The end of November marks the end of an era, as Edinburgh based station Tak Tent Radio sadly closes down. I have contributed many mixes to them over the years, on subjects as diverse as dreams, Afro-Funk, Rockabilly, natural disasters, etc and my final one is on INSECTS. The Garden of Earthly Delights mixes will carry on of course without subscription on my Mixcloud page.
Meanwhile I hope you dig this Skylarking groove!
Insects Mix
Adam & The Ants : Ants Invasion
Altered Images : Insects
Wire : I Am The Fly
XTC : I’m Bugged
White Noise : Here Come The Fleas
The Cure : The Caterpillar
The King’s Singers : Flight of the Bumblebee
Guided By Voices : Bomb In The Bee-Hive
Genesis : Fly On a Windshield
The Bugaloos : If You Become a Bugaloo
Bomb The Bass featuring Just Warfield : Bug Powder Dust
Scott Walker : Butterfly
Amon Tobin : Four Ton Mantis (Bonobo mix)
Brian Gascoigne : Phase IV (opening credits)
Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass : Spanish Flea
Roger Glover & Friends : Love Is All (At The Butterfly Ball)
Bill Callahan : Bowevil
Strawbs : Dragonfly
Thanks that looks like great fun.
I heard catchy this buggy track this morning….
I was immediately inspired to post this favourite…
great call, am bagging that for next time, thanx
Whenever a themed playlist is posted, the responses will immediately be:
“And what about this?”
Never one to disappoint, I offer …Alice Cooper – Halo Of Flies
My favourite Alice track by some distance
Hi G., any chance of a download link?
yes, good idea – here you go!
https://www.mediafire.com/file/h80j0hczr0i3r5w/Insect+mix.mp3/file
Perfect, thanks
thanks for the other insect suggestions folks, volume 2 is coming in ’26
For your consideration…
and its original rendition…
(Confession: the band doing the original are old friends of mine)
I wonder if there might be wroom for this little wriggler…
A few more fleas for consideration.
Hope it’s up to scratch.
Ooh! Now I’m going to trot out my favourite music-related trivia fact again.
Are you ready?
Here it is:
The woman who designed the “penguin” album covers for the Penguin Café Orchestra was Emily Young, partner of Simon Jeffes, and the same “Emily” who is referred to in Pink Floyd’s “See Emily Play”.
https://byronsmuse.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/syd-barrett-see-emily-play/
To engage in some circularity Syd Barrett’s second album had insects on the cover.
I went to the Syd Barrett exhibition in Cambridge some of the posters for the exhibition had an insect circus on them Alas I can’t find.
I tried their website and got a bountiful young lady offering her services.
haha, brilliant thanks!
The Cramps – Human Fly
yes that was in the box but it didn’t fit the vibe
Bug Day
The Fall
ooh that’s good
Do spiders count? Or are arachnids excluded on taxonomic grounds?
yes, spiders are NOT insects according to our Google overlords, otherwise there would have been several spider tunes.
Dang nab it!
Another Dragonfly – Fleetwood Mac this time.
Popping across the Channel black butterfly spotting.