Other Mixes By Mishkina
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I Hate When That Happens, Vol. 1: Mediocre Songs with FANTASTIC Titles
| Artist | Song | |
| Joan of Arc | It's Easier to Drink on an Empty Stomach than Eat on a Broken Heart | |
| Songs: Ohia | Steve Albini's Blues | |
| Olivia Trevor Control | The Sky is a Harpsichord Canvas | |
| Half Man Half Biscuit | Four Skinny Indie Kids | |
| Charles Manson | I Got a Tough Bastard Child Want to Become into a Samurai | |
| Little Joe Gould | Hold Lord, Shawshank Redemption is Such a Good Movie! | |
| The Soft Boys | Where are the Prawns? | |
| Of Montreal | Dustin Hoffman Becomes Indignant and Wets Himself | |
| DNA | Lying on the Sofa of Life | |
| The Seth Material | She Makes Me Wanna Do Long Division | |
| The Residents | Safety is a Cootie Wootie | |
| The Fugs | I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rock | |
| Beulah | Ballad of the Lonely Argonaut | |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band | Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish | |
| Skyclad | The Great Brain Robbery | |
| Pink Floyd | Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast | |
| Joe Pernice | Second Semester Lesbian | |
Comment:
The Theme of This Mix: Songs that Really Aren't that Great, but Which have AWESOME Titles. Like what Westerberg says in the liner notes to "Sorry Ma, Forgot the Take Out the Trash" about 'Shiftless When Idle': "Title - Good. Song - Kinda." (I didn't put 'Shiftless When Idle' on here 'cos the song is at least as good as the title.) This is not to say that "Four Skinny Indie Kids" and "Where are the Prawns?" aren't good songs, but just that they're not good enough to get on a mix for the actual m u s i c , only the title. Having a mix of mediocre songs makes getting "flow" a bit difficult, but I'll sit through anything called "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish," no matter where you put it. The thing I hate the most is when I make, say, a Joe Pernice mix for someone, and I WANT to put "Second Semester Lesbian" on there, but have to put "Our Time Has Passed" on there instead 'cos it's a better song, even though I know that someone looking over the track list would laugh at a song title like "Second Semester Lesbian." Is that just me?Feedback:
Neon Meat Dream is a pretty good song in a Beefheart kind of way, and of the others here I know, none are really bad. Still, this seems like it might be more entertaining as a list than as listening. Did you actually burn this as a CD, or is it just an imaginary track list?
No, I actually burnt it. I figure if I listen to these songs for long enough I'll get to like them, and then I won't be in this pickle of liking the title more than the song. You're right, none of these tracks are awful, but then again I don't think any of them are good enough to go on any other mixes. Yet.
You know, now that I think of it, Safety is the Cootie Wootie is one of my least fave Residents tracks...
Nice concept. I imagine the entire Of Montreal catalog would work well here. The Floyd song is, I've gotta say, the most unlistenable crap they ever committed to vinyl, even counting the post-Waters garbage. And since you mention it in your notes, let me just add a plug for "Shiftless When Idle" as the best use of a car metaphor in any rock song, ever.
Actually, if you're looking for "unlistenable crap" with a cool title from the Floyd, I would suggest: "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"
It features a continous loop of high-pitched sound effects that resemble chimpmunks and David Gilmour blathering on in a fake Scottish accent.....
Actually, I would say "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" has some cool guitar and piano grooves mixed with breakfast noises...but I'm a Floyd freak
It features a continous loop of high-pitched sound effects that resemble chimpmunks and David Gilmour blathering on in a fake Scottish accent.....
Actually, I would say "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" has some cool guitar and piano grooves mixed with breakfast noises...but I'm a Floyd freak