Category Archives: CD spinnin’

#701

November 18, 2025

A Gulls Window Circus rock show that completes the recent run of CD rock shows before starting a new 8 week series ‘The 2000s’ next week. Aside from carefully chosen tracks by artists/bands we know, I dug out a few very under-the-radar discs by Gutterboy , ESS, Hellpop, and Johnny Barnes. They are fun to hear, but the main tracks are where the gold lies. The Ramones covering The Animals, Pale Man Made from Newcastle, Überhund from California, and a lot of others including among others Tin Machine, Harlan T. Bobo, The Rosslyns, Torn Sail, and The Stroppies.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Malcolm Ross With The Delancy St. Group And The Magic Clan	Home Street	Low Shot	The Bus Stop Label
The Mystery Trend	Carl Street	So Glad I Found You	Big Beat Records
The Honey Pot	Almost Exactly Beautiful	Inside The Whale	Mega Dodo
Lloyd Meadows	False Senses	Oxford Synthesiser Club	The Beautiful Music
The Stroppies	Sad Sorry Soul	Look Alive	Tough Love Records
Joe Kafka	First Down In The Serengeti	Too Young For The Blues	Harriet Records
Holiday	Just Follow	Cafe Reggio	spinART Records
Kevin Rowland	Rag Doll	My Beauty	Cherry Red
Mazolewski / Porter	Six Feet Under	Philosophia	Wydawnictwo Agora
Thin White Rope	Ruby Sea	When Worlds Collide	Munster Records
Russ Tolman	Do You Like The Way	Goodbye El Dorado	Lost Records
Harlan T. Bobo	Sirens	A History of Violence	Goner Records
Hellpop	Tin Can Honeymoon	Penny Dreadful	Waterproof Fish Records
The Goops	Change Your Mind	Lucky	Warner Music Group
Johnny Dowd	Shack	Homemade Pie	Mother Jinx Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Rosslyns	There’s Always Next Year	All We Ever Did Was Try	Harriet Records
Überhund	The Referee	Terrible Obstacles	Cream Cloud Records
Johnny Barnes	I Got Plans for You	Plan B from Outer Space	Nightcrawler
Ramones	When I Was Young	Acid Eaters	Radioactive
Torn Sail	Consider Your Position	The Horizon Is On The Horizon	Delia Recordings
Bonnie Dobson	The Bonnie Lass Of Kenmore Town	Dear Companion	Big Beat Records
Everything But The Girl	Troubled Mind	Amplified Heart	Atlantic
Mark Fry	Down Narrow Streets	Dreaming With Alice	Now-Again Reserve
ESS	Rossfield	Rossfield	ESS
The Ferocious Few	Crying Shame	Juices	Birdman Records
Pale Man Made	Fluoride	Inchberry Sweet Rocket	Pinch Records
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin	Suave And Suffocated	Are You Normal?	Chaos
Gutterboy	A Rainy Day On Mulberry St.	A Rainy Day On Mulberry St.	DGC
Tin Machine	Amlapura	Tin Machine II	Victory

