Continuing Loop

The Loop remastered reissues series is going to continue, announces a passing press officer:

Remastered from the original analogue sources, following on from the critically acclaimed “Heavens End” and “Fade Out” in November 2008, the final 2 releases, ‘A Gilded Eternity’ and ‘The World In Your Eyes’ will be released as double / triple disc sets on 27th April 2009 (via Forte) and housed in a mini vinyl style card sleeve, reproducing the original artwork. Both albums will be also be made available digitally for the first time.

"A mini vinyl style card sleeve" means, of course, like what the record came in only smaller, rather than a card somehow made out of a vinyl-style substance.

Still, however it's packaged, it's good news.

Feedback Loop

Some exciting news from the pile of press releases: After ages and ages out of print, the Loop back catalogue is being remastered and brought back into the shops. Heaven’s End and Fade Out will be released this November; early next year The World In Your Eyes and Gilded Eternity get their chance to shine again.

Embed and breakfast man: 1988's Festive Fifty

Of course, the countdown won't actually have very much suspense in it, as you could nip off and look up the tracks anywhere, but to celebrate the long weekend, we're heading back twenty years to explore the Festive Fifty, John Peel's annual end-of-year listener's poll. We'll bring you the top fifteen in its entirety (the odd cut-off being because number 16 is the first we can't find on YouTube) but, before we get there, here's some bubbling under:

50. Public Enemy - Night Of The Living Bassheads



Buy: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

47. Darling Buds - Shame On You
Playing live in 1989



Buy: Pop Said

43. Mega City 4 - Miles Apart
From the tribute gig for Wiz, 2007



Buy: Inspiringly Titled

41 Loop - Collision



Buy: Wolf Flow: The Peel Sessions

The chart will build over the weekend
50 Public Enemy - Night Of The Living Bassheads
49 Wedding Present - Don't Laugh
48 Happy Mondays - Wrote For Luck
47 Darling Buds - Shame On You
46 The Primitives - Crash
45 Pixies - Bone Machine
44 New Order - Fine Time
43 Mega City 4 - Miles Apart
42 The Flatmates - Shimmer
41 Loop - Collision
40 The Fall - Guest Informant

Thirties
39 Pixies - River Euphrates
38 McCarthy - Should The Bible Be Banned?
37 Shalawambe - Samora Machel
36 The Fall - Jerusalem
35 Stump - Charlton Heston
34 Pooh Sticks - On Tape
33 James - What For
32 Spit - Road Pizza
31 Mudhoney - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More
30 Pixies - Where Is My Mind

Twenties
29 Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
28 Overlord X - 14 Days In May
27 The Fall - Kurious Oranj
26 Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers
25 Billy Bragg - The Great Leap Forwards
24 The Fall - Big New Prinz
23 Morrissey - Disappointed
22 Morrissey - Late Night, Maudlin Street
21 Robert Lloyd and the New Four Seasons - Something Nice
20 Sugarcubes - Deus

19 Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
18 House of Love - Love In A Car
17 My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss
16 The Fall - Bremen Nacht

15 The Wedding Present - I'm Not Always So Stupid
14 The Fall - Cab It Up
13 Morrissey - Suedehead
12 Morrissey - Every Day Is Like Sunday
11 Inspiral Carpets - Keep The Circle Around
10 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
9 House Of Love - Christine
8 The Wedding Present - Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now
7 Pixies - Gigantic
6 My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
5 Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene
4 The Wedding Present - Take Me
3 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Sidewalking
2 The Wedding Present - Nobody's Twisting Your Arm
1 The House Of Love - Destroy The Heart