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Crucial Vinyl - The Slits

The Don selects the Slits' 1979 debut album Cut as his Crucial Vinyl, an album that has shaped his musical taste.

Each week Don selects a piece of Crucial Vinyl (an album that has shaped his musical taste and helped make him who he is). He features three tracks from it and explains why it means so much to him. This week he picks Cut, the 1979 release by the Slits.

Don says, "The debut album from last of the first wave UK punk rockers to get signed up. Sonically, this was really the first 'post punk' record. It mixed reggae bass lines with avant-garde jazz and a dash of old school punk rock. It wasn't bound by the musical cliches that defined so many of the other bands of the time, and consequently, to this very day, it has its own distinct sound and identity.".

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Last on

Sun 7 Dec 2014 22:00

Music Played

  • AM & Shawn Lee

    Winter Sun

    • Celestial Electric.
    • Eighteenth Street Lounge Music.
  • Burt Bacharach

    Trains and Boats and Planes

    • The Best Of.
    • A&M.
  • Boxed In

    Foot Of The Hill

  • A Certain Ratio

    Sommadub

    • To Each....
    • Universal Sound.
    • 11.
  • Cristobal and The Sea

    Violet Tear

    • Peach Bells EP.
    • City Slang.
    • 3.
  • Cult With No Name

    Not So Big In Japan

    • Another Landing.
    • Darla/Cwnn Music.
  • Dubmatix

    Detonator

    • Detonator (single).
    • Soulbeats / Renegade Media.
  • Ebony Bones!

    Bread & Circus

    • Behold, A Pale Horse.
    • 1984.
    • 9.
  • Faces

    Cindy Incidentally

    • Debutante.
  • Gavin Bryars / Tom Waits

    Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet

    • Point Music ‎.
  • Herbie Hancock

    Chameleon

    • Head Hunters.
    • CBS.
    • 1.
  • Lee Perry vs. Robo Bass vs. Dubblestandart

    Island Girl

    • Nu School Of Planet Dub.
    • Echo Beach.
    • 9.
  • Little Sister

    You're The One Part 1 & 2

    • You're The One (Parts I & II) (single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Theophilus London

    Smoke Dancehall

    • Vibes.
    • Warner Bros..
    • 10.
  • Los Teen Agers

    Goza Mi Tamborera

    • Nuevo Ambiente!.
    • Discos Fuentes.
    • 3.
  • Willy Mason

    Restless Fugitive

    • Carry On.
    • Fiction Records.
  • My Bloody Valentine

    Instrumental No. 2

    • EPs 1988-1991.
    • Sony.
    • 5.
  • Ben Ottewell

    Rattlebag

    • Rattlebag.
    • Sunday Best.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Brown Sugar

    • Single - Rolling Stones RS 19100.
  • Samaris

    Tibra

    • One Little Indian.
  • Silk Rhodes

    Pains

    • Stones Throw.
  • The Slits

    Spend, Spend, Spend

    • Cut.
    • Island Records.
    • 3.
  • The Slits

    Instant Hit

    • Cut.
    • Island Records.
    • 1.
  • The Slits

    Typical Girls

    • CUT.
    • Island.
  • The Specials

    Do Nothing

    • EMI.
  • Taken by Trees

    I Want You

    • Other Worlds.
    • Secretly Canadian.
  • John Turrell

    Day In Day Out

    • The Kingmaker.
    • Jalapeno Records.
  • Yes King

    Devil Inside

    • Re-Record...Not Fade Away.
    • BBE.
    • 3.
  • Zervas & Pepper

    We Are One

    • Promo CD.
    • Zerodeo Records.
    • 001.

Broadcast

  • Sun 7 Dec 2014 22:00