Great song - have you seen the film clip? It's an Australian classic - a whole futuristic, beachscape type thing.

If you've got that mix, go back and listen to Losin' It by the Underground Lovers. It was my No.1 for the 85 - 94 poll. They were very much New Order meets My Bloody Valentine, and that song was a pure slice of New Order-type pop bliss.

Norton's rockabilly mix and Agrimorfee's Residents mix are still up, BTW.

Highlights that I haven't seen mentioned yet . . . .

Jess's Anti-Bush mix

BobandBob's GBV and Robert Pollard solo Best Of's

Pavement's Best of Pavement two-disc

Norton's 4 or 5 disc "Get on the Bus" soul collection.

I'm not sure I can properly recreate these from Itunes in order to ISY them but I can give it a shot or can dig for the originals if anyone needs them.

good thread

I still have your mixes. My roommate plays name that tune with them since I've lost the tracklisting.

undo posted the tracklist in this thread!

I don't care. I don't want to ruin my roommate's good time. He likes guessing.

so what was in this In the Lost & Found Norton mix everyone.. well, two people.. were raving about?

they led to tracklistings, liner notes, graphics, sound clips, so much stuff I can't find anymore. If anyone wants to help me update that thing, I'm willing

The sheer greatness and depth of Norton's 5 disc Get On The Bus soul set cannot be denied.

His Xmas mix also is very good and gets a run every year at my house.

truth x 2. That Xmas mix is one of my favorites. And I don't even like Xmas.

This is all fucking gold.

thank you. i couldn't agree with you more. and now, for Volume One's liner notes. if these liner notes get to be too annoying, feel free to tell me and i'll only put down the track listings:



JOHN COLTRANE ~ THE ATLANTIC RECORDS ERA
(1959-1961)


1) The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (6:42) (SOUND)
2) Blues To You (6:25) (BLUES)
3) Summertime (11:31) (MY FAVORITE THINGS)
4) Mr. Day (7:56) (BLUES)
5) Like Sonny (5:51) (JAZZ)
6) Cherryco (6:45) (AVANT-GARDE)
7) Equinox (8:33) (SOUND)
8) Mr. P.C. (6:57) (GIANT STEPS)
9) Dahomey Dance (10:48) (OLE)


In my opinion, John Coltrane’s Atlantic Records period (1959-1961) is the single best place to start listening to jazz. It’s where mastery meets experimentalism and accessibility. In Beatles terms, it’s his Rubber Soul and Revolver phase. It’s not that an 18 minute version of “Traneing In” on an earlier Prestige recording is akin to “I Want To Hold Your Hand” or anything. It’s just that it was here that it all came together.

I suppose you could say “it was HERE that it all came together” at a number of different points in Coltrane’s career: with Miles in 1956, Monk in 1957, with Miles again in 1959, during the Live At The Village Vanguard sessions in 1961, with A Love Supreme in December 1964, at any random point in 1965…but I choose this particular point.

If you don’t know already, Giant Steps is one of THOSE landmark albums that you just have to have. Most of it was recorded in April, 1959. Coltrane wasn’t entirely satisfied with it until he recorded a version of “Naima” in late 1959, and the album was released in 1960. To my still not-entirely-disseminating (discriminating?) ears, many of the songs on the record sound the same to me. I can always tell if a song is from Giant Steps, but I’m not always sure if the song is the title track, “Mr. P.C.,” “Cousin Mary” or “Spiral.” I’m sure if you were to give it time, you’d be able to tell.

The album is one of the first 7 records I bought after watching exactly one half-hour video of Coltrane’s that changed my life forever. I picked up this album, Blue Train, My Favorite Things, Live At The Village Vanguard (when it was a single 3-track disc), Live At Birdland, A Love Supreme, and, I think, Miles And Coltrane (which was recorded in 1958 at some time, not to be confused with Miles ’58, which I don’t like that much at all, oddly enough). Like Kind of Blue, which was recorded at approximately the same time (!), it’s the best place to jump into jazz. It may not end up being your favorite Coltrane or jazz album ~ or, it might ~ but it’s the kind of album that will give you hours of listening enjoyment.

I chose “Mr. P.C.” for two reasons: 1) it rocks the house, and 2) it’s one of the songs Coltrane would return to for the next few years during his live shows. There is an excellent 26 minute version of this song on The Paris Concert from 1962 with his Classic Quartet. This particular track has Tommy Flanagan on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Art Taylor on drums. The 26 minute track features incredible solos from each member of the Classic Quartet: McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. I duly recommend The Paris Concert to anybody, really, but you might want to hold off for a while (unless you’re an ambitious soul). The versions of “The Inch Worm” and “Every Time We Say Goodbye” on that record are two of the best versions of those songs I’ve heard.

