P623 Relations

A while back I was on a June of 44 kick, and doing my investigating I saw the members had been in a whole slew of other bands, all good ones too. This mix is diverse and shows the talent of each member through several iterations of projects. 

June of 44 being Doug Scharin, Fred Erskine, Jeff Mueller and Sean Meadows. Hoover was an earlier band of Fred’s with Joseph McRedmond who’d also end up in the Crownhate Ruin with him. HiM is the dub-influenced post-rock solo project of Doug Scharin with many guests. Activities of Dust is you guessed it, the Bill Laswell link with Bernie Worrell, Jeff Parker and Doug. Mice Parade is Adam Pierce’s (The Swirlies & The Dylan Group) project featuring Doug. The slow-core Codeine featured Doug on “The White Birch” and a couple singles. The Shipping News features Jeff Mueller and leans more towards post-hardcore. They came from the ashes of Rodan with Jason Noble and were originally tagged with creating music for NPR’s “This American Life.” The Crownhate Ruin featuring Fred and Joseph from Hoover, lean even more into post-hardcore. Rodan were I suppose just bridging on math-rock while holding the post-hardcore roots down, and were Jeff Mueller, Jason Noble, Tara Jane O’Neil and Kevin Coultas. Directions brings it back to Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol with Doug working alongside Bundy K Brown and James Warden. Retsin, a deviation, I think I included them due to the Tara Jane O’Neil connection from Rodan, as they’re not necessarily directly related to June of 44. Getting back on track, Lungfish is Sean Meadows and should be pretty familiar for the post-hardcore fan base. Rex touches back to the slowcore sound and once again features Doug. Ending it with The Sonora Pine which has Sean Meadows on their first album, along with Tara Jane O’Neil (see she’s like an extended family member here), Kevin Coultas and Samara Lubelski. I think it’s a good trip down and back through this set of related bands. I was thinking of doing a similar project with Tortoise which may take some time. Any other bands I should dive into for a future mix of this nature?

01 June of 44 – Generate
02 Hoover – Regulator Watts
03 HiM – The Way Trees Are
04 Activities of Dust – Shades of Appearance
05 Mice Parade – Pursuant to the Vibe
06 Codeine – Loss Leader
07 Shipping News – Books on Trains
08 The Crownhate Ruin – Ride Your Ride.
09 Rodan – Darjeeling
10 Directions – Track 4
11 Retsin – Hybrid Ice Princess
12 Lungfish – Cross Road
13 Rex – Nothing is Most Honorable than You
14 The Sonora Pine – Claister

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P608 Lit a Green Candle

That break was long enough. I waited until I had landed a new job which will hopefully last me until retirement. It was a rough set of months in the job market, applying, networking, following up, chasing down recruiters, interviewing, and being given every excuse to not hire me. Finally, a company saw my value and pursued me; that felt validating and I’m back on track.

Health is good, have a job, happy family, new and big adventures coming. I’m all set to pull some cohesive thoughts together for some new mixes. Also, I wiped my free storage to make room for the new, anyone that wants a re-up of an old mix let me know and I’ll take care of it.

I’ll start it off with an easy to digest one. I made this last December when I shut down for a while. Pulled what I was listening to and some new finds off the local indie radio station in town and had this as the soundtrack for date night with my wife as we drove into town for a fine meal and evening walk. In hindsight, I suppose there is some metaphoric meaning in a few of these songs, or specific lyrics that reflected my sadness from losing my previous job. However, this is not all doom and gloom, it’s a rather fun and upbeat (at times) mix that got me re-invigorated to share again.



