#133: Best of 2018 - without the A sides

This playlist came about when we realised how many brilliant songs this year were tucked away on albums or B-sides, but would have made first-rate smash-hit (possibly) singles. Some excellent songs here:

Aver ft Cappo “Something From Nothing” (from “Dressed For CCTV” LP on Village Life)
The Declining Winter “My Divided World” (from “Belmont Slope” LP on Home Assembly)
Famous Problems “I’d Do It A Thousand Times” (from “Hey! It’s Raining!” mini-LP/maxi-EP on Where It’s At Is Where You Are)
Svalbard “Pro-Life?” (from “It’s Hard To Have Hope” LP on Holy Roar)
Belly “Stars Align” (from “Dove” self-released LP)
JK Flesh “Mindprison” (from “Wasplike” 12” on Inner Surface)
Half Man Half Biscuit “Knobheads On Quiz Shows” (from “No One Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin Hedge Cut” LP on Probe Plus)
Chester P "Dark Omens" (from "The P.A.S.T." EP on Real Talk)
Violation Wound "The Church Of Go Fuck Yourself" (from split 7" with Cliterati on Tankcrimes)

Jeff Rushin "Rattle" (from Connwax 05 12")
Jug-A-Naut ft Scorzayzee & Vandal Savage "Silk Portraits" (from "Bon Vivant" LP)
The Declining Winter "Fallen Five Minutes" (from "Return To Branch" 7" on Fissile)
Slam “47.20.991” (from “Athenaeum 101” LP on Soma)
Secret Shine “Only” (from “Four Band Compilation” on Emotional Response)
Cripple Bastards “Suicidio Assistito” (from “La Fine Cresce Da Dentro” on Relapse)
Chas (RIP) & Dave “Nothing You Can Do” (from “A Little Bit Of Us” LP on Rockney)

The Declining Winter "Break The Elder" (from “Belmont Slope” LP on Home Assembly)
Fret “List Is Full” (from “Silent Neighbour” EP on L.I.E.S.)
Nazar “Warning Shots” (from “Enclave” EP on Hyperdub)
J Mascis “See You At The Movies” (from “Elastic Days” LP on Sub Pop)

#132: Jamaica

Culture “Too Long In Slavery” (extended version)

Ranking Trevor "Rub A Dub Style"
Prince Far-I “Black Starliner Must Come"

Eek-A-Mouse "Terrorists In The City"

Gregory Isaacs “Black Liberation Struggle”

Sugar Minott “Hard Time Pressure”

Burning Spear "Social Living"
Keith Hudson “Turn The Heater On”
Naggo Morris "A True Them No Know"

Dr Alimantado “Born For A Purpose / Reason For Living”

Junior Murvin "I Was Appointed"
Militant Barry "Pistol Boy"

Anthony Johnson “Gunshot”

Black Uhuru “Fire & Brimstone”

Oku Onuora & AK7 “Pressure Drop”
Errol Dunkley "Repatriation"

Michael Smith “Mi Cyaan Believe It”

#131: It's Been A Long Time... Now For Some Football

There aren’t many good songs inspired by football. But the good ones... are *really* good.

I, Ludicrous “We Stand Around”
Frank Sidebottom “Guess Who’s Been On Match Of The Day”
Club 8 "Football Kids"

Llwybr Llaethog “Soccer MCs”
The Declining Winter “Official World Cup Theme 2010”
Half Man Half Biscuit “Friday Night And The Gates Are Low”
Teen Anthems “Swansea City”
Luke Haines “Leeds United”
The Fall “Kicker Conspiracy”
Sev Dah “Marakana”
I, Ludicrous “Three English Football Grounds”
Tramway “Balla”
Tippa Irie "Football Hooligan"
Pale Sunday “Dirt Pitch Superstars”
Sev Dah “Grbavica”
Pete Green “The Ballad Of Phil Jevons”

