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Episode 1 – Original upload 7.2.16.

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Needle on record
86% VINYL FRIENDLY.  Impressive.

Lyric of Playlist 1:

‘I wanted to change the world, but I could not even change my underwear. And when the shit got really, really out of hand, I had it all the way up to my hairline, which keeps receding like my self-confidence, as if I ever had any of that stuff anyway’.

Eloquent.

00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Untitled – Unreleased demo. Edit of the only take – 1983

Cliff Peacock: ‘Written on a Tascam 4 track (cassette tape that could be mixed down to stereo for live work) at 2 Herbert Avenue, Leicester. Equipment used: CR 8000 drum machine with crappy preset Casio PT series through a WEM Copicat (Echo Delay). Drums recorded first, then slowed down, so the beat would be slower while I played keyboards (although it sounds like trumpet). Everything running at the correct speed is what you hear. I never recorded the vocals on this track, as far as I know‘. The Flamingos released four singles, including two 12″ers for New Order manager, Rob Gretton’s label, Rob’s Records.

00.37

NEW ORDER – Video 5-8-6 (Edit) – 12″ – Touch – 1997

I first met Jon Wozencroft in the very early eighties. By introducing him to New Order I unknowingly got to play a very minor part in the trajectory this track initially went on.

He and partner, Mike Harding were in the early throws of starting their label, Touch and the introduction led to the band offering him Prime 5-8-6, (as the track was initially known) for inclusion on the label’s then upcoming first release, a  v/a cassette, titled Feature Mist. Released in December ’82, I played this edit off the tape a number of times at our club nights at Winkles. Onwards to June ’06 and the book launch for Peter Saville’s Factory Records, The Complete Graphic Album at London’s Central Saint Martins, and myself, Jon and The Beloved’s Jon Marsh – another massive early admirer of the band, I’d also known him (pre The Beloved) since the early days of darting around the UK catching Manchester’s finest – spent a couple of pints in a pub beforehand pouring over New Order’s career, including a couple of minutes paying homage to this hissing and crackling, fat sounding electronic monster – the full version being 23mins long. For the history of Video 5-8-6, over to Jon W…

Video 5-8-6

The recording was originally made as the soundtrack to a video heralding the opening of the Haçienda nightclub, which took place on 26 June 1982. It was recorded by Bernard and Steve on an early Apple II computer and in many ways is the blueprint for ‘Blue Monday’. The Haçienda title (on the cassette in manager, Rob Gretton’s handwriting) seems to have suddenly changed at the last minute to ‘5–8–6’.

This story might be boring if you are not a New Order fan. However, it is funny, because when Mike Harding and I went to meet Rob and the band in Norwich Pennies nightclub in May 1982, they premiered the vocal version of ‘5–8–6’ that would be on the then upcoming 2nd Peel session (1 June) and Power Corruption and Lies LP. So, the title had to be amended again.

I was helping out Mark Johnson at the time; he was writing a book about Joy Division and New Order. For all its flaws, it was one of the first in a steady stream since then – ‘An Ideal for Living’, it was called, after the first Joy Division record. Anyway, he got it into his head that the track should be called ‘Prime 5–8–6’ and it annoyed the hell out of me that a lot of people thought that was the title, once it was printed as such in his book.

What actually happened… I had a conversation with Steve, Bernard and Rob, in the upper circle of The Venue in Blackpool, when they played there on the August bank holiday, the 30th, and we settled on ‘Video 5–8–6’. We were very much into video then as a way of extending the filmic element, but it’s as well to remember how difficult it was to get moving image work made and distributed at that time. In my mind, cassettes have always been the companion to VHS video.

That’s one aspect of how it goes, or went. This is another. Finding out about New Order concerts after Heaven (London) in January 1981 became just a bit more open. Bristol Trinity Hall in February, two of us were hopeful but we hadn’t got tickets. We took the fast train and late afternoon we lingered outside the church anticipating. Dec helped us. “Hang on a minute”. He went inside and got Rob out, it was sorted, and we got to see the soundcheck. This was quite some while before Touch kicked into action. 1981 was about laying the groundwork.

Dec and I bumped into each other every time I made it to a concert. I was always jealous of him to have got to as many gigs as he managed to drive to. I was also jealous of Duncan (Haysom), who recorded so many of the Joy Division and early New Order days so brilliantly. I was astonished that I was actually sitting next to him at ULU when he recorded that epic JD performance, one eventually officially published in 2007. That’s for another time.

On 4 March 1982 I’d decided to go for it. I remember it because it was my Dad’s birthday. I got the Granada TV telephone number from directory enquiries – I knew that Factory boss, Tony Wilson, worked there. I rang up, and asked to be put through to TW. Amazingly I was. Suddenly, I’m on the line with the man himself. He was most generous, and after a pause he gave me Rob’s phone number – “He’s their manager… ”. Tony went on to describe to me, how New Order were like “Witnessing a car crash ­- they can veer completely off the road when they play live”. I was listening to this as if I was on the hard shoulder of the motorway – a recent personal experience – and not on the phone at all. It felt more like a helicopter.

So, I learn they are playing at Leeds on Tuesday, and Newcastle on Thursday. I make arrangements, thinking it better to appear and speak in person, rather than rely on phones. This is the difference, to be face to face. Arriving in Leeds, we get to Tiffany’s (a disco venue) and buy tickets, and decide that the ambience is not good for us. We decide to go to a pub. Meeting an old friend, going to the concert, she has some good pleasure. Do I fancy some? OK. We have come this far. As and when, fired up, we eventually enter the venue. We arrive in perfect time – before New Order come on stage – walking over carpets and swerving like squirrels to get near the front. The first song is a new one, ‘Who Killed the Irish’. It is truly mind-blowing. Afterwards, I am too blown away to want to try going backstage, anyway.

Newcastle was a second home, I was at University in the North East at Durham from ’77 to ’81. The city would become a big thing, the relationship with Chris Watson, founding member of Cabaret Voltaire and various incarnations of The Hafler Trio. Also, my frequent trips to see gigs at The Mayfair ballroom – the original Human League, the Liverpool bands, and the Clash…

I digress. We arrived at The Mayfair with recording gear and a fresh head. It was another great concert; indeed whenever New Order started with ’In A Lonely Place’ you knew it was going to be a special night. The gig ends, and I see Dec at the bar and I remind him of my plan. As if by magic, Hooky comes out of the dressing room and Dec introduces us. In a moment, I’m ushered in there, and get the opportunity to meet the band and Rob, and I tell them what I’m hoping to do. Having been granted a backstage experience, by the time I’m finished it’s 2am and Dec and his mate, Budge are burning to get back home. I get a lift to the A1 junction with the Durham slip road, and they drop me off. It’s pissing with rain. It’s a 4 mile walk to where I am staying. One of the most exhilarating.

Three days later, I ring Rob on the number he’s given me. “They’ll do it”, is what he says. I can’t believe it.

Next step – next phone call, Rob says they have something “experimental” that I might be interested in. I get invited to meet the band in Britannia Row studios. I’d no idea what this “experimental” track might be. Bernard and Rob said to me that if I didn’t fancy it, they could record a song in the studio for Touch.

Of course I was hoping that it could be ‘Who Killed the Irish’ (it lives now as ‘Ultraviolence’), but I didn’t dare say as much. “Experimental” was exactly what we wanted, and we were afraid of recording costs we couldn’t match.

So, hook or by crook, Rob said he’d give us a tape at the upcoming Norwich Pennies concert in May. The concert featured the debut of ‘5-8-6’. Rob gives me the Maxell tape, and it burns in my pocket through the concert. All is well. Mike and I get in the car and head for London. I can’t put the cassette in until we’ve cleared the one-way systems and got on the main road.

What – The – Fuck   ? ?

We didn’t expect this in the slightest. Sounded like someone playing with a computer. What’s that about? Fuck. Where’s the music?

So, I had to put it down for a while, like a bottle of vintage wine. See if the taste improves over time.

June came, and it was announced – the opening of the Hacienda, with New Order the star attraction, of course. Dec and I met up for the soundcheck, by that time we had each other’s radar. He had parked his car under the arches of some gothic Victorianism of a bridge, around the corner from this new nightclub location in Whitworth St. I put on the cassette and we sat back and listened.

What – The – Fuck   ? ?

