Any of you guys heard the Rough Trade Shops 25 Years compilation?
It features stuff that will appeal to the oldies(that includes me)
amongst us. Looks to be some good stuff on here.

Disc: 1
1. 30 Seconds Over Tokyo - Pere Ubu
2. Boredom - Buzzcocks
3. Fisherman - The Congos
4. Nag Nag Nag - Cabaret Voltaire
5. T.V.O.D. - The Normal
6. Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
7. United - Throbbing Gristle
8. Ambition - Subway Sect
9. Part Time Punks - Television Personalities
10. Fairytale In The Supermarket - The Raincoats
11. Reality Asylum - Crass
12. Transmission - Joy Division
13. People Say - The Go Betweens
14. Let's Build A Car - Swell Maps

Disc: 2
1. Final Day - Young Marble Giants
2. How I Wrote Elastic Man - The Fall
3. Mr Clarinet - The Birthday Party
4. There Goes Concorde Again - ...And The Native Hipsters
5. The Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti
6. Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
7. Gums Bleed - Foetus
8. Hand In Glove - The Smiths
9. Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins
10. Krieg In Den Stadten - Einst - rzende Neubauten
11. Tupelo - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
12. Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
13. Death Valley '69 (w. Lydia Lunch) - Sonic Youth
14. Hard Left - Tackhead

Disc: 3
1. Jungle - Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Dub Syndicate
2. Birthday - The Sugarcubes
3. Bone Machine - Pixies
4. Touch Me I'm Silk - Mudhoney
5. Revolution - Spacemen 3
6. Different Drum - Lemonheads
7. Further Back The Faster - Coil
8. The Light that Will Cease To Fail - Steriolab
9. Her Jazz - Huggy Bear
10. Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
11. Song To The Siren - The Chemical Brothers
12. Pink Frost - The Chills
13. Soaky - In The Pooper
14. Sciew Spoc - Gescom

Disc: 4
1. Plastique (Video Mix) - Plastikman
2. Gak 4 - Gak
3. 6am Jullander Shere - Cornershop
4. Presha III - Studio Pressure
5. Everything You Do Is A Balloon - Boards Of Canada
6. Flashlegs - Echoboy
7. As The Rain (Adrian Sherwood On-U Sound - Jeb Loy Nichols
8. Monkey On Your Back - Clinic
9. Hot Topic - Le Tigre
10. To You - I Am Kloot
11. In The Bath - Lemon Jelly
12. F**k The Pain Away - Peaches
13. My Winding Wheel - Ryan Adams
14. Talk To Me (91 Version) - Tindersticks

I'm afraid I not as familar(that comes with age too) with much of the
latest Rough Trade selection - Counter Culture(best of 2002)
I might buy it so that I can at least appear street wise as I fail to
chat up to the student girlies in the Uni bar.

Disc: 1
1. New process - Akufen
2. Danger high voltage - Electric Six
3. Killer - Bug & Rootsman/He-Man
4. Phostographt - Crossover
5. Broken telephone - Be Good Tanyas
6. Judgement Day - Dowd, Johnny
7. Creeps in a white cake - Melt Banana
8. Shack up - Bis
9. ODB on the run - Dempsey
10. Lopster - Soulcentre
11. Way down - My Robot Friend
12. Bang - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13. Mice in drain - Dymaxion
14. Take you high - Willis
15. I'm still here - Waits, Tom
16. You suck - Edan
17. Speakers push the air - Pretty Girls Make Graves
18. She - Breeders
19. Perspex sex (Ewan's hi-NRG remix edit) - Freeform Five
20. St Patrick - Yorkston, James

Disc: 2
1. London is the place for me - Lord Kitchener
2. When irony wears thin - Prefuse 73
3. Midas - Rubicks
4. Poor Audrey James - Boggs
5. Schaukeldrehen (edit) - Ananda, Gabriel
6. Lucifer's grain - Dury, Baxter
7. Soldier girl (radio edit) - Polyphonic Spree
8. Absent father - Joyzipper
9. Enjoy your worries you may never have them again - Books
10. You lied Satan - Trash Money
11. Calculator - Rogers Sisters
12. Lover you don't have to love - Bright Eyes
13. Talk it - ESG
14. Johnny are you queer - Glass Candy & The Shattered Theatre
15. To know him is to love him - Langley Schools Music Project
16. Reality check - Schneider TM
17. Bury the hair - Tracy & The Plastics
18. Nag nag nag (Akufen's karaoke slam mix) - Cabaret Voltaire
19. Lost cluster - Bitstream
20. See America right - Mountain Goats
21. Manhattan on fire - Pink Grease

BTW The Fall get a track on Rough Trade's Rock and Roll 1 compilation
which features Dr Bucks Letter.

bye
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Graydon