Mix CD #57 - You Either Got It Or You Don't

Hello folks! How's it going in your little corner of Worldwide Cataclysm? If one thing this Pandemic has shown, it's just how spiteful, stubborn and selfish a lot of people can be. Not to mention completely hatstand. Imagine what these obstreperous fuckers would be like if it was a proper Post-Apocalyptical breakdown of Society, I don't think Mad Max or Fallout are too far off the mark really. It starts with refusing to wear a mask, ends with bezerking Super Mutants. 

Maybe I'm immune, I don't know.

So, Mix #57. It's taken me a little longer to write than I would have liked but it's the first blog in months that's actually out on time. As seems to have become the norm, there's artists from a whole load of Countries featured: France, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Australia etc. There's some peculiar stuff too. 

I had a bit of a fanny on trying to sort out the Spotify playlist, there's five tracks I've written about that aren't on Spotify, so there's a quarter of the blog unable to be listened to by you fancy pants streaming types, sorry. I've highlighted which tracks below.

Cheers,

Luke

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Tracklisting

Jon Cougar Concentration Camp - You Either Got It Or You Don't

Butterfly - Climbing A Mountain

PowderKeg - Wait It Out

Ghost:Hello - An Unrealistic Display of Optimism

2 Ton Predator - Ready To Die

Priscilla The Outlaw - The Shirt

Hans Gruber And The Die Hards - Is Today Worth Waking Up For?

Depotek - Blox

Swan Prince - Hidden Love Song

Kombynat Robotron - KRII.I

She Makes War - Weary Bird

Teenage Halloween - Figwit

Lifetaker - Wound Man

Kaizers Orchestra - Kontroll På Kontinentet

Volturian - Between The Sleepers

Grumpynators - Feel The Same

Fret! - Davy

Space Deer - Ghost Magnet

Disgraceland - Harvey

The Konbinis - She's On The Run

Backyard Superheroes - Netflix & Chill

You can listen to the playlist on Spotify HERE

Or via the MP3's HERE if you prefer.

Spotify Adjustments

Jon Cougar Concentration Camp - I've substituted in the title track of the only album of theirs that's on Spotify, which is Too Tough To Die.

Butterfly - They aren't on Spotify at all so I've had to omit this one entirely

Ghost:Hello - I've substituted in the track Fingerstache from their album, The Sound Of Color In Space.

2 Ton Predator - Another band completely absent from Spotify.

Kombynat Robotron - They only have the one album on Spotify, Modul 12. I've included the track I from that. It's 22 minutes long, enjoy!

Mix CD #56 - I Only Fall In Love With Scientists

Hello folks, here's the fifty sixth blog, a couple of weeks belated again sorry! As usual with my no themed mixes, there's a right hodgepodge of stuff, from a wide range of countries. There's some bleepy Synthpop from Scotland, Psychedelic Jazz Rock from Italy and Stoner Rock from Iceland, not to mention a fair bit of Punk from a few places too. It's all, of course, exemplary.

 After almost six months I've found myself unfurloughed once more and back to work. Ironically, this means I'm gonna have more time to write these things so normal service should be resumed forthwith. If I go by my once a month thing then there are only two more blogs before its the AOTY special so I'm gonna try and squeeze another one in there to get back on track a little. It's been a funny old year so far, eh?

Cheers,

Luke

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Tracklisting

The Bubble Project - I Only Fall In Love With Scientists

Worriers - Curious

Volcanova - I'm Off

ZOMBIESHARK!  - Synthetic City

Concept Car - I Miss The Mountains

Nø Handøuts - Surf's Up (808)

Android Superstation - All There Is

Jaded Eyes - Be Not Like Them

Penny Orchids - The Day The Circus Fell Down

Petrol Girls - Big Mouth

Death By Stereo - Free Gun With Purchase

The Anti-Queens - Not What It's Worth

The Winstons - Ghost Town

Tankengine - Banshee

Emily And The Blackouts - Slam Into Me

Dream Nails - DIY

Pizzatramp - Stop Being A Racist Cunt

Whirling Hall Of Knives - Laid To Rust

Murderbird - Shining Star

Something To Do - It's Not Funny

The Gits - Spear And Magic Helmet

Molly Tuttle - Olympia. WA

You can listen to the songs on Spotify HERE

You can download the MP3s HERE if you'd rather.

Mix CD #55 - Summer Of Bro's

Happy July folks! Anyone else found out they aren't the star sign they've spent the 45 years being anymore? What kind of name is Ophiuchus anyway?

