In Which I Post the Tracklistings to L-Po's Mix CDs

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upon learning of L@uren P0dis's imminent departure from the greater NYC area, it occured to me to make use of my much-loved iTunes playlist feature to compile several CDs so she wouldn't have to travel around with much music. Using only one I had on my hard-drive, and selecting both obscure favorites and obvious favorites, I proceeded to compile and sequence 8 CDs with loosely defined "themes". I then burned them in haste, without time to print out proper sleeves, so have decided to post them here, hopefully archiving them forever. This way she can print them out, and if she loses them, print them out again, so long as the sturdy ILX server does it thing, and so long as the moderators of this fine board allow it to remain. So here they are, 8 of the greatest mix CDs of all time, let me know if you want a copy. btw, these are "compilations", not "mixes".

60s not 60s - a collection of a few 60s favorites, what I had mp3s of, in response to Lauren saying she wanted some Beatles. I need more Beatles myself.

1. The Searchers-When You Walk in the Room
2. The Association-Windy
3. The Animals-We Gotta Get Out of this Place
4. The Beatles-You Won't See Me
5. Fairport Convention-Time Will Show the Wiser
6. Buffalo Springfield-Rock and Roll Woman
7. The Byrds-Why
8. Love-Softly to Me
9. Bobby Darin-If I Were a Carpenter
10. The Beatles-Norweigan Wood
11. The Byrds-Draft Morning
12. Pink Floyd-Green is the Colour
13. The Beatles-Hide Your Love Away
14. The Byrds-5D (Fifth Dimension)
15. The Hollies-Pay You Back With Interest
16. Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring
17. Gerry & the Pacemakers-How Do You Do It?
18. The Searchers-Needles and Pins
19. The Beatles-Paperback Writer
20. The Outsiders-Wish You Were Here With Me Today
21. The Pretty Things-Trust
22. The Red Krayola-Victory Garden
23. The Hollies-On A Carousel
24. The Byrds-Lady Friend
25. Buffalo Springfield-Mr. Soul
26. The Beatles-Rain
27. The Rolling Stones-She's Like a Rainbow
28. The Hollies-Carrie Ann
29. The Beatles-Getting Better

AM not AM - No, not really "AM", but a sort of melancholy/baroque collection, some radio classics, some hipster favorite, lot's of strings and sadness.

1. Beach Boys-In My Room
2. Frankie Vallie & The Four Seasons-Big Man in Town
3. Glen Campbell-Wichita Lineman
4. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood-Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
5. Left Banke-Walk Away Renee
6. American Spring-Fallin' In Love
7. Gerry & The Pacemakers-Don't Let the Sun (Catch You Crying)
8. Nick Drake-Way To Blue
9. Bob Lind-Elusive Butterfly
10. Bobby Goldsboro-Honey
11. The Walker Brothers-Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)
12. Them-It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
13. Simon & Garfunkel-The Sounds of Silence
14. Neil Diamond-Solitary Man
15. The Carpenters-Superstar
16. Scott Walker-The World's Strongest Man
17. Colin Blunstone-Caroline Goodbye
18. Left Banke-Pretty Ballerina
19. Neil Diamond-Holly, Holy
20. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood-Sand
21. Scott Walker-The Amourous Humphrey Plugg
22. Bob Dylan-Lay Lady Lay
23. Todd Rundgren-Hello It's Me
24. John Cale-I Keep A Close Watch

Art/DIY/Post-Punk - Near and dear to my heart, some of this I only have digitised because I had previously made a compilation for the Typical Girls mailing list. Jangly post-punk, angular post-punk, scrappy diy pop, mostly early 80s.

1. The Monochrome Set-Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
2. Family Fodder-Savoir Faire
3. Flying Lizards-Her Story
4. Orange Juice-Falling and Laughing
5. A Certain Ratio-Do the Du
6. Delta 5-Mind Your Own Business
7. The Red Krayola-Born in Flames
8. The Raincoats-Fairytale in the Supermarket
9. Flowers-Tear Along
10. Mo-Dettes-White Mice
11. Girls At Our Best-Fast Boyfriends
12. Nightingales-Which Hi-Fi?
13. Article 58-Event to Come
14. Fire Engines-Meat Whiplash
15. Essential Logic-Martian Man
16. Stockholm Monsters-Fairy Tales
17. Ludus-My Cherry is in Sherry
18. Model Citizens-Shift the Blame
19. Judy Nylon-The Others
20. Vivienne Goldman-Laundrette
21. Oh-Ok-Lilting
22. One Gang Logic-Alienate
23. Girls at Our Best-Warm Girls
24. The Gordons-Future Shock

Disco kinda not Disco - a sorta electro-latin-disco-great gatsby vibe, very organic yet still lots of drum machines, a pretty eclectic mix that has some super cool and fun stuff on it. Disco, No Wave Funk, Euro-Disco, UK Jazz Funk, etc. An Ultramarine track that breaks out of my usual late 70s/early 80s mode, but fits as a very organic disco/techno track that samples the Eagles and Robert Wyatt.

