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Bob Stanley Presents... Twenty Six in 26 'Ace' Compilations (26CD) (2026)

Born in Sussex in the UK on Christmas Day 1964, Bob Stanley has become a notable cultural lodestone in his home country and beyond, mostly for projects driven by his musical obsessions. He remains most well known as the cofounder, along with longtime friend and fellow music journalist Pete Wiggs, of the group Saint Etienne in 1990; with the addition of Sarah Cracknell as lead singer the following year, the trio continue to record and perform regularly, with a new album due later in 2025, the year this essay was written. But besides his earlier journalism, beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present day, he’s worked in collaborative film and related projects, published a number of books, run a variety of small record labels and otherwise keeps busy, including compiling what has become a wide ranging and intriguing series of musical overviews, generally focused on on American, UK and wider European popular music of many different stripes. Stanley, who like many others in the last few decades had started creating homegrown mixes as a teenager, at his best exemplifies the curious and generous spirit of such efforts via these formal releases.

There’s no particular pattern to Stanley’s work over time, often creating releases on his own, sometimes with Wiggs, other times with Saint Etienne as a band and still other times with others entirely. Indeed, one of his various label efforts, the mid 2010s imprint Croydon Municipal, was almost entirely dedicated to compilations. He’s also created or written liner notes for a variety of single-artist overviews over time, including extensive box sets on the Searchers, Sandie Shaw and legendary producer Joe Meek. In his variously themed compilations, he generally aims for overviews that are often less meant to be unquestioned lore and more a side perspective or particular angle or way of thinking about styles and approaches that allows for imaginative range. The vagaries of licensing tracks for formal release and the money often needed for it can also mean that while more famous or seemingly crucial songs might not appear where expected, in turn that helps to call attention to the impact made by lesser-known tracks on the contexts in which such high flyers eventually appeared. Combined at many points with Stanley’s informative liner notes, sometimes with gently whimsical or quietly observant essays helping to set a wider scene, the results can be equally entertaining and educational.

Stanley’s first formally released effort in this vein, aside from a compilation drawing from the Saint Etienne-run label Icerink, was 1994’s Dream Babes Volume One: Am I Dreaming?. It was the start of an irregular series focused on UK women singers and performers during the 1960s, as well as the beginning of a general approach of sometimes open-ended series or concepts would often recur over the decades. It’s not quite the first proper 60s UK girl group and women pop singer compilation effort – the Malcolm Baumgart and Mick Patrick-overseen Here Come The Girls series kicked things off in 1990 – but 1994’s Dream Babes Volume One was absolutely an early landmark when it came to digging deeper into the wake of famed names like Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithfull and their peers. It was also Bob Stanley’s first formal effort as a compiler and liner note writer and his emphasis on depth of research and imaginative range was evident from the start. The specific focus of this first volume was work released on EMI Records across the decade, though the selections aren’t themselves arranged chronologically. Starting with the strong lovebirds and prying neighbors lament “They Talk About Us” by Cindy Williams, the collection clearly showcases the massive impact Phil Spector, Bacharach/David and Motown had in particular on the UK pop scene. Other standouts include the perky breeze of “Cry to Me” by the Track and “Am I Dreaming?” itself, delivered with sassy panache by the mononymic (and non-US) Tiffany.

For much of the decade, occasional liner notes aside, Stanley generally remained more busy with Saint Etienne as well as various smaller labels he ran or assisted, but in the 2000s, besides restarting the Dream Babes series with more regular releases, he made a notable splash in early 2003 by assisting Phil King and Mark Stratford in compiling Velvet Tinmine, which brought the concept of ‘junkshop glam’ to wide attention and sparked a wave of interest in the lesser known efforts of glitter’s rampage in the early 1970s UK. But 2005 proved to be a particularly notable year thanks to the success of two compilations assembled by Saint Etienne collectively: Saint Etienne Presents Songs for Mario’s Cafe, the first in another irregular series themed around real or imagined clubs, pubs and diners, and their entry in the mid-2000s mix CD series The Trip, showcasing their wide ranging taste in pop, rock, soul, disco and beyond from previous decades.

As other archival label efforts like Eclipse and Croydon Municipal captured some of his activity, along with various one-off releases or short run efforts with other labels, a key turning point occurred in 2016 with his first release via the Ace label, Saint Etienne Presents Songs For The Carnegie Deli. Since then, while still working with other labels on various projects (including a series of wide music scene and genre overviews exclusively for release in the UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s), Ace has been the primary home for his many compilations whether by himself or with others, in some cases releasing multiple disparate efforts throughout a single calendar year. While most of his compilations up to that point had focused heavily on the 1960s and 1970s into the early 1980s, increasingly he showcased not merely more distaff or unusual efforts from that time, such as 1970s avant-garde European pop and early synthpop efforts, but deeper views into American freestyle, r’n’b and hip-hop of the later 1980s into the 1990s as well as early 90s downtempo dance music in general.