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November 11, 2025

A Gulls Window Circus rock show that starts off in a pop melodic mode, then has a brief foray into Downtown art scene rock, before settling on punky stuff that keeps the melodies strong even as the loudness goes up. Special attention to the Angel Corpus Christi cover of Theme From Taxi Driver, Robert Gordon’s Eddie Cochran cover, Chris Stamey’s Beach Boys cover, Jeff Dahl’s Dead Boys cover (and Dead Boys themselves with the Cheetah Chrome mix of Big City), The Damned’s version of Help, Eddie And The Hot Rods with MC5’s Rob Tyner as lead vocalist, Peter Bagge’s band Can You Imagine?, Defunkt’s track In The Good Times, and the Dictators/BOC-related band David Roter Method.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Flames	Fine Line	The Flames	Hit Records
Artful Dodger	Think Think	The Complete Columbia Recordings	Real Gone Music
The Hollywood Stars	Sleeping Giant	Starstruck	Sioux
Can You Imagine?	Steve Says	Can You Imagine?	Can You Imagine?
The Social Icons	Stay	I’m There…You’re Here	The Beautiful Music
The Mommyheads	Race Car Brain	No Quietus	Fanfar!
Chris Stamey	Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)	Anything Is Possible	Label 51 Recordings
Roy Moller	Belong	Hindsight	The Beautiful Music
Dream Unit	A Drop In The Ocean	All The Young Droids – Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985	NIGHT SCHOOL
Defunkt	In The Good Times	Defunkt+ Thermonuclear Sweat+	Hannibal Records
Dog Eat Dog	Rollover	Dog Eat Dog	Claremont 56
The Flying Lizards	The Window	The Flying Lizards / Fourth Wall	RPM retrodisc
Crushed Butler	High School Dropout	Uncrushed: First Punks From The British Underground 1969-1971	RPM Records
Jeff Dahl	Ain’t Nothin’ To Do	I Kill Me	Triple X Records
The Damned	Help	The Stiff Singles 1976-1977	Castle Music
Dawson	Chuckleberry	Cheese Market	Gruff Wit Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Dead Boys	Big City	3rd Generation Nation	Bad Boy Records
Debris’	One Way Spit	Debris’	Anopheles
Dicks	Sidewalk Begging	These People	Alternative Tentacles
The Dictators	Weekend	Go Girl Crazy!	Epic
David Roter Method	Coney Island Baby	Find Something Beautiful	Unknown Tongue Music
Dim Stars	Monkey	Dim Stars	Caroline Records
Ian Dury & The Blockheads	Sweet Gene Vincent	Warts ‘N’ Audience (Live: 22 December 1990.)	Demon Records
The Hammersmith Gorillas	Shame Shame Shame	Gorilla Got Me	Big Beat Records
Angel Corpus Christi	Theme From Taxi Driver / New York New York	The 80’s	Gulcher Records
Robert Gordon	Twenty Flight Rock	Black Slacks	Bear Family Records
The Flatmates	Turning You Blue	Heaven Knows	The Subway Organization
Gruppo Sportivo	Rock ‘n Roll	Back To 19 Mistakes	Ariola
Eddie And The Hot Rods	Till The Night Is Gone (Let’s Rock)	Life On The Line	Captain Oi!
Hard-Ons	Sorry	Hard-Ons & The Celibate Rifles – Where The Wild Things Are	Festival Records
The Gizmos	Mean Screen	1976/1977: The Studio Recordings	Gulcher Records
Eater	My Business	The Album	Anagram Records

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November 4, 2025

A CD rock Gulls Window Circus show that further (yes, Further is played) digs out stuff I only have access to on CD. Aside from me loving all the tracks here, I want to draw attention to Richie Parson’s recent Eater cover, Uberhund, who take the art of the whammy bar to new levels, The Nettelles that have two members of the 80s band Sally Skull, 45 Grave, who I have recently been enjoying in conjunction with my re-discovery of TSOL, Good Rats, a 70s band from my native Long Island that I knew about but never heard till recently, ESG from their 2002 reunion CD that sounds great today, Benett that used to front Charles Brown Superstar, and Mats Wawa, a contemporary Norwegian band that I love all releases of, and hope their new digital-only album gets a physical release.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Lmnop	Disappear	LMNO3 Deluxe	Think Like A Key Music
Julian Cope	You Gotta Keep Your Halfwits About You	Friar Tuck	Head Heritage
Richie Parsons	Outside View	Rhymes With Rock	RUM BAR Records
Überhund	No Fur	The Tarp	Isota Records
The Nettelles	You Better Go	Do You Believe In…	Back To Beat Records
Greg ‘Stackhouse’ Prevost	Get Myself Home	Mississippi Murderer	Mean Disposition
The Gun Club	Bad Indian (Alternate Version)	Fire Of Love	Blixa Sounds
Holly Golightly	Run Cold	Painted On	Sympathy For The Record Industry
Certain General	Red Ledge	Signals From The Source	CBGB
Wojciech Mazolewski	Czas Odrodzenia	Yugen 2 Jestem	WMQ Records
Giant Sand	Romance Of Falling	Ramp	Fire Records
Gala Drop	Ital	Gala Drop	GDRecords
Rank And File	Rank And File (Alternate Version)	Chip & Tony Kinman – Sounds Like Music	Omnivore Recordings
JODI	Take Me Higher	Pop Espontáneo (Homemade Psychedelic Funk & Fuzz-pop From Paraguay, 1969 – 1975)	Out-Sider
45 Grave	Insurance From God	Sleep In Safety	Real Gone Music
Josef K	Heart Of Song	Endless Soul	Marina Records
The Saints	Take This Heart Of Mine	Prehistoric Sounds	EMI

