Weekly Mix #69

2009 wasn't know as a great year for music but sometimes there are little nuggets to found. If nothing else the older songs are real good. Enjoy if you can; I think all but the final song is legally downloadable.


1. Do It For The Kids by Velvet Revolver

I dig the melody in this song.

2. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer by George Thorogood & The Destroyers

Look man, come down here! Hilarious story and worth the listen.

3. Treat Me Like Your Mother by The Dead Weather

More deep, trippy rock music; it's not their best song but it seems the most energetic

4. These Eyes by The Guess Who

Obviously the best part of the song is when he belts out the lyrics at the end

5. Thirteen by Danzig
Sometimes I think it would have been great to just receive a number over a name and just bring bad luck wherever I go. This is a badass gloomy song
6. Hey Hey What Can I Do by Led Zeppelin

A song that was supposed to be on Led Zeppelin III but suffered from some production error which made it the B-side of the Immigrant Song; not bad.

7. Modern Monkey by The Bardo

When you don't know anything about a band sometimes it's cool but sometimes it makes the experience flat. I know nothing of this band besides a couple songs that sound young and tough.

8. Mind Eraser, No Chaser by Them Crooked Vultures

Josh Holme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones, I guess it's a super group.

9. Sick Love Song by Mötley Crüe

It's a good effort long after the dream was over

10.Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath

Psychedelic heaviness by Ozzy and the boys

11.Rooster by Alice In Chains

If the 80s were all led Zeppelin knock offs then the 90s were all Black Sabbath rip offs. I love these guys if you haven't figured that out yet. More haunting heaviness from Seattle.

12.Down Boy by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

This song is from an E.P.; how awesome is that? The E.P. is a concept that makes no sense anymore but at when it did the Extended Play format meant an artist released an album with only four or five songs rather than the 8 plus on L.P. or Long Play album. Down is gloomy and angry.

13.Us Alone by The Vulcan Dub Squad

There is something so sad in this song that I can't really explain, maybe it's foreign language, maybe it's the wailing through out. This song should have been recorded in 1986; it would have been the greatest depressing song ever then but about 20 years younger than that it's different.

14.Lose Yourself by Eminem

Maybe his best song; it won him an Oscar

15.Death to All But Metal by Steel Panther
I agree, Metal rules and everything merely just gets us by
16.Drop It Low by Ester Dean & Chris Brown

Let's get the party started!

17.Whole Lotta Rosie by Guns N' Roses

ANGUS! I love a bootleg and this is a good one from G N' R's early days as they grind out some AC/DC.

18.Dirty Water by The Standells
If you're from Bean Town you know this song well. It refers to the Charles River which was disgusting as was much of the nations urban water ways back in the 60s. Now it's much more clean but for those of us who remember the pre clean up in the 80s know this song was no joke. This tune is also associated with the Red Sox as the song is played at Fenway Park after a Boston victory. It's funny that the best song about Boston is by a band that wasn't from there. "I love that dirty water, Boston you're my home"

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 14

That's right I'm putting forth a bonus mix because these Mixes seem week and uninspired. Maybe I'm wrong and I just can't recall why the mix was so awesome at the time. I think the real issue with this mix is the lack of current music on it for the time I made it; it sounds more like a weird rehash without any real cohesion. The songs aren't bad but . . . I don't know, I've done better. I think I hit a low point in my consumption of music and was getting into songs looked over from before. These mixes may stay this way for a while but we shall see . . . There will be another Mix on Thursday! I dunno the songs are good but the flow . . . she is weird.

1. American Woman by The Guess Who
The original is the best, none of this weird Lenny Kravitz funny business
2. Mama Kin by Guns N' Roses
This cover is actually better than the original Aerosmith version; I'm confused why I didn't put this before "Dream On"
3. Song 2 by Blur
Woo-Hoo!
4. Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo
It's all so fuzzy now, this song always reminds me of hangovers
5. Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles
Look at all the lonely people, should have been followed by "The Beautiful People"
6. What I got by by Sublime
This is where we enter the California lazy section of the mix
7. Fly by Sugar Ray
This is where we exit the California lazy section of the mix
8. Electricity by Spiritualized
Critics loved Spiritualized, I hought they sounded good
9. Pizza Cutter by Letters To Cleo
Here's your Boston element
10.Get off Of My Cloud by The Rolling Stones
Groovy song by the Stones
11.Lithium by Nirvana
I recall the most normal people loving this song
12.Rollin' by Limp Bizkit
Hate it!
13.Disposable Teens by Marilyn Manson
This was Marilyn's follow up to the Dope Show
14.The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve
This song makes me sad
15.Nobody Weird Like Me by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Before they were the biggest band n the land they were weird
16.Girl, You''ll Be a Woman Soon by urge Overkill
Urge Overkill . . . Was this a real band?
17.That's Entertainment by The Jam
Yes it is
18.Goldfinger by Ash
Underrated song
19.Today by Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan almost killed himself instead of writing this song, would anybody have remembered who he was if he had?
20.Dream On by Aerosmith
Still haunting after all these years