At the time of this essay’s writing alone, Stanley had already released two efforts for 2025 - Liverpool Sunset, looking at the immediately post-Beatles breakout scene in their home city, and American Baroque, taking in the impact of the Left Banke’s success with “Walk Away Renee” - along with announcing a third, Gather in the Mushrooms, that would be a re-release/reworked effort drawing on two out of print compilations he’d overseen in the 2000s looking at dawn-of-the-seventies underground UK folk. Doubtless more compilations are well into the planning stage for release in the near future. (All this while Stanley is continuing to otherwise write and work in other areas beyond his own band - early 2025 also brought his liner notes for a re-release of cult US folk performer Norma Tanegra’s 1971 album I Don’t Think It Will Hurt If You Smile.) Whatever comes next in this vein from Stanley, it’ll certainly be an intriguing snapshot of the past in a new light.

An excellent more thorough and expansive overview can be read here:

Bob Stanley, Compiler

https://theshfl.com/guide/Bob-Stanley-Compiler

So, an in all what you see here are 26 superb Bob Stanley 'Ace' compilations spanning some 32 years. When I say 'Ace', I'm referring to the Ace Records Ltd. reissue label, along with the compilations being 'ace': one fun British slang term is "ace," which means something that's awesome or brilliant.

The idea for the title came from twenty six of the very best Bob Stanley compilations presented in this box set and issued in 2026, hence Bob Stanley Presents... Twenty Six in 26.

The majority of these compilations have been released by Ace, with a couple released by Cherry Red's RPM and Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.

The albums included in this excellent 26CD box set are as follows:

01 Bob Stanley Presents... 76 in the Shade (2020)

02 Bob Stanley Presents... Cafe Exil - New Adventures in European Music 1972-1980 (2020)

03 Bob Stanley Presents... Chip Shop Pop - The Sound of Denmark Street 1970-1975 (2025)

04 Bob Stanley Presents... Choctaw Ridge - New Fables of the American South 1968-1973 (2021)

05 Bob Stanley Presents... Liverpool Sunset - The City After Merseybeat 1964-1969 (2025)

06 Bob Stanley Presents... London A to Z 1962-1973 (2023)

07 Bob Stanley Presents... Motorway City - The Golden Age of Car Travel 1966-82 (2026)

08 Bob Stanley Presents... Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night - Brooklyn Disco 1974-5 (2023)

09 Bob Stanley Presents... Wednesday Morning 6am - Radio Hits from the Small Hours 1970-1983 (2026)

10 Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... English Weather (2017)

11 Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Fell from the Sun - Downtempo and After Hours 1990-91 (2022)

12 Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Incident at a Free Festival (2023)

13 Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Occasional Rain (2020)

14 Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Paris in the Spring (2018)

15 Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... State of the Union - The American Dream in Crisis 1967-1973 (2018)

16 Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... The Tears of Technology (2020)

17 Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Three Day Week - When the Lights Went Out 1972-1975 (2019)

18 Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Winter of Discontent (2023)

19 American Baroque - Chamber Pop and Beyond 1967-1971 (2025)

20 Dream Babes - Volume 1 - Am I Dreaming? (1994)

21 Early Morning Hush - Notes from the UK Folk Underground 1969-1976 (2006)

22 Gather in the Mushrooms - The British Acid Folk Underground 1968-1974 (2004)

23 Gather in the Mushrooms - The British Folk Underground 1969-1975 (2025)

24 Tea & Symphony - The English Baroque Sound 1967-1974 (2007)

25 Tea & Symphony - The English Baroque Sound 1968-1974 (2020)

26 Tim Burgess & Bob Stanley Present... Tim Peaks - Songs for a Late-Night Diner (2019)

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Track lists

Bob Stanley Presents... 76 in the Shade (2020)

01 John Barry - Cutty Sark 2:42

02 Cat Stevens - Portobello Road 2:26

03 Marianne Faithfull - Sunny Goodge Street 3:17

04 Jethro Tull - Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square 2:12

05 Herman's Hermits - Marcel's 1:55

06 Cressida - Goodbye Post Office Tower 2:51

07 John & Beverley Martyn - Primrose Hill 2:55

08 Nick Drake - Mayfair 2:11

09 Cilla Black - London Bridge 3:12

10 Linda Lewis - Hampstead Way 3:42

11 Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - Soho 3:03

12 Bulldog Breed - Friday Hill 3:08

13 Dana Gillespie - London Social Degree 2:08

14 Barbara Ruskin - Euston Station 2:28

15 Ralph McTell - Kew Gardens 2:24

16 Dave Evans - City Road 3:57

17 Magna Carta - Parliament Hill 2:44

18 Edward Bear - Edgeware Station 3:02

19 Humble Pie - Beckton Dumps 3:16

20 Quintessence - Notting Hill Gate 4:38

21 Norma Tanega - Clapham Junction 1:16

22 Al Stewart - Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres 4:01

23 Shelagh McDonald - Richmond 2:45

24 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Vauxhall to Lambeth Bridge 6:31

Bob Stanley Presents... Cafe Exil - New Adventures in European Music 1972-1980 (2020)

