The Mixtape Jones Radio Show, Playlist, 8/24/10

Sorry I'm a day late, folks.

PASS THE PLUGS-DE LA SOUL
THIS GIRL THAT I KNOW-BECK
POLITICAL SONG FOR MICHAEL JACKSON TO SING-MINUTEMEN
SCISSOR-THE LIARS
GLASS PRINTER-THE BESNARD LAKES
THE BACK OF MY MIND-THE LODGER
ARROW-KATHRYN CALDER
LANDMARK-KATE KLIM
LLOYD, I'M READY TO BE HEARTBROKEN-CAMERA OBSCURA
STRANGERS-THE KINKS
SWEET NATASHA-DR. PANTS
ARPEGGIATOR-FUGAZI
AHEAD-WIRE
AUTUMN SONG-STUART MOXHAM
CAROLINA-STEVEN BACON
IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA-NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL
SON OF A GUN-THE LA'S
I'M NOT DEAD-WORLD RACKETEERING SQUAD
BANNED (BY THE MAN)-SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN
THE GHOST AT NUMBER ONE-JELLYFISH
LAND & SEA-REBECCA LOEBE
THANK YOU TIME GIRL-THE HUNGRY MOMENT
JUDAS-THE SHIMMIES
MARY-ALEXA WOODWARD
EXIT ROW-LIKE PIONEERS
AFTERNIGHT-TRANS AM
TITANIUM EXPOSE-SONIC YOUTH
WHAT LIGHT-WILCO
GENEROUS FRIENDS-K.C. CLIFFORD

Show re-airs this Sunday, 8/29 at 5pm central. Thanks for listening, everybody!

The Promise of Poison

Something about the music of our youth will always be different than music for the rest of our lives, I think. It doesn't really matter who you are, when you grew up, or what was popular at the time. Being of the age I am, though, means that the golden age of butt rock (hair metal, whatever you want to call it) occurred right smack in the middle of my middle school years, and I think this has particular resonance.

What is it about a song like Poison's "Nuthin' But a Good Time"? What part of that song, exactly, made the beginning of a fairly unremarkable junior high summer evening feel so full of...promise? And promise of what?? I can't really even put my finger on what I might have been hoping for. Hoping to...meet a girl? Meet a girl that...liked me? Have an adventure? This was probably the junior high/middle school version of what Poison might have been trying to convey...I wasn't going to have reckless, casual sex, or consume inordinate amounts of alcohol or some other substance. I mean, I didn't even do those things in high school or college. But something about the feel-good, party anthems of the 80's really could make the most boring, ordinary evening, even those spent within the confines of a buddy's house for a sleepover, seem incredibly full of possibility.

The moments, a couple of years later, where an evening occurred that DID involve meeting a girl, or meeting a girl that liked me, or having an adventure (sneaking out of the house where the sleepover occurred being the most common one...this ended in a number of interesting ways over the course of a couple of years), were extremely delicious...delicious in the way that something you feel like you've been waiting for forever can only be. Perhaps the soundtrack to those evenings was more along the lines of the Beatles, Zeppelin or the Who, or even later on, perhaps R.E.M., They Might Be Giants or The Cure. But the echoes of Def Leppard and Great White reverberated through my mind, I think. No, I didn't meet a girl that night at my brother's baseball game in eighth grade, roaming the grounds of the baseball complex with the homies, but I did, two years later, on an adventurous evening with my friend Greg in the D.C. area. Maybe her love was like "Bad Medicine". Or not (more likely). I just knew that I was finally entering a realm of experience I had longed for throughout my adolescence.

Soundtrack for the composition of this blog entry:
NUTHIN' BUT A GOOD TIME-POISON
KISS ME DEADLY-LITA FORD
PHOTOGRAPH-DEF LEPPARD
ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY-GREAT WHITE
BAD MEDICINE-BON JOVI
DR. FEELGOOD-MOTLEY CRUE (this song actually hadn't even come out during my middle school years, but somebody on Twitter requested Motley Crue as I was blipping all this stuff, and this is my favorite Crue tune.)

The Mixtape Jones Radio Show, Playlist, 8/17/10

Here's last night's playlist. The show will re-air this Sunday, 8/22, at 5pm central. Rock!!

