Listening Post: Batch 19

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Post your 5 favourite tracks, in any order, in a comment at the bottom of the page.

Members of Team Freshnet listened to every track that came in this week. We handpicked these for your listening pleasure – please let us know which five you like best.

Tips:
– Listen randomly through the list: don’t start at the top and work down
– Dip into as many tracks as possible, like channel hopping on TV.
– Try new artists you’ve never heard of first
– Be biased – go on your own personal taste – no need to be “fair”
– If you’re hating what you hear, move on.
– The only question is: do I like this – yes or no?

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If you copy and paste from this list when posting your 5 faves it’s easier for us to count up afterwards…

IAN THISTLETHWAITE – Gone For A While
EMILY BROTHERS – Night Poem
TOTEM TERRORS – Beaux Esprits
SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue
SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
TASITA D’MOUR – Callin’
THIS IS LAURA – Symmetry
IDOL IMAGES – Breathe
DRUNKMULE – Crash Test Y’self
LEIKA – Love, Love, Love (live)
THE LOW COUNTRIES – Putty
I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
NTSB – Ballerina Black
DOUBLETHUMB – Oonzeeluhzubazoomzum
FLIES ON YOU – Slashing It Down
RAT FACED BOY – Deadwood Acid
LINDA JENNINGS – She Can’t Shake The Boy Off Her Mind
YOUNG ROMANCE – Break My Heart By Morning
BENTCOUSIN – I Think I Like Your Girlfriend More Than You
THE FOLK – Stay
MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost
TOBY WATSON – Nightbus
THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights
CUUSHE – I Dreamt About Silence
THE DUNES Trace the Sun
TRITONE – System Crash (ft.Captain Backfire)
WOODERSON – Deluxe
RUSSELL SWALLOW AND THE WOLF – Paper Aeroplanes
ED ZEALOUS – Diamonds For Eyes

ARTISTS: please DON’T ask friends and fans to come and “vote” for you here – it isn’t fair on the other bands. This isn’t a competition to find out who has most friends on Facebook and Twitter: it’s to find out which songs win the hearts of strangers. If you believe in your music, allow it to win on its own merits…

54 Comments

  1. Steff Lane

    Another strong varied selection of songs–a pleasure to listen to all of them–
    TOTEM TERRORS – Beaux Esprits
    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost
    THE DUNES Trace the Sun

  2. Jim

    TOBY WATSON – Nightbus
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    THE DUNES Trace the Sun
    RUSSELL SWALLOW AND THE WOLF – Paper Aeroplanes
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull

  3. Lo

    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    TOTEM TERRORS – Beaux Esprits
    TOBY WATSON – Nightbus
    FLIES ON YOU – Slashing It Down
    MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost

  4. Louise

    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    THE DUNES Trace the Sun
    ED ZEALOUS – Diamonds For Eyes
    MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost

    Posted by Louise Able – wife of Saturday Sun’s manager Julian Able in St Austell

  5. Tom

  6. SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue
    LEIKA – Love, Love, Love (live)
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost
    RUSSELL SWALLOW AND THE WOLF – Paper Aeroplanes

  7. Great selection – Saturday Sun Seagull is my favourite
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue
    CUUSHE – I Dreamt About Silence
    THE LOW COUNTRIES – Putty
    MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost

  8. MIA

    THE LOW COUNTRIES – Putty
    THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    WOODERSON – Deluxe
    LINDA JENNINGS – She Can’t Shake The Boy Off Her Mind

  9. Ruth Barnes

    DOUBLETHUMB – Oonzeeluhzubazoomzum
    LINDA JENNINGS – She Can’t Shake The Boy Off Her Mind
    YOUNG ROMANCE – Break My Heart By Morning
    BENTCOUSIN – I Think I Like Your Girlfriend More Than You
    CUUSHE – I Dreamt About Silence

  10. Mar

    buffff…so difficult. Our 5 🙂

    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    LEIKA – Love, Love, Love (live)
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    ED ZEALOUS – Diamonds For Eyes

  11. Nick

    Tough call, some good stuff there.
    In no particular order:
    IDOL IMAGES – Breathe
    DOUBLETHUMB – Oonzeeluhzubazoomzum
    THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    Loving Slydigs (originally mis-listed as Louis Menguy, TR), it rocks and Seagull is beautiful, what a voice.

    Posted from the same internet account as Louise Able – by Nick Magee from the band Sanguine. Who are, like Saturday Sun, managed by Louise’s husband Julian.

