Saturday, October 17, 2009
Teenage FBI
There are few things in life I enjoy more than finding complementary songs to string together into hourlong brain soundtracks, and lately I've been thoroughly engrossed in yet another semi-annual push to make mixes for friends and myself.
While I fully intend to get around to making those available here (giving said parties time to enjoy the mixes on their own first), for the time being I thought I'd go through the vault and add a few mixes from the past year.
This one is called Teenage FBI, and was made for a good friend last summer while she was away in China. Enjoy.
And if you're interested, see other Slang Editorial / Hyperliving mixes here.
Mix: Teenage FBI
Labels: mixes, mp3, music
posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 10/17/2009 12:33:00 PM
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Vince And The Mighty Summer Jamz
A good friend sent me the below a few weeks ago, which I'm passing along to you now not only because the story is AMAZING, but also because his mix is equally stunning and I've been listening to it every day non-stop for the past few weeks.
Enjoy!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stevarino
Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Subject: summer jamz and some asshole named vince
True Story:
I'm drinking at an outdoor table in front of a bar on Clinton St. late Monday night. Suddenly the table starts shaking. It jumps up once, then twice, then completely flies over spilling drinks, breaking candles. A head emerges out of the ground, and then a body proceeds to crawl out of the mess and onto the sidewalk. Turns out we were drinking on top of one of those metal trapdoor contraptions that let you into the basement of a restaurant. Dude crawls out of the basement, and begins to introduce himself to people, shaking their hands and bowing like a gentleman, slurring "Hey, I'm Vince."
This guy was obviously wasted, and looked like he was locked in there for a while. His pupils were the size of dinner plates. Eventually he sat down and I offered him a smoke, in response to which he looked at me cockeyed, stuck his tongue out of the corner of his mouth and tried to kick me in the shin. Someone snaps a picture of him. He refused to tell us how he got underground and eventually stumbled away. This girl comes over to me from inside, sits down and asks:
"You know that guy?"
"Who, Vince?" I say. "Fuck no."
Anyways, heres some crazy music:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2nmfinzhy2m
The Mix:
Labels: CRAZY, fucktactics, lolgore, mixes, mp3, music
posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 9/16/2009 02:00:00 PM
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Ultragliding In Summer
Man, today really feels like summer for sure. And what better connotes the Sounds of Summer than the wonderful 2001 Dirtbombs record Ultraglide In Black?
Hopefully most of you are aware of this wonderful paean to the triumphiant power of rock and roll, but if not, here's the shorthand: - Dirtbombs = life-affirming Detroit garage band (formerly The Gories)
- Ultraglide In Black = their love note to the history of rock and soul music, in the form of 12 covers of songs by Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Smokey Robinson, et al
Alles klaar? Basically Ultraglide is the record a man or woman who loves life may want to play when he or she gets a chance to take the car out for a cruise after work to smoke a cigarette, feel the wind through the hair, and inhale deep breaths of American possibility. So, like, dig.
Skipping ahead now:
It's possible that some of you may have taken the time to collect these already, and certainly you've probably all heard one or two of the more famous originals ("Living for the City" and "Underdog" probably) but a few are really pretty obscure and tough to track down (translation: i spent a lot of time on google blog search last summer tracking those fuckers down).
And of course, careful Dirtbombs devotees may not that Ultraglide has not 12 but 13 tracks--because one song, "Your Love Belongs Under a Rock", is not a cover but a Dirtbombs original. I haven't included this song on my little comp, but here it is for your enjoyment now***:
The Dirtbombs - "Your Love Belongs Under A Rock"
Anyway, enjoy!
LISTEN:
NOTES:
*** - Yay to me (and you) for finally figuring out that I can add this really light and easy Google MP3 Player to my posts for to preview posted songs without d/ling them. Holla technology! Labels: dirtbombs, heroes, late arrivals, loved sounds, mixes, mp3, music, sun
posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 7/06/2009 04:11:00 PM
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
It's Summertime (Meaning Mix Time)
Summer is here and one of my favorite things in the world to do during this time is listen to mixes, while driving in cars or walking on streets (not while riding bikes, of course).
Here are links to a bunch of mixes I posted in the past two years on Hyperliving--with a few more to come in the weeks ahead.
