Bands Of The Manchester Musicians' Collective



Side one:
1 Bathroom Renovations - Intensely Henna'd
2 Cajun Cutie - Black Man's World
3 Dislocation Dance - You Can't Beat History
4 The Enigma - Play With Fire
5 Gods Gift - Creeps In
6 The Hoax - World War III
7 If Only - If Only...

Side two:
1 The Liggers - Pretty Girl
2 The Mekon - Must Have More
3 Outer Edge - Old Wives Tales
4 Performance - Natural Equilibrium
5 The Spurtz - Boyfriends Or Your Money Back
6 The Still - 9.5
7 Undercovermen - Of No Fixed Abode
8 Vibrant Thigh - Walking Away

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With the new electronic tom-tom.
German TV (mono) recording of concert Markthalle Hamburg 1981-11-26.



1 The Future Now
2 Losing Faith In Words
3 Stranger Still
4 My Experience
5 The Sphinx In The Face
6 Flight
7 The Spirit
8 Door (partial)

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A compilation from four San Francisco bands, central composition: I left my heart.
Only MX-80 and the Residents did a real attempt for this song.
On Ralph records.



Side one:
1 Chrome - Anti-Fade
2 Chrome - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
3 Chrome - Meet You In The Subway
4 MX-80 Sound - Lady In Pain
5 MX-80 Sound - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
6 MX-80 Sound - Possessed

Side two:
1 The Residents - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
2 The Residents - Dumbo, The Clown (Who Loved Christmas)
3 The Residents - Is He Really Bringing Roses (The Replacement)
4 The Residents - Time's Up
5 Tuxedomoon - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
6 Tuxedomoon - Everything You Want
7 Tuxedomoon - Waterfront Seat

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Dutch radio mono recording, except for the two last songs, taken from lp Propaganda, recorded at The Bottom Line, New York, April 4, 1979.


Original photo by Karel Meijer

1 So lonely
2 Fall out
3 Born in the 50's
4 Hole in my life
5 Roxanne
6 Next to you
7 Can't stand losing you
8 Landlord
9 Next to you

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Compilation from bands around Manchester.



Side one:
1 Airkraft - Move In Rhythm
2 Expelaires - Sympathy (Don't Be Taken In)
3 Clock DVA - You're Without Sound
4 Music For Pleasure - The Human Factor
5 Nightmares In Wax - Shangri-La
6 Ada Wilson and Keeping Dark - Head In The Clouds
7 Modern Eon - Choreography
8 Medium Medium - Them Or Me

Side two:
1 Radio 5 - True Colours
2 They Must Be Russians - Where Have I Seen You
3 Section 25 - After-Image
4 Art Failure - Gimmick
5 I'm So Hollow - I Don't Know
6 Wah! Heat - Hey Disco Joe
7 Stranger Than Fiction - Immortal In Mirrors
8 The Distributors - T.V. ME

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Dutch radio recording of a 1992 show in Paradiso, Amsterdam. Or was it 1993?
Pushin' Too Hard is a The Seeds cover from the early days, released as part of The Shape of Things.



1 Codex
2 Bus Called Happiness
3 Heaven
4 George Had A Hat - Pushin' Too Hard
5 Non-Alignment Pact

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Akron compilation on Clone Records.
Half filled with minmal synthesizer work of Denis DeFrange.
Other big contributer is Ralph Carney who does one song with David Thomas (Pere Ubu). Ralph Carney worked with Tom Waits and the B-52's.
Includes an early version of the Waitresses' I know what boys like.



Side one:
1 The Waitresses - Wait Here I'll Be Right Back... (I Know What Boys Like)
2 Denis DeFrange - Sector Wars
3 Ralph Carney - Closet Bears
4 Denis DeFrange - Pyrenees
5 Ralph Carney - Hösé Annå
6 Denis DeFrange - Bowling Balls Theme

Side two:
1 Ralph Carney and David Thomas - Sunset In Hibernia
2 Denis DeFrange and Mark Frazier - The Manikin Shuffle
3 Hăff Nōtz - Ride, Rider
4 Denis DeFrange - My Spys Lost
5 Hurricane Bob - Andrea
6 Denis DeFrange - The Last Pin

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