As editor, you imagine expecting a piece that lasts around 5 minutes. It turns out to be 23 minutes? New Order deserve some credit for this pushing of duration! We didn’t. We had to edit it, to fit around other things that could be part of a C60 cassette. How to house this thing…

Fast forwarding, it was a joy to be able to publish the full version in 1997 on vinyl and CD. It took a long while, because as far as London Records (the buyers of Factory Records’ catalogue on the label’s demise) were concerned, the track didn’t exist. This wasn’t on their list of ‘assets’. We did sort it out, eventually. The greatest help was making the ‘Heart and Soul’ box-set, thanks to the involvement with Rob, Jon Savage, and Peter Saville, plus getting to know Andrew Robinson.

Making the vinyl 12” for ‘Video 5-8-6’, we came to be at Porky’s cutting studio in London’s Shaftesbury Avenue. We didn’t have a B-side for it. I had thought about this the night before, and had an idea that Joy Division’s ‘As You Said’ could be the perfect counterpoint.

A great thing happened.

Once we had mastered ‘Video 5-8-6’ for vinyl I rang Rob up and asked him if it might be a good idea to use the JD track as the B-side. He said “Yes” straight away. We didn’t have an idea about the copyright situation but Rob said that it wasn’t a concern. In retrospect, I think this was a wonderful example of his ‘Fuck the major labels’ direction. So, I persuaded George Peckham (famous cutting engineer, he was ‘Porky’) that we should cut this as a 7” within the 12” frame. He said he could do that, and he did.

‘Video 5-8-6’ we came to see as an artwork. It’s an exemplar of how a collaboration takes shape. Jon W

New Order - Touch snippet in Jamming #14

Jamming, #14.

From idea to fruition, this podcast took over three years to get here, but whatever, New Order and Video 5-8-6 were always going to kick off Episode One. It’s very unlikely any other track on any episode of 41 Rooms will carry as much wordage as here, but then this is New Order… and from their most groundbreaking period.

New Order Video 586

06.37

RED SNAPPER – Suckerpunch – Making Bones, 2LP – Warp – 1998

A wonderfully menacing rumble, that along with the next handful of tracks, seem to carry a sense of unease, foreboding, etc. A gig with Rae & Christian at London’s Astoria, (in ’99 maybe?) stands out in the memory.

Red Snapper Suckerpunch

10.55

GREYMATTER – Give It To Me Slow – v/a 12″ – Wolf Music – 2011

The sound of tension. Definitely 21st century music. Some info here.

Greymatter Give It To Me Slow

14.43

MUSICOLOGY – Preminition (sic?) – Outlook 12″ EP – B12 – 1992

More ‘edginess’ and 24 years on, it’s still sounding fresh. 300 copies on green vinyl.

Musicoly Preminition

17.59

MARK PRITCHARD (feat STEVE SPACEK) – Turn It On – 12″ – Sonar Kollectiv – 2007

And the undercurrent of… ‘something’ not right… rolls on. Fabulous. Steve Spacek and Sonar Kollectiv are both always worth checking in on.

Mark Pritchard Turn It On

23.23

BURIAL – Raver – Untrue, 2LP – Hyperdub – 2007

Will Bevan and his whispers from an uneasy world raised the bar. One of the millennium’s great albums, I spent a summer’s afternoon in the Holly Bush pub in Hampstead, London a few years back catching up with already mentioned Touch label man, Jon Wozencroft and we nearly got emotional talking about Burial. An 18th century pub and more 21st century sounds.

Burial Raver

27.19

HAIRY DIAMOND – Torture – ‘unofficial’ 7″ – PPQ – 2002/3

The welcome return of Dave Robbins’ Hairy Diamond persona with another very groovy downbeat 45. This time Jose Feliciano’s ‘You’re Takin’ Hold Of Me’ gets the chop, with some sleazy horns and a suitably fat bass line… a very handy little tune… Dom Servini, Straight No Chaser, Vol 2, #24, Spring ’03.

I remember Gilles Peterson spinning an earlier (demo?) take of this on one of his radio shows in the late ’90s, so the track certainly gestated over a few years. He even had DR on the show with him at the time. Whatever the legalities, the world of sampling and mash ups does burst with talent and some cool tunes.

Hairy Diamond Torture

30.14

A CERTAIN RATIO – Mind Made Up – Mind Made Up, 2LP – Mute – 2018

As relevant now as they ever were, everyone should see this band at least once. After getting New Order to Bedford in 1981 I made a couple of attempts through Tony Wilson to get ACR to the town but it never happened *. With shout outs to Donald and the lads for their twisted future funk, a vinyl version (purple coloured) finally came via the album’s re-release on Mute in 2018, but back in 2008 it had been CD only for its initial release on Le Son Du Maquis and I’d bought a digital blank label promo off Martin Moscrop at a Dingwalls, London gig. That’s right… I got an ACR CDR. 🙂

* 2024 update: Bedford promoter and long time mate, Kev Bailey gave me an early heads up before booking the band for Esquires, so I flew over in May for a memorable night.

ACR Live Review

A Record Collector review of mine.

35.20

DOJOJI – Quincunx (Look Out) – Dojoji, mini LP – Plexus – 1984

Whatever the reason, this very fine EP/mini LP was slightly lost. After the Au Pairs split up in 1983 Lesley Woods briefly joined and fronted this Dutch band, with some Au Pairs work-in-progress crossing over. ‘On it’ in more ways than one, the politics of the day were always in Woods’ sights, so much so she later became a human rights lawyer. In 2015 – albeit in tentative, solo mode – she returned to performing live. Very pissed off I didn’t know about it before I left England. One for a future diary.

Dojoji Quincunx 2

41.34

HUSBAND – Love Song – 12″ – Robot Elephant – 2011

Simple but effective, a Record Store Day release from a duo from Bologna, and more wonderful green vinyl. Only 200 copies pressed of this one.
Husband Love Song

45.38

THE KILLS – Heart Is A Beating Drum – Blood Pressures, LP – Domino – 2011

Driving, dirty and low-slung, listen out for the table tennis/ping pong being played in the middle. Possibly a tea break in the recording session.

The KIlls Heart Is A Beating drum

49.32

ALEX SMOKE – Never Want To See You Again – Paradolia, LP – Soma – 2006

Beautiful, building and ‘soulful’ techno. I’ll always want to hear this again.

Alex Smoke Never Want To See You Again

55.06

THE IRONWEED PROJECT – Let’s Swim Like Whales – Dustbowl, promo CD only – Fat Northerner – 2007

To date, the IP haven’t exactly been prolific, though 2016 looks more hopeful. There will have to be a pretty good reason for a CD to get a visual on this site, and as of this show it’s because there’s no listing for this promo (only?) album on Discogs. So, should you feel so inclined, this will be a pig to find. A few cracking videos on uuutuuube, there’s some band info here, and like many bands, they will crop up on 41 Rooms more than once.

Ironweed Project Dustbowl

58.17

PYLON – Volume – Gyrate, LP – Armageddon – 1980

Not sure quite how it happened but I missed out on these boys and girl first time around. A trio of top tune(s) on the album.

Pylon Volume

01.02.40

LORA LOGIC – Hiss and Shake – Pedigree Charm, LP – Rough Trade – 1982

Her saxophone and vocals passed through X-Ray Spex and kick-started Essential Logic. Definitely a fine lineage.

Lora Logic Hiss and Shake

01.07.49

SMOOSH – Make It Through – B-side, La Pump 7″ – Pattern 25 – 2005

500 copies. The combined ages of sisters, Asya and Chloe when they made this single was… 22! And they’d made another single the year before! Some going! As of early 2016, they are now recording under the name Chaos Chaos.

Smoosh Make It Through

01.10.44

JOHN GRANT – Queen of Denmark – Queen of Denmark, 2LP – Bella Union – 2010

‘Lyric of the Podcast’ winner (’twas highly likely), John Grant is one class act. Fifteen or so years into a career begun in the Czars, his time finally came with going solo and releasing this album. His lyrical style is maybe no better demonstrated than by this track, and label boss and ex-Cocteau Twinner, Simon Raymonde is mightily chuffed to have him in his label’s camp.

John Grant Queen of Denmark

01.15.16

FAKESENSATIONS – Selfish Girls Stay Thin – We Love You… So Love Us Three, v/a promo only 12” – We Love You – 2004

This is one great-but-lost pieces of pop music. At least it made it to vinyl on this 12″ promo of a CD compilation of the same name. Somehow I heard it at the time but it really didn’t get a look in with Joe Public. Must be hard writing a gem like Selfish…  and have it stall. Where do you go from there? However, 70,000+ views on uuutuuube suggests the ‘getting it wrong’ bit was maybe done by others elsewhere. A bunch of F’s other songs have also been ‘lost’… partly because they rested on Myspace, and still did back when this show originally uploaded.

