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Coming Soon…

Jan 3, 2010, 1:05pm Plain Or Pan?
Coming Soon… Plain Or Pan is 3 years old and what better way to celebrate than with a compilation CD..... Available for download...soon....
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Neu! release

Dec 28, 2009, 3:44pm Plain Or Pan?
Neu! release Currently receiving a bit of airplay on yer more cutting edge radio shows, Portishead 's latest release has been a big favourite round Plain Or Pan's house this week. Chase the Tear (as in what you do to paper, not what you do when you cry) starts off bizarrely enough like Joe Jackson' s Stepping Out before settling into a simplistic teutonic/ Moroderesque/ motorik/ krautrockin ' (delete where applicable) monster of a track. Sounding like the best bits of Kraftwerk and Neu! it makes terrific, no, make that Can -tastic driving [...]
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File Name:06 Das Modell.mp3
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Link Text:Here
File Name:Neu_-_Hallogallo.mp3
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Artist:Portishead
Title:Chase The Tear
Link Text:here
File Name:portishead - chase the tear.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps

Strokes Of Genius

Dec 19, 2009, 7:16pm Plain Or Pan?
Strokes Of Genius Huge big massive " Happy Christmases !" all round to anyone who visits here regularly, irregularly or by sheer pot luck. Aye, I'm looking at all you faceless trouser arouser browsers who stumble onto Plain Or Pan when your search engine inadvertedly directs you this way in your quest for 'teenage fanny '. Norman Blake & co would die if they knew how half the hits on their website materialised. Anyway, now you're here, feel free to browse around at the tunes on offer. Like these two three belters.... [...]
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Artist:Bob Dylan
Title:Here Comes Santa Claus
Link Text:Here Comes Santa Claus
File Name:01 Here Comes Santa Claus.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Bob Dylan
Title:Winter Wonderland
Link Text:Winter Wonderland
File Name:03 Winter Wonderland.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Julian Casablancas
Title:I Wish It Was Christmas Today
Link Text:this
File Name:Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009

A Right Coupla Tramps

Dec 19, 2009, 6:07pm Plain Or Pan?
A Right Coupla Tramps Now and again I'll get emails from people requesting stuff. Sometimes specific (" Got any Mogwai outtakes ?" - Nope.) Sometimes more general (" Can you re-post that (insert anything from the past 3 years) please - Come on! Gie's a break! " More Smiths !" " Radiohead !" " White Stripes !" " More soul please !") OK! OK! More soul I can do. I like my soul music a lot. I think I have all the relevant bases covered in my collection. Just to make sure, I listen every Saturday night to Craig Charles [...]
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Artist:Carla Thomas
Title:Tramp
Link Text:here
File Name:14 Tramp.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1992
Artist:Lowell Fulson
Title:Tramp
Link Text:listen
File Name:09 Tramp.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1999
Artist:Otis and Carla Band
Title:Tramp [Instrumental]
Link Text:here
File Name:18 Tramp [Instrumental].mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1999
Artist:The Detroit Emeralds
Title:Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)
Link Text:it
File Name:20 Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms).mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1999

All Tomorrow's (Christmas) Parties

Dec 15, 2009, 5:48pm Plain Or Pan?
All Tomorrow's (Christmas) Parties D'you think the irony has been lost on the three quarters of a million sheep-like Facebook users who've signed up to get Rage Against The Machine to number 1 with a song who's main hook repeats " Fuck you I won't do what you tell me " about 327 times? A better choice of download for Christmas number 1 would be this , if it were commercially available. Beck does the Velvet Underground 's 'Sunday Morning '. It's gorgeous. It's the first track on the Velvet Underground & Nico album. But you [...]
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Artist:Record Club
Title:Sunday Morning
Link Text:this
File Name:Beck - 01 - Sunday Morning (record club).mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2009

Led Zeppelin. Lionel Richie and Buddy Holly. My 6 Degrees of Separation.

