New music including Amber Arcades, The Smile, Oliver Sim and The Orielles on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast

I continued delving into recent releases from Weyes Blood, Röyksopp, Vera Blue, Phoenix, Christine and the Queens, Alex G and White Lung on the show this week, while the retro alternative set again featured a tribute to a recently deceased musical great, this time Terry Hall of the legendary 2-tone band The Specials, as well as another grab bag of older tracks, ranging from early ’90s Japanese pop (Poison Girl Friend) to ’60s balladeering (Scott Walker) to ’80s alt-rock (Wire). Here’s the tracklist for the full show:

West Of The Fields December 20, 2022

  • R.E.M.- Suspicion
  • The Smile- The Opposite (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival)
  • Jockstrap- 50/50
  • Fever Ray- Carbon Dioxide
  • Weyes Blood- God Turn Me Into A Flower
  • John Cale- Story Of Blood (feat. Weyes Blood)
  • Iggy Pop- Strung Out Johnny
  • Oliver Sim- Sensitive Child (Soulwax Remix)
  • Romy and Fred again..- Strong
  • Jessie Ware- Free Yourself
  • Nuovo Testamento- Heartbeat
  • Caroline Polachek- Welcome To My Island
  • Röyksopp- Stay Awhile (feat. Susanne Sundfør)
  • Beach House- Runaway
  • Sharon Van Etten- Mistakes
  • Hatchie- Nosedive
  • Hum- Shapeshifter
  • Alvvays- Velveteen
  • The Orielles- Airtight
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Different Today
  • Amber Arcades- Odd To Even
  • Special AKA- Gangsters
  • The Specials- Rudi, A Message To You
  • The Specials- Ghost Town (12″ Version)
  • Fun Boy Three- The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)
  • Fun Boy Three and Bananarama- It Ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It)
  • Fun Boy Three- Our Lips Are Sealed
  • The Colourfield- Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby
  • Ringo Sheena- Shuukyou – Religion
  • Gustavo Cerati- Puente
  • Poison Girl Friend- Those Were The Days
  • Yellow Magic Orchestra- Ballet
  • Françoise Hardy- Tous les garçons et les filles
  • Scott Walker- Jackie
  • Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood- Some Velvet Morning
  • Serge Gainsbourg- Lemon Incest
  • Gang Of Four- Woman Town
  • Icehouse- Can’t Help Myself
  • Wire- Kidney Bingos
  • Everything But The Girl- The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)
  • Moloko- Cannot Contain This
  • Goldfrapp- Tiptoe
  • Vera Blue- Trust Fall
  • Christine and the Queens- Combien de temps
  • Phoenix- My Elixir
  • Alex G- Miracles
  • White Lung- Bird
  • Nova Twins- Not My Day
  • R.E.M.- Hallelujah

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Travis Gass

About Travis Gass

I'm an editor on the Digital Desk at the Bangor Daily News. I'm also the host of West Of The Fields, a college radio show that has aired continuously on UMaine's WMEB 91.9 FM since 1998.