Anyway, the blog. I've been wanting to have this Randy track as a title track since before last Summer but never really got the chance. It doesn't really seem fitting this year either what with lockdown and the dying and all that but bollocks to it. I still don't know if I should have added the ' though, neither way looks right.

There's a good mix of new and old on the blog this month with a reasonably varied selection of genres and nationalities and, I think, some really good tunes. Enjoy!

Cheers,

Luke

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Tracklisting

Randy - Summer Of Bros

Fostermother - Dark Sun

Chariot The Moon - Thousands

Little Teeth - Avondale

Bratmobile - What's Wrong With You?

Zilf - When The Cat Has Your Tongue

Elephant Tree - Bird

Pain City - I Play My Guitar When I Want

Band Of Skulls - Not The Kind Of Nothing I Know

Starbenders - Can't Cheat Time

Geist - Buried Language

Cable Ties - Tell Them Where To Go

Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Godhopping

Indecent Behavior - Feels Like Home

Kayleth - Cosmic Thunder

Imonolith - We Never Forget

Gentle Giant - Peel The Paint

Thick - Mansplain

Ol' Rattlebones - Pushed It

Hell's Fire - Same Old Story

Little Petie & The Mean Old Men - Rocking Horse

Listen to the playlist on Spotify HERE

Download the mp3's HERE

Mix CD #54 - Keeping The Stupid Stupid

Friggin' finally, here's the fifty fourth blog for your delectation just the seven weeks too late. Lockdown is still causing me delays and both myself and my wife have been laid low with Covid-19 symptoms for a few weeks now which hasn't helped much. Once we're finally diagnosed and can maybe get all antibioticised up, things might improve.

Hopefully, the mix will be worth the wait and I certainly think it is, I love all of these tracks and heartily recommend each band. Hopefully there's plenty that you're currently unfamiliar with and can head off on some musical journies of wondrous discovery. That's the plan anyway. 

Cheers,

Luke

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The Dowling Poole - Keeping The Stupid Stupid

Phil X & The Drills - Middle Finger

Gaytheist - hashbrownsblessed

Lady Beast - Sacrifice To The Unseen

Hub City Stompers - Leave Me The Fuck Alone

Scarlxrd - Rip$aw

These Four Walls - Fire Away

Shower Of Teeth - Slow Gurner

Bone Church - Bone Church Blues

Fool's Ghost - Fugue

Those Fucking Snowflakes - Meat Is Murder But Morrissey's A Dickhead

Killus - The End Of The Vatican

1000mods - So Many Days

Smiling Assassin - With All Due Respect 

Steve Buscemi's Dreamy Eyes - For Ezra

Wexler's Prime - Insectarian

Ceres - Viv In The Front Seat

Final Round - Shooting Stars

Throttlerod - Where's Josh?

Dandelion Charm - Afraid of The Silence

 

You can listen to the mix on Spotify* HERE

If you'd rather the MP3'ss then they're HERE

*The Phil X & The Drills track MIddle Finger isn't on Spotify for some reason so I've replaced it with Live On The Moon

As always, my aimless, meandering waffle is below.

Mix CD #53 - What's The Alternative To The Alternative?

Hello folks, remember me? It's been a good while since the last blog update sorry. For most people the Covid-19 lockdown is a chance for increased productivity with blogs and podcasts and other assorted amusements but, as I do the majority of my writing on company time, I'm finding it hard to make time for it with family stuff and, er, Skyrim. 
Due to my little lad being high risk I'm gonna be off work until everything is alright again so it'll be a while until (my already erratic and lackadaisical) normal service is resumed.

Anyway, this blog. There's no theme as is the norm these days, just some great music. There are artists from all over the world, including six from Australia alone. I seem to be listening to a whole load of Antipodean bands at the moment but it seems to be a particularly fertile source of new, exciting music so expect more on the next blog!

I dunno why it's taken me so long to think of it but I've also included a link to every artist's Facebook page. Just click on their name down where all my blurb is, ta...

