A collection of beautiful, beautiful music selected by Jarvis Cocker for his Sunday Service show on 6 Music…

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Carries On
Elvis Presley - Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Gillian Welch - Elvis Presley Blues
Sir John Betjeman - The Licorice Fields At Pontefract
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Home
Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever
Hidrogenesse - Caballos Y Ponis
The Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain
The Doors - Indian Summer - New Stereo Mix Advanced Resolution
Antony & The Johnsons - Crazy In Love
Johnny Wakelin - In Zaire
The Hours - Ali In The Jungle
The Strange Boys - Be Brave
The Velvet Underground - The Gift
Richard Hawley - As The Dawn Breaks
John Cooper Clarke, Paul Burgess, Stephen Hopkins, Richard Derbyshire, Martin Hannett, Steve Williams, Trevor Spencer - The Ghost Of Al Capone
Eartha Kitt - The Blues
Baxter Dury - Floor Show
Scott Walker - Prologue
Scott Walker - Little Things (That Keep Us Together)
Neil Diamond - Walk On Water
Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
Lopazz - Mittags um 2.00
Mirror Mirror - New Horizons
Ray Stevens - Misty
The Specials - Man At C&A
Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem Pour Un C… - BOF Le Pacha
Alice Coltrane - Ganesha
Le Corps Mince de Françoise - Something Golden - Original
Frederic Chopin - Prelude In E Minor Op.28/4
Jane Birkin, Mickey 3d - Je M’appelle Jane
Gonzales - Gogol - Instrumental
Pixies - Velouria
Santana - Oye Como Va - Album Verision
Kate McGarrigle, Anna McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright - Winter Lady
David Bowie - Andy Warhol
United States Of America - Cloud Song
Don Fardon - Indian Reservation
Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary
Erland And The Carnival - Disturbed This Morning
Gil Scott-Heron - Me And The Devil
Eels - Nowadays
Scott Walker - Time Operator
Iggy & The Stooges - Penetration
Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Lee Perry - Return Of The Super Ape
Generation X - Wild Dub
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - Bugs & Flowers
Various Artists, The Raveonettes - Free To Walk
Francine Kay - Gymnopedie No 3 (Satie)
Cast Of ‘Oliver’ - Who Will Buy This Wonderful Morning (From ‘Oliver’)
Orange Juice - Blue Boy
The White Stripes - Jolene (Live)
Alejandro Jodorowsky - Entierro Del Primer Juguete (Burial of the First Toy)
Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People
Sandie Shaw - Reviewing The Situation
Joni Mitchell - A Strange Boy
Supergrass - Coffee In The Pot
Black Arabs - Black Arabs
Dr. Feelgood - Roxette
Gil Scott-Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit
Mathew Sawyer And The Ghosts - The Bully Died
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Wild Roses
Richard Hawley - Valentine
David Bowie - Be My Wife
Sebadoh - Kath
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Tim Buckley - Hong Kong Bar
Cass McCombs, Karen Black - Dreams-Come-True-Girl
Neil Young - Will To Love - Remastered Album Version
Daryl Hall & John Oates - When The Morning Comes
David Crosby - Song With No Words
McGough & McGear - From Frink, A Life In The Day Of And Summer With Monika Prologue/Introducing Moanin’/Anji (Medley)
The Velvet Underground - Some Kinda Love
Tom Waits - Please Call Me, Baby
Tim Hardin - Misty Roses
Magnet - Willow’s Song
Bob Dylan - Corrina, Corrina
The 13th Floor Elevators - Livin’ On - Original
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
Love - Orange Skies
McAlmont and Nyman - In Rai Don Giovanni
Gil Scott-Heron - Me And The Devil (NYC Orchestral Version)
Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
Talking Heads - Heaven - Remastered LP Version
Bob Dylan - Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door - from the MGM film, Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
The Stranglers - Goodbye Toulouse
Moscow Symphony Orchestra, William T. Stromberg, John Morgan, Frank Skinner - Son Of Frankenstein : Main Title
