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Sunday 28 May 2017

Mix CD #25 - Do I Need This?

Here is the mighty twenty fifth mix! Only another seventy five and I'll have done a hundred, whoop! I'm not that sure I've got the songs for that, to be honest. In fact, I'm not totally sure I could do another twenty five. Still, it's a milestone of sorts so jolly good and all that.

The mix this time is another with no unifying theme other than "These songs are ace, you should listen to them" and they are and you should. There's a reasonable amount of variety to be had, I guess Erasure and Crypticus don't feature on many things together, but it's all good stuff.

The cover art is a photo of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man who was beaten to death by homophobes in 1998. I loved the photo and it kind of tied in with the Apes, Pigs And Spacemen song so I used both for this mix. 

Since I started writing this particular blog last week, there's been the bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, the execution of a bus full of Christians, some of which were children, in Egypt, the stabbing to death of two men trying to stop Anti-Muslim abuse in Oregan and another suicide bombing in a church in Israel. The tragedies and atrocities keep mounting and it's getting to be a pretty depressing time, one that's probably not going to get a peaceful conclusion if any. 
I guess songs like Do I Need This?, The Struggle and Cathedral are as relatable today as when they were written 15-20 years ago. They shouldn't be.

Apes, Pigs & Spacemen - Do I Need This?
Mary Bell - Waste
The Briggs - Train Of Thought
The Wildhearts - Schizophonic
Drain S.T.H. - I Don't Mind
She Loves Pablo - Ain't No Blossom Here
Blueline Medic - Cathedral
Scott Sorry - Give It
Crooked Saws - Bad Luck
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Song Eleven Could Last Forever
Amorphis - Shaman
Erasure - Drama!
The Band With Rocks In - She Won't Change Her Mind
Chris Catalyst - I Need You Around
Black Train Jack - The Struggle
The Company Band - Company Man
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machines
Crypticus - Rogues In The Haunt Of Horrors
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - No Name

There's blurb about each track below and you can download the mix HERE if you need this.

Cheers,
Luke
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