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions	Cut Me Down	1984-1989	Capitol Records
Fanny Walked The Earth	One	Fanny Walked The Earth	Blue Élan Records
Fotomaker	Name Of The Game	The Fotomaker Collection	Rhino Records
Band Of Outsiders	The Graveyard	Sound Beach Time	Hanky Panky Records
Mud Boy & The Neutrons	Codine	They Walk Among Us	Koch International
Good Rats	Tasty	Tasty	Mondo Records Corporation
John Du Cann	Fashion Fantasy	The World’s Not Big Enough	Angel Air Records
Churchill’s	Living Loving	Churchill’s = צ’רצ’ילים	Hed-Arzi
ESG	Talk It	Step Off	Soul Jazz Records
Benett	Must Be The Whiskey	Welcome To The Jungle	March Records
Further	Victim Rock	Next Time West Coast	100 Guitar Mania Records
New Math	Johnny’s On Top	Die Trying & Other Hot Sounds [1979 – 1983]	Propeller Sound Recordings
Mats Wawa	Good Time	Mild Nights	Flake Records
Vanilla Fudge	Come By Day, Come By Night	Psychedelic Sundae (The Best Of)	Rhino Records
Ten Benson	Sweat Part 2	Benson Burner	Jetset Records
The 39 Clocks	Shake The Hippie	Pain It Dark	Bureau B

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August 5, 2025

This week Gulls Window Circus is a CD-only show that brings up forgotten discs that bubbled back into my attention such as Iggy Pop’s forgotten 2001 record ‘Beat Em Up’, the 1994 Florida band Meringue (and the winning current FL band The Stargazer Lilies that always have my attention), the 2007 CD from French artist Don Cavalli, a 1996 Postcard Records CD single by Paul Quinn & The Independent Group, roots pub rock band Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers, SF bands The Ferocious Few (2010) and Hugh (1995), 1993 NYC band Baby Tooth after changing their name from Fluffy, 2015 Staten Island band Kerbivore and lots more.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Pawnee Drive	Break My Mind	Forward Records: The Singles Collection 1969-1970	Area251 Records
Guided By Voices	The Official Ironmen Rally Song	The Official Ironmen Rally Song	Matador
Lucinda Williams	Righteously	World Without Tears	Lost Highway
Harlan T. Bobo	Spiders	A History of Violence	Goner Records
Alex Keenan	Tell Her You Love Her	Alex Keenan	Area251 Records
The Cherry Boys	Falling (7″ Session)	Kardomah Café	Good Time Records
AM & Shawn Lee	Automatic	La Musique Numérique	Park The Van Records
Paul Quinn & The Independent Group	Stupid Thing	Will I Ever Be Inside Of You	Thirsty Ear
Edwyn Collins	The Campaign For Real Rock	Gorgeous George	Bar/None Records
The Lewis And Clarke Expedition	I Feel Good (I Feel Bad)	The Colgems Collection: The Other Songs…	Area251 Records
Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers	That’s Alright Mamma	Real Sharp (A Thrilling Two CD Anthology)	The Last Music Company
Hugh	Sleepy Time	You Are Here	Mafia Money Records
Kerbivore	Just Decide	All Dressed EP	Unblinking Ear Records
Map 71	The Prefab	Void Axis	Fourth Dimension Records
Yellow Dog	Gypsy Soul	Yellow Dog	Prog Temple

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Eugenius	Here I Go	Oomalama	Fire Records
Sloan	Keep On Thinkin’	4×4 Sampler	Murderecords
Pulsars	Tunnel Song	Pulsars	Almo Sounds
Baby Tooth	Slide	Rare Book Room	Personal Favorite
The Ferocious Few	As The Days Go Bye	Juices	Birdman Records
Don Cavalli	Gloom Uprising	Cryland	Everloving
The Dead 60s	You’re Not The Law	You’re Not The Law	Deltasonic Records
Iggy Pop	Mask	Mask	Virgin
Meringue	Voglers Magnetic Theater	Meringue	Cherry Smash Records
Greg ‘Stackhouse’ Prevost	Evil On My Mind	Universal Vagrant	Mean Disposition
The Seeds	A Faded Picture	The Seeds – Pushin’ Too Hard – Original Soundtrack	Big Beat Records
Spare Snare	James Dean Poster	Westfield Lane	Wabana Ore Limited
The Stargazer Lilies	Vibes of Love	Cosmic Tidal Wave	Floravinyl Records