This gets to most of them : http://hyperliving.blogspot.com/search/label/mixes
The Mixes:
-Built to Spill Summer Mix
-Anglophilia/Out of Time and Rock Against Winter Mixes
-Brian Eno Mix
-Baroque Pop of the Harpsichord Mix
-David Bowie Beaumont's Favorite Mix
-2004: The Road to Perdition
-Rod Stewart, I Loved You 1965-74
More to come, I promise.
love
JeffreyLabels: loved sounds, mixes, mp3, music
posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 6/21/2009 10:17:00 AM
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Friday, May 08, 2009
2004: The Road To Perdition
I have spent my entire life making mixes for myself and those close to me. Over the years I have posted some of these, new and old, on this blog and elsewhere. Here is one of my all-time favorites, and, perhaps, my best--I truly think that this mix still holds up today as the one of the most cohesive mixes I've ever put together (ie, not a "shuffle mix").
This mix, called Full On Night, is the second disc of a two-part set in made in Summer 2004 for a friend after she, Doorknobs and I had taken a five week trip across the country. While on the road, we drove during all hours of the day and night, seeing many crazy and bleak sights. We went 12,000 miles and I drove about 9,600 of them (seriously) and a lot of that driving was late at night while they slept and I had nothing but cigarettes, music and darkness to keep me company. This mix, therefore, was a collection of the sounds running through my head on each unending 3am drive across America, knowing that there was a world out there ready to be seen but unsure whether or not I'd ever truly be able to take it in and get something out of it.
Full On Night mix
Download by clicking here. As always, my mixes are individual mp3s with an xml playlist file to import so it can rebuild in your iTunes player.
Things Done Changed...
Jeffrey Cracker, eating carrots outside Carlsbad Caverns, in June 2004
The 2004 triumvirate, in different times. Though five years later I still have that shirt.Labels: loved sounds, memories, mixes, mp3, music, thoughts
posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 5/08/2009 02:26:00 AM
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Wild Kindness
The Wild Kindness: hand-embroidered CD cover by Mabel de Silentio
A little burst of joy arrived for me in the mail this weekend, in the form of a new package from my longtime friend Mabel de Silentio.
Mabel has recently returned to New Orleans from a few years abroad in the Czech Republic and is gearing up for a move back to the northeast in a few months for grad school. One of the only friends I made in high school that I still keep in touch with, I am glad she is back in the states and look forward to seeing her again soon.
In the meantime, I shall enjoy the most recent of what has become an infrequent but long-standing tradition of mail-delivered communications dating from before the era of standardized electronic interaction. Key among each of these packages is always the golden ticket: the latest distillation of music interests accumulating in our brains as transferred to the world by the <79:59 style="font-style: italic;">The Wild Kindness and I look forward to spending the next few months digesting it until I can't hear it anymore.Labels: friends, love, loved sounds, mixes, music, REAL LIFE IMs
posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 4/13/2009 11:12:00 PM
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I Used To Love Him (Is It All Over Now?)
 Answer: NO, NEVER.
JeffreyBeaumont: "And I don't mean to sound haughty, like it offended our artistic sensibilities…although it obviously did. It mostly made us sad. The movie was full of crap, Roger was full of crap, Ken Russell was full of crap…maybe we were full of crap too. And we kind of were. I pretty much still am."
jaychampionvinyl: he didn't tell me I was an asshole and what I wrote was horseshit....he just has very, very strong feelings about lisztomania
jaychampionvinyl: which, fuck, I think is awesome
jaychampionvinyl: though hilarious to me that he thought Roger Daltrey might, at one point, not have been full of shit, but I guess that's just retrospective for me
JeffreyBeaumont: this is a major value point of discussion: the grand sweep of "context" and our inability at times to truly perceive the scope of its effect on us
JeffreyBeaumont: i can imagine similar conversations with past rod stewart fans who never forgave him for torturing them by perverting his rock talents in american pop farce
JeffreyBeaumont: shorn of the "i lived through this" life experience, i can deftly hear 68-74 Rod and say, "Awesome!" and easily dismiss everything later, as if they were two different people
JeffreyBeaumont: someone though who grew up loving Rod, growing with him, could actually feel betrayed by his change
JeffreyBeaumont: even if, on some level, the signs were always there that the day would come at some point
JeffreyBeaumont: similar, though on a much lesser scale, is Modest Mouse with "Dashboard", which is shit though not actually despicable like, say, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"
jaychampionvinyl: it is a more complete refutation of what he was before than "Dashboard"
JeffreyBeaumont: yeah, "Dashboard" sucks because it's empty--whereas "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" feels like a betrayal to the true rock love of "Maggie Mae"
JeffreyBeaumont: more of a fizzle out vs. a fuck you to the past and the people who loved you
jaychampionvinyl: right, and at least a "fuck you" is sort of invigorating, even if in a negative way
jaychampionvinyl: it prompts indignation
JeffreyBeaumont: right which is why Tim hates Lisztomania so much
jaychampionvinyl: full circle!!!!
