Over the past few months, the mixes of super-new songs posted at Mondo Salvo have been pretty high-quality, even though it’s actually hard to find twenty new songs a month that you’re not going to be tired of by the second week.
Last week, the person that runs the site put up what they’re calling their last mix, featuring among others Grizzly Bear, The Gossip, and Fenech-Soler. Personally, though, I’m more into the jangle-emo of The Muscle Club and Mio Myo’s lonesome mid-tempo dance number and Milberg’s frosty Italo lullaby.
So, I made a summer mix the other day, before the temperature dropped dramatically and it turned into sweater weather again. I continuously mixed it–for the first time ever–but now the file’s too large to put up on fileden. I’m using Rapidshare, just this once. I’m only allowed ten downloads without signing up (which I don’t want to do), so if you’re number 11 between now and when I put it up on Fileden in two days, leave a comment to let me know. (Sorry for being so ghetto about the whole thing…)
Mixtape For Summer (’09 ed.): Download here.
Tracklist:
The Delmonas, Farmer John
Guided By Voices, Echos Myron
The Applejacks, Tell Me When
Mpho, Box N Locks
The Aislers Set, The Way To Market Station
The VIPs, Run Run Belinda
Lindsay Buckingham, Holiday Road
Belinda Carlisle, Summer Rain
Giggles, He Said She Said
Patrick Juvet, Lady Night
Eurythmics, Who’s That Girl
Official Secrets Act, Bloodsport
Delgados, The Actress (Irian Jaya Remix)
PJ Harvey, As Close As This
Flash Republic, Twister (Bellatrax Mix)
Dorrough Music, Ice Cream Paint Job
Xrabit & dmg$, Follow The Leader
Beat Happening, Hot Chocolate Boy
Peggy Lipton, It Might As Well Rain Until September
In honor of today, the first day of my 28th year, I reuploaded No Repeat Workday, my five-volume desert island favorite songs ever mixtape. All the files are zipped, so it’ll be a big surprise what the songs are until you actually download them. But I’m telling you, they’re good:
Download here:
Volume 1 (A/B)
Volume 2 (A/B)
Volume 3 (A/B)
Volume 4 (A/B)
Volume 5 (A/B)
A spring mix. It’s a little bit happy, in keeping with the general pleasantries of warm weather. But there’s also a fair amount of heartbreak, for those of you more inclined to associate spring with allergy season. If you like the mix, you should buy the songs, ideally from a real music store, should there be any left in your area. I actually meant to post this when it was really warm the other week, but it’s been crappy lately and I’ve been more into slow stuff like the new Tara Jane O’Neil (which is wonderful) than the poppy stuff on this mix. Anyway, here you go.
This one’s kind of a downer, despite the presence of a new Dogs Die In Hot Cars track. I’m not really sure why. It might be related to the fact that I spent all day yesterday dismantling my old website and started making a new one. I need to go buy a wireless router, because despite the new laptop I haven’t really left the corner of my couch in a month because that’s where the cable is…
Anyway, as usual you should go buy the music if you like it. I’ve been on a CD buying spree lately. How could I not? New PJ Harvey, Bat For Lashes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever Ray…
This mix runs a couple of minutes over, so time accordingly. Maybe throw the mix on early and dance around to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s teenaged attempts at French while you’re getting ready, for instance. Or try to finish as the Benni Hemm Hemm song starts so you can enjoy the Jody Miller by yourself without having to associate it with bodily fluids.