  12. All far to good this week (no wonder we didn’t make the list!)

    MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost
    LEIKA – Love, Love, Love
    THE LOW COUNTRIES – Putty
    ED ZEALOUS – Diamonds For Eyes
    NTSB – Ballerina Black

  13. Carolyn

    Difficult to pick only 5

    EMILY BROTHERS – Night Poem
    TASITA D’MOUR – Callin’
    LEIKA – Love, Love, Love (live)
    THE LOW COUNTRIES – Putty
    WOODERSON – Deluxe

  14. Jane

    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    RUSSELL SWALLOW AND THE WOLF – Paper Aeroplanes
    ED ZEALOUS – Diamonds For Eyes

    The beautiful vocals on The Seagull make it my favourite

  15. len

    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    THE DUNES Trace the Sun
    TRITONE – System Crash (ft.Captain Backfire)
    DOUBLETHUMB – Oonzeeluhzubazoomzum
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue

  16. Gary

    I listened to the a track on the list called “Great Life”……..it has dissapeared and it was tha best!!!

  17. Gary

    BOGDANA CHIVAS – Great Life
    LOUIS MENGUY – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)

  18. Just to be clear bang bang (and the bullet was gone) is by Slydigs….I (louis menguy, lead guitarist) acsidently put my name in the wrong box haha, cheers for the selection 😉

  19. Some fantastic tunes this week, but my faves in no particular order are:

    THE LOW COUNTRIES – Putty
    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    BENTCOUSIN – I Think I Like Your Girlfriend More Than You
    THE FOLK – Stay
    RUSSELL SWALLOW AND THE WOLF – Paper Aeroplanes

  20. It is actually so close between these 5 I have actually been sat for about an hour trying to decide who is better and what order to put them in so in the end I did it randomly, to me I think all 5 of these guys have something really special and unique!

    TRITONE – System Crash (ft.Captain Backfire)
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights
    THE FOLK – Stay
    TOBY WATSON – Nightbus

  21. Tom

    @Zahra Don’t worry – the order you put them in doesn’t matter. We just want to know your five favourite tracks, in any order.

    @Louis cheers for the heads-up, have amended reality accordingly 🙂

    @gary the Bogdana Chivas track has never appeared on this page because they disabled the “embeddable” option when uploading it, so that’s why it isn’t in the list.

    On this page we ask people to listen to everything and then tell us their 5 favourites. Anybody’s welcome to come and comment of course, but we only actually count the ratings from people who pick five.

  22. Sam

    ED ZEALOUS – Diamonds For Eyes
    THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights
    YOUNG ROMANCE – Break My Heart By Morning
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    DOUBLETHUMB – Oonzeeluhzubazoomzum

  23. Patrick

    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    TOBY WATSON – Nightbus
    BENTCOUSIN – I Think I Like Your Girlfriend More Than You
    THE FOLK – Stay
    DOUBLETHUMB – Oonzeeluhzubazoomzum

  24. Fatfish

    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    IDOL IMAGES – Breathe
    LEIKA – Love, Love, Love (live)
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    THE FOLK – Stay

  25. James H

    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    BENTCOUSIN – I Think I Like Your Girlfriend More Than You
    THE FOLK – Stay
    THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights
    ED ZEALOUS – Diamonds For Eyes

  26. Sedrick

    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    THE FOLK – Stay
    THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights
    TOBY WATSON – Nightbus
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue

  27. Big Jim Cambo

    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    IDOL IMAGES – Breathe
    LEIKA – Love, Love, Love
    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    WOODERSON – Deluxe

  28. Chris Dodd

    Saturday sun – seagull
    The folk – stay
    Wooderson – deluxe
    Idol images – breathe
    Toby Watson – night bus

  29. Tony Long

    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    BENTCOUSIN – I Think I Like Your Girlfriend More Than You
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue
    RUSSELL SWALLOW AND THE WOLF – Paper Aeroplanes
    MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost

  30. David

    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    THE LOW COUNTRIES – Putty
    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    IDOL IMAGES – Breathe
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One

  31. TOTEM TERRORS – Beaux Esprits
    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    BENTCOUSIN – I Think I Like Your Girlfriend More Than You
    TRITONE – System Crash (ft.Captain Backfire)
    LINDA JENNINGS – She Can’t Shake The Boy Off Her Mind
    So many great tracks!! So hard to choose!!

  32. THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights
    CUUSHE – I Dreamt About Silence
    THE DUNES Trace the Sun
    LINDA JENNINGS – She Can’t Shake The Boy Off Her Mind
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One

  33. Tom

  34. Woody

    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    TRITONE – System Crash (ft.Captain Backfire)
    THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights
    THE DUNES – Trace the Sun
    NTSB – Ballerina Black

  35. MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost
    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    FLIES ON YOU – Slashing It Down
    THIS IS LAURA – Symmetry
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull

    First time I’ve ever been on this side of this, and it’s just as difficult as I always thought it would be. I suspect my choice depends so much on my mood – could have been very different! And cutting them down from a top 8 to a top five is painful, but great fun… I’ll be back to do this again soon!

