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Friday, April 4, 2025
 

Wake

Wake

A collection of songs and stramash-ups from James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' gleaned mainly from the podcast 'Wake' and the One Goat Theatre Company production.'.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Finnegan's Wake
2. Wake Me Up Before You Goan
3. The Ballad Of Persse O'Riley
4. Thunderwords
5. Tip It!
6. Denti Alligator
7. Thunderslog
8. Cunstuntonoplies
9. Wake It Off
10.Respectable
11.Suck It Yourself, Sugarstick!
12.Wake That

Stream and download here: Wake

posted by Fat Boab @ 10.00 AM Friday, April 4, 2025

Thursday, March 6, 2025
 

Daily Reckless Silver Jubilee

Daily Reckless Silver Jubilee

To celebrate the silver jubilee of the Daily Reckless, here's 25 songs from the archives featuring Tommy Mackay, The Plagiarist, They Might Be Gannets, The Sensational Alex Salmond Gastric Band, Throbbing Thistle, Half Bam Half Whisky, Jean Paul Saltire and Thick Lizzy. Includes guest appearances from Brian Cox, Armando Iannucci, Liz Truss and Taylor Swift.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Sympathy For The Reckless
2. Joss (The Pottery Man)
3. 666 Great Junction Street
4. Please Pass The Milk Please
5. Bannockburning
6. Strange Behaviour
7. Jocko Euro
8. The Boy Fae Auchtermuchty
9. Manhattan Coat
10.It's Mustard, Richard. Mustard!
11.Shoplifting Girl
12.Halloween In Glasgow
13.All The Auld Punks
14.Positively Forth Bridge
15.Unelectable
16.Existence
17.The Sensational Alex Salmond Band (in Russian)
18.Laughtivism
19.Staying In For The Summer
20.Oh Fuck It's Ian Brown
21.The Decline And Fall Of Liz Truss
22.I Can't Go On, I'll Go On
23.Cabaret Voltaylor
24.The Mind's Ay Cradled Whan The Grave Is Near
25.Inconvenient Showbiz Brother In Law

Stream and download here: Daily Reckless Silver Jubilee

posted by Fat Boab @ 09.00 AM Thursday, March 6, 2025

Friday, February 28, 2025
 

Reckless Foul

Reckless Foul

The latest collection of Fall related stramash-ups from the anals of the Daily Reckless

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Mark E Smith's Cat
2. MES Guide To Fine Dining Guide
3. The Littlest Wild Rebel
4. Finnegans Fall
5. Casper
6. Hau Das Ding Nach Vorne
7. I'm Going To Spain (2-1 mix)
8. Albert Camus
9. Go Ho Ho
10.RIP Steve Albini
11.No Access To Launderettes
12.Totally Wyatt
13.Anti Fascist Medley

Stream and download here: Reckless Foul

posted by Fat Boab @ 09.00 AM Friday, February 28, 2025

Friday, December 27, 2024
 

Best Of The Daily Reckless 2024

Best Of The Daily Reckless 2024

Just some of the best bits from the Daily Reckless 2024

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Johnny Nobody
2. Beat You, Cock
3. Daddy Was A Toolmaker
4. There's A Shark
5. Doing!
6. Double Cunting
7. Falling Out Of Love With Football Again
8. Schmeider Sappi
9. We Haven't Got A Sausage
10.Woodwerk
11.Insane Asylums
12.I Want What Can Be
13.Manchild (Dross remix)
14.Panic Guru

Stream and download here: Best Of The Daily Reckless 2024

posted by Fat Boab @ 12.27 PM Friday, December 27, 2024

Thursday, November 28, 2024
 

Derek And Clive And David Live

Derek And Clive And David Live

Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and David Bowie combined. Live!

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. The Worst 1984 I Ever Heard
2. This Rebel Came Up To Me
3. The Worst Daydream He Ever Had
4. Sweet Thing And The Ant
5. Changes In The Lav
6. Suffragette Wanky
7. Aladdin Duddley
8. All The Young Duddleys
9. Blind Top Rank Actor
10. Cancer Jump Suicide

Stream and download here: Derek And Clive And David Live

posted by Fat Boab @ 08.58 AM Thursday, November 28, 2024

Friday, November 15, 2024
 

Let's Blanche

Let's Blanche

Another top notch album by Half Bam Half Whisky culled from the pages of the Daily Reckless .

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Still Cheers
2. Rum Punch, Whisky, Nicotine And Glue
3. Quell Those Celebrations
4. Drop It Like Clem
5. Destroy Everything, Reeves
6. Let's Blanche
7. Petrification
8. He Never Saw A GPS
9. Double Cheeked Up On A Thursday Afternoon
10. Dynamic Pricing
11. Eggsistentialism In Lancaster
12. Thunderwords

Stream and download here: Let's Blanche

posted by Fat Boab @ 09.55 AM Friday, November 15, 2024

Friday, November 1, 2024
 

Hugh

Hugh

Inspired by Momus's 'The Book Of Scotlands' this is Scotland 76 -The mist-filled Scotland in which people chant Hugh MacDiarmid poems over Side Two of David Bowie's Low .