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And so, in light of this conversation, for anyone who's ever wondered what all the fuss is about Rod Stewart, I have decided to finally post my "Ultimate Rod" playlist, finished last summer after years of tinkering. Behold:
as compiled with care by Jeffrey Beaumont
This compilation is a selection of songs covering Rod's first four solo albums on Mercury Records,the four Faces records, and a smattering of extras from the WONDERFUL four disc 2004 Faces box sec Five Guys Walk Into a Bar... and from elsewhere.
I have labored over a particular running order for these songs--by mood rather than chronology--and I think this mix gives a good flow with variation of ballads and rockers. And really, chronology hardly matters here, because although one track is from 1964 and another from 1975, everything else sticks to the high-powered bread-and-butter years of 1969-1973, a period during which Rod, Ron and Co. pumped out eight great records testifying their love of rock and roll and cementing their place in the great rock and roll pantheon***. It's all rock and roll, and that's all that matters. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Eight Nine Extended notes:
1. Track 1, "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", is Stewart's first recorded vocals from '64, released as a single before he and Ron Wood got their big breaks singing for Jeff Beck Group on two albums in the 67-68. 2. In a never always up for debate way, "True Blue" might be my favorite Rod song of all time. 3. "It's All Over Now", written by Bobby Womack and first made famous by the Stones, is included in it's abbreviated "single edit". I recommend, however, tracking down the full version from Rod's second record Gasoline Alley, as well the version on the live Coast to Coast - Overture and Beginners record. 4. "Angel" was never really a Faces song as it appeared on Rod's fourth solo record, Never a Dull Moment. However, the artist labels of "Rod Stewart" or "The Faces", were often meaningless as the Faces regularly played on Rod's records and a handful of these "Faces" cuts are just Rod songs credited to Faces on post-band/live releases. 5. "Maggie Mae", as you may notice is included not its familiar form but as a full-band Faces version recorded live at the BBC. Its inclusion does not suggest that this version is in any way superior to the completely unfuckwithable original; HOWEVER, both you and I have heard that original a million times and this version has the benefit of being not just fresh, but also fiery and impassioned, and I think submit that it's worth your time. But if you somehow don't know the original, stand tall and swap it in. 6. Let we all be reminded that "Stay With Me" is a great rock song for the annals. 7. "You Can Make Me Sing" was actually credited to "Rod Stewart and the Faces" and is, I believe, the only single released in the post-Ronnie Lane version of Faces with Tetsuo on bass. Things were coming apart at the seams and the show is almost over, but I enjoy this fun albeit light track. Which is my way of saying that I might cut this one if i had to... but I don't, so I didn't. 8. The b-side "What Made Milwaukee Famous" is the closest Rod ever got to country and it makes me yearn for a curious sidebar with Gram Parsons that never happened.
UPDATE: 9. Ok, so a few caveats: I insisted upon keeping this mix at a length that fits on one cd--meaning under 79:59. This means, in distilling eight albums and countless extras down to one disc, that you leave off some faves, including "You Wear It Well," which was actually my first favorite Rod song. It saddens me to do that. But I dunno, it seemed to make sense to me. Also, of more understandable priority: I specifically excluded any non-Rod faces songs, which includes three of their best: "Ooo La La", "Last Orders Please" and "Glad and Proud". These songs have places in my heart above just about everything, but they aren't Rod songs, so they're not here. Sorry. Anyway...
And so....
NOTES: ***-- Silly aside: in summer 2002, I attempted to argue with Shrimp Cracker that Rod was more rock and roll than the Stones, and way more enjoyable to listen to. I can't say I'd stand by this claim anymore, but at the time I actually meant it. Labels: loved sounds, mixes, mp3, music, old flames, ROD, thoughts
posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 4/13/2009 04:45:00 PM
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GET BEHIND ME DEAD MAN
I now fucking LOVE that Lemon Heads song too. AND was listening to La Fin Du Monde again yesterday. Its the time of the season.
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