4
Dec
2010
The Big Paws 04/12/2010 — Tracklisting
“Nom nom nom song” by Parry Grip
“There is Power in a Union” by Billy Bragg
“Hey Cool Kid” by Cloud Nothings (it’s a free download)
“DJ, Ease My Mind” (Raffertie remix) by Niki & The Dove (it’s a free download)
“Humid Air” by The Moaners (it’s a free download)
“Nutcracker Christmas Dubstep REMIX” by BogTroTTeR
The Time Tunnel
- It was the year that Band Aid recorded the charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” to raise money to combat the famine in Ethiopia.
- Moreish drug Crack, a smokeable form of cocaine, was first introduced into the Los Angeles area and soon spread across the United States.
- The Soviet Union announced that it would boycott that years 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
- Advance Australia Fair was proclaimed as Australia‘s national anthem, in this year.
- The Provisional IRA attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the Brighton hotel bombing.
- Beverly Lynn Burns became the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.
- Virgin Atlantic Airways mades its inaugural flight.
- Sid was told, and British Telecom was privatised.
- Born in this year were: Man Utd makeweight Darren Fletcher, curly-haired Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and Welsh singer and duck impressionist Duffy
- Died in this year: man film director Sam Peckinpah, Welsh comedian and magician Tommy Cooper, and famous Georgian chess player Tigran Petrosian.
- With the slogan “why 1984 won’t be like 1984” the Apple Macintosh was introduced.
But what was the year?
“Sexcrime (1984)” by Eurythmics (1984)
“Aitu” (LQD Live Edit) by Funerals (it’s a free download)
“Forget Me Not” by Glass Vaults (it’s a free download)
“Written On The Forehead” by PJ Harvey
“Brakehorn” by Sudanim (it’s a free download)
“Shake the Shackles” by Crystal Stilts (it’s a free download)
“Framebreaker ” by Return To Mono
“The Lion and Albert” – told by Jarvis Cocker
“Polarise” by Cameras (it’s a free download)
Furtive Forty: “Ancestors” by Gonjasufi
Furtive Forty: “MCs Can Kiss” by Uffie
Tediously Topical Twitter Tag Time: “*Poo* Are You” by The Who
“NY Is Killing Me” by Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx
“Paradise Circus” by The Lilac Time
9
Jan
2010
The Big Paws Furtive Forty 2009
The best tracks of 2009 from The Big Paws: voted for by listeners, then jumbled into a couple of shows by the team:
1 “Silver Trembling Hands” by The Flaming Lips
2 “Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell” (Wallpaper. RMX) by Das Racist
3 “Papageno” by KiN
4 “Printer Jam” by Mistabishi
5 “All Is Love” by Karen O & The Kids
6 “Hold the line” (feat. Mr. Lexx & Santigold) by Major Lazer
7 “Gangsterish” by White Tea
8 “Borderline” (With Stardeath And White Dwarfs) by The Flaming Lips
9 “WARP 1977″ by The Bloody Beetroots
10 “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” by Morrissey
11 “Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)” (feat. Jim Jones & Mos Def) by Blakroc
12 “Constellations” by Darwin Deez
13 “Are Friends Electric?” by The Dead Weather
14 “Ozzy” by Drums Of Death
15 “When They Fight, They Fight” by Generationals
16 “Hollow Trees House Hounds” by Cate Le Bon
17 “Stellify” by Ian Brown
18 “Grip” by zZz
19 “Angela” by Jarvis Cocker
20 Cell Mates by Mariachi El Bronx
21 “Boy Lilikoi” by Jónsi
22 “Mum” by Marina & Soko
23 “Why Didn’t You Get a Haircut” by Math the Band
24 “The Fear” (DOCTOR ROSEN ROSEN Rx) by Lily Allen
25 “Bitch, I Love You” by Black Joe Lewis And The Honeybears
26 “Tastes Like Kevin Bacon” by Iwrestledabearonce
27 “Stop!” by The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
28 “Suicide” by The Raveonettes
29 “Two Of The Beatles Are Dead” by Keith Top Of The Pops And His Minor UK Indie Celebrity Allstar Backing Band
30 “Gardens Of The South” by Sleeping States
31 “Kiss Me With Your Mouth” by Stephen Duffy and The Lilac Time
32 “Out of Babel” by The Destroyers
33 “New Fang” by Them Crooked Vultures
34 “Lobster Quadrille” by We Are Enfant Terrible
35 “Zero” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
36 “Uh Huh” by Zooey Deschanel and Munchausen by Proxy
37 “Somebody Tell Me” by Muchuu
38 “I’m In Miami Bitch” (Ruckus Roboticus Remix) by LMFAO
39 “All The King’s Men” by Wild Beasts
40 “Everybody Is a DJ” by Goldie Lookin Chain
