Mix CD #24 - Last Chance To Change

Hello and welcome to the 24th mix! It's not been too long since the last one but as that was an artist specific mix I guess it's been a while since an actual proper mix. Six weeks or so. Anyway yeah, here's another one. As usual it's a collection of tunes that I've been enjoying and thought would fit together nicely.

All of my CD's, of which there are many, are stored away up in the attic, I was up there last week and had a rummage through a couple of crates that were accessible, I dragged out quite a few old albums that I've been listening to and enjoying.
As there's already quite a bit of older stuff on this mix, I've left them off for now but expect songs cropping up over the next couple of mixes. You'll know which they are as it's the kind of uninteresting fact I like to include  in my pointless, rambling anecdotes about each song. Speaking of which you can pore over and enthuse about my latest enscribings below, under the download link

Cheers,
Luke
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Tracklisting
D-A-D - Last Chance To Change
Jackdaw4 - Frobisher's Last Stand
Liberty 37 - Revolution
The Crucified - Mindbender
Haken - Celestial Elixir
The A-OKs - You're A Bomb
Marmozets - Back To Blackout
Balaam & The Angel - Don't Look Down
Agnès Milewski - Ship Is Sailing (Live)
Manic Street Preachers - Judge Yr'self
Better Than A Thousand - I Can Make A Difference
Groovenics - Superstar
The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets - Varcolac
Crunchy - Fanatic
Karine Polwart - Tears For Lot's Wife
I Love You - Hang Straight Up
Life Of Agony - Bag Of Bones
Boris The Sprinkler - Sugar Machine
Sacred Reich - Ask Ed
Greg Graffin - Millport

You can download the mix HERE if you want.

Mix CD #23 - Here, In My Head: Tori Amos B-Sides & Rarities

I've been wanting to do an artist specific blog for a while now but was unsure who. I was also wanting to get around to another B-sides & rarities mix so I thought I may as well kill two birds with one stone and combine the two themes.
I've been a  massive Tori Amos fan for 25 years now and she's also probably the most prolific non-album track releaserer I know, which makes her perfect for this kind of thing.

I've whittled this list down from easily over 150 tracks that's she's released over the last 25/30 years, and that's not including live stuff or remixes. I've tried to take songs from as wide a spectrum as possible and, in doing so, I've passed over quite a lot fantastic songs in favour of merely good ones. Them's the breaks I guess.

Tracklisting
Baltimore
Take Me With You
Not David Bowie
Sugar
Honey
White Telephone To God
Never Seen Blue
Violet's Eyes
Miracle
Merman
Siren
Forest Of Glass
Mountain
Murder, He Says
A Case Of You
Darkest Hour
Mary
You'll Be Taken Care Of
That's What I Like, Mick
Here, In My Head

You can download the mix HERE if you like.

As is the norm, I've written a fascinating little anecdote for each track that you can pore over intently below.

Cheers,
Luke
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Mix CD #22 - That's A Nasty Habit You've Got There

Here we go with mix number twenty two and it's yet another mix with no theme!

I know I explain this every time but you never know when somebody new might read this and anyway, what else do I put? So yeah, these are all songs that have popped up lately that I thought would be good on one of these here mixes. Sometimes a good song pops up on shuffle, other times it's a track that stands out on albums I'm listening to or maybe just from various playlists or whatever.

I think it's a pretty eclectic mix and I've been enjoying listening to it. That's no guarantee you will of course but fingers crossed you'll like something, even if it's just the Queen song...

Tracklisting
Ginger Wildheart - That's A Nasty Habit You've Got There
Stone Sour - Do Me A Favor
Maow - Mommie's Drunk
Clowns - Eat A Gun
Within Temptation - Faster
Aerosmith - Sick As A Dog
Jon Oliva's Pain - Winter Haven
Neon Horse - Cuckoo!
Retching Red - I'm A Rat
The Idol Dead - Everybody Knows Your Name
Atom & His Package - For Aliza, Whenever She May Sleep
Frank Turner - Sweet Albion Blues
Queen - Save Me
Red Tape - Stalingrad
Heather Nova - If I Should Die
Groop Dogdrill - Lovely Skin
Testament - More Than Meets The Eye
Sleep Keepers - This City Needs A Hero
Fugazi - Bed For The Scraping
John Mellencamp - Now More Than Ever
Brian Posehn - More Metal Than You
Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made Of Sand

You can download the mix HERE if you want. Also feel free to read what I done writed about each song too.

