The Name of This Mix Is...

First mix of 2008? No...that jewel goes to Eiryn. Make sure you download her mix via the link in the post below. It is ridiculously good.

For this mix, nothing special--just an assemblage of old and recent favorites with no binding theme other than my liking.

I know I have some artist repeats: the Grifters and Mice Parade. But they are stand-up tracks, regardless. Maybe you'll find something worth your time.

I have to say that if you listen to nothing else on this mix, at least give the outro of "Stand!" your full attention, as it comprises the baddest-ass 51 seconds in the history of recorded music.

1 Roadrunner--The Modern Lovers
2 Glad To Be Scattered--Track a Tiger
3 Wheels--Grand Drive
4 Rollerdisco--Black Moth Super Rainbow
5 The Boat Room--Mice Parade
6 Skinny Love--Bon Iver
7 Get Thy Bearings--Donovan
8 Rubber Biscuit--The Chips
9 Fire in the Middle--Nightmares on Wax
10 Blues Run the Game--Jackson C. Frank
11 Rat Trap--The Boomtown Rats
12 2H.B.--Roxy Music
13 Song To Bobby--Cat Power
14 Leave The Light On--Bottomless Pit
15 Vicious World--Rufus Wainwright
16 New Grass--Talk Talk
17 Eureka I.V.--The Grifters
18 Stand!--Sly & The Family Stone
19 This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)--Talking Heads

the dark month

for the month of february:

darkies peppered with luff

welcome to the first mix of 2008, et enjoi.

The deal is...

...that interest has been sagging in the Guild, probably due to the time sanctions that each of us encounter in our day-to-day. Understandable. I think that it would be good though to assess who is interested in continuing with this. I have really enjoyed getting mixes and I am grateful to the people who faithfully send me free music. When people miss a month, I can empathize. I will send out an email along these lines too, in an effort to trim any tired or otherwise over-occupied limbs. I have also taken the liberty of re-drawing the rotation for early 2008. My guidance on this was to spread out members who not only faithfully send out mixes, but who send out mixes in the months they are designated. That should ensure at least a consistent supply of trax. Look below (or on the sidebar) to find your month, and if you're disgruntled, let's step aside into the comments section.

Enjoi.

February--Wajok Weiss, Isopraxis, Grifter

March--Gillz, Enigma, Che, Captain Admiral

April--Ibid, Teacher of Fruit, Sweetface

May--Renbencan, Rice, Shamus, Courtney

ewereekah

So if any of you remember, or care, there was a mystere trak on "the shimshamshimmy". Well, I hunted Red Fox - The Choir Practice and knew the voices instantly. A few more shovelles of grit on dirt pile I struck the hollow woody thump of the trak name:

Up All Day

by none other than The Choir Practice.

So there be a present, I would also like to offer another:

January 26th at 12:00am (SLC) there is a birthday celebration for a Meestah Richard Mark Cobabe (Nobabes) Jr. So you may not know him... that's not the important part. The important part is Brewvies, the theatre pub I've rented, and Festa Di Laurea, the most tender and enchanting Italian flick you will ever catch that I am having screened. There are couches for pews and tables for foods. You can bring your own food and beverage. I'm not a drinker but not adversed to a few brews making an appearance. There is no charge, but I'm probably going to have a Birthday Honey Pot at the front door for anyone who wants to donate to the medicating of the sharp pain of 30 years old.

Any more questions... please ask, eirynjakob@gmail.com and please invite EVERYONE, there are about 80 seat cushions to fill.

egg nog benedict with holidays sauce

Mmmm. I would actually eat that conconction. I bet Martha Stewart has already thought of it though. In any case, this be December bitches. I have a nimiety of excuses to defend this micks. First -- technology -- foe! I did not ask for the micks to be burned in this order, I gots no flow. So, excuse me if it hurts your ears, it sure as hell hurts mine. 2econd -- it was a nontraditional christmas or a cheeeeeeese christmas and I just couldn't squeeze the dank flavour from the Gruyere. However, I did find myself wrecklessly prone to throwing in an earsore or two. You'll know when you hear them, and if you don't your tolerance is much greater than mine. 3rice-- this micks was produced for the most part to validate my own christmas nostalgia, which, lucky for me, worked. Unlucky for you... this micks brings with it christmas narratives so sugar coated they are best served from a rusting tin on grandma's living room side table. So herr goes, track list AND exegesis:

one) Auld Lang Syne – Drums and Tuba
two) the Christmas song – Leadbelly
three) Bonhomme’s Sweltering Snowsuit – ASSIGNMENT CANADA!This is a CBC radio archive circa 1970. It was absolutely necessary to convey who Bonhomme is and what he represents, which makes better sense of song five. That naughty Broken Social Scene.
Four) le bonhomme se s’couait en skidoo – la famille Soucy
Bienvenue to a French Canadian Christmas. I am not French, but grew up quite proximal to them. This is what we do. We sing and play on spoons and fiddle. We drink wassail until ruddy cheeked and build toboggans to hold 16 people. And get right sauced and ride on our skidoos. Ahh… even at age 9 I had my own skidoo, yellow bellied, round nosed, her name was Alouette.
Five) I slept with Bonhomme at the CBC – Broken Social Scene
Six) Christmas card from a hooker – Tom waits
7even) Nutcracker overture/Dance of the Sugarplum fairy – del rey Even buttrockers get Christmas!
Eight) Merry Yatesmas – Paul Yates and His Men
It takes a lot for a man to publicly admit he wants presents, and to back it up with an address. In my ideal mixtape guild we would collectively render a barrage of holiday spirit on this man. But just for this round, let’s be realists
Nine) Christmas (Live) – The Who
ten) Merry Christmas, Not X-Mas – Arrah and the Ferns
11) Jakob has no “s” and Christmas has no “x” – Jakob Family ChristmasBienvenue to a Jakob family Christmas. I think I copped this clip three years ago. My brother does the same thing every time the family gathers, he plays and we sit around and talk story. It’s such an integral part of my Christmas that I just had to share it. If I had to wrap one bit of audio up and put in under the tree, to you from me, this is it.
twelfth) soulful Christmas tree – james brown
Imagine yourself on a commercial spending quest through the mall three days before Christmas. This song is on repeat. And you’re in Old Navy.
30een) A Christmas Present 1973 – DeFord Bailey If anyone was so lucky to have the holiday upbringing I did… this is not just the mimicry of the wheels and whistle, this is the whole damn POLAR EXPRESS. Ah man, we’d line up, find our car, spend hours without parents but with elves and hot chocolate and carolled sing alongs, all to be suffixed with a visit from the jolly man himself. If you have never rode the Polar Express, my regrets, and may DeFord do what the immaterial memories of my mind cannot.
14) Joy to the World – Ben Harper (I think? The artist doesn’t matter, all that matters is that this is my favourite carol. Just let it melt your face off.)
Fifteen) When the first snow comes – Chad Serhal
6teen) Noel Huron – Alan Mills and Gilbert “Buck” LancombeI also had the privilege of growing up on a native reserve. This was a carol I knew by heart, and I knew it in Huron as well. It’s image is jet and silvery in my mind, but warm and rosy in my heart. Christmas isn’t just for white Europeans anymore.

Again, my apologies for the flow and some earsores, but Merry Christmas guilders. And if I never got a micks from you this round… you’ll understand the coal.

ej

Space is a Lonely Place

So yeah, it took a while to mail, but I have had it finished for a while. Thanks for being patient... again.
So here is my space concept mix


01 Muse | Space Dementia
02 Queen | Flash
03 Belle & Sebastian | A Space Boy Dream
04 My Morning Jacket | Rocket Man
05 Air | Surfing on a Rocket
06 David Bowie | Space Oddity
07 Flaming Lips | Vein of Stars
08 They Might Be Giants | Space Suit
09 Peter Schilling | Major Tom
10 Radiohead | Subterranean Homesick Alien
11 Smashing Pumpkins | Spaceboy
12 Grandaddy | So You'll Aim Toward The Sky

There were other songs and artists I could have included in the mix. Some were silly or spastic. I think the point of this album was to show how the vast black emptiness can make one melancholy. Our space heroes either to long for home or to keep exploring with no hopes of returning.
Raise your glass to the astronauts and cosmonauts of the past, present, and future.


PS: Included in the same package is Stacey's (Che's) mix. Hope you enjoy both.

The Return of the Living Dead

A few days before Devil's Night I was watching an ole favorite horror flick, the aforementioned Return of the Living Dead. As I was watching, I realized that for the last several months I have been living a zombie-like life, minus the brain eating of course. Like Shawn at the beginning of Shawn of the Dead I have been shuffling around in a daze. Events beyond my control have been kicking me in the ass and I have been very bummed out. At the same time a few people have caused my faith in my fellow human beings to sink to a new low. I have been a study in bitter, frustrated apathy.