Fakesensations Selfish Girls Stay Thin

01.18.58

GLOBO – WHIP IT – 7” – Hydrogen Dukebox – 2007

Initially active in the mid ’90s, Globo’s very neat take on the Devo classic comes from a second burst of energy in 2007-2008. The 1min 12secs outro is surplus to requirements, so ignore it. I did.

Globo Whip It

01.22.24

LEFTFIELD – Swords – Rhythm and Stealth, 2LP – Hard Hands – 1999

This completely blew me away when I first heard it. Epic.

Leftfield Swords

01.26.54

RUDE AWAKENING – The Silent Boatman – Thank You For Not Buying My Album, CD only – The Third Movement – 2008

Well, I might have bought the album… if it had been on vinyl. RA is, apparently, the ‘dark side’ of one Sebastian Hoff. Alex Guinness’ portrayal of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (from Fall of the Roman Empire) gets to float over this bruising two minutes, possibly the only time the two will get namechecked on 41 Rooms. As it happens, this will not be the last track called Silent Boatman to feature on 41 Rooms.

Rude Awakening

‘There is a great truth we have not yet devined… ‘ indeed, and it’s coming up next…

01.28.35

NEW ORDER – Truth – Movement, un-eq’d one-sided acetate, LP – The Town House – 1981

Very bizarrely, I happened upon and bought this acetate on the way to a New Order gig, in Tolworth, London, March ’83. Stopping off in Portobello Road on the way, it was on a market stall. When I showed it to NO’s manager, Rob Gretton later at the soundcheck he told me ‘Rough’ translated as uneq’d, and that there would be two or three (at most) such copies in existence. Early in 2015 Hooky added to the intrigue, calling me in a bout of research for his upcoming New Order book, Substance. He’d been reading through my From Heaven to Heaven – New Order Live… and happened on the paragraph I had devoted to the acetate. He seemed very confident it had actually been Martin Hannett’s copy. I’m sure the Vikings (a shout out to this bunch of heavyweight New Order fans) will be on it as to the differences in any of the acetate versions played on 41 Rooms, from those officially released on side 1 of Movement. Without doubt, one of the two most valuable pieces of ‘vinyl’ I own… and the other will crop up on a show here at some point.

New Order Truth

01.32.54

LONELADY – Marble – Nerve Up, LP – Warp – 2010

I’m a big, big fan of this lady. Intriguing to watch someone who, though only born in the middle of the post punk era, has been so influenced by it. Of even more interest however is watching where she’s taking things from here. A star… whether she sells a truck load of records/music or not. And big thanks to Julie for 41 Rooms’ first podcast iD.

Lonelady Nerve Up

01.38.03

AU PAIRS – We’re So Cool – Playing With A Different Sex, LP – Human – 1981

Lesley Woods back again, this time with her better known comrades in arms – and one of the bands that influenced Lonelady above. Funky as f***, this got played more than most on my watch at Winkles, and the Au Pairs’ catalogue maybe resonates louder now than it did back in the day.

Au Pairs We're So Cool

01.41.29

JOSÉE HURLOCK – Invisible – Unreleased – ? – ?

Josée’s best known for being the vocalist/lyricist/co-writer on Hefner’s 2000 album, Residue, (the British Hefner, not the US indie one). Including a handful of top tracks it’s one of my albums of the last twenty years of electronica-meets-beats-meets-jazz/neo-soul. Her only solo album to date, Lost Souls Dancing, is nearly as good, too. Invisible, however, cropped up somewhere else – online and only briefly – and then disappeared off line and without trace. A tragedy. This is a storming tune, pre-dating the likes of Jessie Ware by an age. Release it somehow, Josée … oh, and make another Hefner or ‘kindred spirit’ solo album, while you’re at it.

Tumbleweed

01.45.10

LE TIGRE – Hot Topic – 7″ – Wiiija – 1999.

7″ heaven again. Fronted by ex-Bikini Kill’er Kathleen Hanna, this is cheery, cheery stuff. Namechecking lots of peeps in a song is most probably in someone’s ‘Tricks To Get Your Song Noticed’ manual… and in flagging up an abundance of influential women, Le Tigre did just that.

Le Tigre Hot Topic

Sonically, not a million miles away from…

01.48.44

B-52’s – Is That You Mo-Dean? – Good Stuff, LP – Reprise – 1992.

Being the early ’90s, labels got a bit thrifty with where to release vinyl formats of their artists’ albums. So, it was Germany for my Good Stuff album. Must grab the 7″ sometime. The B-52’s… collectively, a very idiosyncratic and iconic vocal sound… and Winkles’ favourites in our club night years.

B-52s Is That You Mo-Dean?

01.52.54

LONDON GRAMMAR – Metal & Dust (Switch Remix) – Metal & Dust Sampler, promo CD only – Columbia – 2013.

The first remix on 41 Rooms and the newest tune here, to date. Not sure how groundbreaking LG’s third album might be… and they’ve only made one so far – but that’s a bit of a voice Hannah Reid’s got there. More classy pop and no bad thing.

London Grammar - Meta & Dust (Switch Remix) - 41 Rooms - show 1

01.56.43

THOMAS LEER – Control Yourself – 7″, Heartbeat B-side – 1984.

Although still making music, Leer’s vocals have been lost to the wider world, which is an absolute tragedy. His only real solo shot at mainstream success – 1985’s The Scale of Ten album on Arista – was awash with quality, and this version of Control Yourself is majestic, easily trouncing the take on the 12″.

Thomas Leer Control Yourself

27 thoughts on “Episode 1 – Original upload 7.2.16.”

  1. Well Dec, as already discussed, I got caught out on this so had to play catch up and also as discussed, I plan to add some comment on all the shows, so here goes and bear with…
    Firstly, love the design, don’t know how many groats you paid for it, but worth every bit of your spend, I’d say. Capped obviously, by the Heronscroft hi-fi. Well, I say HI- fi, that’s perhaps strtching it a bit!
    To the tunes: Nice choice for intro music, one of the boys’ understated moments, captured so much of them and of what was about at the time; a deserved acknowledgment of talent, I’d say. A well-considered choice of 1st N.O. track, the playlist blurb adds full colour to it too. For me, other highlights included Mark Pritchard, Red Snapper, Harry Diamond and the Lesley Woods track which I wasn’t aware of, a real treat that. Particularly good to see you evangelise about Burial – first hearing his stuff, while blown away by it in it’s own right, I was strongly remnded of the feelings I got when I first heard, in ’81 I think, Cab Vol’s Red Mecca, some sort of deep yearning communicated between the beats and the drones, magical, magical stuff. And Lora Logic, a good shout for ARJ.
    So yeah, had to really force myself to move on to Show 2.

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    1. Cheers, Barry. The ‘Heronscroft Hi-fi’ has a ring to it. Even though we didn’t have, in effect, ‘cameras to hand’ back then, the way we do now with our mobile ‘telling bones’ I’m still surprised I didn’t take a snap or two of the beast in the 70s or 80s. It does crop up in the background of a photo or two, so I might dig one out for show. Burial evoking your feelings for the Cabs. He’s in good company. And Lora Logic definitely with Alan J in mind.

  2. Some stunning sonic treats for our aural pleasure Really good to hear your voice too, Dec. Looking forward to the next instalment already. Cheers.

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  5. Hi Dec, this is sounding great. I agree with Jonathan, you do have good radio voice. The funny thing is that I would not recognise it as you if I didn’t know better. I only remember Winkles from the late 80’s but always a great night. Remembering Bedford always puts me in mind of 24 Hour Party People and the thought that everywhere had something like its Factory/Manchester scene. You’re probably too modest but you’re my nominee for Bedford’s Tony Wilson! Just wondering if my candidate for Mark E Smith would think it a libelous suggestion…

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    1. See the problem I’ve got with the vox thing, Russ? And you’ve known me 35 years! If you only remember Winkles from the LATE 80s then it’s because in the very early 80s in there you were maybe not unconnected with a bit of that ’24 hour partying’ sort of bizniz in the clubs darker recesses near the DJ booth… or out the back 🙂 Whoever your MES candidate is (and I’m assuming I’ve known him) at least he must still be alive if you’re tempting a libel action 🙂 And that rules a few out 🙁

    1. If I get to do a hundred shows I won’t believe the voice bit, Jonathan, but just feeling ‘comfortable’ hearing it ‘over the ether’ will do. I appreciate the comment, tho’. And as mentioned elsewhere on here, you might well get to hear some snippets of the great JP on a 41R show at some point – from an interview I did with him in 1983.

  7. Sounding mighty fine Dec!… the perfect diversion for working from home. The waveband and dials making total sense now!