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July 29, 2025

Today’s Gulls Window Circus CD-only show has a one- off feature: Each of the two hours have the exact same artists in the exact same order, with different songs in each hour. So you get two views off each artist’s sound. I frequently wonder about how certain song choices present artists in a way that highlights what is an unusual sound for them. This week really doesn’t address that concern, it just gives you 2 songs I like a lot from each. You will hear The Mommyheads, The Hepburns, Saint Etienne ‎, Pulp, Anthony Rochester, Garlands, Holiday, The Honey Pot, The Saints, Dr. John, The Night Tripper, Paul Haig, Mia Doi Todd, Rachel Stamp, Hussy, Black Bananas, The Lookout Honeys.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Mommyheads	Architect	One Eyed Band	Mommyhead Music
The Hepburns	Crystal Caves & Ocean Waves	Thing Of Joy	Magic
Saint Etienne ‎	Missing Pieces	Glad	Heavenly
Pulp	The Trees	Forty Odd Years (Live. Rare. Unreleased. 1982-2025)	Mojo Magazine
Anthony Rochester	Did You Lose Weight?	Music For In The Spaceship	Kaleidoscopic Lights Collective
Garlands	Ancient Music	(Picnic, Lightning)	Mister Records
Holiday	Your Very Last Party	Cafe Reggio	spinART Records
The Honey Pot	White Rabbit	An Introduction To The Honey Pot With Crystal Jacqueline	Fruits de Mer Records
The Saints	Swing For The Crime	Prehistoric Sounds	EMI
Dr. John, The Night Tripper	Mama Roux	Gris-Gris	Real Gone Music
Paul Haig	Uncle Sam	Metamorphosis	Les Disques Du Crépuscule
Mia Doi Todd	88 Ways – DJ Nobody Remix	Remixes, Rarities, & Radio Edits	Columbia
Rachel Stamp	Victory	Oceans Of Venus	Underground, Inc.
Hussy	Easy Cash	Hussy	Harriet Records
Black Bananas	Physical Emotions	Electric Brick Wall	Drag City

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Mommyheads	Ugly Things	New Kings Of Pop	Mommyhead Music
The Hepburns	Cerulean Blue	Thing Of Joy	Magic
Saint Etienne	Glad	Glad	Heavenly
Pulp	Live On	Forty Odd Years (Live. Rare. Unreleased. 1982-2025)	Mojo Magazine
Anthony Rochester	Gigi	Music For In The Spaceship	Kaleidoscopic Lights Collective
Garlands	Huge Weeping Willows	(picnic, lightning)	Mister Records
Holiday	New Year’s Anything	Cafe Reggio	spinART Records
The Honey Pot	Shangri-La	An Introduction To The Honey Pot With Crystal Jacqueline	Fruits de Mer Records
The Saints	Take This Heart Of Mine	Prehistoric Sounds	EMI
Dr. John, The Night Tripper	Jump Sturdy	Gris-Gris	Real Gone Music
Paul Haig	Mad Horses II	Metamorphosis	Les Disques Du Crépuscule
Mia Doi Todd	Digital – Album Version Edit	Remixes, Rarities, & Radio Edits	Columbia
Rachel Stamp	Witches Of Angelholm	Oceans Of Venus	Underground, Inc.
Hussy	Steel Trap	Hussy	Harriet Records
Black Bananas	Powder 8 Eeeeeeeeight	Electric Brick Wall	Drag City
The Lookout Honeys	Empty Stairs	Aguacatero	Harriet Records

