so over you

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i'm so over you i swear to god



1. i don't wanna be friends with you - shop assistants
2. stop killing me - the primitives
3. no offense - slutever
4. why don't you kill yourself - the only ones
5. she lied (i know why) - jester iv*
6. over it - dinosaur jr
7. it's ok - the sunglows
8. i've gotten over you - the sonnettes
9. i'm over you - jan bradley
10. ain't no big thing - the radiants
11. i wish i never met you - trina
12. i'm single - lil wayne
13. i'd do it all over you - doris duke
14. your key don't fit anymore - marie "queenie" lyons
15. i'm glad i got over you - jeanette jones
16. so gone - monica ft. missy elliot
17. up out my face - mariah carey & nicki minaj**
18. you cheated - the shields
19. gonna get along without you now - trixies
20. don't mess with me - the teddy boys
21. does it hurt? - wipers
22. look back in anger - television personalities

i wanna clock you right in your goddamn stupid face or maybe kiss you or maybe murder you or maybe marry you. but mostly, you know what, forget it, i'm over it

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For those unfamiliar with my mixes, here's how this one flows: 80s indie pop, lo-fi grrl, 60s garage, 50s soul, recent r&b, legitimate funk, **one of the best pop duets i've ever heard, 60s soul, old punk, and so on.

*also, jester iv is really cute because they're a bunch of little kids, so you can pretend the prepubescent boy is a girl singin about another girl letting her down. if you don't think that's cute, ok then just picture your uncles as little kids in a band in the 1960s. pretty cute.

(credit for the screencap: !)

Not Too Late for 1988

For a very long time, I considered the year that I was born a kind of musical wasteland. I mean, just look at the Billboard charts for 1988. Music then was just cheesy, artificial, mind-numbing -- and not in a fun way, either.

So I went on a journey to the center of 1988. Beneath the horrors of the mainstream, was there anything worth salvaging?

Quite a bit, it turns out! 1988 was a prime year for UK's Sarah Records and NZ's Flying Nun Records; my mix delivers a heady mix of both. Meanwhile, in the USA, The Go-Betweens and Talking Heads release their final albums. In accordance with the circle of life, another sensation is born when The Pixies debut with "Surfer Rosa."


Rebecca's 1988 Mix

1. The Field Mice - Fabulous Friend

2. The Poppyheads - Pictures You Weave

3. 14 Iced Bears - Come Get Me

4. Another Sunny Day - Anorak City

5. The Sea Urchins - Solace

6. The Golden Dawn - My Secret World

7. Bailter Space - The Today Song

8. The Dead Milkmen - Life is Shit

9. The Go-Betweens - Love Goes On!

10. The Bats - Time to Get Ready

11. The Chills - Wet Blanket

12. The Springfields - Sunflower

13. The Orchids - I've Got a Habit

14. Yo La Tengo - Alyda

15. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

16. Straitjacket Fits - Telling Tales

17. Talking Heads - Nothing But Flowers

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Other bright spots in 1988: The Proclaimers concoct the perfect one-hit-wonder-hit; everybody knows that Leonard Cohen is our man; Jesus and Mary Chain release an extensive collection of B-sides; Camper van Beethoven blend genres like nobody's business; and George Harrison and the Beach Boys sneak guilty pleasures onto the charts.

All in all, not too shabby. Hopefully, kids born in 2010 can look past Ke$ha, as I looked past Tiffany, and find the sweet indie releases of these years.

beach party!

I've always been attracted to summery music! Since my radio show Take a Run at the Sun was all about fun in the sun, I had a lot to pull from for this mix. So I tried to focus it as much as possible: here's a set of songs perfect for barbecues, bonfires, and babes.


1. Sleigh Bells - Ring Ring (demo version)
2. Atlas Sound - Doctor (Five Discs cover)
3. Wendy Rene - BBQ
4. Jens Lekman - Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill
5. Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)
6. Carnivores - Shark Teeth
7. The Golden Boys - Older Than You
8. The Clean - Beatnik
9. Episode Six - Incense
10. Oscar Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band - Olufeme
11. Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
12. Meshugga Beach Party - Shalom Alechem
13. The Ventures - Green Hornet Theme
14. The Zookeepers - Arnold Palmer
15. Harlem - Poolside
16. The Ultras - Straight Arrow (Davie's Theme)
17. The Rumblers - Summertime Blues
18. The Goldentones - Outbound
19. RNA - Spanish Bombs (The Clash cover)
20. Annette Funicello - Luau Cha-cha-cha
21. Novos Baianos - Swing de Campo Grande
22. tUnE-yArDs - Fiya

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If you hold it up to your ear, you can hear the ocean.