#130: animal rights

Doom "Exploitation" ("Fuck Peaceville" version)
Slab! “The Animals”
Propagandhi "Nailing Descartes To The Wall / (Liquid) Meat Is Still Murder"
Wolfhounds “Cruelty”
Rosehips “Bloodstained Fur” (7” Version)
Youth Of Today "No More"
Ultramantis Black "New Paradigm"
Electro Hippies "Sheep" / "Chickens" / "Turkeys"
Gorilla Biscuits "Cats And Dogs"
Dropdead "Unjustified Murder"
Extreme Noise Terror “Murder”
Looking For An Answer "Los Humanos Tambien Son Carne"
The Smiths “Meat Is Murder”
Ripcord "Fur Is Murder" / "Vivisection"
McCarthy "Kill Kill Kill Kill"*

*And yes we know that the lyrics are ironic and it's actually anti-(some) animal activists rather than anti-animal cruelty per se... but still, it's kind of great

#129

BMX Bandits "E102"
38 Spesh & Kool G Rap "Upstate 2 Queens"
JK Flesh "New Build Estate"
Boyracer "Jesus Suzanne Christ"
Cindy "Don't Nobody Like Me Playa, Fuck 'Em I'm A One Man Gang"
Socialist Leisure Party "She Will Flame"
Flowdan "Shell A Verse"
Helen Love "Does Your Heart Go Boom"
Frederik Flach "Earth"
Klaudia Gawlas "Margin"
Even As We Speak "Best Kept Secret"
Culture "Too Long In Slavery" (Extended Version)

#128

The Smittens "Three States"
L'il Kim "Nasty One"
Deicide "Excommunicated"
JK Flesh "Wasplike"
Shades ft. Killa P "Alarma"
Relham "Self-Confidence"
Azure Blue "Crimson Red"
P Brothers featuring Your Old Droog & DJ Doo-Wop "Good Trip"
Madball ft. Ice-T "Evil Ways"
Action Painting! "Laying The Lodger"
Violation Wound "Fearmonger" / "Ruining Everything That's In The Way"
Fret "Closed Syndicate"
I, Ludicrous "It'll All Be Over Soon"
CUB "Seeing From Above"
Svalbard "Revenge Porn"
Culture "Production Something"

#127: Fiat!

(apologies for having been away for a while...)

I, Ludicrous "A Very Important Meeting"
Gay Panic Defence "CNTRL-ALT.RIGHT-DELETE"
Even As We Speak "Football Star"
Last Leaves "Golden Days To Come"
Rolo Tomassi "Aftermath"
Jeff Rushin "Pantzer"
Fret "Same Pegs"
Doom "Same Mind"
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks "Middle America"
JK Flesh "PI04.1"
Sev Dah "Rebellion"
Azure Blue "My Final Candle"
Born To Murder The World "Brutality Alchemist"
P Brothers featuring Daniel Son "Saltfish"
Robert Johnstone "Elements Of Control"
Maria Savage "Dualidad"
Svalbard "Unpaid Intern"

#126: Peel Session Obsession (Part 2)

(See here for Part 1)

Fire Engines "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" (Peel Session)
Steel Pulse "Jah Pickney (Rock Against Racism)" (Peel Session)
Even As We Speak "Falling Down The Stairs" (Peel Session)
Extreme Noise Terror "Bullshit Propaganda" (Peel Session)
Mighty Mighty "Built Like A Car" (Peel Session)
Stiff Little Fingers "Wasted Life" (Peel Session)
Voodoo Queens "Supermodel-Superficial" (Peel Session)
A Witness "Prince Microwave Bollard" (Peel Session)
Unseen Terror "Voice Your Opinion" (Peel Session)
Four Brothers "Vimbaya" (Peel Session)
The Slits "Shoplifting" (Peel Session)
The Primitives "She Don't Need You" (Peel Session)
Culture "Two Sevens Clash" (Peel Session)
Loop "Straight To Your Heart" (Peel Session)

