Weekly Mix # 63

So I looked at this mix and thought about the songs and realized that almost all of them have been used in adds or movies, crazy! Enjoy this 2009 created bad boy!

1. Everybody Wants To Rule the World by Tears for Fears

Some songs from the 80s really deliver on their era, this is one of them but I can't exactly explain why. I suppose Songs from The Big Chair was the high point for these Brits though Sewing the Seeds of Love was also pretty big too..

2. Feellin' Alright by Joe Cocker

I was obsessed with this song for a bout month when I made this mix which is why it sauntered in here.

3. Zero by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

It's a groovy song by some hipters from New York. The video was filmed in San Francisco's China Town

4. Troublemaker by Weezer

And suddenly Weezer just kept on truckin'. It seemed like they were faded into the past and then they made a comeback and never left us.

5. Any Way you Want It by Journy

Classic rock of Journey and memories of Caddy Shack

6. Same Ol' Situation by Mötley Crüe
Great band and strange band, The bassist writes all the songs but doesn't sing and the most famous member in the group is the drummer. The Dr. Feelgood album was the pinnacle for these L.A. hair gods even though they still tour.
7. Down With the Sickness by Disturbed
It took a couple years for me to be into this Nü Metal classic but now I enjoy it. This appeared in, Queen of the Damned when Lestat's band was about to go on stage . . . or was this the song his band did?
8. Ulysses by Franz Ferdinand
 These guys just put out groove after groove with great melodies, The tuxedo the singer wears in the video is slick and if I had thousadns at the time I would have owned it and rocked it better!
9. Panic Switch by Silversun Pickups
This crazy song was used in Sucker Punch. There's something desperate in the sonic craziness of the music that I really like.
10.Desolation Row by My Chemical Romance
A song on the Watchmen soundtrack, I think it's one of their five best songs. "Cinderella, she seems so easy" Coooool f'ing lyric. They even play the national anthem in this song; it has to be good!
11.Lit Up by Buckcherry
A song about getting high but could be used by G.E. to premote their lightbulbs
12.I  Can't Drive 55 by Sammy Hagar
Before he teamed up with Van Halen, Sammy was the red rocker and complaining about traffic and speed limits, now he sings national anthems at Giant's games.
13.John Walker's Blues by Steve Earle

Maybe the best song having anything to do with the Taliban; it's moving.

14.Paper Planes by M.I.A.

If you didn't hear this song in 2008 you probably are reading this blog for research on popular music. It was huge, it won M.I.A. awards and possibly made her a one hit wonder. I always thought this song was about drug dealing but I've never been able to confirm this.

15.Falling Down by Oasis

I still don't know why songs like this one didn't lead to a huge Oasis come back. Dig Out Your Soul had good stuff all over it.

16.Fall Is Just Something Grownups Invented by The Hives
Yup, this is the Nickelodeon  Channel theme rocked out by the Swedes
17.Mr. Hurricane by Beast
The name of this band isn't right, there isn't anything beastly about them though this is cool song for sure!
18.Daylight by Matt & Kim

More music from Hipsters; it's very catchy. You may be familiar with the tune as it appeared in a Tanqueray Gin TV add.

19.Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths

Morrissey can emote like no other. An instrumental version of this tune was used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off during the Museum scene.

20.Can't seem To make You Mine by The Seeds
This tune was used in an Axe spray cologne add featuring the queen of eyebrows Adrianne Curry
21.Let There be Rock by AC/DC
Even AC/DC sold out! This rocker was the theme to a Rock Band video game release.

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.