Dead-Bug Jumping

Episode 13 – The World Tour

admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:01:36 +0000

Yet more of our sporadic podcast! This month’s podcast comes from Europe, kicking off with a spanish singer – based in France we tour the world and land up back where we started, sort of.

Track 1: Soy De Madrid – Raquel Meller
Track 2: Bolero – Ravel [partial]
Track 3: Summertime – Paul McCartney (taken from Снова в СССР) [partial]
Track 4: Trigger Hippie – Morcheeba [partial]
Track 5: Dancing With Myself – Nouvelle Vague [partial]

Episode 12 – Nina’s Explosive

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:01:21 +0000

So, back from the hiatus, at least for one week. Episode 12 of Dead Bug Jumping gets us back into the swing of things…

Track 1: A Girl Like Nina – Paul Abraham
Track 2: The Masochism Tango – Tom Lehrer [partial]
Track 3: Lucky Number – Lene Lovich[partial]
Track 4: Whip It – Devo[partial]
Track 5: Bomb – Bush [partial]

And as promised, here’s the Amateur Transplants with their version of the Elements song.

Episode 11 – The Unintentional Theme Show

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:25:46 +0000

This week we’ve got a bit stuck on food and drink – not on purpose I promise.

Track 1: The Lost Chord – Arthur Sullivan (Sung by Derek Oldham)
Track 2: The Reluctant Cannibal – Flanders and Swann [partial]
Track 3: I Eat Cannibals – Toto Coelo[partial]
Track 4: Drink the Elixir – Salad[partial]
Track 5: Cup of Coffee – Garbage [partial]

Episode 10 – Transport, evolving…

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:01:43 +0000

In homage to Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, who is one of the people behind ‘TWIE’ and ‘Transport Evolved’ – and who requested the theme for Episode 10, we’re calling today’s show Transport, evolving.

This show has been produced with the assistance of the wonderful folks at Little Collie, who’ve helped us up the production quality!

Track 1: Rock Island Line – Lonnie Donnegan (Leadbelly Original Here)
Track 2: The Banana Boat Song (Day-oh) – Stan Freburg [partial]
Track 3: Slow Train – Flanders and Swann [partial]
Track 4: These Boots Are Made For Walking – Nancy Sinatra [partial]
Track 5: Driving In My Car – Madness [partial]
Track 6 [Bonus]: Car Song – Elastica [partial]
Track 7 [Double Bonus!]: Little Green Cars – Gabrielle Starkey [partial]

Once you’ve listened to the show, for comparison’s sake here is the Leadbelly version of the Rock Island Line mentioned, but not played – as a bonus.

Episode 9 – Marching to destruction

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:00:46 +0000

This week Dead Bug Jumping kicks off with a good old fashioned bit of marching and heads towards destruction and death.

Track 1: The Aldershot Tattoo – H.M. Scots Guards
Track 2: Long Tall Sally – The Beatles[partial]
Track 3: A Kind of Magic – Queen [partial]
Track 4: Destroy Everything You Touch – Ladytron [partial]
Track 5: Pretty Little Dead Girl – Seanan McGuire [partial]

Episode 8 – French Optimism

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:00:09 +0000

This week Dead Bug Jumping kicks off with some gorgeous jazz picked up from Les Puces in Paris, and finds it’s way to the optimism of youth.

This week’s show is a little larger than usual – the next one should be back to normal size once we’ve got our heads around the new software a bit more.

Track 1: Panther Dance – Sidney Bechet, Claude Litre et son orchestra
Track 2: Rock c’est un Rock – Amy Anahid [partial]
Track 3: Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum [partial]
Track 4: Born of Frustration – James [partial]
Track 5: Rock and Roll or Trains – AM [partial]

Episode 7 – Travelling to home

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:00:05 +0000

My apologies – your illustrious presenter has a cold this week (and hayfever, you can all go ‘Awww’ now), and wishes to apologise for any quality issues in this week’s show. Not only that, but we’re using new software. It’s all change here at DBJ.

Anyhow, we start episode 7 with a South African group, but when all is said and done, we come back home.

Track 1: Tom Hawk – Elias and his Zig Zag Jive Flutes
Track 2: Zambezi – ‘Boring’ Bob Grover and The Piranhas [partial]
Track 3: 5am in Amsterdam – Michelle Shocked [partial]
Track 4: Roam – B-52s [partial]
Track 5: Take Me Home – Sophie Ellis-Bextor [partial]

Episode 6 – Rocking inappropriately cheerfully

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:00:48 +0000

This week’s show is courtesy of the Oxfam Music store in Reading. Not that they sponsored it, just that we found it this week and bought some new 78s. Starting from some 1950′s rock we head off via inappropriate styles to collaboration…

Track 1: Dance the Bop – The Jodimars – CL. 14642 (Capitol Records)
Track 2: Clarabella – The Beatles – Live at the BBC [partial]
Track 3: Veronica – Elvis Costello [partial]
Track 4: Lucky Number – Rialto [partial]
Track 5: Friday Night – Lily Allen [partial]

Episode 5 – Dancing to pop music

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:00:58 +0000

This week we’re again starting from Classical Music and heading off via quintessential Americana to the very definition of Pop. Well, possibly.

Track 1: Hungarian Dance in G Minor – Brahms – HMV 3-7928
Track 2: New World Symphony – Dvořák – played by the Hampshire Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra [partial]
Track 3: Wake Up Little Suzie – The Everly Brothers [partial]
Track 4: Downtown – Petula Clark [partial]
Track 5: Sunday Girl – Blondie [partial]

Episode 4 – From Men in caves to women dealing with cavemen-attitudes

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:00:42 +0000

This week’s podcast is extra length, but this time because we’re starting with a fantastic piece of classical music on a 12″ gramophone. From there we head off in search of modern life… yes, really.

Track 1: Overture “The Hebrides” (Fingal’s Cave) – Mendelssohn – C.3770
Track 2: Love Missile F1-11 (Extended Version) – Sigue Sigue Sputnik [partial]
Track 3: Temple of Love (1992 rerecording) – The Sisters of Mercy (with Ofra Haza) [partial]
Track 4: Self-Esteem – Offspring [partial]
Track 5: Just a Girl – No Doubt [partial]