Funky Ratchet

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Member Since: 5/10/2007
Total Mixes: 36
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Throwaway

Side A
Artist Song
Chris & the Alphabeats  Count It Higher 
The Fleshtones  I Was A Teenage Zombie 
R.E.M.  Red Head Walking 
The Waistcoats  Theme From W.A.I.S.T.C.O.A.T. 
Doc Bagby  Crazy Chemistry 
The New Duncan Imperials  Jivin' 
Bob Dylan  Highway 61 Revisited 
Liz Phair  Baby Got Going 
The Charms  LTD 
Violent Femmes  Out the Window 
The Beach Boys  A Thing Or Two 
Apples In Stereo  Go 
Squeeze  Hourglass 
Ride  Twisterella 
Material Issue  What If I Killed Your Boyfriend 
Shadows of Knight  I'm Gonna Make You Mine 
The Kinks  Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Utopia  Feet Don't Fail Me Now 
The Zombies  Care of Cell 44 
Fountains of Wayne  Girl I Can't Forget 
The Jessica Fletchers  Summer Holiday and Me 
Evan Foster  Drag the Dragon 
The Ventures  The 2000 Pound Bee (Part 1) 
The Cramps  Human Fly 
Lipstick Killers  Hindu Gods of Love 
Teenage Frames  Let's Break Up! 
The Anderson Council  Pinkerton's Assorted Colours 
The Men  Church of Logic, Sin & Love 
Foxboro Hottubs  The Pedestrian 
Elvis Costello  Psycho 
Zombina & the Skeletones  Come On 
They Might Be Giants  Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go To Work) 

Comment:

This mix is just a throwaway mix, or rather it would have been, literally. A coworker of mine recent brought me a huge case of cassettes that had belonged to her son. Knowing that I "like music," she though that I might want to have them, rather than see her throw them away. Many of the cassettes were dubbed copies and most were also.shall we say, not my tastes. But since my car only has a cassette player/radio, I figured why not try to give some of these tapes a new lease on life? So therefore, Ozzy Osbourne & Randy Rhodes' Tribute album is reborn as the above mix. The opening track is a "Twist and Shout"-style counting song from a Sesame Street album (Born To Add) my brother brought me recently from a big one-dollar vinyl sale. From there, I let the mix go where it wanted, adding a song or two here and there in my free time over the past couple of weeks.No link, since I pulled tracks from a wide array of sources - CD, vinyl, mp3, and even other cassettes - and no way to convert at the present. Thanks to Doowad for pointing me in the direction of the Waistcoats track, to Vambo for the Evan Foster track, and to my son for the use of his They Might Be Giants "1-2-3's" CD.And, or course, in the week or two that I worked on this tape, the cassette player in my car went kaput, as did the radio. I shouldn't have expected any different. Now car rides are not only unbelievably dull, I can also hear all the funny noises my car makes.

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doowad
Date: 6/20/2008
Where's the friggin' Ozzy, man??? That's what I came here for!Hey, you can get MP3 players for next to nothing, best of Chinese handicraft...
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arktical
Date: 6/20/2008
Is your co-workers son's name Darth Pazuzu? Anyway, this new and improved mix looks great. I especially love the 10-15 stretch on side A.
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anthony lombardi
Date: 6/20/2008
amazing how a mix pulled from such a variety of sources can come out so strong, really - this looks absolutely great, tons of fantastic stuff here
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sammyg123
Date: 6/20/2008
Great mix, fine choices. My picks being Go - Twisterella stretch (awesome), and the wonderful Zombies track, Ventures, Cramps and Costello..
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sport !
Date: 6/20/2008
Very interesting picks! Makes for a top quality mix.
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KathrynandRupert
Date: 6/20/2008
Zombina and the Skeletons played at a friend's wedding a couple of years ago. REM have covered Beat Happening?!? I think this is spectacular.
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njr
Date: 6/20/2008
Brilliant (as ever) and a fun walk down memory lane. From The Zombies to Zombina, what a way to mix!
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Mesh
Date: 6/21/2008
Great stuff here: Squeeze, Ride, Ventures, Cramps, TMBG and others. And bonus points for use of the Ozzy tape.
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avocado rabbit
Date: 6/21/2008
Well, in absence of car stereo perhaps a set of headphones and player might ease the drive time. The Squeeze track is my favorite of those I know.
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vandaleyes
Date: 6/21/2008
Man oh man, there's some great music on there.
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Moe
Date: 6/23/2008
Hardly a throwaway, me thinks. Looks like a great way to recycle a C-90, though I think you should have kept at least one song from the OO & RR tribute out of respect to your co-worker's son ;) Sorry that you can no longer play it in your car -- I don't like hearing the funny (and probably expensive) sounds my car makes either.
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G-Sphere
Date: 6/26/2008
A bunch of good stuff here... way to many to list.