266 - Hodgepodge of Pop and Weirdness

Was in a strange mood when I made this mix.  Starts with uncharacteristic pop and moves to some fun and quirky stuff, then meanders through several genres until ending with some epic krautrock jams inspired by Nurse With Wound references.  Bizarre, but fun.

00:00  Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

05:33  SAULT - Free

10:35  Shungudzo - It's A Good Day (To Fight The System)

13:49  Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone

16:52  Saturday Looks Good To Me - Ultimate Stars

19:52  ? - Ryuuju no Dengon

21:26  Monster Island - Hiroshima Bop

26:49  Amigo the Devil - Small Stone

29:57  Blood, Sweat & Tears - The Battle

32:31  Midwinter - Sanctuary Stone

36:35  Justin Johnson - Under Your Spell

43:08  Ben McElroy - How I Learnt to Disengage from the Pack

48:36  Warn Defever - When Flowers Covered the Earth

54:26  Alcatraz - Simple Headphone Mind

64:11  Can - Messer, Scissors, Fork and Light

72:29  Exmagma - Trippin With Birds Kudu Horny

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264 - Folk Rock

00:00  Bruce Springsteen - Don't Back Down #11 (alternate slow version)

03:24  Bonnie Prince Billy - No Such As What I Want

06:50  Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Pictures

09:34  Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All The Way Down

12:31  The Living Sisters - Ferris Wheel

15:33  Jackson Browne - These Days

20:06  Ora Cogan - Witch

24:58  Jean Ritchie - Black Is The Colour

27:07  Shirley Collins - Come My Love

29:43  Monsters of Folk - Slow Down Jo

32:53  John Fahey - Sunflower River Blues

38:36  The Tallest Man On Earth - I Won't Be Found

41:16  Frightened Rabbit - Scottish Winds

43:49  Bruce Peninsula - Rosie

46:55  Blind Willie Johnson - In My Time Of Dying

50:02  Charley Patton - Some of These Days I'll Be Gone

53:13  Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land

55:29  Pete Seeger - Home On The Range

57:15  His Name Is Alive - Sunshine

62:45  Mindless Drug Hoover - The Reefer Song

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263b - The Animals Praise The Antichrist

A lot of crossover by artist from the first half, and in most cases these were specific songs called out, or the artist was called out multiple times in the book.  Certainly some genre hopping here but that's how diverse the book gets.

00:00  Rudimentary Peni - Radio Schizo

01:17  Husker Du - Something I Learned Today

03:15  Dinosaur Jr - Little Fury Things

06:12  The Wipers - Alien Boy

09:27  The Gun Club - Ghost on the Highway

12:06  The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck

15:03  The Cure - Other Voices

19:23  The Fall - I Feel Voxish

23:38  Joy Division - Means To An End

27:41  Cocteau Twins - Blind Dumb Deaf

31:13  The Sound - Contact The Fact

35:26  Lowlife - Again and Again

39:22  Pixies - Gigantic

43:10  John Fahey - I'm A Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home

46:20  Comus - Song to Comus

53:42  King Crimson - Starless

65:44  Christian Death - Cavity First Communion

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263a - The Animals Praise The Antichrist

This book is easily in my ten best ever read.  It starts as an outsider love story of teens in 1980s smaller-town England, and then opens to a love letter to post-punk and goth music of the era...then becomes this bizarre drug fueled Lovecraftian story with ample tension that ends (and begins) how you'd expect from a Lovecraft disciple (I'm writing this as it occurs to explain what happened...).  I took ample notes of every name drop in the book, and these two mixes represent the best.  

00:00  Rudimentary Peni - Nothing But A Nightmare

01:43  Husker Du - Chartered Trips

05:12  Wipers - Don't Know What I Am

08:07  Dinosaur Jr - In A Jar

11:29  Pixies - Bone Machine

14:28  John Fahey - Sunflower River Blues

17:00  The Fall - Hotel Bloedel

20:42  Lowlife - Ramafied

24:51  The Cramps - Aloha From Hell

27:16  Gun Club - The Fire of Love

29:21  The Cure - Primary

32:51  The Sound - Skeletons

36:15  Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours

40:37  Lowlife - Sometime Something

44:34  Cocteau Twins - Perhaps Some Other Aeon

47:24  Siouxsie and The Banshees - Spellbound

50:39  Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

53:39  Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels

57:50  Coil - Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen)

60:19  Sade - Smooth Operator

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262 All In The Downs - Shirley Collins

The Secret Queen of England.  Another self made soundtrack to accompany a great book.  Most of these songs are discussed in this book, and I kept the focus to just Shirley's music and not the large group of musicians she associated with.

00:00  Sweet England

02:32  Hares on the Mountain (with Davy Graham)

05:26  Barbara Allen

08:39  Pretty Polly

12:43  Poor Murdered Woman (with The Albion Country Band)

16:57  Pretty Saro (with Davy Graham)

21:10  Rambleaway (with Dolly Collins)

25:25  Reynardine (with Davy Graham)

27:50  Death and the Lady 

32:28  The Queen of May

34:14  Come My Love (with Dolly Collins)

36:49  The Cherry Tree Carol (with Davy Graham)

40:03  The Moon Shines Bright (with Dolly Collins)

42:06  Gilderoy (with Dolly Collins)

46:46  Canadee-i-o

50:52  The Rich Irish Lady / Jeff Sturgeon

56:46  Whitsun Dance

59:49  Hori Horo (with Davy Graham)

61:56  Six Dukes 

64:23  The Blacksmith Courted Me

67:30  Adieu To Old England

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