Mix Tape #19 - The Mystery At Lilac Inn

Back to randomness. A lot of favorites on this one. Whenever I hear the whiny guitar that opens "Titus & Strident Wet Nurse," my pupils dilate and I prepare to jump around like a complete spaz.

Anyone who knows me who's reading this probably can't picture that, but, oh, when you're not around? I totally do that. I'm a pretty avid air guitar player when no one's watching.

That Ennio Morricone song comes from this absolutely eye-poppingly fun movie:



And the title for this mix comes from "Nancy Drew" which is clever as fuck and also sends me into fits of pogoing. Special Olympics style. If you live downstairs, I'm sorry.

Anyway, here's the tracklist:

Side A
1. Guided By Voices - Titus & Strident Wet Nurse
2. Merry Clayton - Gimme Shelter
3. I Don't Remember - Get Back
4. The Bloodthirsty Lovers - 2000 Lightyears From Home
5. Galt MacDermot - Coffee Cold
6. Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto - The Telephone Song
7. Tinariwen - Ahimana
8. Nirvana - Moist Vagina
9. Ennio Morricone - Valmont's Go-Go Pad
10. Pavement - Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence
11. REM - Letter Never Sent
12. Bobbi Humphrey - Smiling Faces Sometimes
13. Tuli Kupferberg - Love And Ashes

Side B
1. Tuscadero - Nancy Drew
2. Mr. Lif - Live From the Plantation
3. DJ Spooky vs. Bob Marley - Mr. Brown Remix
4. R.D. Burman with Asha Boshle & Kishore Kumore - Aa Dekhen Jara
5. Nikki Sudden & Rowland S. Howard - Wedding Hotel
6. L ed Z eppelin - Trampled Under Foot
7. Melvin Jackson - Bold + Black
8. Manu Dibango - African Battle
9. Labi Siffre - Sadie And The Devil
10. Bill Withers - Let It Be
11. Lou Donaldson - Make It With You

Here.

Mix Tape #18 - Booze!

If you haven't tried alcoholism, I wouldn't recommend it. Shit's expensive and it makes you fat and haggard looking.

As a fond farewell to my old pal, I made this mix. There are certainly much better drinking songs out there, but these are my personal favorites.

Another personal favorite not included is this Hamm's beer jingle:



There are some repeats on here, but since they were apt, I kept them. Plus, "Detox Man" is literally my favorite song ever recorded.

Anyway, here's the tracklist:

Side A
1. Freakwater - My Old Drunk Friend
2. Scrawl - Green Beer
3. Jerry Lee Lewis - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
4. Prisonshake - Beer Break
5. Ed Haynes - Splash
6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Brother, My Cup Is Empty
7. Eazy-E - Sippin On A 40
8. The Afghan Whigs - Rebirth Of The Cool
9. The Mountain Goats - See America Right
10. The Who - Whiskey Man
11. Marble Valley - Cerveza
12. Black Flag - Drinking And Driving
13. Hüsker Dü - Whatcha Drinkin'
14. Tex and the Horseheads - I'll Quit Tomorrow

Side B
1. Gorilla - Detox Man
2. Minutemen - Corona
3. TAD - Jack Pepsi
4. Brian Jackson + Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle
5. Masters Of The Obvious - Gonna Get Drunk Tonight
6. Great Plains - Martin Luther King & Martin Luther Drinking
7. Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck
8. Johnny Bond and Red Sovine - Day Drinkin'
9. Smog - Your Wedding
10. Creamers - Loser Bar
11. The Kinks - Alcohol
12. Rapeman - Trouser Minnow
13. Jim Croce - Cigarettes, Whiskey & Wild, Wild Women
14. The Flesh Eaters - Fistful of Vodka
15. Carolyn Mark - Slept All Afternoon

Enjoy responsibly!

Mix Tape #17 - Shh!

This is a quiet mix. The caveat being I have a funny idea of what quiet is.

I thought this didn't have a theme, but when I listened to it again I realized that I was subconsciously forming a soundtrack to all the stuff going on in my life right now. I mean, my bathroom IS a private kind of place. Spooky!