Cheers,
Luke
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Tracklisting
Local Resident Failure - What's The Alternative To The Alternative?
Sky Valley Mistress - Lost In Shock
Rotzak - The Big Leap
Baby Chaos - The Wild Beast
Lunachicks - The Day Squid's Gerbil Died
Southern Empire - Forest Fire
Krosis - Battles Are Won Within
Angie McMahon - Pasta
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Which Way To Go
Huntsmen - Colossus
Knock Off - Labels
Cherry Lips - Messin' Around
Puta Volcano - Sugar Cube
DEgITx - Grim Reaper
Press Club - How Can It Not Be Love?
Stella Donnelly - Allergies
Juggernaut Stomp - Appalachian Mama
Sallow Moth - Ancient Grudge
New Bomb Turks - Minimum Wages Of Sin
Blackwater Holylight - Lullaby

You can download the mix HERE
You can listen to it on Spotify HERE.
Annoyingly, the only track not available on Spotify is the bloody title track by Local Resident Failure. As a substitute, I've gone for the opening track from their 2012 album A Breath Of Stale Air. It's appropriately titled The Opener.

Mix CD #49 - Rec & Play

Hello all! Here's the forty ninth edition of the blog and, once again, there's no theme other than right good music and that. Also just like previous mixes, there's music represented from a wide range of nationalities, around eleven I think, but a couple of the songs are sung in non-English. Maybe one day I'll get around to a full mix of other languages, I've been planning to for a while.

Some of you may have read my post on Facebook about the next post, it doesn't take a mathematical genius to calculate it'll be the fiftieth one. I always wanted to do something special for such a big landmark, a meaningful theme or something. As it happens, it's fallen in December which is when I always do my AOTY so it looks like that's your special blog. Happy birthday.

In the meantime, have a read (and a listen if you want) to this blog. As I said, it's right good.

Cheers,
Luke
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Tracklisting
I'm From Barcelona - Rec And Play
Killed A Fox - Gone With The Devil's Hum
The Toy Dolls - Sciatica Sucks
The Wind Whistles - The Quietest Voice
Raindrop Collector - Hell In Me
Once Human - Dark Matter
Chvrches - Forever
The New Roses - Can't Stop Rock & Roll
Shrug Dealer - That's $10 You Owe Me Now, Dickhead!
Caerus - Antimatter
Speedmatics - Ella
Repulsive Woman - When I Get Good
DVOLV - Within This Mortal Soil
Those Fucking Snowflakes - Stop Being Dickheads To Each Other
Hippie Death Cult - Unborn
Smash Potater - Toxic Masculinity Holocaust
Amy Gabba & The Almost Famous - F.U. Cupid
Roadsaw - Fat Rats
Badflower - Die
Helengard - Summer Feast

THIS could be your favourite song, this could be your favourite albuuuum

Mix CD #48 - Welcome To The Real World

Good evening!
Here's the latest installment of Sapphire Bullets for your enjoyment, should you choose to enjoy it. There's no theme this Month, as usual, just a collection of songs I've been loving lately.
As does seem to be the growing trend with these blogs though, there are artists from a wide range of countries as far apart as Indonesia, Ukraine, Switzerland and beyond. Well, not beyond but you know what I mean. Other places and that.

This blog has taken me a while to get out due to busy real world stuff. I've been on nights during Fresher's Week so it's that's included an alarming amount of vomit (not mine), pissed up aggravations, ambulances and, at one point, the hefting of an unconscious girl. Then more vomit.
Given that I do most of my blogging on company time, it's meant I've had to do actual real work and haven't been able to abuse worktime privileges much. Hopefully, that will change and I'll get the next blog out in good time.

Cheers for reading (and listening if you listen)
Luke
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The Riders - Welcome To The Real World
Robot Zombie Army - Taste The Rainbow
Isabelle Stillman - That Salinger Novel
Toxic Melons - Not In Love
The Short Fuses - The Pink
Destrage - About That
Amygdala - It Takes A Village
The Brought Low - This Ain't No Game
Clatter - Come Back
Cats In Boots - Shotgun Sally 
G.L.O.S.S. - We Live
Tarja - Railroads
Black Moth - Moonbow
Lamebrain - Repulse
Incendiary - The Product Is You
Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones - Ghost
MC Lars & Mega Ran - Bartleby, The Scrivener
Skypilot - Superdupernaut
Necking  - Boss
Carrying Goodness - I Don't Know You
Frozen Crows - Aeon

You can download the song HERE if you want. No pressure.

Mix CD #47 - Return From Cybertron

Hello and welcome to the 47th blog! One that is graced by the beautiful, wrathful visages of Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus*!

As I said in my last Facebook post, that about 14 people saw, this is and isn't a themed mix. As the opening track is quite clearly a song about Transformers, I thought I'd see if any other songs I was planning on using had any geeky themes or titles and bung them on this mix too, much like I did with Mix 39 - Kid In The 80's.

