Other Mixes By plushpig
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Theme - Road Trip
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Theme - Road Trip
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Pop
Dirty Old Men
| Artist | Song | |
| Chuck Berry | Sweet Little Sixteen | |
| Neil Diamond | Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon | |
| The Lovin' Spoonful | Youger Girl | |
| Rich Kids | Young Girls | |
| Mamas & Papas | Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon) | |
| Donovan | Teen Angel | |
| Kim Fowley | Bubblegum | |
| Graham Bond Organisation | Little Girl | |
| Them | Little Girl | |
| Larry Williams | Little Schoolgirl | |
| Don & Bob | Good Morning Little Schoolgirl | |
| John Mayall | She's Too Young | |
| Abba | Does Your Mother Know | |
| Elvis Presley | Little Sister | |
| Roosevelt Sykes | Jailbait | |
| Nils Lofgren | Jailbait | |
| Motorhead | Jailbait | |
| Patto | Hold Me Back | |
| Traffic | Vagabond Virgin | |
| JB Lenoir | Mama Talk To Your Daughter | |
| Rolling Stones | Stray Cat Blues | |
| Big Star | Thirteen | |
| Caravan | The Dog, The Dog, He's At It again | |
| Randy Newman | In Germany Before The War | |
Comment:
Uh-oh, a bit of a moral conundrum here; some great tunes but ethically dubious subject matter. Is this really a suitable subject for a mix?The thinking behind it: behind all the shit (rightly) dumped on the head of Gary Glitter when he was caught down-loading kiddie-porn and the ongoing trials of Michael Jackson there is a certain amount of hypocrisy. Songs about under- & borderline aged sexual attraction are part of an established if not particularly glorious pop tradition.
Young girls have regularly been seen either as fair game (The Stones, Big Star), or temptresses holding poor helpless men in thrall(Patto, Sykes).
Even a non-carnal (and, lets be honest, ugly as sin) band like the cerebral Canterbury scene instrumental combo Gilgamesh saw little wrong with including a crack about "scoring a schoolgirl" on the sleeve of one of their albums.
Interestingly, post-punk, the instances of paedo-pop have seemed to tail off with the only contributions here from Rich Kids, Abba of all people (an ignominious career low) & Motorhead (hardly a surprise there) although I suspect this seam continued to be mined by the likes of Aerosmith, Motley Crue etc.
The mix ends with Randy Newman taking the genre to its logical conclusion, getting into the mind of Dnsseldorf child-murderer Peter Kurtin (the subject of Fritz Lang's great movie M). A song made all the more chilling by its obliqueness & restraint.
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Great theme!
Somewhere Clare Quilty winks, knowingly. Great work here plushpig, as always.
I like the whole thing.
Well handled take on an interesting theme. You really ought to check out semi-legendary 60s psychedelic fringe act the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, whose lyricist had a truly disturbing attraction to underage girls, manifesting itself in some really creepy lyrics (and ultimately getting the guy institutionalized); you can read more here.
This is great, but it's making me feel kinda . . . old
this is absolutely brilliant...and if i wasn't such a flake about sending out my half of the trades, i'd ask for a copy of this.
Good one!
Very interesting.
Possibly a Serge Gainsbourg tune for Volume 2?
Possibly a Serge Gainsbourg tune for Volume 2?
nice job with a subject that's, well.........
great and interesting theme, and smashing picks too.
i like it ... and yet as a new father of a baby girl, i'm really disturbed and worried.
Really well done.An interesting but disturbing theme.
Disturbingly great songs - at least the Big Star song is about BEING 13.
You beat me to it, so I might leave my mix til another time. Great stuff!
Great idea and great mix.
For a volume 2, you might add "Edge of the World" by Faith No More. quote: "Hey, litte girl ; Would you like some candy?"..."It's not the point ; That I'm forty years older"..."I'll do anything ; For the little girlies"
For a volume 2, you might add "Edge of the World" by Faith No More. quote: "Hey, litte girl ; Would you like some candy?"..."It's not the point ; That I'm forty years older"..."I'll do anything ; For the little girlies"
Great mix and a great idea. I thought about doing this once (albeit fleetingly) and I'm glad to see someone beat me to it with such panache. Btw, Sean, we both know a certain individual whose interactions with the youngens should be monitored... and apparently he's already met her. :-) Btw, congrats on mix o' t' week.
Excellent idea. You could also have thought about including Serge Gainsbourg's entire career, maybe also Alizee's Ma Lolita.
Congrats on MOTW. Interesting theme. It's notable that there are so many songs that can fit here. I can think of at least a few.
Creepily good. Congrats!
Who's Don and Bob?
Sadly, it's a two-way street, fellas. I'm surprised no one has brought up the ever-disturbing "Baby Boy" by Beyonce: "Baby boy you stay on my mind/ fulfill my fantasies/ I think about you all the time/ I see you in my dreams." How sick is that?
Great idea, great mix, great notes- congratulations!
Nice.
Interesting point and collection of songs. Even when I was a kid, I thought it was a little weird the way Gene Simmons talked to "Christine Sixteen"...
Congrats on MOTW. Another intersting mix.
Congrats on the MOTW. Johnny Burnette's "You're Sixteen" was written in a teen viewpoint but got creepy when Ringo Starr sang, "you fell out of my dreams and into my car, now you're my angel devine..."
For the sequel disc, you could always use "Janie Runaway" by Steely Dan, which includes (among many creepy lines) the line: "Who has a friend named Melanie?/Who's not afraid to try new things?/Who gets to spend her birthday in Spain?/Possibly you, Janie Runaway."
was andre williams an intentional ommission? if not, squeeze some of his thing into vol.2
Excellent! I wish I had thought of some of these songs. See my Humbert and Lo.Congrats on the MOTW. Maybe we can trade these? By the way, Wishbone Ash does a nice version of Jailbait.
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I feel dirty just looking at this mix. Congratulations to you and your parole officer on the Mix of the Week
Wow...congratulations......Officer!!
great mix!
big star's "Thirteen" definitely does not belong there though.
big star's "Thirteen" definitely does not belong there though.
Haha! Good one.
The Dog, The Dog is a great song. I also like this mix. And with the Mackenzie Phillips revelations, the Mamas & Papas track makes even more sense!