Message of Love... a mix

An 80s night tavern mix.

1. Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind (Labour Of Lust, 1979)
2. Rockpile - Teacher Teacher (Seconds Of Pleasure, 1980)
3. Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk (Repeat When Necessary, 1978)
4. Elvis Costello - Lip Service (This Year's Model, 1978)
5. John Hiatt - Pink Bedroom (Two Bit Monsters, 1980)
6. Moon Martin - Bad Case Of Loving You (Shots From A Cold Nightmare, 1979)
7. Split Enz - I Got You (True Colours, 1980)
8. The Cure - Close To Me (The Head On The Door, 1985)
9. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (Speak & Spell, 1981)
10. The Clash - Train In Vain (Stand By Me) (London Calling, 1979)
11. Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World (Big Smash, 1980)
12. Crowded House - Something So Strong (Crowded House, 1986)
13. Marshall Crenshaw - Someday Someway (Marshall Crenshaw, 1982)
14. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (Too-Rye-Ay, 1982)
15. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (Sunshine On Leith, 1988)
16. The Pretenders - Message Of Love (Pretenders II, 1981)
17. The Cars - You're All I've Got Tonight (The Cars, 1978)
18. Prince - When You Were Mine (Dirty Mind, 1980)
19. Robert Palmer - Johnny & Mary (Clues, 1980)
20. The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed (Beauty And The Beat, 1981)
21. Talking Heads - With Our Love (More Songs About Buildings And Food, 1978)
22. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Substance, 1988)
23. Squeeze - Goodbye Girl (Cool For Cats, 1979)

I Wanna Be Trash... a mix

First mix in May. Part of the May Mixathon at ZeRO.

A bunch of new things I've been listening to the past few months. The opening song has a catchy repetitive chorus exclaiming I wanna be trash. Thus the mix title. There is also a trashy feel to a lot of the songs here and some trashy dance beats too.

Photo is from one of the trash people installations by German artist HA Schult.


1. The Whip - Trash (X Marks Destination, 2009)
2. The Harlem Shakes - Strictly Game (Technicolor Health, 2009)
3. Peter Bjorn and John - It Don't Move Me (Living Thing, 2009)
4. Franz Ferdinand - Turn It On (Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, 2009)
5. The Kills - Cheap And Cheerful (Midnight Boom, 2008)
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (It's Blitz!, 2009)
7. The Presets - Talk Like That (Apocalypso, 2009)
8. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - A Teenage Love (The Pains Of Being Pure Of Heart, 2009)
9. The Airborne Toxic Event - Happiness Is Overrated (The Airborne Toxic Event, 2009)
10. Dan Auerbach - Heartbroken, In Disrepair (Keep It Hid, 2009)
11. The Upsidedown - Light (Human Destination, 2008)
12. Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone (Two Suns, 2009)
13. PPP - On A Cloud (Abundance, 2009)
14. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Sugarfoot (Tell 'em What Your Name Is!, 2009)
15. Friendly Fires - Lovesick (Friendly Fires, 2008)
16. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (In Ghost Colours, 2008)
17. Late Of The Pier - The Bears Are Coming (Fantasy Black Channel, 2009)
18. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Merriweather Post Pavillion, 2009)
19. Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean (The Atlantic Ocean, 2009)
20. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (Kingdom Of Rust, 2009)

In Dreams... a mix

The Dream series, Part 2

1. Roy Orbison - In Dreams (The Soul of Rock and Roll, 2009)
2. The Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams (69 Love Songs, Vol. 3, 1999)
3. The Sleepy Jackson - Dream On (Personality: One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird, 2006)
4. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Among Dreams (The Doldrums, 2004)
5. The Beach Boys - And Your Dreams Come True (Summer Days and Summer Nights, 1965)
6. Sam Philips - I Dreamed I Stopped Dreaming (A Boot And A Shoe, 2004)
7. Suicide - Keep Your Dreams (Suicide, 1977)
8. Shitdisco - Dream Of Infinity (The Emanator, 2008)
9. New Order - Dreams Never End (Movement, 1981)
10. The Soft Boys - Dreams (Underwater Moonlight, 1980)
11. Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - Future Dream (James and The Quiet, 2007)
12. Patsy Cline - Sweet Dreams (The Collection, 1991)
13. Marianne Faithful - Bored By Dreams (A Secret Life, 1995)
14. Swans - Dream Dream (Various Failures: 1988-1992, 1999)
15. Kate Bush - The Dreaming (The Dreaming, 1982)
16. Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour (Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam, 1981)
17. The Shiny Gnomes - You Live In A Dream (Wild Spells, 2001)
18. The Pillbugs - 4 Sec Nightmare In A 5 Sec Dream (Monclovia, 2007)
19. R.E.M. - I Don't Sleep, I Dream (Monster, 1994)
20. The Cure - The Dream (Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001, 2003)
21. Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry - Dream, Dream, Dream (All The Best, 2003)
22. Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (Frank's Wild Years, 1987)

