Other Mixes By stripey357
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Theme

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Mixed Genre
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Mixed Genre
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Theme
RELENTLESS OPTIMISM
Side A | ||
Artist | Song | |
Bongwater | Women Tied Up in Knots | |
Cheap Trick | Dream Police | |
Queen | The Seven Seas of Rhye | |
Andrew W.K. | I Love New York City | |
Jimmy Soul | If You Want to Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life | |
The Strokes | Barely Legal | |
Blue Oyster Cult | Godzilla | |
Johnny Cash | The Wreck of the Old '97 (live at Folsom Prison) | |
The Dictators | Who Will Save Rock 'n Roll? | |
Junior Brown | Sugarfoot Rag (live, San Francisco, 1993) | |
Waylon Jennings | Just the Good Ol' Boys (Theme to the Dukes of Hazzard) | |
Rancid | Olympia, WA | |
Queens of the Stone Age | Millionaire (album edit) | |
Showdown | The Rodeo Song (the unbleeped version) | |
Christopher Walken | "Ten years, pal... in a cell.. with a gorilla! with a Psycho gorilla!!" and other quotes. | |
Side B | ||
Artist | Song | Buy |
Madness | One Step Beyond (full intro) | |
Johnny Mercer | Accentuate the Positive | |
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | Stagger Lee | |
White Stripes | I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself | |
The Dictators | Avenue A | |
Junior Brown | Baby Let the Bad Times Be (Live, San Francisco, 1993) | |
Willie Nelson | Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground (live) | |
The Allman Brothers | Midnight Rider | |
The Jimi Hendrix Experience | The Wind Cries Mary | |
Rancid | Fall Back Down | |
The Ataris | The Boys of Summer | |
Andrew W.K. | Girls Own Juice | |
Cheap Trick | Clock Strikes Ten (live at Budokan) | |
Christopher Walken | "We're all mindless hyenas..." quote | |
Comment:
The counterpart to the NO REMORSE tape, this theme is unbridled joy, whether ironic, bittersweet, or unfetteredly honest. The Junior Brown "rag" is an 11 minute guitar jam with echoes of Hendrix's "Wind Cries Mary," so I put that on the other side. The Bongwater track and BOC's "Godzilla" started this mix when a friend introduced me to some weird anime. I needed to clean my brain with happy songs, thus this tape. Christopher Walken always makes me laugh.