I'M STRAIGHT-THE MODERN LOVERS
I AM A TREE-GUIDED BY VOICES
INVISIBLE-POSSUM DIXON
SLIP AWAY-KATHRYN CALDER
STRANGE WAY-ELLEN TIPPER
WHERE KNOCK IS OPEN WIDE-HIS NAME IS ALIVE
EQUILIBRIUM-MIKE DROHO & COMPASS ROSE
OUR BREADTH IS WIDER THAN OUR BERTH-EUTOPIAN ACCIDENT
GRAVITY-ALTAI ROCKETS
I'LL BE YOUR JONNY ON THE SPOT-WEEN
THAT HAT-PETER GORDON & LOVE OF LIFE ORCHESTRA
ATE OH ATER-ESTHING
I CAN'T FEEL-MATTHEW DEAR
BORED BEYOND OBLIVION-MONSTER MOVIE
SOON-MY BLOODY VALENTINE
DAYSLEEPER-LONGWAVE
CHEESECAKE TRUCK-KING MISSILE
BROKEN FACE-THE PIXIES
POST ACID-WAVVES
MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL-HUSKER DU
NEW WAY BACK-GREEN CORN REVIVAL
ANGEL DREAM NO. 4-TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS
DARKEST DAY-JENEE HALSTEAD
DON'T WANT NO FOO-FOO HAIRCUT ON MY HEAD-MOJO NIXON & SKID ROPER
CODDINGTOWN-PRIMUS
ANTHEM FOR THE EARNEST-THE BAD PLUS
TIME IS TIGHT-BOOKER T. & THE MG'S

See y'all next week.

The Mixtape Jones Radio Show, Playlist, 8/10/10

I could say this is the week that I'll post a real entry here, but it's not. Too much to do. Dr. Pants rehearsal tonight, gig Friday night, and pre-production on our new record tomorrow and Friday! Woot!

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the show. As usual, it will rerun this coming Sunday, 8/15, at 5pm central.

DARE TO BE STUPID-WEIRD AL YANCOVIC
MY GUITAR WANTS TO KILL YOUR MAMA-FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
THE CRYSTAL CAT-DAN DEACON
STAY POSITIVE-THE HOLD STEADY
STATIONARY-BUSSES
BORN TO FLY-SARAH SAMPLE
MECHANICS & MATHEMATICS-VENUS HUM
SCALING-MU-ZIQ
I'M COMING THROUGH-CRAIG BETHELL
ROCOCO-THE ARCADE FIRE
PURPLE TOUPEE-THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
DESDEMONA-EGGSTONE
LOOKING FOR LORELEI-WORLD RACKETEERING SQUAD
BLOOD LIKE YOURS-CHRIS O'BRIEN
TAPE OP BLUES-PETER HOLSAPPLE & CHRIS STAMEY
WHERE WOULD WE GO?-RUSTY ANDERSON
BACK TO THE PLAYGROUND-KIRSTEN JONES
COME ALIVE (WAR OF THE ROSES)-JANELLE MONAE
CHEMICAL MARRIAGE-MR. BUNGLE
WE CAN FLY-LACHI
HOW WRONG YOU ARE-BOSTON SPACESHIPS
ANOTHER HEARTBREAK/DON'T DON'T (REDUX)-PETER GORDON & LOVE OF LIFE ORCHESTRA
GROUP AUTOGENICS I-THE BOOKS
CLOSING THEME-CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
ANNIE HOLD ON-PHIL HENRY
FORTUNATE MAN-JIM PATTON & SHERRY BROKUS
5 AMERICAN 6 CANADIAN-SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET
TWENTY YEARS LATER-PHISH

Word up. See you guys next week.

The Mixtape Jones Radio Hour, Playlist, 8/3/10

I promise I'll write an actual blog entry here some time soon, but for now, here's the playlist from last night's Mixtape Jones Radio Hour. Man, doing this show is fun. I hope you all are enjoying it.

DANCE YRSELF CLEAN-LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
IAMBIC 9 POETRY-SQUAREPUSHER
SEVEN LANGUAGES-CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
HIT ME LIKE YOU DID THE FIRST TIME-THE FLAMING LIPS
ERICA'S WORD-GAME THEORY
FAKE TALKING HEADS SONG-LIAM LYNCH
SLEEP: THE LIGHT-THE FIBS
CANDLE IN THE WILLOW TREE-ROUND MOUNTAIN
PROPELLOR TIME-ROBYN HITCHCOCK
SLOW BURNING CRIMES-EAST HUNDRED
BJO, PT. 1-WEIRD FILES
FLOORED-THE NELS CLINE SINGERS
THE INCUMBENT-SOUL COUGHING
BRAND NEW SONG-ANDY GULLAHORN
SOLAR SYSTEM-VIGILANTES OF LOVE
HEY NONNY NONNY-VIOLENT FEMMES
METAL SPIDER WEBS-BLACK MOLD
ANOTHER JOURNEY BY TRAIN-THE CURE
PREPARE YOUR COFFIN-TORTOISE
JACK PALANCE-VAN DYKE PARKS
ROLL THE STONE AWAY-KIM RICHARDSON
A MILLION TEARS-K.C. CLIFFORD
WHAT'S IN THE BAG-THE FRENCH SEMESTER
THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD-WARREN ZEVON
WENDELL GEE-R.E.M.
FULL CIRCLE-CHARLOTTE HATHERLY
BABY, TAKE YOUR TEETH OUT-FRANK ZAPPA
I AM THE WALRUS-THE DEAD MILKMEN