The Smashing Tunes Thread (Part 1)

Savage

I have this one. The best punk album in the world.

Sex Pistols Anarchy In The U.K.
The Buzzcocks* Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)
The Undertones Teenage Kicks
The Skids* Into The Valley
The Damned New Rose
The Ruts Babylon’s Burning
Ramones Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
The Members The Sound Of The Suburbs
The Jam All Around The World
The Only Ones Another Girl, Another Planet
Iggy Pop The Passenger
XTC Making Plans For Nigel
The Stranglers Peaches
Ian Dury & The Blockheads* Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Elvis Costello & The Attractions (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea
Blondie Denis
Tom Robinson Band 2-4-6-8 Motorway
Dr. Feelgood Milk & Alcohol
The Boomtown Rats Lookin’ After No. 1
Adam & The Ants* Deutscher Girls
Siouxsie And The Banshees* Christine
X-Ray Spex Identity
Bow Wow Wow C30, C60, C90
Public Image Ltd.* Public Image
Sid Vicious My Way
Sex Pistols God Save The Queen
The Damned Neat Neat Neat
The Adverts Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
Rezillos* Top Of The Pops
The Motors Dancing The Night Away
The Buzzcocks* What Do I Get?
Jilted John Jilted John
Wire I Am The Fly
Devo Mongoloid
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Roadrunner
Tubes* White Punks On Dope
Richard Hell & The Voidoids Blank Generation
Television Marquee Moon
Talking Heads Psycho Killer
Pretenders* Stop Your Sobbing
Joe Jackson Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Generation X (4) Ready Steady Go
The Stranglers (Get A) Grip (On Yourself)
Magazine Shot By Both Sides
Stiff Little Fingers Alternative Ulster
Killing Joke Eighties
Flying Lizards* Money
John Cooper Clarke Kung Fu International

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I remember when I was 10/11 I took my mother’s walkman for my own as she wasnt really using it – I had no tapes so I used to listen to the radio at night in bed when I was supposed to be asleep for school. I used to listen to century fm - it was a forerunner for Today Fm - it went bust. They used to have a love letter segment at night - with loads of ‘I cant express my love for x’ etc. etc … Great music too, it was the first time I heard The Smiths … but one song I heard on it was like nothing I heard before in my short life and the memory always stuck with me over the years.

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne

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Wax that the “this is dedicated to the one I love’ segment or was that on 2fm?

We composed a letter for that in school that was read out one night, something about a girl who had been through an awful lot, she may have ended up paralysed but we couldn’t pluck up the courage to say how much we loved her, can’t remember the details but it was some buzz to be read out

Cat Stevens - Father and Son

Cat Stevens - The Wind

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An absolutely flawless vinyl rip of the most underrated PF album.

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I’ll see you and raise you…

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There’s a great yarn about that inflatable pig floating above Battersea power station in the album photo

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His greatest moment

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Cruel nature has won again!

The Wonderstuff - The Size of a Cow

LIFE AIN’T ALWAYS EMPTY

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Bryce Dessner from The National and Padma Newsome, collaborator with The National.

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An oldie that belongs in the 1980s thread really. Start of the tour after Remain in Light was released, most of the early audiences would barely have heard it. Tina Weymouth, my God. The intro from Adrian Belew is as good as you will ever hear.

Ed Smith plays great music on todayfm Monday’s to Thursdays 7pm - 10pm. I do a listen back the following day to get me thru the work morning.

He has some decent playlists on spotify.

A masterpiece.

Armand Van Helden - You Don’t Know Me

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