Thursday, February 18, 2010

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 2

Your weekly play list. I don't need to explain myself and the reality of the play list is that the songs sound good together in this particular order. If you're an iTunes type of person I will warn you that not all these titles can be found there, the first song is the perfect example.
Note on this mix: Many of these songs on here are songs that I didn't like when I first heard them, strange. Many seem to have a rock fusion whether it's rock and rap or rock and techno.

ENJOY!



1. Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
I think Noel Gallagher says this is his favorite Beatles song and lets be fair it's a very good song that highly influenced the final song on the mix
2. Bawitdaba by Kid Rock
I like to rock! It was clear at some point in Kid Rock's weird musical career he did too but besides his name it seems like all rap and country hybrid music. I don't know what I'm saying really but I like this jam. It came out when it seemed even rockers were still shying away from being flamboyant and over the top, to me he said he was going for it.


3. Give It Away by Red hot Chili Peppers
Non stop funk machines? Well not quite, they have definitely stopped being funky and this may have actually been the last time they tried. Blood Sugar Sex Magik in many ways made The Chili Peppers a worse band, fame can do that.
4. Don't Bring Me Down By Electric Light Orchestra
Jeff Lynn, producer of the late 80s and rocker of the 70s. A man with an afro and that's the end of what I got to say besides this song is a really good pop song. 
5. Nookie by Limp Bizkit
When rap and metal collide you get better examples such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and you get worse ones like Limp Bizkit. they filled the void for those about to rock but couldn't quite get there.
6. Dazzle by Siouxsie & the Banshees
Ahhh, this song is beautiful and gorgeous and utterly goth pop! Souixsie was at her best here before she started to dance a bit too much.


7. Firestarter by The Prodigy
The Prodigy were supposed to be the band that combined techno and rock and take us into the new millennium; it didn't quite work out that way even though they were all over the radio and Mtv. Fat of The Land wasn't a bad album but it was already too late for awesome rock movements. Yes it symbolized getting as far away from Grunge as we could and attempt to get that dirty shotgun barrel taste out of our mouths but it left us wondering what the hell?


8. She's a Rainbow by The Rolling Stones
BAck in the 60s all the big bands gave psychedelia a try, here's one of the Stones better known efforts as well as background music for the iMac when it went into many colors.
9. Baby Did A Bad Bad thing by Chris Isaak
Only Chris Isaak and Prince could pull off a purple suit like he did in his video. I don't know how this song made it into a Stanley Kubrick movie; it may be proof that he really didn't finish it before he passed away.
10. Can't Get Enough Of You Baby by Smash Mouth
Party Music for the last part of the 90s!
11. I'm The One by Van Halen
Party Music for those who weren't into disco in the late 70s
12. Walk On The Wild side by Lou Reed
So we're going to cool it down a bit, we're going to see New York City through Lou Reed's eyes. I wonder if kids feel this song carries any weight any more.


13. Stuck In The Middle With You by Steelers Wheel
Is this pop? Regardless it's place in music had been helped out by it's placement in Reservoir Dogs, during a very bloody ear cutting scene. "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right"
14. Walk This Way by Aerosmith
Aerosmith and Rick Rubin will claim this was the first rap song but obviously that's just hype. The song was great no matter what it is. I still think Toys In The Attic is a great album.
15. Belt by Lemonheads
If one bostan band is good, two are better
16. Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf) by Pixies
And three is beautiful. This slowed down version of the song is great and trippy and sad


17. Rusty Cage by Soundgarden
Picking up the pace again we go to the Pacific Northwest to hear what Soundgarden did on the album that built them a big following before they got humungous! Some will say because the sales weren't as good there was no way the Badmotorfinger album wasn't as good as Superunkown but they would be posers.
18. Bring Tha Noize by Public Enemy and Anthrax
Metal and Rap fusing again! What's going on? I enjoy this version more than the Public Enemy version without Anthrax.
19. Setting Sun by The Chemical Brothers
It all comes around, doesn't it? Techno and rock together at last! This is the Chemical Brother's best song and might be the only one anybody besides real fans can name. The video was crazy if i recall with a girl having a bad trip . . . Dig Your Own Hole

 

2 comments:

  1. i never heard of 5 of the songs listed.

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  2. and that's a good thing, discovering new music is a great thing!

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