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June 3, 2025

The third of 3 weeks of CD shows has Gulls Window Circus’s first interview in ages – at the start of the second hour The Yellow Melodies talk about their ‘Pleasant Dreams’ record, which is a song-by-song Ramones cover record. That should not reduce excitement about the other tracks. Every single track is a thrill that it would be a shame for you to miss. Florida’s The Stargazer Lilies are here from a Part Time Punks session, Oslo faves Mats Wawa are here (just announced a new record!), Wreckless Eric is here as The Len Bright Combo. The Strait-Jackets (Allen Esser just released a Primitive Romance CD) are here. Catalonia duo Tarta Relena and another track from the impossible-to-find Catamount CD appear as well.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Silver Jews	Let’s Not And Say We Did	Bright Flight	Drag City
Chris Stamey	The Great Escape	The Great Escape	Schoolkids Records
Catamount	Been There All Summer	No Joy in Hurrayville	no label
The Royal Opposition feat. Lynn Blakey & Mitch Easter	Room With A View	Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Celebrating The Winston-Salem Sound	Omnivore Recordings
Zorch	Cosmic Gloss (radio edit)	Zzoorrcchh	Sargent House
The Stargazer Lilies	We Are The Dreamers	Part Time Punks Sessions	Casa del Puente Discos
Tarta Relena	El Suïcidi I El Cant	Fiat Lux	La Castanya
10¢	Red Rubber Ball	Buggin’ Out!	Hi-Ho Records
Throwing Muses	Shimmer	MSN On Air	Microsoft
The Stroppies	Look Alive	Look Alive	Tough Love Records
Russ Tolman	Yuba City	Goodbye El Dorado	Lost Records
Thin White Rope	Red Sun	When Worlds Collide	Munster Records
The Strait-Jackets	Fool Protection	The Strait-Jackets	Strait-Jacket Records
Gary Valentine	Infatuated	Amor Fati	Not On Label
Vinyl Devotion	Aren’t You Bored California	If They Know You’re Trying	Widely Distributed Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Yellow Melodies	7-11	Pleasant Dreams	Discos Imprescindibles
The Yellow Melodies	Come On Now	Pleasant Dreams	Discos Imprescindibles
The Yellow Melodies	The KKK Took My Baby Away	Pleasant Dreams	Discos Imprescindibles
Julienne Clark	Girl Don’t Come	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records
Mats Wawa	Bed Of Love	Classics EP	Not On Label
The Bubble Gum Machine	You Make Everything Right	Senate Single Collection	Area251 Records
Paula Wayne	It’s A Happening World	It’s A Happening World	Area251 Records
The Windmills	Pounds, Shillings And Pence	Sunlight	Matinée Recordings
Weekend With Keith Tippett	Nostalgia	Live At Ronnie Scott’s	Cherry Red
Irmão Victor	Tristinha	Mariposario	Pop Supérette
Charlie Rodriguez	It’s Alright	Senate Single Collection	Area251 Records
The Veees	On The Road	The Veees	Environmental Studies
The Len Bright Combo	Lureland	Wreckless Eric Presents The Len Bright Combo By The Len Bright Combo	Fire Records

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May 27, 2025

The second of 3 weeks of CD shows on Gulls Window Circus brings a wide group of artists of various era and geographies together in two one hour sets of complimentary tracks. Form 1972 Spanish band Formula V and Los Angeles Rock Flowers (associated with Mattel dolls of the same name) to 1980 former Milk ‘N’ Cookies member Ian North and 1982 US Power pop great unknown Bruce Moody, every artist has a story on this show, and all have great sounds to accompany them.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Roy Moller	Red Jeep	There’s A Thousand Untold Stories	The Beautiful Music
Ian North	The Naked City	My Girlfriend’s Dead	Repressed
Bruce Moody	Simple Love	Forever Fresh!	Counterfeit Records
Summer Factory	Las Migas	Into The Jet Stream Of Pop	The Beautiful Music
Nymphs	Alright! (Demo Version)	A Practical Guide To Astral Projection	DGC
Permanent Green Light	(You & I Are The ) Summertime	Hallucinations	Omnivore Recordings
Pointed Sticks	True Love	Perfect Youth	Sudden Death Records
Personal Effects	So Hard	A Collection	Earring Records
Jowe Head And The Demi-Monde	I Hear A New World	See Dee Four	Topplers Records
Opal	Grains Of Sand	Early Recordings	Rough Trade
Philip Rambow	Big Tears	The Rebel Kind Anthology 1972-2020	Cherry Red Records
Catamount	It’s Not 1996	No Joy In Hurrayville	no label
Rock Flowers	Uptight World	The Complete Rock Flowers	Area251 Records
Jenny Brett	I Say A Little Prayer	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records
The Hepburns	The Last Thing I Saw Before I Said Goodbye	Something Worth Stealing	Radio Khartoum

