Mix CD #7 - City Of Lost Souls

There's no theme to the mix this time, just songs I've enjoyed lately. My car is in the awkward position of being too old to have a USB port and too new to have a cassette deck (that I have a cassette/iPod adaptor for) so, to listen to music, I have to play CDs. Instead of having one long, convenient playlist like I used to, I now have to burn a load of CD mixes and listen to music that way. All of these songs have come from recent driving CDs and are songs I thought would go well on here, hopefully you'll like them. Some of them maybe. Just that one over there then. Oh piss off. 

If you do download and listen to this mix then let me know what you think cos Feedback is

nice. Same goes for any of the previous mixes.

Click on the link to download it and click on the fake link to read all my blurb about each track.

Ta,
Luke

The End - City Of Lost Souls
Muscle Tribe Of Danger & Excellence - Old-School Blood Trial
Fugazi - Public Witness Program
Kabuto The Python - Skill Set
Von Hertzen Brothers - Trouble
United Magnetics - Act One Scene One
Thundermother - Roadkill
Psychostick - My Clingy Girlfriend
John Parr - St Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
You're Pretty - Day
The Main Grains - We're Happy Round Here
Slipknot - Get This
Faunts - M4 Part 2
Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters - Civilisation
Neko Case - Night Still Comes
Frank Turner - Demons
Krux - Omfalos
Super Furry Animals - Golden Retriever
8stops7 - The Mark
Bowling For Soup - I'm Gay
Seasick Steve - Heart Full Of Scars

You Can Download The Mix HERE

Mix CD #6 Guest Post: Radiohead Not Included

The first guest post of the blog is brought to you by my friend Eddie, He's the head honchperson over at another Blog I post in called All The Time I Was Listening To My Own Wall Of Sound where you can read reviews of many varied albums and singles. You may view it at the following link

All The Time I Was Listening To My Own Wall Of Sound

Eddie's blurb and song choices can be found beneath the cut, click on Read More.. 

Mix CD #5 - Covers Vol 1. Such Great Heights.

Everyone loves a good cover version. Whether it's a band you like doing something unusual or someone unusual doing a song by a band you like or maybe even if it's just to scoff with derision because "Don't they have any of their own songs?". For a lot of bands a covers album is a contractual throwaway; much like a Best Of or a Live album, it's a way to take up one of the slots in their 4 album deal etc. I love it when bands do them though, it gives an insight into the band, the stuff they like, they stuff they used to like and whatnot. It also gives me a chance to see what songs they picked and either be excited or disappointed by their choices. Hey, I take my thrills where I can.

I have many petty rules and regulations for music that I listen to, cover versions escape unscathéd not. I don't like lazy or safe covers. I don't want to hear something that sounds exactly like the original only with a worse singer, where's the point in that? Another aspect of laziness I dislike is to pick from a selection of songs I have on a list (not an actual physical one. I'm not THAT sad.). It's a list of songs that get covered all the time, ALL THE TIME. Songs like Enjoy The Silence. Songs like Tainted fucking Love. We don't need another version of those songs now thank you please, stop it.

Anyway.

I decided I wanted to do a Covers theme this time. When I compiled the songs I ended up with hundreds , even more then I did with the B-Sides mix I did last time. I'll almost certainly be doing more of these. Hence the Vol. 1 bit.

HERE is the link to download the Mix and a brief overview of the tracklisting. Click on the Page Break thing to find out more info, like original artists and an uninteresting anecdote from myself about every song.

Ben Folds - Such Great Heights
Danny Frye & The Devil Dolls - Back Of My Hand
Within Temptation - Paradise
Peace Brothers - Frozen
Devin Townsend - New York, New York
Jenny Owen Youngs - Call Me Maybe
Machine Head - Negative Creep
Eels - Get Ur Freak On
Tarja - Still Of The Night
Snuff - Wanna Be
Hot Buttered Elvis - Candle In The Wind
Gigantor - 29 x The Pain
Wolfsbane - Born To Run
Hellsongs - Seasons In The Abyss
The Baseballs - Chasing Cars
Million Dead - Pretty Good Year
Chvrches - Stay Another Day
Eureka Machines - We Didn't Start The Fire
Tim Timebomb - Summer Of '69
Pearl Jam - Daytime Dilemma (Dangers Of Love)
Malukah - The Dragonborn Comes
The Gourds - Gin n' Juice