This Zwan song doesn't fit with the above observation, but it is nonetheless one of my favorite covers of all time. <3 Pajo. You can hear it via this youtube of Spun's opening credits.



That movie's unnecessarily vilified, in my opinion. You get to see Mira Suvari's poo! HOTT. (Ok. Not. But I thought the movie was fun in spite of that scene.)

Anyway, I hope you like it. Oh. And is it me or does it sound like they're singing "FUCK. ME. UP." in that Sleater Kinney song? The lyrics are actually "FIND. ME. OUT." but I swear I never hear it that way.

Side A
1. Sebadoh - Not Too Amused
2. Avanço 5 - Shut Up
3. Acetone - All You Know
4. The Evens - Shelter Two
5. Pink Floyd - Fearless
6. The Mountain Goats - Balance
7. Suicide - I Remember
8. Zwan - Number Of The Beast
9. Regina Spektor - On The Radio
10. Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
11. Tindersticks - Here

Side B
1. Donovan - Co'dine
2. Marsha Hunt - (Oh No Not) The Beast Day
3. Salem 66 - Sleep On Flowers
4. Luna - Pup Tent
5. Patti Smith - Wing
6. Unknown - My Bathroom Is A Private Kind Of Place
7. Sleater-Kinney - Heart Factory
8. Dame Fate - Lovely Drug
9. Pinebender - Fifth And Last

And here is your link. SHOUT BAMMA LAMMA.

Mix Tape #16 - There's A Kazoo In Here Somewhere

This is pretty random, but it gave me much joy. Hopefully, it will give you joy, too.

I apologize in advance for that truly shitty Partridge Family rip. Here's how it's supposed to sound.



I dunno. The version included here sends the needle into the red and it actually sounds somehow threatening. To me, it spices up a horribly whitebread treatment of that great song, so I kept it in there.

I'm pretty sure that Mark Arm song is in my all time top 5. And that's all I really have to say, so here's the tracklist:

Side A
1. Lonnie Liston Smith - Cosmic Funk
2. Brakes - Hold Me In The River
3. Analfabitles - Shake
4. Os Boabas - Down Down
5. Action Swingers - Song
6. Claude Colombier - Chante Comme Si Tu Devais Mourrir
7. Pink Floyd - The Gold It's In The ...
8. Asha Bhosle - Jeet Lo Haar Ke
9. The Dicks - Kill From The Heart
10. Method Man And Redman - Da Rockwilder
11. Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
12. The Partridge Family - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
13. Blue Cheer - I'm The Light

Side B
1. Mark Arm - My Life With Rickets
2. Boomtown Rats - Up All Night
3. Slim Borgudd - Chain
4. Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve - Don't Cry Girl
5. Big Black - Newmangenerator
6. Juliane Werding - Der Computer Macht Alles
7. Flying Saucer Attack - Outdoor Miner
8. Blur - We've Got A File On You
9. Robert Pete Williams - Santa Fe Kazoo Blues
10. Cactus - Evil
11. Monk Higgins - A Good Man Is Gone
12. Ronnie Von - Esperança De Cantar
13. Mountain - Theme From An Imaginary Western

Here.

Mix Tape #15 - TV Party

I've been watching way too much TV. This can mostly be blamed on RTN. I think they're having financial difficulties, so the channel could be yanked any day now. And, for my sake, I hope it is.

The thing I, sadly, look forward to every week is Kraft Suspense Theater. It's a series of hour-long dramas from the 60's where, say, Robert Logia will try to con a schoolteacher out of her money and she'll end up stealing his heart. IT'S. AMAZING.

Here. Watch some.



Oh. And I know firsthand that the people selling those online taped them off a black and white tv set. Which is actually fortunate, because they include the original ads and I think some of those Kraft recipes would induce spontaneous vomitting if they were in color.

While I haven't been very discriminate in my TV choices, I'm done with Ironside. He's a pushy dick and I wish he'd fall off an escalator.

Whoa. I totally just made that happen.

Oh. Anyway. Music. A lot of this was lifted from this now-defunct blog. God bless its still digital heart.

And I know I use that Scrawl song way too much, but it's apt here.

