Other Mixes By tjarrett
Cassette
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Alternative - College Rock
Playlist
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Mixed Genre
Playlist
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Alternative - College Rock
Playlist
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Mixed Genre
Who walked the curve of the world
Side A | ||
Artist | Song | |
The Clash | Know Your Rights | |
The Sundays | Summertime | |
September 67 | Lucky Shoe | |
Boston Camerata with the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community | Father James's Song | |
Johnny Cash | Folsom Prison Blues | |
Patti Smith | Gone Again | |
Radiohead | High and Dry | |
Squirrel Nut Zippers | The Interlocutor | |
Morphine | French Fries With Pepper | |
Herbie Hancock | Chameleon | |
September 67 | Poor Boy | |
Soul Coughing | Lazybones | |
Side 2 | ||
Sleater-Kinney | Dig Me Out | |
Beastie Boys | Funky Boss | |
James Brown | (I'm a) Greedy Man (Pt 1) | |
Aretha Franklin | Think | |
Beck | Today Has Been a Fucked Up Day | |
Johnny Cash | Rowboat | |
Booker T and the MGs | Soul Dressing | |
Patti Smith | Beneath the Southern Cross | |
PJ Harvey | Maniac | |
Radiohead | Subterranean Homesick Alien | |
Squirrel Nut Zippers | Hell | |
Soul Coughing | Disseminated | |
Prince | The Human Body | |
Radiohead | Bulletproof (I Wish I Was...) | |
Jeff Buckley | Corpus Christi Carol | |
Side B | ||
Artist | Song | Buy |
Soul Coughing | Super Bon Bon | |
Beck | Rowboat | |
The Sundays | Folk Song | |
Digable Planets | Black Ego | |
Radiohead | Planet Telex | |
Sleater-Kinney | Little Babies | |
Soul Coughing | 4 out of 5 | |
Lyle Lovett | Penguins | |
James Brown | Night Train | |
David Byrne | Fuzzy Freaky | |
PJ Harvey | Somebody's Down, Somebody's Name | |
Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Beyond Belief | |
September 67 | Giant | |
Side 4 | ||
Johnny Cash | Delia | |
Beck | Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods | |
Daniel Lanois with Emmylou Harris | Shenandoah | |
Radiohead | Fake Plastic Trees | |
Boston Camerata with the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community | Mother Ann's Song | |
James Brown | Grits | |
Squirrel Nut Zippers | Put a Lid On It | |
Radiohead | My Iron Lung | |
Digable Planets | Dial 7 (Axioms of Creamy Spies) | |
Radiohead | Let Down | |
Patti Smith | Dead to the World | |
Soul Coughing | Sleepless | |
U2 | If You Wear That Velvet Dress | |
September 67 | Bring Back the Weight | |
Comment:
This mix was recorded in September 1997, in preparation for our post-wedding road trip through the western part of Virginia, across Tennessee to Memphis and Graceland, and into the North Carolina Smokies to visit my grandmother who was unable to come to the wedding. Accordingly it's long (two 100 minute cassettes) and a little all over the map.The emphasis was on up tempo (well, for me, anyway) and on "folk," "American," or the journey. With a few nervous notes poking through here and there as I had last minute pre-wedding jitters.
About some of the more obscure tracks and bands:
"Know Your Rights": "This is a public service announcement...with guitar!" I wish I knew then what I know now about how badly our rights could be trampled or I would have saved this one. In 1997 we weren't too bad off.
September 67 - Short-lived band featuring Shannon Worrell (see her other songs on my mix tongue tuned to the undersong) and Kristin Asbury, recorded by David Lowery of Cracker. The band did one album and a few shows on the Lilith Fair tour (and contributed a song to the live soundtrack album). Most of the songs are really closely tied to the Charlottesville area or Virginia in general. "Lucky Shoe" opens with "Welcome to Barboursville, the ruins there upon that hill/Hold still for Jefferson/His ghost is there, his ghost has won/My heart..." The closing song on the last side, "Bring Back the Weight," is a song dedicated to Worrell's former bandmate Lauren Hoffman, which opens, "Little rock and roller/Your soul is too old for America..."
Boston Camerata and the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community - Joel Cohen took his Camerata and another Boston group out to this, one of the last surviving enclaves of Shakers, to learn and record some of the traditional Shaker music before it passed along with the Shakers from the earth. "Father James' Air" is a wordless hymn of praise said to have been composed by the movement's founder after he was flogged for heresy.
"Gone Again": All the songs from Patti on this mix are from her comeback "Gone Again"; most are strongly folk influenced, the exception being this shamanistic song.
"Today Has Been a Fucked Up Day" - Beck with a four-track and a banjo, recorded well before "Loser."
"Rowboat" - two versions of this song on the mix, Johnny Cash's cover and Beck's original. Beck's version is actually more strongly "country," with a pedal steel lead, but Cash's is more intelligible.
Digable Planets, "Black Ego" - Whatever happened to Digable Planets? Their second album sunk like a lead balloon, is what. This is unfortunate, as tracks like "Black Ego" combine far left wing revolutionary rap with hypnotic jazz grooves. "Do you wish to waive your right to remain silent?" "Hell yes!" In the same vein as the Clash's "Know Your Rights"...
PJ Harvey, "Somebody's Down, Somebody's Name" - Both the PJ songs here are b-sides circa "To Bring You My Love." This one is a monster, an apocalyptic blues with a vicious guitar riff.
"Delia" - The classic murder ballad as envisioned by Johnny Cash in the mid-90s. "She was low-down and triflin', she was cold and mean/Kind of evil makes me want to grab my sub-machine/Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone."
"Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods" - If the other Beck songs were goof-offs, this one is the real thing, Beck channelling Robert Johnson for some honest to God Delta blues. From the K Records release "One Foot in the Grave."
Feedback:
Massive and eclectic ... maybe a bit too heavy on the Radiohead & Soul Coughing, but still lots to like.
That's entirely badass.
really good stuff
That's so good. I'm now in the process of making it. :D
Hell yeah. What they said. Black Ego is possibly the best DP song ever. Pity they're gone.
i've been trying to find the artist/title of that september 67 track bring back the weight for nearly a decade. i got that song on a mix tape in middle school and promptly lost the track listing. i breathe a welcome sigh of relief. thank you.