Cheers,
Luke
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Mix CD #21 - NSFW

Here's your fuckin' mix you.

 As you can see it's awash with profanity and a plethora of naughty words. Everyone knows, swearing is neither big nor clever but can, on occasion, be funny.

I've never really understood people who get incredibly offended at cursing. Everyone does it, maybe some more than others but everyone at some point lets slip a shit, fuck or pissflaps. I swear constantly and don't even realise it half the time. There's a time and place for it to be sure but they're only really words. Maybe the world would be a nicer and less stressful place to live if people didn't get offended by things they don't really need to.

So yeah, it's full of swearing and, depending on where you work, it's probably not advisable to play once you've clocked on.

I narrowed this down from a very large list as you can imagine. Fuck in particular had over a hundred songs to choose from. I could likely have made it even more offensive too as there are plenty of songs with way more swearing in them than the ones I've included but I only wanted songs with bad words actually in the title.

Generally speaking, there are a lot more short, angry Punk songs with swearing in their titles knocking about than there are lengthy, sweeping Prog Rock epics with swearing in theirs. For that reason there are more tracks on this mix than usual. It's gonna take me ages to write up!

Tracklisting
Psychostick - NSFW
The Urge - Drunk Asshole
Frenzal Rhomb - World's Fuckedest Cunt
Regurgitator - I Sucked A Lot Of Cock To Get Where I Am
Snuff - Arsehole
Dick Delicious & The Tasty Testicles - It Was The Tits
Jenny Owen Youngs - Fuck Was I
W.A.S.P. - Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)
Dirt Box Disco - My Life Is Shit
Life, Sex & Death - Fuckin' Shit Ass
Marilyn Manson - Rock n' Roll Nigger
Kick Joneses - In A Fucked Up City
MC Chris - I'm A Fuckin' Wizard
The Darkness - Wanker
Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To Fuck
The Assholes - Eat Shit And Die
Random Hand - Dynamo Penis Death Bastard
Bowling For Soup - Don't Be A Dick
Super Furry Animals - The Man Don't Give A Fuck
Rocket From The Crypt - Bucket Of Piss
Ballboy - All The Records On The Radio Are Shite...
Consumed - Twat Called Maurice
AJJ - You Don't Want To Fuck With Me
Ben Folds - Bitch Went Nuts
Diemonds - Get The Fuck Outta Here

You can download the mix HERE if you like. As usual, you can read what dull inanity I have to say about each track below.

Cheers,
Luke

Mix CD #20 - Trip To Mars

Hello!

Welcome to the first proper blog of 2017! Also welcome to the 20th mix too. You're probably getting sick of them by now but I'm still having fun so I'm afraid there's still plenty more to come. Ignore at your peril/leisure.

 As is the norm, Trip To Mars features songs that I've wanted to include just because I like them a lot. Some have cropped up on shuffle, some are from albums I've been listening to and others on mixes I've made for myself to listen to in the car. There's a wide mix of stuff on offer so, hopefully, you'll find something you like in there.

I've settled on the final tracklisting for the next two mixes so it's just a matter of typing them up. Both are themed and I'm looking forward to sharing them. I'm not online too much in the next week or so but once I'm back you can expect the next blog in a fortnight or so.

Cheers,
Luke

You can download Trip To Mars HERE and perhaps read my usual rambling about each song below

Track Listing
Gigantor - Trip To Mars
Moby - My Love Will Never Die
Ryan Hamilton & The Traitors - Freak Flag
Chvrches - Bow Down
Strange Fruit - All Over The World
The Bastard Suns - We'd Go For Broke (But We're Already There)
Graf Orlock - The Dream Left Behind
Clowns For Progress - Inundated Man
Britny Fox - Angel In My Heart
Suicidal Tendencies - One Finger Salute
Frankie & The Heartstrings - Think Yourself Lucky
Machine Head - Wolves
Jidenna - Long Live The Chief
Nick Helm - Don't Fall In Love With Me
Von Hertzen Brothers - Coming Home
The Wannadies - Let Go Oh Oh
Cinderella - The Road's Still Long
Nirvana - Blandest
Terrorvision - Pushover
They Might Be Giants - Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love

Mix CD #19 - Top Albums Of 2016: Part Two

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a good Christmas and all that. Now it's time to suffer some misery and yearn for the pay day that can't possibly still be over a fortnight away. By, January isn't half shit.

