Thursday, April 19, 2012

Barackin' Cartagena


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1. "Agente Secreto" - Los Shains

2. "Money (That's What I Want)" - Barret Strong

3. "CIA Man" - The Fugs

4. "He's a Whore" - Cheap Trick

5. "I Spy" - Beat Happening

6. "Love or Money" - The Wackers

7. "Shadow of Fear" - Last Knight

8. "Secret Agents (My Baby Loves the Secret Agent)" - The Detroit Cobras

9. "I Got My Eyes On You" - Rick Durham & the Dynamics

10. "Secret Agents" - Olympics

11. "Night of Fear" - The Move

12. "007 (Shanty Town)" - Desmond Dekker

13. "Sex Beat" - Gun Club

14. "I Spy (For the FBI)" - Jamo Thomas

15. "2manyboys" - Sugar Twins

16. "House of the Rising Sun (Rising Sun Blues)" - Clarence Ashely

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Mix Tape 009

The Desires


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1. "Summer of Miranda" - Toast - from "Fading Yellow #5" - from 1970?

2. "Teardrops are Falling" - Little Natalie & Henry - Roulette, 1964

3. "Rendezvous With You" - The Desires - 1960, originally The Students

4. "Sun Has Gone" - The Herd - Octopus, 1966

5. "Demons" - Yo La Tengo - originally appeared on the soundtrack to the 1995 film I Shot Andy Warhol (in which YLT appeared as a Velvet Underground-esque band).

6. "She's the One" - Shonen Knife - from " Osaka Ramones – Tribute to the Ramones" 2011

7. "Pass the Tu-Sheng-Peng" - Frankie Paul - Greensleeves, 1984

8. "She's the Girl for Me" - The Visions - from "Fort Worth Teen Scene!, Vol. 3" - their first release, originally on Vimco

9. "Daddy Rolling Stone" - Willy DeVille - from "Brace Yourself!: A Tribute to Otis Blackwell" - recorded by Blackwell in 1953

10. "No One To Tell Her" - Highlifes - 1966 from "Teen Blast USA! Volume 1"

11. "Ahora estoy sola" - Las Chics - 1967, la mexicana versión of "I Think We're Alone Now"

12. "At First Sight" - The Stems - from "Buds" 1991

13. "Don't Let Go" - Roy Hamilton - Epic, 1957, the original and best

14. "There's a Pain" - The Rockers - IGL, 1965

15. "Too Many Boys…So Little Time" - The Shimmys - from "Drive You Wild" 2009

16. "Devil With the Blue Dress" - Shorty Long - Soul, 1964 - the original and best

17. "My Kind of Girl" - Headstones - Pharaoh, 1966

18. "Who You Gonna Run To" - Mickey McCullers - VIP, 1964

19. "Daddy Rabbit" - Terry Fortune - Pink, 1960

20. "I'll Be Doggone" - Marvin Gaye - Motown, 1965

21. "Lover Boy" - Uncle & the Anteaters - National, 1967

22. "In My Own Way" - James Galt - Pye, 1965

Scan Credits:

Desires scan from http://doo-wop.blogg.org/

"Teardrops are Falling" scan from eBay

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Mix Tape 008

Magic Mushrooms 




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1. "Vista" - Guadalcanal Diary - from "Flip-Flop" 1989 - their final album

2. "She Told Me Lies" - The Chesterfield Kings - Mirror, 1984

3. "Don't Know" - Vistas - from a Misty Lane compilation, originally recorded in 1965.   They have routes in Vermont and possibly Melbourne, though I haven’t quite figured that out.

4. "A New Girl" - Debbie Dean - Motown, 1961 - come out wherever you are Smokey!

5. "Shoes" - Troll Controll - from "Trollshovda" 2011 - debut from a super Russian band

6. "True Love is Hard to Find" - The Tikis - from "Someone To Love - The Birth Of The San Francisco Sound"

7. "Raining Teardrops" - The Rockmasters - Romulus, 1963

8. "Never Let Go" - Magic Mushrooms - Philips, 1966

9. "Ooowee Baby" - The Supremes - kind of an oddity, Florence starts the song and that's her at the end too; they were the Primettes when this song was written but it was not recorded until 1964.

10. "Tomorrow is Yesterday" - The Gravedigger V - Voxx, 1984

11. "Here Comes My Baby" - Cat Stevens - From his first LP 'Matthew and Son' released in 1967

12. "It Hurts To Be Sixteen" - Andrea Carroll - Bigtop, 1963

13. "Never Had It Better" - Scott McCarl / Tearaways - from "Shoe Fetish: A Tribute to the Shoes"

14. "Change Your Mind" - The Counts - B-J, 1966

15. "Funny How Time Slips Away" - Joe Hinton - Back Beat, 1964

16. "When You Said Goodbye" - The Shades - Cadet, 1968

17. "I Love Her Still I Always Will" - The Lyres - from "Those Lyres" 1995 (originally 1986), cover of The Outsiders

18. "Glamour Girl" - Harvey & the Seven Sounds - from "Wisconsin Rocks Volume 8 Various Artists 1957-1967 Badger Rock"

19. "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" - The Persuaders - 1971, their biggest hit

20. "Raining Teardros" - Barrington Davis - [no relation to #7] - Spin, 1967 - from Melbourne

21. "I Saw You Walking" - Word D - from "Quagmire Vol. 3"

22. "Wagon Wheels" - The Bluenotes - Josie, 1957

23. "Shame On You" - Unknown Passage - 2005? - from "Enjoy the Greeks II"

24. "Scorpion" - The Carnations - Tilt, 1961

Scan Credits:

"A New Girl Girl" scan from http://motownjunkies.co.uk/

Magic Mushrooms scan from http://www.garagehangover.com/

"Glamour Girl" scan from http://www.soul-source.co.uk/

Bluenotes scan from http://classicurbanharmony.net/