1 Rubba - Way Star 3:53

2 Annette Peacock - Pony 6:16

3 Focus - Tommy 3:24

4 Amon Düül II - A Morning Excuse 3:20

5 Steve Hillage - Octave Doctors 3:35

6 Faust - Jennifer 7:09

7 Michael Rother - Feuerland 7:07

8 Streetmark - Eileen 5:35

9 Toni Esposito - L'Eroe Di Plastica 3:49

10 Brian Eno - No One Receiving 3:48

11 Popol Vuh - Hüter Der Schwelle 3:48

12 Soft Machine - Penny Hitch 6:40

13 Jan Hammer Group - Don't You Know 3:00

14 Piero Umiliani - Canoe 1:56

15 Cortex - Troupeau Bleu 5:03

16 Cluster - Sowiesoso 8:07

Bob Stanley Presents... Chip Shop Pop - The Sound of Denmark Street 1970-1975 (2025)

1 Stormy Petrel - Hello, Hello, Hello 3:33

2 Tony Burrows - Melanie Makes Me Smile 3:13

3 Brotherly Love - Tip Of My Tongue 2:48

4 Whiskey Mac - Lost And Found 2:48

5 Barracade - On A Plane To Nowhere 2:40

6 Candlewick Green - Leave A Little Love 3:10

7 Currant Craze - Lady Pearl 3:01

8 Scorched Earth - On The Run 3:23

9 Scarecrow - I Want To Be Where You Are 2:51

10 Patches - Telltale 3:32

11 Peter Doyle - Rusty Hands Of Time 3:01

12 River City Extension - A Little Thing Like Love 3:25

13 Kincade - Dreams Are Ten A Penny 2:39

14 Bitter Almonds - In The Morning 2:38

15 White Plains - Every Little Move She Makes 2:52

16 Janie & The Marlettes - Schoolgirl Notion 2:55

17 The Fortunes - Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again 2:49

18 Design - Yellow Bird (Have You No Home) 2:50

19 Roger Holman & Simon May - Clovelly 3:04

20 Liberty Helm - I Need Your Everlasting Love 3:34

21 Silver Lining - Bye Goodbye 2:56

22 Shorty - It's Getting Sweeter All The Time 2:47

23 Cold Fly - Caterpillar 2:53

24 Wei Wei Wong - This Is My Life 4:01

Bob Stanley Presents... Choctaw Ridge - New Fables of the American South 1968-1973 (2021)

01 Lee Hazlewood - The House Song 4:28

02 Chris Gantry - If Only She Had Stayed 2:15

03 Jerry Reed - Endless Miles Of Highway 2:13

04 Jeannie C Riley - The Back Side Of Dallas 2:34

05 Hoyt Axton - Way Before The Time Of Towns 3:07

06 Tom T Hall - Strawberry Farms 2:51

07 Dolly Parton - Down From Dover 3:47

08 Charlie Rich - July 12, 1939 4:27

09 Nat Stuckey - What Am I Doing In L.A. 2:44

10 Rob Galbraith - Mr Stanton Don't Believe It 2:20

11 Sammi Smith - Saunders' Ferry Lane 3:03

12 Henson Cargill - Four Shades Of Love 3:53

13 Waylon Jennings & The Kimberlys - Drivin' Nails In The Wall 2:37

14 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town 2:59

15 Ed Bruce - Why Can't I Come Home 2:20

16 Billie Jo Spears - Mr Walker, It's All Over 3:00

17 Jim Ford - Harlan County 3:27

18 Tony Joe White - Widow Wimberly 3:38

19 Bobbie Gentry - Belinda (Alt take) 4:06

20 Michael Nesmith & The First National Band - Joanne 3:11

21 John Hartford - Mr Jackson's Got Nothing To Do 2:43

22 Lee Hazlewood & Suzi Jane Hokom - Alone 2:44

23 Sir Robert Charles Griggs - Fabulous Body And Smile 3:42

24 Charlie Rich - I Feel Like Going Home 4:28

Bob Stanley Presents... Liverpool Sunset - The City After Merseybeat 1964-1969 (2025)

1 The Kirkbys - It's A Crime 2:14

2 Tiffany With The Thoughts - Find Out What's Happening 2:42

3 The Dennisons - Nobody Like My Babe 2:31

4 Johnny Gustafson - Just To Be With You 2:31

5 The Eddie Cave & Fyx - It's Almost Good 2:34

6 The Dimensions - You Don't Have To Whisper 2:44

7 The Jason Eddie & Centremen - Whatcha Gonna Do Baby? 2:15

8 Billy Fury - Don't Let A Little Pride (Stand In Your Way) 3:05

9 Clayton Squares - Imagination 2:21

10 The Paul, Ritchie & Crying Shames - Come On Back 2:35

11 Tony Jackson - Never Leave Your Baby's Side 2:14

12 The Merseys - The Cat 2:58

13 Wimple Winch - Atmospheres 4:26

14 McGough & McGear - So Much To Love 3:59

15 The 23rd Turnoff - Michaelangelo 2:24

16 The Swinging Blue Jeans - Summer Comes Sunday 2:28

17 The Chants - A Man Without A Face 2:31

18 Cilla Black - Abyssinian Secret (stereo version) 2:15

19 The Billy J. Kramer & Dakotas - We're Doing Fine 2:33

20 The Carrolls - Come On 2:35

21 The Koobas - Constantly Changing 2:35

22 Focal Point - Girl On The Corner 2:19

23 Crackers - It Happens All The Time 2:21

24 The Penny Peeps - Into My Life She Came 2:50

Bob Stanley Presents... London A to Z 1962-1973 (2023)