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    1. Danny, I can still here me drunkenly shouting over the mic at Winkles to Terry (owner, behind the bar) to “get these f***ing decks fixed”… when indeed it was quite likely a ‘fluff on the needle’ moment. Innocent times DJing in the early 80s.

  13. Cheers Dec, has made my Tuesday night a bit special. That John Grant has a way with words not unlike Courtney Barnett. Keep it coming.

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This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. With that brass look reminding me of something you’d get in a hardware shop this chunky but small turntable from 1998 is still in production, and at 13kg weight Kuzma’s Stabi S is sturdy. ‘A uniquely designed turntable, (it) is a minimalist, beautifully engineered piece of kit. Its […]

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Episode 132 – Original Upload 6.10.24

This playlist is 85% vinyl friendly. Impressive. The BRAUN PC3 SV may have been a brick of a 1950s turntable but it’s yours from Holland for just on €500 plus postage and the extra charges that seem applicable on buying just about anything, old or new, from anywhere these days. 🙂 Any track marked * […]

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Episode 131 – Original Upload 1.9.24

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Via The New York Times at the beginning of 2024, this Fluance RT85N turntable was voted the best under $600, so in this day and age that’s spinning economy-style. Modern… in a non flashy kind of way… apart from turntable’s finish, of course. Any track marked * has been […]

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Episode 130 – Original Upload 4.8.24

This playlist is 97% vinyl friendly. Soooo close!  One of a two turntables plus mixer combo that made up artist Fabien Clerc’s unique (as in totally one-off) ‘Back in the Good Old Days’ creation and if your great great grandmother had been into DJ’ing she might have taken a shine to it. Fully functional and […]

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Episode 129 – Original Upload 7.7.24

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  From 1959, if you fancied a carpet look on your portable suitcase turntable casing and platter(!), the Philips AG9148 mono gramophone was for you, maybe. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might […]

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Episode 128 – Original Upload 2.6.24

This playlist is 86% vinyl friendly. Impressive.  A Columbia GP-3B Portable Record Player, out of Japan. Teal! Relatively available second hand at £150-£200 but not as old as they appear, coming from the ’90s… and very weedy sounding, judging by a play through on Youtube. Possibly aimed at cratedigging DJs, I saw a few with […]

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Episode 127 – Original Upload 5.5.24

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive.  B&O Beocenter 7700… If I remember rightly, back in the ’70s when me and my mates were getting beyond the Dansettes of our parents’ time, Bang and Olufsen was a bit too expensive. That didn’t matter much with me. I just didn’t like the sleek, minimalist look. My […]

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Episode 126 – Original Upload 7.4.24

This playlist is 78% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  An early 1970s BSR P195, courtesy of Birmingham (UK) Sound Reproducers – with an eye maybe on reel to reel tape machines they would then make a decade later? 🙂 They were more bullish with their turntables though, having grown the company in the 1960s to employing […]

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Episode 125 – Original Upload 3.3.24

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  From 2022, with this being the Pro-ject Metallica Limited Edition turntable – though I have the band, Kiss in my head for some reason – it’s the only time you’ll see either group mentioned on 41 Rooms. This set up came in at around $1600 and I […]

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Episode 124 – Original Upload 4.2.24

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  As you can see, the Electric Banana Stereo Phono had some bold claims made on it back in the ’70s. Originally costing $40, these days you might have to pay nearer $900 if you’re daft enough to want one, with the above version residing in the International […]

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Episode 123 – Original Upload 7.1.24

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  What sort of witchcraft is the Mag-Lev ML1? With no moving parts inside, no belt and no motor, its magnets that keep the platter hovering in place and rotating. Balancing on its feet when not in use, once the tonearm is moved into position, the feet retract, leaving […]

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Episode 122 – Original Upload 3.12.23

This playlist is 81% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  The idea of Istanbul, Turkey based industrial designer, Pelin Özbalcı, the ‘Ripple’ turntable surfaced at the end of 2021 and continued what he’s sees as a line of ‘joyful products, experiences, and product-user interactions… ‘ If it had been a 1960s design it wouldn’t have looked out […]

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Episode 121 – Original Upload 5.11.23

This playlist is 78% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  From the 1990s and certainly in one sense, solid as a rock! Dual’s Golden Stone turntable was as chiselled as any turntable is likely to be and if you wanted your music centre to blend in with your driveway or patio it was a contender. Checking in […]

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Episode 120 – Original Upload 1.10.23

This playlist is 82% vinyl friendly. Impressive.  Early Technics decks custom coloured, courtesy of digifunktechnics.co.uk. Wasn’t there a colour of Spangle a few decades back that nearly matched the above? Pimping up and beyond also available… and no, I’m not an affiliate for them. 🙂 Any track marked * has been given either a tiny […]

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Episode 119 – Original Upload 3.9.23

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive.  ‘The Voice of Music’, Model 270-0 looking like Second World War in car entertainment the US Army never had. Would have been a tad bumpy. Currently a $185 eBay Buy It Now, out of Florida, USA but ‘missing needle or wire that allows music to play‘. Any track […]

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Episode 118 – Original Upload 6.8.23

This playlist is 72% vinyl friendly. Not bad… which once again translates to ‘equal worst ever’.  Auditorium’s €3500 Auftakt turntable – begging for an ice sculptor to hack away at it. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a […]

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Episode 117 – Original Upload 2.7.23

This playlist is 91% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. Even I as a non musician would recognise something here. Built in 2021 to catch the eye and $3,500 of one thousand Fender Precision Bass… errr, bass players – with its ash wood, 3-color sunburst finish and treatments transformed into The Fender x MoFi PrecisionDeck turntable. Step […]

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Episode 116 – Original Upload 4.6.23

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive. As a joke used to go a few decades back – ‘I had one of those… but the wheels fell off‘. RD Silva saw his Turnstyle turntable as being “As simple as it gets: The motor that spins the record. The needle that reads the record. The speakers […]

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Episode 115 – Original Upload 7.5.23

This playlist is 80% vinyl friendly. Not bad. The portable turntable collection of one ‘strobemusic’, on Reddit a few years back. In the collective make up of some of these are the component parts to one I think I had, in the late ’60s, in between maybe using firstly the family Dansette then radiogram as […]

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Episode 114 – Original Upload 2.4.23

This playlist is 77% vinyl friendly. Not bad. ‘Good if you love wood!’ From Australian company, Classic, sometime after 1941. Thinner in depth than it looks here, you maybe wouldn’t want to be playing anything valuable on that turntable, but the beast would look fine in a very large complimentarily looking log cabin. Nope, me […]

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Episode 113 – Original Upload 5.3.23

This playlist is 74% vinyl friendly. Room for improvement. Looking like some early wall mounted intercom – apart from the ‘turntable’ that is – say hello to The TT-90 System, by Olsson. Space saving in certain circumstances but I still wouldn’t be a fan of the ‘vertical’ malarkey. Any track marked * has been given […]

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Episode 112 – Original Upload 5.2.23

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Audio-Technica’s AT-LP2022 see through turntable, for when you might need to hide the fact you’ve spent $1200 on your hobby. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On […]

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Episode 111 – Original Upload 1.1.23

This playlist is 92% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. ‘OK, lads. Check out the grooves!‘ Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps […]

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Episode 110 – Original Upload 4.12.22

This playlist is 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive. A Technics SP10MK3 NGS, courtesy of Artisan Fidelity. I can’t work out whether this was the idea of someone with a single hob cooker set up or (at the other end of the scale) maybe some four wheels transport, in the form of a top of the range […]

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Episode 109 – Original Upload 6.11.22

This playlist is 77% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Holger Trass’s thing (http://analogue-classics.com) is repositioning vintage analogue turntables in all manor of set ups. This ancient Garrard 301 (1950s?) deck might sound better than it looks, even if it doesn’t feel as good… as it looks… errr, seeing as it’s not in fact a marble plinth. […]

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Episode 108 – Original Upload 2.10.22

This playlist is 81% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Fancy taking the car for a spin? Nothing more than a goddam novelty I’m surprised I haven’t included this Stokyo Record Runner (hijacking a Volkawagon van) here before. I think they missed a trick though, as it’s the fully windowed ‘hippy’ fave version of the van that […]

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Episode 107 – Original Upload 4.9.22

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. There’s a big daddy $200,000 Acoustic Signature Invictus Neo turntable but you can slum it with this Junior model, at $129,000. Available in silver, black/gold, or black/chrome and armed with four integrated, isolated AC motors. Looks like the sort of thing people who feel the need to […]

