SF0203 The Bicentenary Poll Ep2 #85-71

SF0203 The Bicentenary Poll Ep2 #85-71

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Car Seat Headrest are one of those bands that you listen to a fair bit, go and see in concert, and then there isn’t quite enough there to keep you coming back for more. Sometimes years later you discover there were a shedload of brilliant albums you ignored. I did have a listen to this year’s release, and it’s OK.. Anyway, they kick off this show with ‘Drunk Drivers’.

I was watching a Netflix thing recently when Newdad’s ‘Blue’ popped up on the soundtrack (#84). Hope they get some income from that (if that’s how it works, not sure). The sound of young Ireland. Pedro the Lion opens his dairies next in the best Mark Kozelek style tradition, then ‘Poppies’, from a band I loved when I was 17. My friend used to correspond with a member of the Teardrop Explodes, Michael Finkler.

Young Marble Giants was the choice of one of my oldest pals and it instantly takes me back to our university digs, listening to it, often in a rather vegetative state, it’s true. Fast forward through the years, and my twins both chose a Microphones song, but only one could get up. It was like Sophie’s Choice, but with a little less at stake.

Very happy to see a Black Box Recorder track in the 100, and a great favourite of mine, Florist, though perhaps a little lower than anticipated. (But I also reflected on the great bands that haven’t made it at all.) Also delighted to see Tuareg music represented with the slightly bonkers ‘Funeral for Justice’.

Lana Del Rey is borderline hardly alternative, but the NFR album is such an iconic classic, I don’t care and there she is in the running order, preceding a track – ‘Two Thousand and Seventeen’ – which kept listener Luke Finley going through lockdown. Then the #1 from our very first Festive Forthy, ‘A Private Understanding’. Listening to it again, I’m reminded that Elvis Presley really did see a vision of Joseph Stalin in the clouds.

Finally, the first choice from my first born, the legendary ‘Breadcrumb Trail’, followed by a throwback to 1973, with Lou Reed’s ‘Berlin’.