1. Celestial Choir-Stand on the Word (Larry Levan mix)
2. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band-Sunshower
3. Belle Epoque-Miss Broadway
4. Can-I Want More
5. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band-Tropical Hot Dog Night
6. Coati Mundi Hernandez-K Pasa-Pos I
7. Kid Creole and the Coconuts-Annie I'm Not Your Daddy
8. Hall & Oates-I Can't Go For That
9. Cat Stevens-Was Dog a Doughnut?
10. Herb Alpert-Manhattan Melody
11. Dinosaur-Kiss Me Again(Edit)
12. Francine McGee-Feelin' Good
13. Ultramarine-Saratoga
14. Amanda Lear-Follow Me (Wally MacDonald Disco Mix)

Punk not Punk - again, not trying to be completist, just what I like, and what I have on the computer. For this one some thanks must go to Chuck Warner/Hyped2Death and Johan Kugelberg/Killed by Death, and Steve Gregory of the Pooh Sticks...This CD really totally KICKS ASS!

1. O Level-Pseudo Punk
2. The Damned-New Rose
3. The Misfits-Where Eagles Dare
4. Kraut-Matinee
5. Art Attacks-I Am A Dalek
6. Blitzkrieg Bop-U.F.O.
7. Seize-Why?
8. Wipers-Does It Hurt?
9. Neoboys-Rich Man's Dream
10. The Flesh Eaters-Sleeping Sickness
11. X-We're Desperate
12. The Undertones-You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It)
13. The Au Pairs-Monogamy
14. Liliput-Ain't You
15. The Table-Sex Cells
16. The Prefects-Escort Girls
17. Wire-Field Day For Sundays
18. Scissor Fits-A Small One
19. The Prats-Disco Pope
20. Six Minute War-Giles Hall
21. The Saints-Know Your Product
22. Swell Maps-Vertical Slum
23. Cigarettes-They're Back Again
24. Plastic Idols-Einstein Experience
25. Scars-Adult/Ery
26. The Mekons-Never Been In A Riot
27. Bags-We Don't Need the English
28. The Germs-Lexicon Devil
29. Freestone-Bummer Bitch
30. Spelling Mistakes-Hate Me Hate Me
31. Controllers-Killer Queers
32. Coldcock-I Wanna Be Rich
33. Red Asphalt-Red Asphalt
34. Stripsearch-Hey Kid
35. Catholic Discipline-Underground Babylon

Italo Not Italos-Laura Branigan's second biggest hit or so was a cover of an italo-disco song. This is mostly italo-disco and some electronic new wave rock dance type stuff that sorta fits to me.

1. Laura Branigan-Self Control
2. RIS Feat. Celeste-Love N Music
3. Charlie-Spacer Woman
4. Mr. Flagio-Take A Chance
5. Plastic Mode-Baja Imperial
6. Gay Cat Park-I Am a Vocoder
7. Missing Persons-Destination Unknown
8. Black Devil Disco Club-One to Choose
9. Pluton and the Humanoids-World Invasion
10. Animotion-Obsession
11. Chilly-For Your Love
12. La Bionda-I Wanna Be Your Lover
13. Alexander Robotnik-Problémes d'amour
14. Gaz Nevada-I.C. Love Affair (Italian Version)

Folk Not Folk-Some new "revival" type stuff and the oldies, both better known uk type folk and us/nyc type folk. Why is Phil Ochs not on this or the AM mix? I don't have any mp3s. damn. I don't know the Currituck Co. or Vetiver song names because they were from demos, the latter not out yet and the former I think is the first song on the Vetiver CD.