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Episode 106 – Original Upload 7.8.22

This playlist is 90% vinyl friendly. Impressive. ‘The Planet’ turntable. Put together in 2015 by a Lego loving lad named Hayarobi, using 2405 pieces, the only non-Lego part being the Audio-Technica 1Ea cartridge. He must like Swiss Rolls. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop […]

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Episode 105 – Original upload 3.7.22

This playlist is 82% vinyl friendly. Impressive. As it happens, a Numark PT01USB Portable Vinyl-Archiving Turntable Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune sonically might not sound quite how it did, originally… and note, there’s a few expletives uttered in this […]

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Episode 104 – Original Upload 5.6.22

This playlist is 77% vinyl friendly. Not bad. A 1970s Patrice Dupont-designed Philips 303 UFO record player. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune sonically might not sound quite how it did, originally. Lyric of Playlist 104… A fiery young Weller […]

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Episode 103 – Original Upload 1.5.22

and it’s 91% vinyl friendly. Near perfect Grand Prix Audio’s Parabolica (‘inspired by and built like a Formula 1 race car’) is named after a turn at Italy’s Monza circuit, so if Formula 1 floats your boat… $16,500. Tonearm extra. 🙂 Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger […]

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Episode 102 – Original Upload 3.4.22

PLAYLIST 102 uploaded April 3, 2022 and it’s 73% vinyl friendly. Room for improvement. 🙂 Was this design off the back of a vinyl record cleaning gizmo shaped likewise a few decades back? Dunno. Looks a bit like a nail clipper or, suitably… a USB stick! Coming in at less than $80, nobody will care. […]

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Episode 101 – Original Upload 6.3.22

PLAYLIST 101 uploaded Mar 6, 2022 and it’s 93% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. Nothing to do with Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the ELP Laser Turntable may be for the younger generation who grew up knowing nothing but CDs… oh, and who have around £10,000 to spend! ‘In theory, it’s the perfect turntable because it uses […]

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Episode 100 – Original Upload 6.2.22 – 7″ Heaven!

PLAYLIST 100 uploaded Feb 6, 2022 Celebrating show #100 with 4hrs of 21st Century 7″ cheeriness! Unsurprisingly then, this one is 100% vinyl friendly. The occasionally-mentioned-in-these-parts big bunch of early 60s singles that arrived with a second hand Dansette my dad bought and the arrival of two of the Beatles’ (She Loves You and I […]

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Episode 99 – Original upload 2.1.22

PLAYLIST 99 uploaded Jan 2, 2022 and it’s 88% vinyl friendly. Impressive. As of 2018 or so Audio Consulting’s R-evolution Meteor-Stealth turntable was arguably the third most expensive turntable on the market. At $176,000 there sure as hell needs to be some back story – so, this is it and being a Switzerland-based company it […]

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Episode 98 – Original Upload 5.12.21

and it’s 93% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. Playlist 98 I can’t remember if a means to play vinyl upright came before or after some of the gadgets that cleaned vinyl went with the same idea (in the ’70s?) but this Gramovox is a cheap and cheerful modern day version of the former. ‘Floating’ seems to […]

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Episode 97 – Original Upload 7.11.21

and it’s 74% vinyl friendly. Not bad. The Jive Turntable. Roughly £140 for this bright and breezy set up, so don’t expect wonders. ‘Entry level’, I think they call it… and that set of button controls reminds me of some remote/zapper used for the TV… or something else I can’t quite place. 🙂 Any track […]

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Episode 96 – Original Upload 3.10.21

and it’s 96% vinyl friendly Near perfect. We’d have had a ‘full house’ if it hadn’t been for me including a demo from one of the bands I was involved with. The Saint Laurent Rive Droite x Pierre Riffaud viny table. I don’t know how much of a clamour there was for the above marble […]

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Episode 95 – Original Upload 5.9.21

PLAYLIST 95 uploaded Sept 5, 2021 and it’s 77% vinyl friendly Not bad. The Third Man Records Spinnerette Turntable. Priced at $160 this isn’t for your high end hi-fi buff but with tech improvements through the years I’m sure Jack White and his team have incorporated a quality level here that’s well above what was […]

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Episode 94 – Original Upload 1.8.21

PLAYLIST 94 uploaded Aug 1, 2021 and it’s 84% vinyl friendly! Impressive. Just a few of the over one hundred vintage (60’s, 70’s and 80’s) portable record turntables, exhibited in 2016 at Tokyo’s Lifestyle Design Center by record store owner, Fumihito Taguchi. In between my family’s Dansette (early 60’s) and the National Panasonic SG-1070L music centre […]

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Episode 93 – Original Upload 4.7.21

PLAYLIST 93 uploaded July 4, 2021 and is 82% vinyl friendly! Impressive. A Project Debut Carbon Evo turntable. A few friends have Projects of slightly older marks than this lad and they regularly score highly in reviews of turntables around the £400-£500 area – and let’s face it, if all you want to be interested […]

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Episode 92 – Original Upload 6.6.21

PLAYLIST 92 uploaded June 6, 2021 and is 89% vinyl friendly! Impressive. The Nordic Concept Reference Turntable, designed by A Better Life Audio Group. ‘The Milky Bars are on me!‘ Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop. Lyric of Playlist 92… The weight of Tim’s […]

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Episode 91 – 2.5.21

PLAYLIST 91 Original Upload May 2, 2021 and is 71% vinyl friendly! Not bad. A Sony HMK-80B set up, from 1979. Nothing sonically gobsmacking here, but if my experience with the slightly earlier National Panasonic equivalent (the 41 Rooms homepage) is anything to go by, the ‘all in one’ nature of these music centres was […]

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Episode 90 – Original Upload 4.4.21

PLAYLIST 90 uploaded April 4, 2021 and is 75% vinyl friendly! Not bad. This aesthetically beautiful beast is the Brionvega Radio-phonograph. Model no. RR 126. With Italian industrial design, the 1965 baby of architects, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, if I’m ever in the position to be able and want to spend £5-6000+ on a […]

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Episode 89 – Original Upload 7.3.21

PLAYLIST 89 uploaded Mar 7, 2021 ?and is 81% vinyl friendly! Impressive. This is a 1960s Philips portable turntable and somewhere between my first ever falling in love with music (aged 7’ish, with a couple of Beatles 7″s in 1964 or so) and getting a National Panasonic SG 1070L music centre in the early to […]

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Episode 88 – Original Upload 7.2.21

PLAYLIST 88 uploaded Feb 7, 2021 and is 72% vinyl friendly! Not bad… which actually translates to ‘equal worst ever’. All vinyl in the first half, but it then goes a bit haywire. The McIntosh MTI100. Hi end ‘all-in-one, just-add-speakers’ stuff. Seven grands worth of nicely soft glowing green, from the company that blasted out […]

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Episode 87 – Original Upload 3.1.21

PLAYLIST 87 uploaded Jan 3, 2021 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive. A Zenith Stroboscope, and looking at the facia, maybe the sort of turntable ET could fall in love with? Or am I thinking of some scatty (accident prone?) miniature robot and film. Date of manufacture of the above unknown. Photo credit: www.vinylengine.com Any track marked […]

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Episode 86 – Original Upload 6.12.20

PLAYLIST 86 uploaded Dec 6, 2020 94% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. The Kronos turntable, a $28,000 beast in a limited run of 250 in 2012 — ‘but when you see and hear the Kronos Turntable, you’ll think it must cost much more‘… said one carefree reviewer. And assuming all 250 were sold, I reckon there’ll have been […]

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Episode 85 – Original Upload 1.11.20

PLAYLIST 85 uploaded Nov 1, 2020 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Listen With Your Eyes, by Chrissie Macdonald. One of ten one-off Rega Planar ‘augmented’ turntables up for auction on Nov 12, the proceeds of which will go to this year’s Secret 7″ charity partner, Help Refugees. Any track marked * has been given either a […]

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Episode 84 – Original Upload 4.10.20

PLAYLIST 84 uploaded Oct 4, 2020 and is 75% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Built to DJ on some war torn front line, or the edge of a 1950s atomic bomb testing site… or maybe not. Origin and marque unknown. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms […]

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Episode 83 – Original Upload 6.9.20

PLAYLIST 83 uploaded Sept 6, 2020 and is 90% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Lest we forget, music centres were de rigueur in the ’80s and this one, a Music Center Crown SHC-5500 Hi-Fi, looks like a more bells and whistles (and lights)/blinged version of the comparatively humbler National Panasonic set up I had and indeed the […]

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Episode 82 – Original Upload 2.8.20

