Cool party last night. Great crowd, great selection of booze, and great food. Unfortunately for you, I’m not in the business of writing party retrospectives. You’ll just have to envision it all for yourself. Unfortunately for me, I drank and ate a lot, and after running through the park at 2am in order to get home without being assaulted, I felt ill until well after 5am. Note-to-self: Running full-speed with a stomach packed with hard liquor and food–just to ensure arrival safe at home–is not worth hours of intestinal discomfort. Next time, take getting mugged like a man! Second note-to-self: stop telling people you’re a writer. It’s tiresome continually hearing the “Oh, so you’re unemployed?” retort. Or, think of an even better comeback. Something along the lines of…”Your mother died of cancer” or “I’m going to murder your girlfriend in her sleep.” That should do it!
Now, for your aural pleasure, a mix tape.
RULES for uninitiated noobs: With 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I’ll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. This week I’m revisiting the very first tape I made, way back in…whatever month it was seventy-three weeks ago. These are all cool and unique cover songs as discovered by me or other people (Ian provided the Grails-covering-The-Byrds track). Boy, there sure are a lot of Beatles covers. I’m sorry about that. I originally wanted to highlight the Anna Black cover, because it is so stark and beautiful…but then I found a bunch of other Beatles tunes that I couldn’t resist posting as well. Whatever…as always, these songs will be removed if desired by the band or those who represent them. Let me know and I will gladly comply. The goal of this endeavor, as always, is to pique your interest in these artists so you’ll support the artists and buy their albums.
Sunday Mix Tape Number 73 – “Covers! Covers! Covers! (2!)”
01. Nick Cave – Avalanche [Cohen] – (buy this album)
02. PJ Harvey – Highway 61 Revisited [Dylan] – (buy this album)
03. Elliott Smith – Revolution [Beatles] – (XO Jackpot Sessions)
04. Calexico – Clothes of Sand [Drake] – (Tour CD, 2001)
05. Gerogerigegege – Satisfaction [Rolling Stones] – (Vis A Vis Audio Arts, 1990)
06. Godz – You Won’t See Me [Beatles] – (buy this album)
07. Killdozer – Run Through The Jungle [Fogerty] – (buy this album)
08. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Mission Impossible [Schifrin] – (buy this album)
09. Shannon Wright – I Started A Joke [Bee Gees] – (Quarterstick, 2001)
10. Anna Black – Eleanor Rigby [Beatles] – (Epic, 1968)
11. Mekons – Lost Highway [Williams] – (buy this album)
12. Crispin Glover – These Boots Are Made For Walking [Sinatra] – (buy this album)
13. Grails – Space Odyssey [Byrds] – (Latitudes, 2005)
14. Galaxie 500 – Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste [Richman] – (buy this album)
15. Townes Van Zandt – Dead Flowers [Rolling Stones] – (buy this album)
16. William Shatner – Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Beatles] – (buy this album)
17. Cat Power – Yesterday Is Here [Waits] – (buy this album)
18. Harvey Milk – One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong [Cohen] – (buy this album)
19. Peter Laughner – Me & The Devil Blues [Johnson] – (buy this album)