Dec 7, 2009, 4:55pm Plain Or Pan?
Led Zeppelin. Lionel Richie and Buddy Holly. My 6 Degrees of Separation. Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. Not only the words of the most famous golfer on the planet, also the words of me, the laziest blogger on the planet. It's been over a month since my last post. I don't really know where the time's gone, but since that last post I've managed to turn 40, see the Trashcan Sinatras live 3 times (and it would've been 4 if I hadn't been car shopping) and developed an unhealthy addiction to The Beatles Rockband on the Wii. So, time put to good use then. But I need to [...]
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Title:One Hit Wonders - Bobby Fuller
Link Text:this
File Name:One Hit Wonders - Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law And The Law Won.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Alex Chilton
Title:my baby just cares for me
Link Text:this
File Name:alex chilton cliches 01 my baby just cares for me.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1994
Artist:Blondie
Title:Sunday Girl (French version)
Link Text:this
File Name:Blondie - Sunday Girl (French).mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1993
Artist:Little Richard
Title:Brown Sugar
Link Text:this
File Name:Little Richard - Brown Sugar.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Time and Inspiration

Nov 22, 2009, 7:54am Plain Or Pan?
The 2 things lacking in my life right now. I'll be back soon.....
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Stoned Out Of My Mind

Nov 3, 2009, 6:04pm Plain Or Pan?
Stoned Out Of My Mind Funk brothers separated at birth? Or just Ike Turner being a cheeky liberator of one of Sly Stone's grooviest riffs? Sly 's Sing a Simple Song came out in 1969 on the Stand! album. One year later Ike & Tina Turner released The Hunter , a downright gutteral blues/soul/ r'n' b stomper of a record. The cover of the album sets the tone - Ike is wearing his best Beatles wig and Tina is dressed as some sort of Amazonian warrior princess. It's even better between the grooves - it wails, moans, bleeds and sounds [...]
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Artist:Booker T & the MGs
Title:Sing a Simple Song
Link Text:this
File Name:bookert_sing.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Ike & Tina Turner
Title:Bold Soul Sister
Link Text:this
File Name:04 Bold Soul Sister.mp3
Bitrate:198 kbps
Year:1969
Artist:Sly & the Family Stone
Title:Sex Machine
Link Text:Here
File Name:07 Sex Machine.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1969
Artist:Sly & the Family Stone
Title:Sing a Simple Song
Link Text:here
File Name:05 Sing a Simple Song.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1969

Free Us From Nancy Spungen-Fixated Heroin A-Holes Who Cling To Our Greatest Groups and Suck Out Their Brains

Oct 28, 2009, 4:24pm Plain Or Pan?
Free Us From Nancy Spungen-Fixated Heroin A-Holes Who Cling To Our Greatest Groups and Suck Out Their Brains Halloween's Coming, Halloween's Coming. Skeletons will be after you. No they won't, but at least it gives me a half-arsed excuse to post some Nirvana on here for the first time. I like Nirvana a lot. I've been going through something of a reunion with them every day in the car to work this week. They blow the cobwebs off before a hard day at the coal face, that's for sure. Nevermind still sounds freakin' A or awesome or whatever superlative those college frat boys would use to describe it back [...]
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Title:Track 8
Link Text:Smells Like Teen Spirit
File Name:teen spirit.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Title:Track 9
Link Text:About A Girl
File Name:about a girl.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Artist:Glasvegas
Title:Come As You Are (Nirvana cover)
Link Text:Here
File Name:come as you are - glasvegas.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2008

Get Well Soon Morrissey!

