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LoB Presents 'Songs for Swingin Classrooms' Volume II
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| British Sea Power | Waving Flags | |
| Neil Young | Like a Hurricane | |
| Fairport Convention | Matty Groves | |
| The Beatles | Here comes the sun | |
| The Whites | Keep on the sunny side | |
| Jackie Wilson | (I get the) sweetest feeling | |
| The White Stripes | We're going to be friends | |
| Otis Redding | Wonderful World | |
| Glen Campbell | By the time I get to Phoenix | |
| Jens Lekman | Maple Leaves | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Kylie Minogue | Slow | |
| Sigur Ros | Glosoli | |
| Sufjan Stevens | The Upper Peninsula | |
| Belle & Sebastian | The State I Am In | |
| Meg Baird | Dear Companion | |
| Caetano Veloso | Lost in Paradise | |
| Felice Taylor | I can feel love | |
| Calexico | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | |
| The Mamas & Papas | California Dreamin' | |
| North Sea Radio Orchestra | End of Chimes | |
| The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl | Fairytale of New York | |
| The Flaming Lips | Race for the Prize | |
Comment:
You never know what students will or won't like. Jackie Wilson's unfuckwithable classic gets dissed but they sit rapt watching Sigur Ros' kids flying. The Lips' altrock standard is 'horrible' but Sudanese guys totally dig BSP's tale of immigrants and drinking. Neil Young is boring. Glen Campbell is a hippy. Jens Lekman is sad. Felice Taylor makes us want to dance (can't argue), Kylie is music made by robots (yep) and NSRO are 'beautiful'. But who teaches future continuous, comparatives, infinitive verbs, the compound noun 'photographic memory'?Feedback:
Love the Beatles -> Glen Campbell run on side One and the Pogues / Lips closing pair on side Two especially.
neil young, the beatles, jackie wilson, white stripes, otis, jens lekman, B&S, the pogues...this is fanfuckingtastic. side one is really doing it for me...
I can totally identify, I taught ESL in Guadalajara for 6 years, the first two at a high school, where I could get away with nothing with the spoiled kids (it also helped my Spanish). Funny about the Glen Campbell/Neil Young reaction, I actually used Frente!'s cover of Bizarre Love Triangle as well as Everybody Hurts. California Dreamin' is spot on for future tense.
Fuck the kids. I'm the future! Anyway, this is classic, Jake. Love the Fairport Convention, Otis Redding and the Belle and Sebastian songs here. The rest is pretty rad too.
The whole thing looks great, but side one is incredible!
Kids eh? Fantastic mix, and great to see one of my fave Kylie tracks on a mix as well..
Amo, amas, amat. I hope the parents did not claim you are promoting violence by playing Matty Groves. ;-)
Love the whole of side 2. Interesting observations too Mr Bear. Permission to applaud?
Some kids once attacked me with fruit (seriously).Lemons and limes were hurtling through the air at me from across the road. They were crap shots though and I picked up a lemon and lime and hit one of them on the back of the leg. Great mix, never mind the kids.
Jackie Wilson, Glen Campbell, Sigur Ros, Mamas & the Papas, "Fairytale of New York"... this looks like a greatest hits of the best kind (the kind that aren't hits, I guess). on a recent road trip to the Oregon coast, my boyfriend and I came upon some road construction while listening to that Kylie Minogue song on his i-pod. so the gruff-looking construction worker in orange reflective gear was standing by the road holding a sign with the song's title on it as we passed by... slowly. we thought it was pretty funny. great, great mix.
This is really, really great, my friend. I absolutely love your mixes and this is no exception. (Have I ever begged you to get a burner... ? ;-) )
nice, maybe I should do something like this with my class, they are 15-16, how old are your students?