(Playlist after the fold)

O’Pinionated Mix – Summer Pop #9

Playlist for O’Pinionated Mix -Summer Pop #9

1. The Beatles – Dear Prudence
2. Portishead – Sour Times
3. The Jam – In the City
4. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – You Got Lucky
5. Spoon – Car Radio
6. Paul Simon w/Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
7. Teenage Fanclub – The Concept
8. The Police – So Lonely
9. Radiohead – House Of Cards
10. Bee Gees – To Love Somebody
11. Hüsker Dü – Pink Turns To Blue
12. Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
13. Beck – Loser
14. Cat Stevens – Don’t Be Shy
15. The White Stripes – My Doorbell
16. Billy Bragg & Wilco – California Stars
17. R.E.M. – Sitting Still
18. Warren Zevon – Mohammed’s Radio
19. PJ Harvey – Dress
20. Camper Van Beethoven – Take the Skinheads Bowling

(Playlist after the fold.)

2Bougie2Strong Mix #7 – “Tree Secrets & Android Gentures”

Playlist for O’Pinionated Mix – 2Bougie2Strong #7 “Tree Secrets & Android Gestures”

1. Amon Tobin – Bloodstone
2. Four Tet – Plastic People
3. Don Li – Part 40
4. Antibalas – Age
5. Tied & Tickled Trio – Motorik
6. Dam-Funk – Hood Pass Intact
7. Blue Sky Black Death – Heroin for God
8. Mike Ladd – Back At Ya
9. Aphex Twin – Girl / Boy
10. St. Germain – Rose Rouge
11. El-P – Get Your Hand Off My Shoulder, Pig
12. Boards Of Canada – Zoetrope
13. DJ Shadow – Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt

Playlist is below the fold.

O’Pinionated Mix -Summer Pop #8

Playlist for O’Pinionated Mix – Summer Pop #8

1. Ryan Adams – New York, New York
2. Elvis Costello – The Other Side Of Summer
3. The Who – Squeeze Box
4. Elastica – Car Song
5. The Clash – Wrong ‘Em Boyo
6. Spoon – I Summon You
7. The Velvet Underground – Who Loves the Sun
8. The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
9. Modern English – I Melt With You
10. Guided By Voices – As We Go Up, We Go Down
11. Roxy Music – More Than This
12. The White Stripes – You’re Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)
13. The Modern Lovers – Dignified & Old
14. Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows
15. Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl
16. Gorillaz (feat. De La Soul) – Feel Good Inc.
17. Blondie – Union City Blue
18. Operation Ivy – Sound System
19. Stevie Wonder – Higher Ground
20. Yo La Tengo – Here Comes My Baby
21. The Pretenders – Back On The Chain Gang
22. Sebadoh – Rebound
23. Go-Go’s – Our Lips Are Sealed
24. The Beatles – The Ballad of John & Yoko
25. Wilco – Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)

And then, on top of my mix accidentally morphing into an fun, upbeat, and occasionally danceable downer,  somehow two killer latin breakdowns snuck over the border and winded up in Summer Pop-land as well.   Who knows?  Chalk it up to my personal hydrant-flood of anti-Arizona 1070 sentiment I guess…

…Plus it’s got my all-time favorite Sleater-Kinney song.

Enjoy!

(Playlist is after the fold.)

O’ Pinionated Mix – Summer Pop #7

Playlist for O’ Pinionated Mix – Summer Pop #7

1. Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
2. Prince – Alphabet Street
3. The Rolling Stones – Get Off Of My Cloud
4. The Clash – Death or Glory
5. Paul Simon – Late In The Evening
6. Spoon – Me And The Bean
7. Sleater-Kinney – One More Hour
8. R.E.M. – Talk About the Passion
9. The Pixies – Wave of Mutilation
10. Bright Eyes – Lover I Don’t Have To Love
11. The Beatles – Got To Get You Into My Life
12. Neutral Milk Hotel – Song Against Sex
13. The Cure – Close to Me
14. The Decemberists – 16 Military Wives
15. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Human Hands
16. Nirvana – All Apologies
17. Yaz – Only You
18. The Smiths – Girlfriend In A Coma
19. Led Zeppelin – Fool In The Rain
20. The Dresden Dolls – Backstabber
21. Dump – Pop Life

Much like my first posted O’Pinionated Mix “Lost Verses” and July’s “Lost Causes”, the songs are a combination of classic favorites by folks like Tom Waits and R.E.M. as well as recent discoveries, like Port O’Brien and Boston’s own Hallelujah The Hills (whose Colonial Drones was my favorite rock album of last year).  Enjoy…

(Playlist is below the fold.)