Artist	Song	Release	Label
The Social Icons	Grey	I’m There…You’re Here	The Beautiful Music
Das Blaue Palais	Zeeland	Skullduggery (A selection of tracks from “Heads Together”)	Fruits de Mer Records
Malcolm Ross With The Delancy St. Group And The Magic Clan	Low Shot	Low Shot	The Bus Stop Label
Alastair Riddell	And Up To Now	Space Waltz	RPM Records
Scarlet Drops	I Don’t Want To See You	Scarlet Drops 1984-1992	Harriet Records
Roy Moller	Rhythm From The Rails	Playing Songs No One’s Listening To	The Beautiful Music
Kevin Rowland	It’s Getting Better	My Beauty	Cherry Red
Michael Horn	Charlotte Was My Cousin’s Duck	Senate Single Collection	Area251 Records
Bartlebees	Hollywood Holiday	Into The Jet Stream Of Pop	The Beautiful Music
Sleepers	Mirror	The Less An Object	Tim/Kerr Records
Smokescreens	Waiting For The Summer	Used To Yesterday	Slumberland Records
Skytone	Springtime	Echoes In All Directions	The Beautiful Music
Formula V	Vacaciones De Verano	“Ayer Y Hoy”	Philips
Paul Haig	Summertime	Metamorphosis	Les Disques Du Crépuscule
Kosmonaut	Never Realized	Into The Jet Stream Of Pop	The Beautiful Music

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May 20, 2025

The first of three weeks of CD shows. 5 songs from The Beautiful Music label, 3 from Blaamm! Records, 2 from Igor Records, Area251 Records and Slumberland Records, plus lots of special tracks from other favorite independent labels including Harriet, Blue Élan, Mega Dodo, Vogon, Think Like A Key Music, Fruits de Mer, Radio Khartoum and others.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Bone Of Contention	Yugoslavia	Fun	Igor Records
Cherie Currie & Brie Darling	Do It Again	The Motivator	Blue Élan Records
BPA	Thorazine Cheerleader	Maybe Use My Knife 1980-1986	Shake It! Records
Julian Cope	The Dogshow Must Go On	Friar Tuck	Head Heritage
Brinsley Schwarz	(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?	Live Archive Vol. 4 Köln And Paris	Vogon
The Cherry Boys	Why Don’t You Write	Kardomah Café	Good Time Records
Armstrong	Pilgrim Heart	Fragments & Curiosities (The 4Track Sessions)	The Beautiful Music
Baskervilles	A Free Show In Battery Park	Into The Jet Stream Of Pop	The Beautiful Music
Good & Plenty	Ain’t Life Grand	The World Of Good & Plenty	Area251 Records
Skytone	Never No Never	Shining Over You	The Beautiful Music
The Hepburns	Devil Up A Drainpipe	Something Worth Stealing	Radio Khartoum
Robyn Hitchcock	Cavendish Square	The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities	Tiny Ghost Records
The Hung Jury	Buses	The Single (s)	Area251 Records
Tommy Hoehn	Blow Yourself Up	Losing You To Sleep	Air Mail Recordings
The Honey Pot	The Outskirts Of Your Mind	Inside The Whale	Mega Dodo
Julia Jones	Superstar	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Roy Moller	Byres Road Saturday	Playing Songs No One’s Listening To	The Beautiful Music
Samantha Pride	The Only One	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records
Jeanines	Hits The Bone	Jeanines	Slumberland Records
Donnie Iris	Shock Treatment	Back On The Streets	Razor & Tie
Minimalist Love Gods	Hit The Ground Running	Devolver	Igor Records
Lmnop	Comparative Analysis	LMNO3 Deluxe	Think Like A Key Music
High Risk Group	Pulsed	Seconds Away	Harriet Records
Smokescreens	Fork In The Road	A Strange Dream	Slumberland Records
Gang	Why Can’t You Just Be	See Dee Four	Topplers Records
Gill Smith	Johnny Reggae	Dream Girls At Direct!	Blaamm! Records
The Lune	Again	Blameless	Crow Point Records
Eisberg	Südpol	Skullduggery (A selection of tracks from “Heads Together”)	Fruits de Mer Records
Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks	Future Suite	Sparkle Hard	Matador
The Mommyheads	Mutual Enemy	Future You	Fanfar!
Lloyd Meadows	Oxford Guitar Club	Oxford Synthesiser Club	The Beautiful Music
The Social Icons	Pop Is Falling Apart	I’m There…You’re Here	The Beautiful Music

