Creator: Nelle Blevins
Occupation: Architect
Theme: Covers
Title: Girls on Boys (Double Disc)
This is a great concept for a mix. All songs originally performed by men covered by woman. Cover songs are interesting - especially when the transcend the original version (in quality or popularity), and take on a new meaning. Like mixtapes, covers change meaning based on how it is used, and who uses it. Which ones hold up? Who can really own it? I once saw a friend do "Every Rose has Its Thorn" in a strip-mall bar filled with rednecks, I promise to you it was just as powerful as the original and I was standing on a table by the end. That is one of my personal top 10 covers.
Also, I had read once, and have no idea if this is true, that (the Prince of Darkness) Trent Reznor and (Duke of Douche Bags) Zack De La Rocha were recording Zach's new record at Trent's haunted mansion/recording studio when Johnny Cash's version of Hurt (+ video) were delivered. Trent was unhappy Cash decided to cover it. They put the tape in and watched. By the end of the video both men were crying, and Trent said to Zach, "That is now a Johnny Cash song." Wouldn't that have been a sight to see? The Goth and the Activist weeping to Country. Some things just pull the heart strings.
I know the theme was Girls On Boys -- Girls covering Boys songs, which means technically speaking, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy shouldn't be included in with the girls. I can understand how you would think that, but I have a couple of things I would like you to consider in defense of this mix. First, the last time I saw Will Oldham (in the wild), he was wearing a pink head-band, very very short jean cut-offs, a pink shirt and snow boots and eating an vanilla ice cream cone. Second, relatively speaking this makes R. Kelly look like Ernest Hemingway.
Track Listing:
Girls
1) Satisfaction - Bjork
2) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Nouvelle Vague
3) Starman - Mates of State
4) $20 - M.I.A
5) This Charming Man - Stars
6) Highway 61 Revisited - Karen O and the Million Dollar Bashers
7) Two-Headed Boy - The Dresdon Dolls
8) Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis - Neck Case
9) Pennyroyal Tea - Kristen Hersh
10) Yesterday is Here - Cat Power and Steve Shelly
11) Stuck Inside of Mobile with Memphis Blues Again - Cat Power
12) Between the Bars - Metric
13) Trouble - Kristen Hersh
14) I'm Not in Love - Tori Amos
15) War Pigs - The Dresdon Dolls
16) Ignition - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
One of my favorite "Girls on Boys" is Neko Case covering The Everly Brothers, "Bowling Green" off of her first album, The Virginian. It is a song about country folk going to city to get wasted and bird-dog chicks. Find it, you will enjoy it!
The play-list that follows was included with the first mix. It is all the originals. Compare and contrast. . .
Boys
1) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
2) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
3) Starman - David Bowie
4) Where is my Mind - The Pixies
5) This Charming Man - The Smiths
6) Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
7) Two - Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel
8) Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis - Tom Waits
9) Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana
10) Yesterday is Here - Tom Waits
11) Stuck in Mobile with Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan
12) Between the Bars - Elliot Smith
13) Trouble - Cat Stevens
14) I'm Not in Love - 10cc
15) War Pigs - Ozzy Osbourne
16) Ignition - R. Kelly
Monday, April 14, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Mix #9 - Gambling
Creator: Kyle Burns
Occupation: Insurance
Theme: Gambling
Title: Gambling
Track Listing:
1) Viva Las Vegas - Dead Kennedys
2) Ohh, Las Vegas - Gram Parsons
3) Gambling Man - Woody Guthrie
4) The Ace of Spades - Motorhead
5) Dying Gambler - Blind Willie McTell
6) Go Down Gambling - Blood, Sweat & Tears
7) Luck be a lady tonight - Frank Sinatra
8) Polka Dot Gambler - Jimmie Rodgers
9) Rambling Gambling Willie - Bob Dylan
10) Poker - ELO
11) Sin City - EmmyLou Harris
12) Where the Devil Don't Stay - Drive By Truckers
13) The Gambler - Kenny Rodgers
This is a great mix! Starting off with the Dead Kennedys was the right thing to do. I figured you someone would be bound to start or end with The Gambler. I have some memory of this song from early childhood. Maybe an uncle sang this to me, maybe it was on when something traumatizing was happening, so it stuck. The other highlights, for me, were the Gram Parsons song, Ohh Las Vegas. I like Parsons stuff, especially the Flying Burrito Bros. records, but this had someone escaped me. Also, The Drive-By Truckers. I thought they were bullshit. I was wrong.
