My brother e-mails to say that "my big music obsession for the past couple months has been a major resurgence of mod stuff from the 60s... I can't get enough of fuzzed out guitars, harmonizing, flutes, paisley and headache-inducing album covers." And you know what, I can't either. So I asked for a mixtape, and he happily obliged. Peppering just the right amount of familiar names (Dusty Springfield, The Kinks, baroque-era Bee Gees) in amongst more forgotten gems (including a surprising track by a very young Bob Seger, before he grew a mullet and burst his lungs for Chevrolet), this mix spreads the mod/sunshine/psychedelic love. Download the lot here and be happy.
Tracklist after the jump:
- Death By Chocolate - Bentley Corniche
- The Flies - (Im Not Your) Stepping Stone
- The Small Faces - My Mind's Eye
- The Score - Please Please Me
- James Clarke - Blow Up A-Go-Go!
- Herman's Hermits - Museum
- The Creation - Life Is Just Beginning
- Tomorrow - My White Bicycle
- Bee Gees - Turn of the Century
- Jason James - Miss Pilkington's Maid
- Sandie Shaw - Girl Don't Come
- Mike Stevens And The Shevelles - The Go-Go Train
- Dusty Springfield - Spooky
- Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit Hurts
- Aquarian Age - 10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box
- Johnny Keating And His Orchestra - Theme From Z-Cars
- Edwick Rumbold - Boggle Woggle
- The Kinks - She's Got Everything
- Timebox - Soul Sauce
- Thee Midniters - Jump, Jive & Harmonize
- The Troggs - Cousin Jane
- The Bob Seger System - Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
- Kaleidoscope - A Dream For Julie
- Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Equestrian Statue
- Katch 22 - Thoughts On A Rainy Day
- Noel Harrison - Life Is a Dream
- Michel Legrand - Theme From The Thomas Crown Affair (The Windmills Of Your Mind)
- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Castle In The Sky
- The Monkees - As We Go Along
- The Andrew Oldham Orchestra - The Last Time
5 comments:
whoa, this looks brilliant, thank you and your brother. sounds perfect for helping me forget how stupidly cold and rainy it is here in the bay area.
ditto, sir.. thank you.. :)
if that is doing things to you, i dare say you might need to check out the trip: created by saint etienne:
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,3021581,00.html
total groovy delight all over town it is.
oh cool, i remember that mix. i never got around to checking it out for whatever reason, gonna look for it now.
I remember downloading that back in the day, it was ace indeed. I also remember them playing quite a few of those tracks when Bob Stanley DJ'd the London New Years Eve show I went to in 2004--that guitar-spiked Serge intro was their calling card for a few years.
The comp did not survive my multiple generations of computer since then. I will have to find it again.
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