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Oh, and if you’re reading this, I wasn’t found dead of autoerotic asphyxia this morning. Good job, me! And also, better luck next time!
RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of web space, 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 this week, just a lot of bands that haven’t been featured in a while if at all. Good times. Download ’em all while you still can. You could die today. 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 182
Bleeding All Over The Map
01. Mugstar – Technical Knowledge As A Weapon – Ian told me about these psych/space rockers last year and I was impressed. I read about their new album last week and the reviewer said that they’ve officially stolen the crown from White Hills and all the other bands of that ilk. I’ve listened to Sun Broken about five times this weekend and it’s absolutely blowing my mind. Get it. (Purchase From Amazon.com)
02. Plastic Crimewave Sound – Moving Just Fine – I don’t know why I don’t listen to this music more. It’s pretty goddamned far out, if you ask me. No Wonderland is an epic blend of acid avant garde and punk rock. If that description doesn’t sell you, I don’t know what will. (Purchase From Amazon.com)
03. Midryasi – Steal My Breath – I read a description of this band that said “Pentagram on acid meets Goblin.” Um, yes please. Give me about ten thousand bands that sound exactly like that and I’ll never have to listen to another style music for as long as I live. If I had to describe the band for myself, I’d add in an element of Melvins to the otherwise apt description. I want a tiny bit more Goblin out of these guys. (Iron Tyrant, 2009)
04. Paper Fortress – Sleepy Hollow People – This one came from a compilation I downloaded from the Imaginary Landscape blog. I wish that page was updated more regularly. I’ve yet to be disappointed by one of their offerings. Soft pop with a tinge of sweet psychedelia thrown in for good measure. Not as good as Common People, Food or Gandalf, and slightly poppy-er, but still enjoyable. (Purchase From Amazon.com)
05. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti e Aldo Guintini – Sintesi Musicali Futuriste – This sounds like something you’d hear in an old black and white movie where a character wakes up in a crazy new place. Maybe Oz or something. I don’t remember the decade during which this was recorded, but the album was supposed to provide listeners with a chance to hear “the music of the future.” And oh, how futuristic it [doesn’t] sound! (Purchase From Amazon.com)
06. Bennelong Players – Eleanor Rigby [The Beatles] – This is fro the album Baroque Beatles, and yes it’s a group of longhairs with nylon-stringed guitars and violins playing Beatles covers. It’s not that bad. I prefer this one to their cover of “Yesterday,” but I also most-definitely prefer the Anna Black cover of “Eleanor Rigby” to any other version of the song ever recorded by a non-Beatle.
07. Dale Lloyd – A Degree More Corporeal Than Air – It’s my goal to one day own all the Mystery Sea CDs, so if you’re looking for a birthday gift for me you can start here. I actually only own a few of them right now, so odds are if you can find one I probably don’t own it. (Mystery Sea, 2004)
08. Ultimate Spinach – Visions Of Your Reality – I made a reference earlier today to Ambrosia’s “Cowboy Star” (album version) being one of the worst songs ever recorded. Not to be outdone, my friend Andy Zax e-mailed me to say that “Visions Of Your Reality” is worse. He says this fact is true especially around the 4:29-4:55 mark. You decide for yourself. (Purchase From Amazon.com)
09. Betty LaVette – It Ain’t Easy – Admittedly, I’m not that into R&B and Soul music. But ever since I was turned onto Betty LaVette by an acquaintance at the store I can’t stop listening. What a voice. (Purchase From Amazon.com)
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11. Unknown – She Doesn’t Need Your Money – As the people of Cambodia were being nearly wiped from existence by Pol Pot, the country’s music was also being destroyed. It’s nearly impossible to find original Cambodian music recorded between the ’60s and ’90s, so to find enough to fill out an compilation is a treat. Simply put, this is music that needs to be heard.
12. Jenks “Tex” Carman – Hillbilly Hula – Because what’s a Sunday Mix Tape without some random country music thrown in for fun? Chippeha! (Purchase From Amazon.com)
13. Franco Balilla Pratella – La Guerra – Taken from the same album as the earlier piano piece described as “future music” even though ti doesn’t sound any more futuristic than something you might hear in the earlier part of the 20th century. (Purchase From Amazon.com)
14. Moorpark Intersection – I Think I’ll Just Go And Find Me A Flower – Taken from the same compilation as the Paper Fortress song. Soft psych pop at its finest. Available on the original Soft Sounds For Gentle People compilation originally offered by Pet Records. Far out, man. (Purchase From Amazon.com)
15. Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone – We’ve been on a Femmes kick lately at work. I first learned about the band in, what was it, 1994? I was eleven years old and Brian Klugman used to play “Add it Up” and “Blister In The Sun” ad infinitum in our bunk at overnight camp. As I’ve aged I’ve learned to love “Gone Daddy Gone” more than those other two tracks, and as wonderful as they are, I think this is the centerpiece of the self-titled Femmes album. What do you think? (Purchase From Amazon.com)
