Seasonal Playlist: Songs They Never Play On The Radio by Jackie McKeown

Songs They Never Play On The Radio by Tyler Mckeown on Mixcloud

01. Romanian Folk Dance - Béla Bartok

02. Frozen Warnings - Nico

03. Golden Hours - Eno

04. Shivers - Boys Next Door

05. Slow Circus (From Tenebrae)- Goblin

06. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Bauhaus

07. Needles In My Eyes - Beta Band

08. Chimacum Rain - Linda Perhacs

09. Lost Highway - Hank Williams

10. Milk And Honey - Jackson C. Frank

11. Piano Concerto No.5 - Bach

12. Duchess - Scott Walker

13. All The Tired Horses - Bob Dylan

14. Blue Moon - Elvis Presley

15. Oh, Jim - Lou Reed

16. Something Better - Marianne Faithfull

17. Maison Rose - Emmanuelle Parrenin

18. It's Choade My Dear - Connan Mockasin

19. Afraid - Nico

20. Billy 7 - Bob Dylan

21. I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day - The Pogues

22. At Last I Am Free - Robert Wyatt

23. Seasons Come, Seasons Go - Bobbie Gentry

24. I’m On Fire - Bruce Springsteen

25. Chelsea Girls - Nico

26. Let It Loose - The Rolling Stones

27. Hammond Song - The Roches

28. Moonchild - King Crimson

29. It's Raining - Irma Thomas

30. Beautiful - Gordon Lightfoot

31. The Kiss - Judee Sill

32. Wichita Vortex Sutra - Philip Glass

33. If… - Pink Floyd

Seasonal Playlist: I Think Mr Newton Has Had Enough by Jackie McKeown

I Think Mr Newton Has Had Enough by Tyler Mckeown on Mixcloud

01. The Likeness (From Fassbinder's Despair)- Peer Raben

02. Jennifer - Faust

03. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless / Chant For Pentecost - The Trees Community

04. Kill Your Sons - Lou Reed

05. State Trooper - Bruce Springsteen

06. The Drum - Slapp Happy

07. Memory Of Hiroshima - The Man Who Fell To Earth Soundtrack

08. The Red Queen (Zabriskie Point Soundtrack)- Pink Floyd

09. Come Out - Steve Reich

10. Lucifer Rising (Tiny Excerpt)- Bobby Beausoleil

11. Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison

12. Interview - The Widow's Song - Robert Calvert

13. Va Va Va Voom - Brett Smiley

14. Wind Words - The Man Who Fell To Earth Soundtrack

15. New Pony - Bob Dylan

16. It's Not Too Beautiful - The Beta Band

17. Powis Square - Performance Soundtrack

18. Car Wash Hair - Mercury Rev

19. See You At The Lights - Vic 'Spelling' Firth

20. In Spite Of Ourselves - John Prine & Iris De Ment

Seasonal Playlist: Love Is Colder Than Death - The Music of Fassbinder, by Jackie McKeown

Love Is Colder Than Death by Tyler Mckeown on Mixcloud

01. Main Title (Berlin Alexanderplatz) - Peer Raben
02. Memories Are Made Of This (Veronika Voss) - Peer Raben (Vocal By Rosel Vech)
03. Franz B (Berlin Alexanderplatz) - Peer Raben
04. Lonely Boy (Jailbait) - Paul Anka
05. Oh, Little Love (Veronika Voss) - Peer Raben
06. Frankie Teardrop (In A Year With Thirteen Moons) - Suicide
07. We Love You (Fear Of Fear) - The Rolling Stones
08. Main Title (I Only Want You To Love Me) - Peer Raben
09. Good Evening (Beware Of A Holy Whore) - Peer Raben (Vocal By Gunther Kaufmann)
10. Jailhouse Rock (Rio Das Mortes) - Elvis Presley
11. Try To Sing (In A Year With Thirteen Moons) - Peer Raben
12. Serenade Out Of Tune (Lola) - Peer Raben
13. Radioactivity (Chinese Roulette / Berlin Alexanderplatz) - Kraftwerk
14. Theme (Women In New York) - Peer Raben
15. Me And Bobby Mcghee (Berlin Alexanderplatz) - Janis Joplin
16. The Likeness (Despair) - Peer Raben
17. I've Got Enough Heartaches (Beware Of A Holy Whore) - Spooky Tooth
18. Serenade For Franz (Fox And His Friends) - Peer Raben
19. Geh' Nicht Vorbei (Why Does Herr R Run Amok?) - Christian Anders
20. Frankfurt Overture (Mother Kusters Goes To Heaven) - Peer Raben
21. Run Boy Run (Veronika Voss) - Sanford Clark
22. Walk In The Forest (Gods Of The Plague) - Peer Raben
23. So Much Tenderness (The American Soldier) - Peer Raben (Vocal By Gunther Kaufmann)
24. My Way To You (Beware Of A Holy Whore) - Peer Raben (Vcls By Kristana Van Eyck / Marlene Ricci)
25. Let's Go Get Stoned (Beware Of A Holy Whore) - Ray Charles
26. Franz Biberkopf (Berlin Alexanderplatz) - Peer Raben
27. Why Don't You Try (Fear Of Fear) - Leonard Cohen
28. Computer Love (Theatre In Trance) - Kraftwerk
29. Theme (Katzelmacher) - Peer Raben
30. Candy Says (Berlin Alexanderplatz) - The Velvet Underground
31. Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves (Querelle) - Peer Raben (Vocal By Jeanne Moreau)
32. The Great Pretender (Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant) - The Platters
33. Believe In Fantasy (Beware Of A Holy Whore) - Peer Raben (Vocal By Gunther Kaufmann)
34. Capri Fisher (Lola) - Peer Raben (Vocal By Barbara Sukowa)
35. Try To Sing (In A Year With Thirteen Moons) - Peer Raben
36. In Love With Terror Excerpt - Raf
37. Atlantis (Berlin Alexanderplatz) - Donovan

