The Mix Tape

I may have suggested on Facebook the other day that I wanted to have someone to make a mixtape for. Not that I would make a tape (does anyone still have a tape recorder?) but Mix CD sounds odd and playlist that I put on a flashdrive is just wrong. I like making mix tapes. Maybe it stems from my time at WRUC but I was making them in high school, which proves that I am a child of the 80s (When The Mixtape Ruled).

So, I was thinking about this yesterday and I came to a decision about how it would set up.

Here it is:

1) Bibio - Lover's Carvings



2) Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats



3) The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition



4) The Naked and Famous - Girls Like You



5) Matt Nathanson - Faster



6) Sleater Kinney - Leave You Behind



7) Arcade Fire - Ready to Start (Live)*



8) The Airborne Toxic Event - All At Once



9) The Drums - How It Ended



10) Thom Yorke - Black Swan



11) The Mountain Goats - Oceanographer's Choice



What would be on your mixtape? Who would you make your mixtape for?


*Yes, I do have the mp3 of this video. It is my favorite version of the song.

Edit at 10:43: And I realized after I posted this that I left one out...



Wild Horses and in this case, I prefer the Sundays version to the Stones.

Another Song That I Heard This Weekend

And this was a song that I had not heard since college.

(Yes, I did purchase it on iTunes.)

Seeing the first Lollapalooza was a formative experience in my life. This band was one of the shared headliners, along with Jane's Addiction.

Without any further ado, I present Siouxsie and the Banshees.



Kiss Them For Me

A song to be angry to..

Ashley asked, on Facebook, about a song to be angry to...and while she wasn't looking for a relationship song, this song was one of the first that popped into my head...


Drill - Go To Hell

She is now singing with KMFDM which is kind of cool.

I also listed:

Undeserving You by Holy Roman Empire
Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine

There There by Radiohead (which is really angry when you give it a close listen)
Queen of Apology by The Sounds (which is a bit odd)

Anything that you would have suggested?

(Oh, there is my favorite angry song...by Tool, but I was not going to suggest that.)

Guilty Pleasure Song #3

This song came out when I was nine and I loved it then.

That I still find myself singing it while in the shower twenty five plus years later I find hard to understand (I was going to try to make a "Hard to Hold" joke but it seemed too difficult.) and more difficult to explain.



So...let's talk about this video for a second...

In the future, on a distant desert world (Arrakis?), humanity is grey faced and enslaved by the lizard people (The Gorn?) to work in a factory where they are shackled and forced to either pull on fire hoses or use two pound sledges to hammer things. And then...there is our hero, Rick Springfield...



Look at him. Not grey at all, and perfectly suited to lead the rebellion with his song and his "futuristic" headset mic. Naturally, someone that "pretty" is the natural leader of the rebellion against the Lizard People, and he is more than amazing because his Tarzan swing and kick was able to make the "Lizard with the Laser Turret" explode.

And then...

After being carried by the adoring grey people, he ends up back on the stage...to finish singing!

So, what was the point of this video?

I think, upon a close viewing, that it had something to do with the end of the Cold War, but...I can't make it work intellectually.

Edit: While I was searching for the static image of Mr. Springfield, I came across this post from io9.com about the 10 greatest post-apocalyptic music videos of all time. I wish I had known about this, but...there are better speculative fiction blogs out there right now (and no, I am not going to share) and io9 has started to bore me.