Weekly Mix #57

This Mix was made in 2007 and while sort of seems like a collage of unrelated songs there are a couple threads here and there. Pantera shows up for the first time. A couple one hit wonders also show in the forms of Blind Melon and The Toadies. The most outlandish song is That Ain't Right. Enjoy the music if you can!

1. Firerworks by Siouxie & The banshees

Majestic, Gothic pop from the 80s

2. Rockers to Swallow by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Karen O get's a lot of her vocal sounds from Siouxie so I thought I'd compare the two side by side.
3. Pretty Green by Mark Ronson feat. Santo Gold
The previous song ended with, "hey!" and this one begins with, "hey"; it makes a lot of sense. Ronson put out this album of his music and singers he liked; it worked. The beat of this songs goes well with the next.
4. Freedom 90 by George Michael
A good song that was maybe more famous for it's video which featured the day's super models and not one image of the singer.


 
5.This Is Hardcore by Pulp
Moody, haunting, sexy and totally coked out!
6. Gloves by The Horrors
The Horrors were my favorite band at the time when this mix was made in 2007
7. No Rain by Blind Melon
Say  little prayer for their dead singer Shanon Hoon and enjoy this classic 90s song about a boy and his bong.
8. Hey, Good Lookin' by Hank Williams
Didn't ever listen to the cowboy until the mid 00s and then I thought he was pretty cool
9. Broken Boy Soldier by The Racanteurs
Creepy music by Jack White and friends
10.Misery Business by Paramore
Poppy music with a chick singer and a almost rock guitars. If anything I learned what the word paramour meant after hearing this band.
11.Crazy Bitch by Buckcherry
Where to start . . . Notorious. What I've learned about this song is that while some women don't appreciate this song at all while others use it as their ring tone. The guitar part was written by Slash.
12.Unglued by Stone Temple Pilots
In many ways STP are like those 70s bands that everybody but the reviewers liked. This song is a good rocker.
13.That Ain't Right by Heavy Trash
 Cowboy up and listen to this tale of domestic troubles. I think this was a joke band but I have no idea really.
14.Tick Tick Boom by The Hives
Not only is this the bands best song but sports broadcasts love to use it as the clock ticks down.
15.Could This Be Magic by Van Halen
One of the stranger pieces of music Van Halen put out as it's just a little acoustic guitar, foot tapping and Diamond Dave singing about boozing it up and having a great time in the tropics. Actually the other guys do step in for the chorus.
16.The State of Massachusetts by The Dropkick Murphys
This songs starts like an Irish sea shanty but then explodes; it's what the Dropkicks are good at.
17.Fucking Hostile by Pantera
While most rock bands were getting weak and lame, Pantera was insistent on being METAL! They rocked very hard and gave teenage boys hope that somebody understood them. Hell, listening to this song now get's my adrenaline going. Welcome to the world of my mixes. Rest In Piece Dimebag.
18.I Don't Wanna Stop by Ozzy Osbourne
A good metal effort by an old man on the wrong medication. I first heard this gem in a car which made it more awesome than it really is.
19.Possum Kingdom by The Toadies
Our second stop on the weird 90s review is this song about . . . well I'm not sure, girlfriend murder, maybe?
20.Elizabeth My Dear by The Stone Roses
Just a minute long this isn't really a song and was used just a s filler. Though a song about killing the queen of England to the tune of Scarborough Fair is super weird.
21.Stronger by Kanye West
This song has nothing to do with the rest of the mix but it was there for using so I took it and ended my mix with a dance beat!    


PS Next weeks mix is real good!

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 42

Sometimes I look at Mixes and I wonder what and why and if but then I realize I juts like music and I have a part of me that needs to organize things I like. Listen and enjoy.


1. When The Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin
This was added just to pay tribute to Hurricane Katrina, the real body of the mix starts after this
2. You May Be Right by Billy Joel
Back in the late 70s and very early 80s Billy Joel was cool and even then he was getting into accidents involving motorized transportation.
3. Do You Want To by Franz Ferdinand
The first single from their second album was very well received by me. I know they were involved in some shady record label payola scams but that's entertainment.
4. Mr. Brownstone by Guns N' Roses 
Yea, this song is about drugs. If you didn't know that, you don't know Diddly
5. Roadhouse Blues by The Doors
One of my all time Karaoke favorites
6. Little Ghost by The White Stripes
What can I say; it's a cheery little ditty.
7. Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina) by Sponge
This is what happens when a band tries to sound like a band who sounds like another band.
8. Diamonds from Sierra Leone by Kanye West featuring Jay-Z
Years before he was called a jackass by Obama
9. Reason Is treason by Kasabian
I can't recall why I forced myself to listen to this band
10.Taste The Pain by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Definitely one of their best songs 
11.Helena by My Chemical Romance
Gothic pop never made so much money, Siouxi Sioux and Peter Murphy send their regards
12.Give In by The Bravery
Boring single that is on this mix because I felt like using another moody band after My Chemical Romance
13.What's My Name by Snoop Doggy Dogg
Before he dropped the "Doggy" and back when he was supposed be a gangster.
14.Pon de Replay by Rihanna
I assumed she was going to be a one hit wonder, most Caribbean acts are, right?
15.Watching The Detectives by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Kinda' reggae but mostly clever and British
16.Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant
He had a career in the UK before this song was plugged in her in the US; he was already 35 when this tune broke in 1983. Kinda Caribbean but mostly British wit.
17.C'mer by Interpol
New York's finest
18.Wake Up by Arcade Fire
These guys write epic songs
19.Valerie Loves Me by Material Issue
Power pop from Chicago! Their singer Jim Ellison committed suicide in1996.
20.Dirty Water by Dropkick Murphys
The best song about Boston finally covered by a Boston band. Some hip hop guy should have wrote a New Orleans rap and sampled the original.