So the tenth mix is here, I feel like that ought to be some sort of milestone? Yay congratulations me! I'll buy myself a drink later.
I was planning on doing another Covers Mix this time but I wasn't really feeling it, plus I had a lot of songs that I've listened to lately that I wanted to share so I just went ahead with another no themed mix. Also I really liked the Gargamel! song as an opener and I'd made that artwork (took hours of painstaking craftsmanship that did) for it too. The alligator thing is sufficiently in the past now surely?
As always, have a read of my comments below the cut if you like and you can download the mix HERE if you so choose.
Cheers!
Gargamel! - We've Got A Situation Here
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Brunel
Sleater-Kinney - Step Aside
Left Side Brain - We All Got It Coming, Kid
Gama Bomb - Tuck Your T-Shirt In
Agnès Milewski - Signs And Messages
Circulus - Song Of Our Despair
Periphery - The Parade Of Ashes
Dirt Box Disco - Top Shelf
Dog Fashion Disco - Scarlet Fever
Sonic Boom Six - The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Inventions
Professor Kliq - The Dirtiest
Go Home Productions - Paranoid Rock
Diemonds - Overboard
Elvis Presley - A Big Hunk O' Love (Live)
Kingdom Come - Highway 6
Prong - Ice Runs Through My Veins
Consumed - Odd Man Out
Screaming Trees - Winter Song
Kilgore - Double-Edged Sword
Rachel Sermanni - Bones
Rollins Band - Wreck-Age
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Gargamel! - We've Got A Situation Here
Taken from the 2007 album Fields Of Happy
I've liked this Avant-Garde Metal band from Orlando, Florida since '99/'00 I think.. They're one of many independent bands I discovered through CDBaby back in the day. Influenced by Faith No More/Mr Bungle but heavier than the former and easier to listen to than the latter, helped in no small part by their twisted sense of humour. They've not released much, to my knowledge, since this album but are still gigging so maybe a new album may come along one day.
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Brunel
Taken from the 2012 album This May Be The Reason The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing are a Steampunk band from London that, for once, put emphasis on the Punk. Full of energy and a lot of fun. This is the first song I heard by them and it's as good an intro as any. Fans of Historical Engineering should appreciate this. Assuming there are any,
Sleater-Kinney - Step Aside
Taken from the 2002 album One Beat
One of the major bands in the Riot Grrrl scene in the early '90's they reformed last year and released the excellent No Cities To Love. Both Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker sing lead vocals but I much prefer Corin's peculiar howl, it's something special. This is one their poppier songs and showcases her voice well I think.
Left Side Brain - We All Got It Coming, Kid
Taken from the 2008 album Collider
This Bristolian band were one of the later Britrock bands, directly influenced by earlier ones like Kerbdog, Therapy? and the Grungier side of the scene. They have big riffs but plenty of melody along with it too. I've had their debut CD for years but never been able to find anything else, even naughty downloads. two weeks ago I looked on their website and all of their album were available for four quid each. Always the last place you look and all that.
Gama Bomb - Tuck Your T-Shirt In
Taken from the 2015 album Untouchable Glory
Gama Bomb are a Northern Irish band and part of the Thrash Resurgence that's been going on for a while now. Often silly and light-hearted but with storming riffs and tunes too. Vocalist Philly Byrne often utilises a falsetto style scream that tends to grate but is thankfully absent from this song.
Agnès Milewski - Signs And Messages
Taken from the 2014 album Almost Spring
Agnès is a Polish-born Austrian Singer that I've been into since the Myspace days. I've always been a big Tori Amos fan and there's an obvious Tori influence on her music but she tends to be a bit more eclectic and experimental. All three albums are really good and worth tracking down if you can (I had to buy Learn To Swim from the German version of Amazon, before Google had that Translate thing). This was her last album to date.
Circulus - Song Of Our Despair
Taken from the 2006 album Clocks Are Like People
Circulus are a peculiar Progressive Folk band that released two albums on the Rise Above record label. If you're familiar with it you'd know that it's roster is very much of a Doom Metal vein. Curculus are not that. Nonetheless they always went down well live when playing gigs with labelmates. Their penchant for Medieval attire probably helped win over more than a few drunk Metalheads. I saw them on a headlining gig in 2006 and they were great.
Periphery - The Parade Of Ashes
Taken from the 2014 mini-album Clear
Periphery are an American Progressive Metal band and a prominent in the Djent scene. They're technical as you'd expect but also have a very clinical production that gives them an odd, mechanical feel. This song isn't their heaviest (though there's plenty of chugga chugga and roaring going on) but it's got a massive chorus that I love.
Dirt Box Disco - Top Shelf
Taken from the 2014 album Peoplemadeofpaper
This ridiculous Midlands-based Punk band have been about for a while now but I've only recently discovered them. All of their albums are full of smut and silliness but they've a skill for catchy tunes that stops them being a bit throwaway band.
