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!

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 30

Number 30! It's pretty main stream and if you listen to music from Jamaica then it's all mainstream. This mix is damn good and if you don't like it well you can go read somebody else's blog about mixes, somebody who knows how to get song samples or the whole song to play when you click on it, a blog with more pictures, a blog that thrills! One thing keeps bugging me though as I look over these tunes, is the song order the best it could be? If you think no, suggest something better, please.
Click on song titles for videos
enjoy!

1. Ballroom Blitz by Sweet
This song is manic glam!
2. Finding Out True Love Is Blind by Louis The XIV
This one is modern glam, I always thought the video should have been a dude pushing a mail cart through an office with all the girls he talks about the other workers. The chorus is sung by the other dudes in the shitty, confining mail room. During the bridge our mail boy will go into fantasy.
3. Are You Gonna' be My Girl by Jet
This song stinks; it's Lust For Life rip off
4. Here She Comes Now by Nirvana
This is a demo and still sounds pretty damn awesome!
5. I'm Still In Love With You by Sean Paul feat. Sasha
Why do I love this song?
6. Stepping Razor by Peter Tosh
Fierce song about being a bad ass. From the film, Rockers which was the other Raggae movie that wasn't The Harder They Come.
7. How I Could Just Kill A Man by Rage Against The Machine
Great cover of Cypress Hill, maybe better than the original.
8. Kids In America by Kim Wilde
This song is so synthtacular the 80s couldn't let it go. In the video Kim was apparently so nervous she looked like she was trying to be seductive. (I read that someplace)
9. Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliott
Changing the way we talk about sex and a really weird sounding rap song when you get down to it. Very innovative. I believe the video was directed by Hype
10.Still OF The Night by Whitesnake
80s Heavy Metal was rarely more epic; if you don't like this song it's only because you can't handle it.
11.Boyz-N-The-Hood by Dynamite Hack
One of the best covers ever? No, just one of the funniest. The video is perfect.
12.P.I.M.P. by 50 Cent
Steel drums in rap might not be popular but damn does it works here. Not that 50 Cent cares what I say about him but I think this is best track.
13.Mr. Brightside by The Killers
Eric Roberts has seen better days and that unfortunately is what everybody thinks of when this song plays. It was also a sign that band's name, The Killers was a misnomer . . . or ironic . . . or just dumb.
14.I Believe In You by Kylie Minogue
More disco magic from the future. If Kylie Minogue believes in you things can't be all bad.
15.Hysteria by Muse
I swear the guitars in the beginning of this song make me think it's all about to explode and then the drums come in and take care of that.
16.Hey Ya! by Outkast
Was this the best song of year? It has hand claps, sexy/dirty lyrics and a beat that a friend insists is hooked into girl's heads.
17.Touch Me I'm Sick by Mudhoney
Named after A Russ Meyer movie, this was Seattle in 1988, this was grunge before it got labeled as such, this is the genesis of Citizen Dick.
18.Isrealites by Desmond Dekker
I first heard this song in the movie, Drugstore Cowboy so it's what I think about when this song plays . . . wow, two Matt Dillon references in a row, WTF!
19.Jealous Guy by Roxy Music
For about two months in 2004 I listened to this song everyday, don't know why
20.Beautiful Girls by Van Halen
Nothing says summer like van Halen from the 70s!