If you scroll down to the tracklist, he credits all the original artists.

Final episode of The Grand Tour 'One for the Road" out today, featuring LWTUA and May in a white UP tshirt.

Hmmm. Managed to find this film on YouTube and, yep, 'Confusion' features quite prominently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqH37UYdN2g

The track starts at the 20 mins mark.

So, yeah, this predates 'Pretty In Pink' by about five months. Who knew, eh?

According to the credits, the soundtrack was available on Streetwise Records, which I think was Arthur Baker's company. He also produced the (incredibly 80s) main theme to the film. That's presumably how the band's music got included. Freeez's IOU is apparently featured too (another Baker collaboration), but I didn't spot that whilst scrubbing through the film.

Weirdly, I can't find the LP on Discogs.

Film looks awesome, by the way... ;-)

Found it. It's about at the 24mins mark (if anyone can be bothered to hunt the film down).

To be fair, the film looks a lot better than 'Sudden Death'.
For a film that is almost 40 years old, it looks pretty good. Quality camerawork, acting and the story seems decent, from what I could see.


Interestingly, looking at the soundtrack that Jcp posted earlier, it looks like the Robie remix is on the soundtrack (by the run-time, it looks like it might be that Benelux exclusive edit of the Robie mix).
However, the film itself contains the LP version.

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For any Revenge fans out there (I know we are few and far between, but I don't care - I liked 'em!).
This was new to me and hadn't seen it before this morning:





Almost sounds like a mix between a live recording and a studio version.

If anyone recognises which TV programme it's likely taken from (based on the two presenters at the end of the clip), please let me know.

JD Spotting

John Peel's son, Tom Ravenscroft is a BBC 6 Music DJ/presenter as you may already know.
He does a series of one hour shows from his late dad's house, "Peel Acres" under the title: The Collection. There are some additional episodes listed under 6 Music Stories for some reason.

I've been working my way through a few of these shows/podcasts on the BBC Sounds app recently.
Each episode has a different guest vinyl digger, rummaging their way through John Peel's mammoth record collection. Damon from Blur, Nish Kumar, actor Johny Flynn and Fatboy Slim are just some of the guests. Fatboy is great and reminds us that he did a couple of Peel Sessions when he was in the Housemartins. He was clearly a big Peel fan and digs out a cartridge tape from under the foorboards with Peel's opening theme music on it!

Anyway German electronic DJ & producer Helena Hauff did one in September here.
At 42:11 she finds a stack of JD Flexi-discs which she calls floppy discs. "It looks like 20 of them".
From the description and the blurb that they read out, it's clearly Komakino (+ Incubation & As You Said). At first, they think it may be very rare.
Looking at the Discogs listing, the reviews/comments underneath are quite fun. Here's one: "I was told that Factory used to post these out stapled to letterheads. Right through the grooves, just for giggles."

Crazy to think they gave these away for free just because the tracks didn't make it on to Closer. Of course if you want one now, they're not free on Discogs!

At 53:38 Hauff and Ravenscroft come back to the JD Flexi. Ravenscroft says : "you can only play these a few times, then the sound disappears".
Is that true? I guess the grooves and material are pretty flimsy. Anyone know how many plays you can get from a Flexi?
Anyway, they eventually play Komakino on 54 mins, and I reckon it sounds alright!. They then realise: 75,000 copies were pressed, so it wasn't as rare as they first thought.

If you liked John Peel, then these shows are worth a listen.