1. Currituck Co.-????
2. Simon Finn-Very Close Friend
3. Skip Spence-Diana
4. Bert Jansch-It Don't Bother Me
5. Leonard Cohen-The Stranger Song
6. Vashti Bunyan-Diamond Day
7. Devendra Banhart-Rejoicing in the Hands
8. Vince Martin & Fred Neil-Red Flowers
9. Fairport Convention-Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
10. Glen Campbell-Hey Little One
11. Karen Dalton-Right, Wrong or Ready....or How Did the Feeling Feel to You, for some reason I didn't write down the name of the song when I first typed this up, I'll have to check.
12. Bert Jansch-Tell Me What Is True Love
13. Fred Neil-The Dolphins
14. Linda Perhacs-Dolphin
15. Nick Drake-Pink Moon
16. Simon Finn-Laughing 'Til Tomorrow
17. Pearls Before Swine-Playmate
18. The Incredible String Band-Job's Tears
19. The Homosexuals-ToTo Rello
20. Kevin Ayers-Eleanors Cake (Which Ate Her)
21. Vetiver-????
22. Tim Hardin-If I Were a Carptenter
23. Richard Youngs-Soon It Will Be Fire

PowerWavePop - this had potential, but I now realize I didn't sequence it. Some of it was cast-offs from the punk mix and the art/post-punk mix. Some of it's very power-pop punk rock and some very electronic new wave pop and some just plain power pop. a great selection, ruined by bad(no) sequencing. SERIOUS apologies to Chuck Warner and Michael Train on this one, especially a few volumes of the Homework CD-rs.

1. Real Kids-All Kindsa Girls
2. The Distractions-Doesn't Bother Me
3. Dolly Mixture-Everything and More
4. Los Microwaves-Silent Screamers
5. Alternate Learning-When She's Alone
6. Devo-Come Back Jonee
7. The Algebra Mothers-Strawberry Cheesecake
8. The Distractions-Time Goes By So Slow
9. Circles-Opening Up
10. Alter Boys-Piles
11. Alcoholics-Pesticides
12. Records-Starry Eyes
13. Screaming Urge-Homework
14. Article 58-Event to Come
15. Ash Wednesday-Love by Numbers
16. REM-Wolves, Lower
17. True Believers-Accept It
18. The Student Teachers-What I Can't Feel
19. The Student Teachers-Channel 13
20. Nervus Rex-Don't Look
21. Nervus Rex-Love Affair
22. Meat Puppets-We're Here
23. US Ape-Ignorance is Bliss
24. Ultravox-Some of Them
25. Pylon-Cool

so there it is. I hope you enjoy them Lauren. There's nothing in the world I like doing better then sequencing records, so this gave me great pleasure, not as much as knowing you of course...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know about you noize dudez but I'm a little teary eyed.

thanks for posting that dan, i'm gonna try to fill in the gaps where i need to.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know enough of those songses. But the ones I do know are goody good choices.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

dan selzer you are a treat. i'd like to hear the italo disco one sometime (didn't know the laura branigan, rip, song was a cover or whatever).

do you have any teenline h2d stuff? i only have the first one, but its great. i need to buy about 30 more discs from there.

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i would like these!

i can trade for, uh, a jerry orbach mix cd

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I THINK AT THIS POINT, LP YOU ARE A OBLIGED TO MARRY DAN SELZER AND HAVE SEVERAL NOIZE BABIES OR AT LEAST OFFER HIM ONE OF YOUR KIDNEYS.

YOU HAVE TWO, DONT BE GREEDY.

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i almost did marry him at one point. then i decided that several years of heated email exchanges, fragile truces, and mutual recriminations would be preferrable to wedded n01z3 bliss.

dan, thank you again and again and again. you know.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

beat me to the punch...was gonna say that yes, ddb, Lauren and I were once (practically) married for some time, but due to Irreconcilable Differences (the movie w/ Drew Barrymore), we had to break it off. Since then we've only grown more alike and she has now become the sister I've never had, except for the sister I do have. Those of you who have never had the unique pleasure of remaining relatively close to a serious ex are like, seriously missing out. I can tell this girl anything! But if you hang out too much you start acting like a couple of bitter married senior citizens, for real. But what would I do with 3 kidneys?

Self Control was originally recorded by a group called RAF, I think, but I prefer Laura's version. I don't have any teenline CDs, but have most of the Homework and Messthethics CDs.

Unfortunately, I don't like Jerry Orbach's singing very much, but I do like his dancing.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

my dad keeps asking "is this the ramones?" about most of the songs on the punk cd.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

well, one of them is named after a Ramones song, which is kinda close.

Blitzkrieg Bop was a UK punk band formed by John Hodgson, who went on to front Bascax, who were on Earcom 2 w/ Joy Division, and the Gynaecologists.

