Mix Tape #46 - You Can't Poo Poo Paducah

Don't even try. Carmen Miranda'll FUCK YOU UP.



Just kidding. I've been there. It's shit.

List:

Side A
1. Violent Femmes - Prove My Love
2. RZA & MF Doom - Biochemical Equation
3. Jacildo e Seus Rapazes - Day Tripper
4. The Mortals - Disintegration
5. Merle Haggard - Rainbow Stew
6. Cacka Israelsson - Zambesi
7. DJ P - Hell On Wheels 2 (Excerpt)
8. Polly Scattergood - Nitrogen Pink
9. The Hooligans - Juanita Banana
10. Polvo - In This Life
11. Yvonne Prenosilova - Boty Proti Lasce
12. Carmen Miranda And The Benny Goodman Orchestra - Paducah

Side B
1. Let's Wrestle - I Won't Lie To You
2. Marais & Miranda - Dust Upon the Roadway
3. DJ Quik And Kurupt - Watcha Wan Do
4. UT - Evangelist
5. The Beets - The Devil
6. Los Peniques - Caminando
7. The Herbaliser feat. MF Doom/Wu Tang Clan - Uzi (Pinky Ring)/It Ain't Nothin'
8. feedtime - Shovel
9. Ted Cassidy - The Lurch Song
10. William Onyeabor - Better Change Your Mind
11. ABBA - The Visitors
12. Modest Mouse - Perfect Disguise
13. The Flesh Eaters - Drag My Name In The Mud

Here.

Mix Tape #45 - Skates

So you know what's awesome? Doing 85 on a deserted back road surrounded by Utah scrub and blasting "Skates" by Hayden.

MAN, I'd forgotten what a barn-burner that album is. It's nearly perfect and highly recommended. Awkward, self-conscious, and featuring songs about: being hot for 16-year-olds, how hard it is to talk to girls, calling in sick to work, fucking up romantic overtures, shoving rocks up one's nose, not being able to die in your dreams, and Susan Smith. And "Skates" which is just weird, sad and, uh...passionate? It's about ice skates. Sort of.

And you know who was really cute? Tawney Reed.



I love that dude to her right. I've got a feeling he has wood.

Anyway. Here's the list:

Side A
1. Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino
2. Helen Bozeman - Sugar Baby
3. Camper Van Beethoven - Seven Languages
4. Gong - Tried So Hard
5. Th Faith Healers - Reptile Smile
6. Billie Jo Spears - Get Behind Me Satan And Push
7. Ms. Cristal - Ho, You Just Mad
8. Dyke & The Blazers - City Dump
9. Amanaz - History of Man
10. Jeanne & The Darlings - Soul Girl
11. Sparkle Moore - Killer
12. Pinkos - Pinkos Theme Song
13. Hayden - Skates

Side B
1. Thee Mighty Caesars - Lie Detector
2. Chrissy Zebby Tembo + Ngozi Fa - My Ancestors
3. Will Powers - Adventures in Success
4. Tawney Reed - Needle in a Haystack
5. First Chips - My Love
6. The Knife - Neverland
7. Enter...Da Dizms - No Panties
8. Laura Lee - Women's Love Rights
9. Asha Bhosle - Dilwala Mastana
10. Pat Boone - Stairway To Heaven
11. The Flesh Eaters - Dragstrip Riot

Here.

Mix Tape #44 - Beautiful Donkeys and a Dog With No Eyes

Eric, man, you're so right about The XX. Hott.

I was going to post a video of them, but they're pretty dorky lookin'. I mean, the guitar player's cute. But all that gothiness and button punching betrays how the finished product sounds.

So I'm going to post a Davila 666 video instead. My God. They're just the best, too.



I'm taking another two weeks off from this thing. Partly because we're going to Utah. Yes. UTAH.