Roll them dice!
Occupation: Insurance
Theme: Gambling
Title: Gambling
Track Listing:
1) Viva Las Vegas - Dead Kennedys
2) Ohh, Las Vegas - Gram Parsons
3) Gambling Man - Woody Guthrie
4) The Ace of Spades - Motorhead
5) Dying Gambler - Blind Willie McTell
6) Go Down Gambling - Blood, Sweat & Tears
7) Luck be a lady tonight - Frank Sinatra
8) Polka Dot Gambler - Jimmie Rodgers
9) Rambling Gambling Willie - Bob Dylan
10) Poker - ELO
11) Sin City - EmmyLou Harris
12) Where the Devil Don't Stay - Drive By Truckers
13) The Gambler - Kenny Rodgers
This is a great mix! Starting off with the Dead Kennedys was the right thing to do. I figured you someone would be bound to start or end with The Gambler. I have some memory of this song from early childhood. Maybe an uncle sang this to me, maybe it was on when something traumatizing was happening, so it stuck. The other highlights, for me, were the Gram Parsons song, Ohh Las Vegas. I like Parsons stuff, especially the Flying Burrito Bros. records, but this had someone escaped me. Also, The Drive-By Truckers. I thought they were bullshit. I was wrong.
Roll them dice!
Mix #8 - The Religion Box Set
Creator: Andrew Craig
Occupation: Photographer/Server
Theme: Religion
NOTE: Andrew went totally crazy and decided to fully cover the theme of religion. As in, no one will be able to make another mix about standard religious themes. He came to the bar with a four disk box set (plus a limited addition EP) with album art and a storage case. Outstanding!
Title(s):
Disc 1: Slow Dance with Jesus
Disc 2: The Devil Rides Out
Disc 3: Heaven is for Lovers
Disc 4: Let's Go to Hell
Record Label: DudeRanch Records!!!
Track Listings:
Slow Dance with Jesus
Song - Artist
1) Super Star - Tim Rice and Andrew Loyd Webber
2) Blood of the Lamb - Wilco
3) Jesus - Queen
4) Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits
5) Jesus Loves Me - Coco Rosie
6) Plastic Jesus - Flaming Lips
7) Jesus was an Only Child - Modest Mouse
8) Jesus - Page France
9) Jesus Gonna Be Here - Tom Waits
10) He Remembered Me - Hank Williams
11) Sweet Rapture - A.A. Bondy
12) King of Carrot Flowers Parts II & III - Neutral Milk Hotel
13) Jesus Choir - Neva Denova
14) Way Down Deep in my Soul - Bill Monroe
15) Jesus, Etc - Wilco
16) Jesus is Just Alright - The Byrds
17) Jesus Walks - Kanye West
The Devil Rides Out
Song - Artist
1) Come to Daddy - Aphex Twin
2) Devil in a Blue Dress - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
3) Down, Down, Down - Tom Waits
4) Deviled Eggs - I Mary's Pants
5) The Silver Tonged Devil and I - Kris Kristopherson
6) Devil in her Heart - The Beatles
7) Devil's Haircut - Beck
8) Devil Run - Jenny Lewis
9) Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
10) Rather be the Devil - Alice Stuart
11) Devil's Waiting - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
12) Hell is Chrome - Wilco
13) Dance with the Devil - Immortal Technique
I had never heard Immortal Technique songs is 1) totally unknown to me and 2) amazing brutal. The whole song streams, enjoy and be terrified.
