463 They'll be spitting in your eye

A lot of modern post-punk included here, amongst companions from the alternative genre.  

00:00  Cold Showers - In Terms of Pleasure

03:35  The Prids - Lie Here

06:51  Second Still - Double Negative

09:58  Sugar - A Good Idea

13:45  Veil Veil Vanish - This Is Violet

18:07  Girls Names - Chrome Rose

22:57  Pretty Girls Make Graves - The Grandmother Wolf

25:47  Current Affairs - Crimes

29:17  Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors

34:05  Rival Schools - Everything Has Its Point

37:26  Bob Mould - Lucifer and God

41:04  Quicksand - Requiem

44:23  Velour 100 - Under Heaven

48:03  Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline (7" Tour Single Version)

53:59  The Sugarcubes - Motorcycle Mama

57:34  Butthole Surfers - Pepper (Mountain Mix)

61:35  April March - Chick Habit

63:32  Talking Heads - Found A Job

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459 What the water gave me

A mix of some nice mellow indie folk and some stone cold classics.  Whenever I have a stressful day, this Spiritualized track is what helps me calm down again.  I've been having conversations with a guy that works for me about Leonard Cohen; he said he had never paid much attention to him so I am giving him plenty of accessible entry points to correct that oversight.  I love the version of Dirtnap Stories by :Of The Wand And The Moon: but the original version fits better in this set.  However, the cover of Mantra on an acoustic fits better than the original by Shelter.  I saw an Instagram post where Ray played this on an acoustic, but it was only 30 seconds, and I really liked the more mellow sound to it. (Note that the other two tracks are included in the spotify playlist, as the ones I listed below weren't available which is very odd). I remember putting this Mountain Goats song on mix tapes for friends just to piss them off with how he pronounces Morrissey (which is intentional).  

00:00  Spiritualized - Cool Waves (String Session mix)

05:43  Roberts Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song

10:24  Mojave 3 - Mercy (KCRW Acoustic)

13:51  Big Thief - Vampire Empire

17:01  Lucy Dacus - Brando

19:47  Nico - These Days

23:12  Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat

28:15  Nick Cave - Helpless (Neil Young)

32:34  Otis Redding - Cigarettes & Coffee

36:27  Bonnie Prince Billy - No Such as What I Want

39:55  Calexico - Ballad of Cable Hogue

43:16  The Gaslight Anthem - Boxer

46:33  Lee Hazlewood - Dirtnap Stories

50:13  Jeff Eisenberg Kirtan - Mantra (Shelter)

52:56  Angels of Light - Sunset Park

58:44  The Mountain Goats - Anti-Music Song

60:12  Marcia Griffiths - The First Time I Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack)

64:08  Matt Elliott - Cotard's Syndrome

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photo credit: Frida Kahlo "What the Water Game Me"

458 Bookended by a placebo

Bookended by Placebo and pulling us out of the darkness from the last two playlists, this one jumps around from new, old, happy, sad, fun, nostalgic, etc.  More tracks that jumped into my head over the last week or so, hence the genre hopping throughout.

00:00  Placebo - You Don't Care About Us

03:54  Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You

07:41  The Strokes - What Ever Happened?

10:28  Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It

13:32  The Stone Roses - Untitled 2 (She Bangs the Drums)

14:42  The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane

18:41  Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

24:14  The Convocation Of - Beyond the Beyond

28:20  Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion

33:32  The Verlaines - C.D. Jimmy Jazz and Me

39:12  Goth Babe - Surfing in Iceland

43:44  Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust

47:24  Orbit Service - Wolves

51:49  Deftones - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (The Cure)

56:30  Hotline TNT feat MJ Lenderman - Had 2 Try

59:39  The Doors - People are Strange

61:44  The Beatles - Run For Your Life

63:57  Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - SOB

68:00  The English Beat - Hands Off She's Mine (Extended)

72:30  Placebo - Scared of Girls

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457 Martial Industrial Folk mix 2

00:00  Sophia - Sigillum Militum IV

03:01  Toroidh - Testament I

07:04  Darkwood - Der Falken Flug

10:01  Scivias - Momotaro

16:21  Reutoff - Genetic Engineering (Multicultural Version)

22:16  Cult of Youth - A Question of Will

24:00  Ostara - Bavaria

28:26  Der Blutharsch - Mountains of Sorrow (remix)... (In You)

35:37  Fire + Ice - Fire Above

38:32  Camerata Mediolanense - L'Homme Arme

43:01  Allerseelen - Marques De Pubol (Rosa)

47:55  Waldteufel - Nachhall

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457 Martial Industrial Folk mix 1

I went through a phase, for several years, where I immersed myself in dark ambient, militant pop and neo-folk music spurred on by listening to Der Blutharsch a little too often.  Some of this stuff stuck with me and years later I pulled together some more tracks that I still enjoy, if that's the right word for it.  

00:00  A Challenge of Honour - Paranoid Theories

04:09  Toroidh - The Final Testament

05:54  Sophia - Herbstwerk

10:02  The Protagonist - Zoroaster

15:54  Blood Axis & Les Joyaux de la Princesse - Minutes D'Absinthe (D'Apres Un Nouvelle De Corelli)

16:49  In Slaughter Natives - Skin Sore Eyes (Final Structure)

22:47  Arditi - Untitled

27:11  Allerseelen - Nest

31:06  Silence & Strength - Untitled

33:39  Derniere Volonte - Der Blutharsch

37:18  Tribe of Circle - Wir Kapitulieren Niemals!

41:41  Einsturzende Neubauten - Salamandrina

44:41  Allerseelen - Cordon Dorado

46:28  Forseti - Sturmgeweiht

50:03  Toroidh - Europe is Dead

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