So yeah, if you're poor and sad like me then perhaps the second blog featuring tracks from albums that I liked last year will offer some sweet respite? It'll pass an hour or so for you if nothing else.

The first blog can be read HERE if you haven't already seen it and want to.

I've got a few themed blogs planned for the coming year, I was toying with the idea of a Profanity strewn mix and also one with songs of a depression/suicide theme. I should probably do something a little more cheerful too. I'll also likely be doing more mixes of Cover versions, B-sides and Rarities and Band Best Ofs. One thing I've not done yet is a genre specific blog so I might look into that too.

There's plenty to come over the next year then, in fact, the next mix will only be a week or so away hopefully, there's no specific theme for that one but I've about settled on the tracklisting for it. IT'll be the 20th Blog, a milestone!

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this one.

Cheers,
Luke

Tracklisting
Katatonia - Old Heart Falls
Leo Moracchioli - Royals
CJ Wildheart - Light It Up
Periphery - Motormouth
The Divine Comedy - How Can You Leave Me On My Own
Devin Townsend  - Gump
Twin Atlantic - The Chaser
Muncie Girls - Gas Mark 4
Drama Club Rejects - Idiot Brigade
Metallica - Spit Out The Bone
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Ignite - Alive
Hey! Hello! - Kids
Beyond The Black - Heaven In Hell
Prong - Without Words
The Baseballs - Never Ever
The Dowling Poole - When She Knows, She Knows
She Loves Pablo - Inheritance (To The Desert Jackals)
Megadeth - Bullet To The Brain
The Prettiots - Me And Little Andy

You can download the mix HERE and read more about each album below. Ta!

Mix CD #18 - Top Albums Of 2016: Part One

2016 has certainly been a game of two halves, a double edged sword, two sides of the same coin blah blah blah. On the one hand there's been an incredulous amount of well loved celebrities and musicians bowing out with no encore but on the other there's been an absolute deluge of quality albums released this year. So much so that album that might normally sit comfortably in my top 20 haven't even made the top 40.

For that reason I figured I would do two AOTY mixes this year and get to feature some albums that I think people will like but that haven't made the Top 20. Rather than have them in order of preference I just shuffled the 40 songs,split them into two playlists and fiddled about with it to make two posts for the blog. This being the first.

If you want to know what my actual Top 20 albums, in order, are then there's another blog over at All The Time I Was Listening To My Own Wall Of Sound HERE

The Mix Tracklisting
Scott Sorry - 'Til All The Pieces Fit
Devil Gone Public - Chillin', Killin'
Haken - Red Giant
Love Zombies - Favourite Song
Mina Caputo - Upturned Faces
NOFX - I Don't Like Me Anymore
Helion Prime - Life Will Find A Way
Scattered Hamlet - Green Bastard
Miracle Of Sound - Friends
Waste Pipes - Little Devils Scratched My Ears
Knives Out! - Mysterious Ways
Half Man Half Biscuit - Lark Descending
Vinyl Cape - Barren Orchard
Josh Woodward - Perfect
Dunsmuir - Orb Of Empire
Korn - Take Me
Frightened Rabbit - A Lick Of Paint
Volbeat - Seal The Deal
Savages - Evil
Darkend - Clavicula Salomanis

You can download the mix HERE
Once it's uploaded you'll be able to go read Part Two HERE
As always you can read the blurb about the various albums below.
Cheers,
Luke

Mix CD #17 - They Broke Him Down

Hello! It's been a while since my last post, life stuff and that, sorry. To be honest, when I started the blog this was the sort of gap I wanted between mixes anyway. I've just been having too much fun churning them out willy nilly. Caution to the wind and to Hell with the consequences!

This one has no particular theme, just a collection of cool songs that you should listen to and possibly enjoy, You must also read the blurb I've written about each track too. It's important.