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April 8, 2025, 2025

Today is a CD spinnin’ show on Gulls Window Circus, and also an exploration into the Canadian label The Beautiful Music, accompanied by many fellow travelers in the world of indie rock, power pop, post-punk and art rock. Aside from the joys of The Beautiful Music bands, many of which do well-chosen covers, we have a track from the most recent Saint Etienne fanclub CD, an Empire track (a Sly cover) from a CD put together by Bob Andrews of the band, my Newcastle faves Pale Man Made, and a collaboration between The Dainties Martin Stephenson & The Only Ones John Perry.

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Artist	Song	Release	Label
Dunkelziffer	(Do Watch What You Can) Prof.	In The Night	Fünfundvierzig
Handsome Dick Manitoba	Eve Of Destruction	Born In The Bronx	Liberation Hall
Cheese Borger And The Cleveland Steamers	Falling Apart	Terminal	Smog Veil Records
999	Inside Out	New Guitars In Town: Power Pop 1978-82	Cherry Red
Anorak Girl	Smashing Time	All Those Times We Spent Together (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 3)	The Beautiful Music
Denim	Ape Hangers	Novelty Rock	EMIDISC
The Pristines	The Painted Word (Minimal Mix)	All Those Times We Spent Together (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 3) Bonus Disc	The Beautiful Music
Marc Bolan & T•Rex	Galaxy	Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow	Fat Possum Records
Paul Collins	Losing Your Cool	King Of Power Pop!	Alive Records
The Flatmates	Thinking Of You	Love And Death (The Flatmates 86-89)	Clairecords
Pale Man Made	Show Of Hands	Show Of Hands	Pinch Records
The Yellow Melodies	Follow The Sun	Lost In An Imaginary World Of Beauty	The Beautiful Music
The Yellow Melodies	Girl At The Bus Stop	Students Of Life: A Tribute To BMX Bandits	The Beautiful Music
Roy Moller	I Can’t Escape Myself	There Must Be A Hole In Your Memory – A Tribute To The Sound & Adrian Borland	The Beautiful Music
The Dupont Circles	Wonder	In Search Of The Family Gredunza	The Beautiful Music
James Clarke Five	There’s A Rainbow	Parlour Sounds	The Beautiful Music

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Crumb	McArther Beach Park (Jim Webb / Martha & The Muffins Cover)	I Found That Essence Rare. The Sounds Of Beauty	The Beautiful Music
Peter Hall	Hold Me	There’s Something Wrong With Everyone	The Beautiful Music
Martin Stephenson & John Perry	Taker On The Globe	New Wave Connection	Thoroughbred Music
Dot Dash	Countdown	Winter Garden Light	The Beautiful Music
Saint Etienne	The Far Plains	Deep Into The Night	Foreign Office
Lisa Mychols & Super 8	Witchi Tai To	Lisa Mychols & Super 8 Album	The Beautiful Music
Skytone	No Mad	JangleWaves	The Beautiful Music
The Social Icons	Stay	A Brilliant Escape (The Happening Sounds Of Beauty)	The Beautiful Music
Exploding Flowers	Timing Is Everything	Stumbling Blocks	The Beautiful Music
Empire	Family Affair	Volume II — Expansive Sound	Poorly Packaged Products
The Sea Cadets	Skeletons	There Must Be A Hole In Your Memory 2 (A Tribute To The Sound & Adrian Borland Vol 2)	The Beautiful Music
The Yellow Melodies	Look Back In Anger	How I Learned To Love Television Personalities	The Beautiful Music
Dot Dash	A Straight Line	Spark>Flame>Ember>Ash	The Beautiful Music
The Steinbecks	Strangely Beautiful	Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4)	The Beautiful Music
Cryingeyes, Xabi, Chester	Silly Girl (Quiet Version)	Holding Hands Under A Cloudless Sky (A Tribute To The Television Personalities Volume 4) Bonus CD	The Beautiful Music

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February 20, 2024

A CD-only Gulls Window Circus show means we get to hear stuff that is only available (as physical product) on CD, or CD is the only format I have it on. This is a rock show. We get to hear tracks from several Raving Pop Blast! compilations (a Bristol label I first learned about from artists The Mudd Club), and the Caroline True Records comp ‘The Art School Dance Goes On: Leeds Post-Punk 1977-1984’. We also hear Barcelona-based Tarta Relena and Istanbul’s Gaye Su Akyol, a track from Chris Stamey’s latest, a self-released Gary Valentine CD (original Blondie bassist), recent reissues from New Math, Second Hand and LMNOP, the premier shoegaze band The Stargazer Lilies, and dug-up nuggets by Bone Of Contention, Further, Philip Rambow, William Carlos Williams, 10¢, Ivy and Silver Jews, and a couple of Harriet bands, The Coronets and Kisswhistle.