Dog Fashion Disco - Scarlet Fever
Taken from the 2014 album Sweet Nothings
Whenever I come across Dirt Box Disco I immediately think of this Avant-Garde Metal band from Maryland. They have a lot of similarities with Gargamel! (see above) but are more streamlined and can be much more serious. They split and reformed several times until finally releasing this album eight years after the previous, 2008's Adultery. They're a great band and it's good to have them back
Sonic Boom Six - The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Inventions
Taken from the 2009 album City Of Thieves
Sonic Boom Six (count the folk above...) are a Mancunian band that mix Punk, Ska, Metal, Hip Hop and whatnot into an energetic ball of grimy Northern exuberance. They're political but danceable and I struggled to pick one song to adequately represent them. Their new album, The F-Bomb, is more Ska oriented than usual but still pretty good.
Professor Kliq - The Dirtiest
Taken from the 2008 album Guns Blazin'
I love this album! It has a very retro Trance vibe to it, so much so you can almost smell the smoke machines. There's no vocals, just the occasional sample which I like with this sort of music. Do people still say stuff like Phat Beatz? I'm fairly sure they don't. Anyway, if they did then he would have them.
Go Home Productions - Paranoid Rock
Taken from the 2008 album Spliced Krispies
Another DJ but this one's completely different. He specialises in mash ups. I'm not normally that arsed with them to be honest but loads of his are really good. This one for example. If you were unfamiliar with either of the (very famous) songs mashed up then you'd be forgiven for not even realising, they work really well.
Diemonds - Overboard
Taken from the 2012 album The Bad Pack
Diemonds are a Hard Rock band from Canada. I reviewed their last album Never Wanna Die a while back and liked it enough to search out more. They're riff heavy but still melodic and catchy with just the right amount of sleaze. Priya Panda is a striking frontwoman and her voice fits the band perfectly.
Elvis Presley - A Big Hunk O' Love (Live)
Taken from the 1973 album Aloha From Hawaii
I've always loved a bit of Elvis, even some of his cringy ballads. He was always at his best when he rocked and rolled though. This song is stupid but catchy as hell. Than' yoo ver' mush.
Kingdom Come - Highway 6
Taken from the 1991 album In Your Face
I listened to this album constantly when I was 16/17 and this was my favourite song on it.They got a lot of flak for ripping off Led Zeppelin but A) there are similarities, particularly in Lenny Wolf's voice and B) who doesn't rip them off? As much as I loved this album I never really connected with anything else they did for some reason. A couple of the joined Warrant at some point after this album.
Prong - Ice Runs Through My Veins
Taken from the 2016 album X- No Absolutes
These Industrial Hardcore veterans have been churning out albums of varying quality sicne the mid-eighties. X-No Absolutes is their 11th studio album bizarrely. Maybe they don't count the Covers album they released last year? Anyway It's a solid release and this song is one of the highlights on it. It starts slow but soon descends into their usual chuggy fare.
Consumed - Odd Man Out
Taken from the 2002 album Pistols At Dawn
Consumed were a quality Melodic Punk band from Nottingham, most people might know them from the song Twat Called Maurice that was on a Fat Wreck Chords sampler, that's certainly where I heard them first. They released 2 1/2 albums that were all great. Since they split various members turned up in a wide varety of bands such as Iron Monkey, The Blueprint, Crippled Black Phoenix, Cerebral Fix and One Car Pile Up among others.
Screaming Trees - Winter Song
Taken from the 1992 album Sweet Oblivion
One of the more underrated Grunge bands of the nineties. I'd rate them over Soundgarden and maybe even Alice In Chains too. This particular album was one of the best of the nineties, Grunge or otherwise.
Kilgore - Double-Edged Sword
Taken from the 1998 album A Search For Reason
Like Drown that featured on the last mix, this is one of the CD's I dug out of the attic after reminiscing about Nu-Metal. Kilgore were pretty weighty and eschewed the rapping that was popular among many other bands. This album has dated a little but the excellent songwriting carries them through. Singer Jay Berndt has now ventured into Country Music which makes complete sense when you hear his vocal style.
Rachel Sermanni - Bones
Taken from the 2012 album Under Mountains
Back in February I had Radio 2 on in the car and Dermot O'Leary was interviewing a young Scottish folk singer. I liked the songs she played but didn't catch her name. I did some internetting and discovered it was Rachel Sermanni. Perhaps not the coolest way to discover new music but there you go. Both her albums are very good if you like this sort of thing.
Rollins Band - Wreck-Age
Taken from the 1987 album Life Time
I remember the first I ever heard of Henry Rollins was the song Low Self Opinion when the video was on Raw Power at 3am. A musclebound, tattooed man angrily shouting about depression wasn't something I'd come across and it blew my tiny little mind, I'd never heard of Black Flag or that Henry used to be the frontman, I just loved this album. The next album had Liar on it that was even better. I bought all his albums that I could in those pre-internet days. without Wiki to check I had no idea that there were earlier albums and only discovered them in the '00's. I thought The End Of Silence was angry but Life Time and Hard Volume were even more harrowing and Vitriolic. This song in particular deals with friends dying of overdoses and drug culture etc. It's closing wall of feedback is a fitting end to this mix I think.
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