Record Store Day Round-Up


In honour of Record Store Day yesterday, Jarvis presents some exclusive records, both brand new singles and classic re-releases. Featuring a jazz poetry superjam by Michael Horovitz, and great TV themes from Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Star Trek and the jazz-playing puppets from Thunderbirds. A recent study has shown that new music lights up the brain's reward centre: we test whether new cover versions give your nucleus accumbens a double-whammy of pleasure. On This Day in 1989, protests began in Tiananmen Square and in 1990 Sinéad O'Connor started a lengthy run at the US number one spot. And our old-fashioned host recalls flexi discs fondly but admits that Facebook has him foxed. Birthdays: Iggy Pop (who remembers starting out and his influences), Alistair MacLean, Ira Louvin, Robert Smith (who's tougher than he looks) and Eddy Christiani. 

Kristjan Järvi - The Cloud Atlas Sextet 
Leonard Cohen - Democracy 
Iggy and The Stooges - Gimme Danger 
Iggy Pop - She Called Me Daddy 
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life 
The Skatalites - Guns of Navarone 
The Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real 
Charles-François Gounod - Alfred Hitchcock Presents 
British Sea Power - Facts Are Right 
Stealing Sheep - Do As You Will 
Alexander Courage - Star Trek Theme 
Sigur Rós - Von (Hvarf Version) 
Michael Horovitz with Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon and Paul Weller - Ballade of the Nocturnal Commune 
Karl Hyde - The Boy with the Jigsaw Puzzle Fingers 
The Cass Carnaby Five - Let's Play Ad Lib 
The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walkin' in the Sand) 
The Ukrainians - Piznee Is The Smiths: What Difference Does It Make?
MMOSS - Cathy's Clown 
The Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror 
Kate Bush - Walk Straight Down the Middle 
Ombre - Noche Brilla 
Tyree - I'm Free 
Jackson Jones - I Feel Good, Put Your Pants On 
Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 
The Cure - 10.15 Saturday Night 
Eddy Christiani - Adieu