01 Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (Original)
02 Leonard Cohen – One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
03 Wolf Alice – Thorns
04 Santigold – Disparate Youth
05 Purity Ring – Fineshrine
06 Fontaines D.C. – Favourite
07 David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes (single version)
08 Mt. Joy – Lucy
09 Eggs for Breakfast – Sad Sex Songs
10 Giske – The Sound of Birdsong
11 Three Mile Pilot – Still Alive
12 These Quiet Hours – Seven Waves Deep
13 Deceits – Please, Wake Up
14 Soccer Mommy – Driver
15 R.E.M. – Bad Day
16 Del Water Gap – How to Live
17 Lucy Dacus – Brando
18 Goth Babe – Surfing in Iceland
19 Panda Bear, Sonic Boom – Edge of the Edge
20 Tarta Relena – Me Yelassan
21 Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Honeyhouse
22 Turn On – Ru Tenone
23 Brian Eno – St. Elmo’s Fire
24 Asobi Seksu – Never Understand (Live on KEXP)
25 Possessed by Paul James – Songs We Used to Sing

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584 Around and about some Post-Country

Took a little break there, the ebb and flow of life can sometimes get overwhelming.   I'm back and hope to continue with my regular cadence of sharing mixes a few times a week.

I was picking up my daughter at school and complimented another dad on his excellent "Murder By Death" t-shirt.  One of the other Dads I was with said he'd never heard of them before.  Upon my recommendation to start with their covers albums, he quickly became a big fan and bought tickets to see them on this tour.  

That exchange got me moving along on this mix, which I had started with some ambient Americana tracks for my series on that topic, though quickly moved into post-country territory.  I also broke out my Possessed by Paul James records which are quite entertaining.  Included some odd ball country tracks I came across, like the one in Eastbound and Down, the Jim Keach track was sampled by the Orb in their YMO "Tong Poo" remixes which is just wild, and then closed it with that Elmer track from a punk rock compilation "Songs About Drinking."

Hope you enjoy the ride.

00:00  Murder By Death - Theme (For Ennio Morricone - Extended Version)

03:56  Little Tornados - Ben's Boat

05:22  The Title Sequence - Desert Song

08:12  Brightblack - Own Time

13:24  J Mascis - Untitled #2

14:46  Aoife O'Donovan - Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen)

18:42  Crownley - Untitled

20:57  A Small Good Thing - Jane Russell

22:58  Andrew Tuttle - Scribbly Gums Park

25:22  The Black Heart Procession - Guess I'll Forget You

29:51  Dean Owens - El Tiradito

32:07  Sara Watkins - Blue Shadows on the Trail

34:43  Jim Reeves - 'Til the End of the World

36:20  Numun - Awaken

39:18  Drag the River - Beautiful & Damned

42:23  Balmorhea - Clear Language

45:35  Terminal Sound System - Theme for Broken Home

51:10  Rebolledo & The Novotones - Mountain Eagle (The Black Frame Desert mix)

57:28  Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around to Die

59:48  Marisa Anderson - Bench Seat

60:41  Dean Owens - Mother Road

64:52  Murder By Death - Here's Looking at You, Kid (Gaslight Anthem)

67:59  Possessed By Paul James - Pills Beneath Her Pillow

73:36  Tia Blake - Plastic Jesus

75:57  Mack Allen Smith - I'm Not Drunk, I'm Just Drinkin

77:59  Jim Keach - Wildwood Boys

82:04  Elmer - Here's To You

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I'm stopping Spotify playlists for now, I was really upset that the last time I played some music there, I saw at least three ICE Recruitment video ads in 30 minutes.  That really upset me and I'll not use their service until this changes.

557 Covers

A fun set of cover songs that I'd been enjoying lately.  Was a good trip down memory lane hearing these again as I've had most in my collection for quite a while.  The image here is a quilt, which I have an appreciation for the effort and craftsmanship put into them after spending a lot of time talking with the artists at the recent 4-H exhibit at our county fair.  Side note, my daughter took 1st place in her category at the fair and is now headed to the state fair later this month, exciting times for the Mooz household.