That's almost it for this year I would think, I've got an Albums Of The Year one planned that I'll have out in two-three weeks and then it'll be 2017. No more dead famous people, hurrah!
Some of you will know that I also do album reviews for another blog, All The Time I Was Listening To My Own Wall Of Sound, I normally do a Top 20 Albums Of The Year post there so I'll probably tie the two together in some way. Have you stopped reading yet?

Here's what on the mix today.
Streetlight Manifesto - They Broke Him Down
Winter In Eden - Constant Tomorrows
21 Taras - Mystic Signs
The God Damn Whores - Unemployment Man
Native Construct - Spark Of The Archon
Slipknot - Psychosocial
Miss Li - Miss Li
Little Angels - Product Of The Working Class
Prophets Of Rage - The Party's Over
Masters Of Reality - Always
Extreme - Am I Ever Gonna Change?
The Jellys - Feels Like Sunshine
Kerbdog - Hard To Live
7 Year Bitch - Kiss My Ass Goodbye
Abysmal Dawn - Inanimate
The Broken Family Band - Living In Sin
Sorry And The Sinatras - Hated Heart
Circus Of Dead Squirrels - Elmo's Last laugh

You can download the mix HERE

Mix CD #16: Children Of The Night - A Halloween Mix

Hello! 

It's been a while since the last mix but I've finally finished this, the sixteenth mix and the first with a proper actual themed theme, with the theme being, obviously Halloween. There's a veritable cornucopia of songs that are creepy, spooky and downright supernatural in nature on here. BUHWAHAHAHAHAAAA and all that. 

To be honest, it just looks like the playlist from Alternative club night in the 90's. Still, can't rain all the time...

You can download the mix HERE

Tracklisting

Schoolyard Heroes - Children Of The Night

Therapy? - Evil Elvis

Eels - My Beloved Monster

Soup Or Villainz - I'm A Zombie

Type O Negative - Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)

The Gaslight Anthem - Halloween

Stabbing Westward - Haunting Me

Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)

Dunsmuir - The Bats (Are Hungry Tonight)

Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave

Marilyn Manson - Unkillable Monster

The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Drunk On The Blood

Danko Jones - Body Bags

Machines Of Loving Grace - Lillith/Eve

Neko Case - Things That Scare Me

MC Chris - Where The Ghosts At?

Strung Out - Skeletondanse

Harry & The Potters - My Teacher Is A Werewolf

The Birthday Massacre - Shallow Grave

Devin Townsend - Vampira

Mark Owen - Ghost

Zombina & The Skeletones - Can't Break A Dead Girl's Heart

Judas Priest - A Touch Of Evil

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Mix CD #15 - Raise A Little Hell

Hello and welcome to the fifteenth installment of Sapphire Bullets! Again, there's no theme this time, just more songs I liked. There seems to be a lot of mid-range heaviness though. And George 'King Of The Ukulele' Formby. I'm pleased with the way the mix came out, it sounds just fine playing too loud in my car, even George.

I've no set plans for what comes next just yet. There's a Halloween mix in the pipeline along with a mix of my Albums Of The Year. I might do a Christmas mix when the time comes but we'll see.

Anyway, for now enjoy this mix, read all my blurb and get in touch if to want to know more about any of the bands or just to pass on feedback even.

Cheers,
Luke

You can raise your own little bit of hell HERE

Tracklisting
Life, Sex & Death - Raise A Little Hell
L7 - Just Like Me
Shihad - FVEY
Jackdaw4 - Why Don't You Come And See Me When She's Not Around?
Grorr - Alone At Last
Molotov Jukebox - Get Ready
The Loyalties - Ashtray's Empty
Faster Pussycat - Jack The Bastard
Chris Caffery - You Gotta Be Fucking Kidding Me
Alice In Videoland - Emily
George Formby - Why Don't Women Like Me?
Polkadot Cadaver - Bloodsucker
Bluto's Revenge - Things She Said
Scheer - Wish You Were Dead
Dream Theater - As I Am
Stan Bush - The Touch
Huntress - Fire In My Heart
Downer - Born Again
Emily Kinney - Last Chance
Steve From Accounting - Acacia

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