Mix Tape #92 - I Felt Like A Gringo

I did!



Side A
1. Panda & Angel - Mexico
2. Manic Hispanic - Jet Muchacho
3. In Crowd - Mango Walk
4. Part Chimp - Do You Believe in Waiting to Die?
5. Bharat Karki and Party - International Peace
6. La Coka Nostra feat. Bun B - Choose Your Side
7. Harlem - Someday Soon
8. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Mexico
9. Freddy Fender - No Estes Soñando
10. Wipers - Let's Go Away
11. Mildred Bailey - I'd Love to Take Orders from You
12. Mick Harvey - Harley Davidson
13. Tandoori Knights - Bucketful
14. DM Bob & The Deficits - Bandido Mexicano
15. Unnatural Helpers - Sunshine/Pretty Girls

Side B
1. Hoyt Axton - Mexico City Hangover
2. The Flaming Lips - One Million Billionth Of A Millisecond On A Sunday Morning
3. N.A.S.A. feat. M.I.A. - Whachadoin?
4. Cochran Brothers - Tired and Sleepy
5. ZZ Top - Goin' Down To Mexico
6. Minutemen - I Felt Like a Gringo
7. Kristin Hersh - Glass
8. Los Ovnis - El Ovni
9. Crazy Teens - Crazy Date
10. Bottomless Pit - Q.E.D.
11. Los Rockin Devils - Perro Lanudo
12. Liz Phair - Stratford-On-Guy
13. Le Sang Song - Aloha

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Mix Tape #91 - When You're Too Tense It's Common Sense to Relax-Ay-Voo

Side A
1. Carla Morrison - Lagrimas
2. Gauntlet Hair - I Was Thinking...
3. Quantic & His Combo Barbaro - Albela
4. Ghostface Killah - Ghetto
5. Datetenryu - Bukkowareta Boku
6. Arielle Dombasle - Relax-Ay-Voo
7. Marble Valley - Desert
8. Wrangler - Bongo Man
9. Swell Maps - Harmony in Your Bathroom
10. Sam Spence - World as One
11. The Shaw Singers - Since He Touched Me
12. Pretty Ricky - Mr. Goodbar
13. CCS - Sunshine of Your Love

Side B
1. Amazing Farmer Singers of Chicago - I Got a Telephone in My Bosom
2. Bokoor Band - Yeah Yeah Ku Yeah
3. Kristin Hersh - Coals
4. George Jones - Feeling Single, Seeing Double
5. E-40 - Quarterbackin'
6. Mickey Newbury - I Don't Think Much About Her No More
7. Lakal Kanaye - Soul Tamasheq
8. Le Sang Song - Hot Reggae
9. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Farmer's Market
10. Rita Indiana Y Los Misterios - Dulces Sueños
11. Glands - Livin' Was Easy

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Mix Tape #90 - I Think It's Time For Us To Have A Toast

Guys! I'm super-worried about Earl! None of that looks safe at all!



Side A
1. Modest Mouse - Shit Luck
2. Summer Babes - Crack Habit
3. 3 Hür-El - Döner Dünya
4. Earl Sweatshirt - Earl
5. Hank Locklin - Foreign Car
6. Michael Liggins - Loaded to the Gills
7. Black Lips - Not a Problem
8. Bill Gillum - Go Back to the Country
9. Clipse - Door Man
10. Armando Peraza - Mony Mony
11. Editors - Bullets
12. Blatz - I Don't Care About You
13. Quickspace - In a Field of Nymphs
14. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Fall Aside
15. The Carter Family - Are You Tired of Me, My Darling?

Side B
1. Japandroids - Crazy/Forever
2. Klark Kent - Don't Care
3. Melle Mel - Freestyle
4. Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double or Triple
5. Doc Delay - Eastern Block Party (Excerpt)
6. Killing Joke - Requiem
7. Ghostface Killah - Buck 50
8. The Ramones - I Don't Care
9. MF Doom - Get 'Er Done
10. The Horrors - Three Decades
11. Kanye West - Runaway

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Mix Tape #89 - Aw, Rats!

See, this is why I hate houses.



That Ray Stevens album is frightening.

