Weekly Mix #64

Here's another mix without reason or rhyme

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1. She's Expensive by The Virgins

This song sounds like a clash outtake and is pretty good; they never lived up to their billing as the next big thing/ the next Strokes but this tune is cool, especially the intro.

2. Sex On Fire by Kings of Leon

This song signified the Kings joining the mainstream and the end of them as an interesting indie class band.

3. Kickstart My Heart by Mötley Crüe

When I saw them a couple years ago in 2008 they opened their shows with this monster.

4. Cheap City Thrills by Alleycat Scratch

Glam metal was alive and well in 2008 as this retro gem proved. with exception to the weak solo, these guys nail the feel and sound.

5. Do it Again by Steely Dan

A band named after a pleasure implement in a William S. Burroughs novel. I was fiending to this song when I made this mix; i though it was the best song ever for about two weeks

6. Something Burning by The Stone Roses

This is one of the songs the Stone Roses had to record in secret as they were in court with their record label; it's a smooth one.

7. Chain of Fools by Aretha Franklin

The queen of soul, pay your respects

8. You Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes

No you can't. Motown had some fantastic hits come from it, this would be in my top ten.

9. Girlfriend in A Coma by The Smiths

When this song came out we all laughed but all loved it.

10.Who Can Say by The Horrors

Back with a more sweeping sound, the got away from the abrasive choppiness that I loved so much. The keyboards are still pervasive.

11.Mother by Danzig

His one big hit. He channels Jim Morrison in this one.

12.Thirteen by Johnny Cash
Covering Danzig's song; it cool and more somber than ominous
13.These Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan

Folk music at it's commercial peak.

14.Pork and Beans by Weezer

A little ditty in the midst of a big chorus, they've been paying homage to the Pixies for so long now.

15.Know Your Enemy by Green Day

This was there follow up to the huge 2004 effort, American Idiot. It's not quite as great.

16.Messing With My Head by Tinted Windows

The greatest New Wave band of the new millennium. Members of Hanson, Smashing Pumpkins and Cheap Trick formed this one shot band; it's good listening and should have been used in an eighties movie about a fictional eighties band.

17.Rebel Rebel by David Bowie
Bowie doesn't do it any better than this, nor do many others. Teenagers experimenting unite!
18.Poker Face by Lady Gaga

Not only does she owe Madonna a lot but she owes Bowie a lot. This is the sort of songs androids like to kiss to.

19.Words. by Missing Persons

Oh yeah here's another group that influence the previous artist.Actually they are more influential than one might think. I don't even know if people know they're influenced by them. Is that subversive?

20.The Bitter End by Placebo

Placebo continue their sharp, stirring tunes

21.I'm A Man by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

This was recorded live at the Fillmore in San Francisco; he does a good job getting bluesy

22.That's Not My Name by The Tin Tings
I guess this is a chick anthem about wanting respect but I'm not sure.

Weekly Mix #54

The first mix of 2007! Lordy be! What does that mean? I don't really know but I can say this, don't fear it. Listen and enjoy the music.


1. Superhero by Jane's Addiction
It wasn't really thirteen years in the making but it was thirteen years between Ritual De Lo Habitual and Strays. The band that spearheaded the Alternative Rock movement in the early 90s seemed to forget everything they did and went bland. If nothing else this is the intro to the show Entourage.
2. Elegantly Wasted by INXS

The last Michael Hutchence INXS album. Obviously there's nothing one can read into these lyrics and dance beat.

3. Fergalicious by Fergie
This is what happens when I stop being a music snob; i listen to this stuff
4. Show Me What you Got by Jay-Z
Jay- Z is the man
5. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Theme by Schooly D
This is for all those who watch Adult Swim
6. Random by Lady Sovereign
She's got the tongue and the rhymes
7. Walking Spanish by Tom Waits

Walking Spanish is a term that means you're being walked to your death.

8. Wolf Like Me by TV In the Radio

This band had this one incredible song and then some other stuff that wasn't in competition.

9. Raw Power by Iggy & The Stooges
I feel it!
10.The Metal by Tenacious D
This song is fairly accurate. Jack Blacks band is this.
11.Wanted Dead Or Alive by Bon Jovi

Have you seen a million faces? Have you rocked them all? Probably not. This is the first time I showed any favor towards the New Jersey band, until this point my stance was that they were hair and smiles.

