Nothing important to speak of today. I saw that fucking safecount pop-up ad again today, so I’ve written several angry e-mails to both the Adify Corporation and the MOG Music Network in the hopes that one of them will confess to ruining your recent visits to this website. I apologize again for any inconvenience these annoying ads have caused you, and hope they will not deter you from coming back in the future. If I have to suck it up and cancel my advertising accounts (which will result in me losing some much-needed income) I’ll do it, if only to stop those ads from appearing. But hopefully it won’t come to that. Once I find out which advertiser has been sneaking that code into their ads, you can guarantee they’re going to get a strongly worded letter from me. It might even contain the words “fucking assholes” in it somewhere.
RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 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. No theme tonight, just some cool new tunes. 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 179
Free From Bondage
01. Ennio Morricone – Il Grande Silenzio (Restless) -Still on a Morricone kick after sharing some of his original music from the film Salo yesterday. This is the title track from a film of the same name, which was a spaghetti western from ’68 directed by Sergio Corbucci. It’s not one of his most recognizable or memorable scores, but Morricone’s work on this one is further proof why he is one of the greatest film composers of all time.
02. Unrest – Can’t Sit Still – It seems like Imperial F.F.R.R. is the only Unrest album people care about these days. It’s a damned shame, too, because Mark Robinson recorded so much great music. People need to hear more than just that one record. This one is off the 1987 LP Tink Of S.E.. Find it if you can, it’s a classic.
03. Descendents – She Don’t Care – Every once in a while a song will come on at work that I have not heard in some time and it will become stuck in my head. That was the case a few weeks ago when a coworker played Cool To Be You. Thanks for ruining the rest of my week!
04. Rapeman – Marmoset – Culled from the amazing “Hated Chinee” seven-inch record, which is one of the few 45s I actually lust after. You couldn’t begin to understand the anger I felt a few weeks ago when I was helping a customer look through our selection of punk 45s and he came across a copy of the Sub Pop Singles Club 7″ of “Inki’s Butt Crack” / “Song Number One”. I totally would’ve grabbed that had I known we had a copy. Boo.
05. Betty LaVette – You’ll Never Change – I actually own a couple R&B / Soul records now. It’s almost like I’m opening my mind to new genres of music. What’s next, I wonder? Will I suddenly get into this whole “pop music” thing the kids love? When the crate diggers go through our cheap section and try out everything on their portable turntables before buying, I like to pretend I’m not listening while paying close attention to hear if anything piques my interest. There’s one collector who comes by who always likes to talk my ear off about Betty LaVette’s amazing voice. Yeah, I know, I get it. So, do you?
06. Sekouba Traore – Chouyala Kaban – Because who the fuck doesn’t want to hear some cool music from Mali right now?
07. Bishop Perry Tillis – Praise The Lord Everybody – As much as it pains me to say this, I can think of at least five records labels whose discographies I would like to own in their entirety. One of them is Mississippi Records. They could put out a six LP box set of dog farts and I’d probably buy it without thinking twice. They released an album of Bishop Perry Tillis — who used to play the Chicago circuit with Muddy Waters and others, but never received the accolades as his peers did — and I fell for it immediately.
08. Friction – Crazy Dream – Japanese post-punk, for people who think I don’t know anything about punk music (see: choosing an MP3 from a Descendents album released in 2004)
09. Flower Travellin’ Band – Otoko – This is an outtake from the amazingly-titled bootleg From Pussies To Death In 10,000 Years Of Freakout. Julian Cope wrote a bit about this in his tome on Japanese rock music, so I guess if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t download music that lacks hip cred, this one is safe for you to have on your iPod or whatever.
10. John Prine – Fish And Whistle – I wouldn’t say I have a sore spot for John Prine, I would say I unabashedly love John Prine. Sometimes my taste in music has a tendency to throw people for a loop. I mean, it’s not uncommon for a random iTunes transition to include Mainliner or Whitehouse and then John Prine or Guy Clark. Fish And Whistle was a song I heard growing up without knowing who the artist was responsbile for it. It was so good it haunted me for years after. I just remembered the chorus for the longest time. When I finally figured out who wrote the song, it was one of the most exciting moments of my development as a music fan.
11. Les Sauterelles – Routine – Swiss garage rock from the ’60s. Their big hit was “Heavenly Club,” but I like this one a lot too.
12. Next Time Passions – Feeling So Real – Early ’90s indie rock from Greece. Need I say more?
13. Barn Owl – She Swims In The Clouds – It’s no coincidence that the great mind behind Barn Owl belongs to a dude named Evan. Seriously, that name is a one-way ticket to being impenetrably cool. I think if he and I met we would be great friends. I’m not queer or nothin’, I’m just saying that if you’re reading this Evan, you should hit me up sometime. I’ll come up to SF and we can eat Taqueria Cancun and talk some shit.
14. Franco Battiato – Pollution – Ungodly. Pollution is the sister album to Fetus, which I shared a few weeks ago. You were supposed to download it. I told you it would blow your fucking mind right out of your ass. Did you do it? Well, this is the title track of another album, which I’ll post for you to hear later this week. This track will get you hard. The rest will make you come. Just wait…
15. The Coupe de Villes – Big Trouble In Little China – Ha. I love the idea of promoting Carpenter’s soundtrack work and then using the track that wasn’t his patented synthesizer score. Instead, I give you his band, The Coupe de Villes. It’s kind of cool, but it’s not nearly as cool as the rest of the soundtrack. Sucks for you, you’ll have to find the rest on your own.