“Like Sonny” is from the album Coltrane Jazz. It refers to Sonny Rollins, of course, but I’m not entirely sure why as I haven’t listened to enough Sonny Rollins to fully know. Rollins has a number of great records, but I’ll talk about him at a later time. Coltrane Jazz is one of those albums that tend to slip between the cracks. In Beatles terms, it’s kind of like Beatles For Sale. Sure, it’s not Rubber Soul or Revolver, but DAMN there are some fine tunes on here. An alternate version of “Like Sonny” was recorded during the Giant Steps sessions. One track, “Village Blues,” was recorded during the My Favorite Things/Sound/Blues sessions of October, 1960. Most of the rest of the tunes were recorded a bit later in November and December 1959. This particular track (and most of the album) has Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums (basically, Miles Davis’ rhythm section at the time ~ Coltrane was still playing with them).

If “Cherryco,” from the The Avant-Garde album, sounds a hell of a lot like an Ornette Coleman song, that’s because it essentially is. The album was recorded in June and July of 1960 with Coleman’s band at the time: Don Cherry on pocket trumpet, Charlie Haden on bass and Ed Blackwell on drums. A few of the other songs on the record had Percy Heath playing bass. Coltrane sought personal lessons from Ornette Coleman in 1959 and 1960 when Ornette first arrived in New York and had many discussions with him. He watched Ornette’s band all the time from the side of the stage, apparently. If you like this song and are a bit curious about Ornette Coleman’s music, I would suggest the mix I’ll make of Ornette Coleman’s in the future. There’s really nothing to be afraid of when it comes to Ornette’s “crazy-ass” music ~ the title of his box set, “Beauty Is A Rare Thing,” describes Ornette’s music of 1959-1961 to a T.

Some of the greatest music of all time was recorded in October 1960 by ¾ of the Classic Quartet. Elvin Jones was on board playing drums. McCoy Tyner was in place playing piano. Both would last until 1965/6, when a couple of other members had joined the band. I’ll get to that in the John Coltrane 1965 discussion. Here, they were joined by Steve Davis on bass. In all that I’ve read, there hasn’t been much fuss made over Davis’ bass playing, but it sounds fine to me. From October 21st to October 26th, these four individuals recorded enough material for 3 albums: My Favorite Things, Coltrane’s Sound and Coltrane Plays The Blues. I believe all of Coltrane Plays The Blues was recorded on October 24, as well as 3 songs on Sound and “Summertime,” heard here. Most everything else was recorded on the 26th. Apparently, only the title track from My Favorite Things was recorded on the 21st. TAKE THAT!…pretty much EVERYBODY in the music world. How the hell can three albums of such magnitude all be recorded in pretty much a couple of days? Crazy, crazy, crazy.

The My Favorite Things album reminds me of Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks. It probably has a LOT to do with the fact that I started listening to both albums at around the same time, but each album is really laid back and best heard in the Spring or Summer. The original version of the title track is one of the most pleasant pieces of music ever recorded in my opinion. And it might not even be the best version! He would play the song live at least until 1966, when, in Japan, he played a version of it for approximately an hour! I don’t particularly enjoy the Live In Japan record and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless his material in 1965 just isn’t enough for you. There is a veritable crap load of great live versions of this song to hear from 1961 to 1963. The song I chose to represent this album is “Summertime.” I believe McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones, in particular, make this song memorable.

Coltrane’s Sound just might be my favorite record from Coltrane’s Atlantic period. “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes” is one of my favorite all-time tracks and its position as the leadoff track is purposeful. I believe it captures Coltrane’s sound (pardon the pun) ~ for this particular moment in time. It wouldn’t last, of course, but the song sounds perfect to me. “Equinox” kind of reminds me of the song Paul Thomas Anderson uses in his films ~ I can’t remember the name of the song, but it was originally used in “Hard Eight” and is used memorably in “Boogie Nights” when things got bad in the early 80’s (I think it was when they picked up that one guy in the limo for Roller Girl to have sex with…and when Dirk had that chance meeting with a guy who wanted to…well, you know.

Coltrane Plays The Blues is an excellent album. Not entirely sure what to say about it. Along with Coltrane’s Sound, it was released years after Coltrane left Atlantic Records for Impulse! Records (Sound says it was released in 1964, while Blues was released in 1966).