12.Burner by Motötrhead
Mötorhead doing what they do best. They play loud and fast! This is also the first 2007 song on a mix.
13.(Reach Up for The) Sunrise by Duran Duran
I first heard this tune in Italy and I expected it to be a huge hit in the states when I returned but I was very wrong, radio didn't care.
14.Tony the Beat (remix) by The Sounds
Get out your keyboards and pretend it's the 80s
15.Dreaming by Blondie
Sweet melodies from a downtown New York band
16.What I Like About you by The Romantics
This is what you call a classic 
17.Psychobilly Freakout by Reverend Horton Heat
early 90s magic!
18.Great Balls of Fire by Jerry lee Lewis
They used to say he was the devil but the he married his cousin and faded away. he is still alive and making music however. The killer, I wish I could have seen him when he was young!
19.Flathead by The Fratellis
This song got more airplay in the iTunes adds than it did on the radio.
20.Young Girls by John Sartain
This song is very astute
21.Victim Of Love by The Eagles
More creepiness from The Hotel California
22.We Are The Champions by Queen
If you don't know this song you are a rock n' roll hater and a sports hater.
23.The Saints Are Coming (live) by Green Day & U2
I think all the proceeds from this song went to New Orleans; it's pretty over the top and silly.

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

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 34

With the exception of a couple songs I really enjoy this mix as there were enough current songs mixed with the classic and obscure. enjoy

1. Ch-Check it Out by Beastie Boys
Big Beginning, high energy and well known; it's a good way to start even if I'm not a fan of the song.
2. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
Back when he was a Cougar back when he wrote pop songs
3. American Idiot by green Day
This made the group explode all over again and far less annoying to parents
4. Ride by The Vines
mediocre pseudo punk from Australia
5. Photograph by Def Leppard
In 1983 this song was gigantor! The band scared me though.
6. Fall To Pieces by Velvet Revolver
The last great power ballad 20 years late. Actually this song grows on me more and more.
7. Don't Stop Believin' by Journey
Does it get and more huge than this? Does it get any more classic than this? Not at this point but this was entered here between it just being a great song and the Sopranos and Monster. It sounds different now that I almost connect it to those two things.
8. C'mon C'mon by The Von Bondies
Jack White beat the crap out of the singer for talking shit about Meg White; it worked wonders for the Von Bondies. In the rap world it's the equivalent of 50 Cent getting shot; it changed everything. Now you can hear this song on the show Rescue Me.
9. I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
Not to be confused with MC Pee Pants' Aqua Teen Hunger Force classic, I want candy was a tune that I loved when it came out and even though I was nine years old I knew it wasn't about lollipops. You know the singer was 13 when this song hit?
10. Filthy/Gorgeous by Scissor Sisters
Liking this song doesn't make you gay
11.Move Your Feet by Junior Senior
Little straight guy, big gay guy; that's all I know about this band
12.A Girl Like You by Edwin Collins
A great one hit wonder from the 90s! It has that 80s one hit wonder vibe to it; I can't explain any better. I guess I knew Id never hear from Edwin Collins again.
13.Tattooed Love Boys by The Pretenders
The pretenders doing there thing.
14.Tipsy by J-Kwon
Prerequisite party song
15.New Song by Howard Jones
This song instantly transports me back to 1984 whe I thought rock stars all lived life like they did in their videos.
16.Hombre by M.I.A.
Future voice of 2008
17.Look What You've Done by Jet
All filler no thriller
18.Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth With Money in My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods
I feel the same way about this song as I do about the Edwin Collins song
19.I'm Not Okay (I Promise) by My Chemical Romance
I didn't care much for this one when I first heard it, in fact I thought it was garbage but something happened, maybe it was the video that changed my mind. MCR are not punk which makes them a great pop band.
20.A Message to You Rudy by The Specials
Old School ska used for a diaper commercial, somebody's youth was sold out that day.
21.Texas by The 360's

The 360's

A song about the JFK assassination by a band from Boston.
22.Waiting On A Friend by The Rolling Stones
More classic rock that could be perceived as a song about loitering around to get a fix. I don't think Keith Richards was sober in the video.

