Or, alternatively, show me you 12 inches. Remixes and remodels is my ask, in anticipation of a road trip next week with the boy (my son). We are driving to Sweden, to where he is going to live. He has asked his old dad to make sure of a decent playlist, and, being a well brought up young fella, has a wide and eclectic cast in musics.
Our itinerary is Harwich – Amsterdam – Bremen – Odense – Malmo (via Copenhagen). Then, after a day or 2 in Swedens most southern, I speed home via Munster, Antwerp and Calais for the chunnel.
So, please: 1. Post your favourite
2. Any advice about these cities duly taken.
To start, here’s mine.
Get yer bangers out!
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Play LOUD.
That sounds like an exciting roadtrip.
What we ought to is find a banger or two from every place you will be visiting.
From Sweden: Robyn.
That’s a cracking little album.
For the Amsterdam leg of the journey, Snarky Puppy with the Metropole Orkest.
Bremen
The top tourist attracion is a manhole cover into which you insert some money, and for your money you get some animal noises. And there’s a statue of a donkey with a dog on its back with a cat on its back with a cockerel on its back.
There last year. But some very nice restaurants along the river.
Malmoo
You can get the train over The Bridge from The Bridge from Copenhagen. Very good set of museums and galleries in and around the old castle, including an entire german u-boat you can go inside at Malmo Museum, re-enact Das Boot with your family.
Son who is skyscraper nut enjoying walking to the Twisting Torso, the talletst building in Scandinavia or something. But you can’t go in.
We did lots of this by train last year: Brussels-Amsterdam-Bremen-Cuxhaven (for bonkers Isle of Man style place Heligoland)-Hamburg-Copenhagan (with day trip to Malmo). Really enjoyed it.
“re-enact Das Boot with your family” – excellent! I’ll be that wiry engineer that goes mental.
What’s German for “The engines cannae take it captain!”?
My fave 12 inch mix? Probably The Killing Moon (all night version) by Echo and the Bunnymen.
They did great 12″
Copenhagen. Been living there for 2 years and it’s a wonderful place.
Not sure how long you have, but if time permits go to Warpigs for fab craft beers and world beating man food and great music.
Parking in Copenhagen is a nightmare but plenty and free right outside Warpigs. If you need more pointers let me know. I could easily fill a week for you!
If you are staying overnight, abandon the car. Public transport is great and cheap. You will need to download an App called DOT to use it but it covers trains/metro/buses/water buses.
I suspect your lad will be documenting the trip. Tell him to do a time lapse vid as you drive across the Oresund bridge from Copenhagen to Malmo. Worth capturing.
Great stuff, @neverflown , thanks, also to @moseleymoles
Beer and food are indeed two of the ties that bind us, so Warpigs sounds cool. The boy knows Copenhagen well, as he has been flying in and out on a regular basis over the last 18/12, finding a flight there and a quick jaunt across the bridge into Sweden gets him to his beloved quicker than any other route.
My research has mainly involved where we will eat and drink in each city.
Glad to hear that things are going so well for you in Copenhagen, neverflown.
Have you been to the Roskilde Festival yet??
From what I know, your new home city has a pretty excellent live scene. My friend who lives in Malmö is constantly popping over for gigs. And then there is the excellent Jazz Festival.
Let’s have some vintage Danish honking.
Hey @kaisfatdad.
Not made Roskilde yet as it often clashes with a festival we frequent back in Blighty, but colleagues that work on it rave frequently.
The live scene is fab and the Nordic Indie scene is alive and well too. I seem to find a new venue every week and coming from Coventry, where you typically get something decent twice a year, means I am relishing it.
So far this year I have seen Macca, Courtney Barnett, First Aid Kit. Tickets in the coming weeks for Spritualized and Teenage Fanclub and a strange music doc double bill with a Q&A from Barney Sumner and Brett Anderson.
Tivoli Gardens puts on a band every Friday in the summer and we have seen Chic, Beach Boys, Aha, Lil Wayne, Alice Cooper none of which I am fussed about. But it’s Free (at least whe you buy an annual pass for £100 for the whole family).
It’s fair to say I’ve died and gone to heaven.
Sahib Shihab!!! Massive respect for posting that.
That sounds stupendous @neverflown. The Gröna Lund funfair here have s stupendous series of live shows during the summer which cost peanuts.
That list of artists you have seen is amazing.
One great thing about Scandinavia is that one can get tickets for bands here that sell out in a nanosecond in the UK.
If you discover any Danish acts we should know about, please let us know!
Thanks @alias. It is great stuff but YTube must take some credit. I searched for Danish jazz and they delivered!!
In Denmark the police ladies wear a woolly jumper. In Sweden they wear black leather trousers.
I saw a couple of documentaries on BBC4.
I saw some documentaries about other things happening in Sweden.
There wasn’t a dress code to speak of.
Takk!
And the man who sings the theme tune either mumbles or doesn’t know the words in the first place.
Yeah, really it’s just noises.
His mouth is full of pastry.