01 John Barry - Cutty Sark 2:42

02 Cat Stevens - Portobello Road 2:26

03 Marianne Faithfull - Sunny Goodge Street 3:17

04 Jethro Tull - Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square 2:12

05 Herman's Hermits - Marcel's 1:55

06 Cressida - Goodbye Post Office Tower 2:51

07 John & Beverley Martyn - Primrose Hill 2:55

08 Nick Drake - Mayfair 2:11

09 Cilla Black - London Bridge 3:12

10 Linda Lewis - Hampstead Way 3:42

11 Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - Soho 3:03

12 Bulldog Breed - Friday Hill 3:08

13 Dana Gillespie - London Social Degree 2:08

14 Barbara Ruskin - Euston Station 2:28

15 Ralph McTell - Kew Gardens 2:24

16 Dave Evans - City Road 3:57

17 Magna Carta - Parliament Hill 2:44

18 Edward Bear - Edgeware Station 3:02

19 Humble Pie - Beckton Dumps 3:16

20 Quintessence - Notting Hill Gate 4:38

21 Norma Tanega - Clapham Junction 1:16

22 Al Stewart - Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres 4:01

23 Shelagh McDonald - Richmond 2:45

24 Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Vauxhall to Lambeth Bridge 6:31

Bob Stanley Presents... Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night - Brooklyn Disco 1974-5 (2023)

01 Moment Of Truth - Helplessly 3:44

02 Intrepids - After You've Had Your Fling (Get Down To The Real Thing) 2:49

03 Blue Magic - Welcome To The Club 5:10

04 Margie Joseph - I Can't Move No Mountains 2:47

05 Ben E.King - Supernatural Thing, Part 1 4:10

06 Faith Hope & Charity - Mellow Me 3:49

07 Richard ‘Popcorn’ Wylie - Georgia's After Hours 4:58

08 Eddie Kendricks - Date With The Rain 2:42

09   Gloria Scott     -     Just As Long As We're Together (In My Life There Will Never Be Another)  2:44

10 Ronnie McNeir - Wendy Is Gone 2:49

11 Sons Of Robin Stone - Got To Get You Back 3:12

12 Ivano Fossati - Night Of The Wolf (Tema Del Lupo) 4:02

13 Ecstasy, Passion & Pain - Good Things Don't Last Forever 3:40

14 Jimmy Ruffin - Tell Me What You Want 3:14

15 Betty Everett - Keep It Up 3:25

16 Satyr - Free & Easy 3:00

17 The Major Harris Boogie Blues Band - Each Morning I Wake Up 3:53

18 Act I - It's The Same Old Story 3:09

19 Creative Source - You Can't Hide Love 3:21

20 John Gary Williams - The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy 3:09

21 White Heat - If That's The Way You Feel (Then Let's Fall In Love) 3:15

22 Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody 3:40

Bob Stanley Presents... Wednesday Morning 6am - Radio Hits from the Small Hours 1970-1983 (2026)

1 Hoyt Axton - Evangelina 3:33

2 Lou Rawls - Lady Love 4:03

3 Don McLean - Castles in the Air 3:42

4 Crystal Gayle - Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For 2:56

5 Air Supply - Lost in Love 3:54

6 Paul Simon - Train in the Distance 5:12

7 Dolly Parton - The Bargain Store 2:40

8 Matt Monro - We're Gonna Change the World 3:33

9 Barbara Dickson - Run Like the Wind 3:15

10 Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman - Stumblin' In 3:57

11 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Matrimony 3:14

12 Carly Simon - You Belong to Me 3:51

13 Clifford T. Ward - The Best Is Yet to Come 2:17

14 Gordon Lightfoot - Daylight Katy 4:16

15 Olivia Newton-John - Deeper Than the Night 3:36

16 Lindisfarne - Warm Feeling 4:00

17 Stella Parton - The Danger of a Stranger 2:37

18 Dionne Warwick - Who What When Where Why 3:15

19 Art Garfunkel - 99 Miles from LA 3:31

20 John Denver - Calypso 3:36

21 The Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise 4:07

22 Bob James - Theme from 'Taxi' (Angela)        2:29

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... English Weather (2017)

1 Caravan - Love Song with Flute 4:10

2 The Roger Webb Sound - Moon Bird 2:19

3 The Parlour Band - Early Morning Eyes 3:51

4 Scotch Mist - Pamela 3:13

5 The Orange Bicycle - Last Cloud Home 3:06

6 T2 - JLT 5:50

7 Bill Fay - 'Til the Christ Come Back 3:07

8 Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees 5:20

9 Aardvark - Very Nice of You to Call 3:38

10 John Cale - Big White Cloud 3:30

11 Belle Gonzalez - Bottles 3:20

12 The Way We Live - Watching White Stars 7:06

13 Offspring - Windfall 3:28

14 Camel - Never Let Go 3:38

15 Daevid Allen - Wise Man in Your Heart 8:32

16 Matching Mole - O Caroline 5:07

17 Prelude - Edge of the Sea 6:42

18 Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw - Evening Shade 2:33

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Fell from the Sun - Downtempo and After Hours 1990-91 (2022)

