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:

1. The Droids, The Force (part 2)
2. Chrome, Eyes In The Center (Extended)
3. Momus, The Hairstyle Of The Devil
4. Danielle Dax, Fizzing Human Bomb
5. Giorgio Moroder, Utopia
6. New Order, Mesh
7. The Nuns, Do You Want Me On My Knees
8. Kuruki, Crocodile Tears
9. Iggy Pop, Funtime

10. Flirts, Dancing Madly Backwards
11. Men Without Hats, Eurotheme
12. Ssion, Street Jizz
13. Deee-Lite, Good Beat
14. Ce Ce Peniston, Finally
15. Q Lazzarus, Goodbye Horses
16. Eurythmics, Love is a Stranger
17. Sex Gang Children, Oh Funny Man

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[photo: me, at the party, by my boyfriend]

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:

1. Donovan, Sunny Goodge Street
2. Kristin Ólafsdóttir, Flóttamaðurinn
3. April Stevens, I Want A Lip
4. Verdelle Smith, Tar and Cement
5. The Cake, World Of Dreams
6. The Lovin’ Spoonful, Darling Be Home Soon
7. Paper Dolls, Captain of Your Ship
8. Rochelle Vinsen, I Wanna Swim With Him
9. Ike & Tina Turner, I Can’t Believe What You Say (Because I See What You Do)
10. Newbeats, Thou Shalt Not Steal
11. Ross Hannaman, I’ll Give All My Love To Southend
12.  Justin Hinds & the Dominoes, Rub Up Push Up

13. Carla Thomas, Something Good (Is Going to Happen to You)
14. Linda Lyndell, What A Man
15. Marvelettes, Knock On My Door
16. Clockwork Orange, Do Me Right Now
17. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood, Lightning’s Girl
18. Jaynetts, Sally Go Round The Roses
19. Syn, 14 Hour Technicolour Dream
20. Paragons, The Tide Is High
21. Fairport Convention, It’s Alright Ma, It’s Only Witchcraft
22. Marianne Faithfull, Summer Nights
23. Jackie DeShannon, Needles & Pins
24. Felice Taylor, Surree surrender

[photo: Bruz Bodin, 1968, by Gus Fatello, from Surf Free or Die]

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 word or two about this mix:

It’s kind of slow! I’m not toally sure why–maybe just because I’m in my ultra-reflective New Year’s phase–but this is a very low-energy mix comprised, for the most part, of stuff I liked when I was nineteen. I DJed my boyfriend’s New Year’s Eve party, and at the last minute I whipped out this dusty old 256-CD wallet that is full of unmarked party mixes from eight years ago, mixes I made for boys I had crushes on, and compilations of rarities from when I installed my first CD drive back in 2001. So most of these songs are pretty old. I mean, that Koobas song dates back to 1967, and the Francoise Hardy and Sandie Shaw songs aren’t much more recent. But I mean I don’t think any of them entered my personal collection later than, oh, 2004, maybe.

And, as always, if you like the songs, you should go buy them.  Preferably in a physical format from real people that work in an actual store.  If you can.

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UPDATE: Fileden seems to be down now.  Ha!  Ummm… Here’s the .zip file on Rapidshare, at least until Fileden fixes itself.

1. Solex, One Louder Solex
2. Future Bible Heroes, From Some Dying Star
3. Tracey Ullman, You Broke My Heart In Seventeen Places
4. The Pastels, Nothing To Be Done
5. Ukrainians, Meat Is Murder
6. Sandie Shaw, Those Were The Days
7. Aimee Mann, Jimmy Hoffa Jokes
8. Beck & Emmylou Harris, Sin City
9. Koobas, The First Cut Is The Deepest

10. Pulp, Le Roi de fourmis
11. Madness, Grey Day
12. The Cardigans, Please Sister
13. Francoise Hardy, Si Mi Caballero
14. Cheralee Dillon, Rosarita
15. Throwing Muses, Dio (feat. Bob Mould)
16. Oh Susanna, Sleepy Little Sailor
17. Low, I Started A Joke

[image: Brad by John Palatinus, via v-m-p]

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.