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Wha's Awa
2. Mac Diarmid
3. Greetin Wall
4. Scotterraneans

Stream and download here: Hugh

posted by Fat Boab @ 09.05 AM Friday, November 1, 2024

Friday, October 25, 2024
 

Musk

Musk

An E.P. of Daily Reckless songs about Elon Musk.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Musk
2. Skipping Like A Dipshit
3. The Age Of Absurdity
4. Totally Weird
5. Comedy
6. We Are Bereft

Stream and download here: Musk

posted by Fat Boab @ 10.05 AM Friday, October 25, 2024

Friday, September 20, 2024
 

Auld Reikie

Auld Reikie

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of his death - an album of Robert Fergusson's epic poem about Edinburgh.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Wale O Ilka Town
2. Edina's Roses
3. Luckenbooths
4. Now, Night
5. The Bruiser
6. Pandemonium's Shade
7. Life's Spunk Decay'd Nae Mair Can Blaze
8. Nature - Canty, Blythe And Free
9. On Sunday
10. Arthur's Seat
11. The Abbey Lairds
12. Bribes Latent And Corruption Dark
13. Reikie Farewel

Stream and download here: Auld Reikie

posted by Fat Boab @ 10.15 AM Friday, September 20, 2024

Tuesday, September 10, 2024
 

Catterick

Catterick

The 100% Unofficial soundtrack to the Vic and Bob series, Catterick.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Quack Quink Oink Ink
2. Spock's Beard
3. Working On It
4. DI Fowler
5. Kinky Boots
6. Monkey Man
7. Tupperware
8. Judy Teen At War
9. Satan Love
10. A Different Apple
11. Sire Of Sorrow
12. Miss You
13. Hot On The Heels
14. Only My Soul

Stream and download here: Catterick

posted by Fat Boab @ 10.25 AM Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Friday, August 23, 2024
 

Sensual Interfacing

Sensual Interfacing

The Blues Brothers of Tomorrow's World come together for an imaginary re-imagining of pop. Moogtastic.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Brown Sugar
2. Whole Lotta Love
3. Strutter
4. Je T'Aime
5. Lay Lady Lay
6. Tomorrow's World
7. LSD
8. Popcorn Gig Joe

Stream and download here: Sensual Interfacing

posted by Fat Boab @ 10.36 AM Friday, August 23, 2024

Thursday, August 15, 2024
 

Finnegans Dreams

Finnegans Dreams

The Ramones meet James Joyce in this unique hybrid of Finnegans Wake and Pleasant Dreams

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Here Comes Everybody
2. All Is Quiet
3. Persse O'Reilly Took My Baby Away
4. Don't Go Earwicker
5. You Sound Like You're Thick Rhinoskin
6. It's Not My Patience
7. She's Hopeinhaven
8. Shem Sham 11
9. You Don't Mean Anything
10. Come On Speagle Eye
11. This Business
12. Anna Livia Plurabelle In My Room

Stream and download here: Finnegans Dreams

posted by Fat Boab @ 14.31 PM Saturday, August 17, 2024

Monday, July 29, 2024
 

Awful Knawful

Awkward Knawkward

Half Bam Half Whisky moving away from the algorhythm with more top tunes from the Daily Reckless

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. VIP Taylor Swift Seats
2. The Giving Of Fucks
3. Anyone Can Eno
4. Garth Gravy
5. Haunted By The Ghost Of An Edwardian Zebra
6. Hear Emily Play
7. Politics Of Optics
8. Hurry Up Harris
9. Midgie Midgie
10. Hygge
11. Pulling Down The Shorts Of Marty
12. Inside Revolution No.9

Stream and download here: Awful Knawful

posted by Fat Boab @ 12.29 PM Monday, July 29, 2024

Monday, June 3, 2024
 

Hauners

Hauners

Half Bam Half Whisky with another collection of bangers and stramash-ups as featured in the Daily Reckless

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Freaks, Non Freaks And Freak Enablers
2. 9 Quid For 2
3. Some Day A Real Rain Will Come
4. Shot In The Back Of The Head
5. Spaghetti And Meatballs, Big Banana, Two Potatoes
6. David Hume's Toes
7. Phoresy
8. Precious Jewish Space Lasers
9. Henry And The Psychopathic Horse
10. Dreamy Sleepy Nighty Snoozy Snooze
11. Gaudy Dubai Bar
12. Honk Of The Hive
13. Looking Forward To All The Football