01 Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun (Higher Than The Orb) 5:01

02 Critical Rhythm Featuring Jango Thriller & Vandal - It Could Not Happen (Essential Trance Hall Mix) 5:38

03 Sheer Taft - Cascades (Hypnotone Mix) 4:28

04 History Featuring Q-Tee - Afrika (Love And Laughter Mix) 5:17

05 Grid - Floatation (Original Version) 5:08

06 Saint Etienne - Speedwell (Radio Edit) 4:33

07 One Dove - Fallen 7:18

08 Transglobal Underground - Temple Head (Pacific Mix - Airwaves) 4:53

09 Massonix - Just A Little Bit More (Electro Instrumental Mix) 4:46

10 Elsi Curry - U Make Me Feel (Running Water Aka Workhouse Mix) 5:02

12 BBG - Snappiness (7" Edit) 3:53

13 Aloof - Never Get Out Of The Boat (The Flying Mix) 7:53

14 Moodswings - Spiritual High (The Moodfood Megamix) 9:12

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Incident at a Free Festival (2023)

01 Deep Purple - Chasing Shadows 5:32

02 Manfred Mann Chapter Three - One Way Glass 3:32

03 Andwella - Hold On to Your Mind 3:50

04 Alan Parker And Alan Hawkshaw - Hot Pants 1:48

05 Pink Fairies - Do It 3:02

06 Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow Night 3:56

07 Stray - Taken All the Good Things 5:30

08 Edgar Broughton Band - Out Demons Out 4:47

09 May Blitz - For Mad Men Only 4:14

10 Curved Air - Back Street Luv 3:34

11 Hawkwind - Ejection 3:48

12 Stackwaddy - Meat Pies Ave Come But Bands Not Ere Yet 5:01

13 James Hogg - Lovely Lady Rock 3:13

14 Paladin - Third World 3:51

15 Barclay James Harvest - Taking Some Time On 5:27

16 Jonesy - Ricochet 4:05

17 Steve Gray - Led Belly 2:21

18 Slowload - Big Boobs Boogie 3:03

19 Leaf Hound - Freelance Fiend 3:09

20 Dave Richmond - Confunktion 4:33

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Occasional Rain (2020)

1 Traffic - Hidden Treasure 4:13

2 Duncan Browne - Ragged Rain Life 2:58

3 Cressida - Home Is Where I Long to Be 4:04

4 Keith West - Leit Motif 2:47

5 Skin Alley - Night Time 5:33

6 Clouds - Once Upon a Time 2:51

7 Mandy More - Come to Me Jesus 3:56

8 The Moody Blues - Out and in (Single Version) 3:45

9 Shape of the Rain - Wasting My Time 3:10

10 Granny's Intentions - Nutmeg, Bitter Suite 3:11

11 Yes - Sweetness 4:31

12 Pete Brown & Piblokto! - Station Song Platform Two 3:38

13 Argent - Freefall 3:21

14 The Exchange & Mart - I Know That I'm Dreaming 2:52

15 Michael Chapman - Postcards of Scarborough 5:19

16 Christine Harwood - Question of Time 3:42

17 'Igginbottom - The Castle 2:57

18 Andrew Leigh - Windy Baker Street 4:54

19 Tonton Macoute - Flying South in Winter 6:27

20 Catherine Howe - Innocence of Child 3:41

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Paris in the Spring (2018)

1 Karl Heinz Schäfer - La Victime (Part 1) 2:06

2 Mireille Darc - Hélicoptère 2:45

3 Bernard Lavilliers - Les Aventures Extraordinaires D'Un Billet De Banque 3:17

4 Janko Nilovic - Roses And Revolvers 3:38

5 Ilous & Decuyper - L'Élu 2:42

6 Jacques Dutronc - La Métaphore 3:17

7 Brigitte Fontaine - Dommage Que Tu Sois Mort 2:23

8 Jean-Claude Vannier - Les Gardes Volent Au Secours Du Roi (Alternate version) 3:58

9 Nino Ferrer - Looking For You 5:52

10 Cortex - Chanson D'Un Jour D'Hiver 5:22

11 Françoise Hardy - Viens 2:13

12 Léonie - Couleurs 3:21

13 William Sheller - Leslie Simone 2:47

14 Triangle - Litanies 5:08

15 François De Roubaix - Baleines 3:15

16 Jane Birkin - Encore Lui 2:23

17 Serge Gainsbourg - Evelyne 2:08

18 Michel Polnareff - Le Bal Des Laze 4:53

19 Léonie - Lilith 2:21

20 Ys - Ystor 5:45

21 France Gall - Chanson Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Un Peu 2:24

22 Karl Heinz Schäfer - La Victime (Part 2) 1:28

23 Romy Schneider & Michel Piccoli - La Chanson D'Hélène 2:47

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... State of the Union - The American Dream in Crisis 1967-1973 (2018)

