Now you’ve gone and left me and there’s nothing here,
But a tenner in my pocket and a fridge full of beer,
There’s an aRRmy around the country, we’re all stuck in our rooms
It takes a lot of preparation to make a move.
1 Foot Soldiers (Star-Spangled Funky) Funkadelic
2 A Brighter Beat Malcolm Middleton
3 On My Shoulders The Dø
4 Brave Tin Soldiers Sarah Nixey
5 The Happiest Place on Earth Desaparecidos
6 Soldier’s Grin Wolf Parade
1 Marching Song Esben & The Witch
2 Army of Ancients Dr. Dog
3 Intervention Arcade Fire
4 Napoleon At Waterloo White Hinterland
5 Tin Omen Skinny Puppy
1 Barnacled Warship Johnny Flynn
2 The First Vietnamese War The Black Angels
3 Emile’s Vietnam In The Sky Elvis Perkins
4 Me And The Major Belle & Sebastian
5 Army Of Me Björk
6 Throw Down Your Arms The Maytones
1 Army Corps Of Architects Death Cab for Cutie
2 Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect The Decemberists
3 His Master’s Voice Monsters Of Folk
4 Bright Yellow Gun Throwing Muses
5 Marlene On the Wall Suzanne Vega
1 Soldier Boy (Kill Em) [feat. B Dolan] Scroobius Pip
2 It Takes A Seven Nation Army To Hold Us Back Apathy Feat. Emilio Lopez
15 thoughts on “there’s and aRRmy around the country”
That’s a fine opening set. I thought I’d be left with A Brighter Beat to nom on Monday morning – I should’ve known better. Excellent justification. Nice shout for The Dø and for the Suzanne Vega. Has nobody gone for the obvious one by her that tells you never to question authority when you’re in the army? I think I’ll have to nom a Finnish marching song, which is pretty downbeat apart from its line about soldiers being able to get the girls, as a reply to The Dø. Cheerio.
The Dø is great – look forward to the Finnish marching song – I came up with a brilliant set list of songs mentioning marching – they let me down by not mentioning the army.
Ah put a couple up (says he who is trying to svoid posting stuff). A bit of square bashing is what the army does best. In fact, it’s integral to the establishment of discipline and unity. The army must have a marching song.
Hey! Them’s my tees in the header photee.
Once again gives me the chance to thank the mighty Shane for his efforts, which are much, much, MUCH more appreciated than we often manage to say.
And those thanks come from Darcey too, who thinks it’s ever so cool that her name is on a “real” T-shirt.
You are the first exclusive person to have the complimenting playeRR and guru shirts – for anyone interested – if you click on the first small picture in EACH set – you get the gallery of:
playeRR shirts produced so far.
guru shirts produced so far.
and the last set is the artwork before being placed on t-shirts.
got to see what happens in the new year as where my printer bloke is/could be moving – I need to set up my own workshop but don’t have the time/ money/ space as yet.
But I CAN still do them for anyone who wants them.
lots of fun so far.
we rented a bungalow in a retirement street in Bournemouth when Rabies – the album this Skinny Puppy track was released – we had hard of hearing neighbours on 3 sides of the building and an allotment just over the road – free food from the old people with no effort and they couldn’t hear us playing EBM music until 5AM every night – ace times.
we set up a recording room with early samplers and old school synths – and produced a magazine reviewing this type of music – so had free CDs sent to us constantly – someone had to steal a CD player to listen to them. My room had mattresses wall to wall and a toaster on the window sill.
funniest thing was when we got raided one time and a couple who’d been fumbling about ‘worse for wear’ panicked and hid in a walk in cupboard. Trouble was the boy had been wearing an illuminous condom – didn’t do me any favours trying to talk to the police ‘straight faced’ when they slid open the doors to see that wiggling about in the dark.
they left the place pretty quickly after that – I think just so they could stay professional and piss themselves laughing out of our sight.
Possible not the memories I’m supposed to have from a song referencing the 1989 Tiananmen uprising and massacre, the My Lai massacre of 1968, and the Kent State shootings of 1970.
Great 3rd set. I’ve been listening to some Black Angels lately, loved that one. Elvis Perkins was lovely, and the Maytones was gorgeous. I’m not the world’s biggest Bjork fan, but that one was good.
4th set was gorgeous. I can usually take or leave Death Cab,they can become tedious. But that was lovely. Decemberists pick of the set, and Suzanne i knew and sounded perfect slotted in here.
The last two didn’t do much for me, probably because i was in too mellow of a mood after the last set.
Thanks Shane! Will be a donding on the mothership.
I could have sequenced this better – with the last two and skinny puppy livening up the middle a bit.
but Scroobius Pip is there because it fits – it’s not his best track.
and the 7 nation army mix just because I thought the perfect original was already zedded.
death cab work better for me in mixes – then they can really subtly hit the right spot.