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream (Single Edit)
Trevor Moss, Hannah-Lou - Allotment Song
The Del-Vetts - Last Time Around
The Fall - Edinburgh Man
Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend
Primal Scream - Trainspotting
The Big Pink - Love In Vain
Shane Macgowan, Bobby Gillespie, Mick Jones, Nick Cave, Johnny Depp, Paloma Faith, Eliza Doolittle, Chrissie Hynde - I Put A Spell On You - Radio Edit
The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home - Stereo Version
Psychic TV - Just Drifting
The Cure - Killing An Arab
The Poets - That’s The Way It’s Got To Be
The Associates - The Affectionate Punch - Original Version
Paul Haig - Love Eternal
Charles Spearin - Ondine
Eden Ahbez - Full Moon
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Hammer Song
The Incredible String Band - First Girl I Loved
The Jesus And Mary Chain - About You
Treorchy Male Voice Choir - Radio Ga Ga
Cat Power - The Greatest
Special AKA - Racist Friend
The 13th Floor Elevators - May The Circle Remain Unbroken
Ananda Shankar - Snow Flower
The Electric Prunes - Kyrie Eleison
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Artery - Into The Garden
The Human League - WXJL Tonight
White Noise - Firebird
Withered Hand - Providence
Townes Van Zandt - For The Sake Of The Song - Original
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
The Intruders - I’ll Always Love My Mama
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Jake Thackray - Old Molly Metcalfe
Philip Glass - Bed, Cadenza
Betty Noyes - Baby Mine
Clare & The Reasons - All The Wine
Can - Mother Sky
Prince - The Cross
Gorillaz - Cloud of Unknowing (Feat. Bobby Womack and sinfonia ViVA)
Cass McCombs - Equinox
The House Of Love - Beatles And Stones
Billy Green - Death Trip
Chris Spedding - Motorbikin’
Johnny Cash - Ain’t No Grave
Bonzo Dog Band - Slush
Rudy Ventura - YAMASUKI
Artery - One Afternoon In a Hot Air Balloon
Mull Historical Society - Barcode Bypass
Rotary Connection, Minnie Riperton - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun
Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
Jurassic 5 - CONCRETE SCHOOLYARD
Curtis Mayfield - Freddie’s Dead
Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time
Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good
Serafina Steer - Day Glo
MGMT - Flash Delirium
Barry Adamson - The Man With The Golden Arm
Alex Chilton - Hey! Little Child
The Cramps - Fever
Martha Wainwright - Year Of The Dragon - Acoustic
Grizzly Bear - Service Bell
Gabor Szabo - Three King Fishers
Pavement - …And Carrot Rope
Dionne Warwick - The April Fools
The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
Pumajaw - Horseshoe Nail
Marlena Shaw - Woman Of The Ghetto
Jake Thackray - The Poor Sod
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Star Spangled Banner - Live At Woodstock
Dion - Abraham, Martin And John
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Mr. Brown
Tindersticks - My Sister
The 13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House (Single Edit
CocoRosie - Trinity’s Crying
Sam The Sham, The Pharaohs - Wooly Bully
Harlem - Someday Soon
Johnny Harris - Give Peace A Chance
The Animated Egg - Sock It My Way
The Electric Prunes - Holy Are You
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Dory Previn - The Lady With The Braid
Serafina Steer - Margoton
The Rattles - The Witch
Malcolm McLaren - You Need Hands
Bo Diddley - Elephant Man
Rufus Wainwright - Sonnet 20
Kronos Quartet, Linda Ronstadt, Philip Glass Ensemble - Forgetting - Vocal
Pram - Cinnabar
Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Aria
Nouvelle Vague - Guns Of Brixton
Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
Laura Marling - Made By Maid
MGMT - Someone’s Missing
Arthur Lyman - Kon Tiki
Serena-Maneesh - Magdalena (Symphony #8)
Howlin’ Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
Echo And The Bunnymen - Silver
Sarah Vaughan - My Favourite Things
Señor Coconut - The Robots
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band - Cherchez La Femme / Se Si Bon
Quasi - Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouller
