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        <title>R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
        <description> Vocalist of the Members.</description>
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            <title>Re: R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Some more instrumentals, from my music collection:<br />
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Afghan Whigs - The Vampire Lanois (<i>1965</i>)<br />
Ash - Obscure Thing (<i>Trailer</i>)<br />
Blondie - Europa (<i>Autoamerican</i>)<br />
Blur - The Debt Collector (<i>Parklife</i>)<br />
Buzzcocks - Walking Distance (<i>Love Bites</i>)<br />
Cheap Trick - Oh Boy (<i>In Color</i>)<br />
The Clash - Listen / Time Is Tight / The Cool Out (all from <i>Black Market Clash</i>)<br />
Cloud Nothing - Tall Gray Structure (<i>The Black Hole Understands</i>)<br />
Cranes - The Puppet (<i>Forever</i>)<br />
The Dead Weather - 3 Birds (<i>Horehound</i>)<br />
Dexys Midnight Runners - The Teams That Meet in Caffs (<i>Welcome to the Young Soul Rebels</i>)<br />
Dumas - Capitale du monde (<i>Traces</i>)<br />
Eels - Where I’m At (<i>The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett</i>)<br />
Elastica - Miami Nice (<i>The Menace</i>)<br />
Goat Girl - Jazz in the Supermarket (<i>On All Fours</i>)<br />
Robyn Hitchcock - Chinese Water Python (<i>Eye)</i><br />
The Hives - The Hives Are Law, You Are Crime (<i>Your New Favourite Band</i>)<br />
Indochine - La Buddha affaire (<i>7000 Danses</i>)<br />
Jimmy George - Venezuela (<i>Hotel Motel</i>)<br />
Louise Attaque - La Valse (<i>À plus tard crocodile</i>)<br />
Martha &amp; the Muffins - Twenty-two in Cincinnati (<i>This Is the Ice Age</i>)<br />
Mercromina - Ninguna parte (<i>Canciones de andar por casa</i>)<br />
Morphine - Miles Davis’ Funeral (<i>Cure For Pain</i>)<br />
New Order - Elegia (<i>Low-Life</i>)<br />
Oasis - The Swamp Song (<i>The Masterplan</i>)<br />
OMD - Architecture and Morality (<i>Architecture and Morality</i>)<br />
Placebo - Bullet Proof Cupid (<i>Sleeping With Ghosts</i>)<br />
Iggy Pop - Drop a Hook (<i>Soldier</i>)<br />
Radio Birdman - Alien Skies (<i>Living Eyes</i>)<br />
R.E.M. - Zither (<i>New Adventures in Hi-Fi</i>)<br />
Mick Ronson - Slaughter on 10th Avenue (my version comes from Ian Hunter&#039;s <i>Welcome to the Club</i>)<br />
The Selecter - The Selecter<br />
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Infantry (<i>Join Hands</i>)<br />
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (<i>Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness</i>)<br />
The Smiths - Oscillate Wildly (<i>Louder Than Bombs</i>)<br />
Social Distortion - Road Zombie (<i>Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes</i>)<br />
Spoon - This Book Is a Movie (<i>Girls Can Tell</i>)<br />
The Stranglers - Yellowcake UFO (<i>The Raven</i>)<br />
Sylvain Sylvain - Forgotten Panties (<i>Paper, Pencil and Glue</i>)<br />
Tame Impala - Jeremy’s Storm (<i>Innerspeaker</i>)<br />
Ultravox - Monument (<i>Monument</i>)<br />
Tom Verlaine - The Blue Robe (<i>Dreamtime</i>)<br />
Paul Weller - Song For Alice (<i>22 Dreams</i>)<br />
Jack White - High Ball Stepper (<i>Lazaretto</i>)<br />
The White Stripes - Aluminum (<i>White Blood Cells</i>)]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Philippe</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Other great instrumentals, just off the top of my head:<br />
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Ashra - &quot;Ice Train&quot;<br />
David Bowie - &quot;Crystal Japan&quot;<br />
Brian Eno w/Daniel Lanois &amp; Roger Eno - &quot;Silver Morning&quot;<br />
Heldon - &quot;In the Wake of King Fripp&quot;<br />
Japan - &quot;Canton&quot;<br />
Mick Karn - &quot;The Sound of Waves&quot;<br />
King Crimson - &quot;The Sheltering Sky&quot;<br />
Phil Manzanera - &quot;Diamond Head&quot;<br />
Bill Nelson - &quot;The Passion&quot;<br />
Neu! - &quot;Hallogallo&quot;<br />
The Shadows - &quot;Wonderful Land&quot;<br />
Simple Minds - &quot;Theme for Great Cities&quot;<br />
Tangerine Dream - &quot;Cinnamon Road&quot;<br />
Tubeway Arm - &quot;I Nearly Married a Human&quot;<br />
Frank Zappa - &quot;Peaches en Regalia&quot;]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Middle C</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Other great instumental tracks in the TP vein, since you ask, Delvin:<br />
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&quot;Circus&quot; by The Jam (pretty obvious)<br />
&quot;The Thin Air&quot; by Magazine (off <i>Secondhand Daylight</i>)<br />
&quot;Gravelrash&quot; by Midnight Oil (off <i>Breathe</i>)<br />