Heaven is for Lovers
Song - Artist
1) Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
2) Just Like Heaven - Dinosaur Jr.
3) Content Heaven - Rapture
4) Monkeys gone to Heaven - Frank Black
5) Airline to Heaven - Wilco
6) Fucking in Heaven - Fat Boy Slim
7) I'll Fly Away - Gillian Welch & Allison Krauss
8) Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Anthony & The Johnsons
9) Seven Stories Underground - The Gutter Twins
10) Teenage Heaven - Eddie Cochran
11) When I Take My Vacation in Heaven - Ernest Tubb
12) In Heaven - Pixies
13) Heaven Tonight - Cheap Trick
Let's Go To Hell
Song - Artist
1) (Don't Worry) If There's Hell Below We're All Going To Go - Curtis Mayfield
2) Lake of Fire - Meat Puppets
3) Underground - Tom Waits
4) Straight to Hell - The Clash
5) Heat Wave - Martha Reeves
6) Hot Rails to Hell - Blue Oyster Cult
7) The Made Texas - Hermes Nye
8) Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
9) Raising Hell - Run DMC
10) Hell Bound - The Breeders
11) Hell's Ditch - The Pouges
12) I think I'm Going to Hell - My Morning Jacket
13) Facing Hell - Ozzy Osbourne
This Curtis Mayfield track is awesome. I had never heard it before, and from concept to the last note I think it rocks. (and the Pouges never fail me)
Occupation: Photographer/Server
Theme: Religion
NOTE: Andrew went totally crazy and decided to fully cover the theme of religion. As in, no one will be able to make another mix about standard religious themes. He came to the bar with a four disk box set (plus a limited addition EP) with album art and a storage case. Outstanding!
Title(s):
Disc 1: Slow Dance with Jesus
Disc 2: The Devil Rides Out
Disc 3: Heaven is for Lovers
Disc 4: Let's Go to Hell
Record Label: DudeRanch Records!!!
Track Listings:
Slow Dance with Jesus
Song - Artist
1) Super Star - Tim Rice and Andrew Loyd Webber
2) Blood of the Lamb - Wilco
3) Jesus - Queen
4) Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits
5) Jesus Loves Me - Coco Rosie
6) Plastic Jesus - Flaming Lips
7) Jesus was an Only Child - Modest Mouse
8) Jesus - Page France
9) Jesus Gonna Be Here - Tom Waits
10) He Remembered Me - Hank Williams
11) Sweet Rapture - A.A. Bondy
12) King of Carrot Flowers Parts II & III - Neutral Milk Hotel
13) Jesus Choir - Neva Denova
14) Way Down Deep in my Soul - Bill Monroe
15) Jesus, Etc - Wilco
16) Jesus is Just Alright - The Byrds
17) Jesus Walks - Kanye West
The Devil Rides Out
Song - Artist
1) Come to Daddy - Aphex Twin
2) Devil in a Blue Dress - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
3) Down, Down, Down - Tom Waits
4) Deviled Eggs - I Mary's Pants
5) The Silver Tonged Devil and I - Kris Kristopherson
6) Devil in her Heart - The Beatles
7) Devil's Haircut - Beck
8) Devil Run - Jenny Lewis
9) Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
10) Rather be the Devil - Alice Stuart
11) Devil's Waiting - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
12) Hell is Chrome - Wilco
13) Dance with the Devil - Immortal Technique
I had never heard Immortal Technique songs is 1) totally unknown to me and 2) amazing brutal. The whole song streams, enjoy and be terrified.
Heaven is for Lovers
Song - Artist
1) Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
2) Just Like Heaven - Dinosaur Jr.