Oct 25, 2009, 7:19am Plain Or Pan?
Get Well Soon Morrissey! Taken from the BBC website a couple of minutes ago... Morrissey collapses during show Morrissey suffered breathing difficulties Former Smiths singer Morrissey has been taken to hospital after collapsing on stage with breathing difficulties. [...]
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Requests, Repeats and a Rockin' Ringo Starr

Oct 23, 2009, 5:24am Plain Or Pan?
Requests, Repeats and a Rockin' Ringo Starr I'd been meaning to re-post this excellent Beatles show a couple of weeks ago when the world was going Beatles mad and I re-posted the best of the Beatles posts I'd done, but somehow I forgot to upload it at the time and I thought, "Ach, I'll do it later..." Spurred on by a request from reader FC3 (as well as other requests in the past) I'm re-posting it here, right now, today. The original files were deleted by persons unknown during the great DMCA clampdown of November 08. Don't be surprised if the new files are also removed [...]
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Artist:The Beatles
Title:Twist And Shout
Link Text:Here
File Name:08 Twist And Shout.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps

From The Sublime To The Ridiculous – a Mr Tambourine Man Quadruple (+1) Whammy

Oct 21, 2009, 4:48am Plain Or Pan?
From The Sublime To The Ridiculous – a Mr Tambourine Man Quadruple (+1) Whammy I grew up thinking Mr Tambourine Man was a Byrds song. When I heard Dylan's original (I was about 15) I was underwhelmed, to say the least. Where were the chiming electric guitars? Why had those sun-kissed West Coast vocals been replaced by that cold East Coast nasal twang? And why was it 5 times longer and therefore more boring than the original version? Older and wiser, I can now concede to the greatness of Bob's real original, but I still have a soft spot for Roger McGuinn's pop arrangement. Listen to [...]
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File Name:byrds tambourine man vox.mp3
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Artist:Bob Dylan
Title:Mr. Tambourine Man [Alternate Take]
Link Text:this
File Name:14 Mr. Tambourine Man [Alternate Take].mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2005
Artist:Soho Riots
Title:Mr. Tambourine Man
Link Text:here
File Name:Soho Riots Mr. Tambourine Man.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Teenage Fanclub
Title:Mr Tambourine Man
Link Text:here
File Name:13 Mr Tambourine Man.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1992
Artist:William Shatner
Title:Mr. Tambourine Man
Link Text:this
File Name:william_shatner--mr__tambourin e_man.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

Now, Nancy Sinatra with a word to the wise.

Oct 19, 2009, 5:00am Plain Or Pan?
Now, Nancy Sinatra with a word to the wise. Due to a combination of work commitments, family stuff, illness and far-out holidays in New York I've not been doing much blogging recently. Now that things have settled down a bit, I'm back. Way back when Plain Or Pan first started (nearly 3 years ago) I posted a few Coca-Cola jingles. Visitors to the blog loved them - they were the most downloaded tracks for most of that year, so..when the inspiration just isn't there to write anything new....this post is a bit of a repeat. I've taken the words from a March 07 bit I wrote [...]
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Artist:Aretha Franklin
Title:Coca-Cola Commercial
Link Text:Aretha Franklin
File Name:coca-cola commercial - aretha franklin.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Lulu
Title:Coca-Cola Commercial
Link Text:Lulu
File Name:Lulu - Coca-Cola Commercial.mp3
Bitrate:64 kbps
Artist:Nancy Sinatra
Title:Coca-Cola Commercial
Link Text:Nancy Sinatra
File Name:Nancy Sinatra - Coca-Cola Commercial.mp3
Bitrate:64 kbps
Artist:Ray Charles & Aretha Franklin
Title:Coca-Cola Commercial 2
Link Text:Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles
File Name:Ray Charles & Aretha Franklin - Coca-Cola Commercial (2).mp3
Bitrate:64 kbps
Artist:Roy Orbison
Title:Coca Cola Commercial # 1
Link Text:Roy Orbison
File Name:roy orbison - coca cola commercial 1.mp3
Bitrate:64 kbps
Year:1967
Artist:Supremes
Title:Coca-Cola Commercial 1
Link Text:The Supremes
File Name:Coca - Supremes - Coca-Cola Commercial (1).mp3
Bitrate:64 kbps
Artist:Supremes
Title:Coca-Cola Commercial 2
Link Text:The Supremes
File Name:Coca - Supremes - Coca-Cola Commercial (2).mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Supremes
Title:Coca-Cola commercial 3
Link Text:The Supremes
File Name:supremes - 00 - coca-cola commercial 3.mp3
Bitrate:64 kbps
Year:1987
Artist:Various
Title:Vanilla Fudge 2
Link Text:Vanilla Fudge
File Name:Vanilla Fudge - Coca-Cola Commercial 2.mp3
Bitrate:64 kbps