And even though this is mostly TV-themed, there's stuff in there that has nothing to do with TV. Confusing!

Here's the tracklist:

Side A
1. Mike Post - The Rockford Files
2. The Sound Apparatus - Travel Agent Man
3. Henry Mancini - Police Woman
4. Radio Birdman - Aloha Steve and Danno
5. Leonard Nimoy - A Visit To A Sad Planet
6. TV On The Radio - Dancing Choose
7. Telly Savalas - If
8. Josie & The Pussycats - Hand Clapping Song
9. Barbara Eden - Pledge Of Love
10. The Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count
11. Quincy Jones - Ironside
12. Mr. T - Mr. T's Commandment
13. Harry South - The Sweeney
14. Big Black - Bad Houses

Side B
1. Scrawl - Sad
2. Quincy Jones - The streetbeater
3. Adam West - Batman & Robin
4. Flesheaters - My Life To Live
5. Barbara Feldon - 99
6. The Animated Sounds - (Sock It To Me Baby) In The House Of Shock
7. Bill Cosby - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
8. Don Fardon - Belfast Boy
9. Liz Phair - Go, Speed Racer
10. Ike & Tina Turner - I Can't Believe What You Say
11. Lorne Greene - Ghost Riders In The Sky
12. Devo - Goo Goo Itch
13. Leonard Nimoy - Proud Mary
14. Ted Knight - Hi Guys
15. The Lovedolls - Sunshine Day
16. Hüsker Dü - Turn On the News

Here.

Lolitas - My English Sucks

This was Francoise Cactus's band before Stereo Total, and this was their covers record. Half of which I'm not even sure what the original sounded like. And after their treatment, I don't feel like I even need to know.

Oh. Francoise. Such a beautiful flower. I don't think you want to know this, but I don't care. This is my current desktop image.

Here. Hear their cover of "Sonic Reducer."



And here is the tracklist:

1. The Guy from Yesterday Night
2. The Taps on Your Boots
3. Kissmouth
4. Sonic Reducer
5. Skulls
6. She's Rockin
7. I'm Alright
8. Your Horse
9. Black Leather
10. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
11. In the Garden
12. Not Fade Away
13. New Rose
14. Strychnine

And here is the hyperlink.

Mix Tape #14 - I Listened To This One A Whole Lot

My God. Finders Keepers records is just the best. Two of this week's entries come from them. I found them used at Cellophane Square (where they've jacked up the price of every weird soundtracky/world thing because, I think, they've realized I'm a sucker and will buy them all anyway).

If you'd like to hear a smidge of what you're in for, here's a youtube.



I'm not sure what's going on in that video. It looks like someone synched up the ripping studio version of that song to a really listless stage performance. But, eh, the song's just so good it doesn't really matter.

I don't know what else to say about this one other than Princess Superstar is hot and that DOA track was recorded live at The Jockey Club. Reprazent.

Anyway, here's the track list:

Side A
1. Razzy and the Neighborhood Kids - I Hate
2. Dim Stars - Baby Huey
3. 101 Strings - A Disappointed Love With A Desensitized Robot
4. Bad Wizard - Natural High
5. Bob James - Night On Bald Mountain
6. Bored - No Way
7. Monica Zetterlund - Pearlie's Swine
8. The Daily Void - No One Knows...
9. The Ovations - Touching Me
10. Boris - Free
11. Armando Trovaioli - Canard a' L'Orange
12. Princess Superstar - Untouchable Part 2
13. The John Schroeder Orchestra - Explosive Corrosive Joseph

Side B
1. Brendan Benson - Metarie
2. Bobby Womack and J.J. Johnson - Across 110th Street (Part II)
3. Connie Hall - Daddy Doesn't Live Here Anymore
4. Nico - I'm Waiting For My Man
5. Jim Ford - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
6. Cha Cha Cohen - Heck Singhi
7. Kimya Dawson - France
8. Thelonious Monster - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
9. Kati Kovacs - Add Mar Uram Az Esot!
10. Kings of Leon - The Bucket
11. DOA - Rich Bitch
12. Ersen - Gunese Don Cicegim
13. MF Doom - Guinnesses

And here is the hyperlink. Tchah!