00:00  Nick Cave - Running Scared (Roy Orbison)

02:01  Mexrrissey - Estuvo Bien (Suedehead) (Morrissey)

05:39  Iron Horse - Carry On My Wayward Son (Kansas)

09:04  First Aid Kit - Famous Blue Raincoat / Anthem (Live) (Leonard Cohen)

15:03  Codeine - Atmosphere (Joy Division)

19:41  Scarlett Johansson - Town With No Cheer (Tom Waits)

24:28  Dead Boys - Pigs on the Wing (Pink Floyd)

28:09  Antony & The Johnsons - I was young when I left home (Bob Dylan)

33:37  Bonnie Pink - Through the Dark (The Sundays)

37:36  The Ropers - Jumping Someone Else's Train (The Cure)

40:10  Bunnygrunt - Silly Girl (Descendents)

42:27  The Locust - Master and Servant (Depeche Mode)

46:05  Sing-Sing - Sunbathing (Lush)

48:55  Murder By Death - Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads)

53:11  Beautiful Junkyards - Radioactivity (Kraftwerk)

57:28  Fall of Saigon - The Model (Kraftwerk)

60:28  Space Negros - I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)

63:17  Jah Wobble - Time (Pink Floyd)

77:17  The Dynamics - Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)

72:25  Richard Cheese - Smoke Two Joints (Toyes)

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543C Post-Country

Wrapping it up with some more structure and less ambient in the traditional sense.  I mean, who would have expected a Funkadelic cover working in this style?  

00:00  Tulsa Drone - Chiaroscuro

04:34  Friends of Dean Martinez - All in a Golden Afternoon

09:34  William Tyler - Highway Anxiety

18:23  Hammock - Drugs and Religion

23:42  Japancakes - Always Stuck with Leaving

28:55  SUSS - Ursa Major

33:00  Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Martha's Dream

36:00  Earth - Tethered to the Polestar

40:26  Calexico - Where Only The Ashes are Left

44:43  All India Radio - Solstice

47:52  Viva Las Vegas - El Rio Llamado Orbigo

50:41  Elliott Smith - Kiwi Maddog 20/20

54:11  Volebeats - Maggot Brain (Funkadelic)

60:11  T.G. Olson - III

66:31  Oiseaux-Tempete - Ouroboros

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543B Bootgaze

Fun name for this style, and appropriate in my opinion.  Somehow I had previously overlooked the wonderful world of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' soundtrack work.  Sure I'd seen these movies but neglected to pick up the soundtracks which are great and really do compliment the films as a great composer should.  

00:00  Numun - Flower

05:47  Bill Frisell - Disfarmer Theme

11:17  Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Moving On

13:31  Hermanos Gutierrez - Lagrimas Negras

16:29  A Small, Good Thing - Hole in the Heart

20:18  Tulsa Drone - Red's Theme

22:28  Tara Jane O'Neil - Pearl Into Sand

25:42  Hammock - Meier

27:41  Pan American - The Cloud Room

35:07  SUSS - The Walk Home

38:45  Steven R Smith - A Celebration

42:41  Perry Frank - Barcelona Landscape

48:13  Calexico - Where Water Flows

49:52  The Cornfields - Common Street Train Song

56:14  Steven R Smith - Dust on Coils

61:09  Elgafar - Solitude

62:56  Friends of Dean Martinez - The Winter Palace

69:38  Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Last Chance for Love

73:25  Nate Hall - Night Theme

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539 Blame your strong blood, how it would break

Some oddball tracks mixed in to keep this spicy in-between some very recognizable tracks. 

I pulled the track title from words from every other track title in this mix... only later search and Google AI indicated that this phrase was used in a Jelly Roll song (my daughter is a fan).  Weird happenstance.

00:00  Chapterhouse - Pearl (edit)

02:58  Damage Manual - Blame and Demand (Wobble-Laswell Hybrid edit)

07:58  Clor - Goodbye

11:12  Dirty Projectors - Keep Your Name

15:39  Laika - Lower Than Stars

20:29  The Sea and Cake - Too Strong

23:18  Moonshake - Coward mix

25:23  The Cure - The Blood

29:01  David Bowie - Quicksand (demo)

33:36  Novy Svet - How

35:11  The Mountain Goats - Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton

37:35  Elliott Smith - Isn't It A Pity (George Harrison)

40:35  Piano Magic - Not Fair

44:41  Alice in Chains - Would?

