Creator: Editor Occupation: Non-Blogger Theme: White Dance Parties Title: White Dance Parties
I am not a dancer. Not at all. I will admit that I have been on long side of a bottle a couple times and been a "dancer." It seems that most of these times happened before everyone seemed to have a video camera in their cell phone. The following is a list of songs that will make any (or all) white people dance instantaneously. Enjoy!
What will make White People Dance Song - Artist
1) Ignition (Remix) - R. Kelly 2)Work It - Missy Elliot 3) B.O.B. - Outkast 4) Pro Nails - Kid Sister 5) Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz 6) Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay -Z 7) Shut down the Club - Girl Talk 8) Somehoow - KY Prophet 9) Got Your Money - Ol' Dirty Bastard 10) Shake the Laffy Taffy - D4L 11) Yeah! - Usher 12) My Milkshake - Kelis 13) Hey Ya - Outkast 14) Lip Gloss - Lil Mama
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It all streams... and it is out a couple of days early... and since we, here at Monday Night Mixtapes are all about streaming audio we thought we would share the love.
Bob Boilen can be a kind of lame, but I bet you can push through!
I have been trying to think about what the first blog would be like after the hiatus. It feels like it should be bigger/better than usual (which put the pressure on me) because I haven't been writing, but then I realized that it is not that I haven't been writing, it has been that I haven't been sharing. Which means that I really have nothing to prove. Well at least not sharing with more than a couple of people at a time - generally after a lot of drink. The end of the year almost always begs for mix tapes as you try to decide what you have found throughout the year and more importantly what has stuck as some outstanding new music. I don't have a year end review today... as more pressing issues are at play. Namely - the swearing in of a new President.
The first playlist consists of songs about presidents or tied/inspired by presidents. The second is a mix of songs by artists Obama as said are on his iPod.
Please listen, enjoy, and watch the president get sworn in!
Raise your glasses high.
Songs about/for/inspired by Presidents Song - Artist NOTE: I know the Wycelf Song is kind of bullshit... but sometimes things fit too well to be rejected for your personal taste. Also, I could have just played everything by the George Bush Singers. That shit cracked me up!
1) In Tennessee - The George Bush Singers 2) Campaigner - Neil Young 3) James K. Polk - They Might Be Giants 4) Christ For President - Billy Bragg and Wilco 5) Deep Thoughts (II) - The George Bush Singers 6) The Times They Are A-Changing - Bob Dylan 7) Day John Kennedy Died - Lou Reed 8) Eisenhower Blues - J. B. Lenoir 9) President - Wyclef Jean 10) Black President - NaS 11) Paint the White House Black - George Clinton
Obama's Ipod Song - Artist NOTE: Sheryl Crow... really?
1) Superstition - Stevie Wonder 2) Big Pimpin - Jay - Z 3) Kuai Lu - Yo Yo Ma 4) Steve McQueen - Sheryl Crow 5) Summertime - Miles Davis 6) Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City 7) Beyonce - Single Ladies 8) Wheelin' - John Coltrane 9) Desolation Row - Bob Dylan 10) Honky Tonk Woman - Rolling Stones
So it has been a rough end of the year over here at the Mix Tapes Home Office. It seems I have found myself a tad laid off and have been traveling around 1930's style looking for work. There have been some times and I hope to bring you the music that tells the tales.
I just thought I would drop a little note saying that music is coming... from Tennessee and beyond.
Thanks to all who have been sending in - Especially, Jesse for the kick in the ass.
Here is a little list of music that is newly purchased:
1) Rodriguez - Cold Fact ---- I got turned on to this record by Andrew down at The Groove in Nashville. NPR did a little story on it recently. The album was recorded in late 1969 and soon after both Rodriguez and the album disappeared. It has been recently reprinted and is totally worth it. Check it out. If you are in Nashville The Groove has vinyl.
2) Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue --- I was worried about this one. I really liked the first album quite a bit and was curious whether it could be duplicated or exceeded without The Watson Twins' help. After my first listen I am not sure what I think. There are some gems on there for sure, but I might have wanted her to not change her sounds at all. . . and well. . . she changed. I think it is worth a listen and I also think it is a grower.
3) Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul - This is a compilation released by The Numero Group. If you are not familiar with this label they find lost music (usually based on a genera) gather it up and release it as a compilation. The ABCs of Kid Soul was all recorded around the time The Jackson 5 were blowing up. Every small label tried their hand at creating a Jackson 5. All of these tracks have been rolling around in obscurity for a decades. I believe they were all recorded by kids between 12 and 17. Check this album out, and check this label out.
