This episode is filled with those who came to tell us they were going, whether they knew it or not. We might even find out if their last gasps are meaningful or meaningless or simply sadly missed.

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Playlist:

(00:00) Nick Drake - Tow the line

Tim from The face of today

(02:57) Bran Van 3000 ft Curtis Mayfield - Astounded

Chris from Culture Bully

(07:38) Django Reinhardt - Deccaphonie

Kevin from Let Me Educate You

(11:48) Johnny Thunders with Die Toten Hosen - Born to lose

FiL from Pogoagogo

(17:05) Billie Holiday - Baby won’t you please come home

ZB from So the wind won’t blow it all away

(20:36) Jimi Hendrix - Belly button window

Chris from Phosphorous.net

(25:52) Joy Division (Ian Curtis) - Digital (live)

Dirk from Sexy Loser

(29:52) Slim Dusty - Get along

The In Crowd from I’m learning to share!

(37:31) Chris Whitley - Mountain side

Greer from A Sweet Unrest

(43:38) Janis Joplin - Happy Birthday, John (Happy trails)

James from Appetite For Distraction

(46:14) John Lennon - Dear John

Tricia

(50:03) Joe Strummer & Johnny Cash - Redemption song

JC aka The Vinyl Villian

(54:52) Stereolab (Mary Hansen) - Nought more terrific than man

John Q.

(59:20) Chenard Walcker & Roy ‘Chicky’ Arad - Street (Haifa-Beirut 2006)

Eiron from Old fridges can kill

(01:03:48) Kirsty MacColl - Manhattan Moon

Jeremy from Fingertips

(01:10:34) Marc Almond ft Nico - Your kisses burn

Shaun from Cold Citrus

(01:15:36) Warren Zevon - Keep me in your heart

Natalie from Mini-Obs

Thanks to all of you who participated or listened this week. Next time we have a theme chosen by Isabella in the form of Make up.

So slap some on and come back for that soon!

Cassette rainbow from here.

9 Comments so far

What a highly excellent group of songs. I especially enjoyed the histories of the singers, some of whom I did not know or didn’t know well. I bought the Slim Dusty song before it even finished playing.

Thanks so much, Nat, for Warren Zevon, who is a big favorite of mine too. His ex-wife Crystal wrote a very good biography of him called “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.”
:)

Trying to do a two-hour radio show I called “Reanimating the Dead”, I would like to promote the theory that thanks to digital distribution and recording methods, the majority of musicians of whose work we have some record are alive and working today.

As an amateur cyclist, I listened with despair to the fact that two of the artists were killed as a result of cycling accidents.

Listening to this….I feel I cheated as I didnt pick something that was the definitive last recording.

Sorry

JC, you did good. I thought this was kind of a tough theme, which is why I did not come up with anything at all.

JC, I thought that pick was perfect. Both of them are gone, so it’s so bittersweet.

Hey JC,

it can NEVER be ANY wrong to play something by Joe Strummer. And/or J. Cash.

Difficult as this theme was, can you imagine how tough “Artists’ First Recordings” would be?

I thought this was a great episode from Drake to Zevon. Especially enjoyed the Billie Holiday and the Jimi Hendrix.

Can’t get enough of the Slim Dusty. I also was very moved by Jeremy’s intro.

That was a whole new J. Strummer for me. Great stuff.

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