PLAYLIST 82 uploaded August 2, 2020 and is 90% vinyl friendly. Impressive. ‘The Planet’ – Courtesy of a gent called Hayarobi, 2405 pieces of Lego and an Audio-Technica 1Ea cartridge. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 82… ‘… cos your mama’s […]

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Episode 81 – Original Upload 5.7.20

PLAYLIST 81 uploaded July 5, 2020 and is 86% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Roughly £80 to buy, so think how little it cost to make… and the quality of the parts involved?!? In other words, you’d be mad to grab one of these for anything other than slightly thrashed vinyl, a kids intro to the world […]

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Episode 80 – Original Upload 7.6.20

PLAYLIST 80 uploaded June 7, 2020 and is 81% vinyl friendly. Impressive. See through, to see what’s going on… and the first turntable in the world to have a ‘high-fidelity built-in valve phono stage‘, apparently. An Automatic Turntable MkII from Gearbox. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger […]

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Episode 79 – Original Upload 3.5.20

PLAYLIST 79 uploaded May 3, 2020 and is 96% vinyl friendly. Soooo close! Near perfect. Handcrafted, custom-restored/rebuilt vintage turntable via Artisan Fidelity. A ‘work of art’ said one review, AF’s pricing for these lads ranges from $4895 to $58,000. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. […]

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Episode 78 – Original Upload 5.4.20

PLAYLIST 78 uploaded April 5, 2020 and is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Russian back-in-whatever-day (‘toy’?) turntable. Cracked cover and batteries not included. Currently on eBay for £200, inc p&p from the Ukraine. Don’t all rush. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. And one […]

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Episode 77 – Original Upload 1.3.20

PLAYLIST 77 uploaded March 1, 2020 and is 97% vinyl friendly. Oh so close! Nope, it’s not some weird pressure cooker set up, it’s a turntable – $13,000’s worth (give or take) of TriangleART Signature SE turntable to you. Lyric of Playlist 77… ‘While you were calculating tears my head expired.’ Not an ideal scenario. […]

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Episode 76 – Original Upload 2.2.20

PLAYLIST 76 uploaded February 2, 2020 and is 97% vinyl friendly! Ooooh, sooooo close! A Pro-Ject VT-E BT turntable. It’s only here to represent the ‘upright camp’ but whatever any space limitations this would help with, I would never be able to get my head around looking at the arm on a moving record and […]

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Episode 75 – Original Upload 5.1.20

PLAYLIST 75 uploaded January 5, 2020 and is 88% vinyl friendly! Impressive. A Pye 1005 Achoic Stereophonic Projection System. It’s a Sixties thing. One for mate, Angus Cameron, as he grew up with one of them. Lyric of Playlist 75… It’s rare it goes to a dance track on 41 Rooms but Louie Vega and […]

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Episode 74 – Original Upload 1.12.19

PLAYLIST 74 uploaded December 1, 2019 and is 94% vinyl friendly! Near perfect Ah, memories. I used to have one of these. A Technics 1200 MK1. Lyric of Playlist 74…. Confusion in her eyes that says it all… etc. Ian C’s real life recollection makes this a no contest. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars […]

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Episode 73 – Original Upload 3.11.19

PLAYLIST 73 uploaded November 3, 2019 and is… 73% vinyl friendly! Not bad. The above? An Ion Duo Deck Digital Conversion Turntable. $99 or thereabouts. Be aware, a few of the tracks (cassette takes) are sonically challenged. Lyric of Playlist 73…. maybe belongs to Ms Armitage. Ripping it up. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars […]

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Episode 72 – Original Upload 6.10.19

PLAYLIST 72 Playlist 72 is 90% vinyl friendly! Impressive. The above courtesy of one Zach Dicklin. If you fancy knocking one up yourself. Tracks marked * have been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 72…Gliddy gloop gloopy, Nibby nabby nooby, La la la lo lo. You probably […]

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Episode 71 – Original Upload 1.9.19

PLAYLIST 71 Uploaded September 1, 2019 Playlist 71 is 79% vinyl friendly! Not bad. In a museum here and there, and maybe $2000 if one crops up on the open market, a late 30’s John Vassos design for RCA. As you might guess, 78RPMs only. So, should you get to be near one, keep any […]

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Episode 70 – Original Upload 4.8.19

PLAYLIST 70 Uploaded August 4, 2019 Playlist 70 is… 93% vinyl friendly! Near perfect. The beast above? Supposedly £450,000… give or take… Tracks marked * have been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 70…. ‘… the passage of my life is measured out in shirts… ‘ As […]

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Episode 69 – Original Upload 7.7.19

PLAYLIST 69 Uploaded July 7, 2019 Playlist 69 is… 83% vinyl friendly! Impressive. AudioWood Sound Garden. Leaves on the tracks! Just because ‘you can’ isn’t always a great reason that ‘you should’. Tracks marked * have been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 69…. There’s some desperate […]

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Episode 68 – Original Upload 2.6.19

PLAYLIST 68 Uploaded June 2, 2019 Playlist 68 is… 77% vinyl friendly! Not bad. Tracks marked * have been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 68 (includes) And I feel just like Sigourney WeaverWhen she had to kill those aliens… Ah, we’ve maybe all been there. Just […]

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Episode 67 – Original Upload 5.5.19

PLAYLIST 67 Uploaded May 5, 2019 Playlist 67 is… 85% vinyl friendly! Impressive. A Word Of Warning. A couple of tracks in this show are slightly ‘sonically challenged’. Lyric of Playlist 67 As much for the melody it rides on…Now season with health, Two lovers walk on lakeside mileTry pleasing with stealth, rodeo (?), See […]

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Episode 66 – Original Upload 7.4.19

PLAYLIST 66  Uploaded April 7, 2019 Playlist 66 is… 77% vinyl friendly! Not bad… Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. A Word Of Warning. Certainly one track in this show is ‘very sonically challenged’. Lyric of Playlist 66 If you gave me a pound […]

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Episode 65 – Original Upload 3.3.19

PLAYLIST 65  Uploaded Mar 3, 2019 Playlist 65 is 90% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 65 A few bits of quirkiness and social comment I could have gone for, but the prize goes to ‘And if it […]

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Episode 64 – Original Upload 3.2.19

PLAYLIST 64  Uploaded Feb 3, 2019 Playlist 64 is… 100% vinyl friendly! Da Daaahhh! The first 41 Rooms show to be so, though you’d have to go some, financially, (over £1000, I’d say) to have them all on the plastic stuff…. and I certainly haven’t. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or […]

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Episode 63 – Original Upload 6.1.19

PLAYLIST 63  Uploaded Jan 6, 2019 Playlist 63 is 94% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 63 Being that I’m 61 and not 16, it’s the Herbert Kretzmer ‘adaptation’ of Aznavour that takes it this time. 00.00 (Intro) […]

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Episode 62 – Original Upload 2.12.18

PLAYLIST 62  Uploaded Dec 2, 2018 Playlist 62 is… 97% vinyl friendly!!!!! It couldn’t have been closer to being a ‘full house’. See below. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 62 And when this building is on fire, these flames can’t burn […]

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Episode 61 – Original Upload 4.11.18

PLAYLIST 61  Uploaded Nov 4, 2018 Playlist 61 is only 64% vinyl friendly! Very poor indeed. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 61 Stylistically, competition (on maybe a different plain) from the wordsmiths at the end of the show but it has to […]

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Episode 60 – Original Upload 7.10.18

PLAYLIST 60  Uploaded Oct 7, 2018 Playlist 60 is 84% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Lyric of Playlist 60 Not quite a ‘lyric’, but it might have to be the overlaid ramblings of Vance ??? and Fred Nettles. “My main background is… a cat, which is nine feet high… ” Of course it is, Fred. 00.00 (Intro) THE […]

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Episode 59 – Original Upload 2.9.18

PLAYLIST 59  Uploaded Sept 2, 2018 Playlist 59 is 86% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. And as is sometimes the case, a couple of tracks here are definitely a bit sonically challenged. Lyric of Playlist 59 If Rome wasn’t built […]

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Episode 58 – Original Upload 5.8.18

PLAYLIST 58  Uploaded August 5, 2018 Playlist 58 is 84% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. And as is often the case here, a track or two can be a bit sonically challenged. Lyric of Playlist 58 Mr Newbury’s not here […]

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Episode 57 – Original Upload 1.7.18

Uploaded July 1, 2018    It’s for real… the needle-free ‘Wheel’! 41 Rooms’ Playlist 57 is 91% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Worth noting, a couple of tracks or so are a bit sonically challenged. Lyric of Playlist 57 […]