To paraphrase Comic Book Guy: Worst. Summer. Ever.



It's getting a bit better now. Someday soon I may be back to my old self.



I tell you these things not so you'll have pity, but so that when you listen to my mix you'll hopefully understand the sour place it comes from.



I had intended to have a theme, but I simply couldn't find my way. There were many songs that I wanted to include, but they just didn't go with my mood.

That being said, as I was working on this mix I at times embraced the abyss and chose songs that helped me continue to be in a poopy mood, and at other times I chose songs with bits that made me happy enough to not contemplate dressing in my Grammy's undies and eating a gun. Just kidding. The track list is as follows...

as usual...SPOILER ALERT!!!

1. Suede - Lazy
2. Les Savy Fav - Pots and Pans
3. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
4. Pavement - Type Slowly (live)
5. Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
6. Cracker - Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)
7. Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn
8. 808 State - OneInTen
9. Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
10. Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away
11. Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
12. Geneva - Tranquilizer
13. Fugazi - Waiting Room
14. Descendants - Bikeage
15. Slipknot - Duality
16. Marilyn Manson - Rock is Dead
17. Supernaturals - Smile

I embrace the abyss to: Grinderman, Lightfoot, Peaches, Slipknot, Descendants and Manson for all the obvious reasons.

I enjoy: the campy lyrics of Shiny Toy Guns, the snideness of the Supernaturals, the guitar solo during Pavement, the bassline of the Descendants, the Bloodhound Gang line "I'm the root of all that's evil/yeah, but you can call me Cookie", the brazenly dirty lyrics of Peaches (this song always makes me think of Buffy during season 6 when she was doing the Humpty Dance with Spike) and just the whole Les Savy Fav song...it makes me feel like...I dunno...but it's freakin' cool. By the way just how do you pronounce Les Savy Fav? Anyone?

So. There it is then.

Sorry for not being on time but lately it's been hard enough to get out of bed and put on some pants let alone be slightly creative.

I know that this will sound cheesy, but making this mixtape has really been theraputic for me. It's the first decent use of my brain in months. After making this I truly feel as if I am returning from the dead. Never underestimate the healing power of music. Thanks, Joe, for inviting me along.

Thes should hit the mail tomorrow or the next day...I guess that's November 8 or 9.

Yarrr.

the Captain

P.S. FYI there's mucho naughty words here...try not to play this around my mom. Thanks.

Niggy Tardust

A Trent Reznor produced album free of DRM for, uh, free? Yeah.

Saul Williams opened for NIN and T-Rez was so impressed he said, 'Hey, lets make an album'.
You can download the album for free with Trent Reznor's blessing if you wanny, or you can pay $5 to support the artist and get a higher bitrate version in mp3 or FLAC. I paid the 5 quai. Costs less than a box of generic freezer waffles and better yet, it cuts the sweaty more-than-slightly-creepy, opportunistic middle-man out of the loop. I vote for that. I vote for waffles. I vote for music and I vote for you.

Fear is the Mind Killer

(click on picture for clearer playlist)

This mix is on its way. I couldn't pass up a theme this time, so similar to Gillz' mix, I have chosen songs that have disturbed, frightened, or outright terrified me at some point in my life.

I am a little disappointed in my effort this time around. There were a lot of tracks that I am missing, and a few bonus tracks that wouldn't burn for some odd reason. Maybe I will send these around in an email, and you can take them or leave them.

This mix will only be "effective" with patience, and a good form or transmission. I say pick a dimly lit room, put on some comfortable headphones, and strap on some fresh courage. Or, take a drive through dark trees with the windows down and the stereo up. This is a vast departure from what I wanted to include on my next mix, but I hope something resonates with at least one of you.

If I could include video on the disc (which I guess I could), a few more tracks would have been Herby Hancock's "Rockit," Grateful Dead "Touch of Grey," George Harrison "I Got My Mind Set On You," and a His Name is Alive video. These short films scared the poop out of me, and are still unnerving. I guess of all things, as a kid I found personification of non-persons the height of terror. What songs bothered/bother you, and why? I want to know.

Thanks.

daysleepers

Fresh out of the Stereogum oven, an Automatic for the People tribute album. Do yourself a free proud if you like REM in other people's voices.