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Various: Xfm presents: This Is Music
Out: 06/11/2006
Label: BMG

Yes,Xfm, this is music. And there was me thinking these forty-four tracksof varied vintage comprised a healthy eating pasta bake, or a loweredVauxhall Nova with a hole in its exhaust. Makes it sound louder, sonot-so-ol’ Chris won’t get it fixed. The prat.

This twin-discrelease summarises the radio station’s regular playlists fairly well: acouple of classics – New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’, The Clash’s ‘JanieJones’ – are slipped in beside recent tracks from high-profile artistsincluding The Streets (‘Prangin’ Out’), Muse (‘Starlight’) My ChemicalRomance (‘Welcome To The Black Parade’) and Primal Scream (‘CountryGirl’). It reaches into not-quite-leftfield territories to pluck GetCape. Wear Cape. Fly’s ‘Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager’ and TheLongcut’s ‘A Tried And Tested Method’ from the freshest major-labelindie harvest, but for the most part this compilation is as brainlesslyassembled as you’d expect from the powers that control Xfm’s daytimeschedules. It’s an autopilot affair, and you really needn’t strapyourself in.

On the plus side, certain sequences make forpleasing listening: ‘We Are Your Friends’ into ‘Ladyflash’ into‘Heartbeats’ (Mr Gonzalez’s version, of course) is an appealingtriple-header on disc one. Also on the first CD, Belle And Sebastian’s‘Funny Little Frog’ flowing nearly seamlessly into ‘Blue Monday’ issure to raise a smile. Disc two, though, lacks such coherence: thus,‘You Can’t Fool Me Dennis’ is disgustingly sandwiched between TheSubways and Mumm-Ra. Ergh. Still, the Manics’ ‘Everything Must Go’still sounds as glorious as it did when I bought it from the Eastleighbranch of Our Price (now closed, obviously) all those years ago.

Tied-to-the-Top-40indie-rockers will find this comp’ comforting to their ears on amorning’s commute, but I get the feeling most DiS readers know enoughabout the acts here – and probably own the standout songs, anyway – togive it a miss. It could have been a lot worse though, to be totallyfair: there’s no Keane here, at least.

track listing Disc One 1. Welcome To The Black Parade-My Chemical Romance 2. Starlight-Muse 3. Oh Stacey (Look What You've Done)-The Zutons 4. Country Girl-Primal Scream 5. We Are Your Friends-Justice Vs Simian 6. Ladyflash-Go! Team 7. Heartbeats-Jose Gonzalez 8. Trouble-Ray Lamontagne 9. Weekends And Bleak Days-The Young Knives 10. Skip To The End-The Futureheads 11. Lost & Found-Feeder 12. The Bucket-Kings Of Leon 13. Boys Will Be Boys-The Ordinary Boys 14. Blackened Blue Eyes-The Charlatans 15. Sing It Out-Hope Of The States 16. You And Me-Vega4 17. The City Is At Standstill-Liam Frost 18. A Tried And Tested Method-The Longcut 19. Funny Little Frog-Belle And Sebastian 20. Blue Monday-New Order 21. The Great Beyond-REM Bonus XFM Session Track 22. Processed Beats-Kasabian Disc Two 1. Empire-Kasabian 2. Better Do Better-Hard-Fi 3. Blood-Editors 4. Prangin' Out-The Streets 5. Albion-Babyshambles 6. Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager-Get Cape .Wear Cape. Fly 7. That's No Way To Tell A Lie-James Dean Bradfield 8. Hide And Seek-Imogen Heap 9. I Want You To Stay-Maximo Park 10. You Have Killed Me-Morrissey 11. In The Morning-The Coral 12. Juxtaposed With U-Super Furry Animals 13. Rock N Roll Queen-The Subways 14. You Can't Fool Me Dennis-Mystery Jets 15. Out Of The Question-Mumm-Ra 16. Muscle Car-Mylo Feat. Freeform Five 17. Don't Exist-Joseph Arthur 18. Repeated Offender-The Rifles 19. Everything Must Go-Manic Street Preachers 20. Another Girl Another Planet-The Only Ones 21. Janie Jones-The Clash Bonus XFM Session Track 22. Time Is Running Out-Muse

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