Friday, May 29th, 2009

The Friday Mixtape: 5/29/09

by Dw. Dunphy

This week’s mixtape is Chris Hansen approved! Truly! Would Chris Hansen steer you wrong? By the way, why don’t you head into the kitchen for some sweet tea and brownies?

Emerson, Lake & Powell – Vacant Possession from Emerson, Lake & Powell (1987)
Ennio Morricone – L’estasi Dell’oro from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Expanded] (1966)
Firewater – 7th Avenue Static from Psychopharmacology (2001)
Joe Walsh – Rockets from There Goes the Neighborhood (1981)
Jon Brion – Voices from Meaningless (2001)
Mr. Bungle – Vanity Fair from California (1999)
Pinetop Seven – Drying Out from Rigging the Toplights (1988)
Sentenced – No One There from The Cold White Light (2002)
Spock’s Beard – Ghosts of Autumn from Feel Euphoria (2003)
Talk Talk – Ascension Day from Laughing Stock (1991)
Television – No Glamour for Willi from Television (1992)
The Kinks – Underneath the Neon Sign from Soap Opera (1975)
The Rutles – Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik from Archaeology (1996)
Utopia – You Make Me Crazy from Adventures in Utopia (1980)

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This entry was posted on Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 2:30 pm and is filed under Music, The Weekly Mixtape. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  • That Morricone track is tremendous. One of my very favorites. It's amazing in the context of the film, too - Tuco's pell-mell dash through the graveyard, and the camera whipping around... Man, I need to watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly again soon.
  • Eric S.
    Love the Utopia track. Great song from a great album. This got played on my college rock station, but you never hear it anywhere these days. The CD starts at $30 for a used copy on Amazon so there must be a few others that remember this fondly.
  • TheCloneRanger
    Hi from one of those few others.
    I've worked my way through Todd's entire back catalog last year and to me pretty much everything he released between "Adventures in Utopia" and "Swing to the Right" sounds much better nowadays than it did when it was initially released. That goes to show that Todd Rundgren always was a couple of steps ahead of his time.
    After listening to all the records again (which took a couple of months) a friend and I flew all the way from our hometown (Vienna, Austria) to Milan to attend Todd's only Italian show on the Arena tour (we had to travel because he skipped our country) and ended up as 2 out of about 50 people to watch a great set.

    Seems we're really only a handful of people left, but we could become more if those who didn't actually enjoy Todd's music upon it's release would give the old albums a second chance by listening to them based on matured taste and listening standards....
  • It's true, but most of his back catalog has lapsed into Out-Of-Print status and, as such, isn't available on iTunes or for a price below $50 per CD. If Rundgren found a way of alleviating that, he would at least be pushing in the right direction, but as things stand, he'll be the guy that did "Hello, It's Me" for a long time to come.
  • That Talk Talk album is one of my best friends.
  • No question. Laughing Stock is gorgeous, and a huge thumbs-up to any band who wants to break out of their comfort zone.
blog comments powered by Disqus