PS: If you insist on doing a pool party instead of a beach party, this song is really all you need. Play it, and you'll have an abundance of food, and girls, and more food...and Mike Taruto will be there.

get down to it

The theme is: sex. Once again, I made two mixes. At Halloween, I was torn between the creepy and the goofy; here, I was torn between the sweet + soulful, and the gleefully obscene.

First up: sweet + soulful.

Reach for the Body in Your Bed

1. The Seeds - "Can't Seem to Make You Mine"
2. Shadows of Knight - "Gloria"
3. Magnetic Fields - "Three-Way"
4. The Ventures - "Penetration"
5. Tyrone Davis - "A Woman Needs to Be Loved"
6. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Body"
7. Diane Cluck - "1/2 a Million Miles From Home"
8. Bettye Swann - "These Arms of Mine"
9. Jackie Wilson - "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher"
10. Brighter Side of Darkness - "Love Jones"
11. Ginuwine - "So Anxious"
12. Darondo - "Sure Know How to Love Me"
13. The Wave Machines - "I Keep the Lights On"
14. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - "Malin Kpon O"
15. The Go-Betweens - "Lavender"
16. Bridget St. John - "Bare Feet & Hot Pavements"

Although I can be pretty crude sometimes, I think that I do so out of that Woody Allen / Robert Crumb defense. That is, sex is awesome, but, uh, oy vey, it's nearly awe-inspiring, almost immobilizing. This mix explores both the neuroticism of sex, and that wonderful moment of just giving into it; when, as Diane Cluck puts it, you can "submit to ecstacy, with all [your] inhibitions free." We think, talk, joke, worry, dream and fuss about sex so much, sometimes we forget the actual act -- which is a sweet, simple little thing. I think these songs express our (OK, my) frustration + satisfaction pretty nicely.

Oh, and of course, they're all great songs to bone to. (There's a bit of an arc here: the first few songs suggest seduction; the middle is bursting with hot soul jams; the last songs are mellow drifting-off-to-sleep music.)

Download this one HERE!

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Second mix: gleefully obscene.


Obscene Novelties

1. "Intro" - Dr. Octagon
2. "Just Put It In My Mouth" - Akinyele
3. "Change Clothes" - Jay-Z + The Neptunes*
4. "Pony" - Ginuwine
5. "Flavor of the Month" - Black Sheep
6. "My Neck, My Back" - Khia
7. "She Swallowed It" - NWA
8. "Not Tonight (Eat My Pussy Right)" - Lil' Kim
9. "Doin' It" - LL Cool J
10. "I'd Rather Fuck You" - NWA
11. "Put It Down" - T-Pain feat. Ray + Teddy
12. "Pop That Pussy" - 2 Live Crew
13. "Crash" - Gwen Stefani
14. "Keys to Your Ass" - Imani Coppola
15. "Smell Your Dick" - Riskay
16. "Visit to the Gynecologyst" - Dr. Octagon
17. "You Can't Fuck Them All" - Rock Trajeek

So, like I said, I like to be crude sometimes. I've combed through the most infamous dirty songs, and compiled some of the filthiest, goofiest and catchiest dirty songs out there. Bust this out at a party to make everyone gradually uncomfortable. Bust this out during a first date to make your date instantly uncomfortable. You're welcome.

Download these obscene novelties HERE!

*This song isn't really obscene -- it sorta just ended up here with its sexy beat -- but lord almighty it's catchy, so on the mix it stays

Two DAMN Good Mixes! And Hot Extras!

It took me a while to get on the trolley.

On top of homework and sheer laziness, I had roughly 150 songs to choose from. For someone who's frightened of absolutely everything, I've collected a surprising amount of scary/spooky songs.

So, I made two mixes...


"DAMN good Halloween songs" -- Dale Cooper approved!
(I've been watching a lot of Twin Peaks lately.)

