Chris Brooks

youtube.com/watch?v=5zdq... #ClocktoberMusic 5 | Ride Time Machine 1992 Every track on ‘Going Blank Again’ is an absolute gem & this is no exception

youtube.com/watch?v=ILhT... #ClocktoberMusic 6 | Simple Minds Life In a Day 1979 Lucky enough to see these at The Nottingham Sandpiper Club In December of that year , was so impressed I went out the next day & bought their album which included this title track

youtube.com/watch?v=b0wJ... #ClocktoberMusic 7 | The Cure Seventeen Seconds 1980 No difficult second album syndrome here , this is where they found their identity , from the blurred imagery & artwork to the carefully crafted songs , it remains their finest album for me & a fine closing track

youtube.com/watch?v=2cHz... #ClocktoberMusic 8 | Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel All Men Are Hungry 1976 ‘All The Men Are Hungry All The Men Are In Search Of Time’ From their sublime fourth album ‘Timeless Flight’ on EMI

youtube.com/watch?v=26o4... #fallfriday Right , finished work so it’s off home with a good old fashioned eighties Fall stomp ringing in my ears This is the cool 😎 group @thefallthings.bsky.social

youtube.com/watch?v=vh0y... #ClocktoberMusic 9 | The Lemonheads It’s About Time 1993 Single from their sixth album - Evan Dando invariably hits the spot , one of the most enduring voices on the circuit

youtube.com/watch?v=hzhd... #ClocktoberMusic 10 | Wire 23 Years Too Late 2007 Track from the ‘Read & Burn’ trilogy of EPs released in the early 2000s on their Pink Flag label - This was a particularly fertile period for the band , spawning a film documentary & book , well worth checking out

youtube.com/watch?v=N8WV... #ClocktoberMusic 11 | Sensational Alex Harvey Band Midnight Moses 1972 From their debut album ‘Framed’ released on Vertigo , one of Scotland’s finest exports as illustrated by this outstanding live performance

youtube.com/watch?v=chPb... #ClocktoberMusic 12 | Alien Sex Fiend E.S.T Trip To The Moon 1984 ‘The Time Is 4.57 & Twenty Seconds Past The Hour’ From their excellent ‘Acid Bath’ album , the London Goth/Industrial Band deliver a belter of a track

youtube.com/watch?v=UvPQ... #ClocktoberMusic 13 | Makin’ Time Here Is My Number 1985 Before Martin Blunt founded The Charlatans he was in the fabulous R & B band from The West Midlands , Makin’ Time serving up tremendous tunes like this

youtube.com/watch?v=weIX... #ClocktoberMusic 14 | Magazine Twenty Years Ago 1980 Catchy reverse side of their ‘A Song From Under The Floorboards’ single on Virgin Records

youtube.com/watch?v=z40h... #ClocktoberMusic 15 | Modern English Ricochet Days 1984 Title track from their fine third album on 4AD

youtube.com/watch?v=0vGv... #ClocktoberMusic #fallfriday 16 | The Fall Various Times 1978 Classic early Fall with trademark , insanely catchy bass line - a tale of past , present & future before Smith delivers the line ’But I’m The Sort That Gets Out Of The Bath With A Dirty Face’ - What A Band

youtube.com/watch?v=sYJ2... #ClocktoberMusic 17 | The Vibrators 24 Hour People 1978 Track from their superb second album V2 , produced by Vic Maile on Epic Records

youtube.com/watch?v=XIje... #ClocktoberMusic 18 | Half Man Half Biscuit Time Flies By (When You’re A Driver Of A Train) 1985 Chances Are That If You Grew Up WithThe Wonderful Puppetry Skills Of Gordon Murray & Gerry Anderson , You Are A Sixty Something With More Than A Passing Interest In HMHB😉

youtube.com/watch?v=UE5U... #ClocktoberMusic 19 | The Charlatans Me. In Time 1991 Criminally underrated track from the period between their first two albums on Situation 2 Records , shunned by the band even as it’s rarely played live , it’s up there with their best work for me