Was that the one about how hard it is to get a plumber to finish the job in hand?
The pipes get dealt with. Just not the ones on the quotation.
A thread about Sweden on the Afterword? I can’t believe it!
Best take some of the old English culture to the barbarians then.
Great driving music.
This is a rather splendid oddity. Lot’s of warping and reverse guitars and that.
Reminds me of this – Elvis Costello & Madness. Two bangers for one!
Aha, I have been wracking my cell for the Elvis sings Madness song. Whilst not the sort of banger I am looking for on this playlist, nonetheless welcome. (Did he do another one, too?)
I saw this in Updates and momentarily imagined some kind of time-travelling cover version by the Mystery Train Hitmaker.
“Ah-huh-huh-huh, He is the bed and burgers man, thangyewverymuch”
…sorry, this appears to be Tommy Cooper.
I think this qualifies…
..and if you just flip the Stool Pigeon single over, you’ve got this on the B-side.
(Double On Back)
The 7″ had In The Jungle, which was just as good.
All fantastic records. For a while he was everywhere.
And lest we forget the noble Coati Mundi.
You’d better hear him out….
Not forgetting The Coconuts…
I refer the right honourable gentleman to the OP title.
….yep, I’m celebrating IWD already!
Speaking of Coati Mundi..
Superb! My second favourite 12 inch.
1981-2 was to the 12″ what 1971 was to to LP and 1966 was to the 45.
I repeat – we’d better hear him out.
There could be a book in that hypothesis, Moosey.
Tom Moulton was the midwife, Donna Summer the first to sell to the public in 1975 but, I’d say, by Blue Monday in 1983, the fizz had gone.
Yep. I ended up buying the 12″ for “Double On Back”, which someone played me at the time, as well as the double 7″ version with “In The Jungle”on the B-side plus “He’s Not Such A Bad Guy After All” and “There But For The Grace Of God Go I” on the second disc.
I bought the 7″ picture disc. I didn’t regret it.
That Christmas my sister bought me the Christmas in B’Dilli Bay EP and took me to Wimpy for what the Dandy would call “a slap-up feed”.
Kid Creole means goooood times to me.
“I’m sorry ma’am, no fish today”
I had a soft spot for this extended remix while at college…sounds very of it’s time now.
Thomas Dolby, “one of our submarines”
a) To be listened to on the Das Boot tour, presumably.
b) Chooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!
Some reggae.
(Pluto Shervington – Dat)
Can only help with Harwich. I moved close by about a year ago.
Try the Alma Inn. Fantastic pub.
We’ve got a seafood tea booked at the Pier.
Just the thing!
It’s not on YT, but hi-gloss 80s production arguably peaked with Malcolm McLaren’s Madam Butterfly 12″ that had First Couple Out on the b-side – the latter a Trevor Horn joint, natch. I’m playing it loud now, it sounds like the step between Chic and Ibiza.
It’s a cracker! I have it.
Stick with this. It builds nicely
Don’t it just! I have the CD with oodles of versions.
This is like all the soukous you ever heard condensed into one track. Brilliant guitar breaks too
One last one. From this decade too. I am so on trend:
Munster
Buy the local cheese. It stinks like no other I have ever smelt in my life but the taste is amazing!
My iPod kicked out the “Absolute” 12″ Version on my round today. (It’s what I love about the randomness of the iPod shuffle) It is glorious. When Green breathes / sings the “where the words are vodka clear” line it’s proper Goosebumps moment.
Got ten minutes to spare?
wrong continent for your road trip, but it is a 12″ version, and it is a banger
My favourite twelve inch is Shame by Evelyn Champagne King.
This would appear to work on all levels. On many a Balearic compilation.
Having celebrated fifty-twelve yesterday, and whilst I pack, here’s a good ‘un.
Update: we’ve arrived! Malmo in a delicate drizzle, the lightest rain of a dreadful drive across 3 countries at 110 kph amid torrntial spray, headlights looming large behind. But a cracking experience nonetheless.
Amsterdam as it always is, Bremen brimmin’ with culture (not) but Odense a delight, with @neverflown , a Mirkeller bar there as well (as the 15) in Copenhagen. Malmo tonight, at the Bastard restaurant, where the boy picks up chef trousers next week, Copenhagen tomorrow.
The best music on the journey surprised us both, a 2nd hand disc picked up n Leiden, Holland.
Driving that fast in torrential rain?
OK… Glad you’ve made it there in one piece… I suggest next time you try that you calm yourself with a few bevvies beforehand…
Very glad that you have arrived safely!
Welcome to Sweden! Do pop up to Stockholm and say hello if you have the time. (joking!)
I am not at all surprised that the Nuyorican Soul album was a hit for you. It is a cracker.
Here is a remix of one of my favourite tracks. It is a stonker!
Home again. Worst drive of the journey, surprise, surprise, was the Folkestone to Lichfield, the roads so fucked that the thru’ London was the most efficient. And that ain’t good. Still, shouldn’t grumble, the dodgers had sent me a wee bundle for my return.