Richard Hawley - Remorse Code
Fats Waller - I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
Jack Nitzsche - The Lonely Surfer
Buddy Holly - Everyday
Johnny Horton - Lover’s Rock
Duane Eddy - The House Of The Rising Sun
Ian Dury - Sweet Gene Vincent
John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street
Sergei Prokofiev - ‘Montagues And Capulets’ from ‘Romeo And Juliet
The Beach Boys - Sail On, Sailor
Ramones - Baby, I Love You
The Cullivoe Band - Shetland Reels - Medley
Little Walter - That’s It
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd. Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself
The Chills - Pink Frost
The Crookes - Bloodshot Days
The Mills Brothers - Paper Doll
Randy Newman - You’ve Got A Friend In Me
The Cuckoo Clocks - Mum’s on Coke
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Bob Landers - Cherokee Dance
Harry J Allstars - The Liquidator
Big Mama Thornton - Wade In The Water
Andrea Ross - White Horses (Theme To ‘The White Horses’)
David Wiffen - One Step
Sigur Ros - Staralfur
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
Engelbert Humperdinck - Ten Guitars
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - I Do, Don’t You
The Rolling Stones - I Just Want To See His Face
Magnet - Maypole
Jah Wobble, The Nippon Dub Ensemble - Shinto Dub
Monty Python - Brian Song
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
John Cale - Paris 1919
The Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy
Link Wray - God Out West
Suicide - Shadazz
Iggy & The Stooges - Gimme Danger
The Stranglers - Hanging Around
Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
Iggy Pop - A Machine For Loving
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog - Remastered LP Version
The Jud Conlon Chorus - The Second Star To The Right
Solex, Jon Spencer, Cristina Martinez - R Is For Ring-A-Ding
Albert Finney - Those Other Men - Single Version
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Art Garfunkel - Waters Of March
Dick Dale - Hava Nagila
Fergus & Geronimo - Powerful Lovin’
Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
The Starlets - You Don’t Love Me
Sweet - Blockbuster
Liberace - Moonlight Sonata
Burt Bacharach - South American Getaway - Butch Cassidy/Soundtrack Version
Air - Playground Love (With Gordon Tracks)
Deerhoof - Whither The Invisible Birds?
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Mickey’s Monkey
Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit Hurts
Billy Cobham - Spanish Moss - A Sound Portrait: Spanish Moss
Lena Horn - Stormy Weather
Scott Walker - The War Is Over (Sleepers - Epilogue)
Stephen Emmer, Ken Nordine - Absolutely Grey
Julie Andrews, Martyn Green, Julius Baker, Moondog - Favourite Nursery Rhymes
The Velvelettes - Needle In A Haystack
The Rolling Stones - Out Of Time
10cc - Art For Art’s Sake
Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie And Clyde
Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely
Ariel Pink - Helen
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
The Sleepy Jackson - Good Dancers
Radiosonde - Hot On The Heels Of Love
Sigur Ros - Avalon
MGMT - Congratulations
John D. Loudermilk - The Little Bird
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World - MTV Unplugged
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Nashville Blues
The B-52’s - Lava
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through The Jungle
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
The Rolling Stones - Lady Jane - Stereo Version
Roky Erickson, Okkervil River - Devotional Number One
Mel Blanc - I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat
Mekons - Where Were You?
The Crystals, Barbara Alston - He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)
Doctor Zhivago O.S.T. feat. MGM Studio Orchestra - Lara’s Theme
The Byrds - Ballad Of Easy Rider (From the Columbia Motion Picture “Easy Rider”)
Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Fu Man Chu
Devendra Banhart - Baby
Dillard & Clark - Polly
Lawrence Arabia - Dream Teacher

HOW many ironies do you see in this photo?
