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Chumbawamba – Ugh! Your Ugly Houses! One Little Indian – 139 TP 7 Vinyl, 7", Single, 45 RPM, UK, 1995 info I've a had a short run going here of women artists and vocalists. I move too slowly for these to turn up during women's history month, but I figured I'd keep it up for a minute to help balance the over representation of men on these pages (and in pretty much every discussion of music in the world). Chumbawamba, was a mixed gender band, so maybe they don't completely fit the bill, but the women (and the group's feminist politics) were always upfront. Plus I threatened promised to someday rip more vinyl by them, so here we go... These two tracks come from Swingin' With Raymond , Chumbawamba's eighth LP and their last before the major label adventure that scored them status as a bar trivia one hit wonder answer. The album was split in two parts, corresponding with cover star Raymond's knuckle tattoos: Hate and Love. The "Hate" side had ...

Sade – The Remix Deluxe Epic – ESCA 5700 CD, Mini-Album, Compilation, Special Edition, Stereo Japan, Jun 2, 1993 info A CD this time, but a fairly rare one (around these parts anyway) with a couple buried treasures. A five track EP, apparently pulled together to promote a 1993 Japanese tour, Sade's The Remix Deluxe  was a Japan only release following up the previous year's  Love Deluxe album. Only one of the tracks was pulled from their then currently LP though, instead compiling together a handful of nice remixes and B sides onto a single disc. It's Sade. Do I really need to say anything else to make you want to listen? The disc opens with two remixes that had been released on vinyl singles the year before. First, Nellee Hooper adds a drum loop and ups the funk a bit on Feel No Pain . Sade's prayer for the strugglers of the Thatcher years is turned into something you could play late at night while you bring things down a little after a hop hop set in the club. (That...

Simply Red – Infidelity Elektra – 0-66807 Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, US, 1987 info For those who are already giving me side eye, here are three reasons Simply Red are potentially cooler than you remember: 1. Durutti Column - I'm pretty sure "Simply Red" eventually became the name for "Mick Hucknall plus whoever he has backing him these days." In their earlier years that we all remember them from though, they were real band with a pretty steady lineup. Three of the founding members of that lineup had also been founding members of the Durutti Column . "Durutti Column," by the time their first records were released in 1980, had essentially come to mean "Vini Reilly plus whoever he has backing him these days." But for a brief moment, Durutti Column had existed as a traditional band, assembled by the bosses over at Factory Records to play arty, post-punk rock. When Riley decided that wasn't for him and planned to quit the group, Factory inste...

Chumbawamba ‎– (Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave Agit Prop ‎– AGIT 666 Vinyl, 12", Maxi-Single, UK, 1992 info Ahem. Ok, let's deal with a few things up front.  1. Yes, they are the same band that did that one song in the late '90s .  2. No, that isn't their only song. They were together for 30 years, roughly 15 on either side of their one bonafide international hit. Started as a punk band before discovering samples and dance music and ended their career as a legit folk music group, but had a good long run as an anarchist pop band in the middle.  3. Yeah, I got it- you remember their song being  about drinking booze and getting up again . But I swear, they spent decades as serious radicals playing music . They funded and supported 100 causes, have the only 1990s pop music video I know of about shooting racists , and kept trying to figure out what a pop band could contribute to the movements . (It's not in the video, but at that same awards show, after...