The Underground of Happiness

The first instalment of tunes that caught my ear last year. A combination of albums I played a lot and one off tracks that stuck with me. Call them earworms. Enjoy. x Playlist 1. Harmonious Thelonius – Soft opening machine (bureau b) 2. Ghost Power – Asteroid witch (Duophonic Super 45s) 3. Astrel K – Is it it or is it I (Duophonic Super 45s) 4. Albertine Sarges – Hold on (Moshi Moshi) 5. Chalk – Velodrome (Dutch Tilt) 6. Chewy She – Mustard (Chewy She) 7. Donna Thompson – Be with you (PRAH Recordings) 8. Guerilla Toss – Cannibal capitol (Sub Pop) 9. Josephine Foster – Hum menina (Fire Records) 10. Junk Drawer – Tears in Costa (Art For Blind Records) 11. L’Exotighost – Exotique mecanique (Everlasting Records) 12. Rozi Plain – Help (Memphis Industries) 13. Silverbacks – A job worth something (Full Time Hobby) 14. splint – Military procedures (Nice Swan) 15. Sprints – Literary mind (Nice Swan) 16. The Garbage and The Flowers – Eye know who you are (Fire...

Happy New Year to all of you and opening 2018 with a few tasty cuts from last year which you’ll find more on in the Best of 2017 posts on the blog. Laetita Sadier Source Ensemble is one of those. A lovely groovy kosmische informed by Brazil. The Clientele is another. Cosmic folk rock with a yearn and a robust jangle to it. Manu Louis is one. Wonky and very groovy dance music. Michael Nau . Gorgeous blissed out psych pop. Plus new music from The Go! Team . Morse code for the dancefloor. The Altered Hours . Lovely psych drones. Tune-Yards . A playground chant meets eco themed pop music. And Spindle Ensemble . Beautiful light touch classical tones from Bristol . More on these pages. The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Twitter: UndergroundOfHappy Playlist 473 Tues Jan 9 2018 11.00am-12.00pm (repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm) UCC 98.3FM l...

This week’s show has a lot of great music. At least four of my favourite tunes of the year (you know the ones if you're here regularly). But really this week come for the pop genius of The Go! Team ...brass band handclaps xylophones joyous teenage guest singers. Then stay for the rest. More on these pages. The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Twitter: UndergroundOfHappy Playlist 465 Tues Oct 24 2017 11.00am-12.00pm (repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm) UCC 98.3FM listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm *listen back to this show here goo.gl/HajPmV Playlist The Go! Team – The semicircle song ( playing Electric Ballroom, London, Feb 15 ) Hater – Blushing ( playing Rough Trade East, London, Nov 29 ) This is the Kit – By my demon eye ( playing Cyprus Ave, Cork, Jan 16 ) Montero – Vibrations ( playing Vicar Street, Dublin Nov 22, w ...

Great pop music comes in many different forms. However there are some combinations of elements that even on paper are close to guaranteed to bring about wonderful results. A brass band. Handclaps. Shakers. Xylophones. A chorus of oohs. Add to that the way around a melody and bouncing backbeats which are two of the things we love most about The Go! Team . And the sheer exuberance of the group of Detroit teenagers who guested on vocals. Did I mention that the singers introduce themslves along with their starsigns during the breakdown? (Plus is that a theremin in the background?) A joyous riot and a genius pop song.