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Monday,
September 03, 2007
Wendy Alexander
The
Scottish Labour Party has a brand new queen, so, naturally, this momentous
occassion has to be marked by a new single from Tommy Mackay, backed
with a paean to her Westminster boss.
1.
Wendy Alexander
2. I'm The
Manse
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Monday, September 03, 2007
Thursday,
August 02, 2007
Idiopathic Hypergraphia
Nobody
fuses pop and rockabilly with humour quite like Tommy Mackay. Here's
further proof of the man's philosophical yet functional music - an album
you need more than you think.
Track listing:
1. Philosophy
2. Saviour Breath
3. The League of Determinedly Shallow Individuals
4. Campbell's Sauce
5. Sturdy Padlock
6. We Apologise For Any Inconvenience Caused
7. Feel The Benefit
8. Funktionality
9. Intensely Sincere
10. The First Minister's Dressing Gown
11. Too Many People
12. One Rule
13. Big John Smeaton
Get it here: Idiopathic
Hypergraphia
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
Tuesday,
June 12, 2007
Philosophy/Alex Salmond
The
latest single from Tommy Mackay couples a deep meaningful dittie with
an ode to the newest leader of Scotistan. Warning: may contain traces
of puns.
1.
Philosophy
2. Alex Salmond
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Wednesday,
May 30, 2007
Foul Plagiarism
The
third and final Foul outing. A coming together of all those irresistible
mashed up mixes, together with some rare live recordings and some never
before heard tracks. A must for all Foul completists.
Track listing:
1. The Fall of
Planet Zagreb
2. How I Wrote Elastic Bees
3. I'm Free Range
4. Flesh Funeral
5. Some Girls Assume
6. And Therein
7. Psykick Jupiter Train Countdown
8. Are You Being Served The Wright Stuff?
9. Iggy Consent Sound
10. Bingo Master's Breakout
11. Touch Sensitive EMI Girls World
12. Rowche Rumble
13. The Joke
Get it here: Foul
Plagiarism
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Tuesday,
April 17, 2007
It's The Bomb!
The
Plagiarist is back with a whole new serving of mashed hot potatoes.
An extravaganza of pop cultural references crossing all genres of music
and all manner of bletherers. From Boris Karloff to Alan Sugar, X-Ray
Spex to Amy Winehouse, the Plagiarist has them all.
Track listing:
1. Germ Free Introduction
2. OU Pot Persuaders
3. Gordon Brown
4. The Bomb
5. Thick Cunt
6. Walking To Rehab
7. Elected
8. One Of Those Humble Alabama Werewolves
9. Damaged Red Goods
10. The Day My Pad Went Nine To Five
11. Alan Sugar
12. Diane's Last Date
13. Afterture
Get it here: It's
The Bomb!
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Monday,
March 5, 2007
Dislocation Dislocation
Exhilarating
collection of honest to goodness cracking pop tunes from Tommy Mackay.
Simply brimming over with catchy and infectious songsmithery. If you're
not singing along to these in your head after one listen, then you're
clinically dead.
Track listing:
1. Modern Life Is
Garish
2. Dislocation Dislocation
3. Strange Behaviour
4. The Ego Has Landed
5. The Ballad of Bill Oddie
6. Accidental Lives
7. Apprentice
8. Love Rats
9. Do The Necessary
10. Of Mince And Men
11. I Fought The War (And The War Won)
12. The Butcher
Get it here: Dislocation
Dislocation
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Monday, March 5, 2007
Monday,
February 5, 2007
Elected /The First Minister's Dressing Gown
The
new single from Tommy Mackay is an updated Scottish version of the old
Alice Cooper classic, backed with an original song about an incident
last year involving a young chap causing chaos in the First Minister's
residence and posting the results on You Tube.
1.
Elected
2. The First Minister's
Dressing Gown
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Monday, February 5, 2007
Tuesday,
January 9, 2007
MiShaPs revisited
A
combination of original paeans to MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament)
and First Ministers Questions mixed with the best of Scottish Pop/Rock.
Music by Tommy Mackay, lyrics by Robert McNeil, hot air by Holyrood.
