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Music videos & performances worth checking...(click on title to open in YouTube)
Afrika Bambaataa & John Lydon: World Destruction
Adam Ant: Ant Rap :"rap music didn't start in NYC. It was started in the UK by Adam Ant..."
A Guy Called Gerald: Voodoo Ray : "For me this is Xmas 1989, trips to HMV for Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and 808 State, then back home to see them on TOTP".
Altern8: Infiltrate 202 : "summer '91!! pre mobile phone, pre fuckin myspace, watch ya bassbins!"
The Art Of Noise: Close To The Edit : "Great tune from circa '83. Not too sure about the video though."
Age Of Chance: Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Noise :"Leeds, Detroit, Berlin, New York. 1987, cycling chic never looked so good!"
Baby D: Let Me Be Your Fantasy : A killa tune way before it hit the mainstream. First heard back in Brighton '92, thanks to Andy Bell & his Nicky Blackmarket tapes. Where are you now mate?"
The Beatles: Here Comes The Sun : "Not actually the Fab 4 here, but George Harrison acoustic live. Such a beautiful tune. If you ever see the James Last cover version in a charity shop. Buy it! Its a killer."
B.A.D: The Bottom Line :"Joe & Paul went busking, Mick went bad"
Blondie: Rapture : Okay you see this quite often, but lets have a look at Debbie's funky dancing again...oh, and that outfit."
Bomb The Bass: Bug Powder Dust : "mugwump jism!"
The Clash: Complete Control :"I don't trust you..so why should you trust me?" Joe sings. Indeed. Friends & family please note, I want this played as my box goes into the hole!
The Cure: Fascination Street :"Whoa! Love the bassline on this. Funky as..."
Depeche Mode: Rush (live) :"from the 1993 tour...Dave Gahan + smack"
Depeche Mode: Walking In My Shoes
Derek B: Bad Young Brother "Big tune on an '88 school trip to Germany. The 'Sign Of The Times' sampling bad young bruv!"
Devendra Banhart: Little Yellow Spider
DJ Q-Bert: circa '98 "Superb set. Check it".
Extreme Noise Terror vs. The KLF: 3AM Eternal : "The Brits 1992. Lucky enough to have witnessed this live on the night at Hammersmith."
The KLF:3AM Eternal: White Room extract : You Tube has got too popular now & as a result the above clip from the Brits 92 has been removed! So settle for this instead. An extract from The KLF's White Room movie. Ford Timelord driving around Westminster. I've waited for eternity for a night bus around there...believe!"
FSOL: Live @ The Brighton Essential Festival 1997 :"I'm somewhere in that crowd. Papa New Guinea comes in at 6 mins. Transmission goes at 10mins.."
FSOL: We Have Explosive
Howard Jones: Hide & Seek : Okay, ignore the artist, and maybe the video, but this tune is a great slice of (dare I say it) chillout. I reckon you could still drop this as an end of night tune if you had the bottle."
Johnny Cash: Hurt : "still gets me everytime."
Kiss: I Was Made For Loving You :"Check this video! Camp as, but what a killer tune!"
Led Zeppelin: Achilles Last Stand :"The mighty Bonham at his best. Jimmy's guitar at 4 mins in!Truly mind blowing stuff".
Led Zeppelin: Kashmir :"live at Knebworth again. The last UK show. If this does not make the hairs on you neck stand up, then you have no soul..!"
Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love : "Last one from Knebworth! Proving that this tune still had the funk 10 years on, this is probably the best performance of this monster! Stripped down, with a new riff and funky as fuck."
Liquid: Sweet Harmony
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird : "Probably the best 09.27 of your life today. The bloke singing, died a few years after this. The dude playing guitar, he dead, as is the bass player. Tragic band, but what a great tune."
Manic Street Preachers: Faster : 1994 what a summer, but the Holy Bible put a DARK cloud over it..."
Manic Street Preachers: Motown Junk : Right now they look like fat middle age dinosaurs, but back in spring '91 when this came out..phew..baam..it was a smack in the face to the shoe gazing / madchester thing. This video from then shows why".
Manic Street Preachers: Revol : 1994 what a year? Oasis start to rise, Blur go Parklife and the Manics drop this. Oh yeah and the IRA try and blow up Brighton Pier"
Metallica: One :"full length version. Air guitar on standby!"
Massive Attack: Unfinished Sympathy : "Remember '91, when this came out.The Gulf War. They had to take the Attack off! Crazy"
Meat Beat Manifesto: Edge Of No Control
Moloko: Sing It Back : "Feeling down? Put this on..."
Nitzer Ebb: Lightning Man : "Saw this for the first time back in 1990 on Snub TV. Aired alongside RSW 'Probably A Robbery'. Quality."
Pop Will Eat Itself: Wise Up Sucker "Its spring '89 and PWEI dent the rear end of the Top 40 with this."
Primal Scream: Higher Than The Sun :Back to spring '91. What a time. This is the best thing The Orb ever produced, but they never got the proper credit".
Psapp: About Fun :"quality video from these weasels"
Public Enemy: Rebel Without A Pause :" back in the summer of '88".
P.I.L: This Is Not A Love Song :"why isn't Lydon making music now?"
R.A.T.M: Killing In The Name
Renegade Soundwave: Biting My Nails : "a pretty woman and a big full moon..."
Renegade Soundwave: Probably A Robbery : "If memory serves me right this video was directed by the same people who did The Bill".
Renegade Soundwave: Space Gladiator
Richard Ashcroft: Song For The Lovers : "love this video, love this track. Saw The Verve in a hotel function room gig back in Brighton June '93. Quality!"
The Rolling Stones: Undercover Of The Night : "Their last great tune & controversial video at the time. Still sounds good on any dancefloor..."
Sid Vicious: My Way
S*S*S:Dancerama :"okay so the band were (wrongly) seen as a joke, but this song and video from '89 is probably their best".
Sonic Youth: Sugar Kane
Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era: Far Out : "dedicated to Andrew Bell! Drop me a line if you ever pass by!"
Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era: Peace & Loveism
Sprial Tribe: Forward The Revolution "you might stop the party, but you can't stop the future..."
The The: Sweet Bird Of Truth :"always seems relevant this track"
U2: Numb
UNKLE: Guns Blazing
The Walkmen: The Rat :"when I used to go out I'd know everyone I saw. Now I go out alone, if I go out at all..." superb song that brings us nicely into..."
The Wedding Present: Kennedy
WIRE: Ahead