As it is, maybe about half of the songs kind of fit the theme this time, though some only vaguely and in title alone. I'd have a put a bit more effort into it if I was doing a full themed mix but I'm not so I didn't. Each track is an absolute banger though so don't shed too many a tear.

Like the last few mixes seem to have been, there are acts from several different countries represented. Other than the usual Usses and Ukk's, there are acts from Belgium, The Netherlands, South Africa, Greece, France, Germany, Australia, and Norway. There's good music everywhere!

I'll be starting work on the next blog soon and I guess I should be thinking about what to do for the 50th blog as that'll be here soon too. I didn't think I'd get past 10 before everyone lost interest but there's still a few of you hanging on!

Cheers,
Luke
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* There's Topspin, Twin Twist and Whirl up there too if you're bothered.

Tracklisting
Phantom Riffage - Return From Cybertron
Spiderbait - Shazam!
Nirvana - Mr. Moustache
Obzerv - Thought And Voice
MyNameIsJohn - Magic Candle
Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One
Things That Need To Be Fixed - Robots & Dragons
Omnerod - Ascaris
Crimson Riot - Here's the Bad News Laura (The Shake Machine Is Down)
Mos Generator - Red Canyons
Ghoultown - Drink With the Living Dead
Squares - I Need A Lot Of Love
Gygax - The Eyes Have It
Schtum - Skydiver
Moron Police - Steve Jobs Is Dead, But I'm Not
Drunktank - Army Of Darkness
XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX - March Of The Ants
MC Frontalot - Never Read The Comments
Fire Down Below - Roadburner
Young Urban Parasites - Action Man
Sellsword - Buccaneers

You can facilitate the audio waves to your matrix HERE

Mix CD #46 - Another Fine Day

Well, here you go. I finally finished Mix 46! I'm getting proper slack with it sorry, life gets in the way and all that. I'm gonna have to get on top of it as I've got at least six or seven more playlists worth of stuff I'd like to get out this year. That's not going to happen.

Anyway, Another Fine Day is another collection of, what I think is, great music and it's reasonably eclectic. There's not too much older songs this time, I dunno about you but I'm finding the sheer volume of good stuff huge so far this year. I keep a playlist of current stuff to whittle down for my Albums Of The Year blog in December and it's almost 200 songs long already and we're only halfway through the year.

I digress. Please give the blog a read, give the music a listen and I hope you find something good/new that you like very much. I like you very much.

Cheers,
Luke
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Tracklisting
Whatever... - Another Fine Day
Whatever - Number One
King Prawn - Seven Seas
Pool Kids - Five-Time 2nd Place Winner
Hey Satan - KO Computer
Svalbard - For The Sake Of The Breed
Better Oblivion Community Center - My City
Quarashi - Weirdo
Grosh - Refuse
The Handsome Scoundrels - Muchacho
Maximum The Hormone - A・L・I・E・N
Odette Michell - Great Old Northern Line
Disgraceland - You Deserve It
The Super Pumas - Psycho Silhouette
Through The Tides - The Walking Dead
Stonefield - In The Eve
Lady Beast - Every Giant Shall Fall
The Moondogz - Better Man
Left Lane Cruiser - Smoke Keeps Rising
Dead Kelly - Put 'Em Up Cunt
Carol Hodge - The Witch Is Dead

The link to the mp3's is HERE

Mix CD #45 - Just Some Kid On A Bike

It's a bit later than scheduled but here's the forty-fifth blog for your wonder and delight. 
As seems to be the norm at the moment, there's no theme other than songs I want people to hear. That seems to be good enough for the time being right?

Just like the last couple of blogs, it's another multinational collection of songs with bands from Israel,  Brazil, Russia, and The Netherlands amongst others. It's not an intentional thing but it's nice to be not just including the same old US/UK mix of stuff. There's cool music everywhere.

I'd promise to get the next blog, Another Fine Day, out in good time to try and make up for lost time this month but that's probably not going to happen. It's a good one though so maybe it's worth the wait, maybe not. Fuck knows.

Anyway, here's May's stuff. You can read my ramble about each song below and can download it via the link provided if you want.

