Pizza Hippie Smackdown

1. SJ Esau – I Threw a Wobbly
2. All Night Radio – You'll Be On Your Own
3. A Sunny Day In Glasgow – 5:15 Train
4. Firewater – Place Not So Unkind
5. The Black Angels – Bloodhounds on My Trail
6. Atlas Strategic – Bad Robots
7. Does It Offend You Yeah? – Attack Of The 60 Ft Lesbian Octopus
8. They Might Be Giants – Homunculus
9. Awesome Color – Hat Energy
10. Magnetic Fields – I Wish I Had an Evil Twin
11. Shooting Spires – Alive And Well
12. Emiliana Torrini – Dead Duck
13. Tom Vek – I Ain't Saying My Goodbye's
14. Beck – Hell Yes
15. TV on the Radio – Shout Me Out
16. Fleet Foxes – Quiet Houses
17. Tobacco – Pink Goo
18. The Shins – Black Wave
19. Quasi – I Give Up

Third time around for e.buster and doowad, this time focusing on Ethel’s preferred genre. The mix was done blow-by-blow, almost conversational, yet with an obvious bit of aggression…

Feathered Friends

When we started this mix my cohort, Sara, was sbbseg. She has since been married and changed both her name and her user name, in the latter case to ucelluccia. Just like a woman, as the poet Dylan would say.

This mix started out as a free-flowing, see what happens thing and quickly evolved into a thematic ode to birds, our feathered friends. I think ucelluccia and avocado rabbit started to become friends during the making of this mix, and the pair are already working on a follow-up.

In the words of the Scot James Matthew Barrie: “The reason that birds fly and we can’t is simply that for to have faith is to have wings.” What he tells us is that we can fly spiritually; we just don’t realize it.

And now for the quiz: Which musician once opened a Cajun restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay?

1. Iggy Pop – The Passenger
2. My Morning Jacket – Golden
3. Limbeck – Bird Problems
4. Fields – Schoolbooks
5. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – The Gold Finch & The Red Oak Tree
6. Richie Havens – High-Flying Bird
7. The Beatles – Free As A Bird
8. John Vanderslice – Up Above the Sea
9. Goldfrapp – Little Bird
10. The Juliana Hatfield Three – For The Birds
11. Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – Fallen From The Sky
12. Mary Gauthier – Soft Place To Land
13. Sons and Daughters – The Nest
14. The Rosebuds – Shake Our Tree
15. Jenny Lewis – Pretty Bird
16. Jesse Harris – Wish I Was A Bird
17. Jesse Baylin – Sparrow
18. Loree Alexandria – Baltimore Oriole
19. Annie Lennox – Little Bird
20. Carly Simon & James Taylor – Mockingbird

Good To The Last Drop of Summer

It’s a little embarrassing that it’s taken this long for our mix to get posted. Things happen. At any rate, what has finally emerged is this paean to summer from njr and avocado rabbit, compiled at a time when the last drops of summer were being squeezed from the early September skies.

Who better to give us the inspiration for this double-disc set than the eternal beach boy himself, Brian Wilson.

“Another car running fast,
Another song on the beach,
I take a trip through the past,
When summer’s way out of reach.”

As for the quiz: What two songs are linked by musicians that once performed together?

disc one
01. Your Imagination – Brian Wilson
02. We’ll Go Walking – The Silver Seas
03. Keep Moving – Ivy
04. Don’t Stop The Dance – Bryan Ferry
05. All For Swinging You Around – The New Pornographers
06. Grace – Supergrass
07. She’s My Best Friend – Lou Reed
08. Woman – John Cale
09. You Know I’m No Good – Amy Winehouse
10. MayOnaka Wa Jyunketsu {Midnight Chastity} – Ringo Shina
11. Better Man – Martina Sorbara
12. When She Believes {live} – Ben Harper
13. Hey Jude – Wilson Pickett
14. Stairway to Heaven – Rodrigo y Gabriela
15. Travels – Pat Metheny Trio
16. Jota Do Porta Do Cabo – Sharon Shannon & Carlos Nunez
17. Ingots – Kaki King
18. Why Georgia – John Mayer
19. What Does It Mean Now? – World Party

