Thursday, February 24, 2011

Weekly Mix # 53

We start our second year of mixes with an album that leads off with Boston and ends with Detroit. There are songs from as early as 1968 and as recent as 2006. Some of the songs a re rather creepy but I think you can manage. buy the songs and listen to them!


1. Shipping Up To Boston by Dropkick Murphys
If your town has a rocking theme song it's cool but when it has several it's really awesome! People who love Boston really love it; it's territorial and heart felt.
2. Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo
This is kind of a weird song but totally cool. It's an 80s gem that could only exist in that decade.
3. California Uber Alles by Dead Kennedys
This song is relevant again because Jerry Brown is Governor of California again.
4. Power by Ice T
Before he was a main character on Law & Order Special Victims Unit, Ice T was a gangster rapper who had been known as a pimp and hustler in Los Angeles. That's entertainment!
5. Revolution by The Beatles
The boys from Liverpool rocked out a little on this one
6. Gun VS. Knife by Dan Sartain
Sounds kinda like old rock n roll but is not. Welcome Mr. Sartain
7. Molly's Chambers by Kings of Leon
Low-fi southern bull, radio filler
8. Blah Blah by Lady Sovereign
This rapper chick was part of some sort of British hip-hop movement that didn't make any waves this side of the Atlantic. She's got good flow though.
9. Got the Life by Korn
This is what Metal had become by the late 90s, funky and influenced by hip-hop, something that white music critics hated because they didn't grow up with rap and they thought music should have stopped when Kurt Cobain died.
10.Aphrodisiac by Bow Wow Wow
They did have another song besides I Want Candy. This one's just as cute and dirty.
11.Miss Freelove '69 by Hoodoo Gurus
If you remember this song you are awesome! If you've never heard of it you're like most people.
12.Bojangles by Pitbull
This is what Miami rap sounds like, not bad.
13.Typical Girls by The Slits
A German girl who wanted to be Jamaican fronted this group.
14.007 (Shanty Town) by Desmond Dekker
mellow island weather that probably means something I don't understand
15.Whoreshoppin' (Shit Goddam) by Eagles of Death Metal
More mediocre, joke rock from this band that will never be heard from again
16.Natural's Not In It by Gang of Four
80s people love this band so much, I guess this is one of the reasons. This tune showed up on the Marie Antoinette soundtrack.
17.Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
This album was supposed to be their great mega hit that brought them to everybody who was too freaked out by their gothiness. It was compared to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody so often it was an obvious PR move.
18.Harvest (Within You) by Clinic
Love these creepy guys! This song is hypnotic and droning.
19.God's Gonna Cut you Down y Johnny Cash
You have heard this song in endless car commercials and adds fro America. people like the chain gang labor sound in the beginning I guess.
20.Anything goes by Guns N' Roses
Getting back to the real rock! This song is an Axl Rose ditty that he brought to G n' R with him.
21.Those Shoes by Eagles
This song should be on, Hotel California but isn't. It's a creepy song about a girl who whores around
22.Underneath The Bunker by R.E.M.
what the hell is this short song about? I don't know.
23.Detroit Rock City by Kiss
Do you like to rock n' Roll? Well Alright!

1 comment:

  1. is that song about Mr. Bojangles (the little pommie pup from snl?)

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