The Better Half: Basementcast #16

June 10, 2011 at 2:46 pm | Posted in Basementcast, Girls, Music, Podcasts | 5 Comments


Photo from Bob Carlos Clarke/Rex USA/Everett Collection

It’s been a while since the last one of these hit the internet. The Q1U has been burried under a stack of a records for the last few months. I was cleaning the basement the other day and uncovered it. Inspiration hit and a list of songs was assembled with an initial unintended musical slant . A little rejiggering, and it became an ode to the female of the species and my favorite basementcast yet. See what you think.

download: basementcast #16 (~165 Mb)

Las Kellies - Prince In Blue  from Kellies (Fire)
ESG - It’s Alright  from Come away with ESG (Soul Jazz)
No Joy - Indigo Child (Stereolab Remix) from Ghost Blonde (Mexican Summer)

Red Sleeping Beauty - The Trumpet Song from  Singles (Siesta)
The Chiffons - He’s So Fine  from Sweet Talkin’ Girls – The Best Of The Chiffons (EMI)
Laetitia Sadier - By the Sea  from The Trip (Drag City)

Wax Idols  - All Too Human (Hozac 7″)
Mocket - Bionic Parts  from Bionic Parts (Punk In My Vitamins)
Soul Swingers - Brighter Tomorrow  from Wheedle’s Groove – Seattle’s Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-75 (Light In the Attic)
P.S. Eliot - Sadie  from Sadie (Salinas)

Calligraphers - Let The Eyes Talk (Bandcamp)
Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Angelyne from Help Stamp Out Loneliness  (WIAIWYA)
Seapony - Always from Go With Me  (Hardly Art)

Xeno & Oaklander – Sentinelle from Sentinelle (Wierd)
Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking  from Uptown Top Ranking (Frontline)
Amor De Dias - Bunhill Fields from  Street Of The Love Of Days (Merge)

Times New Viking - Fuck Her Tears  from Dancer Equired (Merge)
Molly O’Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks - Poor Ellen Smith  from Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age (Columbia)
Dreamdate - Pyramids from Melody Walk (Tic Tac Totally)

Kids On A Crime Spree - Trumpets of Death  from We Love You So Bad (Slumberland)
Bake Sale - Meanwhile  from As Predicted 7″ (Grand Palace Records)
The Louche F.C. - Back Bedroom Casualty  (Sways 7″)

Posse - Sarah (Self-released)
Eleventh Dream Day - You Know What It Is from Lived To Tell  (Atlantic)

Saint Etienne - Kiss and Make Up from  Foxbase Alpha (Warner)
Cat’s Eyes - The Best Person I Know  from Cat’s Eyes  (Downtown)

Thee Oh Sees - I Won’t Hurt You from  Castlemania (In the Red)

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  1. somebody samples the wendy & bonnie original… is it gruff rhys/sfa???

    Comment by bill p— June 13, 2011 #

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    • Wikipedia says that SFA sample By the Sea on their song Hello Sunshine.

      Comment by Toby— June 13, 2011 #

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  2. Yes… like the first minute of the song.

    Comment by bill p— June 13, 2011 #

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    • Yeah, I just pulled out Phantom Power and they sample about 45 seconds of the song.

      Comment by Toby— June 13, 2011 #

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  3. [...] and Zee” and have liked it ever since I heard the original we have here. Toby featured this a couple weeks ago on his podcast, then this past Sunday it was used on Treme as a song in the fictionalized version of Momofuku. [...]

    Pingback by » Fusion to the Beat Really Clears My Mind: Summer Fridays 4.6 SOUND BITES— June 30, 2011 #

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