Mental Notes January 2023: All the Rest Are Strangers

BRISBANE—I haven’t done a music review for 23 years, literally, so I sipped a few Coopers on the balcony and did this for a friend. Or possibly enemy, as no-one likes a reviewer.

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mix | FBI Weekend Overhang May 9 2004

1. Grandaddy – So You’ll Aim Toward The Sky 2. Ouvi Melhor – With Friends Like These 3. Humbug – E(k) 4. Edwin Collins – Magic Piper Of Love 5. The Stems – Tears Me In Two 6. The Bank Holidays – The Greatest Game 7. Butterglory – She Clicks The Sticks 8. Bloodhound Gang R’mix Pet Shop Boys – Mope 9. Dead Inside The Chrysalis – The Invisible (Noxious Frenzy Mix) 10. The Pixies – Here Comes Your Man (Live. Also confirmed for Fuji Rock ’04) 11. Salad – Drink The Elixir 12. Purplene – Love:Western 13. Purdy – On The Roof Of The World 14. The Ross Orbit Stack – Trouble 15. The Lucksmiths – Synchronised Sinking 16. Bentley Rhythm Ace – On Her Majesty’s Secret Whistle 17. Friendly – It’s There In Your Eyes
(May 2004; 79 mins; 38MB)

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mix | FBI The Bridge April 28 2004

The Bridge, Sydney Album Show, on FBI 94.5FM, Sydney. Special guest, Tim from The Architects. 1. Rephrase ­ Cellfish 2. Inga Illejstrom – Glow 3. The Honey Palace ­ Sunburst Freak 4. Euphonic ­ Faceless 5. Entropic Remix ­ STHMCSHP 6. Howard ­ Jill 100 7. Wallspace ­ How¹s Your love life? 8. Tongues ­ Peculiar 9. Ouvi Melhor ­ Del Sistema 10. Tufa ­ Give the Kid a Donut 11. The Woods Themselves ­ Beat Yer Shallow Chest 12. Staying at Home ­ Air, Water and the Grave 13. The Porkers ­ Harder Than It looks 14. The Lovetones ­ This is Why You Love Me 15. The Architects ­ Shivers in the Dark // whole EP
(April 2004; 79 mins; 38MB)

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mix | FBI The Bridge March 17 2004

The Bridge, Sydney Album Show, on FBI 94.5FM, Sydney. Special guests Penny, Sonya and Ned from Bubble Vicious. 1. Purdy – 3 Friends to the Stars 2. Lazy Susan – Looking Backwards 3. Ju Ju Space Jazz – Latina Fruinga 4. Duppy – The Spirit Child 5. Dappled Cities Fly – Peach 6. Centipede – Beret on a Fence 7. Bubble Vicious interview including full album, Domesticated
(March 2004; 79 mins; 38MB)

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mix | FBI The Bridge February 25 2004

The Bridge, Sydney Album Show, on FBI 94.5FM, Sydney. Special guest Carla Werner. 1. Dappled Cities Fly – Peach 2. Diatonics – Camel Cafe 3. Carla Werner interview including full album, Departure, and live acoustic version of Like Mercury 4. Anything But Roy – Sangkut
(February 2004; 79 mins; 38MB)

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mix | FBI Weekend Overhang January 4 2004 Part 1

On FBI 94.5FM, Sydney. 1. Roni Size r’mix Takemura – Brown Paper Bag 2. Jaylib – Raw Shit 3. Jay Chou – Ninja (Ren Zhi) 4. Soma Rasa – I Like It 5. Tim Rogers – Damn Songs 6. Teenage FAnclub – I Need Direction 7. Screamfeeder – Same Mistakes Again 8. Dappled Cities Fly – Corpus Kinaesthesia 9. Woodbine – Neskwik 10. Frente – Horrible 11. Elbow – Fallen Angel 12. Hoodoo Gurus – Big Deal 13. Kid 606 – If I Had a Happy Place This Would Be It 14. Kahimi Karie – Pygmalism 15. Stereolab – Come and Play in the Milky Night 16. Ed Kuepper – Honey Steals Gold 17. Women of Troy – Reach the Stars 18. Glide – Why You Asking? 19. Nuyorican Soul r’mix 4 Hero – I Am the Black Gold of the Sun (January 2004; 79 mins; 38MB)

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