Artist	Song
The Contours	Just A Little Misunderstanding
Belle and Sebastian	Dirty Dream Number 1
Camera Obscura	Let Me Go Home
The Pipettes	Dirty Mind
Erma Franklin	I Don't Want No Mama's Boy
Aislers Set	Hit The Snow
Kim Weston	Helpless
Kicker	On Your Floor
Saturday Looks Good To Me	Lift Me Up
The Showstoppers	What Can A Man Do?
Hefner	I Took Her Love For Granted
Comet Gain	Kids At The Club
Spearmint	Sweeping the Nation
Lee Dorsey	Four Corners
The Bees	Chicken Payback
Unknown	I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy
Purple Wizard	I'm Gonna Get You Yet
Carl Hall	Let Me Down Slowly
Eux Autres	Other Girls
Sweet Things	World Of Trouble
Biff Bang Pow!	There Must Be A Better Life
Lucille Mathis	I'm Not Your Regular Woman
The Lucksmiths	Now I'm Even Further Away
Four Perfections	I'm Not Strong Enough
Acid House Kings	Do What You Wanna Do
The Shermans	Little Sister
Ricky Lewis	Someone to Love Tonight

Comment:

Back in the day, mod kids loved their parkas and their northern soul and twee kids loved their anoraks and their indie pop. Both treasure their obscure finds and 3 minutes of pop bliss.

This mix blends my two favorite genres. I took some of my favorite northern soul songs and mixed them with indie pop that reminds me of northern soul in one way or another.

I know someone will say I need to have to Dobie Gray song that Spearmint used the beat from for their song, but i find that song pretty boring.

The "Unknown" artist for track #16 really is unknown, it's not because I'm too lazy to track them down. The song was never pressed into a record, but Mr. Finewine, the WFMU soul dj, got the acetate from his uncle, who used to work in a detroit recording studio in the 60s. He put it out on a rare WFMU fundraising cd a few years ago. How's that for obscure? It's actually much better than the version of the same song recorded by the girl garage group The What Four, which can be found on various comps. The unknown version has a funky organ groove and much better vocals.

And yes, Erma Franklin is Aretha's sister.

Long live northern soul!

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