O’Pinionated Mix #9 – “Neverending Math Equation”

Playlist for O’Pinionated Mix #9 – “Neverending Math Equation”

1. Iron & Wine – God Made the Automobile
2. Port O’Brien – Oslo Campfire
3. Hallelujah The Hills – Classic Tapes
4. The Replacements – Unsatisfied
5. The Helio Sequence – Keep Your Eyes Ahead
6. Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up
7. Tom Waits – Time
8. R.E.M. – Letter Never Sent
9. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Tokyo Storm Warning
10. Sun Kil Moon – Neverending Math Equation
11. Sparklehorse & Danger Mouse (feat. Julian Casablancas) – Little Girl
12. Spoon – All the Pretty Girls Go to the City
13. Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
14. Mariachi El Bronx – Cell Mates
15. The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
16. Yeasayer – Wait for the Summer
17. The Low Anthem – To Ohio
18. Alec Ounsworth – Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (Song for New Orleans)

(Playlist is below the fold.)

2Bougie2Strong Mix#6 – “Jazz & Soul on Outerspace Parole”

Playlist for 2Bougie2Strong Mix#6 – “Jazz & Soul on Outerspace Parole”

1. Nina Simone (Remixed by Jazzeem)  – Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter (All Styles Remix)
2. Donny Hathaway – The Ghetto, Pt. 1
3. Olu Dara (feat. Nas) – Jungle Jay
4. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Anglo Ethio Suite
5. Sade -  Soldier of Love
6. Diplo – Epistemology Suite 1: Don’t Fall
7. Sweatshop Union – Comes & Goes
8. Wale Oyejide (feat. Jay Dee) – There’s A War Going On
9. Four Tet – Swimmer
10. Kanye West – Love Lockdown
11. Antibalas – Beaten Metal
12. Prince – If Eye Was The Man In Ur Life
13. The Heavy – Colleen
14. Charles Mingus – Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting

Check out the first track (a spanking-new cover, just out this week) and it should give you a sense of whether or not you’re in the mood for the retro-outerspace-vibe that today’s mix is clocking.  The title comes from the Tom Petty tune Spike.   As always, right-click to download or play and Playlist is after the fold.

O’Pinionated Mix – “Future Ain’t What It Used To Be”

Playlist for O’Pinionated #8 – “Future Ain’t What It Used 2 Be”

1. The Flaming Lips (feat. Henry Rollins) – Money
2. Blue Sky Black Death – Days Are Years
3. The Detroit Experiment – Think Twice
4. Matthew Shipp – Nu-Bop
5. Clifford Gilberto – The 10th Victim
6. Jay Dee – LL
7. Cornelius – Smoke
8. Yo La Tengo – The Room Got Heavy
9. Dam-Funk – Burn Straight Thru U
10. Tune-Yards – Lions
11. Mike Ladd – To The Moon’s Contractor
12. Black Milk – Bounce
13. Jaga Jazzist – Real Racecars Have Doors
14. Red Snapper – They’re Hanging Me Tonight

I know I do. (Playlist is below the fold.)

O’Pinionated Mix – Summer Pop #6

Playlist for O’Pinionated Mix – Summer Pop #6

R.E.M.  – Superman
Dr. Dog – The Girl
The Police – Spirits In The Material World
The Beatles – Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Modest Mouse – Paper Thin Walls
Elliott Smith – Alameda
Blondie – Dreaming
Toots and the Maytals – Pressure Drop
Camper Van Beethoven – Pictures of Matchstick Men
Black Francis – Lolita
The Jam – Sounds from the Street
The Cure – Love Song
Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City
Pulp – Mile End
Guided By Voices – I Am a Scientist
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – You Belong To Me
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Pin
Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime (Live)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
David Bowie – Changes
The Clash – Gates Of The West

But that’s only because these are twice as long.

Some epic-novel-type-slow-build cuts. (Playlist after the fold.)

O’Pinionated Mix #7 – “Stars Are Projectors”

Playlist for O’Pinionated Mix #7 – “Stars Are Projectors”

1. Wilco – Spiders (Kidsmoke)
2. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Elmo Delmo
3. The Cinematic Orchestra (feat. Patrick Watson) – To Build a Home
4. Modest Mouse – The Stars Are Projectors
5. Sigur Rós – Svefn-g-englar
6. Low And Dirty Three – Down By the River
7. Panda Bear – Bros
8. The Beta Band – She’s the One