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The Friday Mixtape: 9/18/09

Remember that mixtape from last week? One hundred Beatles covers? That thing was EPIC! It was freaking magnificent!

Yup… That was… really something.

Well, then.

Midnight Oil – Under The Overpass from Capricornia (2002)

fun. – Benson Hedges from Aim and Ignite (2009)

The 77s – The Treasure In You from More Miserable Than You’ll Ever Be (1990)

Roland Orzabal – Dandelion from Tomcats Screaming Outside (2001)

Porcupine Tree – Black Dahlia from The Incident (2009)

Velvet Crush – Hold Me Up from Teenage Symphonies to God (1994)

Elton John – Something About The Way You Look Tonight from The Big Picture (1997)

Gin Blossoms – Till I Hear It From You from Outside Looking In: The Best Of Gin Blossoms (1999)

Yngwie Malmsteen – I’m My Own Enemy from Fire & Ice (1992)

Toto – Drag Him To The Roof from Tambu (1996)

The Smithereens – Behind The Wall Of Sleep from Especially for You (1986)

Elvis Costello And The Imposters – American Gangster Time from Momofuku (2008)

The Balls Of France – Message From The Country from Lynne Me Your Ears: A Tribute to the Music of Jeff Lynne (2001)

The Simpsons – What Do I Think Of The Pie? from The Simpsons: Testify (2007)

The Friday Mixtape: 7/24/09

The more things change…

Adam Again – Ain’t No Sunshine from Ten Songs by Adam Again (1988)

Deliverance – Beauty And The Beast from Camelot in Smithereens (1995)

Jacob’s Trouble – Tell Me What You See from Door Into Summer (1989)

Lost Dogs – I’m A Loser from Little Red Riding Hood (1993)

Mortal – Nowhere Man from Wake (1994)

Passafist – Street Fighting Man from Passafist (1994)

Phil Keaggy – When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God from Crimson and Blue
(1993)

Rez – Presence Of The Lord from Silence Screams (1988)

Terry Scott Taylor – Long, Long, Long from A Briefing For The Ascent (1987)

The 77s – Over, Under, Sideways, Down from 88 (1991)

The Choir – Behind That Locked Door from Wide-Eyed Wonder (1989)

This Train – Baby Baby from You’re Soaking In It (1995)

You can download art for this mixtape here

Dw. Dunphy On… Penguimania 2009, Set 4

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May is the unofficial start of the summer concert season, so to unofficially celebrate the shows of 2009, Popdose.com and internet radio station The Penguin have teamed up for Penguimania 2009. Tune in each Wednesday at 9:00 EST for Radioshow With Dw. Dunphy to hear the live performance megamix in full. Then each week we’ll present a downloadable MP3 of a set from the “concert.”

Set Four

Starting off this, the final set of Penguimania 2009, is King’s X with a breakout track from the Ear Candy album. “Mississippi Moon” features guitarist Ty Tabor on vocals.

From their eponymous “Island Album,” known as such as it was their sole release on the Island label, The 77’s tear through their original “Pearls Before Swine.” The live version was the first recording of the tune, and subsequent studio recordings were put to tape with the command, “Play it like you did live.”

Technically the last Pink Floyd song being it was the final track of The Division Bell, the last studio Floyd album (we can dispense with the Roger Waters/not Roger Waters argument on another day,) “High Hopes” represents the band at its most ornate and orchestral.

Recorded during the tour of his hugely popular album The Stranger, Billy Joel closes it all out with “Say Goodbye to Hollywood,” in part a tribute to the Phil Spector/Ronettes pop sound.

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That’s it! Thanks for enjoying Penguimania 2009 and don’t forget: you can enjoy the entire mix over at The Penguin, Wednesday nights starting at 9:00 PM EST: find it at www.thepenguinrocks.com. Popdose and The Penguin wish you your best concert experiences this summer. I’ll be back next week when we return to Dw. Dunphy On…