Part ten of an array of CD mixes I made for my wife over a long number of years! Read more about it here!
I know I took this photo while traveling from Chicago to Ohio, as it’s exactly what I’ve seen so many times, but I do not recall doing so.
This cover is fine in print. Just fine. I like the amber tinge. I like the E & T merger, although I probably could have done more there. The digitally resized version? It is practically unreadable.
Godfuckingdamnit I never do myself any favors.
All of that aside, it features one of my motherfucking anthems: BLOOD RED SHOES’ ‘I Wish I was Someone Better’. Saw ’em at Chicago’s Subterranean years ago, a club that is two-tiered but still feels oddly intimate. They performed back-to-back. I don’t mean that in a lineup way — they literally didn’t look each other in the face and one performed facing the left and the other on the right, but it wasn’t hateful or antagonistic. I’ve never seen a performance like that, and the energy was off of the fucking charts.
THE LONG BLONDES’ ‘Big Infatuation’ is absolute pop perfection, all GREASE-influenced but far filthier:
“My back turned to him, showing the ladders of my thighs!
I watched girls within; soaked up the envy in their eyes!”
SLEATER-KINNEY’s The Woods is my absolute favorite album of theirs, all indulgent and resonant hard-rock, and ‘Entertain’ endlessly delights me.
There’s a quote from SNOG/BLACK LUNG’s David Thrussel where he stated (and I can’t find the exact quote so I will paraphrase):
“With BLACK LUNG, I stack the tracks until the computer crashes and then I know I’m done.”
The results speak for themselves.
(Artist / Album / Song):
- GAMEPLAY / Beirut Disco / Beirut Disco
- LADYTRON / Velocifero / The Lovers
- RA RA RIOT / The Rhumb Line / Dying is Fine
- THE LONG BLONDES / Separated By Motorways [Single] / Big Infatuation
- BLOOD RED SHOES / I Wish I Was Someone Better / I Wish I Was Someone Better
- TILLY AND THE WALL / o / Pot Kettle Black
- SLEATER-KINNEY / The Woods / Entertain
- THE KNIFE / Marble House / Marble House [Rex The Dog]
- BOOKA SHADE / n/a / Outskirts [Trentemøller]
- XENIA BELIAYEVA / DTP27 / Music [Kiko]
- BLACK LUNG / Concrete Octopus / Concrete Octopus
- DIRTY THREE / Cinder / Doris
- B. FLEISCHMANN / The Humbucking Coil / Aldebaran Waltz
- VON MAGNET / Ni Prédateur Ni Proie / Growing Vs Fading
- HOLY FUCK / LP / Safari