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Punk and adjacent styles for a high energy.  No real rhyme or reason here, just enjoy the angst and fun.

00:00  Propagandhi - Who Will Help Me Bake This Bread?

02:37  Sparta - Red Alibi

05:59  Orange 9mm - Driver

09:20  Son of Crackpipe - Pogo's House

12:59  Soundgarden - Tears to Forget

14:54  Iggy & The Stooges - T.V. Eye

19:08  And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - It Was There That I Saw You

23:04  Outhud - Emperor Selassie's Morning Wood

25:36  Common Rider - Signal Signal (alternate version)

28:07  The Starvations - This Is What You Wanted

31:29  Talulah Gosh - I Told You So

33:05  Soccer - Christmas Vacation (Descendents) 

36:15  Swingin Utters - No Groove in Gunsights

38:29  Face to Face - Nothing New

41:49  The Ramones - Judy is a Punk

43:18  Descendents - I'm Not A Punk

44:20  Suicidal Tendencies - I Want More

46:42  The Freeze - Nazi Fun (live)

49:28  The Hives - Uptempo Venomous Poison

50:36  Protomartyr - Pagans

51:44  Youth Brigade - Spies for Life

54:36  Walter Schreifels - High Hopes (Gorilla Biscuits)

56:05  Second Still - You Two So Alike

58:10  Amebix - Last Will and Testament

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344b Can't wash the grunge away

A continuation of the last mix, split mostly so I didn't include two songs from the same artist in the playlist.  More classics that bring up nostalgia.  Very fond memories of a lot of these tracks, and mixed in some newer items as well.  What can I say, a feel good mix that might get people singing along and cheer them up as winter quickly approaches.

00:00  Pretty Girls Make Graves - The Getaway

04:14  The Smiths - Cemetery Gates

06:40  Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves

10:36  Pixies - Surf of Mutilation

12:53  Screaming Trees - The Turning

15:27  Violent Femmes - Kiss Off

18:09  Khruangbin - The Man Who Took My Sunglasses (Session Victim remix)

23:18  The Beta Band - Squares

26:50  The Flaming Lips - Fight Test

30:51  Emiliana Torrini - Ha Ha

34:01  The Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

38:20  Editors - Every Little Piece

42:19  Joy Division - Atmosphere

46:23  Monophonics - Its Only Us

51:11  The Sundays - Skin & Bones

55:15  Bat For Lashes - Moon and Moon

58:12  Slowdive - Dagger (electric)

61:40  The Charlatans - Inside-Looking Out

66:33  Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Passenger

71:24  The Jesus & Mary Chain - She

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344a Morose is funner to say than Experienced

I've got a lot of alternative mixes coming soon.  These are the only tracks I know from Best Kissers in the World and Whipped Cream, both from a Stoli Vodka promo CD which for early 90's has a solid tracklist.  Our local independent radio station has been playing Mrs. Robinson quite often lately, reminded me what a great album that was from.  Included this Frank Black track because of the new Scott Pilgrim Netflix show.  Meat Puppets because I had recently finished "Corporate Rock Sucks" the SST records story.  The Cure remixed by Keith LeBlanc?  Yes please, I want more.  Then I'll admit I've been on a Pretty Girls Make Graves kick after ready the Dharma Bums.  Then several classics that don't need much introduction.  True Body is hte newest track on here, and don't really recall how I came across this gem.  The Editors are another group I should pay more attention to.  The New Fast Automatic Daffodils came to my attention through this track on MTV's 120 Minutes. I loved the funky baggy sometimes dubby sound that made them stand out from so many other alternative bands.  I keep meaning to do an overview mix of them, but haven't given it the attention I should.   Zola Jesus is another recent track, and she is magnificent in all she does.  Ending with perhaps a more rare cut of a favorite track.  

The title of this mix comes from my daughter, I try to write down all the funny quips she comes up with and this one stood out.  Hope you enjoy.  YouTube playlist is pretty good as most of these have actual official videos.

00:00  Asobi Seksu - Thursday

04:12  Stereolab - The Noise of Carpet

07:07  Best Kissers in the World - Pickin' Flowers For

10:23  The Lemonheads - Mrs. Robinson

13:53  Frank Black - I Heard Ramona Sing

17:25  Meat Puppets - Severed Goddess Hand

20:14  Siouxsie and The Banshees - Spellbound

23:29  Slowdive - Bleed

26:52  The Cure - Primary (Red Mix 1990)

33:53  Pretty Girls Make Graves - Speakers Push The Air

36:44  Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

40:43  Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

44:26  The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing

46:24  The Breeders - When I Was A Painter

49:41  True Body - Spirit City

53:35  Editors - The Weight of the World

57:44  New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Fishes Eyes

63:45  New Order - True Faith (edit)

67:46  Zola Jesus - Long Way Down

71:41  Whipped Cream - Explosion

75:50  Joy Division - Ceremony (Graveyard Studios, Prestwich version)

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317 Alternative Rock

Yep, I grew up in the 90s listening to plenty of alternative rock.  These kinds of catchy songs with a little bit of edge will always have a special place in my heart.   Was fun revisiting all these videos on YouTube.

