Monday Night Martin
Once upon a time I lugged my PC to The Star on the first Monday of each month to play lovingly created playlists as loudly as I could get away with accompanied by swirling visuals generated by WinAmp’s MilkDrop plugin projected on to a screen. This had something of a cult following for a few years.
#27: Cloak & Dagger, Music for Secret Agents (August 2010)
1
Barry Adamson
“Something Wicked This Way Comes”
Oedipus Schmoedipus, 1996
2
Goldfrapp
“Lovely Head”
Felt Mountain, 2001
3
Electric Light Orchestra
“Standin' in the Rain”
Out of the Blue, 1977
4
Scritti Politti
“A Little Knowledge”
Cupid & Psyche 85, 1985
5
Amorphous Androgynous
“Fat Cat”
Tales of Ephidrina, 1993
6
Morcheeba
“Shoulder Holster”
Shoulder Holster, 1997
7
David Bowie
“New Killer Star”
Reality, 2003
8
Björk
“Bachelorette”
Homogenic, 1997
9
The Doors
“The Crystal Ship”
The Doors, 1967
10
Brian Eno & David Byrne
“The Carrier”
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, 1981
11
Fever Ray
“If I Had a Heart”
Fever Ray, 2009
12
Radiohead
“Bulletproof...I Wish I Was”
The Bends, 1995
13
Kevin Ayers
“Girl On a Swing”
Joy of a Toy, 1969
14
Tortoise
“TNT”
TNT, 1998
15
Cibo Matto
“Spoon”
Stereo * Type A, 1999
16
Jazzanova
“Fedime's Flight”
Singles Collection 1997-2000, 2003
17
Lalo Schifrin
“Danube Incident”
More Mission: Impossible, 1969
18
Clogs
“Tides of Washington Bridge”
Lantern, 2006
19
The Doobie Brothers
“Toulouse Street”
Toulouse Street, 1972
20
Goldfrapp
“Utopia”
Felt Mountain, 2001
21
Massive Attack
“Small Time Shot Away”
100th Window, 2003
22
Crystal Castles
“Violent Dreams”
Crystal Castles, 2010
23
Gomez
“In Our Gun”
In Our Gun, 2002
24
The Chemical Brothers
“Hold Tight London”
Push the Button, 2005
25
Steve Miller Band
“Fly Like an Eagle”
Fly Like an Eagle, 1976
26
The Field
“Everybody´s Got to Learn Sometime”
Yesterday and Today, 2009
27
The Flaming Lips
“Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)”
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002
28
The Besnard Lakes
“And This Is What We Call Progress”
The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night, 2010
29
Strawbs
“Hero & Heroine”
Hero & Heroine, 1974
30
Elbow
“Leaders of the Free World”
Leaders of the Free World, 2005
31
Stereolab
“U.H.F. -MFP”
The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music", 1993
32
The Cure
“M”
Seventeen Seconds, 1980
33
Roxy Music
“Chance Meeting”
Roxy Music, 1972
34
Killing Joke
“Mathematics of Chaos”
Pandemonium, 1994
35
David Bowie
“I'm Afraid of Americans”
Earthling, 1997
36
Shpongle
“Nothing Lasts”
Nothing Lasts But Nothing Is Lost, 2005
37
School of Seven Bells
“Face to Face On High Places”
Alpinisms, 2008
38
Bear in Heaven
“Fake Out”
Beast Rest Forth Mouth, 2009
39
Flying Lotus
“Parisian Goldfish”
Los Angeles, 2008
40
Holy Fuck
“Stilettos”
Latin, 2010
41
Afro Celt Sound System
“Shadowman”
Volume 3: Further in Time, 2001
42
Muse
“Apocalypse Please”
Absolution, 2003
43
Stardeath and White Dwarfss + Henry Rollins
“Brain Damage”
The Dark Side of the Moon, 2009
44
M83
“Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun”
Before The Dawn Heals Us, 2005