Artist	Song
McAlmont & Butler	Falling
The Shins	Turn on Me
Sleepy Jackson	Devil was in my Yard
Jarvis Cocker	Don't Let Him Waste your Time
Belle & Sebastian	Lazy Line Painter Jane
Ronan Keating	Friends in Time
Spiritualized	Stop your Crying
Ruby Suns	My Ten Years on Auto Pilot
Camera Obscura	Come Back Margaret
Malibus	It Don't Mean Much Now
Pulp	Something Changed
Marah	Freedom Park
The Brother Kite	Waiting for the Time to Be Right
Johnny Boy	College
Richard Hawley	Oh my Love
Lucky Soul	Struck Dumb
The Kissaway Trail	Smother + Evil = Hurt
Starsailor	Silence is Easy

Comment:

I have finally gotten around to compile one more installment - this third volume picks up where the two others left off. It's remarkable how many modern Spector soundalikes there are out there!!! And I guess I've managed to pull off the only compilation in the history of music where Ronan Keating sits fairly comfortably alongside Jarvis Cocker and Belle & Sebastian. :-D

Remember, I'm always on the look-out for more stuff in this genre so any recommendations, either posted here or sent via e-mail, would be highly welcomed.

The final track, Starsailor's majestic 'Silence is Easy' was of course produced by the mono madman himself but since it fits the theme so well I thought it should be included. I've heard many Wall of Sound devotees dismiss it as a weak showing for Spector's talent and a missed opportunity for him to flex his muscles yet again, but I'll have to say that I really, really, really love it. It must be those soft chimes that surface mid-way through the song that gets me every time I hear it.

On a final note, I wonder why Spector didn't sue Cocker over 'Don't Let Him Waste your Time' - it is a blatant rip-off of the Spector-written & produced 'Only You Know' that Dion sang in the 70s. And may I say, a good one at that.

The search for more songs continues....

Back to Mono and over and out.

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