A few weeks ago I got to DJ a super-fun dance party with two other people, DJ Manhunt and DJ Gem Powers. As it turns out, over the course of the evening Ms. Powers uploaded her entire (fabulous) playlist to my iTunes, and this mix is picked and chosen from there. As we’ve reached horrid, humid August, I think this mix is particularly appropriate for cooling down in an overly air-conditioned place (something the party we DJed definitely wasn’t.) The normal rules still apply–no tracks over five minutes, and so on–but for the first time my “no songs related to creepy violence and/or murder” rule was broken, unknowingly, since I just learned (while double-checking the double-z in Q Lazzarus) that “Goodbye Horses” apparently figures pretty predominantly in The Silence of the Lambs, a movie I haven’t actually seen since I was about 11. Since that movie’s all about a serial killer who skins women alive you may want to, uh, leave it off your day-to-day playlist. (But maybe not?)
Download/tracklist after the jump:
I actually started this post Memorial Day weekend while listening to Boston’s oldies station count down the top 500 oldies of all time. Now that the eighties are considered oldies–even “Love Shack,” from September of ’89, made an appearance on the countdown–there’s a lot of sixties stuff that’s getting pushed off the airwaves. Which is a shame! I like a lot of the sixties stuff on oldies radio, whereas Clear Channel representations of the eighties–Billy Joel and Hall and Oates and “You Might Think” by the Cars and not much else–all drive me totally nuts.
It’s with that spirit that I compiled this mix of twenty-four great songs from the sixties. Not that a single one of these was popular on oldies radio (although some, like the Jaynetts’ vague and creepy “Sally Go Round The Roses”, were big hits in their day.) There’s also obscurities from Iceland and New Zealand, a couple of songs you may know by other people, and deeper cuts by Donovan, Ike and Tina, and Nancy and Lee.
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[I'm using Dropbox this time and all the tracks are zipped together... let's see how that goes.]
Tracklist after the jump:
So it’s been, uh, some time since I last posted a mix for you guys. Like, six months, almost. What a jerk I am!
Anyway, since the last time I posted a mix, file sharing service drop.io was bought out by Facebook and they ceased to exist on their own. So I went back to Fileden, which I suppose is fine enough, because there are a ton of ads but they’re pretty much all on my end and you don’t have to deal with them. Let me know if you’ve got any problems downloading, though, or if you have any better suggestions for ways I should be sharing.
By the way, I’m also now posting all the songs in one big zip file, just for the sake of saving a little bit of time. If you think that’s a bad idea and prefer that the songs be downloadable individually, let me know that, too.
A few weeks ago when we had the party for Headmaster backers, I made a super manly mix to play. Turns out, that’s pretty much all I’ve wanted to listen to since then, so this 4th of July party mix is basically a dudefest wheedled down from that playlist. It’s suitable for an in-call or for your family barbecue, and it features a few songs that I can’t believe I’ve never posted here before, like “Driver’s Seat” and my favorite Sweet song. I also included Sugar, because in less than two weeks I might fulfill my age-old dream of boning Bob Mould attending a Blowoff party.
1. Sniff ‘n’ The Tears, Driver’s Seat
2. Sugar, A Good Idea
3. Left Banke, She May Call You Up Tonight
4. Gun Club, She’s like Heroin to me
5. Wreckless Eric, Semaphore Signals
6. Judas Priest, Diamonds and Rust
7. The Reducers, Let’s Go
8. Echo and the Bunnymen, Simple Stuff
9. The Misfits, I Turned Into A Martian
10. Magazine, Because You’re Frightened
11. Midnight Oil, Surf’s up tonight
12. Alton Ellis, Girl I’ve Got A Date
13. Gerhard Dlugi, Gloria
14. Egyptian Hip-Hop, Rad Pitt
15. Placebo, Nancy Boy
16. Laurel Aitken, Ba Ba Kill Me Goat
17. Easybeats, Friday On My Mind
18. Tuxedomoon, In a Manner of Speaking
19. Sweet, The Six Teens
So far it is not that exciting. I still look the same, too.
But!
I did make a two-volume mix to celebrate. A lot of the songs have been posted here before, but it’s part of my ever-growing collection of my favorite songs of all time. You can download them here and here.
