Artist	Song
Flop	Anne
Flop	Julie Francavilla
Flop	Of Today
Pure Joy	New Psychotic Dream
Flop	You Would Be Right
Flop	Regrets
Pure Joy	What Time It Is?
Flop	Act 1, Scene 1
Flop	I Told a Lie
Pure Joy	Dead Lavender
Flop	Woolworth
Flop	Circus Freak
Llama	C'mon C'mon
Flop	We've All Seen Better Days
Flop	A Fixed Point
Pure Joy	Division
Flop	Hello
Flop	Night Of The Hunter
Pure Joy	Hold On To It
Flop	Ugly Girl Lover
Flop	Port Angeles
Pure Joy	Holocaust
Flop	Glue Factory
Flop	A. Wylie
Llama	Invisible
Flop	Idle Hands
Flop	The Great Valediction
Pure Joy	Bill Budd
Flop	Big Sky
Flop	Eat

Comment:

31. Pure Joy -- Something Strange
32. Fastbacks -- Bill Challenger
33. Flop -- Vancouver Door Company
34. Flop -- Asthenia

To my mind, Rusty Willougby is one of the great unrecognized musical talents of the 90's. The bulk of this mix is made up of tracks from Flop, one of my all-time favorite bands. With Flop, Rusty's British invasion-influenced melodies and twisted lyrics (favorite themes: alienation and disease) were backed by superb playing from drummer Nate Johnson and lead guitarist Bill Campbell. All three of Flop's albums are great: Trouser Press called "Flop & the Fall of the Mopsqueezer!" "one of the '90s' finest debuts," and second album "Whenever Your Ready" is surely the best 1 cent disc available on Amazon. Third album "World of Today" lacks the powerful minor-to-major key changes that put the first two albums among my all-time faves, but this is largely made up for with unique rhythms and and some of Rusty's most brilliantly bitter lyrics.

Before and after Flop, Rusty played with Pure Joy, whose talent and energy didn't reach Flop's levels but who still managed to put together a solid discography of swell pop songs. Rusty has long been tight with Fastbacks' Kurt Bloch, and he played drums for Fastbacks on "Zncker" and a couple other albums. His latest project is Llama, with whom he continues to put out satisfying pop songs.

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