Pouring Water

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This mix is many years old. A pretentious common element runs through it. This element attempts to distract from its uncharacteristic lack of diversity of artists.
Can you find it?

This one goes out to the Water signs.


1. "I'm Wishing" from Snow White from Disney from America. I, like many good 'merican children, listened to this many times on a yellow labeled 45.

2. Mudhoney "Today is a Good Day" from My Brother The Cow. A powerful statement of optimism. And by powerful I mean sarcastic.

3. Britney Spears "Oops I did it Again" Mark my words - she'll be the ABBA of 2013. If we're all here still, I mean. No more of the song than necessary here. I gotta say, I have hope for her after her sarcastic diatribe to the press. Maybe someday...But enough about her, it's about the work.

4. The Troggs "A Girl Like You" Bamba Bah Bah Bah qualifies as lyrics.

5. Iggy Pop "China Girl" Iggy and David Bowie share writing credits. I believe Iggy wrote the lyrics. Another upcoming book I'll read. Because I do. Read every rock star book.

Here he is in 2001 on Letterman doing something fairly intense at age 54.
It'll take a snottier hipster than me to argue with it. BTW isn't the long gloves something Anthony Keidis ripped off in the last decade?

He's freakishly young looking, like "The Picture of Dorian Grey" except with a collar instead of a mirror. From the neck down...

Lastly, I highly recommend his interview on Fresh Air last summer. The dude is not dumb. The proto punk Mortimer Snerd.

6. Pavement " "In the mouth a desert" from Westing by Sextant and Musket. This was on a great mix by Linoleum Blownapart from like 1988 (on cassette called... I should remember. I still have it. I might just dig it out...) But the song, as with that mix holds up today. (Maybe it will appear on the exciting Linoleum Blownapart podcast?).
This song is epic, man. And I have no idea what it is about. Educate me, oh listener. Leave a comment, and educate us all. If it's just gibberish, it might be at least be suited for another, more political purpose.
Alls I'm saying is better people than I have tried.

7. Elvis Costello "Poor Napolean". I saw Elvis and the Imposters (the Attractions with a new bassist) on "Austin City Limits" supporting The Delivery Man. He was surprisingly vital and musically abrasive. He must have hired Marc Ribot's guitar tech because he sounded just like Ribot on some strange four stringed guitar. Jumbo electric ukelele? It was great.

8. James Brown "The Big Payback"

9. U2 and Brian Eno "Elvis Ate America" from Passengers

10. Serge Gainsbourg "69 année érotique " There's probably toilet talk going on in there...

11. Radiohead a song that bigger fans than I know the name of immediately.

12. Iggy Pop "Nightclubbing"

13. Serge Gainsbourg - I don't know the name of this cut.

14. U2 and Brian Eno "Always Forever Now". another cut from Passengers

15. Henry Rollins with Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel "Delicate Tendrils" (1996) (cut from a not suprisingly not great album Highball with the Devil) I've become a homeowner since I first made this mix. I've stopped hearing this with much irony.

16. U2 and Brian Eno another cut from Passengers. There's a song with Johnny Cash on that album that is awkward and techno and should be heard once. It'll end up in a car ad soon.

17. Pavement "Here" from Slanted and Enchanted.

18. U2 and Brian Eno "Your Blue Room"another cut from Passengers. Yes, that makes four.

Image of Kim Novak's hair from the film "Picnic" from blog Sam's Place
I can't find where Sam got it.
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