ALPHABET EMOTIONAL SOUND JOURNEY - N-Ward and Up, Up, Up

01) Nina Simone - Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (live)

02) Nick Garrie - Ink Pot Eyes

03) The Neon Boys - Time

04) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Finishing Jubilee Street

05) Neu! - Neuschnee

06) Nick Nicely - GB Obergine

07) Nash the Slash - Islands

08) Next Time Passions - Not Here Anymore

09) Nexus - Stand Up (Instrumental)

10) Nujabes - Yes

11) New Age Steppers - Memories

12) The Nuns - Suicide Child

13) Negativland - Pigs Dig Pep

14) The Names - Life by the Sea

15) New Order - All Day Long

16) Normil Hawaiians - South Atlantic

17) Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television

18) Northside - Weight of Air

19) Neutral Milk Hotel - My Dreamgirl Don't Exist

20) Nunzio Fattini - The Crystal

21) New Sense - Chase the Night

22) Nobuo Uematsu - Besaid Island

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ALPHABET EMOTIONAL SOUND JOURNEY - Ageless Aches of the H's

01) Half String - Hurrah!
02) Heavenly - And the Birds Aren't Singing
03) Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
04) The Honest Johns - Judas in me Singing
05) Happydeadmen - Spectacular Way
06) Hit Parade - On the Road to Beaconsfield
07) Harpo - Moviestar
08) Haruomi Hosono - Sanji No Komori-Uta (Inst.)
09) The Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
10) The House of Love - Plastic
11) His Name is Alive - In Every Ford
12) Honey Bane - Negative Exposure
13) Howard Devoto - Cold Imagination
14) Happy Mondays - This Feeling
15) Hymie's Basement - Pretty Colours (Smile Your Brains Out)
16) Holy Shit - Unhearable News
17) Heat Wave - Fukd in tha Game
18) Human Teenager - Fourth Reich
19) The Human Expression - Every Night
20) The Human League - Seconds
21) How to Dress Well - Endless Rain
22) Hot Toddy - I Need Love (Morgan Geist's Love Dub)
23) Hot Chip - Bad Luck


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ALPHABET EMOTIONAL SOUND JOURNEY - For K-9 Kate, Who Enjoys Killing, but Prefers Kissing

01) Kan Kan - Angel
02) Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
03) King Crimson - Matte Kudasai (alt. version)
04) Kevin Ayers - Wide Awake
05) King Dude - Witch's Hammer
06) Kenny Rankin - I was Born
07) Kendra Smith - Stars are in Your Eyes
08) Karl Blake - Not Flying But Falling
09) Kate Bush - Wild Man
10) Kristina Brunk - Supermodel
11) Kicking Giant - She's Real
12) Kings of Convenience - Love is No Big Truth
13) Kula Hatha Mamnua - Sohein
14) Kendrick Lamar - M0ney Tr33s
15) Koopsta Knicca - Relax
16) Knight Action - Single Girl
17) Koji Kondo - Astral Observatory
18) Kenji Yamamoto - Ice Valley (Phendrana Deep Lake)
19) The KLF - Chill Out (Wolf in the Jungle remix)
20) Kangding Ray - La Belle
21) Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
22) Kim Fowley - Young, White, & Stupid (Under Teenage Skies)
23) Klaus Nomi - Rubberband Lazer
24) The Korgis - Domestic Bliss
25) Kosinar & Schmiechen - Sei Bereit
26) Kaki King - Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers
27) Kurt Vile - Air Bud
28) The Kingfishers - Out


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ALPHABET MIX - X-amine Yr Z-ographone

Out of straws, had to reach for obscure synth punk, H-town rap, and video game OST music. 

01) Zero Zero - Harlekin
02) ZK - Denn Sie Wissen Nicht, Was ie Tun
03) Xymox - No Words
04) Xex - Holland Tunnel
05) Yello - Pinball Cha Cha
06) Zimmerman - Modern Radio
07) Y Pants - The Fly
08) Young Marble Giants - Salad Days
09) XTC - Senses Working Overtime
10) Zounds - More Trouble
11) ZNR - Seynete
12) Yasunori Mitsuda - Dead Sea, Ruined Tower
13) Young Bleed - A Minute Ta Breathe
14) Zavijavi Orchestra - Inner Landscapes
15) Z-Ro - From the South (ft. Paul Wall and Lil Flip)
16) Xela - Under the Glow of the Streetlights
17) Xiu Xiu - Clown Towne
18) Yeah Jazz - All of my Days
19) Zero Le Creche - Women Say
20) Yves Rakotomalala - B 4 La Seul Chanson
21) Yo La Tengo - The Weakest Part
22) Youth Lagoon - Montana
23) Yukihiro Takahashi - Betsu-Ni



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ALPHABET MIX - Truth R Dare With Daddy at the Daycare

 From sad reminders to Saturday night thrills. 