Side A (zip)
1. theaudience, Ne Jamais Decu
2. Fryars, The Novelist’s Wife
3. Sebastians, Chees F
4. Laurent Voulzy, Qui est in qui est out
5. Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Pop Nonsense
6. Fever Ray, Now’s the Only Time I Know
7. Renderers, Million Lights
8. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Congratulations
9. Lady June, To Whom It May Not Concern
Side B (zip)
10. Pale Fountains, Thank You
11. Richard Hawley, Our Darkness
12. Dory Previn, Lemon Haired Ladies
13. Clinic, The Scythe
14. The Replacements, I’ll Be You
15. INXS, Never Tear Us Apart
16. The Parlotones, I’m Only Human
17. Benni Hemm Hemm, Labbi
18. Windsor For The Derby, Black Coats
19. Jody Miller, When The New Wears Off Our Love
Filed under: mixtape, music, this very blog | Tags: 500, celebrations, mixtapes
Some celebration is in order, as this is Mixtapes For Hookers’ 500th post. I know most blogs, if they get this far, tend to bore one with highlights and stats and whatever, and I’m going to briefly do the same. But first, a new mixtape!
I’m actually sort of in a rush, as I’m leaving for Chicago on Wednesday and I’m, oh, let’s say very far behind with my project. I’ll be pulling an all-nighter tonight and probably be working on it all day tomorrow.
But enough about me. Here’s some tunes for you. They’re largely inspired by the fact that I got Rough Trade’s 25th anniversary set and Cherry Red’s Forever 1999 compilation for $3.99 each at Newbury Comics the other day. (The Cherry Red one has Tracey Thorn, Everything But the Girl and the Marine Girls on it. Obviously I couldn’t resist.) The Momus song breaks the five-minute rule, and I’m sorry about that, but I’ve had that song going through my head lately. The mix as a whole is 59:54.
Side A (zip)
1. The Chicks, Jandals (Radio Ad)
2. Marden Hill, Cadaquez
3. Ainah Ahmad, The Look of Love
4. Alton Ellis, A Whiter Shade of Pale
5. The Bangles, The Real World
6. Momus, Flame Into Being
7. Benoit Pioulard, Triggering Back
8. Björgvin & Ragnhildur, Dagar Nætur
9. Lipps Inc, Funkytown
Side B (zip)
10. Electronic, Getting Away With It
11. Giorgio Moroder, Baby Blue
12. The Knife, You Take My Breath Away (Emmon Remix)
13. Bad Dream Fancy Dress, Foreign Muck
14. Aztec Camera, Oblivious
15. Sweet Sensation, Sincerely Yours
16. Felt, Penelope Tree
17. The Golden Hours, My Feet Beneath The Water
18. Mary Lou Lord, Some Jingle Jangle Morning (Original Version)
And now, for the stuff you probably don’t care about:
This blog was started in September of 2007, which means that I’ve posted more or less once a day for eighteen months now. Since it started (with Silent Pillow, a service I went with based on a Craigslist ad), I’ve switched hosting and now have two domain names (mixtapesforhookers.com and autonomyboy.com). According to WordPress I’ve used 493 tags, though in general I forget to click the ‘add’ button when I tag posts so most of them are unmarked anyway. There are 296 comments, the most recent of which is from an actual musician whose song I posted on my last mix. (!) My busiest day ever was in February, after I called someone hoity-toity and then she mentioned it on her Twitter. (And Melissa Gira Grant reblogged it, too, though I couldn’t tell if it was in a “hey check this neat blog out” way or in a “hey check out this jackass” way. Either way it was one of the biggest things to ever happen to this humble little corner of the ether.) Traffic’s been up lately, mainly because I once mentioned Barrett Long and he’s involved in some sort of scandal these days, though I actually haven’t paid any attention to it and only sorta recognize his name in the first place.
The mix above marks my thirty-fourth compilation, I think, not including the epic five-volume mix I made for my birthday last year.
And… that’s all. I’ve got some stuff to say about this Beau Breedlove nonsense, and also about a few more personal things, but I wanted to get this mix out before my trip. If I get a chance tomorrow or Wednesday there might be more, but I doubt it.
Otherwise, I’m on vacation until Monday. Happy spring, everybody.
Here’s the mix I’ve been waiting to post since last week. I’ve made some tweaks and think it’s pretty okay now, though it’s sort of gay between the Gretchen Phillips and Pet Shop Boys and everything.
As always, if you like the songs you should buy them. I’m particularly fond of the Yes Please album, as far as the new stuff goes, and highly recommend it if you’re into that song.