Ole is one of the more intriguing albums of Coltrane’s entire catalogue. Recorded in the middle of 1961, he expanded his band in order to expand his sound. Eric Dolphy adds his flute and alto sax. Freddie Hubbard joins in on trumpet. Art Davis lends his bass. Reggie Workman is now the new bassist in Coltrane’s quartet, and he would last through the Live At The Village Vanguard sessions (as well as some other live shows) in November 1961. Jimmy Garrison would soon take over the bass and last until the end of Coltrane’s life in 1967.

The title track ~ all 18 minutes of it ~ is a swirling dervish of a song, but it sounds like one of the solos was edited out of it at some point. The track I used for this particular mix, “Dahomey Dance,” is probably my favorite on the album. I think it features…well, pretty much everybody who is on it. Like the My Favorite Things album, it’s a very laid back record. At one time, it was probably my favorite Coltrane record of all. Then I bought another one, and that, too, became my favorite Coltrane album of all time. Strange how that happens…

There is a box set, I think, of all these recordings called “The Heavyweight Champion,” but I would probably steer away from that for now. So, if you like this mix, here are my recommendations:


ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL ALBUMS YOU SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE

~ Giant Steps
~ My Favorite Things

ALBUMS YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET AT SOME POINT IN THE (near?) FUTURE

~ Coltrane’s Sound
~ Coltrane Plays The Blues
~ Ole

ALBUMS YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET, EVENTUALLY, IF YOU’RE A COMPLETIST

~ Coltrane Jazz

OTHER ALBUMS FROM THIS PERIOD I DIDN’T MENTION…NOR AM I ENTIRELY SURE ARE WORTH GETTING BECAUSE AT ONE POINT I HAD THEM AND RID MYSELF OF THEM

~ Bags And Trane (with Milt Jackson on vibes)
~ Like Sonny (not sure if it was an Atlantic Records album, but I’m pretty sure it was from the same period)

Greatness!

Other mixes that come to mind (some have been mentioned already):
Skippy's Tricycle mix
Yellowgrrl's Get Of Your Ass mix
Yellow and Eric's "Dueling Maloney's" mixes
Eric's "101 Songs" mix
Elc's Death & Mourning and Songs of the Heart mixes
I forget what it was called, but a mix sin city made and jasmine sent to me.
more to come



Here's a link: hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/aeh9u5

And the track list (complete with numbers) --
1. Expecting To Fly -- Buffalo Springfield
2. Lost Cause -- Beck
3. Loch Leven -- Arab Strap
4. Moment In The Sun -- Clem Snide
5. Gold Day -- Sparklehorse
6. Pieholden Suite -- Wilco
7. God Only Knows -- The Beach Boys
8. In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach) -- Elliott Smith
9. New Slang -- The Shins
10. Pink Moon -- Nick Drake
11. Don't Be Shy -- Cat Stevens
12. Sweet Thing -- Van Morrison
13. You're Always Goin Too Soon -- Matthew Jay
14. The Fool Sings Without Any Song -- The Chamber Strings
15. Krazy Koz -- Mojave 3
16. We're So Happy (we left the piano on the truck) -- Earlimart
17. The Partisan -- Leonard Cohen
18. The Dangling Conversation -- Simon & Garfunkel
19. Hallelujah -- Jeff Buckley

I tend to revisit the giant multi-disc compilations the most:

Norton's Get on the Bus, Rockabilly (I know this one is a bit more modest in size)
ElC's Kinks collection
Bobandbob's Jazz collection, GBV, King Crimson
Undercooked's Cure compilation

I would love to hear this if anyone is willing to post it!

^^^^I have that mix! Somewhere. Its good!

here's skippy's seven dwarves mix. I always loved that in skippy's world, one of the dwarves was "angry".


this is the Bad Muthas and Funky Cats mix. I'm pretty sure this is a voodoodaddy production, although nothing on the disc or art gives credit to anyone.


this is proof that bigoofysmartass actually at one time participated on the music side (or at all)

Bad Muthas & Funky Cats is indeed a product of the Voodoodaddy Media Group. Good to see you guys enjoy the Know Your Product mix. If I can I'll up it for those who don't have it, but it might take me a while.

Surely this is a collector's item by now.

wtf

I forgot about that mix that was posted...I didn't even remember sending it to anyone.

my mix actually has gza on it though.

anyone have the 4-disc mix I started this whole thing off with? That was a mammoth undertaking.

The "Bhoxed Set"?

I never got it but I always wondered what was on it. It was one of those things that was only discussed in soft whispers and knowing nods among those who had it. Later, I asked you about it but you seemed to express regret for having undertaken the project in the first place.

Anybody know what the tracklisting is on this? I might actually (quizzically) have this.

I don't remember any of it.