48:06  The Gaslight Anthem - The Queen of Lower Chelsea

51:39  The Prids - Break

55:46  Beastie Boys - Sabotage

58:34  My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realize

62:14  The Jesus and Mary Chain - Upside Down

65:07  Catherine Wheel - Kill Rhythm

68:58  Death in June - Symbols of the Sun (live)

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535 The Patience of a Mushroom

A chill mix of mostly indie folk, and some positivity spread throughout.  Plus a rare classic Pink Floyd song I was only recently made aware of.  Last week I wore a Shelter t-shirt to a meeting with my Sangha, and no one else had heard them yet, so I played this acoustic cover and they all loved it.  Felt only right to follow that with a Plum Village recording.

00:00  Cave In - Nothin (Townes Van Zandt)

03:16  Heather Trost - Early Gardens

05:36  Pan American & Michael Grigoni - New World, Lonely Ride

09:01  Double Virgo - Rent Boy (HTRK)

11:16  Death in June - Luther's Army (Black Mix)

15:13  Le Volume Courbe - Mind Contorted

18:18  Amenra - Kathleen (Townes Van Zandt)

21:30  Codeine - Atmosphere (Joy Division)

26:07  Pink Floyd - Embryo

30:36  Tarnation - Halfway to Madness

35:55  Mushroom's Patience - Water Track 09

37:25  Jeff Eisenberg Kirtan - Mantra (by Shelter)

40:09  Plum Village - Silence is an Ocean

41:52  Escondido - Evil Girls

45:30  The Aqua Velvets - Guitar Noir

49:53  Radar Bros - You and the Father

54:35  A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Night Sneaker

56:12  Nick Cave - La Vie En Rose

59:53  Girl In Red - I'm Back

62:48  Shanin Blake - Energy Vampires

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519 Sense and the Story's End

A little bit of what is making me smile lately.

00:00  Wolf Alice - Sense (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard)

03:17  Sieben - Maldoror

07:26  Neither/Neither World - All I Ever Wanted (Bauhaus)

11:29  The Legendary Pink Dots - Our Dominion

17:18  His Name Is Alive - Young

20:53  Townes Van Zandt - Tecumseh Valley

25:36  Social Distortion - Alone and Forsaken (Hank Williams Sr.)

28:39  Violent Femmes - American Music (Alternative Mix)

32:13  Adam Green - Bleeding Heart

34:05  Kimya Dawson - Everything's Alright

36:35  Tiger Trap - Prettiest Boy

39:44  The Notwist - Neon Golden

45:36  Slowdive - Kisses (Electronic Version 3)

49:04  A Certain Ratio - Where You Coming From (Jane Weaver Rework)

53:00  Ben Hobbs - Here's Where The Story Ends (The Sundays)

57:27  Father John Misty - I Guess Time Just Makes Fools Of Us All

65:47  Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Baby

70:11  Heidi Berry - The Devil

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514 Its a little bit magic

I had planned on using the track "Closedown - Bliss" in a mix and saw this track included on a recent Slow Poof mix from Pol Inate, so I decided to switch things up and spiraled into a hazy swirl of shoegazey bliss of my own.

00:00  Plumtree - Scott Pilgrim

02:59  Cryogeyser - Sorry

05:42  Aurore Rein - The Placebo Kiss

11:31  Ozean - Fall

15:54  Caspian - Sad Heart of Mine

20:00  Aerial - Time is on Fire

26:56  Closedown - Skywards

31:19  Bill Wells Octet - Olympic Material

35:15  Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (Tucson)

41:10  His Name Is Alive - Whiter

44:26  Jane Weaver - Emotional Components

49:27  Laika - Marimba Song (Boo Boo's Gone Mambo)

55:42  Dali's Car - Create and Melt

60:58  Aiden Baker - Feed Me Yr Kiss

65:43  Abecedarians - Ghosts

70:57  Andy Bell - Our Last Night Together

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508 The Farmer in the Dell is the Devil

Been sitting on this one for a while and happy to release it into the wild now.  All over the map in alternative rock stylings.  New and old, odd and familiar, weird and normal, this has it all.