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Episode 56 – Original Upload 3.6.18

Uploaded June 3, 2018 41 Rooms’ Playlist 56 is 86% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 56:  Do you work at a job you despise? Do you live with cockroaches? Have you been mugged lately? Did your favourite […]

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Episode 55 – Original Upload 6.5.18

41 Rooms, Playlist 55  Uploaded May 6, 2018 41 Rooms’ Playlist 55 is 85% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 55:  The soulful ‘The way we feel it should be… has the right to emerge‘ or… the just […]

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Episode 54 – Original Upload 1.4.18

41 Rooms, Playlist 54  Uploaded April 1, 2018 41 Rooms’ Playlist 54 is 88% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. One track is certainly sonically challenged. Apologies. Lyric of Playlist 54:  Even as a strident non-believer I can at least like […]

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Episode 53 – Original Upload 4.3.18

41 Rooms, Playlist 53  Uploaded Mar 4, 2018 41 Rooms’ Playlist 53 is 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 53:  ‘Listen’… and in two different languages, but it could have gone to a couple more that are […]

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Episode 52 – Original upload 4.2.18

41 Rooms, Playlist 52  Uploaded Feb 4, 2018 41 Rooms’ Playlist 52 is 91% vinyl friendly. Near perfect The tracks marked * have been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 52:  ‘Getting Up Is Not As Easy As Getting Down                […]

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Episode 51 – Original Upload 7.1.18

41 Rooms, Playlist 51 41 Rooms’ Playlist 51 is 85% vinyl friendly. Impressive. The tracks marked * have been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc and one track certainly is very sonically challenged. Lyric of Playlist 51:  Mudriczki and Mackenzie tie. ‘You know I’ve been blinded out on a golf […]

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Episode 50 – Original Upload 24.12.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 50 41 Rooms’ Playlist 50 is 85% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Just the one track (marked *) has been given a tiny 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc. Lyric of Playlist 50:  Has to be Gil. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – […]

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Episode 49 – 10.12.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 49 41 Rooms’ Playlist 49 is 89% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Any track marked * has been given a tiny 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc… Lyric of Playlist 49:  Sometimes you’ve just got to keep it simple, real and heartfelt. Come on down, Daniel V. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo […]

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Episode 48 – Original Upload 26.11.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 48 41 Rooms’ Playlist 48 is 92% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. Track marked * has been given a tiny 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc… and a couple of tracks certainly suffer from some sonic misgivings. Apologies. Lyric of Playlist 48:  ‘The miserable Scottish hotel resembled a Genesis or Marillion, 1973 LP cover… ‘ Care of […]

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Episode 47 – Original Upload 12.11.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 47 41 Rooms’ Playlist 47 is 85% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc… Lyric of Playlist 47:  ‘A knife and a fork, a bottle and a cork. That’s the way to spell New York.’ Of course it is. 00.00 (Intro) […]

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Episode 46 – Original Upload 29.10.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 46 41 Rooms, Playlist 46 is 88% vinyl friendly. Impressive. The Hurricane Ophelia Set! A day after I uploaded show 45 I experienced my first hurricane. Mostly, it wasn’t what some experience in other parts of the world but with no internet my time was best spent getting show 46 under way […]

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Episode 45 – Original upload 15.10.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 45 41 Rooms, Playlist 45 is 90% vinyl friendly. Near perfect.  Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc… Lyric of Playlist 45:  Their styles and the worlds they’ve written in feel lifetimes apart but it’s a dead heat between Hal David and Alex Turner. […]

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Episode 44 – Original Upload 1.10.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 44  41 Rooms, Playlist 44 is 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive.  Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc… and a few sound a bit sonically challenged. Lyric of Playlist 44:  It goes to the late JL… and that’s without feeling particularly spiritual myself. 00.00 (Intro) […]

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Episode 43 – Original Upload 17.9.17

PLAYLIST 43 41 Rooms’ Playlist 43 is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever… Lyric of Playlist 43:  Belongs to the late Ian Kevin Curtis. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. 00.39 […]

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Episode 42 – Original Upload 3.9.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 42  41 Rooms, Playlist 42 is 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever, and… For differing reasons, a couple of tracks have slight sonic misgivings. Lyric of Playlist 42:  From times more innocent than now, The Flowers: ‘…put on my casual […]

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Episode 41 – Original Upload 20.8.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 41  41 Rooms, Playlist 41!… is 72% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever, and… NB: One track here is slightly sonically challenged. Lyric of Playlist 41:  With a handful of worthy contenders in between, for the sake of a little […]

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Episode 40 – Original upload 6.8.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 40  41 Rooms, Playlist 40 is 96% vinyl friendly. Sooooo close! Tracks marked * have been given a 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever…   Lyric of Playlist 40:  A slight cop out but a bit of consciousness from the the brothers gets it, with a cursory nod also to the title of Playlist’ 40 – […]

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Episode 39 – Original Upload 23.7.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 39  41 Rooms, Playlist 39 is 94% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever… and  Note: This edition certainly has one track with a few profanities. If you’re of a certain disposition, be aware.  Lyric of Playlist 39:  G-SH’s, here in […]

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Episode 38 – Original upload 9.7.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 38  41 Rooms, Playlist 38 is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever… Lyric of Playlist 38:  ‘Do you work at a job you despise? Do you live with cockroaches? Have you been mugged lately? Did your favorite jeans shrink in […]

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Episode 37 – Original upload 25.6.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 37   41 Rooms, Playlist 37 is 93% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. We might get there one day. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever… and a couple of tracks are slightly sonically challenged. Lyric of Playlist 37:  For the sheer cockiness – ‘Leeds… […]

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Episode 36 – Original Upload 11.6.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 36 41 Rooms, Playlist 36 is 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive. A bit of a warning. One or two tracks are slightly sonically challenged. Lyric of Playlist 36:  The Speeka boys may be speaking best here… 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW […]

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Episode 35 – Original upload 28.5.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 35 41 Rooms, Playlist 35 is 97% vinyl friendly. Soooooo close. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever. Lyric of Playlist 35:  It’s a rap… RG-style – ‘Things getting stranger, they’re stranger every year. Fear come to hunt, feedin’ off the land. Well it might […]

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Episode 34 – Original Upload 14.5.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 34 My niece’s growing love of vinyl meant she’s acquired one of these to play the stuff. 41 Rooms, Playlist 34 is 76% vinyl friendly. Not bad. A Word Of Warning: A couple of tracks in this show are slightly ‘sonically challenged’. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly […]

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Episode 33 – Original Upload 30.4.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 33 41 Rooms, Playlist 33 is 88% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever. Lyric of Playlist 33:  ‘No more Red Wedge in the pub or ZTT stuff… ‘ – That Mark E. a sniping. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) […]

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Episode 32 – Original Upload 16.4.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 32 Album looks a bit samey… 41 Rooms, Playlist 32 is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever. Lyric of Playlist 32:  ‘It’s a good job you didn’t, what with all this unemployment going on… ‘ More an aside, it’s a […]

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Episode 31 – Original upload 2.4.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 31 41 Rooms, Playlist 31 is 77% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/whatever. Lyric of Playlist 31:  Gil Scott-Heron’s recount – and likely fully explained somewhere at the time of release. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased […]

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Episode 30 – Original upload 19.3.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 30 41 Rooms, Playlist 30 is 86% vinyl friendly. Impressive Lyric of Playlist 30:  A bow to the late Scott Hardkiss. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – We All Stand (Tokyo, 1985) – Pumped Full Of Drugs, VHS – […]

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Episode 29 – Original Upload 5.3.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 29 41 Rooms, Playlist 29 is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. NB: One of the tracks is a bit sonically challenged, though it seems like it was just recorded that way… and the show nearly had to be postponed when I lost the whole audio and had to start from scratch again… not […]

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Episode 28 – Original upload 19.2.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 28 41 Rooms, Playlist 28 is 86% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Lyric of Playlist 28:  Assuming it was with someone in particular in mind, it might have to go with Marv. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – The Perfect Kiss […]

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Episode 27 – Original Upload 5.2.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 27 41 Rooms, Playlist 27 is 81% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Lyric of Playlist 27:  Award could be going to Tracey T. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Primitive Notion – Get Ready, LP – London Records – 2001  As […]

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Episode 26 – Original upload 22.1.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 26 41 Rooms, Playlist 26 is 83% VINYL FRIENDLY. Impressive Lyric of Playlist 26:  With either Arthur or Jon. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/whatever. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. 00.39 NEW […]