Side A (zip)
1. George Michael, Waiting For That Day
2. Gretchen Phillips, Honey, I Feel So Good
3. Mirah, The Forest
4. Marianne Faithfull, Dear God Please Help Me
5. Sunday & The Menn, You Cheated
6. Bosque Brown, Went Walking
7. Sleeper, Lady Love Your Countryside
8. Marmaduke Duke, Kid Gloves
9. Yes Please, Yes For Now
Side B (zip)
10. Bis, X-Defect
11. Julie Doiron, Je Le Savais
12. The Notwist, Pilot
13. Soul Asylum, Somebody To Shove
14. Kleenex-LiLiPUT, Eisiger Wind
15. Anavan, The Perfect Sound
16. Pet Shop Boys, A Man Could Get Arrested (Alternative Version)
17. The Weight, Had It Made
The mix is fifty-nine minutes.
Filed under: mixtape, music | Tags: half man half biscuit, shop assistants, the pastels
The entire C86 mixtape, featuring the Shop Assistants and the Pastels and the Close Lobsters and my third-favorite song by We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It, has been posted at Chocolate Bobka.
And, with that, I’m walking away from the computer.
[via Gorilla vs Bear]
Filed under: books, mixtape, personal | Tags: love notes, rachel kramer bussel
I made a new mixtape, but thanks to various other deadlines (and trying to skip out early today) I don’t think I’ll be posting it until Monday. Just so you know.
Also related to music and sex, when I have a little more time I plan to read and review this anthology, which is apparently only $4.99 in e-book form. Not that I’ve ever read an e-book before. Featured authors include:
* Jocelyn Bringas
* Eve Carpenter
* Heidi Champa
* Jeremy Edwards
* Mark Farley
* Greydancer
* Delilah T. Jones
* Shanna Katz
* Janne Lewis
* Zach Lindley
* Jincey Lumpkin, Esg.
* Madlyn March
* Mia
* NookieNotes
* J. M. Snyder
* Craig Sorensen
* Jack Stratton
* Elizabeth St John
* Mariana Tolentino
* Brandi Woodlawn
* Rachel Kramer Bussel
I have no idea what kind of stories are in it, or who 90% of the writers are, but it seems like something I should be aware of.
[via Writing Dirty]
Filed under: design of a decade, lists, mixtape, music | Tags: design of a decade, mixtapes, the year 2000
At the end of every top 10 recap I’ll be posting a mix with highlights from that year. Here’s the 2000 mix. In retrospect, I think I’m A Cucumber is probably a better song than I Like Hubcaps, but I’m not sure if I realized that at the time. (And how is that shit still funny after nine years?) Also, I switched one song out at the end so now it’s only 58.8 minutes, according to itunes. Sorry for being skimpy.
(Also, sorry that FileDen makes you click twice now. Sometimes. That’s an annoying new development, isn’t it?)
As always, I’d like to remind you that if you like the songs you ought to buy them. Preferably from a real store, because real music stores are on the decline and we should treasure them while we can.
Side A (zip)
1. Macy Gray, Why Didn’t You Call Me
2. Stereolab, Barock – Plastik
3. Yo La Tengo, Madeline
4. Stone Temple Pilots, Sour Girl
5. Aimee Mann, The Fall of the World’s Own Optimist
6. Fountains of Wayne, Baby One More Time
7. Hefner, The Hymn For The Things We Didn’t Do
8. Sleater-Kinney, All Hands On The Bad One
9. Cat Power, Sea Of Love
Side B (zip)
10. Clem Snide, I Love The Unknown
11. Catherine Wheel, Sparks Are Gonna Fly
12. Elastica, Mad Dog God Dam
13. Sinead O’Connor, No Man’s Woman
14. Catatonia, She’s A Millionaire
15. The Essex Green, Mrs. Bean
16. Dandy Warhols, Bohemian Like You
17. Babybird, The F-Word
18. Brak, I Like Hubcaps
[photo via the BBC]
