Just wondering if anybody DLed/listened to any of my mixes:
Roy Wood
Tom Ze
Sq!re
Happy Ashtray
Uncle Tupelo
John Cale

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i DLed just about everybody's, so yeah

haven't listened yet...waiting until my shift starts

i dl'ed the roy wood todd but haven't listened to it yet.

DLed the Happy Ashtray and I love it. I'm familiar with all the Roy Wood (what no Miss Clarke and the Computer). I will be listening to John Cale and Uncle Tupelo.

I was trying to keep from just upping the entire Boulders album (which I probably could have done), so I had to pick and choose. That one would have probably been my next pick from that album, though.

Yeah, Todd, I thought about doing a David Sylvian mix but then realized it'd be most of Secrets Of The Beehive and a good portion of Dead Bees on a Cake.

Cuz as much as I like his ambient work I like the songs there better.

I was just listening to Donovan's Thrush Hermit mix, which is good. I haven't heard them in forever. The guitar on 'North Dakota' reminds me of the chorus of 'Do You Really (Want My Love)' from the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack.

Next up Thelonious Monster

Yeah, excessive volume is really the only way to listen to the Surfers. Glad you liked it.

Fully expected to dig this and was not disappointed. I like almost everything I hear by this band. I also spun Sparklehorse, which I did not care for as much, although 'Someday I Will Treat You' was great. I've tried a bunch of times to listen to them so I must now conclude they are not my thing.

Indeed I did! I downloaded it as soon as I saw it.

yeah, and maybe some fucking mushrooms are acid for good measure.

ace 10'er u sorted out Yail.

This Blue Mountain really is the cure for what's been ailing me.

Caputo threw out "This Mississippi trio was perhaps the best alt-country band from the late 90's nobody heard. Dumpjack-Loogs-Bloor would prolly like this." as his description.

I'm loving it. Listened twice last night, again first thing this morning. I'm not a big fan of the alt-country tag, because it's too broad and ambiguous. This has a distinct Southern feel to it, something that I feel that bands like Uncle Tupelo and The Volebeats were always missing. They aren't bad, they just have a tinny karaoke feel to them. For Blue Mountain, it just doesn't get much more country than Mississippi, so they are covered on that front.

This band is a really good complement to Lucero. Where as Ben Nichols & Co. dropped the country to chase the Bruce Springsteen engraved brass ring and rock and roll, the feminine presence in Blue Mountain polishes off rough edges with some nice harmonies and trading in guitar crunch for just enough mandolin. That doesn't mean they aren't afraid to dial it up either. "Black Dog" has a Scott Biram that you could bring home to mother feel to it, and "Sleeping In My Shoes" is a damn fine Rock and Roll song complete with a horn section and someone kind enough to bang on some keys.

Agreed. I just queued this up. I am a sucker for songs about places I have been and enjoyed, so it starting out with "Driving back to Mobile on Bloody 98" sucked me right in.

This Iguanas that BG upped is really good. It sounds like a friday spent drinking in a town you don't know anybody. Maybe you'll get drunk and get lucky, maybe you'll get jumped by the Mex in the corner. Maybe you'll go home to your seedy hotel and cry yourself to sleep.

Poifect.

Nice, now I'm gonna have to cue that up after Blue Mountain, which is just fucking tremendous. Fu nailed the description.

ok, giving this one a closer (ha) listen this morning so i wanted to comment a bit more. i am really digging this, but i don't see the stone roses comparison at all (which is why this band name had always stuck with me). no matter though, this is just really good 80's jangly-pop. very nice. thanks again rod.

on deck: gil scott-heron, stevie wonder and bootsy collins.

edit: had to come in here and mention what a kick-ass closer "mother of god" is on that close lobsters! damn.

The Megadeth mix does what it's supposed to do. I haven't heard these guys in a long time, and I was never a huge fan, but I did usher a concert once. I'm surprised by the slower numbers... I didn't realize how essentially Top-40 Mustaine got. Also, the solo about 3 minutes into Tornado Of Souls reminds me that I sometimes miss guitar wankery these days. Not wankery just for its own sake, but guys who had the ability to melt faces when the time was right.

Nils from Wilco is the only current ringer that comes to mind.

Jesus I forgot how much I like The Wonderstuff. I'm playing this all damn weekend.

Freaking "Size Of a Cow" never fails to put a smile on my face.

Neko's voice on "The Laws Have Changed" makes my balls tingle.

gil scott-heron - damn, i forgot how much i loved "home is where the hatred is" when you first posted it a few years back bg. pieces of a man never made the transistion from my old mp3 playa to my ipod, so i'm really glad to have this.

Yo La Tengo is begging for one of these...
I'll try to get one up next week, when I have the tracks available.
That should be fairly overwhelming.

I'm just about to leave for a couple of days with 30-35 mixes on my ipod. Thanks everyone.

BEST. THREAD. EVER.

no doubt. thankfully i got dat 160 GB ipod, because i seriously think i've loaded up at least 5 GB of tenners in the last 2 days.