disc two
01. World Party – The Waterboys
02. Book of Life – I-Wayne
03. Summer – India.Arie featuring Rascal Flatts & Victor Wooten
04. Fade – Solu Music featuring Kimberlee
05. Summer Goddess – Soil and “Pimp” Sessions
06. Summer Son – Texas
07. Födelsedag {Birthday} – Per Gessle
08. As Is – Amy Rigby
09. A Change Would Do You Good – Sheryl Crow
10. Clear Blue Day In Limbo – Stew
11. It’s A Fine Day – Jane
12. Here Comes The Sun – Nick Cave
13. Las Abarcas – Perdã
14. Don’t Steal Our Sun – The Thrills
15. Waterfront – Irene
16. U Know What’s Up – Donell Jones
17. Folhas Secas – Yoshihide Otomo & Ground Zero
18. A Round Figure – Solex
19. 8 Point Agenda {version two} – The Herbaliser featuring Latryx
20. Summer of the Drugs – Soul Asylum
21. La Danza de Los Mirlos – Los Mirlos

it’s all hopeless, but it’s not serious

1. owen – who's found who's hair in who's bed
2. cat power – back of your head
3. beck – lost cause
4. amy rigby – better stay gone
5. the velvet teen – forlorn
6. the new year – the newness ends
7. chris walla – our plans, collapsing
8. the new pornographers – my rights vs. yours
9. say hi to your mom – prefers unhappy endings
10. steven jackson & the leavers – the leavers and the left-behinds
11. rogue wave – love's lost guarantee
12. cheri knight – white lies
13. pedro the lion – bad diary days
14. bob mould – the silence between us
15. the magnetic fields – i'll dream alone
16. loudon wainwright iii – our own war
17. idlewild – live in a hiding place
18. the beautiful south – hot on the heels of heartache
19. nada surf – always love
20. quasi – i never want to see you again

Going through a break-up is never easy, neither for the leaver nor the left-behind. And who cannot relate from first-hand experience? But in the words of the poet, Ms. Browning: “I would rather experience a hopeless love than a passionless love.” In other words, it is better to have loved and lost as long as you loved (and were loved) well.

This is the first of two alt-dj mixes from natalyesaurus and avocado rabbit. Natalye is not big on capital letters as you can see above, and her mixing partner wants to cheer her up.

But of course there is a quiz: Which band in this mix is led by a husband and wife who have split up?

Law & Order SVU: Season One

Heinous crimes indeed! I’ve always been drawn the investigations of Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), a tough cop trying to protect his family from the horrors of the world and his equally tough but compassionate partner, Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), herself the child of a rape.

In Season One of an ongoing mix series (how long no one knows) on the Law & Order franchise, tough but compassionate mixers Doowad and Avocado Rabbit once again join forces to bring mixing justice to all.

1. Mike Post – Law & Order SVU Theme Song
2. Neil Young – Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero, pt. 1)
3. Iris Dement – Letter to Mom
4. John Prine – Six O’Clock News
5. Robby Baier – Dead End
6. Ry Cooder – Dark End of the Street
7. Franky Perez – Something Crazy
8. T-Bone Burnett – Criminals
9. Teddy Thompson – Missing Children
10. Frank Zappa – Bobby Brown
11. Nina Gordon – Black & Blonde
12. Nirvana – Polly (acoustic demo)
13. The Brandos – The Solution
14. Ween – Object
15. Mark Knopfler – Victims (Last Exit to Brooklyn OST)
16. The Who – Fiddle About (original Tommy version)
17. Merle Haggard – Branded Man
18. The Rolling Stones – Stray Cat Blues (Ya-Ya’s version)
19. City High – 15 Will Get You 20
20. Johnny Copeland – Ghetto Child
21. Joe Henry with Madonna – Guilty By Association