&quot;The Choral Sea&quot; (off <i>True Colours</i>) or &quot;Albert of India&quot; (off <i>Waiata</i>), both by Split Enz<br />
&quot;Coelacanth&quot; by Shriekback (off <i>Oil and Gold</i>)<br />
&quot;Theme from the Vindicators&quot; from The Fleshtones&#039; debut EP, or their version of &quot;Day Tripper&quot; from <i>Brooklyn Sound Solution</i><br />
&quot;The Diving Board&quot; by Ed Kuepper (from <i>A King in the Kindness Room</i>) which is something of a throwback to his days with the Laughing Clowns.<br />
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All of Cafe Tacuba&#039;s <i>Revés</i> is instrumental (except for one track) whereas the companion record <i>Yo Soy</i> is all vocal except for one untitled track. A bunch of very good ones there. <br />
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In the same vein, Broken Social Scene&#039;s first album, <i>Feel Good Lost</i>, is all instrumental except for one track, and they have played instrumentals on most of the records they have released since then (for example, &quot;Meet Me in the Basement&quot;, from <i>Forgiveness Rock Record</i>).<br />
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Flaming Lips had recorded a bunch of them as well, including the &quot;Main Theme&quot; from <i>7 Skies H3</i>  or the title track from <i>Oczy Mlody</i>, but they tend to be spacy and moody and perhaps more suited to &quot;Dead Electric&quot; than &quot;20 Flight Rock&quot;.<br />
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I had already mentioned in a previous discussion a couple of recent ones: &quot;Respiration&quot;, the lead-off track from Axlaustade&#039;s selt-titled recent album (a bunch of others on that one as well), and &quot;Carelessly&quot; by Joe Sampson and Friends, off  <i>Unfinished I</i>  (Sampson is normally the leader of New Zealand band Salad Boys).<br />
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And of course, Bowie is a master of those. &quot;Speed of Light&quot; is a classic.<br />
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That could start you off to program a full show.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Philippe</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I&#039;ve thought about an all-instrumental show. Thanks. (Any other suggestions/requests are welcome.)]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Delvin</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ That track off the Urgh soundtrack was my introduction.  <br />
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But seeing the  ‘working girl’ video on early MTV was what endeared them to me.  Their albums were always worth a spin.  <br />
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That’s IT.  NO MORE obits for 2022 hopefully!?!]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Bip</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Sad to hear. I always had The Members pencilled in on my &quot;investigate later&quot; list and later never happened. For no good reason.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Post-Punk Monk</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Loved the <i>At the Chelsea Nightclub</i> lp - which I got as a cut-out, confirming that its sale numbers must have been disappointing. They were also on the <i>Urgh - A Music War</i> soundtrack, playing  &quot;Offshore Banking Business&quot;, but their greatest song must be &quot;Solitary Confinement&quot;, a wonderful teenage anthem.<br />
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For Delvin, if you ever get around to putting together a show of instrumental numbers, &quot;Electricity&quot;, the lead track from Chelsea Nightclub, is a great one.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Philippe</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Great band that never got much traction in America.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ira</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Awww, how sad ... I got to meet Nicky when we did lights for The Members on their last U.S. tour with him. Good guy ... and a frontman who really knew how to rouse an audience, even on a weeknight in a one-horse town. Rest in peace, Leningrad Cowboy.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Delvin</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 03:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title>R.I.P. Nicky Tesco</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Vocalist of the Members.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>breno</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 20:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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