Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #43

(mp3) Mohammed Rafi - Jaan pehechaan ho
Available on V/A - Ghost World Soundtrack (2001)

(mp3) The Cure - Six different ways
Available on The Head On The Door (1985)

(mp3) Isaac Hayes - Truck turner
Available on Truck Turner Original Soundtrack (1974)

(mp3) Kimya Dawson - Tire-swing
Available on V/A - Juno Soundtrack (2007)

(mp3) Ash feat. Chris Martin - Everybody's happy nowadays
Available on Meltdown (Japanese edition, 2004)

Jandek Galore, or Our Man From Corwood

Jandek - the very definition of "acquired taste".

I've written about the Texan eccentric several times, and my 2009 project In Pursuit Of Jandek was one of the most rewarding things I've ever done on any of my blogs.

This rather lengthy article right here probably sums up most of my feelings about Jandek. Take a couple of minutes and read it, I think it's quite good.

The great 2003 documentary about the man, Jandek On Corwood, can be watched on YooToob right here. Very recommended viewing, and I think you'll see the man's music in a different light after watching it.

2010 marks the 32nd anniversary of Jandek's debut album Ready For The House, so to honor this occasion I offer you samples from 32 of his albums. All of them can be purchased directly from Jandek by writing to the P.O. box adress at the top of this post.

(mp3) Jandek - Show me me the way, O lord
Available on Ready For The House (1978)

(mp3) Jandek - The janitor
Available on Later On (1981)

(mp3) Jandek - Mostly all from you
Available on Chair Beside A Window (1982)

(mp3) Jandek - Alexandra knows
Available on Living In A Moon So Blue (1982)

(mp3) Jandek - I ain't got none
Available on Interstellar Discussion (1984)

(mp3) Jandek - Voices in the dark
Available on Nine-Thirty (1985)

(mp3) Jandek - River to Madrid
Available on Foreign Keys (1985)

(mp3) Jandek - Jaws of murmur
Available on Follow Your Footsteps (1986)

(mp3) Jandek - I passed by the building
Available on Blue Corpse (1987)

(mp3) Jandek - Nothing is better than god
Available on Modern Dances (1987)

(mp3) Jandek - Sadie
Available on On The Way (1988)

(mp3) Jandek - When the telephone melts
Available on You Walk Alone (1988)

(mp3) Jandek - Crazy
Available on The Living End (1989)

(mp3) Jandek - Alehouse blues
Available on One Foot In The North (1991)

(mp3) Jandek - The electric end
Available on Lost Cause (1992)

(mp3) Jandek - Ghost town by the sea
Available on Graven Image (1994)

(mp3) Jandek - Just die
Available on I Woke Up (1997)

(mp3) Jandek - Desert voice
Available on New Town (1998)

(mp3) Jandek - The beginning
Available on The Beginning (1999)

(mp3) Jandek - I knew about them
Available on This Narrow Road (2001)

(mp3) Jandek - You won't get up
Available on Worthless Recluse (2001)

(mp3) Jandek - Work of art
Available on The Humility Of Pain (2002)

(mp3) Jandek - Frozen beauty
Available on I Threw You Away (2002)

(mp3) Jandek - It rang eleven times
Available on A Kingdom He Likes (2004)

(mp3) Jandek - I hadn't been there before
Available on The End Of It All (2004)

(mp3) Jandek - The other side
Available on Glasgow Sunday (2005)

(mp3) Jandek - I shot myself
Available on Khartoum (2005)

(mp3) Jandek - The cell, part seven
Available on Glasgow Monday (2006)

(mp3) Jandek - Afternoon of insensitivity, part five
Available on Manhattan Tuesday (2007)

(mp3) Jandek - These kokomos
Available on Glasgow Friday (2008)

(mp3) Jandek - Too coarse
Available on The Myth Of Blue Icicles (2008)

(mp3) Jandek - The side of the road
Available on Skirting The Edge (2009)

Feelin' shitty in the city/Nothing to do/With poo under my shoe/Doobie doobie doo

A city is a relatively large and permanent urban settlement.

Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.

(zip) Metal Bastard's City Songs (72 mb)

1. Bob Dylan - Marchin' to the city (1997)
2. Silverbullit - Magnetic City (2001)
3. David Bowie - Suffragette City (2972)
4. The Clash - Clash city rocker (1979)
5. The Raveonettes - Beat city (2002)
6. Kevin Shields - City girl (2003)
7. Division of Laura Lee - Black city (2002)
8. Tenacious D - Car chase city (2006)
9. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City (1982)
10. The Moody Blues - Cities (1967)
11. Mark Lanegan feat. PJ Harvey - Hit the city (2004)
12. Fibes, Oh Fibes! - The city's got no boulevards (2004)
13. Nick Drake - At the chime of a city clock (1970)
14. The Electric Prunes - Big city (1967)
15. Christian Kjellvander - Chose the city (2005)

Pay for your music.

Yeah we're like playing the same song and stuff, y'know? (Part 9)

Is there a way that the bowl can play This Mortal Coil's It'll End in Tears album while I'm eating it at 2:00 in the morning in my darkened apartment, just kind of staring into the middle distance?

(mp3) Big Star - Kangaroo
Available on Third/Sister Lovers (1978)

(mp3) This Mortal Coil - Kangaroo
Available on It'll End In Tears (1984)

(mp3) Jeff Buckley - Kangaroo
Available on Mystery White Boy (2000)

Merz' Britpop Extravaganza Vol. 2

As promised, the second set of Britpop goodies originally posted by Merz on his excellent blog Mars Needs Guitars.

The first one can be found here.

(zip) Merz' Britpop Extravaganza Vol. 2

1. Pulp - Disco 2000 (1995)
2. Menswear - Daydreamer (1995)
3. Stereophonics - Traffic (1997)
4. The Chemical Brothers - Chemical beats (1995)
5. Supergrass - Sun hits the sky (1997)
6. Oasis - Supersonic (1994)
7. The Seahorses - Love me and leave me (1997)
8. The Verve - Lucky man (1997)
9. 18 Wheeler - John the revelator (1995)
10. The La's - Looking glass (1990)
11. Teenage Fanclub - Tears (1995)
12. Elastica - Stutter (1993)
13. Blur - To the end (1994)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #42

(mp3) Muddy Waters - Soon forgotten
Available on At Newport (1960)

(mp3) Gene Krupa feat. Irene Daye - Drum boogie
Recorded in 1941. Available on Drum Boogie (2002)

(mp3) Four Tet - Iron man
Available on V/A - Everything Comes And Goes: A Tribute To Black Sabbath (2005)

(mp3) The Jesus And Mary Chain - My little underground
Available on Psychocandy (1985)

(mp3) Gnarls Barkley - Who's gonna save my soul
Available on The Odd Couple (2008)

I just got out my little red book the minute that you said goodbye

Making these mixes with girls' names in the title (and only a girl's name in the title) is not as easy as it sounds. There are thousands and thousands of songs like this, but I don't want to use the same name twice within the same mix and a lot of these songs use the same name. There's an awful lot of songs about Marys, Sarahs, Dianas and so on.

On this one I wanted Hello Saferide's Anna as track #7 because it flowed into Freinds' Jaqueline perfectly. But alas I had already decided to use The Beatles' Anna on this mix. So Hello Saferide had to be put on the backburner for possible inclusion on Volume 4.

O the woes of the mixtaper. You have no idea.

Download volume 1 here.
Download volume 2 here.

