Songs From The Holiday Vacuum

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Hey I made a quick mixtape with some of my favorite holiday songs! Hope you like it.

1. The Kinks - Father Christmas
2. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
3. Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today
4. Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis
5. Jackson 5 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
6. Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means To Me
7. The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
8. Weezer - The Christmas Song
9. Fucked Up - Do They Know It's Christmas
10. Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time Is Here
11. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
12. Willie Nelson - Frosty The Snowman
13. Low - Just Like Christmas
14. The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
15. Descendents - Christmas Vacation
16. No Doubt - Oi To The World
17. The Sonics - I Don't Believe In Christmas
18. Twisted Sister - O Come All Ye Faithful
19. The Lonely Island - Dick In A Box (feat. Justin Timberlake)
20. Fear - Fuck Christmas
21. Bob & Doug McKenzie - 12 Days Of Christmas
22. Cheech & Chong - Santa Claus and His Old Lady

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Edit: I forgot the Low & McKenzie Brothers songs. Get em here

A mixtape I probably would have made: 2002

Moving right along in our series of mixtapes I would have made in a certain year, here's 2002.

This was the first year I spent completely living in Minnesota which was quite a bit different from New Mexico. The difference I found in new avenues to discover new music in my newly adopted home state was astonishing. I had never found myself surrounded by so many different musically knowledgeable people, going to so many excellent concerts and listening to so much great music, present and past.

Looking back, this was a great year for music. If i had to make a top 20 songs of all time list the included songs from Johnny Cash, The Roots, Drag The River, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Against Me!, and Paul Westerberg would be strong contenders for inclusion.

Here's 2002. Hope you dig it.

1. Queens Of The Stone-Age - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire
2. Dillinger Four - Folk Song
3. Drag The River - Get Drunk
4. The Roots - The Seed 2.0
5. Sweet JAP - Oh My Pretty Face
6. Against Me! - Baby, I'm An Anarchist!
7. Foo Fighters - All My Life
8. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
9. Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
10. Elvis Costello - 45
11. Blackalicious - Chemical Calisthenics
12. Wilco - I'm The Man Who Loves You
13. Rocket From The Crypt - Bring Us Bullets
14. Paul Westerberg - We May Be The Ones
15. Ultimate Fakebook - Inside Me, Inside You
16. Sonic Youth - Disconnection Notice

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DIY Punk From The ZEROS

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I take a small detour from the recent year themed posts to post a (slightly modified) mix I made for Luis and Beata of DIY Punk and hardcore punk from earlier this decade. When I started getting into punk in the mid 90s I found myself drawn more to the punk from the 80s, especially the stuff from SoCal and the DC hardcore scenes than a lot of the more current stuff. When a lot of bands started taking on that music as influence in the late 90s and early 00s I was extremely excited. There were a lot of awesome bands that came out of that 80s revival. Here's some of my favorite stuff. A lot of really good stuff I don't have in digital format, just on vinyl, so this is definitely not a complete primer on what transpired in all those basements and VFW halls, just a cheat sheet DIY HC 101 sorta thing. Hope you like it.

DIY PUNK FROM THE ZEROS

1. Limp Wrist - I Love Hardcore Boys/I Love Boys Hardcore
2. Limp Wrist - What's Up With The Kids?
3. Limp Wrist - The Ode
4. Direct Control - Wicked Sick To The Gills
5. Direct Control - Hardcore For Heroin
6. Caustic Christ - Burned
7. Caustic Christ - Bloodsucking Fiends
8. Caustic Christ - I Infect
9. Career Suicide - Fall-Out
10. Career Suicide - Jonzo's Leaking Radiation
11. Career Suicide - Quarantined
12. Tear It Up - Don't Call Me Tonight
13. Tear It Up - Close My Eyes and Hope For The Worst
14. Surf Nazis Must Die - Emo Kids Blown To Shit
15. Surf Nazis Must Die - I Am Angry
16. Regulations - Destroy
17. Regulations - Police Siren
18. 9 Shocks Terror - Not A Fucking Anthem
19. 9 Shocks Terror - Adjust Me
20. Cold Sweat - Fuck The Flock/My Rights
21. Cold Sweat - Burn Everything
22. Tragedy - The Ending Fight
23. The Observers - Symbols, Slogans, Lies
24. The Observers - Lead Pill
25. Fucked Up - Circling The Drain
26. Fucked Up - Police
27. Total Fury - I Win, You Lose
28. Total Fury - Showdown
29. Annihilation Time - Feel It
30. Annihilation Time - Annihilate
31. D.S.-13 - Lie
32. D.S.-13 - Umea Hardcore
33. Municipal Waste - Mutants Of War
34. Municipal Waste - Substitute Creature
35. No Hope For The Kids - Secret Police
36. No Hope For The Kids - Rainy Day
37. Punch In The Face - Not Here To Make Friends
38. Punch In The Face - Dumb Hardcore
39. Street Trash - Street Trash
40. Street Trash - What The Shit
41. Victims - Moments
42. Victims - We Are Dead
43. RunnAmucks - Detonation
44. RunnAmucks - I Gotta Move
45. Suicide File - I Hate You

