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Hot Chip - The Cure - X-Ray Spex - Bis - Pictish Trail

Session music from synth-pop outfit Hot Chip and tonight's Triple A comes from punk pioneers X-Ray Spex led by the enigmatic Poly Styrene. Get in touch Email vicgalloway@bbc.co.uk

Session music from synth-pop outfit Hot Chip celebrating their new album Freakout/Release. Tonight's Triple A (All-Time Alternative Album) is the 1978 debut 'Germfree Adolescents 'from punk pioneers X-Ray Spex led by the enigmatic Poly Styrene. Plus new releases and classics from Glasgow group Bis, Eigg based artist Pictish Trail and American funkateers Sly & The Family Stone. Get in touch Email vicgalloway@bbc.co.uk

1 hour, 55 minutes

Music Played

  • The Cure

    Friday I'm In Love

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Supergrass

    Pumping On Your Stereo

    • Supergrass Is 10: The Best Of 94-04.
    • Parlophone.
    • 2.
  • Bis

    Lucky Night

  • Pictish Trail

    Remote Control

  • X鈥怰ay Spex

    Identity

    • Best Punk Album In The World... Ever!, The.
    • Virgin.
    • 22.
  • Hot Chip

    Freakout/Release (Session Track)

  • Hot Chip

    Broken (Session Track)

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    I Want To Take You Higher (Glastonbury 2015)

    • The Essential Sly & The Family Stone.
    • Epic/Legacy.
    • 11.
  • Young Fathers

    Geronimo

    • Ninja Tune.
  • Spyres

    Test

  • The Beta Band

    Inner Meet Me

    • Because Music.
  • Mungo鈥檚 Hi Fi & Kiko Bun

    Riddim General

  • The Vaselines

    Son Of A Gun

    • Way Of The Vaselines, The: A Complete History.
    • Sup Pop.
  • Mudhoney

    Touch Me I'm Sick

    • Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition.
    • Sub Pop Records.
    • 1.
  • Cloth

    Low Sun

  • Hot Chip

    Down (Session Track)

  • Hot Chip

    Eleanor (Session Track)

  • X鈥怰ay Spex

    The Day The World Turned Day-Glo

    • Germfree Adolescents.
    • EMI International.
  • X鈥怰ay Spex

    I Am a Poseur

    • X-Ray Spex.
  • Lloyd's House

    Heather

    • (single).
    • not on label.
  • Leftfield

    Pulse

  • Fun Boy Three

    Our Lips Are Sealed

    • Best of British: Classic Hits from the 80s, 90s and 00s.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 11.
  • Horace Andy

    Feverish

  • Lizzie Reid

    Warpaint

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Passionate Friend

    • The Teardrop Explodes - Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 29 Aug 2022 20:00
  • Wed 31 Aug 2022 22:00
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