I have it. I would've posted photos last night, but I was too tired to bother. Remind me and I'll try to do it tonight, if no one else does it first. Was all over the map, as I recall; haven't played it in eons. It'd be interesting to play it again one day and see how it sounds now.

slack- the tracklisting is on there. I can look it up at home tonight, if you care. (otherwise you can try and read it from that photo)

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tracklisting for goofy's mix:

1. Intro
2. I Got Erection - Turbonegro
3. Sometimes I wish I was a Pretty Girl - Robin (sic) Hitchcock
4. Dress - PJ Harvey
5. PSA- National Lampoon
6. Deadbeat Descendant - The Fall
7. Smokin' on a nightrain - Mississippi Gary
8. Fuck the System - Sons of Freedom
9. Makes No Sense at All - Husker Du
10. I Got You - Jeff Tweedy
11. Dog Food - Iggy Pop
12. Winnebago - Foo Fighters
13. The Vanishing Girl - Dukes of Stratosphear
14. Map Ref 41N 93W - My Bloody Valentine
15. Eraserhead
16. Eighties - Killing joke
17. National Cancer Society - National Lampoon
18. Zero Point - The Rogers Sisters
19. Color Me Impressed/I Wanna Be Sedated - Wilco
20. How I Joined Mensa - Steve MArtin
21. Little Acorns - The White Stripes
22. Pull Ups - Handsome FAmily

As I recall, Bhickie suggested the idea of SOMBies creating a bunch of different mixes, but then took about 5 months to complete his so there were dozens of other mixes that actually hit the streets first.

I know I still have it at home somewhere. I'll see if I can track it down.

TJENZ's War Mix was pretty great. Has anyone mentioned that one?

Goofy also had a mix of old vinyl stuff. Very goofy-esque as I recall.

Must be an ambient disc. Or Sigur Ros.



Yeah, I definitely have this. I must've met Goofy at some point.

norton's Chix Mix (Les Chanteuses) also deserves mention as one of the all-time great somb mixes. If I can find it, I'll try and put up more relevant info on it, unless norton can do that himself.

I know there were at least two versions of this mix. This is the playlist I have -- I think it was the original.

1. Strage Fruit -- Billie Holiday
2. Stormy Weather -- Lena Horne
3. Summertime -- Sarah Vaughan
4. If I Had You -- Dinah Washington
5. Your Good Thing (is about to end) -- Mabel John
6. I'd Rather Go Blind -- Etta James
7. Wade In The Water -- Eva Cassidy
8. I'm On My Way -- Mahalia Jackson
9. How I Got Over -- Aretha Franklin
10. I'll Take You There -- Mavis Staples (w/the Staple Singers)
11. Walk on By -- Dionne Warwick
12. Just A Little Lovin' -- Dusty Springfield
13. Look For Me (I'll Be Around) -- Neko Case
14. Broken Butterflies -- Lucinda Williams
15. Goodbye -- Emmylou Harris
16. Beulah Land -- Gillian Welch
17. C'Mon Billy -- PJ Harvey
18. Limp -- Fiona Apple
19. Piss Factory -- Patti Smith
20. All Tomorrow's Parties -- The Velvet Underground & Nico

I make mixes every week....

Radio Hannibal

I'm pretty sure this mix was scheduled to be done in late 2002. In reality, it likely was distributed sometime in 2003, I suspect - probably in January or February of 2003. It was of course made by our fearless leader at the time Bhickman. The idea (as norton mentioned above) was to have a mix of the month (or some such thing) and hickman insisted on going first, then of course, he took months to complete what turned out to be the monstrosity below. I think all people wanted was a single disc, but hickman's never been one to do anything halfway, so he put the thing together in his own sweet time and in his own way. I suspect he was looking to cover every musical base of his entire music listening life in one mix. The result is a hodgepodge as you can see below. Just blow up the photos if you want tracklistings, I'm too lazy to type them out.


Bhoxed Set Disc 1


Bhoxed Set Disc 2


Bhoxed Set Disc 3


Bhoxed Set Disc 4

I'm very happy to see my mixes get mentioned here. I tried finding the art work for the "Phongraphic Vinyl Love" mix, but I think the disc is with my work stuff as I put that together at the old job and printed the artwork on their new color laser printer at the time.

Yes, at one time I had a job where I could post on the board during the day and had a social life that consisted of people over the age of three.

The second mix is the one that has the track list posted here. I handed that out at the first live night out at the Abby. The Wire cover done by MBV ended up being featured on the show a few months later. I like to think that handing Matt a copy of the mix led to that, but I doubt it.

So it really exists...

I did a mix for the first bar night we ever did. It featured Bill Hicks, Joe Strummer, a freelance hellraiser mashup, Soundgarden covering DEVO, a Bob Mould b-side and a bunch of other stuff.