The Skinny Puppy is great. I was going to nom some Ministry but saneshane has got the heavy-industrial-electro-throatshreddingsinging-spot sewn up.
Great story. I can just imagine the funk of that room with its wall to wall mattresses and glowing condoms.
…Shane, thanks for the great t-shirt, and some mighty fine mixes here, keep up the good work! cheers from Holland, where TonNL is enjoying a nice Westmalle Tripel after a night of all kinds of work-related problems and challenges, oh, the joy of being on-call for the weekend…
That’s a fine opening set. I thought I’d be left with A Brighter Beat to nom on Monday morning – I should’ve known better. Excellent justification. Nice shout for The Dø and for the Suzanne Vega. Has nobody gone for the obvious one by her that tells you never to question authority when you’re in the army? I think I’ll have to nom a Finnish marching song, which is pretty downbeat apart from its line about soldiers being able to get the girls, as a reply to The Dø. Cheerio.
The Dø is great – look forward to the Finnish marching song – I came up with a brilliant set list of songs mentioning marching – they let me down by not mentioning the army.
Ah put a couple up (says he who is trying to svoid posting stuff). A bit of square bashing is what the army does best. In fact, it’s integral to the establishment of discipline and unity. The army must have a marching song.
Hey! Them’s my tees in the header photee.
Once again gives me the chance to thank the mighty Shane for his efforts, which are much, much, MUCH more appreciated than we often manage to say.
And those thanks come from Darcey too, who thinks it’s ever so cool that her name is on a “real” T-shirt.
You are the first exclusive person to have the complimenting playeRR and guru shirts – for anyone interested – if you click on the first small picture in EACH set – you get the gallery of:
playeRR shirts produced so far.
guru shirts produced so far.
and the last set is the artwork before being placed on t-shirts.
got to see what happens in the new year as where my printer bloke is/could be moving – I need to set up my own workshop but don’t have the time/ money/ space as yet.
But I CAN still do them for anyone who wants them.
lots of fun so far.
I’m going to have to take these set by set i think, and I’m with Fuel, ace first set. With Malcolm Middleton followed by The Dø the stars of it.
me
Whoa, Skinny Puppy was awesome, best thing i’ve heard all week. Blew the other tunes in the set right out of the player.
we rented a bungalow in a retirement street in Bournemouth when Rabies – the album this Skinny Puppy track was released – we had hard of hearing neighbours on 3 sides of the building and an allotment just over the road – free food from the old people with no effort and they couldn’t hear us playing EBM music until 5AM every night – ace times.
we set up a recording room with early samplers and old school synths – and produced a magazine reviewing this type of music – so had free CDs sent to us constantly – someone had to steal a CD player to listen to them. My room had mattresses wall to wall and a toaster on the window sill.
funniest thing was when we got raided one time and a couple who’d been fumbling about ‘worse for wear’ panicked and hid in a walk in cupboard. Trouble was the boy had been wearing an illuminous condom – didn’t do me any favours trying to talk to the police ‘straight faced’ when they slid open the doors to see that wiggling about in the dark.
they left the place pretty quickly after that – I think just so they could stay professional and piss themselves laughing out of our sight.
Possible not the memories I’m supposed to have from a song referencing the 1989 Tiananmen uprising and massacre, the My Lai massacre of 1968, and the Kent State shootings of 1970.
Great 3rd set. I’ve been listening to some Black Angels lately, loved that one. Elvis Perkins was lovely, and the Maytones was gorgeous. I’m not the world’s biggest Bjork fan, but that one was good.
4th set was gorgeous. I can usually take or leave Death Cab,they can become tedious. But that was lovely. Decemberists pick of the set, and Suzanne i knew and sounded perfect slotted in here.
The last two didn’t do much for me, probably because i was in too mellow of a mood after the last set.
Thanks Shane! Will be a donding on the mothership.
I could have sequenced this better – with the last two and skinny puppy livening up the middle a bit.
but Scroobius Pip is there because it fits – it’s not his best track.
and the 7 nation army mix just because I thought the perfect original was already zedded.
death cab work better for me in mixes – then they can really subtly hit the right spot.
The Skinny Puppy is great. I was going to nom some Ministry but saneshane has got the heavy-industrial-electro-throatshreddingsinging-spot sewn up.
Great story. I can just imagine the funk of that room with its wall to wall mattresses and glowing condoms.
toast crumbs – I remember toast crumbs – mostly.
…Shane, thanks for the great t-shirt, and some mighty fine mixes here, keep up the good work! cheers from Holland, where TonNL is enjoying a nice Westmalle Tripel after a night of all kinds of work-related problems and challenges, oh, the joy of being on-call for the weekend…