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 #42 - Covers Vol. IV: Do Anything You Wanna Do

Hello and welcome to the first mix of 2019!

It's yet another instalment of cover versions because a) I like cover versions and b) it's a bit early in the year to have much current stuff to put on a mix, so I figured I could hide the fact it's all old stuff by doing a themed one.
There's a variety of stuff here but hopefully, you should like it all. I tried to stick to either a well-known band, a well-known song or a combination of both. In the cases where it's neither, it's because it's a dead good one, I promise!

As always, there's a Download link below the tracklisting, should you wish to actually hear the songs I've blabbed on about. I'll also stick links to the previous three cover mixes I've done if you're interested.

It'll be back to normal next month, Thanks for reading and all that!

Tracklisting
The Almighty - Do Anything You Wanna Do
Stavesacre - Burn The Witch
The Interrupters - The 11th Hour
Sir Hedgehog - Call Me
Neko Case & Nick Cave - She's Not There
Kathryn Williams - I Started A Joke
The Castor Troys - Runnin' Down A Dream
Paradise Lost - Small Town Boy
Refused - Voodoo People
Horrorpops - Rebel Yell (Live)
Gomez - Getting Better
Shaolin Death Squad - Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To...)
Hogwash - Save Me
Jade Bird - I've Been Everywhere
Andrew WK - Fly! Gundam
Napalm Death  - War's No Fairytale
Oceans Of Slumber - Nights In White Satin
Carter USM - This Is How It Feels
The Dresden Dolls - Pretty In Pink
Orphaned Land - Jeremy
Liv Kristine - Streets Of Philadelphia
Captain T - We Are The World

HERE's where you can download all the music, MP3 style.

Mix CD #41 - Top Albums Of 2018

Happy December folks!

For a true Music Nerd, December is a special, treasured time of year, nothing to do with either Jesus, Santa or family, oh no. December, the final Month of the year, is the time when we finally get to wave aloft our carefully crafted AOTY lists in a pompous statement of "The Music I Like Is Superior To The Music You Like" belligerence.

So then, here's my own pompous, belligerent list for you to coo appreciatively at. For a year that started out slow, it picked up pace considerably and there ended up being an absolute ton of albums this year. So much so that I had to extend my usual Top 20 to a Top 40 and there was still a lot of albums I was sad to see knocked out of the list. I could have easily done a Top 60 but you'd have got bored scrolling long before halfway.
It's been a particularly good year for Extreme Metal with more albums of that ilk than ever before appearing in my list, pretty high too. I don't know if it's just been a really good year for super heavy stuff or if my personal tastes have just changed a bit? 

For the first time this blog is a double and, as such, I've split it up into two halves so that it's easier to download.
I've also included a Spotify playlist for those that want it. I had to make a couple of minor changes due to availability but nothing that's going to ruin your day.

Like previous years, I've hidden the tracklisting of the mix(es) at the end to avoid spoilers, such as they are. 
The albums are below in reverse order, I hope there's some you agree with and/or some you'll want to check out afterwards.

I guess that's enough waffle, so long for 2018 and I'll hopefully see you all in January! 

Cheers,
Luke
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You can download Part 1 HERE
You can download Part 2 HERE

You can listen on Spotify HERE

Attention Please Radio (my guest appearance)

My friend and former colleague, Eddie Carter gets mentioned fairly regularly in this blog, either as a reviewer at All The Time I Was Listening To My Own Wall Of Sound or as host of, the Alternative Music radio show, Attention Please on ne1fm, a station localised in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the North of England. I've been picking a record of the week on that show (a segment cunningly titled the Dunmore Record Of The Week) for a few months now.

Me (L) and Eddie (R)

We've often talked about it but a few weeks ago we finally got organised and recorded a show together. I've picked all but one of the tracks and chatted about each in between. It was a lot of fun to do and I'm pretty happy with the songs I chose.

It aired last night (Monday, 3rd Dec) but it's now uploaded onto Mixcloud so you can listen to it whenever you want, if you want. The songs played are listed below.

The intro song (Gloooorious!) plays under the first bit of chat and is pretty distracting but it's gone by Haken starts. You get to hear my mumbling, Yorkshire drone just fine after that.

Also, I forgot a few album titles, for which I apologise profusely. I'm an old man.


Listen to the Mixcloud stream HERE


Songs
Haken - The Architect
The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets - Strange
Clutch - What Would A Wookiee Do?
The Cog Is Dead - Blood, Sweat & Tears
(One Band Double Feature)
Toehider - Go Full Bore
Toehider - Old, Old, Old
(80's Spectacular)
Robert Palmer - Johnny & Mary
The Regrettes - Red Light
Polkadot Cadaver - Last Call In Jonestown
Dog Fashion Disco - Magical Band Of Fools
Regurgitator - Crush The Losers
Kick Joneses - Battered And Bruised
(Eddie's Record Of The Week)
Antarctigo Vespucci - Freakin' U Out
The Boy Least Likely To - A Balloon On A Broken String
(Under The Cover)
The Baseballs - Chasing Cars
The Wildhearts - The Miles Away Girl
Agnès Milewski - Lucid Dream
Frontierer - Glitcher
The Gourds - The Way You Can Get
Muscle Tribe Of Danger And Excellence - Old School Blood Trial
Within Temptation - Faster
King's X - Fly

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.