California Dreaming

It was such a Winter’s day but we were all transported temporarily to the sunny West Coast with some of Sunday’s choices. Get your atlases out to see where else in the world we visited! As well as the great geographical spread we had the usual variety of genres on offer – from punk to glam, pop to reggae, dub, romantic soul and plenty of general weirdness. This is what we heard:

Caroline

1. Beak> – Brean Down
2. Róisín Murphy – You Know Me Better
3. Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Hill
4. Visage – Fade To Grey
5. Beloved – The Sun Rising
6. OMD – Maid Of Orleans
7. The Art Of Noise – Close (To The Edit)

Smithy

1. Tom Jones – It's Not Unusual
2. Sex Pistols – Something Else
3. Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers – That's What I Like
4. Dionne Warwick – (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me
5. The Dooleys – Love Of My Life
6. Bomb The Bass – Beat Dis
7. D-Mob Featuring Gary Haisman – We Call It Acieeed

Stuart

1. Idris Muhammad – Power Of Soul
2. Aphrodite's Child – Magic Mirror
3. Dory Previn – The Lady With The Braid
4. Rheingold – FanFanFanatisch
5. Stephen Mallinder – Cool Down
6. Gary Schneider – Green Tambourine
7. Soothsayers – Dub Will Find A Way (Victor Rice Dub)

Barry

1. Cockney Rebel – Judy Teen
2. Sparks – Something For The Girl With Everything
3. Mud – Dyna-Mite
4. Roxy Music – All I Want Is You
5. Roxy Music – Both Ends Burning
6. Scott Walker – Track Three
7. The Sugarcubes – Birthday

Ed

1. Kneecap – No Comment
2. Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
3. Straw – Moving To California
4. Joe Smooth – Promised Land
5. Kero Kero Bonito – Flamingo
6. k.d. lang – Constant Craving
7. George Clinton – Loopzilla

Geli

1. The Stranglers – Nice 'n' Sleazy
2. Luxuria – Redneck
3. Spizzenergi – Where's Captain Kirk?
4. Magazine – Give Me Everything
5. Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant
6. Ruts – West One (Shine On Me)
7. Slade – Good Time Gals

Quest (Dutch Masters Set)

1. Björn J:Son Lindh – The Booster Pump
2. Ro-D-Ys – Sleep, Sleep, Sleep
3. The Motions – I Ain't Got Time
4. Golden Earring – Back Home
5. Shocking Blue – Inkpot
6. Fogg – Dancin' To The Music
7. George Baker Selection – Little Green Bag

Tony (The California Soul Set)

1. The Messengers – California Soul
2. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – California Soul
3. The 5th Dimension – California Soul
4. The Undisputed Truth – California Soul
5. Marlena Shaw – California Soul

Jon-G (All About The Bass Set)

1. Grove – Babylon Rotten
2. Gorgon Sound – Born Under Siege (Dubkasm Remix)
3. King Alpha – Travelling Dub
4. Dubkasm – The Return (Gorgon Sound Remix)
5. Tetrad – Turn 1

Delia

1. Captain Hotknives – Anarchist Squat Punk Band (RIP Chris)
2. Takeshi Terauchi (feat The Blue Jeans) – Tsugaru Jongara Bushi
3. Rita Pavone – Il Geghegè
4. The Zanies – The Blob
5. Nasser Bouzida – Mr Bongo Man

Darren (Defiant Jazz Set)

1. Adriano Celentano – Disc Jockey
2. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – Odd Mary
3. Milano: Il Clan Dei Calabresi – M2
4. Calibro 35 – Vitamin C
5. Psyché (feat Ziad Trabelsi) – Hurriya (We Must Resist)

Ady

1. Omega Nebula Meets Danubian Dub – Faith
2. Martha & The Muffins – Echo Beach
3. Blondie – Denis (Denee)
4. The Jam – "A" Bomb In Wardour Street
5. The Jam – Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

Mark B

1. The First Edition – Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
2. Stelvio Cipriani – Orgasmo Nero (Seq 1)
3. Lata Mangeshkar – Priyotamo, Ki Likhi Tomai
4. The Rio Grandes – Fooling Around
5. Claudine Longet – Wanderlove

Janet

1. David Ruffin – Walk Away From Love
2. The Temptations – Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
3. Rose Royce – Wishing On A Star
4. Sister Sledge – Neither One Of Us (Want's To Be The First To Say Goodbye)
5. Johnny Bristol – Hang On In There Baby

Ken

1. Boys Next Door – Shivers
2. The Soft Boys – Strange
3. Robert Wyatt – Memories Of You
4. Hugh Cornwell & Robert Williams – Losers In A Lost Land
5. Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding

Dan

1. The Wailers – What's New Pussycat
2. Matumbi – Man In Me
3. Winston Francis – Chain Gang
4. The Wally Brothers – The Man Who Sold The World
5. Big Youth – Hit The Road Jack

Joud

1. Detroit Spinners – Body Language
2. Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra – Afrikaan Beat
3. Ashton, Gardner & Dyke – The Resurrection Shuffle
4. Julian Cope – East Easy Rider
5. Gordon Giltrap – Heartsong

Bluebell

1. John Lennon – Working Class Hero
2. Atlantic Starr – Always
3. River City People – California Dreamin'
4. Levellers – One Way
5. John Lennon – Imagine

Jenny

1. Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
2. The Slits – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
3. X-Ray Spex – Identity
4. James Brown – Get Up I Feel Like Being Like A Sex Machine
5. Val Doonican – Walk Tall

Quest

• The Buffoons – Tomorrow Is Another Day