Tracklist:

1. Planet Claire - The B-52s
Slowly creeps up on you, then blasts off with a sci-fi dance party.
2. Treeless Island Peopled by Birds - Bird Names
3. Wicked Annabella - The Kinks
4. I Ain't Superstitious - Howlin' Wolf
I was going to include a spooky Doors songs or two (and they have a handful, let me tell you) -- but why not just include the guy that they cribbed from? Good dirty blues, with a smack of Robert Johnson.
5. Gouge Away - The Pixies
6. Teenage Witch - Eels
7. Third Uncle - Brian Eno
8. 4 Better or 4 Worse - The Pharcyde
Fatlip gets really freaky in the bridge. Watch out for it.
9. I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos
My friend Donovan and I were recently discussing how eerie 50s songs can be. This one is particularly ghostlike, even menacing; from the echoey "shoo bop shoo wop" to the creepy harmonies in the chorus.
10. E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils of Keeping it Real) - Grandaddy
The ticking clock reminds us that the scariest thing is our finite mortality...!
11. The Ghost and the Eyes - Thanksgiving
12. Appel Direct - Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
Django's charging strumming/plucking here is meant to sound like a train. To me, it sounds like a ghost train.
13. Superstition - Blanche
Lilting Louisiana voodoo country.
14. Graveyard Orbit - Crystal Stilts
15. I Hear You Knocking - Dave Edwards
Ooooh...who's knocking at the door? Don't let them in...oooOOOooOOoo.
16. The Oogum Boogum Song - Brenton Wood
Sweet spooky soul.
17. You'll Pay For Your Day at Pleasure Island - Michael Leviton
A little ukelele song; half-sorrow, half-menace. Always reminds me of that disturbing scene in Pinocchio, when all those little boys started turning into donkeys.
18. The Sinking Ship Song - Matt Elliot
Appropriately, sounds like a ship full of sinking souls.
19. The Ballad of No-Face - Final Fantasy
As creepy as the title sounds.
20. Full Moon - Eden Ahbez
Quiet, calm, almost spoken word from the 60s, with a nighttime backdrop.
21. The Ghost Sonata - Tuxedomoon
And the album almost ends with a hush. Until:
22. Laisse Tombeur Les Filles - France Gall
This once-cheery song now always reminds me of the credits to "Deathproof." Oh, Quentin Tarantino.

Link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UJJWQ6YC

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AND:


Halloween Surf 'n' Turf! Featuring a lot of surf songs, and a few songs that were too cute for the other mix, and yet, too cute to leave out altogether. When I say "cute," I mean like, 60s camp, and pop-punk satirical songs.

Tracklist:
1. Phantasma Del Mar - The Aquabats
2. Take Off Or Die! - The Tormentos
3. Out of Limits - The Ventures
4. The Cruel Sea - The Beat Tornados
5. Nite Prowler - The Deuce Coupes
6. Night Scene - The Rumblers
7. Flesh Hammer - Hillbilly Frankenstein
8. Shadow Land - The Falcons
9. Jack the Ripper (Parts 1 & 2) - Southern Culture on the Skids
10. Horror Beach - Horrorpops
11. Surfin' Bird - The Cramps
12. Cat With Two Heads - The Aquabats
13. Spider Cider - Man Man
14. Slaughter on 10th Ave - The Ventures
15. Letter From Jeepers - Mr. Guy
16. Fashion Zombies - The Aquabats
17. Boo! - Supernova
18. Straight to Hell - Chum
19. The Gonk (Theme from Dawn of the Dead)
20. Coolest Little Monster - Zacherley

Link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GIMXX23O


AND, as far as actual albums go, there are two supremely underappreciated albums which you should purchase if you're looking for overall spooky bands:


"A-Haunting We Will Go-Go" The Ghastly Ones
Supreme 60s-style camp. Like the Haunted Mansion music...but way cooler.


"Wreckin' Crew" The Meteors
The kings of psychobilly. This album includes such Halloween treats as "Zombie Noise," "Mutant Rock" and "Fear of the Dark."



PS: Honorable mention goes to this 10 minute string quintet, because I feel like it could be played at a ghost ball, and it would be the best ghost ball ever.

Astor Piazzola - Concierto Para Quinteto