(zip) Metal Bastard's Girls Names Songs Vol. 3 (67 mb)

1. Bruce Springsteen - Leah (2005)
2. Comus - Diana (1971)
3. The Beatles - Anna (1963)
4. Pulp - Sylvia (1998)
5. Kent - Bianca (1998)
6. Freinds - Jaqueline (1998)
7. Rod Stewart - Maggie May (1971)
8. Stone Temple Pilots - Daisy (1996)
9. Ray LaMontagne - Isabel (2002)
10. Regina Spektor - Mary Ann (2001)
11. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Madeleine-Mary (1999)
12. Bob Dylan - Sarah Jane (1973)
13. Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia (1970)
14. Scott Walker - Rosemary (1969)
15. Tom Waits - Alice (2002)

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Silver&Crimson Vol. 33

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(zip) Silver&Crimson Vol. 33 (38 mb)

Merz' Britpop Extravaganza Vol. 1 and 2

Almost exactly one year ago, Merz of the excellent blog Mars Needs Guitars went on an impressive trek through Britpop country. Over a couple of months he posted songs from sixty albums by dozens of bands, both obscure ones and those internationally famous, from that wonderful era of British rock.

All of which I downloaded and nerded out over of course, as this is the music I grew up listening to. Having been a couple of years too young to fully experience the whole grunge thing, when Britpop hit for real in the mid-90s it was amazing for an identity-seeking young whippersnapper to witness the explosion (and exploitation) of a music scene as it was happening, right then and there.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in most of Europe these bands were everywhere. For a few years this was pretty much all you heard wherever you went and I loved every second of it. I couldn't even get enough of bands like Menswear and Sleeper, which never seemed to get much love from anyone else.

As a tribute to both Merz and Britpop I have compiled my favorite ones into two volumes.

Mars Needs Guitars was one of maybe three or four mp3 blogs that inspired me to make one of my own. MNG made a triumphant comback last year after being down for some time. Now it appears to be down again. The updates stopped in September last year, and now all it says is "I'm Nothing". I don't know where Merz is or what he's up to, but I hope he's alright. A true gentleman and a true musical gourmand.

Give us a sign you're still out there, will ya?

(zip) Merz' Britpop Extravaganza Vol. 1 (81 mb)

1. Edwyn Collins - A girl like you (1994)
2. Cast - Alright (1995)
3. Ride - Moonlight medicine (1994)
4. Primal Scream - Movin' on up (1991)
5. The Charlatans - Nine acre court (1995)
6. Paul Weller - The changingman (1995)
7. The Boo Radleys - Wake up Boo! (1995)
8. Suede - Animal nitrate (1993)
9. Sleeper - Inbetweener (1995)
10. Ocean Colour Scene - The day we caught the train (1996)
11. The Bluetones - Cut some rug (1996)
12. Dodgy - So let me go far (1995)
13. Hurricane #1 - Step into my world (1997)



(zip) Merz's Britpop Extravaganza Vol. 2 (74 mb)

1. Pulp - Disco 2000 (1995)
2. Menswear - Daydreamer (1995)
3. Stereophonics - Traffic (1997)
4. The Chemical Brothers - Chemical beats (1995)
5. Supergrass - Sun hits the sky (1997)
6. Oasis - Supersonic (1994)
7. The Seahorses - Love me and leave me (1997)
8. The Verve - Lucky man (1997)
9. 18 Wheeler - John the revelator (1995)
10. The La's - Looking glass (1990)
11. Teenage Fanclub - Tears (1995)
12. Elastica - Stutter (1993)
13. Blur - To the end (1994)

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(Cover) Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #41

(mp3) Otis Redding - Day tripper (The Beatles)
Available on Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (1966)

(mp3) The Black Crowes - Time will tell (Bob Marley)
Available on The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion (1992)

(mp3) Derek & The Dominoes - Little wing (Jimi Hendrix)
Available on Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)

(mp3) Suicide - 96 tears (Question Mark & The Mysterians)
Available on S/t (1977)

(mp3) Bob Dylan & The Band - Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
Unreleased outtake from the Basement Tapes sessions (1967)