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Created back in June but uploading now. This didn't turn out to be a mix of women artists, but I'm glad it turned out that way. Finally got around to discovering Kate Bush, the new PJ Harvey …
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Just a good strong collection of songs, this one was put together 15 February 2009 but just now posted. The Freakwater cut is a Loudon Wainwright cover. The Steinski mix is part of a 70 minute …
Just a good strong collection of songs, this one was put together 15 February 2009 but just now posted. The Freakwater cut is a Loudon Wainwright cover. The Steinski mix is part of a 70 minute …
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Congratulations, Mr. President.
Congratulations, Mr. President.
tongue tuned to the undersong
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Declan Masterson (buzz) | The Bright Lady |
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| The Smiths (buzz) | How Soon is Now? |
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| David Byrne and Brian Eno (buzz) | Mea Culpa |
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| Nirvana (buzz) | Heart Shaped Box |
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| Tori Amos (buzz) | Sister Janet |
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| Frank Black (buzz) | Calistan |
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| Shawn Colvin (buzz) | Tenderness on the Block |
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| REM (buzz) | Fretless |
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| Neil Young and Crazy Horse (buzz) | Sleeps with Angels |
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| Beck (buzz) | Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997 |
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| David Byrne (buzz) | A Long Time Ago |
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| Shannon Worrell (buzz) | Wondertwins |
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| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Parliament (buzz) | Up for the Down Stroke |
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| Beck (buzz) | Beercan |
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| Tori Amos (buzz) | Honey |
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| Nine Inch Nails (buzz) | Dead Souls |
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| David Byrne and Brian Eno (buzz) | Moonlight in Glory |
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| Beck (buzz) | Hollow Log |
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| Hilliard Ensemble (buzz) | De spineto nata rosa |
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| Shannon Worrell (buzz) | Snakebite |
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| Nirvana (buzz) | Pennyroyal Tea |
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| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party (buzz) | Kali Kali Zulfon Ke Phande Nah Dalo |
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| Robert Hurst (buzz) | Jill's Groove |
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| Sundays (buzz) | Wild Horses |
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Comment:
Recorded 1 October 1994. Me moving out of depression after graduation and into a kind of strangely intense solo existence. Monastic, almost.About the obscure cuts:
The opening track is a solo on the Uillean pipes that appeared on the Realworld compilation Lament, in honor of the dead on both sides of the undeclared Irish civil war.
All the Brian Eno/David Byrne tracks come from the criminally underappreciated "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts."
"Fretless" is an REM b-side that here was taken from the soundtrack to "Until the End of the World."
Shannon Worrell is a singer-songwriter from Charlottesville who put out a few albums in the 90s. "Wondertwins" is a playful, uptempo number with support from Dave Matthews' sax player; "Snakebite" is a hypnotic, oddly haunting song stripped to just guitar and vocals and lends the title to the mix ("I'm only mud and matter, I'm/sometimes black and strong/heart as red as a madder root/tongue tuned to the undersong/am I the wrong one for you?")
"Hollow Log" comes from Beck's K Records release, "One Foot in the Grave," on which he sounds like he's channelling Robert Johnson.
"De spineto nata rosa" is a brief but shimmering fragment of a Renaissance motet from the Hilliard's recording of the Polish text "Codex Specialnik."
"Pennyroyal Tea" isn't obscure but it has obscure meaning for me. Recovering from an ulcer as I was, I knew even then that Kurt was writing about the debilitating effects of a stomach tearing itself apart ("I'm on warm milk and laxatives/cherry flavored antacids") and this song captured the depression and suicidal urges left by his struggle. (Pennyroyal is an abortifacient: "distill the life that's inside of me.")
The Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan song is the transcendent moment on the tape: over ten minutes of pure improvisational throat splitting religious ecstasy.
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Beautiful Tim Jarrett! You're dead-on about the Byrne/Eno lp..., also, everything on that soundtrack, "Until the End of the World", is pretty good. Anything coming from a codex has to be a deliverance into strange areas....,as is Nusrat.....unfamiliar with Ms. Worrell...Nice MIX!
Great mix, man. Valis is OTM about the "End of The World" soundtrack. Good stuff.
This looks wonderful.
Shannon Worrell is amazing-- didn't think I'd ever see her on a mix here. Very cool other selections as well-- I especially like the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Your comments have me intrigued with this mix...very, very intrigued.
lordy this is good. phew. LOVE it. great Tori picks!
Mary S, thanks for the comments. How did you find Shannon's work? Seems most people on this site only know her duet with Dave Matthews on "Eleanor."
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