SF0204 The Bicentenary Poll Ep3 #70-56

SF0204 The Bicentenary Poll Ep3 #70-56

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I was recently invited on the podcast of my old chums, Paul Howarth and Tony Harris, The Twilight Turntable. While there we discussed the 1981 album from The Human League, ‘Dare’. I opined that my track of choice was ‘Seconds’ and was pleased to discover it taking its rightful place in this poll. One of the only positive outcomes from the JFK assassination.

There are two classic Dead Kennedys 45s, and I was equally pleased the slightly more underrated ‘California Uber Alles’ won out. One of the joys of Sombrero Fallout is for me to discover bands that I’ve unjustly neglected over the years and such is the case with the next band Standard Fare. ’Love doesn’t just stop’ is such a lovely indie track.

Hello to Australia with ‘Depreston’ by Courtney Barnett followed by another female lead with the all time classic ‘Fade into you’. And continuing the mellow mood with a track from the iconic ‘Hats’ album from the Blue Nile, ‘The downtown lights’.

‘This is the day’ marks the last track voted for by just two people. Next The Libertines, followed by a trifecta of 70s music, with classics from Gil Scott Heron, Steely Dan and Can. I felt a little guilty playing the Steely Dan track as my recently departed friend Nestlers really loathed that band. Sorry, Nestlers.

Back to Australia with the criminally underrated Nice Biscuit, though obviously not by the voters of this podcast, followed by the sort of track we don’t often play. Buffalo Tom’s ‘Taillights fade’ is possibly a more traditional slice of American rock, but it’s underpinned by a lovely melancholic lyrical narrative.

We finish with two alternative stalwarts. First Radiohead, who played their first gig in the pub where my own band The Gloom Brothers played their second, The Jericho Tavern, Oxford. In fact I paid a nostalgic trip back to the Jericho last year and was allowed to have a look around the venue room upstairs. It looked much the same. We then finish with a charming baritone contribution from Stephen Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, ‘Papa was a rodeo’.