Yes, yes… THE DRILL!!! It’s noisy and pokes holes in things, like boards and eyeballs. (I grew up in the 70s and 80s when killers frequently used power-tools to express themselves.) FRACK!!!
But that’s not why I really brought you here today. I’ve come to share another batch of CD playlists, which I think helps spread around some cool tunes without the evil powers-that-be raining down on me with vicious blows for copyright infringement and file sharing and all that. Besides, in this modern era, you can easily locate most of these songs on YouTube or some other similar service and decide for yourself if they are worth dropping the buck to buy! I even thought about doing reviews of the CDs after I listen to them on my drives and relaying my feelings about individual tracks. I might do that NOW. I haven’t decided yet. (Though I am ready for work already, and I’m just waiting for the wife and older daughter to get ready so I can drop them off at their destinations before heading back towards the freeway. But I digress…)
This CD, burn-eye, is for today’s trip. Again, it’s a mix of some songs that are new to me and some that are old favorites. Can you guess which songs belong to each category???
burn-eye (12 Feb. 2012)
1. The Soul Rebels – “Sweet Dreams are Made of This”
2. Royal Bangs – “TV Tree (Deerhoof Remix)”
3. Magic Wands – “Space”
4. Jahdan Blakkamoore – “All Comes Back to One (Nate Mars Remix)”
5. Icebird – “Charmed Life”
6. fiN – “Once in a Life Time”
7. autoKratz – “Temptation”
8. Al Usher – “Lullaby for Robert (Original Mix)”
9. Commander Venus – “My Other Car is a Spaceship”
10. Tommy Roe – “Dizzy”
11. Eurythmics – “Beethoven (I Love to Listen)”
12. Hockey – “Too Fake (RAC Mix)”
13. Fuzzbox – “Love is the Slug (Bargainous Longerer Mix)”
14. Q-Tip & Busta Rhymes – “For the Nasty (Cutloose Remix)”
15. Gang of Four – “Anthrax”
16. Tok Tok Tok – “Schokolade”
17. The Galvatrons – “Robots are Cool”
18. The Mekons – “Chivalry”
19. Xaver von Treyer – “Device of the Devil (Original Demo)”
Fiddle sticks and fall-der-ah! (Not sure why I typed that.) This next CD was created for my Thursday trip, last week. (It suddenly occurred to me that I make a LOT of CDs. One might ask why I don’t listen to the SAME CD a few times, and I can’t really answer that, aside from saying that I get bored rather quickly and need NEW stimulation to make it down the road.) Anyway, this disc was called crashtrippin. And, actually, now that I think about it, I made this CD on Thursday NIGHT, after my trip to Vancouver, to listen to while driving around town over the weekend. Maybe? My memory is total shit, sometimes. Anyway, here’s the list:
crashtrippin – 3 Feb. 2012
1. Gary Numan / Tubeway Army – “Are ‘Friends’ Electric? (Renegade Soundwave Remix)”
2. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Souvenir”
3. The Human League – “The Lebanon (12″ Extended)”
4. The Human League – “Do or Die”
5. APB – “Shoot You Down”
6. Die Antwoord – “I Fink U Freeky”
7. Digitalism – “Circles (Dillon Francis Remix)”
8. of Montreal – “Coquet Coquette (Yip Deceiver Remix)”
9. The Limousines – “Call Me Al”
10. The Black Eyed Peas – “The Time (Dirty Bit)”
11. Punks Jump Up – “Get Down (Special Cccrash Mixxx)”
12. The Zombies – “This Will be Our Year”
13. Justice – “On’N’On”
14. Book of Love – “Counting the Rosaries (Full Confession Mix)”
15. Depeche Mode – “Enjoy the Silence (RAC Mix)”
16. Spandau Ballet – “To Cut a Long Story Short (12″ Version)”
One more FOR THE ROAD! (Ha! I’m funny. If you don’t know why I think that’s funny, you’re fired from reading this blog.) This one is from sometime last week when I was still using nonsense phrases for titles. And wait!!! THIS CD, not the previous one, is what I made for my drive to work last Thursday. I’m pretty sure. The one directly above WAS for driving around town, but it was from the weekend BEFORE this last one. (I noticed the date when I pasted the list into this post.) Can’t keep my facts straight for nuthin!!! Here’s this:
waago grabohda (8 Feb. 2012)
1. Strawberry Story – “Close My Eyes”
2. Freiheit – “Keeping the Dream Alive”
3. Real Life – “Let’s Fall in Love”
4. Dillinger Four – “Noble Stabbings!”
5. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – “Accidents will Happen”
6. ABC – “How to be a Zillionaire (Wall Street Mix)”
7. INXS – “Never Tear Us Apart”
8. Communiqué – “Ugly Moon”
9. Steve Hillage – “Frame by Frame”
10. Spoon – “Jonathon Fisk”
11. South Central – “Soloud”
12. Stopmakingme – “Rattle (Bumblebeez Remix)”
13. Trans Am – “Futureworld”
14. The Human League – “Don’t You Want Me (Disconet Mix)”
15. Cassius – “The Sound of Violence (Kick-OH Retro Bootleg)”
16. Of Montreal – “Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse”
17. Beastie Boys vs The Bloodhound Gang vs Run D.M.C. – “Sure Fire Way (Bass211 Mash-Up)”
If I don’t review any other song in this batch, I want to mention that I really didn’t care for the Beastie Boys mash-up. The songs didn’t really work well together in my opinion, and the addition of the Run D.M.C. lyric for no apparent reason as a bridge seemed unneeded. Not my favorite. Other songs to consider: I liked the Trans Am song quite well. It reminded me of something from The Buggles (“I Love You, Miss Robot” maybe) or ELO, and I thought the song really kicked in around five minutes into the cut when they BREAK IT ON DOWN, slow things to a crawl, and get funky. I wasn’t, however, as happy with the cut by South Central, which is a real shame, because I usually love them. The problem with “Soloud” is that is sounds like a Skrillex clone. South Central have a sound all their own, particularly when they are doing remixes, and I hope they remember that and get back to being themselves. The cuts by Steve Hillage, Strawberry Story, Spoon, are old favorites of mine, and I still love them, along with the super lovely Disconet remix of “Don’t You Want Me.” That’s all I really want to bother with today. Maybe, for fun, I’ll do an entire review of some disc someday. That might be enjoyable, and as I’ve said before, fun is the best thing to have!!! (I’ve never actually said that before, by the way.)
—Gone
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