How Long Must I Dream... a mix

First mix in a while... first post in a while actually.

A quickie mix done in almost one sitting. Used iTunes to create a list of songs with dream in the title as a source to work from. Why dreams? I had a mix in progress that started with the Tyler Ramsey song and then I was inspired by my friend Cliff's posting of his "mind" theme mixes on ZeRO.

My list of dream songs was quite large and I'm planning on a second volume of this theme mix and maybe even a third. I was pleased with this collection and I think they work quite well together.



How Long Must I Dream

1. Tyler Ramsey - A Long Dream (A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea, 2008)
2. Eels - The Trouble With Dreams (Blinking Lights And Other Revelations, 2005)
3. Randy Newman - Last Night I Had A Dream (Sail Away, 1972)
4. Love - Dream (Four Sail, 1969)
5. The Lovetones - Inside A Dream (Meditations, 2005)
6. Of Montreal - I Was A Landscape In Your Dream (The Sunlandic Twins, 2005)
7. My Morning Jacket - Dream A Lil Dream Of Me (Ch.2 Learning: Early Recordings, 2001)
8. Dion - Life Is But A Dream (Acappella Underdub) (King Of The New York Streets, 2000)
9. Daniel Johnston - I Had A Dream (Why Me? LIve Volksbuhne Am Ros, 2000)
10. John Lennon - #9 Dream (Walls & Bridges, 1974)
11. Olivia Tremor Control - Define A Transparent Dream (Dusk At Cubist Castle, 1996)
12. Hawkwind - You Know You're Only Dreaming (In Search Of Space, 1971)
13. The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream (Kilimanjaro, 1980)
14. Pixies - Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons (Trompe Le Monde, 1991)
15. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains (I Often Dream Of Trains, 1984)
16. Nico - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (Chelsea Girl, 1967)
17. The Zombies - Hung Upon A Dream (Odessey and Oracle, 1968)
18. John Martyn - Dreams By The Sea (Solid Air, 1972)
19. Richard Thompson - I Still Dream (Amnesia, 1988)
20. Los Lobos - Dream In Blue (Kiko, 1991)
21. Roy Orbison - Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) (The Soul of Rock and Roll, 2008)

The Tyler Ramsey lead song is also the lead song off his recent solo album. He plays in Band of Horses. I could listen to song over and over. I did.

I'm a big fan of Eels and Blinking Lights... may be my favorite of albums of theirs although I really like the recent Useless Trinkets B-sides & rarities collection.

Sail Away is probably the only Randy Newman album that I could listen to all the way through but that album is a classic. Every song is great. I like a few of his songs scattered throughout his career but overall I don't pay much attention to him.

I close the mix with Roy Orbison. You can't have a collection of dream songs without him. He is the King of Rock 'n Roll Dreams. I'll probably start the next mix with him.


Listen here.

Nothing Ever Happened - New Mix

This is a collection of some songs from some albums released in 2008. Not really a best of the year collection but certainly lots of great songs that sound good together. This mix will be finding it's way to my brother's bar next week and a few patiently waiting people. I highly recommend all of the albums highlighted here.


