Weekly Mix #76

What can I say about this 2010 mix that features many solo artists and few current big hits? I just don't know. There's really no theme here though some of the songs are paired for perspective like  No Better Than This and Rock Around The Clock. Others are used as examples of what is and what shall never be.

Enjoy!


1. Civil War by Guns N' Roses

There are times when this is their best song ever.

2. Fever Dreaming by No Age
It's a little abrasive rocker of a song
3. It Is Happening Again by Blood Red  Shoes
The vocals remind me of early indie rock chicks
4. Bubblegum by Clinic

Modern psychedelic grooves by the faceless Clinic

5. Tales Of Brave Ulysses by Cream

This is old psychedelic music. This is the original power trio. This is Eric Claptan before solo works. This a sample of great Britsh drumming by ginger Baker.

 6. Never Gonna Give you Up by The Black Keys
The Ohio dudes slow it down and get down to a dreamy and soulful song of yearning and heartbreak
7. Respect by Aretha Franklin
Otis Redding did it first but the queen of soul perfected it by teaching the world how to spell it.
8. I'm The Man by Joe Jackson
There's more to him than Stepping Out
9. Where's My Sex? by Weezer
Not one of their finest but it's sort of funny
10.Black Sheep by Metric 
Indie rock that sounds bigger than it could ever possibly be. More music from the Scott Pilgrim movie
11.Brand New Key by Melanie
A fun little ditty from 1969 or if you prefer it was on the Boogie Nights Soundtrack
12.Hey Boy by Mark Ronson
Getting down to the light danceable beats of the producer as artist.
13.Well, Well, Well by Duffy
Her second album wasn't as good as the first but as far as modern, British , soul singers go I think this is still better than Adele.
14.Young Men Dead by The Black Angels
Shamefully I learned about this song while watching a video game commercial.
15.Only You by Portishead
This song! It is like a person you carry a torch for years after the relationship was over; it's up there with some of the most wrenching pop songs I can think of. I suppose it's there best song.
16.Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel
If you like a little French in your pop music this song with make you happy!
17.Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets
We are going way back now to 1956 when all this rock n' roll actually meant something more than what it does now.
18.No Better Than This by John Mellencamp
You are a good man John Mellencamp and I applaud your roots rock!
19.Tatooine by John Messersmith
A song about a fictional place from the Star Wars saga. It's actually not so much about light sabers and tie fighters as it is about choosing ones path and wanting something more. It's a lovely little song and definitely one of my favorites from 2010
20.Kashmir by Led Zeppelin
One song about the desert deserves another. For many years this was my favorite Led Zeppelin song; it's epic and powerful just like the band it's self.

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 43

Happy Thanksgiving you Jive Turkeys
There are some odd 808s gems dug up and given to you from me but that's because I was searching for songs I used to kind of like. What's strange to me is that some of the new songs Nth Degree and Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt and Chords have an 80s feel.

find these songs and enjoy

1. Beat So Lonely by Charlie Sexton
Later Charlie went on to form the Arch Angels
2. Nth Degree by Morning Wood
Welcome to the mixes Morningwood
3. Gold Dust Woman by Fleetwood Mac
This is creepy song; it kind of gets in the skin. IS this the first Fleetwood Mac song to be tossed in here? It might be.
4. Life's What you Make It by Talk Talk
This is the other song released by the band who brought you, It's My Life
5. New Year's Day by U2
This song makes me cold
6. Chords by Madelia
From the "good song you've never heard" department
7. Llorando by Rebeka Del Rio
Featured in the film Mulholland Drive in a very freaky scene

8. And We Danced by The Hooters

As far as I know they have nothing to to do with the restaurant

9. Give me Novacaine by Green Day

I don't know why they spelled incorrectly but they did

10.Evil and a Heathen by Franz Ferdinand

They used to call songs like these, "deep tracks"

11.Got The Time bu Joe Jackson

When you listen to the speed of this song it makes perfect sense that Anthrax covered it.

12.Los Angeles by X

She had to leave Los Angeles but alas she never did

13.The Stand by The Alarm

Some people called them the next U2

14.City Noise by Scarling

More Goth rock!

15.Let the Music Do The talking by Aerosmith

I don't think they were totally clean at this moment as this was from the album right before Permanent Vacation.

16.Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt by We Are Scientists

A song about being young and lusty

17.What Katie Did by The Libertines

British garage band rock

18.You're So Vain by Carly Simon

That sun of a gun, Warren Beatty never felt so loved

19.Plowed by Sponge

Kind of dark and nebulous in meaning

20.Sneakyville by The Lmonheads

This song is apparently all Charles Manson quotes but I can't confirm this

21.Lawyers In Love by Jackson Brown
A great song about the 80s that includes a good howl and witty lyrics