What can I say about 2006? It was another year of crisis for The Brattle but that winter we hosted David Lynch so… pluses and minuses.
In terms of music, I was listening to a lot of songs featured on blogs – mostly Gorilla vs Bear if I remember correctly – and that led me to some great new music like CSS and Les Prototypes. I hope you like them too! Here is a playlist:
1996 was the summer that I stopped working at Sub Pop. I had had the lofty title of “Vice President in Charge of Tour Coordination” and, at 24, was making what seemed like a lot of money. Unfortunately, the job required me to be on top of a lot of…
This certainly seems like the year when I was becoming musically ‘awake.’ I have very strong memories of playing Lou Reed’s Mistrial on my walkman endlessly. Sadly, most of the songs that I remember loving from that one have not aged well – “Video Violence” and “Original Wrapper” were favorites…
As far as I’m concerned, this could just be 90 minutes of just “Cherry Bomb” and “Roadrunner” and it would still be an awesome mix… But there are also a bunch of other great songs from this summer!
Alice Cooper put out his second-in-a-row concept album this summer with Alice Cooper Goes to Hell – unfortunately, the world tour was completely canceled due to Alice’s anemia (??? — so says Wikipedia) but we can still dream about him singing “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” in a tailcoat and top hat.
This mix can somehow both be short enough to truly be called a mixtape AND contain a 15-minute Fela Kuti track and that, in the context of the rest of these increasingly lengthy playlists, seems like a small miracle! Please enjoy:
Again, just trying to keep these 2010s playlists under 2 hours… The sheer volume of albums released in these years is just crazy!
I am so far behind on these lists… Oh well! Here’s some music from the summer of 2005!
At this point, I’m just trying to keep these things under 2 hours…
Another summer of formative music for me… You got your REM, your Dead Milkmen, Husker Du, Talking Heads, Eddie Murphy, etc, etc. I honestly can’t say right now which of these songs I was into at the time. But I know one thing for sure – and this project has forced me to come to terms with this fact – I just don’t like Megadeth. Their seminal album “Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying” was released in the summer of 1985 and I felt pressure to include one of the tracks in this playlist but… That voice. I just can’t with Dave Mustaine’s nasal whininess.
So, please enjoy this Megadeth-free “mixtape”:
In case you’ve been following along the whole time, I started out thinking that I was going to go through these ‘mixtapes’ chronologically starting with the 1970s but I quickly realized that it would be more fun to jump decades each week. …
Late again! This is technically last week’s mixtape so there will be a second one later this week when we return to the 1970s.
I think that I’ve lamented before that it’s not all that interesting to put together a playlist from a year that is so recent – or, at least, it’s not as interesting as working on the earlier decades – but that’s not to say that some excellent songs didn’t debut in the summer of 2014.
Here it is:
