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The Friday Mixtape: 5/15/09

Dw. Dunphy May 15, 2009 20

I said I wouldn’t do it. I was called out, however, and if there’s one thing I’m not, that’s a punk. All my neon green hair fell out a long time ago. —Dw.

Ben Lee – Catch My Disease from Awake Is the New Sleep (2005)
Bleu – Could Be Worse from Redhead (2003)
Calexico – Ballad of Cable Hogue from Hot Rail (2000)
Devo – Devo Has Feelings Too from Smooth Noodle Maps (1990)
Fischerspooner – Never Win from Odyssey (2005)
Jethro Tull – Wond’ring Aloud from Aqualung (1971)
Kino – Holding On from Picture (2005)
Otis Redding – My Girl from Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)
Robert Vaughn & the Shadows – Love Came Falling from Love and War (1985)
RPWL featuring Ray Wilson – Roses from Live: Start the Fire (2005)
Sean Watkins – Summer’s Coming from Blinders On (2006)
Spoon – The Fitted Shirt from Girls Can Tell (2001)
Super Furry Animals – Lazer Beam from Love Kraft (2005)
Tammy Faye Bakker – The Ballad of Jim and Tammy from the 12-inch single (1987)
Terry Scott Taylor – Writer’s Block from John Wayne (1998)
Vanden Plas – Phoenix from Beyond Daylight (2002)

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Dw. Dunphy is a writer, artist, musician, bon vivant, n'er do well, but neither a president nor client of the Hair Club for Men. He resides in New Jersey with his decades-old neuroses and debt. His music is available at www.dwdunphy.com

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  • The Man I Used To Be

    Ahh Bleu, after The Major Labels, he could sing the phonebook and I would listen. Great unknown talent.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Actually, he just announced his new solo disc. Go to bleutopia.com for the information… And speaking of The Major Labels, make sure to come back here next Friday.

  • EightE1

    I keep expected Tammy Faye to blurt out “Christ, you know it ain't easy …”

    Is that “Harper Valley PTA” she's ripping off?

    Rob
    EightE1

  • KellyStitzel

    I saw him live a few times and met him. Super nice guy. Signed a CD for me once with a Crayola marker. I met my close friends, the Chicago band Oh My God, after seeing them open for him when he was touring to support “Redhead.”

  • http://www.popdose.com Ted

    Sounds like it to me!

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Very talented guy, but he plays a type of music that just doesn't get much traction, it seems. It's the lot of the post adolescent power-pop type to live in obscurity, then become a cult phenom after the fact.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Right on the head. Tom T. Hall gets a co-write credit for the Bakkers' misappropriation. Another point worth mentioning is that one of the mixers for the song was MGs guitarist Steve Cropper, a fact I bet he'd rather not have spread around too much now.

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Too funny, I'm writing up another song from this album for Pop Goes the World.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    “We'll Do It All Again”?

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Wow, am I that predictable?

  • KellyStitzel

    I have two different versions of that album that have different tracklistings. If I remember correctly, the album was re-released on Columbia a year after its initial release.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Not at all. Bleu, possessed by the ghost of Roy Orbison, is just a no-brainer.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Yup. I have the Columbia version so I don't know what I lost…

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    God, you're right. I always thought of Cheap Trick when I heard it, but damn, that does have an Orbison feel to it, don't it?

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    God, you're right. I always thought of Cheap Trick when I heard it, but damn, that does have an Orbison feel to it, don't it?

  • KellyStitzel

    I have two different versions of that album that have different tracklistings. If I remember correctly, the album was re-released on Columbia a year after its initial release.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Not at all. Bleu, possessed by the ghost of Roy Orbison, is just a no-brainer.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Yup. I have the Columbia version so I don't know what I lost…

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    God, you're right. I always thought of Cheap Trick when I heard it, but damn, that does have an Orbison feel to it, don't it?