Stream and download here: Hauners

posted by Fat Boab @ 14.45 PM Monday, June 3, 2024

Friday, May 10, 2024
 

Falls

Falls

Every ex member of The Fall commemorated in a mix up with the Peter Greenaway film The Falls.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Orchard Falla
2. Melorder Fallaburr
3. Appis (Arris) Fallabus
4. Constance Ortuist Fallaburr
5. Agrendo Fallbazz
6. Arris Fallacie
7. Pandist Fallaspy
8. Agropio Fallaver
9. Mashanter Fallack
10. Carlos Fallantly
11. David Fallcash
12. Musicus Fallantly
13. Ipson Fallari
14. Pulat Fallari
15. Standard Fallaby
16. Tasida Fallaby
17. Wrallis Fallanway
18. Casternam Fallast
19. Aptesia Fallarme
20. Cisgatten Fallbazz
21. Hasp Fallbaez
22. Vyanine Fallapsy
23. Squaline Fallaize
24. Acataloope Fallbus
25. Cole Fallbird
26. Bird Gaspara Fallicutt
27. Loosely Fallbute
28. Cash Fallbaez
29. Vacete Fallbutus
30. Orian Fallcaster
31. Rascado Fallcastle
32. Appropinquo Fallcatti
33. Agrimany Fallchester
34. Obsian Fallicut
35. Ashile Fallco
36. Afracious Fallows
37. Pollie Fallory
38. Hearty Fallparco
39. Crasstranger Fallqueue
40. Armeror Fallstag
41. Tollay Falluger
42. Vassian Falluger
43. Erhaus Bewler Falluper
44. Starling Fallanx
45. Grastled Fallusson
46. Castral Fallvernon
47. Leasting Fallvo
48. Anthior Fallwaste

Stream and download here: Falls

posted by Fat Boab @ 12.25 PM Friday, May 10, 2024

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
 

Idle Fancies

Idle Fancies

An EP commemorating the 250th anniversary of Robert Fergusson's death.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Robert Fergusson
2. The Mind's Ay Cradled Whan The Grave Is Near
3. The Daft Days
4. Braid Claith

Stream and download here: Idle Fancies

posted by Fat Boab @ 11.30 AM Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Friday, April 5, 2024
 

It's A Crazy Mixed Up World

It's A Crazy Mixed Up World

More sensational stramash-ups from the Daily Reckless.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Sniggers With Attitude
2. Wonkas
3. French People
4. Hello Little Baby
5. I Could Be In Your Heart
6. Pauline - The Girl U Want
7. I Must Go Punch That Baby
8. Help Ma Boab (Soul mix)
9. When The Balloon Goes Up
10. Wishful Beginners
11. You Bet
12. Apache Foxhole

Stream and download here: It's A Crazy Mixed Up World

posted by Fat Boab @ 13.00 PM Friday, April 5, 2024

Wednesday, March 20, 2024
 

The Turquoise Album

The Turquoise Album

Joni Mitchell's Blue album mixed with REM's Green album to produce Turquoise.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Pop Song I Want
2. Get Up My Old Man
3. Little Green Everything
4. Stand Carey
5. Blue World Leader
6. The Wrong California
7. This Flight Crush
8. Turn The River Inside Out
9. A Case Of Hairshirt
10. The Last Time I Saw California
11. I Remember Untitled Richard

Stream and download here: The Turquoise Album

posted by Fat Boab @ 09.00 AM Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Wednesday, March 13, 2024
 

Entrances Uncovered

Entrances Uncovered

The Wu Tang Clan and The Fall meet William Blake in UnLondon, UnNew York and UnManchester.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Entrances Uncovered
2. Marks Of Woe
3. Golgonooza
4. This Hideous Replica
5. Ooh! Rev Ain't Right!
6. Heaven And Hell Exist Within (Last Commands)
7. New Jerusalem
8. Song Of Liberty
9. Beneath The Surface
10. Endgame

Stream and download here: Entrances Uncovered

posted by Fat Boab @ 09.18 AM Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Friday, March 1, 2024
 

C'mon My Bus

Cmon My Bus

On The Buses collides with the Sparks album Kimono My House.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. This Depot Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us
2. I Hate You Butler
3. Falling In Love On The Buses
4. Here In Luxton
5. On Duty At Christmas
6. Hasta Manana Arthur
7. Olive Is An Asset
8. Customer Complaints
9. In The Family
10. Grim Reaper

Stream and download here: C'mon My Bus

posted by Fat Boab @ 09.28 AM Friday, March 1, 2024

Thursday, February 15, 2024
 

The Lion, The Witch and the Wu-Tang Clan

The Lion, The Witch and the Wu-Tang Clan

Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) mixed with The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. Bring Da Blitz
2. Shame on a Fawn
3. Edmund Front
4. Arrival Of The Brothers
5. Can It Be Peter vs The Wolves?
6. Chess Boxing Aslan
7. Aslan's Death Ain't Nothing To Fuck With
8. Cream Battle
9. Method Man (Battle Pt.2)
10. Protect Ya Neck (Battle Pt.3)
11. Magnificent Tearz
12. Aslan Kills The White Witch

Stream and download here: The Lion, The Witch and the Wu-Tang Clan

posted by Fat Boab @ 12.10 PM Thursday, February 15, 2024

Tuesday, January 9, 2024
 

New Years

New Years

Every January since 2013, the Daily Reckless has composed a song for the year ahead. Here they all are so far.

 

 

 

 

 

Track listing:

1. 2013
2. 2014
3. 2015
4. 2016
5. 2017
6. 2018
7. 2019
8. 2020
9. 2021
10. 2022
11. 2023
12. 2024
13. Bonus track - 2016 R.I.P.

Stream and download here: New Years

posted by Fat Boab @ 12.10 PM Tuesday, January 9, 2024

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