youtube.com/watch?v=WnFk... #ClocktoberMusic 20 | Buzzcocks Times Up 1977 Brilliant live version from The Live At The Electric Circus EP & part of The Band’s debut ‘Spiral Scratch’ on New Hormones , which was a real game changer as it’s been cited as the first independent record ever released

youtube.com/watch?v=o8hp... #ClocktoberMusic 21 | The Psychedelic Furs Midnight To Midnight 1987 Title track from their fifth album , eagle eyed among you will spot a future Cure member in this Furs line up

youtube.com/watch?v=X7rK... #ClocktoberMusic 22 | The Danse Society Clock 1980 Cracking Debut Single By The South Yorkshire Gothmeisters From Barnsley , always been a huge fan of their music

youtube.com/watch?v=JoMC... #ClocktoberMusic 23 | Sparks Beat The Clock 1979 Ron & Russ Mael certainly knew how to move with the times as this infectious slice of Euro Electro Disco illustrates , tremendous

youtube.com/watch?v=1ob9... #ClocktoberMusic 24 | Clock DVA 4 Hours 1981 Single taken from their ‘Thirst’ album on Fetish Records & one of the highlights from the Futurama festival that year

youtube.com/watch?v=MvMb... #ClocktoberMusic 25 | Wasted Youth Gone Midnight 1982 Cult London outfit , prominent in the late seventies & early eighties who dealt with dark themes & the seedy side of life , a version of the band are still touring today , well worth catching if you get chance

youtube.com/watch?v=-t1B... #ClocktoberMusic 26 | The Distractions Time Goes By So Slow 1979 Perhaps one of the lesser known releases on Factory Records but superb nonetheless

youtube.com/watch?v=LvV9... #ClocktoberMusic 27 | The Godfathers If I Only Had Time 1988 Underrated London outfit who produce magnificent music much deserving of a wider audience

youtube.com/watch?v=LYFX... #ClocktoberMusic 28 | Rush - Clockwork Angels 2012 Title track from their twentieth & final album , took me a long time to ‘get’ Rush but am glad I did

youtube.com/watch?v=Gtrf... #ClocktoberMusic 29 | U2 - 11 O’Clock Tick Tock 1980 Early Single Produced By The Legendary Martin Hannett

youtube.com/watch?v=5dSu... #ClocktoberMusic 30 - Yachts - In A Second - Nothing will ever dislodge Yachts 1979 debut album from my all time Top 10 with its fabulous keyboard driven powerpop tunes & tales of boating ⛴️ caddishness & nautical japes , marvellous stuff

youtube.com/watch?v=CnEZ... #ClocktoberMusic 31 - Wah! Heat - Seven Minutes To Midnight- Cracking Peel Session from 1980 & of one of Pete Wylie’s finest compositions

youtube.com/watch?v=rVgi... #fallfriday Cracking flip side to ‘Mr Pharmacist’ catches Smith hitting the high notes , which one reviewer described as the sound of Eddie Waring toasting 🤣 @thefallthings.bsky.social

youtube.com/watch?v=vB7I... #fallfriday It’s fairly hard to recall the first Fall record I ever heard but I suspect this monster of a tune would be high on the list , must have been an exhilarating live experience @thefallthings.bsky.social

youtube.com/watch?v=t1VL... Oh it’s the fifteenth today , was even better in September 1979 when Wire released their magnificent third album ‘154’

youtube.com/watch?v=E2JV... #fallfriday Much to marvel at here not least that terrific Hanley bass line 😀 @thefallthings.bsky.social

youtube.com/watch?v=VAYD... R.E.M - New Adventures In Hi - Fi Released 30 years ago today , time does not diminish its brilliance

youtube.com/watch?v=J0cR... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 31 | A Favourite Song By A Favourite Artist Pavement Loretta’s Scars 1992 From the outstanding ‘Slanted & Enchanted’ Album

