Tag: Only the Shit You Love

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One thing that I have noticed in listening to the Only the Shit You Love podcast is the wide range of music and styles referenced. I have therefore compiled a playlist to dig into some of the ‘secret shit’. I am finding that music provides an interesting insight into a different time.
Listened ‘A little bit of artifice is good’: Damian Cowell on performing without a mask from ABC Radio

Even years after pulling off the mask as part of TISM, Damian Cowell says he still looks to play a character whenever he performs.

“I certainly couldn’t be one of those sensitive singer-songwriter types that gets up on stage and bares their soul,” he said.

“I’d just be afraid that people would be bored.”

His newest work Only The S*** You Love, is an album, animation and YouTube series, developed as part of Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine.

Libbi Gorr speaks to Damian Cowell about his new project, Only the Shit You Love. It is fair to say that it is sometimes an awkward conversation with the two unsure of overstepping the boundary. I like the suggestion that it is an example of ‘inclusive offensiveness.’
Listened Only The Shit You Love: The Podcast, by Damian Cowell from Damian Cowell

Over 18 rambling episodes, as a companion piece to ‘Only The Shit You Love’ the web series, album and graphic novel, Damian goes behind the songs and behind the eyes of the bloke who wrote the songs – er, that is, him – and talks about things he loves, things he hates, his musical inspirations, his fumbling, crappy beginnings as a musician, his career before and after that famous band he was in, and a whole lot of other vaguely relevant stuff. In other words – only the shit that Damian loves.

Only The Shit You Love: The Podcast by Damian Cowell

Only The Shit You Love: The Podcast is a dive into the past into all things nostalgia. Damian Cowell has always scoffed at the thought of getting all ‘Glenn A. Baker’ on his time in music, instead he looks back at various disjointed moments throughout his life stemming from the web series, album and graphic novel, what he might term the ‘secret shit’. Cowell provides perspectives on the modern world, such as his thoughts on Spotify, work and the importance of drums, as well as moments from the past such as Abroz and the London Tavern traffic lights. I think that this is less about digging into some hidden archives to ascertain who said what as it is about telling an interesting story. In some ways it is all a continuation of his dislike of categories. These episodes can also be listened to as a part of Damian Cowell’s Podcast Machine feed or separately as a standalone feed too.

Notes

Episode 1 & 2

Only the Bits I Love

  • All My Loving by The Beatles (first record owned) pop track with a hook, melody and vocal harmony.

SPOTIFY AND COWELL’S Childhood Soundtrack

  • The Rain, The Park and Other Things by The Cowsills
  • Lady Scorpio by The Strangers
  • Candida by Dawn
  • Mouldy Old Dough by Ltd Pigeon

‘Secret Shit’

  • Love like Anthrax by Gang of Four
  • Non-Alignment Pack by Pere Ubu

GOLD 104.3 and ‘Only the Hits You Love’

  • She’s Gone and Sara Smile by Hal and Oates
  • Thom Bell and Philly Soul
  • Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty

Episode 3

  • Aunty Donna

‘Only’

  • I Only Have Eyes for You by The Flamingos
  • Only You by The Platters

London Tavern’s Traffic Lights

  • One Perfect Day Little Hero (Featuring Peter Linley)
  • Hot for the Orient by Skyhooks
  • No Nonsense

Only the Bits I Love – Roger Dean

  • The Dawn by Osibisa (which includes the sample “We’re going to start these happy vibes right from the root”)
  • Music for Gong Gong by Osibisa
  • Roger Dean artwork that served as inspiration for De RigueurMortis cover

Episode 4

  • Curtis by Curtis Mayfield
  • She’s Gone, Sarah Smile, I Can’t Go For That by Hal and Oats
  • You Make Me Feel by The Stylistics

Only the Bits I Love – Prog and Abroz

  • Close to the Edge by Yes
  • Lucky Man by ELP
  • Ummagumma by Pink Floyd
  • LCD Soundsystem
  • Tales of Great Ulysses by Cream

Episode 5

  • Without You by Kid Laroi (hated song)

Only the Bits I Love – off the beat

  • Party Out of Bounds by B-52s
  • Elvis Costello and The Attractions
  • The Who
  • Dr Feelgood
  • James Brown
  • Smack Your Bitch Up by Prodigy

Episode 6

Devil’s Harmony and Outsider Music

  • Portsmouth Sinfonia
  • Yesterday by The Beatles
  • Y Beckhurst

Fuckin’ Annoying and Parlour GIGS

  • Macarena by Los Del Rio

Only the Bits I Love – Kestral Hawk

  • Black Dog by Led Zeppelin

Episode 7

Springvale High Talent Competition

  • Paper Planes by Status Quo

Only the Bits I Love – first concert

  • Mackenzie Theory and the Killester Senior Girls Social
  • Skyhooks
  • The Jellabad Mutant by Ariel

Episode 8

Poetry and AAAAAA FOrm

  • Abacab by Genesis
  • Dictator Dan by Tony Martin
  • Romeo and the Lonely Girl by Thin Lizzy

Frank Stavala and Rock Impresario

  • Mighty Rock by Stars
  • Tickle Your Fancy by Taste

Only the Bits I Love – All-Ages Disco and Punk Music

  • Love Is the Drug by Roxy Music
  • Heart of Glass by Blonde

Episode 9

Bullshit, Artifice and Imposter Syndrome

  • Book: The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
  • Jocko Homo by Devo
  • Non-Alignment Pack by Pere Ubu

Only the Bits I Love – Springvale Learn to Dance

  • See My Baby Jive by Wizard

Episode 10

List of the songs mentioned by Tony Martin and Damian Cowell throughout their conversation:

