to you.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
ALRN	The New You	Painted Windows	Rational Records
Richard And Linda Thompson	I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight	I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight	Island Records
Martha Veléz	It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry	Fiends & Angels	Real Gone Music
Teenage Fanclub	Warm Embrace	Endless Arcade	Merge Records
Teenage Fanclub	Everything Is Falling Apart	Endless Arcade	Merge Records
The Wrens	I’ve Made Enough Friends	Secaucus	Craft Recordings
The Wrens	Luxury	Secaucus	Craft Recordings
Vulcans	Journey Into Space	Star Trek	Real Gone Music
Creation Rebel	Rebel Rouser	Dub From Creation	On-U Sound
Vulcans	Dracula	Star Trek	Real Gone Music
Creation Rebel	Mirage	Dub From Creation	On-U Sound
Tyla Gang	No Roses	Moonproof	Beserkley
Scientists	Self Doubt	9H₂O.SiO₂	In The Red Recordings
Sundowners	Liquidized	Gnome & Glacier	Dirt Cult Records
The Students	Students In Summer	Students In Summer	Les Masques
Subway Sect	Commercial Suicide Man	Moments Like These	Gnu Inc. Recordings

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Sopwith Camel	Fazon	The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon	Real Gone Music
Magma	Köhntarkösz (Part 2)	BBC 1974 Londres	Music On Vinyl
The Schwartz-Fox Blues Crusade	Ninety Nine	Sunday Morning Revival	Smog Veil Records
The Butterfield Blues Band	Love March	Keep On Moving	Elektra
Johnny!	I’m Gone	Karl Hector Presents: Johnny!	Now-Again Records
Tom Verlaine	Call Me The	Cry Mercy Judge	Fontana
Coven	Don’t Call Me	Blood On The Snow	Real Gone Music
Fuzzy Duck	Afternoon Out	Fuzzy Duck	Be With Records
Hampton Grease Band	Evans	Music To Eat	Real Gone Music

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March 15, 2022

Carl’s living room returns – we listen to LP tracks spun on vinyl in real time, no real pattern or rules – just listening to some tunes as if you were in my living room with me. The Pussywillows is early April March. The Chord Rockers are a one-off collaboration between Bostons Unnatural Axe and Italy’s The Nasties. There is a run of hard rock tracks in the middle that will appeal to anyone that grew up to Grand Funk or Deep Purple, but wants to go deeper (WAY deeper…). The Beachwood Sparks track just won’t leave my head, and I am glad to play one 7″ track at the end (had to find a track to fit the time remaining) and bring you a cut from the one and only To Damascus 7″.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Pussywillows	The Boat That I Row	Spring Fever!	Telstar Records
Les Lou’s	Back In The Street	Wild Fire	Cameleon Records
John Du Cann	Where’s The Show	The World’s Not Big Enough	Just Add Water
The Chord Rockers	Candy Going Bad	Salaria	Surfin’ KI Records
The Gordons	Right On Time	The Gordons	1972
De Brassers	Neo VII (Lean On Me)	1979 – 1982	OnderStroom Records
The Charlottes	Keep Me Down	Lovehappy	Radiation Reissues
The Bonecollectors	Lucretia, My Reflection	Bone To Bone	Missing Fink Records
The Bonniwell Music Machine	Double Yellow Line	The Bonniwell Music Machine	Real Gone Music
Billy Fury	Phone Box (The Monkey’s In The Jam Jar)	Three Saturdays With Billy	Top Sounds Records
Eclipse	Slave Driver	Garland Records: Pacific Northwest Pandora’s BoxEclipse (81)– Slave Driver	BeatRocket
Hector	Wired Up	Demolition (The Wired Up World Of Hector)	Radiation Reissues