3) Content Heaven - Rapture
4) Monkeys gone to Heaven - Frank Black
5) Airline to Heaven - Wilco
6) Fucking in Heaven - Fat Boy Slim
7) I'll Fly Away - Gillian Welch & Allison Krauss
8) Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Anthony & The Johnsons
9) Seven Stories Underground - The Gutter Twins
10) Teenage Heaven - Eddie Cochran
11) When I Take My Vacation in Heaven - Ernest Tubb
12) In Heaven - Pixies
13) Heaven Tonight - Cheap Trick
Let's Go To Hell
Song - Artist
1) (Don't Worry) If There's Hell Below We're All Going To Go - Curtis Mayfield
2) Lake of Fire - Meat Puppets
3) Underground - Tom Waits
4) Straight to Hell - The Clash
5) Heat Wave - Martha Reeves
6) Hot Rails to Hell - Blue Oyster Cult
7) The Made Texas - Hermes Nye
8) Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
9) Raising Hell - Run DMC
10) Hell Bound - The Breeders
11) Hell's Ditch - The Pouges
12) I think I'm Going to Hell - My Morning Jacket
13) Facing Hell - Ozzy Osbourne
This Curtis Mayfield track is awesome. I had never heard it before, and from concept to the last note I think it rocks. (and the Pouges never fail me)
Mix #7 - Springtime
Creator: Charles Desporte
Occupation: Production Tech
Theme: Spring
Title: Mesclun Mix
Track Listings:
1) Cherry Blossom Girl - Air
2) Sunday Sun - Beck
3) Our Secret - Beat Happening
4) O Leaozinho - Caetano Veloso
5) Laguna Sunrise - Black Sabbath
6) The Day the Air Turned Blue - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
7) Flower - Liz Phair
8) Johnny Sunshine - Liz Phair
9) Summer's Cauldron - XTC
10) Grass - XTC
11) So Quero Um Xodo - Gilberto Gil
12) Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
13) Tree - Sebadoh
14) The Fawn - The Sea and Cake
15) California Stars - Billy Bragg and Wilco
16) Um Canto De Afoxe Para O Bloco De Ile' (Ile' Ile') - Caetano Veloso
Charlie delivered this mix for the first day of Spring. It was a good mix, and every time I hear "California Stars", it really does remind me of a spring night. Usually, I am against repeating an artist on a mixtape (unless that is your theme), but I didn't mind it at all. Maybe it was because I haven't heard Liz Phair in a long time. I forgot how dirty she was. Or just always ignored it. I listened to this mix for the first time in a friends new apartment, before he moved it. Empty rooms and bare walls. The only thing inside was a cd player, coffee table, beers and boxes.
The foreign tracks on here are a treat and make you want to sit on the porch and drink margaritas.
Occupation: Production Tech
Theme: Spring
Title: Mesclun Mix
Track Listings:
1) Cherry Blossom Girl - Air
2) Sunday Sun - Beck
3) Our Secret - Beat Happening
4) O Leaozinho - Caetano Veloso
5) Laguna Sunrise - Black Sabbath
6) The Day the Air Turned Blue - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
7) Flower - Liz Phair
8) Johnny Sunshine - Liz Phair
9) Summer's Cauldron - XTC
10) Grass - XTC
11) So Quero Um Xodo - Gilberto Gil
12) Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
13) Tree - Sebadoh
14) The Fawn - The Sea and Cake
15) California Stars - Billy Bragg and Wilco
16) Um Canto De Afoxe Para O Bloco De Ile' (Ile' Ile') - Caetano Veloso
Charlie delivered this mix for the first day of Spring. It was a good mix, and every time I hear "California Stars", it really does remind me of a spring night. Usually, I am against repeating an artist on a mixtape (unless that is your theme), but I didn't mind it at all. Maybe it was because I haven't heard Liz Phair in a long time. I forgot how dirty she was. Or just always ignored it. I listened to this mix for the first time in a friends new apartment, before he moved it. Empty rooms and bare walls. The only thing inside was a cd player, coffee table, beers and boxes.