youtube.com/watch?v=dcaM... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 30 | The Last Song On An An Album By A Band Beginning With The The Rezillos Destination Venus 1979 Closing Track From The Live Album ‘Mission Accomplished But The Beat Goes On’ Sci Fi Adventures From The Energetic Edinburgh Group

youtube.com/watch?v=7n_d... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 29 | A One Hit Wonder From The Decade You Turned 10 Jilted John 1978 A truly bizarre record dropped right into the Punk & New Wave mixer by talented actor & musician Graham Fellows

youtube.com/watch?v=PMhN... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 28 | A Song With More Than Four Words In The Title By A Band With More Than Three Words In Their Name Warrington - Runcorn New Town Development Plan A Shared Sense Of Purpose 2023 From The Album ‘Appendix 1’ Innovative Northern Synth Tunes

youtube.com/watch?v=a4Ij... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 27 | Song With & Or And In The Title By A Band Beginning With D Dr Feelgood Milk And Alcohol 1979 From Pub Rock To Chart Success , The Essex Lads Biggest Hit , My Could They Play

youtube.com/watch?v=53f9... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 26 | Song By A Solo Artist With A Mode Of Transport In The Title Johnny Thunders Subway Train 1978 Track from his fine solo album ‘So Alone’

youtube.com/watch?v=1IDa... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 25 | A Song With An Alliterative Title From The 2020s Thus Love Pith & Point 2022 From the exquisite ‘Memorial’ album by this American band from Vermont

youtube.com/watch?v=288A... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 24 | Song With A Day Or Month In The Title By A Band With A One Word Name Wire Field Day For The Sundays 1977 Wire Not Messing About Here

youtube.com/watch?v=aqUY... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 23 | A Song With A Body Of Water In The Title From The Decade You Left School Christie Yellow River 1970 Always loved this song when I was a kid , Number One Single & played incessantly on Radio 1

youtube.com/watch?v=vvYQ... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 22 | A Song With A Number In The Title By A Band With More Than 4 Members The Charlatans Imperial 109 1990 Early Instrumental Track That Appeared On The Compilation Album ‘Songs From The Other Side’

youtube.com/watch?v=UPDO... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 21 | A Song That Starts With A Vowel By A Band That Starts With A Vowel Eddie & The Hot Rods I Might Be Lying 1977 Another great tune & one in a fine run of singles by the lads from Canvey Island

youtube.com/watch?v=6Orx... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 20 | A Sad Song With A Body Part In The Title Wire Kidney Bingos 1988 Great single from the second era of Wire during the mid to late eighties , just magnificent

youtube.com/watch?v=-dBL... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 19 | A Song With A Place In The Title By An Artist You Have Seen Live Magazine Philadelphia 1980 My favourite track from third album ‘The Correct Use Of Soap’ & a real tour de force from John McGeoch

youtube.com/watch?v=jWkM... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 18 | With Q X Or Z InThe Title By A Band That Starts With R R.E.M What’s The Frequency , Kenneth? 1994 From their ninth album ‘Monster’ & a Monster Guitar Riff from Peter Buck to boot

youtube.com/watch?v=0XZs... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 17 | Something Obscure Relating To One Of The Five Senses These Animal Men This Is The Sound Of Youth 1994 From their debut album ‘Come On Join The High Society’ - part of the short lived New Wave Of New Wave sound that grazed the Britpop era

youtube.com/watch?v=4rw1... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 16 | A Song With A Food Or Drink In The Title From The Decade You Were Born Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense & Peppermints 1967 Fabulous slice of psychedelic pop from this terrific American band

youtube.com/watch?v=AdiF... #DavidsMonthOfMusic 15 | With Who What When Or Where In The Title By A Duo Or Trio Saint Etienne Who Do You Think You Are 1990 Nice cover version of the Candlewick Green original by Bob , Pete & Sarah ( with guest vocalist ) but they are ostensibly a trio