[I posted this earlier today, but then accidentally saved an earlier draft, which deleted this one. Thank heavens for the Google Reader, eh?]
I haven’t provided you with any mixtapes since October, which is crazy, but is also keeping with my annoyingly transient lifestyle. Not to bore you with the details, but since I quit my desk job last September, all my mp3s have been stored on an old computer that, whimsically, has no sound card and no internet access. And the other computer at my house doesn’t have a CD drive, and also for the past few months relations in my household have been, um, strained, so my internet access has been pretty spotty overall.
(And this mix took me hours to arrange and got deleted once… Is there anything stupider than Windows Media Player? I liked using iTunes a lot better but I’m at somebody else’s computer…)
But anyway, here’s a mix. As always, if you like the songs you should buy them, preferably in a real store while you still have the chance. This one’s kinda sixties-heavy, with an emphasis on the songs that I had on my soon-t0-be-ex roommate’s computer. The mix starts off slow and then gets a little psychedelic, before a big Ike and Tina finish and lovely denouement courtesy of Boston electronic genius Keith Fullerton Whitman.
No time to zip these, so you’ll have to click a lot to download them. Sorry about that, but expect regular mixtape-making to resume soon.
[Also, the photo has no relevance to anything; it just showed up in my RSS feed, I decided to make a bad hookers/hookahs pun, thought better of it, but still didn't have a visual for the top of the post. So I left it up there.]
Side A (zip)
1. Young Marble Giants, Final Day
2. Vistoso Bosses, Delirious
3. Porter Wagoner, How Close They Must Be
4. Kim Weston, You Can Do It
5. Wire, French Film Blurred
6. Terence Trent D’Arby, Wishing Well
7. Twinkle, Golden Lights
8. Teenage Fanclub, I Need Direction
9. The Velvelettes, A Bird In The Hand (Is Worth Two In The Bush)
10. Mando Diao, Dance With Somebody
Side B (zip)
11. Tintern Abbey, Vacuum Cleaner
12. United States of America, The American Metaphysical Circus
13. Gonul Yazar, Capkin Kiz
14. Tornadoes 66, No More You And Me
15. XTC, When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty
16. Toya, I Do!!
17. Richard and Linda Thompson, I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
18. Ike and Tina Turner, A Love Like Yours (Don’t Come Knockin’ Every Day)
19. Keith Fullerton Whitman, Stereo Music For Hi-Hat
Just a quick plug for those of you who might be new to the site. Every Sunday morning I do The Pop Chart, a weekly countdown of the world’s forty best pop songs, which you can listen to here. It’s a mix of American pop hits, hits from around the world, and songs that aren’t actually hits but ought to be. I’ve been on a break from the show since mid-December, and only six of this week’s top 40 are left over from my last countdown. (Exciting!)
It starts at 9:30 AM Eastern time, but if you miss it the whole show’s archived for all eternity. And if you’re a fan of music coming out of your computer speakers in general, you might be interested in the sixteen new shows that are debuting this week.
