Mix Tape #32 - I'm Tax-Exempt. My Money's Spent.

I feel like I'm getting more and more laconic on this thing. I guess I feel like writing about music is like fucking about dancing. For me. Others do it really well.

I'll just say that I didn't have high hopes for this one, but it turned around into all kinds of fun and I listened to it a lot. I hope you like it.

Highlights for me: that Randy Rice album is mindblowing...like eavesdropping on someone's therapy session set to music...and I'm going to link to it on the right hand side. And I realize Zoroaster won't be for everyone, but if it's for you? Get. That. Album. It's one of my favorite things from this year.

And, yes, that is Nancy Walker from the Bounty commercials.



Oh. Hey. I'm taking two weeks off from this thing. Partly because it's summer, and partly because I'm going to London. Please don't rob my apartment.

Here's the track list:

Side A
1. Noonday Underground - London
2. Palace Music - The Mountain Low
3. Monika Herz - Bimbo, Nimm Die Gitarre Und Sing
4. The Promise Ring - Make Me A Chevy
5. Randy Rice - Mrs. Bitch
6. Lafayette Afro-Rock Band - Darkest Light
7. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Look Around
8. Tweak Bird - Whorses
9. Midniters - I Found A Peanut
10. Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo - Desafinado
11. Mudhoney - Flat Out Fucked
12. Saxons - Things Have Been Bad
13. Daliah Lavi - Jerusalem
14. Zoroaster - Undying

Side B
1. The Chesterfield Kings - Street Fighting Man
2. Viva L'American Death Ray - Getting Better
3. Kyra Rubella And The Shanks - Orgasm Addict
4. Liberace - Teenager's Holiday
5. Chumbawamba - Tianamen Square
6. Nancy Walker - I Hate Men
7. Celibate Rifles - Bill Bonney Regrets
8. The Time And Space Machine - Amorous Ways
9. Andrea Carroll - Gee Dad
10. The Adverts - One Chord Wonders
11. Christopher Lee - The Streets Of Laredo
12. Brainiac - Flypaper
13. Can - Butterfly

Here.

See you in two weeks.

Mix Tape #31 - Someday, baby. When the river runs free.

When it gets like this outside, I just want to dive into the closest body of water.

I wish my neighbors had a pool. Instead of an 8-year-old who stands outside and screams all day.



Side A
1. The Turner Brothers - Let's Go Fishing
2. Screaming Blue Messiahs - Sweet Water Pools
3. Kristin Hersh - Cold Water Coming
4. The Standells - Dirty Water
5. The Distant Galaxy - Water Brother
6. Chemical People - Aquaman
7. Dire Straits - Water Of Love
8. David Arvedon - Buckets of Water
9. Dennis Coffey - Bridge Over Troubled Water
10. The Saints - River Deep Mountain High
11. The Ovations - Mr. River
12. Miaow - Thames at High Water
13. Low - Walk Into The Sea

Side B
1. White Hassle - Watertank
2. Serge Gainsbourg - Sea, Sex and Sun
3. Smog - The Well
4. The Weakerthans - Watermark
5. Jack McDuff - Cry Me a River
6. Takeshi Terauchi & the Bunnys - Dream In The Ocean
7. Melodians - Rivers Of Babylon
8. Yo La Tengo - Sea Cruise
9. Roscoe Holcomb - Boat's up the River
10. Tonettes - Teardrop Sea
11. Bitch Magnet - Sea of Pearls
12. Tangle Eye - Drowned

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Mix Tape #30 - Q: If English isn't your first language, should you cover "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"?

A: Emphatic yes.

Oh. If you're from North Carolina, I should let you know that you'll be instructed to do the following during this mix: 1. Raise up. 2. Take your shirt off. 3. Twist it around your hand. 4. Spin it like a helicopter.



The rest of you can just listen to it like normal people. I liked it. You may. You may not.

Saide A
1. Jess & James with the J.J. Band - Don´t Let Me Be Misunderstood
2. Davie Allan and the Arrows - Make Love Not War
3. Ikara Colt - Rudd
4. Dirty Three - Better Go Home Now
5. Trea Dobbs - My Love
6. Sparklemouse? Dangerhorse? - Everytime I'm With You
7. Roger Roger - Safari Park
8. Davey Sands & The Essex - Advertising Girl
9. Ugly Casanova - Things I Don't Remember
10. Los Babys - Encuentros Cercanos
11. Petey Pablo - Raise Up
12. Songs: Ohia - Coxcomb Red
13. Redd Kross - Linda Blair
14. Tom Zé - Senhor Cidadão

Side B
1. Snatch - All I Want
2. Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Comin
3. Luna - Slash Your Tires
4. Hugo Busoni - Raid
5. The Takeoffs - Knock Down The Door
6. The Pebbles - Playing Chess
7. Bill Cosby - Stop, Look & Listen
8. Stacey Ames - Calendar Boy
9. Kelis - Bossy
10. Billy Paul - Your Song
11. Public Image Ltd. - Ease

Here.

Mix Tape #29 - I Made You A Mix Tape

I hope you like it.