1 Elvis Presley - Clean Up Your Own Back Yard 3:10

2 Della Reese - Brand New Day 2:03

3 Dion - Abraham, Martin And John 3:21

4 Frank Sinatra - The Train 3:27

5 4 Seasons - Saturday's Father 3:15

6 The Beach Boys - 4Th Of July 2:45

8 Bing Crosby - What Do We Do With The World? 2:57

9 The Everly Brothers - Lord Of The Manor 4:49

10 The Four Preps - Hitchhiker 2:31

11 Lou Christie - Paint America Love 5:19

12 Ray Stevens - Mr. Businessman 3:22

13 Eartha Kitt - Paint Me Black Angels 2:30

14 Roy Orbison - Southbound Jericho Parkway 7:01

15 Bobby Darin - Questions 4:23

16 Paul Anka - This Crazy World 2:37

17 Mel Tormé - Take A Letter Maria 2:57

18 Eugene Mcdaniels - Cherrystones 3:12

19 The Tokens - Some People Sleep 1:55

20 Buddy Greco - Cardboard California 3:29

21 Dean Martin - Do You Believe This Town? 2:35

22 Johnny Tillotson - Welfare Hero 2:59

23 Teresa Brewer - Save The Children 2:34

24 The Brothers Four - Revolution 2:48

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... The Tears of Technology (2020)

1 China Crisis - Jean Walks in Fresh Fields 1:50

2 Turquoise Days - Grey Skies 4:19

3 Simple Minds - Real to Real 2:51

4 Illustration - Tidal Flow 3:53

5 Care - An Evening in the Ray 2:50

6 Soft Cell - Youth 3:17

7 John Foxx - Europe After the Rain 4:01

8 Patrik Fitzgerald - Personal Loss 2:53

9 Eyeless in Gaza - Lights of April 2:20

10 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Sealand 7:44

11 Thomas Leer - Private Plane 4:00

12 The Electronic Circus - Direct Lines 3:52

13 The Pale Fountains - Unless 4:39

14 Chris & Cosey - October (Love Song) 3:53

15 New Musik - A Map of You 3:49

16 The Human League - WXJL Tonight 4:36

17 Paul Haig - Christiana 3:39

18 The Teardrop Explodes - Tiny Children 3:51

19 Oppenheimer Analysis - Behind the Shades 5:57

20 Trevor Bastow - Feather Bed 3:02

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Three Day Week - When the Lights Went Out 1972-1975 (2019)

1 The Brothers - Part of the Union 2:57

2 Small Wonder - Ordinary Boy 2:57

3 Ricky Wilde - The Hertfordshire Rock 2:49

4 The Kinks - When Work Is Over 2:08

5 The Sutherland Bros Band - Sailing 2:38

6 Adam Faith - In Your Life 2:42

7 Phil Cordell - Londonderry 3:10

8 Stud Leather - Cut Loose 3:09

9 The Troggs - I'm On Fire 2:13

10 Mike McGear - Kill 1:50

11 Lieutenant Pigeon - And the Fun Goes On 3:04

12 Mungo Jerry - Open Up 3:26

13 Matchbox - Rod 2:15

14 Hawkwind - Urban Guerilla 3:40

15 Edgar Broughton Band - Homes Fit for Heroes 4:20

16 Bombadil - Breathless 3:06

17 Robin Goodfellow - Why Am I Waiting 3:37

18 Cockney Rebel - What Ruthy Said 2:31

19 Paul Brett - Clocks 1:42

20 Climax Chicago - Mole On the Dole 5:02

21 Barracuda - I Feel So Down 2:40

22 Wigan's Ovation - Northern Soul Dancer 2:20

23 Stavely Makepeace - Don't Ride a Paula Pillion 2:51

24 Pheon Bear - War Against War 3:04

25 Roly - Roly Pin 3:57

26 David Essex - Stardust 2:49

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present... Winter of Discontent (2023)

1 The Mekons - Where Were You? 2:43

2 Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows 3:12

3 Animals & Men - The Terraplane Fixation 2:08

4 Blue Orchids - Work 4:01

5 Karl's Empty Body - Small Hours 3:34

6 Frankie's Crew - Somebody 1:31

7 Scritti Politti - Confidence 3:05

8 Thin Yoghurts - Drink Problem 4:14

9 Anne Bean & Paul Burwell - Low Flying Aircraft 4:08

10 Performing Ferret Band - Brow Beaten 1:40

11 The Manchester Mekon - No Forgetting 2:56

12 The Raincoats - Fairytale In The Supermarket 2:59

13 Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma 2:42

14 Androids of Mu - Bored Housewives 2:21

15 The Fall - In My Area 5:06

16 The Digital Dinosaurs - The Sideways Man 2:28

17 The Good Missionaries - Attitudes 4:07

18 Human Cabbages - The Window's Broken 4:01

19 Television Personalities - King And Country 3:38

20 Exhibit 'A' - In The Night 2:52

21 Performing Ferret Band - Nudes 2:36

22 Tarzan 5 - Different Story 4:33

23 The Gynaecologists - The Red Pullover 3:46

24 The Door And The

American Baroque - Chamber Pop and Beyond 1967-1971 (2025)

