• Submit Date: 11/18/2001
  • Format: Cassette
  • Category: Mixed Genre

This World Is Leakproof

Side A
Artist Song
Eric Matthews  Fanfare 
The Go Betweens  Magic in Here 
The Jam  Butterfly Collector 
Graham Nash  Chicago/We Can Change the World 
Spearmint  Scottish Pop 
Buffalo Tom  I'm Allowed 
Pale Saints  Thread of Light 
Finn Brothers  Only Talking Sense 
Blueboy  The Joy of Living 
Mercury Rev  Tonite it Shows 
Billy Bragg  She's Got a New Spell 
The Lucksmiths  Mezzanine 
Sodastream  Fresh One 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Mark Seymour  The Ballad of the One Eyed Man 
Autopilot  Bullit 
Mojave 3  Some Kinda Angel 
Johnny Cash  Solitary Man 
Augie March  Heartbeat and Sails 
Able Tasmans  What Was That Thing? 
Beach Boys  Don't Worry Baby 
Kingpin  I Do 
The Left Banke  Pretty Ballerina 
The Flaming Lips  Love Yer Brain 
Mark Kozelek  Ruth Marie 
Gene Clark & the Goudin Brothers  Echoes 
Smudge  Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra 

Comment:

Tape for James Roberts. He didn't really have any requests (as far as I can remember!) so I just went with the flow. There are some West Australian bands that he may not have heard - Autopilot and Kingpin, who both appear on the "Kiss My WAMI, 2001" compilation. The Mark Seymour (he ex of Hunters & Collectors) track is on here because I was reminded of how good it was thanks to it being featured last week at the end of my new favorite (Aussie) tv show "The Secret Life of Us". Thanks to Rob Conroy, for the Flaming Lips track. Title courtesy of the Lucksmiths.

Feedback:

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Rosie
Date: 11/19/2001
very nice sue, as usual!
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Rob Conroy
Date: 11/19/2001
You're welcome, Sue. I feel as though the track I submitted is in privileged company. :-)
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Moe
Date: 11/19/2001
Once again, another satisfying selection of swinging songs, Sue. Does Steven Tyler sing back up on Pretty Ballerina? (yeah, yeah, dude looks like a ballerina)
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Fundak
Date: 11/19/2001
very nice sue. i think requests probably just get in the way :)
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lo-fi jr.
Date: 11/19/2001
In the US, Hunters & Collectors seems to have been unfortunately tagged as weird & new-wavey. They should have been hailed as thundering tribal rock alongside The Birthday Party's "Prayers on Fire". I'd be very interested to hear what their former members are doing now.
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teapin
Date: 11/19/2001
another nice mix. you always seem to include a song from the past that's especially nostalgic for me. this time around it's "she's got a new spell." telepathic much?
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Rob Conroy
Date: 11/19/2001
Oh yeah, that song kills me, too--it was the first song on the first in a series of ten tapes that I made for my ex-fiancee when we first got together ten years ago... *looks for nearby straight razor*
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SueEW
Date: 11/19/2001
lo-fi: Apparently, Hunters, in Australia, are pretty popular - probably most people you ask (of a certain age, maybe not teenagers/young adults) have heard of them. I think they would be in the same league as Paul Kelly, who most people know. I just found out that Mark Seymour's brother Nick was in Crowded House - so the family is pretty well connected in the Australian music scene.
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PapaMaceo1
Date: 11/20/2001
SueEW I Love Yer Brain!
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James Roberts
Date: 12/12/2001
Received this a few days ago and gave it time to sink in. A beguiling mixture of Ozpop, oddballs, old faithfuls and old skool indie. Lovely. Thank you, Sue.
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keith12345
Date: 1/9/2002
I was a big Hunters fan in the late 80s (was it Fate that had the big muscled arm on the jacket? Good record).

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Kevin Clark
Date: 1/16/2002
I'm Allowed is my absolute favorite Buffalo Tom song. Love that you have The Man in Black covering the Jewish Elvis.