Cheers,
Luke
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Tracklisting
Corn Mo - Just Some Kid On A Bike
Rezin - Something Bad
Reason Define - Inferno
Vintersea - Mirror Lake
Barkmarket - Carjack
Spee Six Nine - People In My Rearview
Tardigrade Inferno - I'm Coming For Your Soul
White Trash - Backstage Pass
Far From Alaska - Pig
Idiot Pilot - Murderous
Jess Morgan - Whitby
Forewarned - I Don't Care
Dark Mother - Mother Mary
Straight Outta Fridge - My Time
Nikki & The Corvettes - I Gotta Move
itoldyouiwouldeatyou - Young American
A Thousand Knives Of Fire - She's Yours
Coppersky - Carry The Fire
Scardust - Arrowhead

HERE's the download link for those that want it

Mix CD #44 - The Dancing Dolls Of Porcelain

Greetings fair wanderer. Come in and rest yourself awhile by the fire, yon minstrels shall strum you a most soothing roundelay.

That is to say, there's the 44th mixblog thing I've done. There's no theme again this month, I did think it might be a good cover and title for an all women blog as I've been fancying doing that theme for a while but, well, I didn't. 

Like the last blog, there's music from several countries featured, almost definitely Canada for sure this time. There's stuff from Denmark, The Netherlands, Australia, Japan, and Greece as well the usuals.
There's a few longer songs this time too, which is good for me as it means less writing.

I'll be starting work on the next blog (Just Some Kid On A BIke) in the next day or so and hopefully, I'll have it out on time for next month.

Until then, take care!
Cheers,
Luke
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Tracklisting
Bitter Ruin - The Dancing Dolls Of Porcelain
Devin Townsend - Gulag
Woodshed - Til The Cows Come Home
Barb Wire Dolls - Darby Crash
ACxDC - Hipler Youth
Hilltop Howlers - Big Love
King Buffalo - Eye Of The Storm
Lovebites - Warning Shot
Caligula's Horse - Fill My Heart
Jukebox The Ghost - Under My Skin
Gin Annie - Damage
3 Headed Giant - Caught By Surprise
Crystal Knight - Sweet Dream Maker
The Dagg Nabbit Stubbs - Tractor Pull 
Flora Greysteel - Use Your Words
Crosslight - Fighting For What?
Lullwater - Fight Of Your Life
Frank Zappa - Trouble Every Day (Live)

 You can download the mix from HERE should that be your wont.

Mix CD #43 - Keep It Rollin'

I've written you a blog. The best blog. All the other blogs wish they were this blog let me tell you. I don't know where I'm going with that, sorry.

So yeah, finally, here's the second blog of 2019 and the first of non-themed music. Bit shoddy of me that. For those of you that are reading this via the Facebook will have seen my post about the delay but those that didn't, I've just not been properly online that much for the majority of February so I've not been writing much. I've done it now though, you can read it if you like.

There's a wide range of stuff on the mix this month, all of it is very good so please give it a listen. There's artists from a load of different countries this time too, it's all very multinational. There are bands from, obviously, the UK and the US but also Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany, possibly Canada? I dunno. Anyway, enjoy!

The Holy Goats - Keep It Rollin'
Division of Laura Lee - Endless Factories
Kelly Buchanan - Slow Watches
The Menagerie - Slangorangutang
Bjorn Berge - Zebra
Neverland - Take Me Higher
Better Days - This House
Night Demon - Dawn Rider
Emme Phyzema - GEM
The Something Somethings - Dining On The Dead
Burn Our Hometown - Oh Donald
Vashti Bunyan - Window Over The Bay
Perkele - One Day
Deever - Only Enemy
Vredehammer - Spawn Tyrant
Electric Sensei - Aphrodite, Your Electric Sexiness
Diggeth - Let The Ancient One Sleep
Codename Colin - Friday The 19th
Super Zero - Nothing Done
Antibody - I See Them
Flummox - A Bundle Of Styx
Elder Devil - City Of Infinity
Blackbriar - Cry Of A Banshee

You can fill your heart with joy and enlightenment HERE

Cheers,
Luke
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Mix CD #40 - My Slumbering Heart

Following the editing calamity last time, where I deleted half of what I'd already written, I was extra careful while writing the blog this time around. Not careful enough, it seems. I'd almost finished, just had the last couple of bands to type out, tried to delete one little typo and accidentally deleted the entire entry instead. Autosave kicked in instantly and I said some really quite bad words. 

I guess in the end it's worked out better as I've swapped a few things about and included a couple of songs that I hadn't in the previous draft too. Good songs.

Once again there's no theme, some new releases, some from old, revisited CDs and some miscellaneous shit. 

There's also quite a few from albums that are Free Download/Name Your Price on Bandcamp (Astronoid, Retirement Party, Cybernetic Witch Party, Sad Hill plus others) this month. I'd like to name my price as more than nothing on more occasions than I currently do but my money gets sucked away into other, more mundane things so, for now, I'll just have to listen to free stuff and feel a bit guilty about it.