Nothing Ever Happened

1. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes (Fleet Foxes, 2008)
2. Gordie Can't Swim - The Junipers (Cut Your Key, 2008)
3. Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River (The Stand Ins, 2008)
4. Heads Roll Off - Frightened Rabbit (The Midnight Organ Fight, 2008)
5. Nothing Ever Happened - Deerhunter (Microcastle, 2008)
6. Give A Little Love - Noah And The Whale (Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down, 2008)
7. You Don't Love Me Yet - Winterpills (Central Chambers, 2008)
8. I Don't Live In A Dream - Jackie Greene (Giving Up The Ghost, 2008)
9. Out Of Time - Jason Collett (Here's To Being Here, 2008)
10. Walk Through A Cloud - The Donkeys (Living On The Other Side, 2008)
11. I Believe In You - Cat Power (Jukebox, 2008)
12. Sister Lost Soul - Alejandro Escovedo (Real Animal, 2008)
13. So Well - Benji Hughes (A Love Extreme, 2008)
14. Twisted - The Wood Brothers (Loaded, 2008)
15. Methamphetamine - Old Crow Medicine Show (Tennessee Pusher, 2008)
16. Ain't No Lord - The Moondoggies (Don't Be A Stranger, 2008)
17. The Sound - Human Highway (Moody Motorcycle, 2008)
18. No One Does It Like You - Department Of Eagles (In Ear Park, 2008)
19. For Emma - Bon Iver (For Emma, Forever Ago, 2008)
20. Something More - Kelley Stoltz (Circular Sounds, 2008)

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The 2008 Fav 50

Time for the end of the year list of favorite albums.

1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle
3. Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher
4. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6. The Donkeys - Living On The Other Side
7. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
8. Winterpills - Central Chambers
9. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
10. Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees
11. The Wood Brothers - Loaded
12. Human Highway - Moody Motorcycle
13. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
14. Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park
15. Jackie Greene - Giving Up The Ghost
16. Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
17. Delta Spirit - Ode To Sunshine
18. Steve Wynn - Crossing Dragon Bridge
19. Kelley Stoltz - Circular Sounds
20. Beach House - Devotion
21. Joan Of Arc - Boo Human
22. The Fireman - Electric Arguments
23. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazarus Dig!!
24. The Moondoggies - Don't Be A Stranger
25. The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
26. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
27. The Baseball Project - Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails
28. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
29. The Cure - 4:13 Dream
30. Lila Downs - Shake Away
31. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
32. Vetiver - Things Of The Past
33. T-Bone Burnett - Tooth Of Crime
34. Barry Adamson - Back To The Cat
35. Robert Forster - The Evangelist
36. The Accidental - There Were Wolves
37. School Of Language - Sea From Shore
37. Santogold - Santogold
38. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
39. Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme
40. Portishead - Third
41. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of Understatement
42. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
43. The Pillbugs - Everybody Wants A Way Out
44. The Dreadful Yawns - Take Shape
45. The Quarter After - Changes Near
46. Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind
47. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
48. No Age - Nouns
49. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
50. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer


Some great reissues, compilations and findings from the vaults this year

The New Order series of Collector's Editions
The Replacements expanded editions
The Jesus And Mary Chain - The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
The Lines - Memory Span
The Lines - Flood Bank
Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8, Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006
R.E.M. - Murmur (Deluxe Edition) Disc 2: Live In Toronto 1983
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968
The La's - The La's (Deluxe Edition)
The La's - BBC Sessions
Belle & Sebastian - BBC Sessions
The Clash - Live At Shea Stadium
Ry Cooder - The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy Edition)
Outrageous Cherry - Wide Awake In The Spirit World: The Best of Outrageous Cherry
King Khan & The Shrines - The Supreme Genius Of King Khan & The Shines
Wooden Shjips - Volume 1
The Grip Weeds - Infinite Soul: The Best of The Grip Weeds
Paul Weller - At The BBC
Portastatic - Some Small History
Golden Smog - Stay Golden, Smog: The Best of Golden Smog
Pavement - Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.


There was lots of other great music that rocked my world this year so why stop now...

The Dodos - Visiter
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Black Mountain - In The Future
The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind
Bryan Scary - Flight Of The Knife
Giant Sand - ProVisions
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Sigur Ros - Med Sud...
Jamie Lidell - Jim
The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
Dungen - 4
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
Spiritualized - Songs In A&E
The Sea And Cake - Car Alarm
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Mugison - Mugiboogie
Johnny Flynn - A Larum
The Walkmen - You And Me

Lots of music from some old friends too...

John Hiatt - Same Old Man
Beck - Modern Guilt
Glen Campbell - Meet Glen Campbell
Al Green - Lay It Down
Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere - Nudge It Up A Notch
B. B. King - One Kind Favor
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
Solomon Burke - Like A Fire
Pretenders - Break Up The Concrete

And these list could keep going on and on...

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