00:00  Tiger Trap - Puzzle Pieces

02:20  The Waiting Sound - Give Her Tomorrow

06:06  Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh

09:26  The Asteroid No.4 - Northern Song

12:52  Beach Slang - Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas

16:04  Jets to Brazil - Chinatown

21:30  High Vis - Stabbed

24:25  Porno for Pyros - Sadness

26:53  Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter (Dub-Shady Haze version pt2)

29:25  Ozean - Scenic

34:01  Relations - Comes

38:12  Dead Milkmen feat Gibby Haynes - Anderson, Walkman, Buttholes and How!

41:34  New Order - Homage

45:42  Steve Earle - Yer so Bad (Tom Petty)

48:31  Joy Oladokun eat Noah Kahan - We're All Gonna Die

51:29  Tomorrows Tulips - Certain Frantic Quality

54:25  The Notwist - Consequence

59:34  Placebo - Every You Every Me (single mix)

63:02  Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser - All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun

68:04  Kimya Dawson - Velvet Rabbit

72:10  Raveonettes - The End (The Doors)

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498 9B Am I Seeing Doubles?

Here are the twins.  I think only the Evil Mother's track isn't paired up on this one.  

00:00  Jac Berrocal - Lidice

04:46  The Vampires of Dartmoore - Crime and Horror

07:40  Four Tet - So Here We Are (Bloc Party)

13:15  Itchy-O - Wild Mountain

16:18  Stereolab - Revox

20:25  Pigface - Kiss King (Saint James Mix)

26:39  Fred - Rose-Chop

30:55  Sieben - Ogham on the Hill (Remix)

34:54  Lotus Eaters - Untitled #6

42:35  mewithoutYou - Existential Dread, Six Hours' Time

45:46  Angels of Light - Sunset Park

51:34  Six Organs of Admittance - Attar

54:14  Akron Family - I'll Be On The Water

57:29  Devics - Lie to Me

60:30  Current 93/HOH - Merry-Go-Round and Around

64:12  Kraftwerk - Elektrisches Roulette

68:27  Not Breathing - Kissy (Pre M.R.I. mix)

74:48  Colin Potter - Never Underestimate the Power of Nothing

80:27  The Legendary Pink Dots - La Cazza Nova

84:27  Crash Worship - Catatonic Dance

90:47  Ikara Colt - May B 1 Day #2

95:06  Crash Course in Science - It Cost's to be Austere (1981 demo)

97:42  Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Czukay - How Much Are They?

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498 9A Am I Seeing Doubles?

The next two mixes are also from that same stash of unearthed mixes from 2006.  This one however has been modernized somewhat.  What I found was a mix that had about 8 or 9 artists with two tracks, and about 6 more artists with only one track.  I figured I'd update this a bit, so I could have two separate mixes with one track from each of these artists.  I really wanted this to work out where it would be the same order of artists on both mixes, but the tracks just didn't flow that well together.  There are a couple anomalies between these two mixes, but I don't think it matters that much in the grand scheme of things.

00:00  Jac Berrocal - Automne Perdu

01:35  Itchy-O - Mystrabia/Under the Lake

07:14  Crash Worship - Pillar of Fire

09:37  Evil Mothers - Orisha

11:27  Pigface - Warzone

15:03  Four Tet - Breathe Me (Sia)

20:01  Ikara Colt - Here We Go Again

22:47  Stereolab - John Cage Bubblegum

26:02  Sieben - The Rattle of Drums

30:49  Lotus Eaters - Untitled #2

35:29  mewithoutYou - East Enders Wives (Demo)

38:14  Fred - Suburbarenity

43:54  The Legendary Pink Dots - True Love

47:05  Colin Potter - We Are So Glad

49:00  Crash Course in Science - Cardboard Lamb

51:26  Not Breathing - Birth of Rotorhead

57:34  Science Fiction Dance Party - Souk El Juma

60:19  Angels of Light - Palisades

64:35  Devices - Distant Rardio

69:22  Akron Family - Miccheck

71:55  Six Organs of Admittance - Words for Two

73:28  Holger Czukar, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit - Mystery R.P.S. (No. 8)

81:58  Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson - Suourgata

85:17  Kraftwerk - Heimatklange

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490 Shadows mix A

Ending 2024 with an appropriately somber and mellow couple of mixes. 