The vinyl mix was all stuff directly from my album and 45's collection. I think I handed that one out at the Gingerman bar night 2-3 years ago. I might have a few extras

I also did a two disc best of comp for 2004 and a best of for 2003.

Who: Scarymuppet

When: October, 2006

Title: "Jens Lekman: We're All Gonna Die (A Collection of Rarities)"



Tracklisting: see above

1. The Killers - "When We Were Young"
2. Scissor Sisters - "I Don't Feel Like Dancing"
3. Wolfmother - "Woman"
4. Girls Aloud - "Something Kinda Ooh"
5. Razorlight - "America"
6. Justin Timberlake - "SexyBack"
7. The Arctic Monkeys - "Leave, Before The Lights Come On"
8. I'm From Barcelona - "We're From Barcelona"
9. The Rapture - "Get Myself Into It"
10. Klaxons - "Atlantis To Interzone"
11. Shack - "Cup Of Tea"
12. The Long Blondes - "Once and Never Again"
13. The Hollowing Bells"Low Happening"
14. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth"
15. The Streets Ft. Pete Doherty - "Prangin' Out"
16. Switches - "Lay Down The Law"
17. TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
18. Jarvis - "Running The World"

Paul's The Essential Ryan Adams from earlier this year is phenomenal.

link added.

Daytime bump.

Geeked you dropped your new one in here. Thanks.

I was flipping thru some cd's yesterday and ran across the classic coolrock mix, "The Wonderful World of Me". I'll try and post pics sometime soon. remind me. I'll also try and put the Get on The Bus mix up. I also ran across elemenopt's XTC mix. the music's great, when it plays.

Forgot to put "The Wizard" by Bat For Lashes on mix. I'm stupid.

I like the "borrowed" artwork from Tony Fitzpatrick and Ed Paschke.

Who: Undo

When: 2005-2006

Title: "Laptop Pop Collection"


1. Maurmari - Birch Beer Forest
2. Radiohead - Idioteque
3. Octet - Hey Bonus
4. Capitol K - Pillow
5. Broken Spindles - Matte
6. Bright Eyes - Time Code
7. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
8. Cornelius - Point Of View Point
9. Decomposure - Whose Side Are You On?
10. Marbles - Out Of Zone
11. Her Space Holiday - Meet The Pressure
12. Junior Boys - Birthday (Manitoba remix)
13. Holden & Thompson - Come To Me
14. Múm - Green Grass of Tunnel
15. Fennesz - Dont Talk Put Your Head On My Shoulder





1. Kid 606 - Temptation
2. The Notwist - Pick Up the Phone
3. Dntel - (This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan
4. Blue Ribbon - Eagles Fly
5. Lali Puna - Micronomic
6. Herrmann & Kleine - Kickboard Girl
7. Telefon Tel Aviv - I Lied
8. Schneider TM - The Light 3000
9. Benjamin Diamond - Let's Get High
10. Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit
11. TBA - I
12. Headphones - Hot Girls
13. Manitoba - Jacknuggeted
14. Pulseprogramming - Blooms Eventually
15. Mice Parade - The Days Before Fiction





1. B. Fleischmann - Le Désir
2. Laptop - Ratso Rizzo
3. Jeans Team - Arthur
4. Bobby Birdman - I Will Come Again
5. Album Leaf - Eastern Glow
6. The Blow - Knowing The Things That I Know
7. Bitmap - Someone To Call My Own
8. Applied Communications - Let's Make My Bed
9. Triangle - Ordinaries
10. Beth Orton - Carmella (Four Tet remix)
11. Figurine - IMpossible
12. The Dissociatives - Somewhere Down The Barrel
13. Styrofoam - Couches In Alleys (Feat. Ben Gibbard)
14. Husky Rescue - Sunset Drive
15. Nautilis - It's Lonely in the Streets





1. Ms. John Soda - Scan The Ways
2. Thom Yorke - Atoms For Peace
3. Feist - Mushaboom (Postal Service Remix)
4. Barbara Morgenstern - The Operator
5. Hot Chip - The Warning
6. März - Blaue Fäden
7. My Enemy - My Time Coming
8. Boy In Static - Bellyfull
9. The Aluminum Group - If You've Got A Lover (Slicker remix)
10. Tender Forever - The Feelings Of Love
11. Electric President - Snow on Dead Neighborhoods
12. Miniature Airlines - Pushpin Revolution
13. Unknown Artist - The Importance Of Being
14. Sia - Breathe Me (Ulrich Schnauss remix)
15. Lambchop & Hands Off Cuba - 4 º Gus

Tracklisting: see above