Anyway, there's a ton of really great songs (in my opinion) on the mix this month so I hope you listen to/enjoy it.

Cheers

Luke

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Tracklisting

Rilo Kiley - My Slumbering Heart

Hedshel - Drown You

Just Friends - Supersonic

T.S.O.L - Satellites

Beachbuggy - Touch My Stuff (You Can Die)

Astronoid - Up And Atom

Driven Serious - Ballad Of Bones

Janus Stark - Clique

A Sound Of Thunder - Charles II

Gama Bomb - Alt-Reich

Mitski - Washing Machine Heart

Thunderhead - Make It Hard

Sad Hill - Heart Attack

Black Mirrors - Lay My Burden Down

26 Miles Per Hour - Bullet Proof

Froglick - Skippy

Retirement Party - Are You My Mother?

Cybernetic Witch Cult - Sagittarius A*

Ty Tabor - Somebody Lied

Hugh Reed & The Velvet Underpants - Car Nicked

Alice Donut - The Son Of A Disgruntled X-Postal Worker Reflects On His Life While Getting Stoned In The Parking Lot Of A Winn Dixie LIstening To Metallica

You can download the mix HERE and read my ramblings below. Ta

Mix CD #39 - Kid In The 80's

And lo! They all did bear witness to the eventual arrival of a new and shining blog. As one they gazed upon its wonder and saw that it was the thirty ninth of it's kind, throughout its majesty lay a partial theme of sorts.

Yeah, this is the 39th mix, that's a bit late due to me losing a goodly portion of what I'd written due to the fecking up of Chrome not once but twice. It's not a themed mix, just the usual 'Here are some good songs, look!" Some of the songs are connected though and I shall now unfold the uninteresting tale of how so.

I love the photo I've used this month (just look at the mind-blowing joy on that kid's face! Also, I had pretty much all of that Star Wars stuff and it was ace) and the Mrs. Fletcher song seemed to fit it perfectly, so I stuck them together and here we are. The partial theme comes from the fact that I also had a few other songs waiting for inclusion that had geeky song matter, song titles or band names so I bunged a few of them into the mix as well. I did toy with the idea of doing a wholly Nerd based mix but there were other songs I really wanted people to hear so I abandoned that for now.

I hope you enjoy the songs, feel free to read what I've said about them and keep yourself alright,

Cheers,
Luke
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Tracklisting
Mrs. Fletcher - Kid In The 80's
Adam West - We've Got Cake
Killing Heidi - Mascara
Thrashist Regime - Headshot
Kiefer Sutherland - All She Wrote
Edna's Goldfish - Trace Your Steps
Dreadnought - Transpiration
Thundering Asteroids! - I've Got A Thing For The Goblin King
30 Amp Fuse - Over The Hill
Bleachers - Like A River Runs
Sick Shit - Trichotillomania
Soup Or Villainz - I Can Teach You Magic
Which Witch Is Which - You Get What Anybody Gets
Morpheus Rising - Touch The Sky
Mudshark - It Won't Shine
Cloud Cult - Everything You Thought You Had
Amyl And The Sniffers - I'm Not A Loser
Tricklebolt - 1996
Bloods - Best Friend
Patterns Of Decay - Tricksy Hobbitses
Pence Eleven - Miss End Of The World

Let THE MUSIC flow through you, young Jedi

Mix CD #38 - I Keep Myself To Myself

Good Heavens, I'm on time with a blog update!

I'm sure you've been sat in the dark, incessantly clicking refresh for the last couple of weeks, awaiting yet another masterpiece. Well, here it is, the 38th masterpiece. There's a mix of new releases that I've been enjoying and older stuff that I have also been enjoying. Again, there are about a half dozen songs from CDs I rediscovered rummaging through storage crates in the attic, Stony Sleep, Soul Coughing, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and a couple of others It's been a slog, copying thousands of albums to iTunes but it's been fun too.

Have a read, have a listen and I hope you find something new/good.

