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

Mix CD #4 - Rarities Vol 1: The Never-Played Symphonies

This is a collection of Non-album tracks: B-Sides, compilation tracks, stand alone singles, rarities and a couple of unreleased songs. I've got a big stack of these songs so I would imagine there'll be more mixes like this in the future. In the meantime though, I hope you find something you like on this one. 

I've put the tracklisting above the cut so don't have to read my twaddle if you don't want to. Click Read More if you fancy a twaddling.

Tracklisting
Silver Sun - Angel Eyes
The Gaslight Anthem - Look On The Bright Side
Rancid - Blast 'Em
Psychostick - Hokey Fuckin' Pokey
Frightened Rabbit - Fuck This Place
KoЯn - Not Meant For Me
The Divine Comedy - Song For Ten
The Pretty Reckless - Where Did Jesus Go?
Manowar - Die For Metal
Bowling For Soup - Award Show Taylor Swift
Pearl Jam - Betterman (Molo Session version)
Sen Dog - Hoo Ride
NOFX - Your Hubcaps Cost More Than My Car
Therapy? - Misery (Acoustic)
Baby Chaos - Follow The Swallow
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nocturama
Ben Folds Five - Sleazy
Tori Amos - Take Me With You
Eureka Machines  - Down The Front (With The Best Band In The World)
Shihad - Extreme Suicide
The Boomtown Rats - Fanzine Hero
Morrissey - The Never-Played Symphonies

The mix can be downloaded HERE

Mix CD #3 - The Devil's Right Hand

This is the first mix I've done with no theme, it's just a collection of songs I like that I wanted other people to listen to and like too. I've been planning this blog for a while and whenever a song cropped up that I thought fitted the bill I'd stick it on the end of a playlist. That list is now pushing 300 songs so I've enough to keep me going for a while yet.

I'm pleased with the way it's turned out. Let me know what you think (but only if it's nice things, I'm not emotionally stable enough for constructive criticism...)

You can download the mix HERE 

Tracklisting:

Miracle Of Sound – The Ballad Of Clay Carmine

Hagfish – Disappointed

The Dowling Poole – Adam & Eve (A Secular Hymn)

Wolf Alice – Moaning Lisa Smile

The Vandals – S.W.M.

The Phenomenauts – She’ll Launch

Kyuss – Supa Scoopa And Mighty Scoop

April Smith And The Great Picture Show – Bright White Jackets

The Cog Is Dead – Burn It Down

Andrew Jackson Jihad – We Didn’t Come Here To Rock

Foxy Shazam – Holy Touch

Porcupine Tree – Remember Me Lover

Inglorious - Inglorious

Möngöl Hörde – Casual Threats From Weekend Hardmen

Septicflesh - Prometheus

The Spookshow – I Can But I Won’t

Ignite – Where I’m From

Katatonia – Don’t Tell A Soul

Twin Atlantic – Make A Beast Of Myself

Eden Brent – Everybody Already Knows

Johnny Cash - Devil's Right Hand

Mix CD #2 - Thank You And Sweet Dreams - The Best Of Jeff Buckley

 I've been a fan of Jeff Buckley ever since I saw him perform Mojo Pin live on TV footage of Glastonbury festival back in the early 90's and thought his voice was incredible. He's often regarding as one of the greatest ever male vocalists and the progenitor of the wailing falsetto style of singing that Muse have been so successful with. Jeff sadly only released one album, Grace, before his death in 1997, however there have been several albums of mostly unfinished material released in the years since his death and there's a wealth of genius to be found among it. I've collated here a selection of some of my favourites. A lot of his songs tend to be fairly long so I haven't been able to fit in as many as I'd like.
If you want more information about Jeff Buckley then HERE is a link to his Wikipedia page.

Download the Mix: HERE

Tracklisting:
Lover, You Should've Come Over
Witches' Rave
Morning Theft
Song To No One
Lost Highway
The Sky Is A Landfill
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Ulalume
Grace
Poor Boy Long Way From Home
Nightmares by The Sea
Eternal Life (Road Version)
Hallelujah
Night Flight (Live)
Opened Once
Last Goodbye

Mix CD #1 - The Twelve Albums Meme Thing

I was wondering what to do for my first post on here because I felt like it ought to BE something, not just a collection of songs like I plan to do a lot of. Then I got tagged on Facebook in a meme that you've probably seen; Twelve Albums That will Always Stay With You. Pick 12 albums, tag 12 friends,, you know the sort of thing. I was gonna just compile it and post on Facebook but then I figured it might do for this. So here you are. twelve albums that I've loved for a long time.

There's a link below to download a mix of one song from every album too. 

Cheers,
Luke