1 The Merry-Go-Round - You're a Very Lovely Woman 2:55

2 Montage - I Shall Call Her Mary 2:23

3 John Randolph Marr - Raggedy Ann 2:27

4 Appaloosa - Tulu Rogers 3:52

5 The Pleasure Fair - Turnaway 2:05

6 The Stone Poneys feat. Linda Ronstadt - Different Drum (Stereo Mix) 2:38

7 Nora Guthrie - Emily's Illness (Mono Single Version) 3:05

8 The Association - Barefoot Gentleman 3:24

9 J.K. & Co. - Land of Sensations and Delights 1:49

10 H.P. Lovecraft - Blue Jack of Diamonds 3:09

11 Bonnie Dobson - Time 3:08

12 The Blades of Grass - Satin Slipper (Mono Single Version) 2:03

13 Chris & Peter Allen - My Silent Symphony 2:34

14 The Monkees - Mr. Webster (Stereo Version 1) 2:46

15 Eternity's Children - Again Again 3:03

16 Russ Giguere - My Plan 4:37

17 Nico - The Fairest of the Seasons 4:07

18 Tom Northcott - Other Times (Mono Single Version) 2:02

19 The Neon Philharmonic - You Lied 3:27

20 The Fun & Games - Close to Carmel 2:40

21 Nora Guthrie - Home Before Dark (Mono Single Version) 2:37

22 The Common People - I Have Been Alone 3:11

23 Steve Martin - Two By Two (I'm Losing You) (Mono Single Version) 3:03

24 Rosebud - Lorelei 3:53

Dream Babes - Volume 1 - Am I Dreaming? (1994)

1 Cindy Williams - They Talk About Us 2:37

2 Samantha Jones - I Deserve It 3:04

3 Jackie Lee - The Town I Live In 2:51

4 Jane Hillery - You've Got That Hold On Me 2:02

5 Linda Kaye - I Can't Stop Thinking About You 2:01

6 Deano - Baby Let Me Be Your Baby 2:00

7 Sandra Browne - You'd Think He Didn't Know Me 2:18

8 Patsy Ann Noble - Sour Grapes 1:57

9 Tiffany - Am I Dreaming? 2:33

10 The Three Bells - Softly In The Night 1:47

11 Alma Cogan - Snakes And Snails 2:37

12 Beverley Jones - Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Home 2:06

13 Beryl Marsden - Breakaway 2:44

14 Madeline Bell - You Don't Love Me No More 2:03

15 Samantha Jones - Don't Come Any Closer 3:02

16 The Track - Cry To Me 2:33

17 Sami Sloan - Be His Girl 2:33

18 Andee Silver - Too Young To Go Steady 2:05

19 Lesley Duncan - You Kissed My Boy 2:28

20 Suzie Cope - Biggity Big 2:28

21 Carole Deene - Some People 2:08

22 Emma Rede - I Gotta Be With You 3:00

23 Alison Wonder - Once More With Feeling 2:35

24 Peanut - I Didn't Love Him Anyway 2:38

Early Morning Hush - Notes from the UK Folk Underground 1969-1976 (2006)

1 Midwinter - The Skater 3:20

2 Loudest Whisper - Lir's Lament 2:22

3 Mellow Candle - Sheep Season 4:53

4 John Renbourn - The Cuckoo 3:56

5 Sweeney's Men - Go By Brooks 2:04

6 Shelagh McDonald - Peacock Lady 3:28

7 Water Into Wine Band - Harvest Time 5:54

8 Shirley Collins - Poor Murdered Woman 4:19

9 Keith Christmas - Forest And The Shore 7:05

10 Anne Briggs - Fine Horseman 3:02

11 Stone Angel - The Bells Of Dunwich 5:55

12 Pentangle - Sovay 2:49

13 Duncan Browne - Cherry Blossom Fool 3:00

14 Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith 3:39

15 Dando Shaft - Coming Home To Me 3:26

16 Shide And Acorn - Elanor's Song 2:42

17 Mr Fox - Mendle 7:12

Gather in the Mushrooms - The British Acid Folk Underground 1968-1974 (2004)

1 Magnet - Corn Riggs 2:36

2 Sallyangie, The - Love in Ice Crystals 3:03

3 Pentangle - Lyke Wake Dirge 3:34

4 Forest - Graveyard 5:44

5 Sandy Denny - Milk and Honey 4:22

6 Trader Horne - Morning Way 4:36

7 Writing on the Wall - Buffalo 3:12

8 Bert Jansch - Silly Woman 3:15

9 Shelagh Macdonald - Liz's Song 2:50

10 Heron - Lord and Master 4:53

11 Spirogyra - Old Boot Wine 4:16

12 Vashti Bunyan - Winter Is Blue 2:54

13 Al Jones - All My Friends Are Back Again 2:36

14 Fresh Maggots - Rosemary Hill 3:35

15 Lesley Duncan - Love Song 3:09

16 Mr Brooks - The Family 3:08

17 Andy Roberts - Queen of the Moonlight World 4:43

18 Comus - The Herald 12:15

Gather in the Mushrooms - The British Folk Underground 1969-1975 (2025)