01) Red House Painters - Evil
02) R. Stevie Moore - Traded My Heart for Your Parts
03) Robert Wyatt - Costa
04) The Rainfall Years - Roadkill
05) Richard Hawley - Can You Hear the Rain Love?
06) Relaxed Muscle - Battered
07) Recoil - Breath Control
08) Ride - Time Machine
09) Rocketship - Love So Estranged
10) Rexy - Running Out of Time
11) Robert Rental & Thomas Leer - Day Breaks, Night Heals
12) Rangers - Podunk Baal
13) Rain Parade - Saturday's Asylum
14) The Raincoats - Lola
15) Roxy Music - The Thrill of it All
16) Rick Bain & The Genius Position - Orlando
17) Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Another Bubble
18) Renato Zero - Vivo


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ALPHABET MIX - O Be We Spyin'

01) Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Telegraph
02) Obscure by Degrees - A Woman Like You
03) Odd Nosdam - Untitled
04) Our Daughter's Wedding - Airline
05) O Level - Apologise
06) Os Mutantes -Baby [Baby]
07) The Only Ones - In Betweens
08) One Last Wish - This Time
09) The Outskirts of Infinity - In the Garden of the Mystic
10) Oingo Boingo - Private Life
11) Ottmar Liebert - Sao Paulo (Bass in my Pocket)
12) Oneohtrix Point Never - Laser to Laser
13) Olivia Tremor Control - Hideaway
14) Optic Eye - The Listening
15) Oppenheimer - Breakfast in NYC
16) The Occasional Keepers - J. Carpenter Kid
17) The Other Two - Tasty Fish
18) Orange Juice - Mud in Your Eye
19) The Orchids - Sigh
20) The Orb - Ubiquity
21) Owen - Put Your Hands on me, My Love
22) Okkervil River - A Stone


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ALPHABET MIX - Reverse D-cline

01) Dizzee Rascal - World Outside
02) DJ Muggs vs The GZA - Advanced Pawns (feat. Raekwon)
03) Delta 5 - Different Fur
04) Dominant Legs - About my Girls
05) Denim - Bubblehead
06) Darcy Clay - In the Middle
07) David Thomas Broughton - River Lay
08) Dean Blunt - The Narcissist (feat Inga Copeland)
09) Death in June - In Sacrilege
10) David Sylvain - Orpheus
11) Destroyer - The Music Lovers
12) Donnie and Joe Emerson - Love Is
13) The Dukes of Stratosphear - Vanishing Girls
14) Depeche Mode - Goodnight Lovers
15) David J - Space Cowboy
16) David Kilgour - Never End
17) The dB's - I Lie
18) Desert Wolves - Besotted
19) Desertshore - Randy Quaid (feat. Mark Kozelek)
20) The Durutti Column - Somewhere


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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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Flaming Creature

Stumbled upon this last night and dug it a lot, even with my nomenlateral biases. The phrase 'tribal trance' comes to mind. Neat videos too. Check 'em:

 

ALPHABET MIX - P is for 'Pornographic'

 

Another letter mix, another bad cover art. This one breaks the 80 minute mark but I wasn't satisfied removing any of the tracks so you'll have to make it a playlist. Not like anyone burns these to disc anyways, but its good to keep things shortish. Enjoy the exception!

01) Pepe Deluxe - Ask for a Kiss

02) Populous - My Winter Vacation (ft. Dose One)

03) Permanent Vacation - Absynth (Marcus Worgull Mix)

04) Pet Shop Boys - Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)

05) Patrick Cowley - I Got a Line on You

06) Paris Angels - Scope

07) Primal Scream - Loaded

08) Patti Smith - Free Money

09) Peter Perrett - Falling

10) Patrick Wolf - Tristan

11) A Place to Bury Strangers - You are the One

12) The Paper Chase - We Know Where you Sleep

13) Psychic Ills - January Rain

14) Pulp - F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.

15) Pitch Yarn of Matter - Father

16) Peter Koppes - In the Wake

17) Paul Quinn & The Independent Group - Passing Thought

18) Placebo - Bubblegum

19) Pink Floyd - A Pillow of Winds

20) The Pastels - Crawl Babies

21) Plumstead Common - We Won't Get Fooled Again

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