  • Gilbert Sullivan
  • Golden Years by David Bowie
  • Bad Habits by Billy Fields
  • Atmosphere by Joy Division
  • Pink Frost by The Chills
  • Anything Could Happen by The Clean
  • Roll Out the Barrel by Myron Floren
  • Spanish Eyes by James Last
  • Pulled Up and Talking Heads
  • Collapsing New Habits by Fad Gadget
  • Cardiac Arrest by Madness
  • Baggy Trousers by Madness
  • Virginia by Dave McArtney and The Pink Flamingos
  • Counting the Beat by The Swingers
  • Everyday People by Sly & The Family Stone
  • Gutter Black by Hello Sailor
  • Totally Wired by The Fall
  • Rio by Duran Duran
  • O Superman by Laurie Anderson
  • Marquee Moon by Television
  • Give It to the Soft Boys by The Soft Boys
  • Penthouse and Pavement by Heaven 17
  • The Logical Song by Supertramp
  • El Bimbo by Bimbo Jet
  • Popcorn by Hot Butter
  • Rockit by Herbie Hancock
  • Save Your Love by Renee and Renato

Episode 11

  • Jesse’s Girl by Rick Springfield

Step Aerobics

  • I Feel Love – Donna Summers
  • Roxette by Dr Feelgood
  • Joe 90 Theme

The Bermuda Triangle of Record Stores

  • Too Bad by The Faces
  • Waiting for an Alibi by Thin Lizzy
  • Clash City Rocker by The Clash
  • Asia by Steely Dan

Guitar Music

  • Kid by The Pretenders
  • The Cars
  • Cold Chisel
  • Australian Crawl
  • Daddy Cool
  • Skyhooks
  • Custard

New Wave

  • The Police
  • Elvis Costello
  • Nick Lowe
  • XTC
  • The Undertones
  • Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Only the Bits I Love

  • Girl by The Records

Episode 12

Fans

  • Play Mistral for Me by TISM

Breakfast with Buddha, Punk Music and Tall Stories

“Punk didn’t last, but the jihadists did”

  • The Reals
  • Nich Cave
  • Iggy Pop
  • Sacred Cowboys
  • I Ain’t the One by The Angels
  • I like It Both Ways by Supernaut
  • Unemployed by The Nauts

Only the Bits I Love – Bass

  • Elvis Costello and the Attractions and the work of Bruce Thomas

Episode 13

Only the Bits I Love – Crystal Ballroom

  • The Fall

Episode 14

  • Hunters and Collectors
  • Hunters and Collectors by CAN

Book: Retromania by Simon Reynolds

  • Interpol
  • Future heads
  • British Sea Power

Postpunk

St Kilda’s Crystal Ballroom, Clifton Hill collective and Fitroy little band scene

  • Flowers
  • Friend Catcher by The Birthday Party
  • Wendy World
  • Plays with Marienwets
  • People with Chairs Up their Noses
  • The Models
  • Serious Young Insects
  • The Cure
  • Echo and the Bunnymen
  • Tear-drop Explode
  • Suzi Sioux

Only the Bits I Love

  • Talk of the Town by The Pretenders
  • Aimee Mann

Episode 15

  • Time Warp from Rocky Horror
  • Rhiannon
  • Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Make Your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz

I Can Run and the Mod Phase

  • Paul Wellar
  • The Who

Music from Improvisation

  • The Magic Whip by Blur
  • Mosquito by Yeah Yeah Yeah
  • New Order
  • Comsat Angels

Purchasing a TR 606 from Hans Music

Only the Bits I Love

  • Cosmic Baby

Episode 16

  • Serious Young Insects
  • Steve Pyke
  • The Coloured Balls and Lobby Loyde
  • Synthetic Dream
  • Scrap Museum > Blue Ruin
  • Nick Seymour’s Drummer

Only the Bits I Love

  • Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem

Episode 17

Only the Bits I Love – Trance Music Before Trance Music

  • Ramble Tamble by Credence Clearwater Revival

Episode 18

  • Little Red
  • Gram Parsons and Flying Burritos
  • Ice-Cream Hands

Only the Bits I Love – Patience Hodgsen

  • Crying All Night by The Grates

Episode 19

The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

Milan Kundera – Ignorance

You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.

Milan Kundera – Identity

Only the Bits I Love

  • Autumn Almanac by The Kinks
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Thank-you from the part of me that isn’t a cynical, carping smartarse, for making this whole ridiculous thing possible, and then hanging in there while I took an eternity figuring out how to do it.

Who knows if it will be worth it. But if in the end I’m still your friend, well, what a wonderful thing to be.

I opened my emails and saw a whole list of EOY spam trying to get me to buy or donate before. However, nestled in there was an update from Damian Cowell on the release of his album:

I said I’d be back, but I didn’t think it’d take quite this long…

Four years, three months, two weeks and two days, all up.

But here I stand before you, to say “I’m ready”…

Only The Shit You Love – the 19 episode cartoon series, followed by the album and the graphic novel – will kick off on August 3.

Here was me wondering if the totalitarian state had gotten to him and he had instead fled with his funds to places with greater standards, but instead he was just being a perfectionist I guess. It would seem that I have my entertainment sorted for the second-half of the year:

How will it work? On August 3 we’ll start with episode 1, followed by episode 2 the same week, just to kick things off, and then it will be one episode per week after that. Plus there’ll be an accompanying weekly podcast – Only The Shit You Love the Podcast – where I start by talking about that week’s episode and wander off into all kinds of weird nostalgia (because nostalgia is the leitmotif of Only The Shit You Love) plus bits and pieces of The Shit I Love.