1 Magnet & Paul Giovanni - Corn Rigs 2:39

2 Trader Horne - Morning Way 4:38

3 Oberon - Nottanum Town 4:45

4 Forest - Graveyard 5:43

5 Midwinter - The Skater 3:21

6 Fotheringay - Winter Winds 2:12

7 Heron - Lord and Master 4:52

8 Bridget St. John - Fly High 3:23

9 Mellow Candle - Sheep Season 5:00

10 Christine Quayle - The Seagulls Scream 4:03

11 Keith Christmas - Forest and the Shore 7:08

12 Fresh Maggots - Rosemary Hill 3:36

13 Anne Briggs - Fine Horseman 3:07

14 Barry Dransfield - The Werewolf 3:48

15 Roy Harper - Another Day 3:00

16 Vashti Bunyan - Window Over the Bay 1:49

17 C.O.B. (Clive's Original Band) - Eleven Willows 2:25

18 Comus - The Herald 12:10

Tea & Symphony - The English Baroque Sound 1967-1974 (2007)

1 John Kerruish - Time to Wander 3:29

2 Graham Gouldman - Nowhere to Go 2:34

3 Jon Plum - Alice 3:34

4 Vigrass - Stop 3:00

5 Kate - Strange Girl 3:02

6 Lea Nixon - Off to Find a New Land 3:42

7 Honeybus - For Where Have You Been 3:01

8 Eddie Addenbury - Captain Jones 3:26

9 Nimbo - Maisie Jones 2:38

10 Almond Marzipan - Summer Love 3:22

11 Les Payne - Very Well 3:52

12 David Reilly - Nothing Else to Say 2:16

13 Lori Balmer - Here Before the Sun 2:28

14 Consortium - Copper Coloured Years 2:41

15 Marc Reid - My World Turns Around You 2:25

16 Roger Charles - Watching the Boat 2:48

17 The Tremeloes - Til the Sun Goes Down 3:15

18 Graham Gouldman - Growing Older 2:47

19 Steve Elgin - Seductress 3:17

20 Julian Brooks - Justine 3:22

21 Junior Campbell - If I Call Your Name 2:34

22 The Quiet World of Lea & John - There Is a Mountain 2:43

23 The Humblebums - Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway 4:38

24 Tuesday - Sewing Machine 3:16

Tea & Symphony - The English Baroque Sound 1968-1974 (2020)

1 Ray Brookes - Pictures 3:06

2 The Honeybus - I Can't Let Maggie Go 2:56

3 Lea Nixon - Off to Find a New Land 3:41

4 John Plum - Alice 3:35

5 Bombadil - When the City Sleeps 4:12

6 Mike Batt - Fading Yellow 3:43

7 Colin Blunstone - Say You Don't Mind 3:18

8 Gordon Waller - The Seventh Hour 2:29

9 Erasmus Chorum - Mary Jane 6:24

10 Tandem - Shapes and Shadows 2:30

11 Nirvana - Please Believe Me 3:00

12 Vigrass & Osborne - Forever Autumn 2:55

13 Richard Henry - Oh Girl 2:48

14 Les Payne - Very Well 3:51

15 Sunchariot - You're Lovely 3:57

16 Mike Sedgewick - Pollution Song 3:23

17 Bill Kenwright - Epitaph 4:27

18 Clifford T. Ward - Coathanger 2:47

19 Christopher - The Race 2:24

20 David McIvor - Closing My Eyes 5:05

21 The Bliss - Lifetime 2:44

22 Matthew Bones - Two Sugars 3:03

Tim Burgess & Bob Stanley Present... Tim Peaks - Songs for a Late-Night Diner (2019)

1 Young Marble Giants - Choci Loni 2:38

2 The Chills - House with a Hundred Rooms 3:17

3 Durutti Column - Lips That Would Kiss (Form Prayers to Broken Stone) 3:48

4 The Gist - Yanks 2:14

5 Gwenno - Hunros (A Dream) 2:32

6 The Clientele - I Had to Say This 3:32

7 The Royal Family & the Poor - I Love You (Restrained in a Moment) 3:55

8 Isan - Betty's Lament 5:09

9 Jane Weaver - Slow Motion 5:07

10 Echo & the Bunnymen - Fuel 4:03

11 Galaxie 500 - Flowers 4:28

12 Gnac - The Broken Fall 4:05

13 Birdie - Blue Dress 3:58

14 El Perro del Mar - Dog 3:02

15 Stockholm Monsters - Fairy Tales (Demo Version) 4:09

16 Chastity Belt - Different Now 3:49

17 Blue Orchids - A Year with No Head 2:37

18 Bracken - Ten Years 4:07

19 The Fates - Sheila - She Beats in My Heart 6:55

20 Dean McPhee - Sky Burial

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