Are You Really Here - Songs 2007

This is a quieter set of songs from 2007 that include some folk and alt-country with the indie rock. Lots of heartache.

1. Glen Hasnard & Marketa Irglova - If You Want Me (Once: Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2. Hem - The Part Where You Let Go (Home Again, Home Again)
3. Winterpills - Lay Your Heartbreak (The Light Divides)
4. Nicole Atkins - Together We're Both Alone (Neptune City)
5. Keren Ann - Lay Your Head Down (Keren Ann)
6. Jose Gonzalez - Down The Line (In Our Nature)
7. Pieta Brown - Rollin' Down The Track (Remember The Sun)
8. Ryan Bingham - Don't Wait For Me (Mescalito)
9. Uncle Earl - The Last Goodbye (Waterloo, Tennessee)
10. The Pines - Careless Love (Sparrows In The Bell)
11. The Sadies - Never Again (New Seasons)
12. Ryan Adams - Two Hearts (Easy Tiger)
13. Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours (Lady's Bridge)
14. Mary Gauthier - Can't Find The Way (Between Daylight and Dark)
15. Steve Earle - Come Home To Me (Washington Square Serenade)
16. Robert Plant & Allison Krause - Fortune Teller (Raising Sand)
17. Will Hoge - When I Can't Afford To Lose (Draw The Curtains)
18. The Felice Brothers - Your Belly In My Arms (Tonight At The Arizona)
19. The Broken West - Babe On My Arm (I Can't Go On, I'll Go On)
20. Band Of Horses - Nobody's Gonna Love You (Cease To Begin)

Baby I've Got Some Words For You - Songs 2007

This is a reworking of a mix first put together in late 2007 of songs released that year. Mostly indie rock.

1. The Besnard Lakes - Disaster (The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark)
2. Arizona - Life Is Great (Fameseeker and The Mono)
3. Winterpills - Broken Arm (The Light Divides)
4. The Shins - Turn On Me (Wincing The Night Away)
5. Maps - You Don't Know Her Name (We Can Create)
6. Yeasayer - 2080 (All Hour Cymbals)
7. Super Furry Animals - Show Your Hand (Hey Venus!)
8. The Rosebuds - I Better Run (Night Of The Furies)
9. PJ Harvey - The Devil (White Chalk)
10. The National - Fake Empire (Boxer)
11. Joseph Arthur - Chicago (Let's Just Be)
12. Feist - Sea Lion Woman (The Reminder)
13. Caribou - She's The One (Andorra)
14. Blonde Redhead - Silently (23)
15. The Clientele - Here Comes The Phantom (God Save The Clientele)
16. Deer Tick - Long Time (War Elephant)
17. Rilo Kiley - Dreamworld (Under The Blacklight)
18. Great Northern - Just A Dream (Trading Twilight For Daylight)

Your're Not The Only One - Songs 2007

Another reworking of a mix created in 2007 of songs from that year. Mostly indie rock.

1. Fields - Songs For The Fields (Everything Last Winter)
2. Pinback - Devil You Know (Autumn Of The Seraphs)
3. The Lovetones - Navigator (Axiom)
4. Field Music - In Context (Tones Of Town)
5. Animal Collective - Fireworks (Strawberry Jan)
6. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (In Rainbows)
7. The Broken West - Down In The Valley (I Can't Go On, I'll Go On)
8. Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running (Neon Bible)
9. Spoon - You Got Yr Cherry Bomb (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
10. Albert Hammond Jr. - Everyone Gets A Star (Yours To Keep)
11. Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver (Our Love To Admire)
12. MGMT - Time To Pretend (Oracular Spectacular)
13. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum (Sound Of Silver)
14. M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Kala)
15. Of Montreal - She's A Rejecter (Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer)
16. The Rosebuds - When The Lights Went Dim (Night Of The Furies)
17. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weapon Of Choice (Baby 81)
18. David Vandevelde - Nothin' No (The Moonstation House Band)

Bustin' Out - Songs 1980

More songs from 1980... New Wave, mutant disco, ska and soul.

On the dance floor again.

1. Material - Bustin' Out (Single, 1980, Mutant Disco, 2004)
2. David Bowie - Fashion (Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, 1980)
3. Was Not Was - Wheel Me Out (Single, 1980, Mutant Disco, 2004)
4. The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Sandinista!, 1980)
5. Defunkt - Themonuclear Sweat (Defunkt, 1980)
6. Prince - Uptown (Dirty Mind, 1980)
7. Lipps, Inc - Funkytown (Mouth To Mouth, 1980)
8. Diana Ross - Upside Down (Diana, 1980)
9. Blondie - Rapture (Autoamerican, 1980)
10. Kid Creole & - Yolanda (Off The Coast Of Me, 1980)
11. Grace Jones - Love Is The Drug (Warm Leatherette, 1980)
12. Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Hotter Than July, 1980)
13. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved (Uprising, 1980)
14. The English Beat - Rankin' Full Stop (I Just Can't Stop It, 1980)
15. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure (Too Much Pressure, 1980)

It's All Too Beautiful - Decade 2

What will we do there... we'll get high
What will we touch there... we'll touch the sky
It's all too beautiful


More from that second decade of rock. This set is from the mid to late '60s.

