Mix Tape #23 - Roadtrip

I recently took a three hour road trip and, me being me, I packed 26 CDs. I am such a dork. Of course I only listened to three (Scrawl, KMD, and the excellent Holding a Dream comp). When I got home and went to put them away, I thought it might be fun to take a song from each and throw them together for a mix. And it turned out ok!

It's mostly the usual suspects, but there's a couple of surprises. That Marsha Hunt track is pretty killer. Oh look. Someone just uploaded a really cool Marsha Hunt video. Let's watch it.



That was nice.

I think the most important lesson contained within this mix is that when you have the Barbara Walters speech impediment, you really shouldn't add "Cry Me a River" to your oeuvre.

Anyway. Here's the tracklist:

Side A
1. Mclusky - Rock vs Single Parents
2. Le Tigre - Deceptacon
3. Barbara Manning - Scissors
4. Galt McDermot - Lady, You Look Good to Me
5. Th' Faith Healers - Sparklingly Chime
6. Quarteto 1111 - Dona Vitoria
7. Renegade Soundwave - Biting My Nails
8. The Flesh Eaters - Impossible Crime
9. Tindersticks - City Sickness
10. The Cynics - Get My Way
11. Gene Latter - Holding A Dream
12. Kimya Dawson - I Like Giants
13. DJ P - Hotel California vs. The Shining

Side B
1. Barbra Manning - Straw Man
2. Betty Davis - Ooh Yea
3. Eleventh Dream Day - Two Smart Cookies
4. Claudine Longet - Cwy Me a Wiver
5. Marsha Hunt - Somebody to Love
6. K.M.D. - Subroc's Mission
7. Soundation - Tricky Dicky
8. Vashti Bunyan - 17 Pink Sugar Elephants
9. L ed Z eppelin - Celebration Day
10. Willy Hoffmann - Coconuts
11. Dinosaur - Raisans
12. Barbara Ruskin - Pawnbroker Pawnbroker
13. Scrawl - Come Back Then

Here.

Bastards - You Didn't Give A Damn About The Exploding Man Because You Killed Him

Oh cool. No one's uploaded this.

I'm so thankful for hardcore because it encouraged several great bands to up the ante. Of course, there's a fine line between great shitnoise with a real grasp of compelling rhythm and riffs and, well, just shit.

Bastards were on the correct side of that line for me. They were from Germany, and, to quote Vince, you know the Germans always make great stuff. Member or members went on to form [the seriously great] Janitor Joe and [the seriously crappy] Gnomes of Zurich.

I've used this track to peel paint off of things.



And you can hear the rest here.

Mix Tape #22 - My Neck's Stiff. My Head Hurts.

Music's making me sad. The new MF Doom album is completely phoned in. The guy from Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu started a new band that sounds like the old bands minus everything that made them interesting. I finally listened to the second Evens record and didn't like it. Every time I try to find something from this decade to like I fail. Well. Except for Wooden Shjips.

[Seriously...if you have any suggestions for modern stuff I might like, PLEASE let me know].

So, I keep retreating into decades-old oddities and that's mostly what informed this mix. It gets kind of loud toward the end. Sorry. Also, I didn't mean to put Peggy Sue in there twice, but, eh, sounded good.

"Ba-Di-Bi" is the theme song to a softcore movie from Italy about swinging nursing students. I don't think I'll be seeing that...



Oh. And in the interest of full disclosure, I notice I included a BUNCH of tracks from this guy's mix. Which is great. Big fan of that site.