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 31

This a strange mix but I like it; it doesn't veer too far in any direction and stays the course of solid. I think I made this mix in early 2005.
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1. 100% by Sonic Youth
Two minutes and thirty seconds of beautiful noise
2. Dirty Little Thing by Velvet Revolver
Scott Weiland really does his thing on this track; I can see him singing this when his voice comes on
3. Hollywood Nights by Bob Seger
That galloping beat, the story, the emoting all make Mr. Seger deserve more modern props
4. Candy Everybody Wants by 10,000 Maniacs
College music goes mainstream; is this a happy song?
5. Pain by Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World would have been bigger in the 80s as they don't fit our modern ideas of needing to categorize rock bands into sub genres
6. Black Heart by Calexico
Depressing . . .
7. Vertigo by U2
The last good U2 song
8. Ace Of Spades by Motörhead
This is one of the greatest hard rock songs ever and somehow I didn't hear it's first 24 years of public availability.
9. Megalomaniac by Incubus
This is the only Incubus song I can tolerate
10.Magic by Olivia Newton-John
She's straight about it, "We have to believe we are magic, nothing can stand in our way."Olivia's vocals were so seductive on this track I was ready to believe her, roller skates and all
11.Brain Stew by Green Day
I thought for a while this would be Green Day's last song of note but then that American Idiot thing showed up.
12.Callin' Out by Lyrics Born
East Bay style rap; is it better than the Humpty Dance?
13.Fit but You Know It by The Streets
Listen and follow the story; it's funny
14.The Widow by The Mars Volta
Overrated band
15.Slow Hands by Interpol
Sounding like Joy Division and on the top of their game
16.An Honest Mistake by The Bravery
Sounding like New Order and on the top of their game
17.People Who Died by Jim Carroll
Death is funny when it rhymes. R.I.P. Jim
18.The Rat by The Walkmen
For me there was only this song by These guys and then they exploded
19.Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ladies and gentlemen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This is a great song to put on a Mix CD when you're moving away from your loved one or the other way around
20.Rock You Like A Hurricane by Scorpions
EPIC metal from the 80s; if their is one song you need in your collection by these Germans, this is it.

00s Countdown Continued! 20-11

The top 20 songs are here and they are not your favorites, in fact you may have never heard of a few of them but that's because this list is compiled by a music snob who likes to rock out and get down.

20. Gold Digger by KanyeWest
Getting help from Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, Kanye (that jackass) West broke into mainstream heaven with a song that uses the N word about as often as you typical DMX rap.

19. Leda Automica by Year Long Disaster
Rock from the 70s never quite dies and this song proves it with solid Led Zeppelin riffs and lyrics nobody cares too much about, Year Long Disaster made me rock a bit harder in the 00s.

18. I Just Wanna Love U by Jay-Z
Upon listening to this song you just feel cool as hell! It's a great rap for the gents like most of Jay-Z's action.




17. Wolf Like Me by TV On the Radio
This may be the only song that anybody ever hears from this band and it's enough. TV on the Radio composed a mysterious tune that sounds like the soundtrack to a very intense night.




16. American Idiot by Green Day
If you guessed Green Day would make a come back this big you are friggin' genius! Just when you thought punk was dead it proved that not only was it dead but it never wanted to be alive by selling millions and becoming MP3 Gold.



15. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) by Beyoncé
Here is a song that has a life of it's own as a big club dance number, a song to make the ladies feel empowered when they ask where their fellas where the relationship is going and it even resurrected Bob Fosse to direct the video. This song may be forgettable in the future or it may go on to be the most memorable song of the decade as it can be played at weddings; who knows.

14. Sheena Is A Parasite by The Horrors
One of the shortest songs on the countdown (1:42) and possibly paying tribute to the Ramones' "Sheena is a Punk Rocker", The Horrors assault you with muffled and spiteful lyrics, drum n' bass and an organ that makes all the difference. If a song can be haunted this one has a poltergeist.

13. Distant Dreamer by Duffy
A song that was never a single but really should have been, Distant Dreamer is the best song on Duffy's album, "Rockferry". She muses about life and what she wants but will never have in wonderful blue eyed soul fashion.



12. Feel Good Inc. By Gorillaz
A sick laugh followed by a sick ass bass line; this is what makes this song come to life while the nonsense chorus about windmills is the hook that you start singing a few hours later. Like Gorillaz breakthrough single, Clint Eastwood there is also a rap that is thrwon out there for some sort of wishful street cred that never arrived but gets the buts on the floor.

11. Hey Ya! by Outkast
If you are a woman and don't like this song, you are alone. Andre 2000 sings a bunch of lines men wish they thought up to sing to the ladies and that's because he's sexier and smarter than you. Hey Ya! is a modern song with a classic feel that makes you clap along.