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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

[image source]

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?

Mix 1
The Supremes, Heavenly Father
Hefner, God Is On My Side
Sandie Shaw, Heaven Knows I’m Missing Him Now
Spanky & Our Gang, Sunday Will Never Be The Same
David Byrne, The Gates of Paradise
The Rapture, Sister Savior
X, Riding With Mary
16 Horsepower, Black Soul Choir

Turzi, Are You Thinking About Jesus?
Danny Wilson, Mary’s Prayer
The Cranberries, Salvation
Jens Lekman, The Opposite of Hallelujah
Machine, There But For The Grace of God
Yolanda Adams, Victory Mary J Blige, Let No Man Put Asunder
Claudine Longet, God Only Knows
Silver Apples, Dancing Gods

Mix 2

The Ronettes, Paradise
Women & Children, Mary Blues
The Smiths, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
Johnny Cash, Sunday Morning Coming Down
Annie, Heaven and Hell
Mediaeval Baebes, Salva Nos
Pixies, In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)
Ministry, Jesus Built My Hotrod
Christina Aguilera, Makes Me Wanna Pray

Army Of Lovers, Crucified
Hail Social, Heaven
Tori Amos, Crucify
Stone Roses, I Am The Resurrection
Spacemen 3, Walking With Jesus
Black Heart Procession, Your Church Is Red
Low, Lord Can You Hear Me?

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.

Side A (zip)
1. Icehouse, Hey Little Girl (Dance Edit)
2. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Waiting For The Man
3. The Cake, Rainbow Wood
4. Rachel Sweet, B.A.B.Y.
5. Liz Phair, Stratford-On-Guy (Girlysound Version)
6. Our Kid, You Just Might See Me Cry
7. Eighth Wonder, Cross My Heart
8. Vanessa, Obsession
9. The Miracles, Ain’t Nobody Straight In LA
10. Figures On A Beach, No Stars

Side B (zip)
11. Paper Dolls, Captain Of Your Ship
12. Rainer May, Geh und fang den Wind
13. APB, Talk To Me
14. Risqué, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down
15. Reparata & The Delrons, Panic
16. The KLF, Justified And Ancient (Stand By The Jams)
17. My Gold Mask, Bitches
18. New Order, Confusion (808 State Acid House Mix)
19. The Homosexuals, Divorce Proceedings From Reality

[photo: Debbie Harry in The Legend of Nick Detroit from Punk, issue 6, October 1976; via Library Vixen]

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.

I think I mentioned before that the Slits album is really fun, in a flawed and awkward way; this is actually one of the more normal-sounding songs. Oh, and if you only know Divinyls from I Touch Myself then you’re totally missing out on the fact that Christina Amphlette was one of the best vocalists of the 80′s. Boys In Town (included here) was their first single, back in ’82 or so.

[Standard disclaimer: If you like it, go out and buy it. Preferably from a real store, if you happen to live somewhere that still has those.]

(Note: Fileden is being an ass today, so you can download it here, with Rapidshare.  When Fileden stops being an ass, or when some kind of functional file sharing program actually starts existing, I’ll post the tracks individually.  And if the Rapidshare link stops working drop me a line and lemme know.  Sorry about that.)

Side A
Giana Factory, Bloody Game
Andreas Dorau, Höllen-Tingeltangel
O.Children, Dead Disco Dancer
Tim Hardin, The Lady Came From Baltimore
Amerie, Crazy Wonderful
Visage, The Damned Don’t Cry
Divinyls, Boys In Town
My Tiger My Timing, I Am The Sound
Prima Donnas, Nance Music Manifesto

Side B
The Slits, Peer Pressure
Heatherette, Canary
Monie Love, Monie In The Middle
Maskinen, Segertåget
Michael Penn, No Myth
Cale Parks, Knight Conversation
Donovan, Sunny Goodge Street
Gin Wigmore, Hallelujah
Broadcast, I’m Just A Person In This Roomy Verse

(photo: Dick Donovan by Hombre, via v-m-p)

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]