I've wanted to use this opening Piano Magic track for a long time, but never found the right place for it.  I finally thought, what about shadows... and by sheer luck, an episode of Kids in the Hall came on and the theme song is from Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet and I knew I had my theme.  Fortunately, Current 93 has plenty of songs with Shadow in the title so I was off to a great start.  Plus, I have been hanging on to this picture for a while.  Its a fan made comic strip using the lyrics from that opening track by Piano Magic.  Always thought this was pretty cool.

00:00  Piano Magic - I Came to Your Party Dressed as a Shadow

04:04  Yo La Tengo - Shadows

06:24  Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Long Shadow

09:53  Sam Prekop - The Shadow

14:31  Current 93 + Nurse With Wound - Walking Like Shadow II

17:14  Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Mary Dances in the Shadows/The Holiest of Harlots

21:22  Piano Magic - I Have Moved Into The Shadows

25:45  Material - Shadows of Paradise

35:18  Future Sound of London - Dirty Shadows

41:33  Death In June - A Sad Place to Make A Shadow

44:34  Current 93 - Chewing on Shadows

48:50  Current 93 - Where the Long Shadows Fall

54:51  Rapoon - The Shadows Approach

62:40  Nordvargr - The Shadows Are Bent By My Presence

66:27  Current 93 + Nick Cave - I Could Not Shift the Shadow

72:32  Grey Force Wakeford - Shadows in the Light

79:44  Rapoon - Sunday's Shadows

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487 Counting 0 to 30

Nothing original here, this has to be a common theme for playlists.  This is my take.  Had originally planned just a one to ten, then remembered this great Godflesh cover, and this Nick Cave song came on rotation so I felt I needed to continue it.   I almost stopped at 21 as it was hard searching for this title as 99% of the search results were for Twenty One Pilots, ugh!  At least I remembered King Crimson, which kept this one moving along.   Honestly, after thirty I really struggled to find anything I cared enough about to include. 

I really like how much this mix jumps around, I find it fun and entertaining.

00:00  Godflesh - Zero The Hero (Black Sabbath)

06:01  Bigod20 - One

11:05  Khruangbin - Two Fish and an Elephant

14:33  Snowpony - 3 Can Keep a Secret (if 2 are dead)

18:09  Bright Eyes - Four Winds

22:15  Melvins - Trackfive (Throbbing Gristle)

29:16  Black Flag - Six Pack

31:33  Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven

36:16  Husker Du - Eight Miles High (The Byrds)

39:57  The Sisters of Mercy - Nine While Nine

43:52  808 State and UB40 - One in Ten  

46:27  Primus - Eleven

50:44  Venetian Snares - Twelve

52:59  Johnny Cash - Thirteen (Danzig)

55:22  The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

59:03  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow

64:30  Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

67:01  Prince and The Revolution - 17 Days

70:48  Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen

73:34  The Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown

77:22  To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - I Box Twenty

81:25  King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

88:38  Roy Orbison - Twenty-Two Days

91:40  Psychic TV - Hymn 23

92:13  Cult of Luna - 24 Hours (Joy Division)

96:38  Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4

101:25  DeVotchKa - Twenty-Six Temptations

105:28  Title Fight - 27

107:50  Why? - Twenty-Eight

108:33  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Twenty-Nine (Albini)

110:45  Sarah Watson - Thirty

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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"

454 Latest Ideas mix 1

These are all songs that popped in my head over the last couple weeks.  A few things of note...