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Episode 25 – 8.1.17

41 Rooms, Playlist 25 41 Rooms, Playlist 25 is 93% VINYL FRIENDLY. Near perfect. OK, ears! One track is sonically challenged with some bad language and another is… well, just sonically challenged. ‘Lyric’ of Playlist 25:  It could have been the hip hop dons cutting and pasting George Bush Sr to great effect, or indeed […]

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Episode 24 – Original upload 25.12.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 24 41 Rooms, Playlist 24 is 80% VINYL FRIENDLY. Impressive. Lyric of Playlist 24:  ‘It’s alright ’cause the historical pattern has shown, how the economical cycle tends to revolve… ‘ Catchy! You’re in a different space when you layer a cheery tune with this level of observation on recession. 00.00 (Intro) THE […]

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Episode 23 – Original upload 11.12.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 23 41 Rooms, Playlist 23 is 87% VINYL FRIENDLY. Impressive. Lyric of Playlist 23:  Mr Curtis gets it again. One tune here, certainly, is a bit sonically challenged and those marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/whatever. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – […]

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Episode 22 – 27.11.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 22 41 Rooms, Playlist 22 is 89% VINYL FRIENDLY. Near Perfect. Lyric of Playlist 22:  Even with a fair amount of competition 2Bo4 shade it. Conscious stuff… A couple of the tunes here are a bit sonically challenged and, separately, those marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) […]

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Episode 21 – Originally uploaded 13.11.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 21 41 Rooms, Playlist 21 is 90% VINYL FRIENDLY. Near Perfect. Lyric of Playlist 21: At least I’ve avoided giving it to the late Billy Mac once again… ‘Feel it’s time to pull away, shut your ears to all they say, be yourself you know it’s true, when in the end what’s left […]

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Episode 20 – Original Upload 30.10.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 20 41 Rooms, Playlist 20 is 81% VINYL FRIENDLY. Impressive. Lyric of Playlist 20: ‘Crack may seem cool, it may seem good, it’s the quickest way to kill a neighbo(u)rhood‘. Different era, different means, but without doubt some equivalent result going on somewhere right now. Tracks marked * have been given a […]

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Episode 19 – 16.10.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 19 41 Rooms, Playlist 19 is 90% VINYL FRIENDLY. More than excellent. Lyric of Playlist 19: Combined with the performance – it’s with Mr Curtis. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/whatever 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 […]

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Episode 18 – Original Upload 2.10.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 18 41 Rooms, Playlist 18 is 72% VINYL FRIENDLY. Not bad. A few cassettes crop up, hence a bit vinyl poor. Lyric of Playlist 18: ‘Pioneers and traders bring gifts; Smallpox, Seagrams and rice krispies… ‘  a history lesson in a poem. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – […]

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Episode 17 – Original Upload 18.9.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 17 41 Rooms’ Playlist 17 is 93% VINYL FRIENDLY. Near Perfect! Lyric of Playlist 17: Ms JM’s contribution, from start to finish. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/ whatever. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 […]

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Episode 16 – Original Update 4.9.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 16 41 Rooms’ Playlist 16 is 82% VINYL FRIENDLY. Impressive. Apologies, I had to record this show at 6.30am when I woke and I had a bit of a croaky voice and fuzzy head thing going on. ‘Normal’ service will be back for the next one.  Lyric of Playlist 16: They’re not […]

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Episode 15 – Original Upload 21.8.16 (inc Winkles 1981, Pt 4. Big Guns +)

41 Rooms, Playlist 15 is 94% VINYL FRIENDLY. Near perfect. Lyric of Playlist 15: ‘I go ab ba ba ba ba bada bada ba ba ba ba bada bada, woh oh oh oh‘. Approximately. I’d say it’s more debatable than usual. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms […]

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Episode 14 – Original Upload 7.8.16

PLAYLIST 14 is 77% VINYL FRIENDLY.  Not bad. Lyric of Playlist 14: The two lines prior give the game away, so… Your limitations are our every care. Every breath you breath belongs to someone there. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/whatever. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – […]

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Episode 13 – Original Upload 24.7.16

PLAYLIST 13 is 88% VINYL FRIENDLY.  Impressive. Lyric of Playlist 13 ‘I shot out of my old man’s shooter, summer of ’73. Straight into the biological computer of my old girl’s feeding (fruiting?) machine… ‘ The cockney sounding vox adds to the cheeky chappieness. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly […]

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Episode 12 – Original Upload 10.7.16 (inc Winkles 1981, Pt 3. More Big Guns)

41 Rooms, Playlist 12 is 97% VINYL FRIENDLY.  Near perfect! Lyric of Playlist 12: Grandma, your generation believed in talk. Scared of the very steps in which you walked. Father listened to all that was said, until depression set in, leaving mouths unfed… A bit of conscious soul wins it over what could have been […]

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Episode 11 – Original Upload 26.6.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 11 is 77% VINYL FRIENDLY.  Not bad. Lyric of Playlist 11:  They come from Tennessee. Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’ 😉 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. 00.40 NEW ORDER – Everything’s […]

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Episode 10 – Original Upload 12.6.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 10 is 83% VINYL FRIENDLY. Impressive. A Word Of Warning: NB: A couple of tracks in this show are slightly ‘sonically challenged’. Lyric of the Podcast:  Although it’s predominantly newsreel audio, track 15 shades it. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. 00.41 […]

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Episode 9 (inc Winkles 1981: Pt 2) – Uploaded 29.5.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 9 is 93% VINYL FRIENDLY. Near Perfect. Lyric of Playlist 9: ‘Each new hour holds new chances for new beginnings, the horizon leans forward offering you new space to place new steps of change… ‘ Could only be with the poetess… 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 […]

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Episode 8 – Original Upload 15.5.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 8 is 85% VINYL FRIENDLY. Impressive. In memory of Rob Gretton, who died seventeen years ago today (May 15). Lyric of Playlist 8: Where’s the harm in voicing your doubt? You’ll find me in the lavatory. And where’s the harm in talking out loud, when I’m on my own? What’s so wrong […]

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Episode 7 – Original Upload 1.5.16

PLAYLIST 7 is 91% VINYL FRIENDLY. More than excellent. Lyric of Playlist 7:  ‘I wanna be instamatic, I wanna be a frozen pea, I wanna be dehydrated, in a consumer society… ‘ Tracks marked * have been given a tiny (or sometimes, slightly bigger) 41 Rooms ‘tweak’ 😉 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) […]

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Episode 6 (inc Winkles 1981: Pt 1) – Original upload 17.4.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 6 is 93% VINYL FRIENDLY. Near perfect. Lyric of Playlist 6: A bit of a tease. The verses either side of ‘But whatever is behind the door, there is nothing much to do. Angel or devil I don’t care. For in front of that door, there is you.’ Tracks marked * have […]

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Episode 5 – Original upload 3.4.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 5 is 86% VINYL FRIENDLY. Excellent. Lyric of Playlist 5: ‘Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation. T.V. It satellite links our United States of Unconsciousness. Apathetic, therapeutic and extremely addictive, the methadone metronome pumping out 150 channels 24 hours a day, you can flip through all of them, […]

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Episode 4 – Original upload 20.3.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 4 is 97% VINYL FRIENDLY.   Will it get any better than that? A Word Of Warning Certainly one track in this show is ‘sonically challenged’… and it’s also the one that contains an expletive or ten. Lyric of Playlist 4: It’s a tie! Either ‘Someone, somewhere says they’ve got it all, but […]

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Episode 3 – Original upload 6.3.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 3 is 85% VINYL FRIENDLY. Impressive.  A Word Of Warning: A couple of the tracks in this show are slightly ‘sonically challenged’… and elsewhere an expletive or two will crop up. 41 Rooms, Playlist 3 Lyric of Playlist 3: Maybe unsurprisingly, as it’s a poem, the words to ‘Autumn Rose’. Incorporated into an […]

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Episode 2 – Original upload 21.2.16

41 Rooms, Playlist 2 is 94% VINYL FRIENDLY.  Near perfect. Lyric of Playlist 2: ‘I’ll see you baby when the clans rise again. Women and men united by the struggle going down. With a pocketful of plastic like a dollar on elastic. In this free world. I wouldn’t tell you if I didn’t care’. Tracks […]

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Episode 1 – Original upload 7.2.16.

41 Rooms, Playlist 1 is 86% VINYL FRIENDLY.  Impressive. Lyric of Playlist 1: ‘I wanted to change the world, but I could not even change my underwear. And when the shit got really, really out of hand, I had it all the way up to my hairline, which keeps receding like my self-confidence, as if […]

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