Here’s the tracklist for Saturday’s giveaway CD:

The Stone Roses – Love Spreads
Oasis – Supersonic
Bloc Party – One More Chance
The Horrors – Who Can Say
The Jesus & Mary Chain – Happy When It Rains
A Grave With No Name – And We Parted Ways At Mt Jade
Blank Dogs – Waiting
The Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade
Happy Mondays – Delightful
Chapterhouse – Mesmerise
The Big Pink – Love Song
The XX – Crystalised
Local Girls – Disco Dance c.1972
Julian Plenti – Games For Days
Young British Artists – Bring The Sun
Army/Navy – All Saints
Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone
Slowdive – Morningrise
Spiritualized – Any Way That You Want Me

Here’s the giveaway tracklist for Volume 13:

01. Ride – Chelsea Girl
02. The House Of Love – Destroy The Heart
03. My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow
04. The Big Pink – Velvet
05. Oh Minnows – Might
06. The Horrors – Who Can Say
07. Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning
08. Official Secrets Act – The Girl From The BBC
09. Happy Mondays – Freaky Dancin’
10. The Stone Roses – Where Angels Play
11. The Charlatans – Me. In Time
12. Mitchell Museum – Warning Bells
13. Wake The President – Miss Tierney
14. Silent Film Project – Two Days
15. Je Suis Animal – Secret Place
16. Johnny Foreigner – Eyes Wide Terrified
17. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices
18. Screaming Lights – Phenomena
19. Radiohead – Anyone Can Play Guitar
20. Urusei Yatsura – Hello Tiger
21. Ash – Kung Fu
22. Dinosaur Jr. – Over It

…I effin’ love this!

In these harsh economic times, it’s nice to know that you can still get luxury items. Pixies fans, start saving! From http://www.4ad.com/news/boxset/:

Five classic 4AD releases from Pixies are going to be reissued as both Limited Edition and Deluxe Edition collector’s sets entitled Minotaur. Spearheaded by Jeff Anderson, founder of A+R (Artist in Residence), who has put together expansive and eye-catching versions of releases by Nine Inch Nails, Beck and Sigur Ros – Minotaur will be available for pre-order at www.ainr.com beginning Monday, June 15, 2009. The Minotaur Deluxe Edition will retail for $175, while the Minotaur Limited Edition will be priced at $450.

The Deluxe Edition will include all five Pixies studio albums – Come On Pilgrim (1987), Surfer Rosa (1988), Doolittle (1989), Bossanova (1990), and Trompe le Monde (1991) – on 24k layered CD and Blu-ray (five discs total), with reinterpreted artwork by Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer who created all of the artwork that accompanied the Pixies’ studio albums. Also included in the Deluxe Edition will be a DVD of a Pixies 1991 performance at the Brixton Academy in London, the group’s videos, possible live tracks, and a 54-page book, all housed in a custom slipcase. The Minotaur Limited Edition version will include everything in the Deluxe Edition, as well as all five albums on 180 gram vinyl, a Giclee print of Oliver’s artwork, and a 72-page hardcover book, all housed in an oversized custom clamshell cover.

It does look awesome – photos here

Tracklist for the mix CD giveaway for Saturday night is:

01. Blondie – One Way Or Another
02. The Pretenders – Message Of Love
03. David Bowie – Modern Love
04. The Undertones – Get Over You
05. Katrina & the Waves – Walking On Sunshine
06. The Motels – Total Control
07. The Passions – I’m In Love With A German Film Star
08. Violent Femmes – Prove My Love
09. The Cars – Just What I Needed
10. Squeeze – Up The Junction
11. A Flock Of Seagulls – Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
12. Thompson Twins – Love On Your Side
13. Depeche Mode – See You
14. Devo – Girl U Want
15. Human League – (Keep Feeling) Fascination
16. ABC – The Look Of Love (Part 1)
17. Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf
18. A Certain Ratio – Shack Up
19. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
20. Gang Of Four – Anthrax
21. Spandau Ballet – True

If you want a copy, come up & ask – limited numbers, so get in early. Don’t be shy!

See you there!

Bill