The Neither/Neither World cover is quite nice, and had a good chuckle when my wife mistook the opening chords for "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," which she attributed to Motley Crue.  Love her and her mistakes in naming bands and songs.  She's the type that will sing loud and proud, even if she gets the lyrics wrong.  I love this instrumental track from LPD, you can definitely feel Ryan's influence here as this is not just instrumental, but a dubbed out remix of a stellar track from that era.   The HNIA track is from the Shaving the Pavement compilation which N0 had so kindly helped me track down - its not that much different from the album version, but it does have that trademark Warn Defever extra bit at the end.  Marina Allen sounds like she nicked this one from the early 2000-era HNIA.

The Girl in Red track was a wonderful surprise, a very positive and uplifting track that I am so happy my daughters like and will listen to this.  Then a rare early version of Procession, and a track from my favorite Talking Head's album (I think I may be in the minority on that one).  The weirdest Joy Division track, which its worth tracking down the Tortoise cover of this one.  Moving into some absolute staples of 90's alternative rock - I'd gone out for some beers with some fellow dads and they couldn't stop talking about this kind of stuff and it stuck in my head for weeks afterwards.  

The Filter track is one of those songs that my wife and I could sing along to, and always forgot what band performed it.  The Stone Roses from a rehearsal tape provided by Madchester Rave-On before they went private on that blog.  Talulah Gosh again, because that's the namesake of my puppy.  A demo from the Buck Pets which though simple, is quite an excellent track.  The Walkmen, which came up on the radio recently and I realized I never really dove into their catalog much, an oversight I am currently remedying.  

A rare Pixies track from the Rubáiyát compilation.  Frank Turner, also played heavily on the local indie radio station.  DFL48 which I have to break out every couple months because that album is just so dang good.  More from Los Villains as I'm so happy I found and dug out their CD from my archives in storage.  My younger daughter has very strong opinions that Operation Ivy is great, but Common Rider is just a little bit better.  Heard my friends' band cover Face to Face recently and that made me very happy.  Then wrapping it up with an out of place Deftones song on this mix, just cause.  And a fun German track, which is entertaining to translate the lyrics.

The spotify playlist is close, but a little loose based on some of the more obscure tracks in this mix.

00:00  Neither/Neither World - Darklands (Jesus & Mary Chain)

03:34  Legandary Pink Dots - Sterre Instrumental

07:39  His Name Is Alive - ESP Summer (Shaving the Pavement version)

10:33  Marina Allen - Foul Weather Jacket Drawing

13:43  Girl In Red - I'm Back

16:38  Jane Weaver - Happiness in Proximity

20:07  New Order - Procession (First Movement version)

23:46  Talking Heads - Arists Only

27:16  Joy Division - As You Said

29:09  Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

32:52  Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon (Neil Diamond)

35:52  James - Laid

38:22  The Dream Syndicate - Tell Me When It's Over

41:40  Filter - Take A Picture

47:27  The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone (Rehearsal #3)

49:28  The Telescopes - High On Fire

52:06  Talulah Gosh - The Girl with the Strawberry Hair

54:22  The Buck Pets - A Little Murder (demo)

58:09  Pretty Girls Make Graves - All Medicated Geniuses

61:27  The Walkmen - The Rat

65:43  Pixies - Born in Chicago (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)

67:50  Frank Turner - Girl From The Record Shop

69:34  Dancing French Liberals of '48 - New Drinking Song

72:32  Los Villains - Sun Bandits

75:03  Common Rider - Rough Redemption

77:27  Face To Face - Not Enough

80:16  Deftones - Birthmark

84:22  Withuser & Westrupp - Nimm doch einen Joint, mein Freund

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451 Classical Indie Olio

More folder cleanouts.  Lots of gems in this one for those patient enough to wait through some classical music (which in my opinion isn't really a challenge).  I bit of everything in here really, and I think it flows really well.  