00:00  Evil Stig - Bob (Cousin O)

02:51  Guardian Singles - Tea Lights Exploding

05:31  The Wedding Present - Once More

08:33  Madder Rose - Ultra Anxiety (Teenage Style)

11:36  Rival Schools - Sofia Loren

13:59  Cracker - Low

18:25  Morphine - Mile High

21:17  Sublime - Santeria

24:17  Sugar - Helpless

27:07  Blonde Redhead - 23

32:16  Waxwing - Spanish Quartet

35:11  Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

37:34  The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray

40:36  The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psycho Candy

43:24  The Sundays - You're Not The Only One I Know (demo)

47:09  Alice In Chains - Got Me Wrong

51:18  Madder Rose - Altar Boy

54:26  Soul Coughing - Murder of Lawyers

59:35  Red Hot Chili Peppers - Taste The Pain

63:40  Polar Bear - Lick

68:56  The Darling Buds - It Makes No Difference

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290 - Alt Grunge Funk

Way back in the mid 90's somehow a blend of funk and grunge music came together, and only lasted a short while.  There were certainly a lot of imitators and sub-par music, which only made the real gems stand out so much more.  I made this mix mostly because I wanted to find a home for Primus and Fishbone, and include the pre-pop phase of the RHCP, along with a friend of a friend's bands World Separation and Pope on a Stick.  Then I remembered how much I liked Live when they first came out, though I had to dig through boxes to find their CD.  Then I wanted to end the mix with probably the only Faith No More and Living Colour tracks I still have in my collection.

00:00  Infectious Groove - Punk It Up

03:46  Fishbone - Bonin in the Boneyard

08:17  Loudhouse - Faith Farm (edit)

12:24  Mordred - Esse Quam Videri

15:16  Primus - Too Many Puppies

19:08  Red Hot Chili Peppers - Nobody Weird Like Me

22:54  Skatenigs - Chemical Imbalance

27:52  World Separation - Cancer

33:22  Pope on a Stick - Broken

36:59  311 - Homebrew

39:52  Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver

43:01  Red Hot Chili Peppers - Funky Crime

45:59  Mind Funk - Sugar Ain't So Sweet

50:40  Mother Love Bone - Stardog Champion

55:28  Live - Pain Lies on the Riverside

60:30  Fishbone - Sunless Saturday

64:42  Bad Brains - With The Quickness

67:24  Faith No More - Epic

72:10  Living Colour - Cult of Personality

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241 - Untidy and Edgier

Grunge, heavy alternative rock.  A homage to the 90s.  This is the stuff I dove into back in middles school and high school.  While most of my friends gravitated towards punk, I loved the scuzzy dirty grunge scene.  Those harder hitting alternative rock songs and such.  Admittedly, I have much respect for Chris Cornell, but Loud Love was the end of my appreciation of Soundgarden, their pop hits really irked me.  Glad I got to see them as the opening act on for Pantera and then Skid Row.  Bonkers, and I recall they all came on the stage at the encore to do a cover of "Train Kept A Rollin."  I have fond memories of seeing the Butthole Surfers at Lollapalooza, where Gibby flung paper plates overhead and shot them with a BB gun.  Catherine Wheel's album Chrome is just a masterpiece for this genre.  Also, can't say enough good about the Beach Boy's-esque noise pop of the Jesus and Mary Chain.

00:00  Butthole Surfers - Sweat Loaf

04:52  Soundgarden - Ugly Truth

10:13  The Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From A Gun (New York 1992)

14:26  Toadies - Mexican Hairless

16:14  My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise

19:56  Coaltar of the Deepers - C/O/T/D

23:38  Pixies - Isla De Encanta

25:17  Fuel - Untitled

29:12  Lanemeyer - Alarm

32:11  Catherine Wheel - I Confess

35:57  Something Like Elvis - Future Sport

41:34  The Lemonheads - Style (Godflesh Style)

44:06  The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand

47:10  Butthole Surfers - Human Cannonball

50:54  Soundgarden - Loud Love

55:54  PJ Harvey - Sheela-Na-Gig

58:54  Lush - Baby Talk

61:07  Pixies - Gouge Away (Demo)

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