4) Otis Redding - Live at Whiskey A Go-Go Otis Redding - The Soul Album ---- I picked up both of these albums after the reprint for less than they were actually worth. I suppose there isn't so much to say about it. If you don't know Otis Redding go out now and buy a record, go outside and blast it at night and drink a bottle of wine. You will be hooked from then on. These two records are excellent records to start with!
5) Eddie Bo - In the Pocket with Eddie Bo --- I have been looking for a record from this guy for a long time. I was hanging out up in Newport KY a couple of years ago catching up with old friends and Eddie Bo was the background for the evening. In the Pocket with. . . is a new release that collects a sampling of music that spans Bo's entire career. I enjoyed this record but it didn't live up to the memory of that first unfindable record I heard. Anything by Bo is recommended!
Creator: Michelle Occupation: Artist; Music LOVER Theme: Lovers that know how to play music Title: Friends and Lovers
Holy Shit is this is a new mix! Yes, it is – and it is a doozy.
We have had 26 mixes with many different themes, but this one is the most personal and intriguing.
Michelle offers up a mix titled “Friends and Lovers.”
Simply the theme is: Everyone on this mix is someone that is a friend or a lover. For the sake of public anonymity we won’t say who is who or which is which, but I will say that are more lovers than friends on this list, the friends were added in after the original mix was completed to so that you “the listener” would have to try to figure it out – and Michelle said it would be ok to contact her to ask questions; try to guess or hear the stories. If the conversations are good, maybe they will make the comments.
Email Michelle at: damagehole@gmail.com
My first thought was “What a theme?” then it was “ You have fucked enough musicians to make a mix” and then it was “Oh, you didn’t fuck 'them'?“ and then it was "isn’t the term Rock & Roll a 20’s slang for sex in the first place?” I am always looking for that type of convergence on this blog – and never really get it! Here is some info about the origins of the phrase “Rock & Roll”:
Three different songs with the title "Rock And Roll" were recorded in the late 1940s, and the phrase was in constant use in the lyrics of R&B songs of the time. The phrase was also included in advertisements for the film Wabash Avenue, starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature. Before then, the phrase "rocking and rolling", as secular black slang for dancing or sex, appeared on record for the first time in 1922 on Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll". Even earlier, in 1916, the term "rocking and rolling" was used with a religious connotation, on the phonograph record "The Camp Meeting Jubilee" by an unnamed male "quartette".[2] The word "rock" had a long history in the English language as a metaphor for "to shake up, to disturb or to incite". In 1937, Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald recorded "Rock It for Me," which included the lyric, "So won't you satisfy my soul with the rock and roll." "Rocking" was a term used by black gospel singers in the American South to mean something akin to spiritual rapture. By the 1940s, however, the term was used as a double entendre, ostensibly referring to dancing, but with the sub textual meaning of sex, as in Roy Brown's "Good Rocking Tonight."
There you have it! From the beginning to Elvis to the backstage parties after 80’s hair metal bands – getting it on has always been linked to the phrase rock and roll
Enjoy the mix and send one if you want see more posted. I have received a handful of emails about people telling me their ideas. The ideas are great – you just have to make the mix. Keep the project going!
Here is the mix:
Friends & Lovers Song - Artist
1) Sour Mash - Cory Branan 2) Red Door - The Thugs 3) Only the Lonely Devil Knows - These United States 4) Devil - Caleb Stine and the Brake Men 5) (I just want to ) be your man - Magical, Beautiful 6) So Desperate - The Mountain Goats 7) South Electric Eyes - The Legendary Shack Shakers 8) Trump Style - Kimya Dawson 9) A song for Henry Darger - Karl Blau 10) My Autograph - James Farrell 11) Better - Tigers Con Queso 12) I Want a Train - Jamey Wood 13) Motherfucker - Bobby Bare Jr. 14) Better Before You Were Big Time - Ted Russell Kamp 15) The Way You Needed Love - The Coalmen 16) Last Wish - Ballhog! 17) 1981 (or Waving at you as we part at light speed will look like I am standing still - Adam Arcuragi 18) Americana is a Faggot Word That Only Faggots Use - Gabe Zander 19) My Only Friend - The Mother Truckers 20) Slow Down Chicago - Canasta 21)Lips of an Angel - Hinder 22) Betelgeuse - Far Rad 23) Right On Down - Shake It Like a Caveman