I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing…

Sep 28, 2009, 5:08pm Plain Or Pan?
I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing… ...said Neil Tennant a few years back. I don't normally post new stuff very often (if at all - I can't actually think of any track that's made it onto this site that's been less than a year old*) but I'm making a couple of exceptions tonight. I feel the need to share two hot-off-the-press brand new tracks that have been tickling my fancy the past couple of days. First up, the Flaming Lips . The mid-west psychedelic pioneers have an album out on 13th October and this track has [...]
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Artist:The Flaming Lips
Title:Knives Out
Link Text:Here
File Name:The Flaming Lips - Knives Out (Radiohead).mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2002
Artist:The Flaming Lips
Title:Silver Trembling Hands
Link Text:this
File Name:Silver Trembling Hands.mp3
Artist:Thom Yorke
Title:Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses
Link Text:here
File Name:Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses.mp3

What the fuckdiddlyuck has happened to Colonel Gaddafi's face?

Sep 23, 2009, 5:50pm Plain Or Pan?
What the fuckdiddlyuck has happened to Colonel Gaddafi's face? It looks like melted plastic, like someone sat Mickey Rourke too close to the barbecue. It's the sort of look Michael Jackson might once've been proud of. Anyway my highly valued and respected readers, I need your help. In just over 2 weeks time I shall be making my first ever visit to New York City. I am super stoked, as you Americans are fond of saying, and I'm looking for advice. I know many many Americans visit Plain Or Pan regularly. Some of you are probably native New Yorkers. Many more of you will no [...]
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Title:New York, New York
Link Text:Jam Version
File Name:ryan adams new york jam version.mp3
Bitrate:207 kbps
Artist:Ryan Adams
Title:New York, New York
Link Text:with The Cardinals
File Name:Ryan Adams 09 New York New York.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2002
Artist:Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Title:New york new york
Link Text:Enmore Theatre
File Name:ryanadams2009-01-29.h320.10.mp 3
Bitrate:145 kbps

Wild Wild Horses

Sep 20, 2009, 7:46am Plain Or Pan?
Wild Wild Horses Well. There goes another of my favourite tracks that I can never listen to again in the same way. Hot on the heels of one reality TV star's murdering of ' Hallelujah ' comes the news that oor ain wee Susan Boyle, SuBo to the rest of the world, will be releasing her own version of The Rolling Stones ' 'Wild Horses' . It's leaked online and it's eh, no' as bad as you might think. Aye! A sweeping-stringed, soulful and passionate, inner-demon bearing affair, on first listen it actually brought a tear to my eye. [...]
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Artist:Labelle
Title:Wild Horses
Link Text:Wild Horses
File Name:LaBelle - Wild Horses.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2005
Artist:Leon Russel
Title:Wild Horses
Link Text:Wild Horses
File Name:leon russell wild_horses.mp3
Bitrate:208 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:The Flying Burrito Brothers
Title:Wild Horses
Link Text:Wild Horses
File Name:07 Wild Horses.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1996
Artist:The Rolling Stones
Title:Wild Horses (Acoustic)
Link Text:acoustic version
File Name:Rolling Stones - Wild Horses (Acoustic).mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1995
Artist:The Rolling Stones
Title:Wild Horses (Alternate Version)
Link Text:alternate version
File Name:Rolling Stones - Wild Horses (Alternate Version).mp3
Year:2000
Artist:Various
Title:13 - The Sundays - Wild Horses
Link Text:Wild Horses
File Name:The Sundays - Wild Horses.Mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