#125

Virgil Enzinger & Mantra Of Madness "Elektron" (Virgil Enzinger Remix)
Immortal "Northern Chaos Gods"
The Orchids "Echos (Have Hope)"
Slowcoaches "Found Down"
Joker ft. Footsie "Marching Orders"
Fret "List Is Full"
Insolate "Obscure Object Of Desire"
Denise Rabe "By Doom"
P Brothers ft. Milano "What Kind Of Shit You Want?"
P Money "Road Rage 2"
Czarface & MF Doom "Meddle With Metal"
Pelle Carlberg "Metal To Metal"
BMX Bandits "Way Of The Wolf"
Sven Wittekind "Focus"

#124: S's "This Is A Test" (Volume 1)

*curated by our sometime guest DJ, the mysterious sweet soul sister S*

Wendy James "This Is A Test"
Girls Aloud "The Show"
The Flatmates "Trust Me"
The Primitives "Crash"
The Velvelettes "A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush"
TLC "Turntable"
Shop Assistants "I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You"
The Supremes "You Keep Me Hanging On"
Rosehips "Shouldn't Have To Say"
Slumber Party "Sooner Or Later"
Velocette "Get Yourself Together"
Amy Winehouse "Some Unholy War"
Sandie Shaw "Heaven Knows I'm Missing Him Now"
Would-be-Goods "Emmanuelle Beart"
The Ronettes "Be My Baby"

#123

Fret "Silent Neighbour"
E-A-Ski "Blast If I Have To"
The Catenary Wires "What About The Rings?"
Ask: Me & Bedrud "Quereinschlag" (Sophie Nixdorf Remix)
Airport Girl "Salinger Wrote"
Slam "Blue Dragon"
The Declining Winter "Company Required"
Nothing Clean "Thesis" / "Marked" / "What I Do" / "Self Help"
Ryuji Takeuchi "Sort Out"
James Dean Driving Experience "Never Means Enything"
Flowdan ft. Irah "Bodybag"
Bubblegum Splash! "The 18.10 To Yeovil Junction"
Gang Starr "Gotta Get Over"
Loop "Got To Get It Over"
Forward Strategy Group "Apex Trader"

#122

Awdha "This Fvcking Groove All Over My Head"
Sidetracked "Immobilized" / "Fatigue" / "Subsist" / "Trampled"
Mike Bourne "Wine Dark Sea Theme"
Chas & Dave "Roses Of Picardy"
The Declining Winter "Why Is It So Elusive?"
Asher Senator "Senator No Skin Up"
Half Man Half Biscuit "Alehouse Futsal"
Ryuji Takeuchi "Inestimable Variables"
Nothing Clean "I Can Tell" / "Mudchildren" / "Wear And Tear" / "Many Faces"
Third Eye Foundation "Procession For Eric"
Memory Drawings "Unknown Ending" (Declining Winter Remix)
Booty Slave & D.A.V.E. The Drummer "Asylum"
Fret "List Is Full"
Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

#121

Azure Blue "Whatever '18"
Septic Tank "Fucked"
The Primitives "Thru The Flowers"
Nicki Minaj "Chun-Li"
Chas & Dave "Nothing You Can Do"
Sidetracked "Deluded" / "Decide Your Fate" / "Wheel Slip" / "Yet To Cross"
Famous Problems "Stop Smiling"
The Declining Winter "Risk Of Collapsing Hinders"
YGG "Strikers"
Nothing Clean "Zero" / "Abcessive Compulsive" / "Hypochondriac" / "The Last Lock Breaks"
Flowdan ft. Irah "Bodybag"
Coke Bust "Plan B"
Biff Bang Pow! "Tell Laura I Love Her"

#120: Peel Session Obsession (Part 1)