Tracklisting
The Boy Least Likely To - I Keep Myself To Myself
These Wicked Rivers - Testify
War On Women - Divisive Shit
Street Dogs - Lest We Forget
Soul Coughing - Soundtrack To Mary
The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black - The Teather Penumbra
Twin Atlantic - I Am Alive
Sojourner - Homeward
The Crocketts - On Something
Smack Mammoth - Loner
Ophidius - Discerning The Transmundane
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Beautiful Zelda
Stony Sleep - I Only Love You For Your Saville Row Boxer Shorts
My Indigo - Lesson Learned
The Mark Of Cain - Call In Anger
Witch Fever - Toothless
Troldhaugen - It's Morphine Time
DNF - 3rd Degree Bernie Mac
The Winter Hill Transmission - Satellites
Sonseed - Jesus Is A Friend Of Mine

You can download the mix right HERE if you want.

Mix CD #37 - Earn Your Stripes

For the last few years, since I moved house, the majority of my CDs have been kept in crates in the attic. I had the albums I wanted at the time ripped to iTunes and never bothered with the discs after that. Over the last 4-5 weeks, I've been tidying up there, restacking stuff and going through all the crates of CDs, a lot of which it's been 10-15 years since I listened to them last. I've rediscovered old favourites, re-assessed albums I'd once passed over and even found a few that I had no idea I even owned.

During those last few weeks, I've ripped the CDs and added around a thousand more albums or so to iTunes. I was concerned that I was starting to run out of things to include on these mixes but, as you can imagine, doing this has massively bolstered my stockpile of songs to sift through. There's about half a dozen tracks of rediscovered stuff on this mix. Feel free to guess which ones.

I really like the album cover I've pinched this month, I think it ties in well with the title. Together they convey the message that the difference between a good soldier and a great one isn't just a skill and propensity to kill but to maintain some humanity and compassion as well.

Tracklisting
The Generators - Earn Your Stripes
Sasquatch - Seven Years To Saturn
Folly - The Weak And The Wounded
Kim Seviour - Fabergé
Snuff - Hey Boff
Marmozets - Like A Battery
Hundred Reasons - She Is Poison
Medulla Nocte - Problem To The Solution
All About Eve - December
Brad Sucks - Thanks For The Add
Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi - Hear The Air
Slugdge - The Chapter For Transforming Into A Slug
Elliott Smith - Memory Lane
The Bluetones - Marblehead Johnson
Dr. Frank - Knock Knock (Please Let Me In)
Fell At Ten - The River
Robert Johnson - I'll Believe I'll Dust My Broom
Cheap Heat - A Chip On The Shoulder
Skarlett Riot - Warrior
The Crimea - Someone's Crying

You can download the mix HERE if you want.
You can read fascinating little nuggets of ramble about each track below too. If you like.

Mix CD #36 - Welcome To Gunville

This mix was originally going to be a themed one, a contentious theme that you can probably work out from the mix title, which hasn't changed.
I started compiling songs that were both pro and anti-guns so as to try and be objective but then I got to thinking, I live in Bishop Auckland, a small town in the North of England and I spent the majority of my life in York, a small city in the North of England. I have about as much real knowledge on firearms as Donald Trump does about tiggy hido so it didn't really seem right for me to get involved too much. Also, I didn't want grief from either The Snowflakes or Team America World Police. Thusly, I bottled it. 

As I said, the title remained and a couple of the tracks but other than that it's now just an unthemed mix of music, both new and old, that I've been liking lately, as per the norm. Hopefully you shouldn't something you don't hate.

So yeah, here's the 36th mix, have a read, have a listen if you want and I hope you like it.

Cheers,
Luke
x

P.S. For what it's worth, I think there's probably a bit of room for compromise on both sides
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Tracklisting
The Urge - Welcome To Gunville
Samarkind - Thru That Door
Master Boot Record - CLS.NFO
Eureka Machines - Let Me Tell You All About Myself
öOoOoOoOoOo - I Hope You Sleep Well
Million Dead - Smiling At Strangers On Trains
Not Scientists - I Don't Feel So Crazy
Echobelly - Pantyhose And Roses
Torche - Hideaway
NOFX - The Decline
Garfunkel And Oates - Happy Birthday To My Loose Acquaintance
For Love Not Lisa - Daring To Pick Up
Andy & The Odd Socks - Unique
Toehider - How Much For That Dragon Tooth?
Jackdaw4 - Deep And Meaningless
Bearsuit - Itsuko Got Married
[Spunge] - Ego
Owl John - A Good Reason To Grow Old

You can download the mix HERE should that be your fancy

Mix CD #34 - Battered And Bruised

Happy Valentine's Day! Here's the first non themed blog of 2018 and it's full of wildly inappropriate Valentine's songs about loneliness and divorce. There's no subtle hinting to my beautiful wife, just coincidence and very poor timing.