  36. Madelaine

    Slydigs – Bang Bang {and the bullet was gone)
    MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue
    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS – Hypnotic Lights

  37. Lynn

    The folk – stay
    RUSSELL SWALLOW AND THE WOLF – Paper Aeroplanes
    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    BENTCOUSIN – I Think I Like Your Girlfriend More Than You

  38. mary cigarettes

    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    DRUNKMULE – Crash Test Y’self
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue
    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)

    i’ve deliberately put the slydigs in three times cause i was blown away by sheer musical punch…wonderful production ..the brass was uplifting..and the singing was urgent and just the best.

  39. I logged on purely to say how much I’ve enjoyed listening to all this weeks songs on the listening post,a fine & varied selection.
    Will vote tomorrow

    Ta Ta

  40. mary cigarettes

    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    DRUNKMULE – Crash Test Y’self
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue
    TOBY WATSON – Nightbus

  41. Kev B

    TRITONE – System Crash (ft.Captain Backfire)
    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    RAT FACED BOY – Deadwood Acid
    RUSSELL SWALLOW AND THE WOLF – Paper Aeroplanes
    NTSB – Ballerina Black

  42. Real tough to pick a 5 but hey-thats what makes it fun(and increases the SC plays tenfold;).

    LEIKA – Love, Love, Love (live)
    DOUBLETHUMB – Oonzeeluhzubazoomzum
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    MARY CIGARETTES – Next Year’s Ghost
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue

  43. Songs For Walter- Purple Blue
    The Low Countries- Putty
    NTSB- Ballerina Black
    Cuushe- I Dreamt About Silence
    Mary Cigarettes- Next Year’s Ghost
    (Really great songs. Wanted to choose more…)

  44. James Robins

    TOTEM TERRORS – Beaux Esprits
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue
    FLIES ON YOU – Slashing It Down
    RAT FACED BOY – Deadwood Acid
    YOUNG ROMANCE – Break My Heart By Morning

  45. Mel

    TOBY WATSON – Nightbus
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    LEIKA – Love, Love, Love (live)
    CUUSHE – I Dreamt About Silence
    IAN THISTLETHWAITE – Gone For A While

  46. Tom

    Thankyou so much to all our volunteer Music Critics for giviing up your time to help out again this weekend. Great to have your responses to an outstanding set of tracks on the Listening Post this week.

    There were midly suspicious responses for one particular band this week. Coming first on the list of lots of first time visitors. The same computer being used more than once. And getting noticeably more “votes” than anybody else in the list. But on this occasion we’re saying nowt because Mar and Mary Cigarettes have rated the track in their own Top Five. And that’s good enough for us.

    Finally a teensy heads-up to LINDA JENNINGS, SONGS FOR WALTER, BENTCOUSIN, TOBY WATSON, THE HYPNOTIC LIGHTS and THE DUNES… we can’t even consider your tracks for the BBC Introducing Mixtape next week because… you haven’t actually uploaded them to BBC Introducing.

    Just sayin’.

  47. BENTCOUSIN – I Think I Like Your Girlfriend More Than You
    TOTEM TERRORS – Beaux Esprits
    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    DOUBLETHUMB – Oonzeeluhzubazoomzum
    CUUSHE – I Dreamt About Silence

  48. IDOL IMAGES – Breathe
    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    WOODERSON – Deluxe
    FLIES ON YOU – Slashing It Down
    LEIKA – Love, Love, Love (live)

  49. SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    RAT FACED BOY – Deadwood Acid
    WOODERSON – Deluxe
    SONGS FOR WALTER – Purple Blue

  50. Mar

    I think I have a special sensibility to choose cheating bands. Next week I will look for the cover arts before voting and look to their eyes to see if they tell me something! The funny thing is when they come later and they “friend” me on Fb 🙂 ha!

  51. EMILY BROTHERS – Night Poem
    SLYDIGS – Bang Bang (And The Bullet Was Gone)
    THIS IS LAURA – Symmetry
    I AM HARLEQUIN – Wild One
    RAT FACED BOY – Deadwood Acid

  52. Toby Watson

    I certainly have uploaded them dagnabit!!I’ll try again.

  53. Toby Watson

    I’ve just checked and you’re absolutely right – I’ve just put it up there now – please can you consider me again?

  54. Al

    Time please gentlemen. New Balls. Change ends

    SATURDAY SUN – Seagull
    DOUBLETHUMB – Oonzeeluhzubazoomzum
    RAT FACED BOY – Deadwood Acid
    NTSB – Ballerina Black
    FLIES ON YOU – Slashing It Down

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