I wrote this about him 4 or 5 years ago:

http://www.geocities.com/danselzer/gynaecologists.html

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

that is the only song i can't find on soulseek

― brock (brock), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

is the version of "Underground Babylon" the one with good sound quality from the movie, or the one with horrible s.q. from the recent Catholic Discipline retrospective CD?

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

brock, which, UFO? I can put email that to you.

daniel, I'm not sure, I got it from some kid who put up a bunch of punk stuff on a website, I'll look for the link, I think it's from the movie, as I dl'ed it before the new CD came out, but I haven't heard the CD yet.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

dan
ufo - "blitzkrieg"

thanx!

― brock (brock), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

for a minute i was confused and thought this was about

P-LO

PATOOTIE LOBE

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Blitzkreig Bop is the band...U.F.O. is one of their few songs. Others are Let's Go (if you go, to San Francisco, you can wear some flowers in your hair, if you go to San Francisco, you will meet a lot of weirdos there. Now I know, so let's go!) and Life is Just a So So, which is on one of the Instant Pop Classics CDs. These are the only 3 I have and I can send them.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

dan seriously, the punk cdr kicks dick in. really REALLY enjoying it. you are a wizard.

― brock (brock), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

dan, where my prefects cd at?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax, you want just the Blitzkreig Bop tracks? I have to find the CD I have w/ Life is Just a So-So on it.

Brock, you really found all of that? Actually, considering all the sources, nothing on their hasn't been comped or bootlegged so can't be really that rare...but who on earth has a copy of Einstein Experiance by the Plastic Idols? I've never even seen that. Got it on a tape Jonathan Marx from Lambchop sent me years ago. Their other single, I.U.D. is a well-known classic KBD type punker, this one is mostly not liked for being too "new wave".

And where could you get Escort Girls by the Prefects? There's one dude online selling a bootleg of the Prefects Peel Sessions, including the unreleased tracks, but he's about to lose that particular income.

Lauren, I have to see if I still have any promo copies. But I'm putting packages together including yr iPod thing and while I was at it, I made 2 more mixes to be posted shortly. Should I just give them to you when yr here? I don't even know if I'll be around. I don't want to send the stuff to cleveland while yr in NY or flying to London, are you going back home after NY?

I'm in the middle of a traumatic week off from work involving 3 dentist visits, 1 dr visit, 2 eye doctor visits, and one visit to Ikea that was worse then them all.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 23 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

introducing two more compilations:

Hip Not Hop (Mid-School edition)

1. Audio Two - Top Billing
2. Biz Markie - Make the Music With Your Mouth
3. Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx
4. MC Shan & Marley Marl - The Bridge
5. Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge is Over
6. Nice and Smooth - Early to Rise
7. GangStarr - Dwyck
8. Main Source - Looking at the Front Door
9. UMC's - Never Never Land
10. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
11. Eric B. and Rakim - Don't Sweat the Technique
12. Biz Markie - Nobody Beats Tha Biz
13. EPMD - Crossover
14. Nice and Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
15. Eric B. and Rakim - Juice (Know the Ledge)
16. UMC's - One to Grow On (Growin' Like Weeds)
17. Ultramagnetic MC's - Travelling at the Speed of Thought
18. Main Source - Fakin the Funk
19. Craig Mack - Flava in Ya Ear (remix)

Electro Not Electro Freestyle and Proto Techno

1. Time Zone - The Wildstyle
2. Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)
3. Mantronix - Needle to the Groove
4. T. La Rock and Jazzy J - It's Yours
5. C.O.D. - In the Bottle
6. Newcleus - Computer Age (Push the Button)
7. Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
8. Company B - Fascinated
9. Expose - Point of no Return
10. Debbie Deb - When I Hear Music
11. Freestyle - Don't Stop the Rock
12. Model 500 - Night Drive Through Babylon (Time, Space, Transmat)
13. A Number of Names - Shari Vari
14. Derrick May - Another Relic from Relics
15. John Bender - Untitled 2
16. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop (Megamix)

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 23 September 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yes please dan!

i like the 2nd mix WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better than the first one (of the more recent mixes you just posted).

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know anything about hip hop. dan selzer copy me that CD and i will buy you a beer!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm wondering:

has dan selzer ever professed his opinion on Arabian Prince?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

dear dan,
i will not be in nyc until a week from saturday, so i'd prefer it if you mailed me the pkg now in cle.

luv,
l-train

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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