00:00  Plum Village - I Have Arrived, I Am Home

01:27  James & Eno - Hammer Strings

03:37  The Future Sound of London - The House In The Woods

05:51  Daniel Barenboim - Chopin: Nocturne #1 in B Flat Minor, Op. 9/1, CT 108

11:10  Julian Bream - Tarrega:Capricho Arabe

16:26  Eliot Fisk - Lauro: Carora

18:00  Evil Twin - Ice Pick For An Old Flame

24:06  Babes in Toyland - Quiet Room

27:02  The Gaslight Anthem - The Navesink Banks

29:44  Underworld - Blueski

32:32  First Aid Kit - Blue

35:37  Lush - All This Useless Beauty (Costello)

39:15  Bonnie Prince Billy - A Whorehouse is Any House

42:19  Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You

46:45  Sam & Dave - Hold On, I'm Comin'

49:11  Sharon Jones - How Long Do I Have To Dub For You

52:36  Jamila Woods feat SABA - Practice

55:49  The Movement - Ways of the World

60:20  Los Villains - Hasta Siempre

62:11  Ofra Haza - Im Nin'alu

67:14  Faust vs Dalek - T-Electronique

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449 Vinyl Rips - Mix 5 Acoustic and Pop

Somewhat more accessible pop in the vein of shoegaze, soul, and post-rock.  The rest is indie folk, dark folk, and some crazy stuff as you can expect from me.

00:00  Novy Svet - Hola Barca

01:47  O Paradis - El Astro Rey

05:30  Derniere Volonte - Song d'un Martin d'Ete

10:33  Allerseelen feat Circe - Marques De Pubol

15:04  Black Channels - Oracles 

19:57  Foresa Di Ferro - Cafe Flesh

22:54  Changes - Summer

25:32  Six Organs of Admittance - It Was Written

28:57  Gastr Del Sol - 20 songs less (side A)

31:17  Lou Barlow - Black Sheep (Minutemen)

32:30  ESP Family - This World Is Not My Home

35:29  Monade - Witchhazel

37:12  Super Falling Star - Dead Letters

40:20  Airiel - Shirley Temple Tidal Wave

45:27  Beequeen - White Bike (unused song)

46:17  Earthmonkey - Sister Marble Gazer

53:19  The 100 Knight Orchestra - Soul Fugue

58:08  The Family Daptone - Hey Brother (Do Unto Others)

61:51  Cold Diamond and Mink - Woman You Made Me (Instrumental)

65:27  Green Milk From the Planet Orange - Sweet 5am

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448 More Covers

Thus wrapping up my selection of cover songs.  Hope there was something of interest in this series.  More to come once I compile some more tracks and build more mixes.  

00:00  Los Aggrotones - Spooky (Classics IV)

04:06  Devendra Banhart - Forget About Him (Kath Bloom)

07:18  Richard Cheese - Gin & Juice (Snoop Dogg)

09:39  Bjork - Its Oh So Quiet (Hutton/Reisfeld)

13:12  DubXanne feat EASED from SEEED - Roxanne (The Police)

18:47  Easy Star All-Stars feat Sluggy Ranks - Speak To Me / Breathe (In The Air) (Pink Floyd)

22:20  311 - Love Song (The Cure)

25:40  Sly & Robbie feat Ambilique - Walking On The Moon (The Police)

29:43  Prince Fatty and the Mutant HiFi feat Little Roy - Come As You Are (Nirvana)

33:42  Kirsty MacColl - A New England (Billy Bragg)

37:21  Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness (Bonnie Prince Billy)

40:55  Sturgill Simpson - The Promise (When In Rome)

45:10  Marissa Nadler - My Proud Mountains (Townes Van Zandt)

49:52  Soccer Mommy - Dagger (Slowdive)

54:08  Luna - Fire in Cairo (The Cure)

57:29  Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen)

61:59  Antony and the Johnsons - Soft Black Stars (Current 93)

66:25  Nick Cave - Helpless (Neil Young)

70:45  Lucy Dacus - In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins)

76:11  Julie's Haircut - The Tarot (Jodorowsky)

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