The foreign tracks on here are a treat and make you want to sit on the porch and drink margaritas.
Mix #6 - Cocaine
Creator: Matt Smith
Occupation: Retail
Theme: Cocaine
Title: Cocaine
NOTE: This was the first CD presented with Album art. The Track list was included on the CD face. The case was made with reflective "mirror" like paper and included a razor blade and two lines of pseudo-coke. He also hand delivered the mix to me while he was drunk as shit in a parking garage. It really added to the whole experience for me. Excellent!
Track List:
Song - Artist
1) Cocaine - Project Pat
2) Bails of Cocaine - Reverend Horton Heat
3) Cocaine Decisions - Frank Zappa
4) Kokakola - The Clash
5) Can't you Hear me Knocking - Rolling Stones
6) Tell it to me - Old Crow Medicine Show
7) Cocaine Blues - Bob Dylan
8) Casey Jones - Grateful Dead
9) MTV makes me want to smoke crack - Beck
10) Cocaine - JJ Cale
11) Cocaine Blues - Nick Drake
12) Cocaine Blues - Townes Van Zandt
13) Let's Get Stoned - Ray Charles
Occupation: Retail
Theme: Cocaine
Title: Cocaine
NOTE: This was the first CD presented with Album art. The Track list was included on the CD face. The case was made with reflective "mirror" like paper and included a razor blade and two lines of pseudo-coke. He also hand delivered the mix to me while he was drunk as shit in a parking garage. It really added to the whole experience for me. Excellent!
Track List:
Song - Artist
1) Cocaine - Project Pat
2) Bails of Cocaine - Reverend Horton Heat
3) Cocaine Decisions - Frank Zappa
4) Kokakola - The Clash
5) Can't you Hear me Knocking - Rolling Stones
6) Tell it to me - Old Crow Medicine Show
7) Cocaine Blues - Bob Dylan
8) Casey Jones - Grateful Dead
9) MTV makes me want to smoke crack - Beck
10) Cocaine - JJ Cale
11) Cocaine Blues - Nick Drake
12) Cocaine Blues - Townes Van Zandt
13) Let's Get Stoned - Ray Charles
Mix #5 - Traveling
Creator: Stephen Kertis
Occupation: Video Producer
Theme: Traveling
Title: Ya'll Get!
Track List:
1) Have Love Will Travel -- The Sonics
2) Ode To A 1973 Chevy Open Road -- David Dondero
3) The Way You Move (Feat. Sleepy Brown) -- Big Boi
4) Jackson --- Johnny Cash
5) Devil --- Ghostfinger
6) America --- Simon And Garfunkel
7) Last Train To Clarksville --- The Monkees
8) I've Been Everywhere-- Hank Snow
9) Going To Georgia -- The Mountain Goats
10) Walkin' After Midnight --- Patsy Cline
11) Homeward Bound --- Simon And Garfunkel
12) Goin' Out West --- Tom Waits
13) On The Road Again -- Willie Nelson
14) Wanted Man --- Johnny Cash
15) Traveling Blues --- Blind Willie McTell
16) Bob Dylan's 115th Dream --- Bob Dylan
17) Ease Down The Road --- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
18) Suzanne --- Leonard Cohen
19) Hotel Yorba --- The White Stripes
20) Must Catch A Train --- The Pietasters
21) Gotta Get Up --- Harry Nilsson
22) Should I Stay or Should I Go -- The Clash
Occupation: Video Producer
Theme: Traveling
Title: Ya'll Get!
