We Will Always Love You: The Avalanches (E7)

Track	Artist	Year
Rush	Big Audio Dynamite	1991
Ghost Story	The Avalanches / Orono	2020
The Divine Chord	The Avalanches / Johnny Marr / MGMT	2020
New Town Velocity	Johnny Marr	2013
Interstellar Love	The Avalanches / Leon Bridges	2020
Eye in the Sky	Alan Parsons Project	1982
Gold Sky	The Avalanches / Kurt Vile	2020
Last Train Home	Pat Metheny Group	1987
Oh The Sunn!	Perry Farrell	2020
Pets	Perry Ferrell / Porno for Pyros	1993
We Go On	The Avalanches /Cola Boyy, Mick Jones	2020
Hurting Each Other	The Carpenters	1972
Running Red Lights	The Avalancehes / Rivers Cuomo, Pink Siifu	2020
Wherever You Go	The Avalanches / Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry, CLYPSO	2020
Weightless	The Avalanches	2020

Musical Tenacity

What I admire is the tenacity the have demonstrated over the course of 20 years in putting together three brilliant collections each able to stand on its own as a minor or even major work of art.

From my audio edits (Adobe Audition) this is what those signals to M13 as featured in the final track, Weightless look like. I see the dots and dashes clear as a bell in this audio wave – and this information is headed to far away stars right now – tell whoever may be listening about… us.

The List

• The Avalanches
• The Golden Record (Voyager Mission)
• Carl Sagan / Annie Druyan
• E! True Hollywood Story: Karen Carpenter
• Pitchfork Album Review
• The Guardian: The Avalanches We Will Always Love You
• Johnny Marr
• Perry Farrell

And of particular importance for my dear listeners… here is that FABULOUS BBC THREE HOUR MIX – that you can enjoy right here and right now.

And Some Video For You

Tony Di Blasi on The Smiths

Published in The Guardian

People may think: “Oh whatever, it’s just British music.” But to me the Smiths were this strange, mysterious music from this faraway place. This was pre-internet, remember. NME used to arrive in Australia a month late, so I would read the old issues and see all these British bands like the Jesus and Mary Chain. But I’d never heard music with such atmosphere and gloom and just that sad teenage melancholy. 


As a kid in this country town I felt quite disconnected from life there, and felt like I didn’t fit in. The Smiths made me dream about what England would be like, and think: “I want to go there one day and be a musician.” I remember thinking: get me out of this country. And I just wanted to go there, where all this great music comes from, and where people will appreciate music. 


I didn’t get to see the Smiths growing up but I did see Morrissey play at Summer Sonic in Japan in 2002. He was on stage after us – we were performing to 10,000 kids in this hot sweaty shed at the height of the Japanese summer. 


We finished and the crowd cleared out completely. Morrissey then started to play, but no one was there. I was standing at the side of the stage and I felt terrible. He looked a bit upset. What had happened was there was a mixup with scheduling, and for some reason they were stopping the Morrissey fans coming in until every last person had left our set. Morrissey was about two songs in at this point. 


The festival management clocked on what was happening and soon let everybody in. There were thousands of kids screaming, running towards the stage, holding daffodils and throwing them. The whole mood lifted and Morrissey must have realised: “No, these people were really waiting there to see me.” It was just this beautiful moment for everybody; he breathed a big sigh of relief and played quite a beautiful sunset.