The girl who cannot be seen but who is eager to capture the spirit – and the detail – of the world around her in photo form.
The concentration on the eyes, because that is all her Muslim dress allows on show. The eagerness of those eyes to see – and, who knows, perhaps to be seen as well?
Given the Qur’an’s ban on figurative art, both could be seen as contradictory to her dress code.
Mohamed objected not just to representations of the human body, but to pictures of any kind.
Or that, at least, is a long-held interpretation. Just as the code that causes this girl to cover up in public is an interpretation of his medieval views.
But she doesn’t seem to object to being caught on film herself by my friend Christos. A Greek holidaying in Turkey, which may almost seem to be some sort of irony in itself.
The shot was taken in Istanbul, where both Chris and the unknown girl were apparently tourists, both wielding their respective lenses.
But a mobile phone and the modest hijab? Isn’t the greatest irony here the clash of ancient and modern?
Not really. Because both are in fact modern fads – at least away from the Arab world, where covering the face with a scarf is a time-honoured custom. Surely as much to keep out a dusty wind as to follow Mohamed’s instruction for women to dress demurely in public.
Away from parts of north Africa and the Middle East, this mode of dress is a recent development. An invented tradition.
While it’s become fairly commonplace on the streets of London and some other British cities, it hasn’t caused the furore here that it has in France.
The French government has banned the wearing of veils in school, causing an outcry among those who see the move as racist or anti-Muslim.
I don’t think it’s really either of those things. In fact, it’s one of the few things the present French regime has done that I support.
Another contact of mine, Suzanne, is an Englishwoman in France, where she married in the 1960s. Both her sons have Muslim wives, so she has more personal insight than I have.
She says: “The present veils of the hijab type are not traditional veils to most Muslims in France, even less so the full veils.
“Most Arab women here do not approve of this tradition. They see it as an insult to their human rights.
“Fundamentalist Muslim groups have gained in importance in France as elsewhere, although they are still only a minority.
“They have influenced young Arab men here who are frustrated by lack of work and the lack of consideration they perceive. These young men are obliging the women in their families and in their neighbourhoods to cover their hair.
“We see the veil as an instrument of oppression rather than a ‘custom’ or a religious prerogative.”
Like Suzanne, I worry that a rise in religious fanaticism is hampering efforts in many countries to break down barriers between people.
But is the girl in Chris Lamprianidis’s excellent photo a victim of oppression? She looks (as far as one can see) fairly happy and free.
But if dressing as she does is her choice, is she inadvertently guilty of assisting in the repression of other women?
In a similar way, perhaps, to that in which some women choose to engage in pornography or take part in suggestive pop videos.
They might not consider themselves to be exploited. But are they contributing to a general exploitative attitude towards women?
To liken a girl with everything covered but her eyes and hands to a Lady Gaga or a top-shelf model might seem far-fetched.
But they are really more alike than you or they might suppose.
Now, isn’t that ironic?


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FIRST the good news. Proposed massive changes in BBC budgeting include a £25million boost to BBC Two, which will be allowed to move back upmarket.
And even more good news. This will be funded by a 25 per cent reduction in the Beeb’s £100m budget for buying in foreign (i.e. American) shows.
The justification for paying out our licence money to commercial US corporations has always been weak. With plenty of commercial channels in that market, I’d be happy with a 100pc cut in that part of the BBC budget.
Especially if it meant more investment here.
Not in paying celebrity wages to a handful of supposed “talents”. But in reversing the trend for dumbing down documentaries to suit an audience with the attention span of a goldfish and the intellect of a Big Brother contestant.
And in giving proper promotion and a non-digital wavelength to 6 Music – an important outlet for new and innovative bands and almost the only ad-free station where you can hear non-classical music for grown-ups.
Ah, there’s the bad news. Along with the Asian Network, BBC Switch and Blast!, 6 Music is facing the axe.