tracklist….

Quickie for Duckie - Conway Savage [Quickie for Duckie, Beheaded2007] also on myspace.com/conwaysavage Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura [Let’s Get Out Of This Country, Merge 2006] New Kings - Desert Hearts  [Hotsy Totsy Nagasaki, Gargleblast/ No Dancing 2006] Variation - Three Tales [myspace.com/threetales] Crickets sing for anamaria Marcos Valle    [Samba ‘68, Verve 1968] Why would anybody live here - The Sadies    [Favourite Colours 1998] Murderer - Low [Drums and Guns, Sub Pop 2007] Dancers All - Death Vessel [The Sound the Hare Heard, Kill Rock Stars 2006] You’ve Never Been Right - Melvins    [(A) Senile Animal, Ipecac, 2006] Rubbernecker - Danielson Famile    Tri-Danielson (Alpha) [Secretly Canadian, 2000] Say Yeh feat. Prodigy - Aaron Spectre [myspace.com/aaronspectre]

Blaise Bailey Finnegan III (excerpt) - Godspeed You! Black Emperor [Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP] How to disrespect authority in style.

Black Steel - Tricky [Maxinquaye] A cover of the Public Enemy tune, a tale of a black man who organises a prison riot to protest against the draft notice.

By the Time I Get to Arizona - Public Enemy [Apocalypse ‘91: The Enemy Strikes Back] Enraged by Arizona’s decision not to hold a holiday in honour of Martin Luther King.

Night Of The Hunter - Piano Magic [Disaffected] Piano Magic not sounding like themselves at all on this, but it’s still a good anti-bloodsports song.

At Home He’s A Tourist -Gang Of Four [Entertainment] I couldn’t have a political mix without Gang of Four really could I?

Who Makes The Nazis? - The Fall [The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 - 2004] “Longhorn, longhorn breed”. This song always puzzles me, this is the Peel session version which is maybe even stranger than the album version.

Reuters - Wire [Pink Flag] 1977, but it could have been written yesterday.

All these Governors - The Evens [The Evens] The lyrics remind me of our legistlative assembly, sadly.

Unfair - Pavement [Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain] Not 100% political but a tale of Northern California vs Southern California, I think.

Women Of The World - Jim O’Rourke [Eureka] A simple message beautifully done.

Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke [The Eraser] Thom’s reaction to the suspicious death of weapons investigator David Kelly.

Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt Written by Elvis Costello at the time of the Falklands War, this is a very heartfelt rendition from Robert Wyatt.

War - Bob Marley [Rastaman Vibration] The words aren’t Bob’s, but are instead the text of the address to the UN by Hailie Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia. Wise man.

Northern Industrial Town - Billy Bragg [William Bloke] The only song in the list about Belfast, written just after the 1994 ceasefires.

TRACKLISTING: Near To You - Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair [Words Of Wisdom And Hope (2002)] Nice n cheap here

Local Man Ruins Everything - William Campbell and Kevin MacNeil (2005) Hard to find, officially sold out, although it’s on their myspace

Beast For Thee - Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Matt Sweeney [Superwolf (2005)] Buy here

Herculean - The Good, The Bad & The Queen [The Good, The Bad & The Queen (2007)] Buy here

Prospect Hummer - Animal Collective with Vashti Bunyan [Prospect Hummer EP (2005)] Buy here

No II pt. 1- Sonic Youth With Yamatsuka Eye [TV Shit (1994)] Hard to find - try this link

Dead City Radio - Sonic Youth & William Burroughs [Dead City Radio (1990)] Still available, try here

Taut - John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey [Dance Hall At Louse Point (1996)] Available here

Style It Takes - Lou Reed & John Cale [Songs For Drella (1990)] Absolute steal here

Deerhoof - +81 [2007] from the new album ‘Friend Opportunity’ released in the UK on ATP recordings, in the USA on Kill Rock Stars Buy it here (UK) or here (USA)

Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star [1994] tracks played in part: In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader, Starfield Road, Winner’s Blues. Buy it here

The Raincoats - In Love [1979] from the debut album ‘The Raincoats’ (Rough Trade) Buy it here

Big Stick - Drag Racing [1986] 7″ single, also available on this fine compliation!

Burial - Broken Home [2006] from the debut album ‘Burial’, available here

Sol Seppy - 1 2 [2006] from the album ‘The Bells of 1 2′, available here

More punk stuff than I was planning, but it was all quite random, and it was aseembled very quickly.