Tunes sampled are The Rezillos - Can't Stand My Baby; Altered
Images - I Could Be Happy; The Proclaimers - Sunshine On
Leith; Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (live); The Fratellis
- Chelsea Dagger and Bay City Rollers - Shang A Lang
Track listing:
1. Can't Stand The
Parly
2. Her Lips Were Made To Kiss Megaphones
3. Merciless Eyebrows
4. Happy and Parly
5. Middle Management
6. Scunnered In Leith
7. Chris's House
8. Take Me Out To The Parly
9. Inscrutable Coupon
10. Parly Dagger
11. The Pittenweem Declaration
12. Shang A Parly
13. Scary Burd
Get it here: MiShaPs
Revisited
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Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Tuesday,
December 5, 2006
Purple Reindeer
The
only Christmas album you'll ever need. The Artist Formerly Known As
Tinsel presents a stunning array of original tunes and festive covers
guaranteed to kick the season to be jolly into touch. Great fun for
dysfunctional families everywhere (Warning: contains fruity language
and scenes of a sleighbell nature).
Track listing:
1. Intro - Purple
Reindeer
2. Santa's Beard
3. Lashed Christmas
4. Panto
5. Father Christmas
6. O.C. Clause
7. Thank God It's Not Christmas
8. O Tannenbaum
9. The Christmas Song
10. The Frosty Snowman
11. Xmas With Simon
12. It's Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas - Outro
Get it here: Purple
Reindeer
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Thursday,
November 9, 2006
Wafting The Covers
The
stench of stonking songs as you've never heard them before. Tommy Mackay
presents a unique collection of timeless classics spanning the decades,
covered in a style that can only be described as his own. From the rockabilly
version of David Bowie's Time to The La's There She Goes
soaked in heroin, this is the collection you have always yearned
for.
Track listing:
1. Time
2. Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?
3. Alone Again Naturally
4. I Like Birds
5. Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud)
6. Gin Soaked Boy
7. 99% of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd
8. The Happening
9. I Need More
10. There She Goes
Get it here: Wafting
The Covers
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Thursday, November 9, 2006
Friday,
October 13, 2006
Bannockburning
Infamous
songmasher, The Plagiarist, returns with a blistering set of mixes and
shenanigans. Includes samples and snatches from the likes of Homer Simpson,
The Cure, Courtney Love, Franz Ferdinand, Girls Aloud, The Fall, REM,
The Doors, Groucho Marx and many many more. And, of course, lots of
swearing.
Track listing:
1. Hello There
2. Mouldy Old D'Oh
3. Bannockburning
4. Daz For Dania
5. Do You Want To Close Our Eyes, Sharona?
6. El Happening
7. There Was A Rock Critic Who Swallowed McFly
8. Some Racey Girls Assume
9. Kampf Klinski
10. When It Wants
11. Stipetoe In The Rain
12. The Doors Of Terror
13. Heaven Lies Limp
14. King Of The Swingers
15. I Must Be Going
Get it here: Bannockburning
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Friday, October 13, 2006
Thursday,
September 21, 2006
Vibrating
In
recognition of the cod like genius of Robyn Hitchcock, Tommy Mackay
presents this heartfelt tribute to the man and his music. Spanning the
decades from the Soft Boys, through The Egyptians and his solo work,
this collection represents what some may say is his best work. Others
would disagree. But then, they would, wouldn't they?
Track listing:
1. The Man With
The Light Bulb Head
2. Strawberry Mind
3. Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)
4. Veins of the Queen
5. Heaven
6. Never Stop Bleeding
7. Balloon Man
8. Vibrating
9. Young People Scream
10. The Cars She Used To Drive
11.Listening to The Higsons
12. Positive Vibrations
Get it at the Daily
Reckless shop here: Vibrating
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Thursday,
July 6, 2006
Buckfast In Bed
Whyte
& Mackay, legends in their own extended liquid lunchtime, present
a collection of their greatest alcohol soaked hits. A mixture of live
and studio tracks, it's available at gigs for two pints, but you can
get it free right here. Includes bonus track, 'Do Not Drink the Tennents
at The Waverley.' Hic.
