Episode 35, the antepenultimate swan song, consisting of 42 songs FULLY MIXED in the podcast above, or on Apple Podcasts.
This episode’s highlighted track: Track 8
Baxter Dury & JGrrey - Allbarone*
London-born Baxter Dury has long specialized in a peculiar strain of louche, half-sung storytelling—perfecting the art of sounding simultaneously blasé while deeply wounded, like someone narrating his own downfall with a smirk. And while the soulless UK pub chain All Bar One is usually the domain of team-building send-offs, coworker birthday rounds, and awkward blind dates, its sterile, Venti latte-adjacent cocktails make the perfect backdrop for Dury’s vision: a drunken mess slumped on the sidewalk outside, wondering how the night went sideways. Occupying space between sleaze and sophistication, somewhere on the spectrum between Serge Gainsbourg’s smoky cabaret drawl and John Cooper Clarke’s acerbic street poetry, “Allbarone,” is Baxter at his most mordant: clipped, sardonic vocals narrating brittle egos and dimly lit escapades. Paul Epworth’s lean, hypnotic production lends a disco buoyancy that contrasts Dury’s narrative detachment while JGrrey’s ghostly turn as the absent date provides the song’s catchy hook, her teasing restraint underscoring his desolate humor. “Allbarone” works as both elegy and satire: proof that All Bar One isn’t where good nights happen—it’s where they go to die.
The setlist:
Artist / Song Name / Album / Year
Jordache Commercial / 1980’s
Total Control / Flesh War / Typical System / 2014
Bill Wyman / (Si, Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star / Bill Wyman / 1982
HERO / Rot in Pieces / Cry Baby - EP / 2019
Captain Sensible / Wot / Wot! / 1982
Proper Monday Number / High horse (DFA DJ Edit) / High horse / 2025
Kasabian / Reason Is Treason / Kasabian / 2004
*Baxter Dury & JGrrey / Allbarone / Allbarone / 2025
Mantronix / Needle To the Groove / The Album / 1985
Daphni / Xing Tian / Joli Mai / 2017
Loaded Honey / Lessons / Love Made Trees / 2025
Harvey Mason / Groovin' You / Groovin' You / 1979
INXS / Don't Change / Shabooh Shoobah / 1982
The Shacks / Trip To Japan / Big Crown Vaults Vol. 2 / 2021
Bahamadia / Uknowhowwedu / Kollage / 1996
Nick Hakim / Bet She Looks Like You / Green Twins / 2017
Air / Talisman (Vegyn Version) / Blue Moon Safari / 2024
Belle and Sebastian / I Fought In a War / Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant / 2000
Sweet Tee & Jazzy Joyce / It's My Beat / It's Tee Time / 1988
Hannah Cohen / Earthstar / Earthstar Mountain / 2025
Weval / The Weight / The Weight / 2019
Betty Padgett / Rocking Chair / Betty Padgett / 1975
Mike Mareen / Dancing In the Dark (Galactica Remix) / Dance Control / 1984
Company B / Fascinated / Company B / 1987
Talking Heads / City of Dreams / True Stories / 1986
The Kinks / Have a Cuppa Tea / Muswell Hillbillies / 1971
The Chemical Brothers / Wide Open (feat. Beck) / Born in the Echoes / 2015
Okay Temiz / Penguin / Drummer of Two Worlds / 1975
Quincy Jones / Summer In the City / You've Got It Bad Girl / 1973
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke / Intro / Running - Single / 2000
Paul Young / Come Back and Stay (12" Mix) / No Parlez / 1983
Anna St. Louis / Understand / If Only There Was a River / 2018
The Black Heart Procession / Blue Tears / 2 / 1999
Barbara Lewis / Windmills of Your Mind / The Many Grooves of Barbara Lewis / 1969
Kraftwerk / The Model / The Man-Machine / 1978
Todd Terje / Strandbar (Disko) / Strandbar - Single / 2013
Flight Facilities / Crave You (feat. Giselle) / Down to Earth / 2010
MorMor / Pass the Hours / Some Place Else - EP / 2018
The English Beat / Mirror in the Bathroom / I Just Can’t Stop It / 1980
Wells Fargo / Watch Out! / Watch Out! / 1977
Villagers / Everything I Am Is Yours / Darling Arithmetic / 2015
Hans Zimmer / God Yu Tekem Laef Blong Mi / The Thin Red Line (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / 1999
Bob Dylan / My Back Pages / Another Side of Bob Dylan / 1964
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