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Monday, January 02, 2006
Part III of our new year's mix... scroll down for tracks 1-14, and check in tomorrow for the final installment.
15) TEENAGE KICKS
Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague
Peace Frog : 2004
[Buy It]
16) AN OPEN LETTER TO MY TEENAGE SON
Victor Lundberg
An Open Letter To My Teenage Son
Liberty : 1967
Courtesy of: Bad Music
[Buy It]
17) BROOKLYN PUBLIC
J-Live
The Hear After
Penalty : 2005
[Buy It]
18) STICKS & STONES
Titus "Tee" Turner
c. 1958
Available on: Soulville: Golden Classics
[Buy It]
19) CHALLENGE TO THE HIPPIES
Spiro Agnew
Spiro Agnew Speaks Out
Courtesy of: Bad Music
[Buy It]
20) RHYMIN' & RAPPIN
Paulette & Tanya "Sweet Tea" Winley
Winley : 1979
Available on Death Mix: The Best of Paul Winley Records
[Buy It]
21) FUNKY KINGSTON
Toots & The Maytals
Dragon : 1972
Available on: Pressure Drop: The Definitive Anthology
[Buy It]
NOTES:
15) Teenage Kicks is Nouvelle Vague's take on The Undertones' greatest hit, and a nice set-up for:
16) Victor Lundberg's open letter to his teenage son, and the trouble with libertarians.
17) "Brooklyn Public" is J-Live's autobiographical slice of life in Brooklyn's public school system. I was happy with the segue here, and - as an alumni of Brooklyn's public school system - I'll say that this song is sad-making, but ultimately hopeful: We could do worse than set J-Live loose in America's classrooms. Also, this song reminds me of the guy I met on Black Friday.
18) Franklin Bruno posted this song on MW last June, when I asked him to write something to go along with his excellent abecedary on Elvis Costello's Armed Forces. And guess what? The song kicks ass. Produced by Ray Charles, who also cut a version. But Turner's got a loosey-goosey/tight-as-fuck thing happening - a unique take on the tighten-up, which almost reminds me of some of the Toots & The Maytals stuff you'll find in this mix.
19) They don't make politicians like Spiro Agnew anymore! Or, do they?
20) They don't make them like Paulette & Tanya "Sweet Tea" Winley, either. How old are these girls - 12? My favorite part is when Sweet Tea goes to heaven and all the angels agree that she's "rockin' the whole damned place."
21) Like so many American soul singers, Toots Hibbert was a preacher's kid, who grew up in the church (7th Day Adventist, natch). And, like so many American soul singers, he's not afraid to show it.Labels: alex, holidays
posted by Alex
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