1. Small Faces - Itchycoo Park (There Are But Four Small Faces, 1967)
2. Love - Orange Skies (De Capo, 1966)
3. The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
4. The Moody Blues - Legend of a Mind (In Search of the Lost Chord, 1968)
5. The Rascals - It's Wonderful (Once Upon A Dream, 1968)
6. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (Are You Experienced, 1967)
7. Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy (Mr. Fantasy, 1967)
8. Donovan - Sunshine Superman (Sunshine Superman, 1966)
9. Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation (Crown of Creation, 1968)
10. Sagittarius - My World Fell Down (Present Tense, 1968)
11. The Hollies - Dear Eloise (Butterfly, 1967)
12. The Zombies - Care of Cell 44 (Odessey and Oracle, 1968)
13. The Beach Boys - You're So Good To Me (Summer Days and Summer Nights, 1965)
14. The Who - The Kids Are Alright (My Generation, 1965)
15. The Pretty Things - Rosalyn (The Pretty Things, 1965)
16. The Yardbirds - For Your Love (For Your Love, 1965)
17. The Rolling Stones - As Time Goes By (December's Children, 1965)
18. Van Morrison - Sweet Thing (Astral Weeks, 1968)
19. Paul Revere & The Raiders - Hungry (The Spirit of '67, 1967)
20. The Doors - Break On Through (The Doors, 1967)
21. Steppenwolf - Rock Me (At Your Birthday Party, 1969)

The Heat Goes On - Songs 1980

More songs from 1980. It was a great year for New Wave.

1. The B-52's - Party Out Of Bounds (Wild Planet, 1980)
2. Robert Palmer - Looking For Clues (Clues, 1980)
3. Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach (Metro Music, 1980)
4. Pretenders - Mystery Achievement (Pretenders, 1980)
5. The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train (Boys Don't Cry, 1980)
6. Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) (Remains In Light, 1980)
7. Ultravox - Sleepwalk (Vienna, 1980)
8. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, 1980)
9. XTC - Generals and Majors (Black Sea, 1980)
10. The Jam - Start! (Sound Affects, 1980)
11. Dirty Looks - They Got Me Covered (Dirty Looks, 1980)
12. X - Johny Hit and Run Pauline (Los Angeles, 1980)
13. The Romantics - She's Got Everything (The Romantics, 1980)
14. The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except For Me and My Monkey) (Crazy Rhythms, 1980)
15. Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean (Crocodiles, 1980)
16. Split Enz - What's The Matter With You (True Colours, 1980)
17. Elvis Costello - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down (Get Happy, 1980)
18. Dexys Midnight Runners - Tell Me When My Light Turns Green (Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, 1980)
19. The Clash - Capitol Radio One (Black Market Clash, 1980)
20. The Teardrop Explodes - Brave Boys Keep Their Promises (Kilimanjaro, 1980)
21. The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You (Kingdom of Love, 1980)
22. Young Marble Giants - Music For Evenings (Colossal Youth, 1980)

Word Virus

Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader by William S. Burroughs, Ira Silverberg (Editor), James Grauerholz (Editor), 1998.

Read this in March 2015

Great name for a book. It took me several months to get through this collection. Fortunately I still have the six month staff borrowing privileges as a retiree from the library. According to my Good Reads entry I started this book in July 2014 and finished it in March 2015. I remember that long experience very well.

This book explored the life and works of the tortured soul of a postmodern beat writer with a major influence on popular culture and literature. The structure of the book included excerpts from his writings at various times in his life and other sections were analysis of his work. There were also several biographical essays of his life. Overall the book read like a biography that included his writings for emphasis. 

After reading this book I had to play Hawkwind's Orgone Accumulator.

I Feel Free - Songs 1966

Some rockin' songs from 1966

Feel when I dance with you
We move like the sea
I feel free

1. Cream - I Feel Free
2. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
3. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
4. The Byrds - Eight Miles High
5. The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
6. Paul Revere & The Raiders - Kicks
7. The Mothers of Invention - Help, I'm A Rock
8. Donovan - Season Of The Witch
9. Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
10. The Leaves - Hey Joe
11. Blues Magoos - Tobacco Road
12. 13th Floor Elevators - Reverberation (Doubt)
13. The Zipps - Kicks & Chicks
14. Love - 7 and 7 Is
15. The Who - I'm A Boy
16. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
17. Jefferson Airplane - Blues From An Airplane
18. The Association - Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies
19. The Magic Mushrooms - It's A Happening
20. The Creation - Making Time

Feelin' Groovy - Songs 1966

Another hour of music from 1966.

Slow down you move too fast
You got to make the morning last

1. Simon & Garfunkel - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
2. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
3. The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville
4. The Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother Baby
5. Donovan - Sunshine Superman
6. The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball
7. The Mindbenders - A Groovy Kind Of Love
8. Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
9. Neil Diamond - Solitary Man
10. Petula Clark - My Love
11. The Supremes - I Hear A Symphony
12. The Four Seasons - I've Got You Under My Skin
13. The Lovin' Spoonful - You Didn't Have To Be So Nice
14. Love - No Matter What You Do
15. The Kinks - Holiday In Waikiki
16. The Byrds - Mr. Spaceman
17. Buffalo Springfield - Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
18. The Who - Happy Jack
19. The Troggs - I Want You
20. The Rare Breed - Beg, Borrow and Steal
21. The Animals - See See Rider
22. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Hideway
23. Robert Parker - Barefootin'
24. Billy Stewart - Summertime

You Don't Know Me - EC 500

And still another hour of those Elvis Costello selections from his list of "500 Must-Have Albums". His picks. My mix.

1. Ray Charles - You Don't Know Me
2. Sam Cooke - Get Yourself Another Fool
3. Frank Sinatra - I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby
5. David  Bowie - Wild Is The Wind
6. David Crosby - Laughing
7. Joni Mitchell - Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
8. Paul Simon - American Tune
9. The Beatles - For No One
10. Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream 
11. Dusty Springfield - I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore
12. Sam Phillips - Same Rain
13. Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire
14. The Beach Boys - The Trader
15. The Band - Unfaithful Servant
16. The Byrds - Goin' Back