Culture "Too Long In Slavery" (Peel Session)
Kenickie "Millionaire Sweeper" (Peel Session)
Dexy's Midnight Runners "Breaking Down The Wheels Of Heartache" (Peel Session)
The Field Mice "Anoint" (Peel Session)
Amayenge "Filiukotuleya" (Peel Session)
Bogshed "Raise The Girl" (Peel Session)
Where's The Beach? "Tripping The Luv Fantastic" (Peel Session)
Brilliant Corners "Arlington Villas" (Peel Session)
The Wedding Present "Felicity" (Peel Session)
Napalm Death "Deceiver" / "The Kill" / "Dead" / "You Suffer (Pt.2)" (Peel Session)

The Smiths "Miserable Lie" (Peel Session)
Aswad "Pressure" (Peel Session)
The Fall "Put Away" (Peel Session)
Talulah Gosh "In Love For The Very First Time" (Peel Session)
Carcass "Crepitating Bowel Erosion" (Peel Session)
Capital Letters "Fire" (Peel Session)
McCarthy "Frans Hals" (Peel Session)
Siouxsie & the Banshees "Love In A Void" (Peel Session)
New Order "Dreams Never End" (Peel Session)
Nirvana "Son Of A Gun" (Peel Session)

#119

Famous Problems "I'd Do It A Thousand Times"
Destroyer "New Age"
Chas & Dave "A Little Bit Of Me"
Four Brothers "Wapenga Nyo Bonus"
Nicki Minaj "Barbie Tingz"
Code Error "4"
Ceephax Acid Crew "Ceephax Acid"
New Order "Sunrise"
Nothing Clean "It's Not Time Yet" / "Simmer Down" / "Gone Wrong"
Bracken "We Put The Pop In Unpopular"
Septic Tank "Whitewash"
The Catenary Wires "Was That Love?"
Rotten Sound "One Hit Wonder"
Vanilla Ice "Rollin' In My 5.0"

#118

The New Year Project "Take The Bins Out"
Electro Hippies "Sheep" (Peel Session)
Sven Wittekind "Reaktor"
Code Error "3"
Third Eye Foundation "That's Why"
Napalm Death "Legacy Was Yesterday"
Aleja Sanchez "The Acheron Passage"
Chas & Dave "I Wonder In Whose Arms"
Flame 1 "Fog"
Nothing Clean "One Of Many" / "How?" / "Leave The Kids Alone"
Krag "Dizziness"
Nicki Minaj "Chun-Li"

#117

Flame 1 "Shrine"
BMX Bandits "Johnny Alucard"
Memoriam "Up In Flames"
Killa P & Filthy Gears "Rate Us"
Shop Assistants "All Day Long"
Ryuji Takeuchi "Ambivalence"
Hooked On Christ "Aspirations" / "TxBx" / "Box" / "Silence" / "In Plain Sight"
Gaze "Preppy Villain"
Jammer & Dizzle_AP "Wave & Jagga" (28 Hurtz Remix)
Code Error "6"
Math & Physics Club "Take A Number"
Riko Dan & Ziro "Alright Then"
Nothing Clean "Burnt And Buried" / "Slog" / "Face In The Dirt" / "Death Trap"

#116: Blood And Fyah - Saxon Studio International Vs. The International Staff Band Of The Salvation Army

Tippa Irie & Daddy Colonel “(Tippa Irie And The Colonel) Just A Speak”
ISB “The Liberator”
Daddy Sandy “Riddle Bubble”
ISB “Exeter Temple”
Smiley Culture “Cockney Translation”
ISB “Silver Star”
Papa Levi’s Set 2 (from “Coughing Up Fire!!!”)
ISB “The Firing Line”
Daddy Rusty “Roger The Dodger”
ISB “The Universal Message”
Daddy Colonel’s Set 2 (from “Coughing Up Fire!!!”)
ISB “Soldiers Of Christ”
Asher Senator “Asher In Court”

#115

bis "Tell It To The Kids"
Jeff Rushin "Between Minds"
Insolate "Mulberry Tree"
Code Error "2"
Maxsta & Filthy Gears "Boom & Bang"
X-302 "Black Block"
Peter & The Test Tube Babies "Banned From The Pubs"
3KZ "A Love Supreme"
Math & Physics Club "Past And In Between"
GHSTLY XXVII "Sniper Eye"
Sparky Dean "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
Memoriam "Soulless Parasite"
Japan "Visions Of China"
Cortechs "Ghost In The Machine"

#114: The ND Legacy

Top tunes of various ilks, all featuring ex- and current members of the great Napalm Death.

