Weekly Mix #67

Here we go with another 2009 creation but with three songs from 1984, do yo know them off the top of your head? This whole mix is very 80s feeling.


1. Here I Go Again by White Snake

Hated this song until just a couple years agao when suddenly I decided I was David Coverdale

2. Check My Brain by Alice In Chains

The boys from Seattle are back but not with lead singer Layne Staley who overdosed on Heroin some years back. This song rocks!

3. What You Need by INXS
We're going back to the 0s when pop and rock found perfect harmony . . . another band, another dead singer.
4. Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z feat. Alicia keys

Because New York needs another anthem, a more modern one.

5. Come Together by The Beatles
This is weird song but it sure is groovy. As I made this mix this song was all over the television as the main song on some music video game.
6. Sort Of by Silversun Pickups

This is a dizzying song, frantic and almost desperate and still showing Billy Corgan that they're better at being him than he is.

7. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) by David Bowie

One of my favorite Bowie tunes, what phase was this?

8. Uprising by Muse
This is from Muse's huge The Resistance album that spawn a lot of good music. This is not the best song on it and that's okay.
9. Make It Take It by Amanda Blank

Just a club girl and her ambitions

10.Magic Man by Heart

Try to understand, he's a magic man; he's got magic hands. One of Heart's big three, Magic Man, Crazy On You and Barracuda. Some say this song is sleazy and they're kind of right; it has a dark 1970's vibe.

11.Drive by The Cars
This song was so huge it's hard to explain, maybe it's the Mutt Lang produced synthesizers deep woosh or Benjamin Orr's vocals, maybe it was the Timothy Hutton directed video with Paulina Porizkova. Whatever it was this song represents the band at the hugest commercial point. It's not their sunniest tune but it's arguably their best.
12.Kind of a Girl by Tinted Windows

Their are some who say the Cars were a shitty synth New Wave band that never made a impact on music but just listened to songs like this by almost super group Tinted Windows. Members of Hanson, Cheap Trick and Smashing Pumpkins came together to produce this 80s inspired ear candy.

13.New Girl Now by Honeymoon Suite

Speaking of the 80s . . . Beisdes Rush and Bryan Adams this is what was going on in Canada. This is New Wave rock magic. Big drums, keyboards and echo laced vocals. Props to the video for having a Delorean!

14. For What It's Worth by Placebo

This band always makes me think of the 80s but I don't know why. This ain't no Pure Morning, showing that they aren't a single note group again. The brass in the song is a bit disarming.

15.Pretty In Pink by Psychedelic Furs

Here's more of the real deal. This I believe is the original version not the more excitable version they did for the movie.

16.Tangled Up In You by The Mumblers

This is not Bob Dylan but I suppose the song title might be an allusion to Tangled up in Blues.

17.Wake Up by The Doors

I love some of Jim Morrison's live poetry; it's very charged with lizards and sex.

18.Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam

The best song that was never on a an album. It is so mellow it makes me think of 80s beer commercials.

19.Hippy Hippy Shake by Georgia Satellites
From the movie Cocktail, this song was nothing in the gigantic shadow of Tom Cruise's star power and The Beach Boys Kokomo
20.(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You to by Weezer
Is this Weezer's most epic song? It's a big one and that's why it caps off the mix.