Anyway, here's the list:

Side A
1. Chris Brokaw - I Remember
2. Peggy Sue - That's A No No
3. Peter Thomas and Donna Summer - Black Power
4. FM Knives - 16 DOA
5. The Moments - I Can't Help It
6. Arcwelder - Never The Same
7. Piero Umiliani - Green Valley
8. Big Boss Man - Sea Groove
9. Vampires' Sound Incorporation - The Ballad of a Fair Singer
10. Paul Nero - This Is Soul
11. Coachwhips - Yes, I'm Down
12. Ike & Tina Turner - Whole Lotta Love
13. DOOM - That's That
14. Roberto Pregadio - Bi-Di-Bi-Da

Side B
1. God - Rockin' Marky
2. Barney Wilen and His Amazing Free Rock Band - The Fool On The Hill
3. PJ Harvey - Yuri-G
4. Peggy Sue - Down In The Boondocks
5. Edan - Fumbling Over Words (Battle)[Team Teamwork Remix]
6. Railroad Jerk - Clean Shirt
7. Frankie Laine - Wanted Man
8. The Evens - Get Even
9. Guy Pedersen - Bass In Love
10. The Make Up - Pow! To The People
11. Nashville Pussy - First I Look At The Purse
12. The Hard-Ons - Race Track
13. The Raincoats - Don't Be Mean
14. Death - Politicians In My Eyes

Here.

Connie Francis - I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter

I just got back from Portland. They have really good record stores there! And I spent too much money on music! As usual!

All the stuff I found'll be worming its way into future mixes, but this thing was hands down my favorite find...IT'S CONNIE FRANCIS SINGING IN JAPANESE. Well. All but two songs. But still. 18 SONGS. CONNIE FRANCIS. JAPANESE.

Here. Hear how awesome that is:



And then grab it.

Mix Tape #21 - They Stab It With Their Steely Knives But They Just Can't Kill The Beast

The beast in question here is that truly awful cover of "Hotel California." I pretty much love everything that Nancy Sinatra has done, but that's a huge mis-step. So bad it's essential.

The rest of the mix is a little scattershot genre-wise, but, eh, it sounded good enough to listen to a few times. And it led to me to find this nice little youtube which I listened to about 100 times:



Not much else to say other than Janitor Joe is a fun band and if you like that song you should look for more. It features a member or members of The Bastards who are also fun. If someone hasn't beaten me to it, I'll post an album of theirs this week.

Welp. Here's the tracklist:

Side A
1. Bobbie Gentry and Donovan - Bugs
2. Uzeda - This Heat
3. Cacka Israelsson - Flotie Flatie Boogie
4. Georges Delerue - Bowling Bresilien
5. George Jones - Okie from Muskogee
6. Lee Hazlewood - No Train to Stockholm
7. Slint - Cortez the Killer
8. Anita Lindblom - Cigarettes
9. Boredoms - Molecicco
10. Os Meninos de Deus - Aleluia
11. Vanilla Fudge - Stra (Illusions Of My Childhood, Part One)/You Keep Me Hanging On/Wber (Illusions Of My Childhood, Part Two)
12. Lynsey de Paul - Crossword Puzzle

Side B
1. Zalatnay Sarolta - Csodabogár
2. Great Plains - Dick Clark
3. Country Teasers - Hairy Wine 2
4. Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
5. Janitor Joe - African Necklace
6. Nancy Sinatra - Hotel California
7. Senta Berger - Vergiss Mich, Wenn Du Kannst
8. The Pandoras - In And Out Of My Life (In A Day)
9. Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Shub-a-doe
10. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Live, Honolulu)
11. Archie Shepp - I Got It Bad (And That Aint Good)

Here.

Modern Vending - One Bad Peccary

These lunatics from Muncie, Indiana were one of my favorite live bands back in the late 80s. Their music lends itself to batshit antics, hijinks, and tomfoolery.

If you're looking for screaming and flanged guitar and rat-a-tat drums and one especially catchy song about Jesus in a drugstore, you have found it. The zip file includes this bonus anthem from one of their singles:



And here is the link!

God - Rock is Hell

I know I said I was going to start posting albums again this week. The one I planned to upload tonight has already been uploaded elsewhere, though, and, listening to my rip again, I really bet their rip will be better. Imma download it now and see if that's true. If it's not, I will upload a separate one and delete everything I just typed.

I should really google these things before encoding them. Sigh.

ANYWAY. You should hear this because it's dopey and fun. It's from Australia and it's like the missing link between Redd Kross and grunge rock. Gravel vocals, great sense of humor, and a rocking tribute song to Kiss.

Go get it elsewhere!