Tracks:
1. Scrawl - I Need You
2. Lee Hazelwood - You Look Like a Lady
3. APB - Shoot You Down
4. Egg Hunt - Me And You
5. Gabba - Knowing Me Knowing You
6. Astrud Gilberto - You Didn't Have to be So Nice
7. Marva Whitney and James Brown - You Got To Have A Job
8. The Psychedelic Furs - We Love You
9. Roger Bonnette - The Hell With You
10. Judy Henske - I Know You, Rider
11. Highly Likely - Whatever Happened To You?
12. MF Doom - Who You Think I Am?
13. Uzeda - What I Meant When I Called Your Name
14. Marvin Gaye - You
15. The Palace Brothers - You Will Miss Me When I Burn

1. Doris - Did You Give The World Some Love Today, Baby?
2. The Lights - When You Smile
3. Ellie Greenwich - You Don't Know
4. Sweet - No You Don't
5. Stone Jazz - Miss You
6. Rocket From The Crypt (with Holly Golightly) - Eye On You
7. The Go-Gos - Turn To You
8. Consonant - Who Touches You Now?
9. Sanford Clark - Bad Case of You
10. Soulsavers - Ghosts Of You And Me
11. MC5 - Looking At You
12. Tara Angell - When You Find Me
13. Farah Fawcett and Jean Paul Vignon - You

Here.

Mix Tape #28 - My Lip Gloss Be Poppin'

Did you know that there was an HR Pufnstuff movie and that it had a soundtrack?

I didn't.

Oh anyway. I was really happy to see Obits are touring and my favorite local band The Lights are opening. You should see them if you can. Or just listen to them.



The rest of the mix was just supposed to be "fun." And it mostly is. "A Promise" isn't, but it was in my head all week. Wonder why.

Here's a tracklist:

Side A
1. Lil Mama Vs. Marnie Stern - Absorb The Lipgloss
2. The Lights - Mr. Pussy
3. Hoyt Axton - ABC (Put On)
4. Prototypes - Je Ne Te Connais Pas
5. The Lovedolls - Beer & Ludes
6. Faust - Flashback Caruso
7. Urge Overkill - (Now That's) the Barclords
8. Rabbits and Carrots - Express Yourself
9. Barbara Manning - Your Pies
10. Franco Micalizzi - Special Cop
11. Reaction - Life Is A Wheel

Side B
1. Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie
2. Violent Femmes - A Promise
3. The Rogers Sisters - Les Fantaisies Sont Bien
4. Carmen Villani - Brilla Bollo
5. Louis Hjulmand - War Dance (2nd Movement)
6. Connie Stevens - Little Kiss Is A Kiss Is A Kiss
7. Wanda de Sah - Sweet Happy Life
8. Volt - Testbild
9. Jack Wild, Billie Hayes, Martha Raye - Zap The World
10. Perrey & Kingsley - Barnyard in Orbit
11. Harvey Averne - 'stablishment
12. Spanky & Our Gang - Hong Kong Blues
13. Peter Thomas - Opium - Pinjah Poppy Juice (The Maxwell Implosion Remix)

Here.

Hoyt Axton - Gold

I got this over the weekend and literally listened to it six times straight through because it's just nutty good except when it's bad and then it's even nuttier.

E.G. The sexiest song about the alphabet I've ever heard:



I love that he actually sings "If you want to love me you have to know your ABCs." Who exactly has he been dating? [Edit: Wikipedia says he's from Oklahoma. So. There you go.]

I also love when his voice gets all muppety and growlly. When he sings "ALLLLOOOOONNE" he makes the same noise my cat makes when she's about to puke.

Whole album is just as good.

Here's the list:

1. Never Gonna Work
2. Bring Your Lovin'
3. Tiger In The Closet
4. Red, White And Blue
5. L. A. Town
6. Heartbreak Hotel
7. Big Red
8. Look Down That Lonesome Road
9. I'll Be There
10. Double Dare
11. ABC (Put On)
12. Young Man
13. Greenback Dollar
14. Thunder 'N Lightin'
15. This Little Light
16. Trombone Cholly
17. Ox Driver's Song
18. Gambler's Blues
19. We'll Sing In The Sunshine
20. Five Hundred Miles
21. Grizzly Bear
22. Hoochie Coochie Man
23. They've Been On Their Jobs Too Long
24. Voodoo Blues

Here's the link.

Mix Tape #27 - Suddenly, Germans...

This week I listened to:

- Sad songs.

- Loud songs.

- German songs. (Probably occasioned by this guy's excellent postings.)

- The new Future of the Left about a billion times because it shreds. The only song I don't like is the first single, and it seems like a weird choice for a first single because it sounds nothing like anything else on the album. All the other songs are fairly skull crushing.

So. Put it all together and you get this mix.

Is it me, or does Dorthe look kind of psychotic?



Here's a tracklist:

Side A
1. Howard Carpendale - Du Hast Mich
2. Archie Bronson Outfit - Dead Funny
3. The Wombles - Invitation to the Ping-Pong Ball
4. Dorthe - Wärst Du Doch In Düsseldorf Geblieben
5. Die Ärzte - 12XU
6. David Bowie - Helden
7. Marianne Mendt - Wie A Glock'n...
8. Elly & Rikkert - Draad van Ariadne
9. Sandie Shaw - Puppet on a String
10. Big Business - O.G.
11. Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
12. Jason Molina - Honey, Watch Your Ass

Side B
1. The Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice - Surrounded
2. Klaus Doldinger - Frei Mit Boots
3. The Trip - Little Janie
4. Future Of The Left - Yin/Post-Yin
5. Martin Böttcher - Ich Schlafe Mit Meinem Mörder
6. Luisa Fernandez - Lay Love On You
7. Chet Baker - I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. Bellrays - Changing Colors
9. Peggy Sue - All American Husband
10. Manfred Krug - Wenn Der Urlaub Kommt
11. Lale Andersen - Ein Schiff Wird Kommen
12. Franco Godi - Viva Happiness
13. Dadamah - High Tension House

Here.