(Mick Harris has already had his own two-hour special)

Jesu “Christmas”

Cathedral “Soul Sacrifice”

Bjork “Isobel (Carcass Remix)”

Quoit “All Up In This Shit”

Lock-Up “Violent Reprisal”

JK Flesh “Exit Stance”

Gadget “Violent Hours (For A Veiled Awakening)”

Extreme Noise Terror “Jesus On My Side”

Mutation ft Mark E Smith “Mutations” 

Unseen Terror “Voice Your Opinion”

Napalm Death ft. Jello Biafra “The Great And The Good”

Nicholas Bullen “Proximity”

Dumbstruck “Pravda”

Gunshot “Mind Of A Razor (Jagged Edge Remix)”

S.S.S. “The Kill Floor”

Venomous Concept “Anti-Social”

Scorn “Name’s Not Down Not Coming In”

Terrorizer “Fear Of Napalm” 

#113

Dimmu Borgir "Interdimensional Summit"
Daddy Colonel "Lyric Bantan"
Daddy Rusty "Roger The Dodger"
Daddy Sandy "Vibes"
Bad Daddies "Roman Polanski" / "Dominique Strauss-Kahn"
Code Error "1"
Jeff Rushin "New Era"
Riko Dan & Joker "Hard Food"
Memoriam "Nothing Remains"
Math & Physics Club "Broadcasting Waves"
Insolate "Ponos"
Tippa Irie "All The Time The Lyric A Rhyme"
Jeff Walker "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)"

"No" encore:

Obituary "No"
Chuck D "No"
The Wedding Present "No"
Wandering Lucy "No"
Meghan Trainor "No"

#112

Mark Tranmer "Afternoons"
Gatecreeper "Dead Inside"

Daddy Sandy "Riddle Bubble"

Bedroom Eyes "Trondheim Harbour"

Sneakbo ft. Swavey, Mdargg, J. Boy & Bellzey "Fuck It"

Guy Blackman "Camming 4 Each Other"
The Third Eye Foundation "The Blasted Tower"

The Big However "I'm Yuri Gagarin"
Cortechs "Mind Grabber"
Math & Physics Club "Marblemouth"
Ghostface Killah ft Raekwon & Cappadonna "Iron Maiden"

Maria Savage "Me O Nada"

Leslie Lyrics "Put Back Your Truncheon"
Iron Reagan "Proudly Unaccountable"

Gunshot "Clear From Present Danger"

The Lovely Basement "Bristol Outside My Window"

#111: Featuring… Mick Harris

A special double-length session in awe of the great Mr H.

Lull “Illusion Of Unbroken Surface”

Napalm Death “No Mental Effort”

Mick Harris “Soundcoat”

Quoit “Going After”

Equations Of Eternity “Loa” (Slotek Remix)

Unseen Terror “Strong Enough To Change” (Peel Session)

Fret “No Rain”

Scorn “Out Of The Picture”

Matera “Pure Realism”

Extreme Noise Terror “Another Nail In The Coffin” (Peel Session)

Trace Decay “Caustic”

Painkiller “Deadly Obstacle Collage“ / “The Ladder” / “Trailmarker”

[intermission]

Mick Harris & Eraldo Bernocchi "Lobster Family"
The Weakener “50 Route”

Karl O’Connor & Mick Harris “Untitled” (Narcissus Trance)
Old “Scrape Remix 1 (Monomaniac 172 Mix)” (Mick Harris Remix)
Little Sap Dungeon “A Dinner Guest (Mick Harris Raptor D 7 Mix)”
Sutekh & Twerk “Trashy Novel” (Mick Harris Remix)
Surgeon “Waiting (Mick Harris Remake)”
Mick Harris “No Stoic Dub”