Listen to this show – Part Two appears further down the page

Artist	Song	Release	Label
Bone Of Contention	Crawl	Stay Calm	Igor Records
Our Arthur & The Local Defence Volunteers	I’ll Wait For The Summer	Pop! Fuzz! Junk! Rumble! Try Some To See	Raving Pop Blast! Records
Joe James & The Pariahs	Let’s Get High	Pop! Fuzz! Junk! Rumble! Try Some To See	Raving Pop Blast! Records
Chris Stamey	Back in New York (Electric Mix)	The Great Escape	Schoolkids Records
Kisswhistle	I Dreamed A Genie	Closure, Collected Songs: 1996-2000	Harriet Records
Lmnop	Y?	LMNO3 Deluxe	Think Like A Key Music
Soft Cell	The Girl with the Patent Leather Face (Demo)	The Art School Dance Goes On: Leeds Post-Punk 1977-1984	Caroline True Records
Sheeny And The Goys	You Let Me Down	The Art School Dance Goes On: Leeds Post-Punk 1977-1984	Caroline True Records
Sawdust Caesars!!	Flower Pop Show	Pop! Fuzz! Junk! Rumble! Try Some To See	Raving Pop Blast! Records
The Rev Jonny Kinkaid	My Neighbour’s House	Pop! Fuzz! Junk! Rumble! Try Some To See	Raving Pop Blast! Records
Second Hand	Steam Tugs	Reality	Think Like A Key Music
Shape Of The Rain	Wasting My Time	Riley, Riley, Wood And Waggett	Grapefruit Records
The Dukes Of Mumbai	Get Carter Main Theme (Carter Takes A Train)	Th… The Serum! It Spilled Into My Glass… My Mind… What Is Happening To Me? I… I…	Raving Pop Blast! Records
The Total Rejection	Outside Chance	Th… The Serum! It Spilled Into My Glass… My Mind… What Is Happening To Me? I… I…	Raving Pop Blast! Records
Joe James & The Pariahs	Just A Little Bit	Th… The Serum! It Spilled Into My Glass… My Mind… What Is Happening To Me? I… I…	Raving Pop Blast! Records
Silver Jews	Horseleg Swastikas	Bright Flight	Drag City
Ivy	Disappointed	Long Distance	Nettwerk America

Artist	Song	Release	Label
10¢	Die On The Ranch	Buggin’ Out!	Hi-Ho Records
Wojciech Mazolewski	Miłość	Yugen 2 Jestem	Agora Muzyka
The Coronets	Hawaiian Divorce Song	Veld: 20th Anniversary Edition	Harriet Records
Gaye Su Akyol	Hologram	Hologram İmparatorluğu	Glitterbeat
The Stargazer Lilies	Forever Today	Cosmic Tidal Wave	Floravinyl Records
William Carlos Williams	Old As Trains	White Women	ShoeString Records
Household Name	Indoctrination	The Art School Dance Goes On: Leeds Post-Punk 1977-1984	Caroline True Records
Another Colour	Wartime Working Woman	The Art School Dance Goes On: Leeds Post-Punk 1977-1984	Caroline True Records
Household Name	Lynch Mob Tactics	The Art School Dance Goes On: Leeds Post-Punk 1977-1984	Caroline True Records
New Math	Angela	Die Trying & Other Hot Sounds [1979 – 1983]	Propeller Sound Recordings
Gary Valentine	Scenery	Amor Fati	Not On Label
Philip Rambow	Don’t Come (Cryin’ To Me)	The Rebel Kind Anthology 1972-2020	Cherry Red
Tarta Relena	Relatable Content	Fiat Lux	La Castanya
Further	Be That As It May	Next Time West Coast	100 Guitar Mania Records