Track List:
1) Have Love Will Travel -- The Sonics
2) Ode To A 1973 Chevy Open Road -- David Dondero
3) The Way You Move (Feat. Sleepy Brown) -- Big Boi
4) Jackson --- Johnny Cash
5) Devil --- Ghostfinger
6) America --- Simon And Garfunkel
7) Last Train To Clarksville --- The Monkees
8) I've Been Everywhere-- Hank Snow
9) Going To Georgia -- The Mountain Goats
10) Walkin' After Midnight --- Patsy Cline
11) Homeward Bound --- Simon And Garfunkel
12) Goin' Out West --- Tom Waits
13) On The Road Again -- Willie Nelson
14) Wanted Man --- Johnny Cash
15) Traveling Blues --- Blind Willie McTell
16) Bob Dylan's 115th Dream --- Bob Dylan
17) Ease Down The Road --- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
18) Suzanne --- Leonard Cohen
19) Hotel Yorba --- The White Stripes
20) Must Catch A Train --- The Pietasters
21) Gotta Get Up --- Harry Nilsson
22) Should I Stay or Should I Go -- The Clash
Mix #4 - Hot/Cold
Creator: Casey "Chalm-Bomb" Chalmers
Occupation: Videographer
Theme: Hot/Cold (Double Disc)
Title: Hot/Cold
Track Listing:
Hot CD
1. ghostface and trife - fire
2. the clash - london's burning
3. bananarama - cruel summer
4. electric six - fire in the disco
5. big black - texas
6. the specials - too hot
7. they might be giants - catching on fire
8. ann beretta - fire in the hole
9. hank snow - spanish fireball
10. fire the saddle - long hot summer day
11. candi staton - how can i put out the flame (when you keep the fire burning)
12. brian dewan - wastepaper basket fire
13. nick cave - fire down below
14. squirrel nut zippers - hell
15. arsonists - backdraft
16. prince - black sweat
17. the jon spencer blues explosion - sweat
18. the undertones - here comes summer
19. ? - wet hot american summer song
20. snoop dogg and pharrell - drop it like it's hot
Cold CD
1. outkast - i'm cool
2. zookeeper - snow in berlin
3. elf power - the winter is coming
4. teen idols - 20 below
5. galaxie 500 - listen, the snow is falling
6. more animals of the arctic - frozen animals
7. valgeir sigurosson and dawn mccarthy - winter sleep
8. ween - cold blows the wind
9. buffalo daughter - cold summer
10. master p - the ice cream man
11. del mccoury - rain and snow
12. the mountain goats - third snow song
13. radical face - winter is coming
14. space negros - vigor the ice man
15. tom waits - cold cold ground
16. jonathan richman and the modern lovers - abominable snowman in the market
17. kelis - milkshake (remix)
Occupation: Videographer
Theme: Hot/Cold (Double Disc)
Title: Hot/Cold
Track Listing:
Hot CD
1. ghostface and trife - fire
2. the clash - london's burning
3. bananarama - cruel summer
4. electric six - fire in the disco
5. big black - texas
6. the specials - too hot
7. they might be giants - catching on fire
8. ann beretta - fire in the hole
9. hank snow - spanish fireball
10. fire the saddle - long hot summer day
11. candi staton - how can i put out the flame (when you keep the fire burning)
12. brian dewan - wastepaper basket fire
13. nick cave - fire down below
14. squirrel nut zippers - hell
15. arsonists - backdraft
16. prince - black sweat
17. the jon spencer blues explosion - sweat
18. the undertones - here comes summer
19. ? - wet hot american summer song
20. snoop dogg and pharrell - drop it like it's hot
Cold CD
1. outkast - i'm cool
2. zookeeper - snow in berlin
3. elf power - the winter is coming
4. teen idols - 20 below
5. galaxie 500 - listen, the snow is falling
6. more animals of the arctic - frozen animals
7. valgeir sigurosson and dawn mccarthy - winter sleep
8. ween - cold blows the wind
9. buffalo daughter - cold summer
10. master p - the ice cream man
11. del mccoury - rain and snow
12. the mountain goats - third snow song
13. radical face - winter is coming
14. space negros - vigor the ice man
15. tom waits - cold cold ground
16. jonathan richman and the modern lovers - abominable snowman in the market
17. kelis - milkshake (remix)
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