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Raven	Raven Mad Jam	Back To Ohio Blues	Permanent Records
Barnabus	Morning Dew	Beginning To Unwind	Rise Above Relics
Deniz Tek	Dead If Looks Could Kill	Take It To The Vertical	Wild Honey Records
Aerosmith	Intro – Somebody	1971 (The Road Starts Hear)	UMe
Beachwood Sparks	Desert Skies	Beachwood Sparks	Curation Records
The Bluebells	Aim In Life	Sisters	Past Night From Glasgow
April March	Elinor Blue	In Cinerama	Une Vie
Cherie Currie	Rock & Roll Oblivion	Blvds Of Splendor	Blackheart Records
Ducks Ltd.	Fit To Burst	Modern Fiction	Carpark Records
Richard Lloyd	Fire Engine	Fire Engine	Celluloid
Raven	Don’t You Feel It	Back To Ohio Blues	Permanent Records
To Damascus	On A Pier	Another Place, Another Time	Ringent Records

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December 28, 2021

The second week of Carl’s living room. We are listening to vinyl LP tracks in no particular order or plan, just playing tracks as if we were sitting together listening to records. Two bands I have know about for ages but never really checked out are back-to-back: Sharks and Love Spit Love. The former is Chris Spedding and Andy Fraser, and the later is Richard Butler post The Furs. A few weeks ago in the alphabetical 7″ series we hear 4 Skins and Golden Starlet. Here they appear from non-7″: 4 Skins from a 12″ (their only other release) and Golden Starlet from the anthology LP. We have 3 instances of famous folks outside of their normal orbits. Big Star’s Alex Chilton in a New Orleans cover band, Mark Sandman playing outside of Morphine in Hypnosonics, and Duff McKagan in pre-G’n’R band The Living. Robert Gordon has Tish & Snooky doing background vocals on The Catman (an ode to Gene Vincent), and a couple of unknowns (Mother Trucker and Noah) pull their weight with the company they sit in. Good stuff.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Alex Chilton and Hi Rhythm Section	Big Boss Man	Boogie Shoes: Live On Beale Street	Omnivore Recordings
Bob Mould	Baby Needs a Cookie	Blue Hearts	Merge Records
BMX Bandits	Do You Really Love Me ?	Star Wars	Last Night From Glasgow
Love Spit Love ‎	Friends	Trysome Eatone	Real Gone Music
Sharks	Snakes And Swallowtails	First Water	MCA Records
Dr. John, The Night Tripper	Loop Garoo	Remedies	Get On Down
Eighth Route Army	Daily Beat	Nihilist Olympics	1 Dimensional Records
4 Skins	(I Said) Ugh!	White Neighborhood	Beatnote Records
Tav Falco	La Brigantessa	Club Car Zodiac	Org Music
The Feelies	Original Love	Crazy Rhythms	Bar/None Records
Robert Gordon	The Catman	Rock Billy Boogie	RCA
Golden Starlet	Hot Stuff	Token Gadgy	Paroxysm
Gruntruck	Tribe	Push	Real Gone Music
Jesse Hector	It’s You	It Ain’t Easy 1992-1996	Just Add Water
The Higsons	Run Me Down (instrumental)	Run Me Down	Two-Tone Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Hypnosonics	Rub It In	Someone Stole My Shoes: Beyond The Q Division Sessions	Modern Harmonic
Jaklin	Look For Me Baby	Jaklin	Morgan Blue Town
The Paul Collins Beat	On The Highway	Another World (The Best Of The Archives)	Alive Records
NRBQ	You Can’t Change People	Dragnet	Omnivore Recordings
Nervous Eaters	Last Chance	Eaterville #2	Penniman Records
King’s X	Smudge	Please Come Home…Mr. Bulbous	Svart Records
Neon Christ	After	1984	Southern Lord
The Living	Two Generation Stand	1982	Loosegroove Records
The Lipstick Killers	Shakedown USA	Strange Flash – Studio & Live ’78-81	Grown Up Wrong!
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers	The Same Way	A Hard Road	Sundazed Music
Mother Trucker	Rock N’ Roll Lady	Mother Trucker	Sundazed Music
Jobriath	Ooh La La	Creatures Of The Street	Elektra
Noah	We Wanna Be Free (Demo)	Brain Suck	Guerssen
The Legendary Pink Dots	Blacklist	The Golden Age	Metropolis