Track listing:
1. Wetherspoons
Nights
2. I've Had A Tiger
3. The Bar Is High
4. Heineken's Shite
5. Rock JD
6. Cheap Spirit
7. Special Brew
8. Blue Nun Day
9. Take Me Home
10. The Rainbow Song
11.Do Not Drink The Tennents
Get it at the Daily
Reckless shop here: Whyte
& Mackay - Buckfast In Bed
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Thursday, July 6, 2006
Tuesday,
June 6, 2006
I'm An Edinburgh Man, Myself
The
follow up to the debut Foul CD is here. Presented free with the Daily
Reckless, it contains more Fall tributey goodness than you can shake
a hex at.
Track listing:
1. The Sound of
Music Falling Apart
2. Kurious Oranj
3. The Littlest Rebel
4. Living Too Late
5. The Classical
6. Wings
7. Hey! Student
8. Petty (Thief) Lout
9. Jawbone and the Air Rifle
10. No Bulbs
11.Cindy Tells Edinburgh Man
Get it at the Daily
Reckless shop here: The
Foul - I'm An Edinburgh Man, Myself
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Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Wednesday,
May 3, 2006
Radio Reckless
This
month's free CD with The Daily Reckless is Radio Reckless -
a collection of songs celebrating/denegrating today's top pop culture
icons. If you love Pink Floyd or Neil Young, you'll hate this. Huzzah!
Track listing:
1. Radio Reckless
2. Bute House Sychophants
3. Lost in Franz Ferdinand
4. Kurt Cobana
5. That's George Galloway, Son
6. 45 Years From Kelso
7. The Kiss and Tell Overture
8. Central Belt Blues
9. Pink Floyd Are Shit
10. Marc Bolan
11. Heimlich Manoeuvres In The Dark
12. The Frosty Snowman
13. Lidl and the Damage Done/Everybody Must Get Toned
14. Psycho Delia
Get it at the Daily
Reckless shop here: Tommy
Mackay - Radio Reckless
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Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Tuesday,
April 4, 2006
Fingertips
Way
back in 1992, They Might Be Giants released 'Apollo 18'. On that album
was a unique track called 'Fingertips' which contained 21 tiny snippets
or suggestions of songs. Now, They Might Be Gannets have fleshed out
those snippets into fully fledged lovingly crafted instant pop classics,
presented here for your delectation.
Track listing:
1. Everything Is
Catching On Fire
2. Fingertips
3. I Hear The Wind Blow
4. Hey Now Everybody
5. Who's That?
6. New Friend
7. Wreck My Car
8. The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye
9. Please Pass The Milk
10. Leave Me Alone
11. Who's Knocking On The Wall?
12. All Alone
13. Blue Thing
14. Something Got A Hold Of My Hand
15. I Don't Understand You
16. I Heard A Sound
17. Mysterious Whisper
18. The Day That Love Came To Play
19. Heart Attack
20. Fingertips reprise
21. Darkened Corridors
Get it at the Daily
Reckless shop here: They
Might Be Gannets - Fingertips
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Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Thursday,
March 2, 2006
Straight To CD
The
Plagiarist promises something old, new, borrowed and blootered on this
month's free CD from the Daily
Reckless. Hear James Brown singing with the Manic Street Preachers,
Queens of the Stone Age mixed with the Muppets, Barry White swearing
and much much much more...
Track listing:
1. Potting An Arab
2. Another Rainy Friday
3. Dali Test
4. Queen Muppet
5. Kooky People
6. Who Takes The Blame
7. Mad Faith Discovery
8. Flat Of Ruffians
9. Kill Together
10. Don't Involve Yourself
11. Fuck This Shit
12. Sex Machine Emptiness
13. The Plagiarist
14. It's A Long Way Back to Beethoven
Get it at the Daily
Reckless shop here: The
Plagiarist presents...Straight To CD
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Thursday, March 2, 2006
Friday,
January 27, 2006
Killer Civil Servant
The
Foul - South Queensferry's only one man tribute band to The Fall, have
released a free CD containing covers and mashes of various Fall songs.
How do they do it? Why do they do it? Who knows? Just don't take it
too seriously.
Track
listing:
1.
Spinetrak
2. Clear Off!
3. Ballroom Insekt
4. Dice Man
5. The Container Drivers
6. Your Heart Out
7. Wherever's The Fuckin' Taxi? Cunt
8. Leave The Capitol
9. Rebellious Jukebox
10. Stephen Song
11. Lucifer Over Lancashire
12. Theme From Sparta FC
Get
it at the Daily Reckless shop here: Killer
Civil Servant - The Foul