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ROUGH TRADE SHOPS COUNTER CULTURE 06  
 
 
RELEASED JANUARY 15TH 2007  
 
  Here we are again - the annual round up of the most exciting music that has passed over the shop's counters throughout the previous 12 months - a portable version of the our recommendations, solicited by you, our loyal customers, on a daily basis, requested as from a trusted friend.

From meditative piano pulse electronics Velvet Underground - influenced psyche-rock sorcery, from a helplessly upbeat 70's cockney ska biscuit to super hooky space pop, from a hip hop lullaby to some lo-fi and no-wave slo-disco, and from politically savvy skronky dance punk to messed up pneumatic noise - we have the best of everything here, the hottest bands around, old friends returning in fine style and strong support from a host of highlights from another diverse year in music.


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ROUGH TRADE SHOPS COUNTER CULTURE 1976  
 
 
RELEASED JANUARY 15TH 2007  
 
  In conjunction with the release of COUNTER CULTURE 2006, this bonus special edition COUNTER CULTURE looks at the shop's first year of business, 1976.

Looking back, 1976 was an intake of breath, a moment before the explosion of punk and new wave that continues to reverberate. Alongside some of the great music of the time, in this collection we also have the sonic evidence of the growing opposition to the establishment - the 60's psyche and folk influence is here in the form of The Flamin' Groovies and the McGariggle sisters, but garage rock is evolving into something altogether more spiky with The Saints and Radio Birdman, while the longstanding avant garde and art rock movements, epitomised here by The Penguin Café Orchestra and Ivor Cutler, sit a little uncomfortably next to the carefree disco of Candi Staton and Bootsy's Rubber Funk.

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COUNTER CULTURE 06 TRACKLISTING  
 
  CD1
1 Various Productions - Home
2 The Last Town Chorus - Caroline
3 Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - The False Husband
4 Beirut - Postcards From Italy
5 Lily Allen - LDN
6 Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
7 Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
8 Hush Arbors - Bones Of A Thousand Suns
9 Monkey Swallows the Universe - Science
10 Richard Swift - Paisley Park
11 Yo La Tengo - Sometimes I Don't Get You
12 Treecreeper - Debris
13 Cold War Kids - We Used To Vacation
14 The Morrison Steam Fayre - Six String Layabout
15 Oneida - History's Great Navigators
16 Bricolage - Footsteps
17 New Moscow - C'mon Up
18 Tapes 'n Tapes - Cowbell
19 Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye'd Boy
20 Winterkids - I'm Not Used To You
21 Ripchord - Lock Up Your Daughters
22 Mike Sammes - Heineken

CD2
1 Burial - Nightbus
2 Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - ax Mr. L.
3 Scritti Politti - The Boom Boom Bap
4 Uffie - Pop The Glock
5 Ladybug - Miniaturu De Lulu (feat Dieze Tigrana)
6 Crystal Castles - Air War
7 Envelopes - Free Jazz
8 CSS - Alala
9 Metronomy - You Could Easily Have Me
10 Xerox Teens - My Favourite Hat
11 Bromheads Jacket - Trip To The Golden Arches
12 The Rotters - Japanese Punk
13 The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults - Preamble - Great Divine Rector's Call
14 T.I.T.S. - Strong Arms
15 Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
16 Pre - Dudefuk
17 Erase Errata - Another Genius Idea From Our Government
18 Bonnie Camplin - Get Me A Mirror
19 OOIOO - UMA
20 Wolf Eyes - Lake of Roaches
21 Nagisa Yoko and Justin Simon - Zeni Zeni
22 Andrew Liles - Orville's Engastrimythic Divinations
23 Trentemoller - Rykketid
24 The Disco Students - The Rough Trade Song
 
   
 
COUNTER CULTURE 1976 TRACKLISTING  
 
  1 101ers - Keys To Your Heart
2 Blondie - X- Offender
3 Nick Lowe - So It Goes
4 The Damned - New Rose
5 The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
6 Dennis Brown - Wolf & Leopard
7 Kate & Anne McGariggle - Come A Long Way
8 Patti Smith - Group Pissing In A River
9 Penguin Café Orchestra - Hugebaby
10 Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out (In A Rubber Band)
11 Ivor Cutler - Bicarbonate Of Chicken
12 Scratch and the Upsetters - Croaking Lizard
13 Flamin Groovies - Teenage Confidential
14 Art & Language and The Red Crayola - An Harangue
15 The Slickee Boys - Psycho Daisies
16 Radio Birdman - Burned My Eye
17 Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop
18 Aswad - Back To Africa
19 The Residents - Satisfaction
20 Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
21 Tom Waits - Step Right Up
22 Yabby U - Conquering Dub

 
     
 
THE RECORD SHOP - 30 YEARS OF ROUGH TRADE SHOPS  
 
 
  This year is Rough Trade Shops 30th anniversary, but the album to celebrate this birthday isn't compiled by us. this time, it is the choices of some of our customers, 30 of you to be precise. We requested not only a favourite record selection from the last 3 decades, but also for fond memories and tall tales from the culture over the counter. Among the 30 selectors are some of those that have guided the industry in recent years, label heads such as Seymour Stein of Sire Records, Daniel Miller of Mute and Laurence Bell of Domino.
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PREVIOUS COUNTER CULTURE RELEASES  
 
 
         
Counter Culture 05
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