The Kaleidophonic Stroboscope

The first decade of the Gregorian millennium is nearly over..it seemed to fly by, didn’t it? I thought so. The Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times” never seemed more apt. This episode is a trawl through the albums I bought during the “George “C+ Augustus” Bush/Tony “Special Relationship” Blair/Vladimir “He-Man” Putin” years–what a party it’s been, eh? A lot of my heroes left the planet as well. So I’m not regarded as a complete downer…there were some great records released in the past ten years–and here’s the proof. Cast yourself back and party like it’s…er…you know the rest. I realise that the episode really only covers rock and other forms of popular music from the decade, but I couldn’t afford to buy CDs from a lot of other genres–hopefully another critter will document jazz, folk and world stuff.

Unfortunately, there’s no “Vinyl Vault” in this one, as I bought any new albums on CD–I am looking for some of them on LP now, but haven’t got any yet.

Warning: Some of the content may not be suitable for little ones’ ears–just sayin’.

The tracklist for this episode is:

Intro.

Cornershop – People Power (from the “Handcream Of A Generation” album – released in 2002)

Elbow – Mexican Standoff (from the “Leaders Of The Free World” album – rel. in 2005)

OutKast (feat. B Real) - Xplosion (from the “Stankonia” album - released in 2000)

Muse – Assassin (from the “Black Holes And Revelations” album – released in 2006)

The Future Sound Of London/Amorphous Androgynous – Go Tell It To The Trees, Egghead (from “The Isness” – rel. in 2002)

Lambchop – Low Ambition (from the “Aw C’mon/No, You C’mon” 2-disc set - released in 2004)

Espers – Mansfield And Cyclops (from the “Espers II” album – rel. in 2007)

Supergrass – Low C (from the “Road To Rouen” album – released in 2005)

Orbital – Spare Parts Express (from “The Middle Of Nowhere” – released in 1999)

Van Der Graaf Generator – Nutter Alert (from the “Present” album – released in 2005)

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Spanish Dance Troupe (title track to the album – rel. in 1999)

Boards Of Canada – Dawn Chorus (from the “Geogaddi” album – released in 2002)

The Flaming Lips – In The Morning Of The Magicians (from the “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” album – rel. in 2002)

David Cross – Literally…/The Ricky Henderson Bit  (from the “Shut Up, You Fucking Baby” 2-disc set – released in 2002)

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