Seasonal Playlist: In a Year with Thirteen Moons by Jackie McKeown

In a Year with Thirteen Moons by Tyler Mckeown on Mixcloud

01. Gnistrande Sno - Ulf Dageby
02. Dense Smoke - Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders Soundtrack
03. Echoes - By Gene Clark
04. Serenade Out Of Tune (From Fassbinder's Lola) - By Peer Raben
05. Magazine Woman - Gary Walker & The Rain
06. Now You're All Alone (Last House On The Left Ost) - David Hess
07. The Visitors - Abba
08. I'll Never Say Never To Always - The Manson Family
09. Mad Puppet (Profondo Rosso Ost) - Goblin
10. Prisencolinensinanciusol - Adriano Celentano
11. School At Night - Goblin
12. Fly Into The Mystery - The Modern Lovers
13. Mama, Look At Me Now (From Warhol's Trash) - Geri Miller
14. Leaving My Old Life Behind (From Kenneth Anger's Puce Moment) - Jonathan Halper
15. The Orchids - Psychic TV
16. Picnic At Hanging Rock Soundtrack - Gheorghe Zampfir
17. New Sensations - Sensations (Early 70s Porn Soundtrack)
18. Trem Fantasma - Os Mutantes
19. Mary Bell - Monte Cazazza
20. Celestial Voices (Live At Pompei) - Pink Floyd
21. Come Down Here - Dagmar Krause & Kevin Coyne
22. Eko-Laten - En Karleks Historia Soundtrack
23. Listen, The Snow Is Falling - John & Yoko

Jackie Says: Listen to The Lost Tapes by Can

CAN - THE LOST TAPES (Mute Records 2012) 
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Contributed by Jackie McKeown (fearless leader of the following bands: 1990s, The Mars Hotel, and The Yummy Fur, and resident of Glasgow)

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My first encounter with Can was in the late 1980s. Me and some pals made the 400 mile journey from Glasgow to London to see Neubauten play at the Astoria. Having no friends to crash with, we slept rough in the streets. The next morning we made the journey to the Rough Trade shop on the Portobello Road. It was like an Aladdin's Cave of musical treasures. It felt good blowing Thatcher's girocheques on Pussy Galore albums and the beautifully sleeved 'Yu Gung' 12". My mate took a chance on a copy of the Cannibalism double album. Can was a name that'd been floating about since we'd ditched our Duran Duran Duran albums for the Velvet Underground. Actually, I think I was first aware of them thru a cover of 'Mushroom' on a Mary Chain single from '87.  Anyway, we caught the hellish megabus back to Bonnie Scotland and sat up all night listening to this bizarre compilation over and over again.

The Malcolm Mooney-era tracks made the deepest cuts. 'Father Cannot Yell', 'Outside My Door' and 'Yoo Doo Right' seemed to pick up the baton dropped by the Velvets when Cale got booted out for being too interesting. It took us a while to fully appreciate the Damo Suzuki stuff. 'Mother Sky' fit right into our noise-fixated teen psyches but some of the other stuff seemed a bit....well......'funky'. You have to understand that, living in Glasgow in the late 80s, the only time you heard funk was via the blue-eyed-soul of Hipsway and Love & Money whom we wished upon a slow, miserable death. It wasn't till we started bombarding our bodies with drugs that the joys of Funkadelic, Yoko Ono's 'Fly' and Damo-era Can opened up to us. I think with every passing year I've come to appreciate them that little bit more. They're probably the only band I can think of where, no matter how many times you've dived in, there's always something new to be discovered from within their icy teutonic grooves and warm bubblebath glow. But I truly miss that mainline hit of hearing something like 'Oh Yeah' (my favourite) for the very first time. Well finally here's a chance to do exactly that.



Thanks to (Can keyboardist) Irmin Schmidt's wife's incessant nagging, they've finally rolled up their sleeves and set about documenting what lies at the back of the cupboard. And the fruits of this is The Lost Tapes. A three CD set covering the band's unreleased history from 1968 - 1975. I wanted it. And I wanted it yesterday or sooner. Luckily I remembered that my good friend and all-round stand-up guy Tim B. had been pestering me to write something for Stupefaction. I immediately hit up the caustically funny but warm-hearted Zoe at Mute Records and promised to have 500 words on her desk by Monday morning if she'd send me a copy to review. It is now midnight on Tuesday and I'm due an as yet unknown but surely vile punishment for missing my deadline. Fuck it. I have the recordings and there's 400 miles between me and my sweet executioner. Anyway, this is what I wrote after listening to the whole thing three, maybe four, possibly five times over. Bear with me, this is not a review for the layman (it's not even a review, certainly not in the commercial sense). I can't be arsed knocking out a potted history of the band. If you're unfamiliar with their music or back-story, track down 'Monster Movie', 'Tago Mago', 'Ege Bam Yasi', 'Future Days', 'Delay 1968' and 'Soundtracks' then type 'Can (band) wiki' into yr browser. If yr of the herbal persuasion, call yr guy and order a man-size bag too. You'll be glad you did when the first sweet moments of 'Bel Air' or 'Halleluwah' trickle into yr wee fluffy ears. Anyway, here's me talking at you about german hippies from the future we call the 70s. (Con't after the jump.)