Also, I would like to use my birthday as an excuse to ask you once again to pledge some dough for Headmaster. Twenty bucks will pre-order you a copy of the magazine anywhere in the world. It would also be a very nice gift for me and for the other Headmasters.
Here’s not one but two mixes of Jesus-inspired songs, running the lyrical gamut from suicidal despondence to chipper adoration. The first mix is 63 minutes long, the second is 66, and both feature a couple of songs that are over the usual five-minute track limit. Sorry to confuse you!
This two-volume mix features more major-label artists than mixes here normally do, and also features songs off more readily-available albums than I normally post. So if you like the songs, you should go out and buy the albums. OK?
This mix is a little on the schizo side, which is maybe appropriate since it was partially inspired by Richard Metzger’s post on 60′s girl-band The Cake (whose trippy Rainbow Wood is included here.) This mix includes sex (gay sex, even!) drugs (OMD covering The Velvet Underground) and rock and roll. And also buubblegum, Tammy Wynette, early Liz Phair, and one of my very favorite forgotten swoony love songs of the eighties.
If you’re actually in LA and dealing with a possibly homophobic client you might want to skip the Miracles song, but otherwise I suggest keeping it in there; if he notices, it’ll at least make an interesting conversation topic, and if he doesn’t it’ll at least be fun for you.
And, as always, if you like the music, you should go out and buy it. Preferably from a real person in a real store, while you still can.
If you’re new to the blog–and if you are, hi!–the original purpose of Mixtapes For Hookers was to provide 60-minute mixes for in-call escorts to time their sessions with. No songs over five minutes and no songs with awkward or inappropriate lyrical content. And only music that is actually good.
Holy crap, you guys, it’s been three months since I gave you guys a mixtape. I’m so sorry about that! I hope you haven’t had to endure too much moaning and bad porn-talk during that time. Anyway, here’s a new mix for you. There’s not really a theme, it’s just bits and pieces of what I’ve been playing a lot lately. (more…)
Been a long time, shouldn’ta left you, without a dope beat to screw to.
Most of these are things I’ve found on blogs lately, like here and here and here. Bleech are my new favorite band of the moment; their new single The Worthing Song is quite excellent indeed. And New Young Pony Club keeps popping up on my iTunes this week; after two years I’m surprisingly not tired of their album.
As per usual, if you like the songs you should go out and buy them properly, if you can, in a real store, if you can. I haven’t gotten the Little Dragon album yet, though I might get it later today (along with the new Susanna and the Magical Orchestra and maybe David Bazan, all of which came out this week.)
Side A (zip)
1. House of Love, Christine [Peel Session]
2. Jean-Philippe Verdin, Little Sister
3. Yum-Yum, Apiary
4. Jackie DeShannon, When You Walk In The Room
5. De Mens, Dit is mijn huis
6. Bleech, Mondays
7. Blizzards, Ohne Dich
8. Silver Apples, I Have Known Love
9. The Supremes, I’m Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking
Side B (zip)
1. Hazel O’Connor, Sons and Lovers
2. The Rubettes, Tonight
3. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, You Make It Move
4. New Young Pony Club, The Get Go
5. Little Dragon, Feather
6. Charlotte Hatherley, White
7. Tiger Saw, I Am So Cold (Live)
8. Bit By Bats, Orinoco Flow
[no idea about the origins of the photo, but I found it here.]
Some highlights from my Best of 2001 list. A lot of songs here will probably be lost of the ages, so I tried to focus on those. The mix is slightly over an hour but I didn’t want to cut it down any father than I already had..
Side A (zip)
Stella Soleil, Kiss Kiss
Arab Strap, The Love Detective
Johnny Dowd, Big Wave
Twin Princess, Something Stupid
Weaklazyliar, My Gravity (Tayo Remix)
Beachwood Sparks, By Your Side
Catatonia, Shore Leave
O Susanna, Sleepy Little Sailor
Delphine, Swear That I Swear
Side B (zip)
Death By Chocolate, If You Want To Sing Out Sing Out
Alizee, Moi…Lolita
Sunshine Anderson, Heard It All Before
Manifold Splendour, Pawn Shop Prize
Navaira, Realism
The Gossip, Southern Comfort
Jimmy Eat World, Sweetness
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, This Summer’s Been Good From The Start
Gentle Waves, Sisterwoman
[2001 still via shillpages]