#110: Dance Clash: Amelia Fletcher vs... Gregory Webster

Tender Trap “Oh Katrina”

The Wedding Present “Getting Better”

The Catenary Wires “Intravenous”

The Bugbear “Let Me Dream”

Heavenly “Our Love Is Heavenly”

The Hit Parade “Christmas Tears”

Marine Research “Hopefulness To Hopelessness”

Talulah Gosh “Talulah Gosh”

Sportique “Don’t Believe A Word I Say”

Razorcuts “Sad Kaleidoscope”

Gregory Webster “Promised Land”

Forever People “Sometimes”

The Carousel “Locks And Bolts”

Saturn V “Fireball”

Rose Melberg & Gregory Webster “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)”

#109: Featuring... Mark E.Smith

A tribute. We'd been meaning to do a set like this for some time, but the announcement of Mark's death finally made us do it. R.I.P.

Mark E. Smith “The CD In Your Hand”

The Fall “Industrial Estate”

D.O.S.E. “Plug Myself In”

Elastica “How He Wrote Elastic Man”

Inch “Inch”

Inspiral Carpets “I Want You”

Von Sudenfed “Fledermaus Can’t Get It”

Edwyn Collins “Seventies Night”

Mild Man Jan “A Fistful Of Credits”

Coldcut “(I'm) In Deep”

Mutation “Relentless Confliction”

The Fall “Bill Is Dead”

Bonus lock-in tracks (not featuring M.E.S):

Shrag “Mark E. Smith”

The Jazz Butcher “Southern Mark Smith”

I, Ludicrous “I’ve Never Been Hit By Mark E. Smith”

#108

Half Man Half Biscuit "Westward Ho! Massive Letdown"
Capital Letters "Rasta Seh" (Peel Session)
Wu-Tang Clan "Only The Rugged Survive"
The Total Rejection "The Legendary Orgasm (Everything In My Mind Is Groovy)"
FUBAR "Tombs"
Culture "The International Herb"
Downpour "Culled From Four More"
Hummingbird of Death "I Think I'm On A Roll, But I Think It's Kinda Weak"
Trends & Boylan ft. Riko Dan "Krueger"
Math & Physics Club "Threadbare"
Watain "Nuclear Alchemy"
Quoit "All Up In That Shit"
A Certain Smile "Mexican Coke"
Phobia "Fuck Power Violence" / "Intimidator"
A New Line (Related) "Do Let Our Youth Go To Waste"

#107: "Mellow On"

More 'gently swaying' than dancing...

The Declining Winter "To Know Gospel"
Blueboy "Clearer"

Robin Williams "Phaeton" (from Britten, Six Metamorphoses For Solo Oboe)

Minkus "La Bayadere" Act II, No.33 Andante No.8 (Boyninge & English Chamber Orchestra) 

The Would Be Goods "Too Old"

The Popguns "Why You Fell In Love With Me"

F.S. Blumm "F für Flau"

Gregory Webster "Lonesome Town"

Burial "Dog Shelter"

Lovejoy "Penelope London"

Robert Forster "Demon Days"
Tramway "Technical College"

#106

The Pastels "Where The Trains Go" (Peel Session)
GZA/Genius ft Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa & ODB "Duel Of The Iron Mic"
Trembling Blue Stars "Moonlight On Snow"
Culture "Holy Mountain Zion"
Thrilled Skinny "Sweetest Kiss"
Go-Betweens "Head Full Of Steam"
Universal Soldiers "Minefields"
Math & Physics Club "April Showers"
Big L ft Kool G Rap "Fall Back"
Tanya Donnelly "Pretty Deep"
Scorn "Rained On Her Birthday"
The Lucksmiths "Broken Bones"
Extreme Noise Terror "Shock Treatment" (Peel Session)
Great Panoptique Winter "Wildness"