Side A
Artist	Song
MONTY NORMAN (UK) / PAUL OKENFOLD (UK)	(Norman) (Die James Bond Vs Oakenfeld Another Day) (2002)
BEASTIE BOYS	B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak (Beastie Boys) (1994)
PEACHES	Back It Up Boys (Peaches) (2003)
SANDIE SHAW (UK)	Monsieur Dupont (Bruhn / Callander) (1969)
SACHA DISTEL (France)	Scoubidou (Distel / Teze) (1960)
THE STREETS (UK)	You're Fit But You Know It (Skinner) (2004)
THE CHECKMATES (UK)	Yep (Hazelwood / Eddy) (1961)
RARE BREED	Beg, Borrow & Steal (Difrancesco / Zerato) (1966)
NEW SEEKERS (UK)	Beg, Steal Or Borrow (Hall / Cole / Wolfe) (1972)
DON RANDI	Hang Loose (Randi) (1966)
HEAVY TRASH	Yeah Baby (Spencer / Verta-Ray) (2005)
MISSY ELLIOTT	Pump It Up (Elliott / Mosley / Nelly) (2003)
ORCHESTER WERNER M_LLER (Germany)	Bodybuilding (Muller) (1971)
TYRANNOSAURUS REX (UK)	Graceful Fat Sheba (Bolan) (1968)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
MOBY	James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version) (Norman) (Tomorrow Never Dies) (2000)
SHIRLEY BASSEY (Wales) & PROPELLORHEADS (UK)	Goldfinger (Barry / Bricusse) (1964 / 2000)
STEREOLAB (UK / France)	Brigitte Fontaine (Gane / Sadier) (1996)
BRIGITTE FONTAINE / ARESKI BELKACEM (France)	Je Suis Venu Te Voir (Fontaine / Belkacem) (1977)
HEIDI BR_HL (Germany)	Berlin (Maxin) (1969)
THRILLS (Ireland)	Big Sur (Deasy / Thrills / Boyce / Hart) (2003)
McFLY (UK)	Broccoli (Fletcher / Bourne) (2005)
GENESIS (UK)	When The Sour Turns To Sweet (Genesis) (1969)
ROBBIE WILLIAMS (UK)	Trippin' (Williams / Duffy) (2005)
JULIETTE & THE LICKS	Comin' Around (Lewis / Perry) (2005)
FRANK ZAPPA	Valley Girl (Zappa / Zapp a) (1982)
DIVINE COMEDY (Ireland)	The Happy Goth (Hannon) (2004)
SLEEPY JEFFERS	Dumplin' Pie (Jeffers) (rec: 1957 rel:1999)

Comment:

Well, I never thought I'd see a Genesis track on one of my mixes let alone actually own a Genesis album. This being their first with a few bonus cuts thrown in and released by Dutch label Disky. I'm never sure about the whys or hows labels like Disky license stuff from the biggies. Is it because no one wants it at full price? I understand the 50 year copywright law which is why you can find say Thelonious Monk's early stuff on labels like Crimson at a fraction of the price for the same stuff on Blue Note. But that doesn't explain why a '69 release from a band as mega as Genesis is on Disky.

I snatched Heavy Trash from the bargain bin not knowing they're a Jon Spencer side-line. In England we don't have bargain bins we have sale racks. My local store (actually we don't call `stores' stores we call them shops - in the States would you say I'm a thrifty shopper or I'm a thrifty storer?) Oh & we don't have thrift stores we have charity shops. Then again are thrift stores charity shops? I don't want to be charitable in a chain store and I don't want to be thrifty in a charity shop.

The Checkmates were one of many British guitar groups inspired by Twang Meisters The Shadows. Twangsters thrived on filler - for every Apache there were dozens upon dozens of mid-temp snooze fests and unless you're a Twang obsessive, you're best bet is one of many Shadows compilation - 50 Golden Greats are more Twang than is necessary, the carat factor is 0. negligible in about 30 Greats. For other Twang inspired fodder like The Checkmates, there's a decent double from Castle titled Twang.

On a recent TV Show one pundit summised that Busted, and I think we can add McFly to the equation, were responsible for changing the face of Brit Pop or at least what pre-teens wanted from a pop band. McFly are edgier than Busted but if you were to play me 2 tracks side by side and ask me who was who, I wouldn't know. Busted may have beat McFly to the punch but McFly are still punching their poppy pogo at those Boy Bands whose managers are busy sifting through Partridge Family songbooks for their next hit. Busted split and re-named themselves Son Of Dork.
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