ALTROK Ordinals 1

Records that should be on alternative radio but will most likely not be:

Echo & The Bunnymen - Flowers
Placebo - Black Market Music
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Spain - I Believe

New record you should buy solely on principle, except that it's wonderful and twisted:

Kirsty MacColl - Tropical Brainstorm
(Latin rhythm, British wit - with an unintended irony considering the location of the accident that claimed MacColl.)

New records from people that "alternative" music fans should already know about:

Glen Phillips - Abulum (ex-Toad The Wet Sproket singer)
Jon Auer - 6 1/2 (from the Posies)
Jim's Super Stereoworld - same (ex-Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine)
Monaco - same [import] (ex-Smiths Johnny Marr & New Order's Bernard Sumner)
The Healers - "The Last Ride" single [import] (Johnny Marr again)
Mark Mulcahy - SmileSunset (ex-Miracle Legion singer)
Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue (ex-Throwing Muses singer)
Mark Eitzel - The Invisible Man (ex-American Music Club singer)
Bellvue - To Be Somebody (ex-D Generation singer)

New record nobody in their right mind should buy, so that makes it perfect for you:

Luther Wright And The Wrongs - Luther Wright And The Wrongs Rebuild The Wall
(country version of Pink Floyd's "The Wall", performed in its entirety with steel guitars, banjo, and the like. You'll want to hear all of it, but for only five minutes at a time.)

(This week's Ordinals courtesy Jeff Raspe and Sean Carolan)