3.06.2009

AMX Mix- "Supersounds of '70"

Eek, I'm back! Back in Philly (was way west: Portland), and back up in this here blog.

I've been sitting on this "AMX mix" for a few weeks now, and I'll tell you what:
it really improves with age; the more you listen, the more you know- and the more you know the more you GROW.

Here is the zip file, loaded up with over 20 songs! Supersounds of '70 will blow your business and lay you low. This is one of my (well-received, nearly world-famous) AMX mixes, so it too is loosely inspired by a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack. This one comes from Reservoir Dogs. Remember how Stephen Wright was the voice of that radio disc jockey?



And how he played these odd fun bouncy little 'jems' (that is a 'gem' and a 'jam')? Yeah, you remember that 'Stuck in the Middle with You" song that you really, really believed was Bob Dylan.

That sort of jem.
(If you don't know who Stephen Wright is, then you won't remember him from this show:

which, not conincidentally, is like this mix: funny, charming, odd, and old.)

Download the zip SUPERSOUNDS of '70 my friend!

T R A C K :) L I S T I N G
Party Lights :) Cluadine Clark
Band of Gold :) freda payne
La La :) The Cobras
Mocking Bird :) Inez Fox
Sixty Minute Man :) the Dominoes
You came a long way from St. Louis :) DeeDee Sharp & Chubby Checker
Bloodshot Eyes :) George Symonette
Opium Tea :) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
A Horse with no name :) America
Cross-Eyed Gal from the Ozarks :) Ferlin Husky
Bongo Bongo Bongo :) Preston Epps
Amazons and Coyotes :) the Dreamlovers
I'm Wearing the Britches :) The Carlisles
Happy Organ :) Dave 'Baby' Cortez
96 tears :) Aretha Franklin
Kind of a Drag :) Buckinghams
I Put a Spell On You :) Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Hats Off to Larry :) Del Shannon
Puddin n' Tain :) the Alleycats
Honky Tonkin :) Hank Williams
Got to see if I can't get Mommy (to come back home) :) Jerry Butler
Crimson and Clover :) Tommy James and the Shondells

Download the zip SUPERSOUNDS of '70 and set yourself free!

You'll get a fuller account of this mix soon (busy busyWORKbusy busy), but here are some lyrical themes:
A newlywed who isn't getting any
Mom won't let me party!
MOCK! (yeah), ING! (yeah)
Someone not quite being cool enough that you'd believe he was from Missouri, that epicenter of kewl
Alcohol abuse (eyes so bloodshot, that "you'd better close those eyes, before you bleed to death")
Narcotics in liquid form
A girl with a face like a Holstein cow
Congratulating the fellow who broke your lover's heart

You know, 'the issues of our day'. Oh, why "of '70", you ask? Because that is the year of my father's AMX, which is what got this grand project off the ground.