Side A
1. Marlena Shaw - Looking Through the Eyes of Love
2. GBH - City Baby Attacked By Rats
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Interesting Results
4. Dr. Dre - Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat
5. Nirvana - Return Of The Rat
6. Zior - Every Inch a Man
7. Swell Maps - Full Moon-Blam-Full Moon
8. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Twisted
9. Sebadoh - I Smell A Rat
10. Kristin Hersh - Moan
11. Obie Trice - Hoodrats
12. Dick Kent - Rat A Tat Tat America
13. Hanson Brothers - Rink Rat
14. Le Sang Song - The One

Side B
1. Ray Stevens - Caribou Barbie
2. Melvins - The Talking Horse
3. The Beta Band - Round the Bend
4. Los Bravos - Como Supermán
5. The White Stripes - I Think I Smell A Rat
6. Black Sabbath - Rat Salad
7. Gummibär - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
8. Wylde Ratttz - Rosalyn
9. Dixie Brothers - The Intoxicated Rat
10. Paul Wall - Gimme That
11. The Fix - Rat Patrol
12. The Mountain Goats - Lab Rat Blues
13. The Mekons - Winter
14. The Gits - Snivelling Little Rat Faced Git
15. Rats Of Unusual Size - It's A Beautiful Country

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Mix Tape #88 - Honestly

I didn't end up liking what I was originally going to post and, also honestly, I kind of just want to listen to African Head Charge's "Environmental Studies" on endless repeat these days, anyway. And I know I'm not posting anything next week. So I just took my favoritest songs, made one side, and the other side is that album. You're better off that way, really.



Side A
1. Frank Black - Ten Percenter
2. Bran Flakes - Stumble Out of Bed
3. Girl Talk - Oh No
4. The Toys - Deserted
5. The Green Arrows - Towering Inferno
6. Anika - Masters Of War
7. Refused - New Noise
8. Silvery Boys - Você é de Chorar
9. Jim Pepper - Ya Na Ho
10. Chavez - Top Pocket Man
11. Vaz - They've Won
12. Retribution Gospel Choir - Bless Us All

Side B
African Head Charge - "Environmental Studies"

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Mix Tape #87 - A Disturbance

I reeeeeeeaaaalllllly like that Anika album.



Side A
1. Ella Fitzgerald - Throw Out the Lifeline
2. Soul Shakers - You Ain't My Brother
3. Kool Keith - Trees
4. Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Mean Red Spider
5. Tito Puente - Ti Mon Bo
6. Quasimoto - Jazz Cats Pt. 1
7. Jaki Byard - Shine on Me
8. Light Reflections - My Great Love
9. Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Look for the Woman
10. Roscoe Holcomb - Single Girl
11. Chavez - The Ghost by the Sea
12. Stan Kenton - El Congo Valiente

Side B
1. Love as Laughter - Dirty Lives
2. Anika - Yang Yang
3. Spank Rock - Touch Me
4. Gene Ammons - Hittin' The Jug
5. Dizzee Rascal - Road Rage
6. T.C.I. Section Crew - Track Linin'
7. Chrisma - Wanderlust
8. Camp Lo - Get Em Lo
9. Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Pts. 1 & 2
10. Buckshot + KRS-One - Robot
11. Max Roach - Rumble in the Jungle

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Mix Tape #86 - aRI uP

I remember an impromptu writing assignment I had to do in college. We had to write about a place in the past we could never actually visit. A historical event. And I forget the objective of the exercise. Sounds kinda 5th-grade-y now, but I do remember that I wrote about how awesome it would be to see the Slits sing "Newtown" live.

My head frequently is like a radio set and songs like "FM" have always cleared the static.

And I had no idea that decades later I'd actually get to see Ari Up on stage singing "Newtown." And my former vision of how I'd feel about it was pretty dead on. Sans the cigarette smoke in the club. Because they banned that.

Thanks, Ari. For everything.



Side A
1. The Slits - Newtown
2. Peter Parker - Yr. ∞ B.M. ↓
3. Clarence Ashley - Naomi Wise
4. Ronnie Hawkins Quartet - Thirty Days
5. 4th Coming - The Dead Dont Die Alive , Pt. 1
6. The Slits - FM
7. B-Legit - Hands on Them Knees
8. Fiddlin' Powers & Family - Ida Red
9. The Slits - Love and Romance
10. Ike & Tina Turner - I Wanna Jump
11. The Dead Weather - So Far from Your Weapon
12. Jeannie C. Riley - The Girl Most Likely
13. U-Men - Clubs
14. The Bird and the Bee - Private Eyes
15. The Slits - Vindictive

Side B
1. Burl Ives - Lavender Cowboy
2. Omar Souleyman - I'll Prevent the Hunters from Hurting You
3. Scott Walker - We Came Through
4. Menomena - Air Aid
5. Guilty Simpson - Cali Hills
6. The Slits - Shoplifting
7. Anomoanon - Kick Back
8. Santo & Johnny - Bull's Eye
9. Constantines - Shower of Stones
10. Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks - Ruby Baby
11. Stereolab - Vodiak
12. The Slits - Number One Enemy
13. Cacka Israelsson - Adios Amigo
14. The Slits - Life On Earth

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