Posts in: Music

I’m deeply annoyed by the metadata now supplied from Apple when you go to convert a CD. Either an album is now put into the Various Artists ghetto, or the same album is listed in parts because of partnered artists even when the album itself and the liner notes make no such distinction.


Gentle Ambient

Eternal Lover — Moonwater Karmic Light — Tetsu Inoue They Come in Peace — Tranquility Bass Plateau — Orb A Study of Six Guitars — Amorphous Androgynous Session 3: Wien in E — Tosca Anthropomorphic — Qubism No One in the World [Edit] — W.F.O. Fat Chair — Terra Thaemlitz edit:one — DJ Iri Creatures Made Of Light Glide Softly Across The Slowly Ever-rotating Homeworld In Gentle Undulations Of Warm Dub Through The Encircling Golden Ether Common To System 35 — Mysteries of Science #19 — Aphex Twin Tranquility Base — Omicron A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian Eno & Harold Budd Expanding — Young American Primitive

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鬼門 (Demon Gate)

A mix CD gift from Caleb, circa 2019. Premonition — YukaKita Mura Phoenix — WolfMother Space Cruise — Ben Prunty Abyss Watchers — Yuka Kitamura Vignette: Panacea — Disasterpeace Vordt of the Boreal Valley — Motoi Sakuraba Mind’s Eye — WolfMother Excerpt from The Tribulation — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney End of the Line — Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Paul McCartney Odyssey — Home Far Away — WolfMother Siege Dancers — Michael Salvatori, C.

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Pretty Full of Good Intentions… Kind of…

From a Maxell XLII 90 cassette given to me by my friend Chuck. Side A dated 6/20/94, Missing songs: Marion Diez, Half the Time. Side B dated 6/21/94 Get Enough — Ivy You Bite My Tongue — Unwound Our Caballero — Don Caballero Blade of Grass — Versus A Mouthful Of Exhaust — Man Or Astro-Man? Sweet Pea — Seam All Set to Go — Hard-Ons Suki — Unrest Rebound — Sebadoh Alison — Slowdive Bronx Cheer — Mercury Rev Bricks — Crain Solitary Set — Polvo

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Not Quite Adult Oriented

A mix tape reconstruction: Selections by Chuck Horne. He didn’t make it for me, but it’s beautiful. What a gift! Main Sequence Diffusion / Photon / Lajolla — Füxa A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian Eno & Harold Budd Untitled — Jason Falkner (untitled)4 — Bundy K. Brown, Doug Scharin, and James Warden Cry, Cry — Mazzy Star Untitled — Brian Eno Bible Silver Corner — Rodan Jacking the Ball — The Sea and Cake Gymnopedie No.

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Spec's Music In-Store Play, Before During After

I missed the record store. I made a mix for my friends but mostly to show I was still edgy and cool. I never sent it. This track list was made for a 100-minute cassette tape. Label On Side A said “Disclaimer: Not for Customers”. Label on Side B said “Hello from Minnesota!” Psychoactive Drugs (Uncut Mix) — Emergency Broadcast Network Just Say No to Drug Hysteria [Excerpt] / Dead Souls — William S.

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Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll

Insanely Great Nineties Songs You Aren’t Sick Of, as seen on Secret History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Stop! — Jane’s Addiction Rave Down — Swervedriver No Kid (Acoustic Version) — Urban Dance Squad Birdbrain — Buffalo Tom Lullaby — Warrior Soul Pretty Pink Rose (Duet With David Bowie) — Adrian Belew Step On — Happy Mondays Lullabye — Concrete Blonde Soon — My Bloody Valentine Manna and Quail — Caterwaul The Beautiful Dead — Killing Joke Falling to Pieces — Faith No More Grey Cell Green — Ned’s Atomic Dustbin High Monkey Monk — Cocteau Twins You’re Not the Only One I Know — The Sundays De-Luxe — Lush Sliver — Nirvana Bury Me — Smashing Pumpkins Pushin Forward Back — Temple Of The Dog Vapour Trail — Ride I Want to Touch You — Catherine Wheel Sometimes — My Bloody Valentine Paper Doll — P.

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Return of Snapperhead

Side A of a mix tape I made for a friend but never sent. Welcome — Gino Latino Buffalo Gals II — Malcolm McLaren Dream of Me (Based on Love’s Theme) — Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark Sour Times — Portishead Army of Me — Björk Stars — Hum Leave Them All Behind — Ride Without Warning — Dokken Alone Again — Dokken Believe — Dig Fake Plastic Trees — Radiohead Beautiful World — Devo

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Radio Programming

More Music than Will Fit on a C90 Cassette (best played randomized) Don’t You Know What Love Is? — Touch Raise A Little Hell — Trooper Fantasy — Aldo Nova Juke Box Hero — Foreigner Hot Blooded — Foreigner Cold as Ice — Foreigner Head Games — Foreigner Double Vision — Foreigner Dirty White Boy — Foreigner Feels Like the First Time — Foreigner In the Dark — Billy Squier The Stroke — Billy Squier My Kinda Lover — Billy Squier You Know What I Like — Billy Squier Too Daze Gone — Billy Squier Lonely Is the Night — Billy Squier Whadda You Want from Me — Billy Squier Nobody Knows — Billy Squier I Need You — Billy Squier Don’t Say No — Billy Squier More Than a Feeling — Boston Peace of Mind — Boston Smokin' — Boston Hitch a Ride — Boston Something About You — Boston Let Me Take You Home Tonight — Boston Tom Sawyer — Rush Red Barchetta — Rush YYZ — Rush Limelight — Rush The Camera Eye — Rush Witch Hunt — Rush Vital Signs — Rush Ah!

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Portrait of a Young Man

Side B of a mix tape I made for a friend but never sent. In the 90s when I put this playlist together it wasn’t nearly so sentimental as now… Talk Talk — Talk Talk Kids In America — Kim Wilde The Metro — Terri Nunn Let the Music Play — Shannon I Know There’s Something Going On — Frida The Ghost in You — Psychedelic Furs Perfect Way — Scritti Politti Voices Carry — Til Tuesday You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) — Dead Or Alive Revenge of the Gardian — T99

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