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A mixtape I probably would have made: 2001

After looking at the last post Jessi said that she didn't think that I would have made a mixtape that varied back then and that I'm more likely to mix it up like that now. What's weird is I feel it's the opposite: I was more willing to make a weird mix like that back then and that I'm more inclined to make some sort of theme or streamlined mix these days. Maybe I'll have to dig up an actual mix tape I made back then and recreate it here some time.
Anyhow, here's 2001, nothing like Kubrick or Clarke thought it would be.

1. Someday I - CRS Disease
2. Andrew W.K. - It's Time To Party
3. D.S.-13 - In The Name Of Revolution
4. Fugazi - Cashout
5. Alkaline Trio - Private Eye
6. Outkast w/Killer Mike - The Whole World
7. Built To Spill - Fly Around My Pretty Little Head
8. Tenacious D - Dio
9. Hot Water Music - Paper Thin
10. N*E*R*D w/Lee Harvey & Vita - Lapdance
11. Radiohead - True Love Waits
12. Zero Zero - True Zero
13. The Icarus Line - Feed a Cat To Your Cobra
14. The Shins - Know Your Onion
15. Weezer - Photograph
16. Rocket From The Crypt - White Belt
17. Zeke - Crossroads
18. The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
19. The Dismemberment Plan - Time Bomb
20. American Nightmare - There's a Black Hole In The Shadow of the Pru
21. Jay-Z - Heart Of The City (Ain't No Love)
22. Slayer - Disciple

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A mixtape I probably would have made: 2000

Here's the first in a series of posts where I try to remember what I was listening to in a certain year and what a mixtape I made would have probably looked like. I'm gonna start at the beginning of the last decade and do 2000 first. Enjoy!

1. The Explosion - No Revolution

2. The Weakerthans - Watermark

3. MC Paul Barman - Salvation Barmy

4. Kid Dynamite - Cheap Shot Youth Anthem

5. At The Drive In - Incetardis

6. Someday I - Distance

7. Crispus Attucks - D.T.T.

8. Reggie & The Full Effect - From Me 2 U

9. Dillinger Four - Let Them Eat Thomas Paine

10. Alkaline Trio - Radio

11. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control

12. Radiohead - The National Anthem

13. Q And Not U - A Line In The Sand

14. Discount - Broken To Blue

15. The Gamits - Last Of The Mullets

16. Outkast - B.O.B.

17. Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat

18. ALL - Drive Away

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2009

2009 was a weird year for me and I think it's kind of apparent from the new music I was into.
Here's a playlist of stuff from this year that I dug on. I'm definitely not claiming to have heard everything that came out this year, this is just what I experienced and liked. Hope you enjoy it. Old favorites like Slayer and Sonic Youth had new albums that stood up with their best work but you should know by now what those bands sound like and whether or not they're your cup of tea.

(I live in New Mexico which is kind of a vacuum as far as record stores and outlets to discover new music go, hence the title of the blog. Most of my time is spent listening to hardcore punk rock, hip hop and Pet Sounds. A lot of my new music discovery comes from reading about stuff online or from friends and tends to lean indie/poppy so I apologize if this comes off a little Pitchfork heavy. Let me know if there's good stuff that you think I may have missed!)

2009

1. Atlas Sound - Walkabout (f/Noah Lennox)
2. Mos Def - Casa Bey
3. The Thermals - Now We Can See
4. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Some Trees (Merritt Moon)
5. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
6. Wale - Chillin' (w/Lady Gaga)
7. Sonic Youth - No Way
8. Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber
9. Girls - Lust For Life
10. St. Vincent - Actor Out Of Work
11. Phoenix - 1901
12. Japandroids - Wet Hair
13. Deerhunter - Dissapearing Ink
14. Animal Collective - My Girls
15. Jay-Z - Run This Town (w/Rihanna & Kanye West)

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