It Was Plenty Years Ago Today

Sep 6, 2009, 10:31am Plain Or Pan?
It Was Plenty Years Ago Today A year or so ago I had the idea to run a series of pun-tastic posts called 'It was plenty years ago today '. Based on the success of those Beatles mastertapes that I had posted (when Plain Or Pan melted immediately and the internet police first cottoned on to this site) I would combine my expert textpert knowledge of The Beatles with some of their better bootlegs in my collection and post rare outtakes and the like on the anniversary of the track being recorded. For one reason or other, I never quite got round to doing it, until [...]
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File Name:I Feel Fine fadeout with barking dogs.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Artist:The Beatles
Title:01 - I Am The Walrus (Take 7)
Link Text:here
File Name:01 - I Am The Walrus (Take 7).mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2004
Artist:The Beatles
Title:04 - I Am The Walrus (Take 16)
Link Text:here
File Name:04 - I Am The Walrus (Take 16).mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2004
Artist:The Beatles
Title:07 - I Am The Walrus (Demo Mix)
Link Text:here
File Name:07 - I Am The Walrus (Demo Mix).mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2004
Artist:The Beatles
Title:10 - I Am The Walrus German Mono
Link Text:Here
File Name:10 - I Am The Walrus German Mono.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2004

Spread 'em!

Sep 3, 2009, 4:42am Plain Or Pan?
Spread 'em! I've been meaning to mention that Stone Roses reissue from a few weeks back. Whatever you think of them, I have to tell you that the remastered album sounds absolutely magic. It's night and day compared to the weak, tinny excuse of a CD that didn't even come out when the album was initially released. The new version sounds like a jet plane taking off in your living room. I can only guess what it must sound like through a decent pair of Senheissers after a jazz cigarette. If I had the money I'd have sprung for the complete [...]
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Link Text:Lead guitar
File Name:Love Spreads Lead Guitar.mp3
Bitrate:202 kbps
Link Text:Mani Bassline
File Name:Love Spreads Mani Bassline.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Link Text:vocals + guitar + piano
File Name:Love Spreads Vocals Guitar Piano.mp3
Bitrate:175 kbps
Artist:Reni
Title:Love Spreads drums
Link Text:Reni drum track
File Name:Love Spreads - drums.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1994

Brass In Pocket double whammy

Sep 2, 2009, 5:36am Plain Or Pan?
Brass In Pocket double whammy With a mountain of ironing to do and house-husband status unwillingly thrust upon me, I've been watching a lot of crap telly recently, all the while putting more creases into my shirts than what were there to begin with. The thought of another David Dickinson repeat was an orange glowed step too far yesterday afternoon, so I found myself watching Lost In Translation for the umpteenth time. There's a bit in it where Scarlett Johansson sings a wee bit of Brass In Pocket to Bill Murray and this had me thinking back to the days when buying a [...]
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Artist:Suede
Title:Brass in Pocket
Link Text:version
File Name:07 Brass in Pocket.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1992
Artist:The Pretenders
Title:brass in pocket (demo)
Link Text:here
File Name:19 brass in pocket (demo).mp3
Bitrate:181 kbps
Year:2006

Sounds like Bowie? Oh Yeah!

Aug 28, 2009, 6:02am Plain Or Pan?
Sounds like Bowie? Oh Yeah! The Shadows Of Knight were a genre-straddling garage punk band from mid 60s Chicago. Taking their cue from The Yardbirds, The Who, The Stones, The etcs etcs blah blah blah, they are as well known on the northern soul scene for ' Shake ' as they are on the garage circuit for their feedback soaked version of Them's ' Gloria '. Lenny Kaye's Nuggets album included this , their version of Bo Diddley's 'Oh Yeah' . A garage stomper of a track, guitars drop in and out of the mix. The rhythm [...]
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Artist:Shadows of Knight
Title:Oh Yeah
Link Text:this
File Name:08 Oh Yeah.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1998
Artist:The Premiers
Title:Farmer John
Link Text:this
File Name:26 Farmer John.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1998
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