Friday, March 29, 2013

ALPHABET EMOTIONAL SOUND JOURNEY - Mr. M. Pyre Sings Dark and Sensual Serenades to His Ever-Resting Swain

























96 minutes

01) Martyn Bates - Calls of Birds
02) Martha and the Muffins - Swimming
03) Martin Newell - Stars are Cold
04) Modern Eon - Euthenics
05) My Bloody Valentine - Instrumental 2
06) Mykki Blanco - Mendecino California
07) Masami Ueda - Ada's Theme
08) Metro - Criminal World
09) The Mooseheart  Faith Stellar Groove Band - Have Soul Will Travel
10) Mike y Toti - De Nata, Fresca y de Limon
11) M - Pop Muzic
12) Massimiliano Pagliara - In Order of More Depth
13) Massive Attack - Be Thankful for What You've Got
14) Momus - The End of History
15) Marc Seberg - Jour Apres Jour
16) Michael Giles - Shunter
17) Matthew Dear - Slowdance
18) The Magnetic Fields - All the Umbrellas in London
19) Michael Gira - Blind
20) Meredith Monk - Gotham Lullaby
21) Marianne Faithfull - So Sad
22) Mickey Newbury - Heaven Help the Child
23) The Millenium - The Island
24) Michael Angelo - Flight of Pegasus
25) Modern Art - Fiction & Literature

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

ALPHABET MIX - Would you, W?




01) Willie Nelson - Can I Sleep in Your Arms?
02) Warren Zevon - Accidentally, Like a Martyr (demo)
03) Ween - Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)
04) The Walker Brothers - Death of Romance
05) Wim Mertens - Hufhuf
06) The Wake - Send Them Away
07) Wild Nothing - Rheya
08) Wild Swans - Whirlpool Heart
09) Way of the West - See You Shake
10) Weekend - Summerdays (instrumental '81 demo)
11) Water Melon Group - Live 1984
12) Wally Bardou - She Turns Me On
13) The Weather Prophets - Blue Rooftop
14) The Wolfgang Press - Birdie Song
15) The Woodentops - Stop This Car (motor mix)
16) Warwick - Let's Get the Party Going
17) Working For a Nuclear Free City - Over
18) Wizard Oz - It's Nearly Time
19) The Waterboys - That was the River

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

ALPHABET MIX - I and Me is Eyin' You


01)  I'm So Hollow - Entrance
02) Ian Brown - F.E.A.R. (U.N.K.L.E. remix)
03) Illustration - Tidal Flow
04) Indians in Moscow - Singing in French
05) Iron Curtain - Shadow
06) Iggy Pop - Platonic
07) Isolation Ward - Try Again
08) Interview - Style on Seaview
09) In Embrace - Emotional Punchbags
10) Idle Race - A Better Life (The Weatherman Knows)
11) Iasos - Bamboo Grove Samba
12) Idiot Glee - Don't Go Out Tonight
13) Imagination - In and Out of Love
14) Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Wake Up and Make Love to Me
15) Icy Demons - Crittin' Down to Baba's
16) Iron & Wine - Monkeys Uptown
17) The Innocence Mission - And Hiding Away
18) Irving - Jen, Nothing Matters to Me
19) Isan - Trois Gymnopedies: No. 1
20) If - Its Easy


Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Jason Molina is gone

Deaths of artists or celebrities or people whom I don't know personally rarely get to me, but this one did. Molina died this week from alcohol-related organ failure. He was 39 years old. I had many night caps / last cigarettes alone on my back porch to Didn't It Rain, Ghost Tropic, and Magnolia Electric Co.  There was an unmistakable drunkeness in his songs, and he knew how to keep things slow and minimal while still having this electrical intensity in everything he did, something that you only see in a few great songwriters. No one did heartbreak and existential blues as gracefully as this man did. I saw him play once in Denton but was too drunk to remember it, and how tragically ironic that is to me now.

Jason Molina spoke about a lot about ghosts and since hearing the news yesterday I can hear his ghost in the songs I'm listening to now, and his music will forever me more haunting than it was before, something I hadn't thought possible.  Didn't It Rain, especially prophetic, eerily so now after-the-fact, as it was essentially one mystically morbid serenade to death.

But of the many recurring lyrical themes present in his songs, the one which always stood out to me most, was about "trying." To try - the act of perseverance, of 'simply to live' - seemed hidden or not so hidden in many of his songs. The chorus to "Just be Simple" was the first song I ever heard of his and it has stuck with me and resonated for years.

Try and try and try.....
to be simple again.



















ALPHABET MIX - B-Jangled Bliss for the Strangled Miss




BRINGING HIM A BROWN BOA-CONSTRICTOR, BILLY FOUND HIS BELATED BROTHER BARRY'S BLOATED BODY IN A BLOODY BATHTUB BEHIND BENNIGAN'S BAR AND GRILL. HE THEN BURIED HIM BESIDE THE BASKETBALL COURT, BETWEEN A BARREL OF BLACKBERRIES, BLUEBERRIES, AND THE BEST BUTTERSCOTCH BAKED-GOODS A BAG OF BUCKS COULD BUY, THEN BLATANTLY BOUNCED BACK TO HIS BUNGALOW WHERE HE WATCHED BAD BOY BUBBY ON BLURAY, BEFORE BLASPHEMOUSLY BASKING IN BANKROLLS BELONGING TO BARRY'S BULGING BENEFICIARY, BETTY, WHO HAD BETTER BE BURPING BITTER BEER BREATH AT A BACK-TO-BACK BIRTHDAY / BAHMITZFAH BASH ON HER BRAZILIAN BANANA BOAT BY NOW, OR BARRY WOULD BE BELLIGERENTLY BEATING HER BRAINS AND BASHING HER BRITTLE BONES TO BITS ON THE BEACHSIDE AFTER HIS BIG BRUNCH WITH THE BOYS.