List:

Side A
1. The Chemical Brothers - It Began In Africa
2. Matata - Good Samaritan
3. Lady Sovereign - Random
4. King Biscuit Time - Eye O' the Dug
5. Jimmy Forest - All the Gin is Gone
6. The XX - Crystalised
7. Joe Bataan - It's a Good Feeling (Riot)
8. Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends
9. Bohannon - Dance With Your Parno
10. Love 666 - MDMA
11. Rush - Vital Signs

Side B
1. Killdozer - 3/4" Drill Bit
2. J.P. Decerf - Sailor Stories
3. Fort Minor - There They Go (DJ Green Lantern Remix)
4. The Wedding Present - Softly Softly
5. The Mummies - Shot Down
6. Camper Van Beethoven - The History Of Utah
7. Melvin Jackson - Funky Doo
8. Edan - Ultra '88 (Tribute)
9. Will Oldham - Blue Lotus Feet
10. Camille - Home Is Where It Hurts
11. Davila 666 - El Lobo
12. Hank Thompson - The Squaws Along The Yukon
13. Brakes - Margarita
14. Hildegard Knef - Im 80ten Stockwerk
15. Comus - The Prisoner

Here.

Mix Tape #43 - I had this realization in the shower this week that, at some point, I'm probably going to buy a jukebox (and, maybe, a pinball machine,

but definitely a jukebox...one you can put 45s in). But I also realized I'll probably be in a small apartment or condo when that happens.

Space is going to be an issue.

I listened to these songs a lot this week:

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(It's like zombie mods back there...)

Here's the list:

Side A
1. Big Stick - Daddy Long Leg
2. Naked Raygun - Home of the Brave
3. Laurie Anderson - Frames for the Pictures
4. The Ramsey Lewis Trio - The In Crowd
5. Micachu - Lips
6. March Violets - Snake Dance
7. Raekwon - Black Mozart
8. Samantha Jones - It's All Because of You
9. Polvo - Beggars Bowl
10. Helmet - Unsung
11. Ladytron - Black Cat
12. Jimmy McGriff - Cotton Boy Blues

Side B
1. Hüsker Dü - Friend, You've Got To Fall
2. Crust - Traveling With Berltz
3. C'est Tout - De Cowboys van Oranje
4. Marble Valley - Babylon
5. Luna - 23 Minutes In Brussels
6. Plunt - Gouda
7. Renee-Louise Carafice - (I'm Your) Bodhisattva
8. Psychopathic Rydas - Duk Da Fuck Down
9. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
10. Max Frost & The Troopers - Try To Make Up Your Mind
11. Old Man Gloom - The Volcano
12. John Trubee - Blind Man's Penis (Peace and Love)

Here.

Mix Tape #42 - Ook Ook

This mix got hijacked by monkeys.



Side A
1. Cut Chemist - What's the Altitude?
2. Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution - Yummy Love
3. BBL and the Rollercoaster - Monkey Man
4. Mac Rybell - Meu Sonho
5. Junior Walker and the All Stars - Monkey Jump
6. Derek - Cinnamon
7. Sunset Rubdown - Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh
8. Todd Rollins & Orchestra - The Boogie Man
9. Young Fresh Fellows - Mo' Gorilla
10. Hideo Shiraki - Cherokee
11. Part Chimp - War Machine
12. Low - Monkey

Side B
1. The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick
2. Simian Mobile Disco - It's The Beat
3. Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band - Dirty Dirty
4. Louis Prima & Orchestra - Mr. Ghost Goes To Town
5. Sage Francis - Dance Monkey
6. Jimmy Castor Bunch - King Kong
7. Justin Hines - The Higher The Monkey Climbs
8. Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus - Up In The Air
9. The 13th Floor Elevators - Monkey Island
10. Asha Bhosle et al - Chhup Chhup
11. The Revels - The Monkey Bird
12. Kristin Hersh - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
13. James Carr - A Lucky Loser
14. The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man

Here.

Mix Tape #41 - Lunch Will Keep Us Together

Well hey there! This turned out really well. I hope you like it as much as I did.

Neil Sedaka has a delightful new children's album and that's where the name of this mix came from. It also features "Where the Toys Are" and "Waking Up Is Hard To Do." It does not feature this [super fucking creepy] song.

What else, what else?