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December 21, 2021

Carl’s living room is the latest Gulls Window Circus series, and the loosest – join me as I just plain listen to records with the recorder on. This week is all vinyl, all LP tracks. It starts with a track from Raybeat’s unappreciated ‘The Lost Philip Glass Sessions’. NYC band Sorrows’ ‘Love Too Late’ LP, which THEY didn’t appreciate, gets re-recorded 40 years later and redeemed as ‘Love Too Late... The Real Album’. Mark Wirtz in his 1970 band The Matchmakers bring goodness, as do Crazy Horse, with the humbly titled but incredible sounding ‘Your Song.’ That track gets followed by a Somerville MA contemporary artist that nails the Crazy Horse spirit – Doug Tuttle. Other Boston area treasures [Turbines, Richie Parsons] bring joy. 80’s NYC bands Steel Tips, Glorious Strangers and Details At Eleven bring me back to my childhood, as does the live Cure track from their first NYC appearance ‘Live At Hurrah, NYC, 15 April 1980’. Also bringing me back, though not as far, is the Versus ‘Let’s Electrify!’ reissue which we hear a track from.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Raybeats	1.2 Girls	The Lost Philip Glass Sessions	Ramp Local
The Shadracks	No Time	From Human Like Forms	Damaged Goods
Sorrows	So Much Love	Love Too Late... The Real Album	Big Stir Records
The Matchmakers	Turn Me On	Bubble Gum A Gogo	Sundazed
Crazy Horse	Your Song	At Crooked Lake	Epic
Doug Tuttle	Bruised & Bothered	Pinecone	Wild Honey Records
The Last Words	Walk Away	Animal World	Papagájův Hlasatel Records
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF	Come Into My Life	Where The Wild Purple Iris Grows	Damaged Goods
Teenage Filmstars	Some Times Good Guys Don’t Follow Trends	(There’s A) Cloud Over Liverpool	Munster Records
The Fabulous Courettes	Edge Of My Nerves	Back In Mono	Damaged Goods
Turbines	Hangin’ Tough	Last Dance Before Highway	Big Time
Steel Tips	Unka Puk	Steel Tips	Phantom Plaything
Glorious Strangers	Deception	Glorious Strangers	Fun City Records
Greg Prevost	Snowblind Friend	Songs For These Times	Mean Disposition
Details At Eleven	In Your Teeth	Details At Eleven	Dossier
Details At Eleven	Place To Park	Details At Eleven	Dossier

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Hot Tuna	Funky #7	America’s Choice	Friday Music
Sheila Rickards Meets King Tubby	The Dub Station	Jamaican Fruit Of African Roots	Shella Records
Focus	Harem Scarem (Single Version)	Singles, Deep Cuts & BBC Live	Music On Vinyl
The Psychedelic Furs	Wrong Train	Made Of Rain	Cooking Vinyl
The Cure	A Forest	Live At Hurrah, NYC, 15 April 1980	Deaf Youth Industries
The Crazies	Flipper	A Simple Vision	Optic Nerve Recordings
Screamers	Punish Or Be Damned	Demo Hollywood 1977	Superior Viaduct
Sportique	Cerebral Vortex	Modern Museums	Where It’s At Is Where You Are
Lilys	The Sammael Sea	Better Can’t Make Your Life Better	Sundazed Music
Richie Parsons	When Fall Begins	Honey And Tears	Lawless Records
The Wrens	Surprise, Honeycomb	Secaucus	Craft Recordings
Versus	That Girl’s Gone	Let’s Electrify!	Teenbeat
The Zombies	The Way I Feel Inside	I Love You	Craft Recordings