I wanted to get it out and finished a while ago but I've been having personal issues that have meant I've been off work and staring at a screen for large amounts of time isn't conducive to a good time.  I've been working on it for far too long and changed it around a ton but it's finally done, finished and ready for your massive enjoyment. So enjoy massively please ta!

Tracklisting
Kick Joneses - Battered And Bruised
Jackie On Acid - More Like Television
Enuff Z'Nuff - Wheels
Bloodywood - Tunak Tunak Tun
The Class Assassins - For The Kids
Jesper Binzer - The Bumpy Road
Starcrawler - Ants
Skyscraper - Man Made Hell
One Minute Silence - For Want Of A Better World
Bull - 12 Minute Album Ender
Flora Greysteel - Emily Tries
Tom Keifer - It's Not Enough
Shelter - Spirits Blinded
Dire Straits - Skateaway
The Dollyrots - City Of Angels
Drama Club Rejects - Too Much Too Often
Dunes - Everything Is OK
The NX - Swingers & Roundabouts
Sloan - Can't Face Up
Baleful Creed - Levy
Harry Nilsson - Don't Forget Me

You can download the mix HERE

Mix CD #32 - The Start Of Something Beautiful

Hello and welcome to the thirty second blog and what will very probably be the last one of the year!

It has been quite a while since my last entry, the inexplicably popular, covers mix, six weeks or so I think. Sorry about that, blame The Punisher. 

It's back to a themeless mix this time, with a reasonably eclectic collection of songs that I have enjoyed and would also like you to enjoy. I would also like it if you read the banal drivel I've written about each track too, but don't feel you have to or anything. 

As I mentioned in the Facebook group, the next mix will be my top albums of 2017 and I'm aiming to have it done and published at some point in January but if I get it done earlier then there's no point hanging about and I'll stick it up. 

In the meantime, them songs to enjoy, look.

Tracklisting

Porcupine Tree - The Start Of Something Beautiful

Senser - Resistance Now

The Bombpops - Fomo

Monster Magnet - Radiation Day

Jim'll's Brain - My Bad Smell

Cockney Rejects - I'm Not A Fool

Wayward Sons - Be Still

Kris Drever - When The Shouting Is Over

Red Storm Rising - Fortnight Thing

KXM - Big Sky Country

This Year's Girl - Get Off My Radio

Stept In Dogshit - Gimme Viagra

Random Jon Poole - I Know You

Adam Ant - Goody Two-Shoes

Strapping Young Lad - Aftermath

Jim Bob - My New Walk

The Dreaming - Empty Promises

I Found God - Disarray

Jason & The Scorchers - Moonshine Guy

The Stone Roses - Waterfall

You can download the mix HERE

Mix CD #30 - Who Will Sing Me Lullabies?

So here's the thirtieth blog. Is 30 a milestone? It feels like it should be a milestone. It's certainly a lot. I'd regale you with debauched tales of what I got up to on my 30th birthday, only I haven't a clue what I did, completely forgot. Maybe it's because it was such a wild night but more than likely I just spent it playing Halo. Birthdays are rubbish after about 23 or so anyway.

Yeah anyway, the blog. It's the usual mix of new and old. There's some heavy stuff, some Punk, Indie, a little bit of Folk, an even littler bit of Hip Hop. All just things I've liked and wanted to use. As always, you can read what I have t say about each track below and also download the mix if you want too.

The next blog is gonna be another themed mix I've decided. It's been an age since the last Covers mix and I have a huge batch of prospective tracks to use. I've also got a couple of non themed mixes backed up too so I'm good for the time being at least.

I hope you enjoy this one for now though.

Cheers

Luke

x

Tracklisting

Kate Rusby - Who Will Sing Me Lullabies?

Honeycrack - Sitting At Home

Möngöl Hörde - Blistering Blue Barnacles

The Martin Harley Band - Take What You Want

Antiproduct - Bungee Jumping People Die

Gangstagrass - In My Aching Heart Shadows Linger

Stabbing Westward - Falls Apart

Randy - The Pretender

Knives Out! - Left In The Lurch

The Regrettes - Hey Now

Nural - Not Guilty

Bughead - Monster Truck Monday

Crystal Viper - I Fear No Evil

Josh Woodward - Do Not Go Gentle

Ben Folds - Hiro's Song

Karnivool - The Caudal Lure

Bad Religion - Popular Consensus

Stone Sour - Fabuless

Pulkas - This Is It

Masters Of Reality - Doraldina's Prophecies

You can download the mix HERE as piques your fancy.