- Oh. Thanks, Ben, for lending me this which is awesome. Congratulations on your nuptuals!

- Look, I'm not goofing around with that Neulander. It's my favorite Eurotrash album ever and I listened to that song in a loop while driving around aimlessly one very sad day in Cincinnati last year.

- That Red Sovine song is endearingly racist. I bet he was hell at family gatherings.

- "Strip Club" is my favorite cover. Ever.

- I'm sort of suddenly obsessed with Teddy Parker and...OMFG WATCH THIS:



Anyways, here's the list:

Side A
1. 1,000 Clowns - Kitty Kat Max
2. Brenda Holloway - A Favor For A Girl (With A Love Sick Heart)
3. The Grifters - Covered With Flies
4. Meic Stevens - Shw' mae? Shw' mae?
5. Disco Construction - Lady Bump
6. Quasimoto - 1994
7. The Quests - Georgy Girl
8. Neil Sedaka - Lunch Will Keep Us Together
9. Ron Warren Ganderton - Virgins Do
10. The Spotlights - Que Sera
11. Neulander - Sex, God & Money
12. Billy Preston - The Octopus
13. Wellwater Conspiracy - Teen Lambchop
14. AD 73 - Higher and Higher
15. Webb Pierce & Red Sovine - Little Rosa

Side B
1. Breaking Circus - Smoker's Paradise
2. Bratmobile - Girl Germs
3. Henny Vonk - You're Gonna Hear From Me
4. Teddy Parker - Nachtexpress Nach St. Tropez
5. Speech Debelle - Searching
6. Ed Wood (?) - A Pussycat Is Born To Be Whipped
7. The Mops - I'm Just a Mops
8. 5 Royales - Mohawk Squaw
9. 100 Flowers - Strip Club
10. The Monkees - Cuddly Toy
11. Snowpony - Easy Way Down
12. Freakwater - Your Goddamn Mouth
13. William De Vaughan - Be Thankful for What You Got
14. Sebadoh - Punch In The Nose

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Mix Tape #40 - Chiapas! I MUST GO THERE!

Because of school and other things this got kind of Iron Chef in that I just threw a bunch of songs together. And I fear I made shrimp cakes with butt sauce.

But, still. There's some good stuff in here. I swear!

Three songs come from this. It's a weird little compilation of Turkish folks living in Germany and making Turkish-y music while singing in German. The combination is oddly endearing but the songs here are the only ones I really like. (Psst. I wouldn't buy it.)

Oh. And this is my second favorite music video ever:



Herbie Mann sure has a hairy chest.

And that Charles Wilp album is terrible. Don't buy that, either.

I'm not making you want to listen to this, am I?

Side A
1. Sender Freie Rakete - Istanbul Berlin
2. Wu Tang Clan - Fast Shadow
3. Gangsters of Love - Sorry
4. Flesheaters - The Wedding Dice
5. Turid - Välkomme Hus
6. Volkanik Man - Oriental Lady
7. Unknown - Istanbul
8. Karate - Diazapam
9. Ivan and Pricila - Mandu
10. Helium - Leon's Space Song
11. Herbie Mann - Push Push

Side B
1. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Chiapas! I MUST GO THERE !
2. Apache Indian - Boom Shack-A-Lak
3. Charles Wilp - Bunny
4. Cal Tjader and Charlie Byrd - My Cherie Amour
5. Damien Jurado - Texas To Ohio
6. Wesley Willis - Annie Vookman
7. Hot Snakes - Plenty For All
8. Ensaio de Escola - Welcome to Rio
9. Fresh Familee - Ahmet Gundez I
10. Cows - By The Throat
11. Telegraph Avenue - Tookie Tookie
12. Death In Vegas & Hope Sandoval - Help Yourself

Oh. Hey. Can you do me a favor? If you know what the instrument featured in that Ensaio de Escola song is called, could you email me? It's just about my favorite instrument, but I've been unsuccessful when trying to google image "Brazilian instrument that goes 'hoo-a-ha-ha.'"

ROCK OVER LONDON. ROCK OVER CHICAGO.