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These last two Summer Pop mixes have been marinating since the winter and are both essentially new to the world. And this one is really pretty, lovely fun and great– if I do say so myself. It’s got a little bit of everything in there jingle, jangle, riffs, hooks and choruses galore. Truly, if this one doesn’t open up the clouds and keep the sun up in our sky for the rest of the summer, well, I really don’t know what else I can do… Dig it. (Playlist is below the fold) (ROUGHLY CHRONOLOGICAL) 1. World War Z I kept stopping myself in the midst of reading Max Brooks‘ Studs Terkel-inspired novel, thinking, “This was supposed to be a silly fun, summer, beach-read about Zombies but damn, this shit is seriously deep.”
2.Wall-E Perfection? I don’t know if it is or not, because each time I watch I am too overwhelmed with sentiment and awe to apply an ounce of critical thinking.
3. Monday morning swims after Yaknbo weekends. 4. Emmy Bean’s Fall Barn Show: All Music. No Columbuses. A dozen families of all ages. Half-a-dozen great local music acts. Dramatic lighting by the sun through rafters. Closed out by Merrill Garbus’ astonishing tUnE-yArDs… a musical force that will be causing ripples for decades to come.
Okay…. So, I originally finished this mix a few years back and it definitely has a sadder more rainy summer feel to it … Perhaps that makes it more appropiate for the vibe of this summer so far? I think I recognized it had a more melancholy flavor when I completed it, and that accounts for the choice of the last song. (It also skews more post-1980 than the previous 2 mixes. Worry not. The 60s & 70s will come back in full force with the next batch I promise) This is not to say that it is not filled with gems. And I am sure that any listener who sticks with it will appreciate the cloudburst followed by a rainbow that is embodied by the late appearance of the Breeders. So um… click it and dig it! (Playlist after the fold) 1. Mulatu Astatke is back with a new LP collaboration. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information 3 2. Rewatched Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday. Gal is funnier by the minute. 3. This Matt Taibbi article I missed from January- still blisteringly funny!
Haircuts, beaches, robots, rainbows, Kodak pictures and polyester brides… Sunshine, we are ready to rock, if you ever decide to return to the East Coast. (Complete playlist is below the fold.) Hey Folks, For the next 5 Fridays I will be posting podcasts of my Summer Pop mixes. I began making these mixes back in the late 90′s, to feed my romanticized imaginings of which tunes might provide the ideal soundtrack to a beach vacation, backyard barbecue, block party, or top-down-convertible-joyride along a coast. The eras span from the late 60′s forward and I try to give classics, british invasion-era, 80′s, indie-rock and punk-pop, all equal time here. For a long time these mixes have been the safe place where single tunes by bands I never really followed, can peacefully co-exist alongside the catchiest hooks by my all-time favorite bands. I believe this particular mix made its debut at a spontaneous roofdeck party at Rugg Road around 1999. At the time it took up 2 sides of a cassette and it has barely changed compositionally during it’s subsequent transformation to CD mix and now mp3. I confess that though they are designed for the summer I throw these mixes on, no matter the season, whenever I need a dose of sunshine. And for my money this first one, like the 4 Summer Pop Volumes that will follow, continues to stand the test of time. I hope you will agree. -Evan (Playlist below the fold) |
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