01) Blonde Redhead - Ego Maniac Kid
02) Bowery Electric - Freedom Fighter
03) The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Servo
04) Blur - Brothers and Sisters
05) Bobby Conn - Face Blind
06) Blueboy - Hit
07) Burning Hearts - Close to Her
08) Buddha on the Moon - Stratospheric
09) The Bolshoi - Sunday Monday
10) Bhagavad Guitars - Thought We'd Agreed
11) Band of Holy Joy - Unlikely Girl
12) Billy Bragg - The Price I Pay
13) Bevis Frond - Lights Are Changing
14) The Blue Aeroplanes - Anti-Pretty
15) Bitter Springs - Simple Life
16) The Brilliant Corners - Sixteen Years
17) The Bats - Sighting the Sound
18) Babyshambles - Baddie's Boogie

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Friday, March 15, 2013

ALPHABET MIX - Soundtrack For a Great S-Cape

Disc 1

 01) The Space Lady - Lord Deliver Us, Showdown
02) Sleep ∞ Over - Romantic Streams
03) Shiny Two Shiny - Ritual Hate
04) Space Negros - By the Winding River
05) Steve Hillage - Alone
06) Seefeel - Through You
07) Saint Etienne - Burnt Out Car (Alternate)
08) Sophie B. Hawkins - Only Love (The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty)
09) Strawberry Switchblade - Trees and Flowers (7" version)
10) Swans - The Most Unfortunate Lie
11) Serena Maneesh - Don't Come Down Here
12) Spectrum - Soothe Me
13) Simon Turner - Where We Going (For John Byrne)

Disc 2

14) Spiritualized - I Want You (Instrumental Long Version)
15) Smog - Bathysphere
16) The Sea and Cake - There you Are
17) Sebadoh - Too Pure
18) Sparklehorse - Maria's Little Elbows
19) Slowdive - Visions of La
20) Rita Lee - Shangrila
21) Simon and Garfunkel - Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall
22) The Shatners - Maybe I'm Losing my Mind
23) Split Enz - Giant Heartbeat
24) Sneaky Feelings - Won't Change
25) Susan - 24,000 Times Kiss
26) Sparks - Lucky Me, Lucky You
27) The Stranglers - Souls
28) Sydney Youngblood - If Only I Could
29) Sun - Right Now
30) Super Furry Animals - Venus & Serena

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

ALPHABET MIX - G-Spot in C Major


01) Go-Kart Mozart - Electrosex
02) Grace Jones - Paris
03) Gary Wilson - Come On Mary
04) Geneva Jacuzzi - I Want Sad
05) Gary War - Thousand Yard Stare
06) Golden - Wishful Thinking
07) Global Communication - 5:23
08) A Guy Called Gerald - Untitled
09) Gui Boratto - No Turning Back
10) Gang Gang Dance - Untitled (Piano)
11) Gontiti - Tairikufu Ni Mukatte
12) Gayna Rose Madder - Bigger Than Life
13) Grant McLennan - One Million Miles From Home
14) Graeme Jefferies - The Greenkeepers
15) Gothic Hut - L.D.R.
16) Giles, Giles, and Fripp - Under the Sky
17) Green - Don't Fall in Love With Someone When You're Already in Love With Someone Else
18) The Great Unwashed - What U Should Be Now
19) Gramme - Telephone Me
20) Go-Go Airheart - So Good
21) G.G. Allin - Outskirts of Life

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

ALPHABET MIX - T-Spooned

01) Tim Story - The Lure of Silence
02) The The - Love is Stronger Than Death
03) Twin Sister - Space Babe
04) Todd Tamanend - Oceans of She
05) Theatre of Ice - Funeral Games
06) Tones on Tail - Instrumental
07) Trust - Sulk
08) They Go Boom!! - Island Nation
09) Treebound Story - I Remember
10) Tramway - West Country Hospitality Pt. 2
11) Television Personalities - This Heart's Not Made of Stone
12) Todd - Alone
13) TV on the Radio - Me - I
14) The Tyde - Separate Cars
15) Teenage Fanclub - Going Places
16) Them Shoes - Time to Dance
17) Turbonegro - Selfdestructo Bust
18) Twilight Singers - Esta Noche
19) Trembling Blue Stars - This Once Was an Island
20) Taken by Trees - Dreams

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

ALPHABET MIX - A Letters in the Post


01) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - So Glad
02) All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors - Emergency Turn Off
03) All Night Radio - We're on Our Wave
04) The Apples in Stereo - Strawberry Fire
05) American Music Club - Firefly
06) A.R. Kane - Spook
07) Arab Strap - Turbulence (Bix Remix radio edit)
08) All About Eve - Phased
09) Atlas Sound - Quick Canal
10) Akron/Family - Future Myth
11) A Northern Chorus - Spirit Flags
12) American Analog Set - The Postman
13) ....And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Crowning of a Heart
14) Airport Girl - I'm Wrong, You're Right
15) Aberdeen - Cities and Buses
16) Another Sunny Day - Her Boychart
17) Aztec Camera - Knife
18) Acid House Kings - Tonight is Forever

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