Today I'm going to battle a pretty cool blog that I check out fairly regularly, http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/. They also have a show on Sirius/XM every Friday that I catch once in a while. They have this playlist available for download, I think it's a great mix, go get it. After you download it as a zip every song is available for individual download. Here's their description:
Sean Howe and Aquarium Drunkard are back with L.A. Burnout 2: Still Burnt. Continuing in the vein of last year’s L.A. Burnout, the 25 tracks compiled within exemplify the not-quite-there nature of the city, particularly what was being laid down in the 70s. Play this mix around dusk while driving through Topanga with the windows rolled down — it’s the next best thing to time travel.
And now the playlist that I will be battling...
Brian Wilson – Smog High
Shango – Day After Day
The Originals – California Sunset
Brewer & Shipley – Dreamin’ In The Shade
The Mamas & The Papas – Mansions
Hill Barbata Ethridge – L.A. Getaway
Terry Melcher – Rebecca
Terry Allen – There Oughta Be A Law Against Sunn…
The Everly Brothers – Ventura Boulevard
Boffalongo – Snow White Lady
Charles Lloyd – TM
New Riders Of The Purple Sage – High Rollers
The Main Ingredient – California My Way
Ned Doheny – Postcards From Hollywood
Orange Colored Sky – L.A. (Los Angeles)
Boz Scaggs – Hollywood
Johan Blomgren – California Sundown
Tim Buckley – Freeway Blues
Don Everly – Southern California
Terry Melcher – Beverly Hills
Bobby Womack – Daylight
Art Garfunkel – 99 Miles from L.A.
Ambulance LTD – Arbuckle’s Swan Song
Leon Ware – Why I Came to California
Gabor Szabo – Theme From Valley of the Doll
Don Everly – Southern California
and my shuffle from my Macbook iTunes:
The Beatles - "And I Love Her" (from Hard Days Night)
Antenna - "Blood Red" (John Strohm and Freda Love formed this band after the Blake Babies, the Blake Babies are better known as being the first band of Julianna Hatfield and Evan Dando (Lemonheads))
Citizens' Utilities - "A Tale of Good Living"
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers - "13 Months of Sunshine"
bis - "Listen Up"
Clinic - "Earth Angel"
Louis Armstrong - "Indiana"
James Taylor - "Country Road" (man, this is turning out to be a kind of weird shuffle, get your act together iTunes!)
Franz Ferdinand - "Tell Her Tonight" (demo) (for all you aspiring artists this is what a band sounds like before they put some real money into the recording process)
The Pattern - "Finger Us"
Mates of State - "My Only Offer" (I've mentioned these guys as a song of the day, one of the 2 piece bands I've been talking about)
The Tragically Hip - "As Makeshift As We Are" (Did you know that Gordy Downie has a new album? I always hated the name Gordy for some reason, actually I know why, some guy in high school that bugged me was named Gordy. But I love the hip's gordy, cool, distinct voice, great songwriter. The album is called The Grand Bounce and was released a couple months ago)
Ben Lee - "Nighttime" (I've liked Ben Lee since I first heard him as a 14 year old recording artist, the songs were so raw and innocent, this song is from the album Breathing Tornadoes, which I didn't get at first because the over use of drum machine was a distraction, but now I love it for the song writing, great album)
Butterglory - "Fight Fight Fight" (one of the original indie pop bands, right up there with belle and sebastian but more lo-fi)
Red House Painters - "Between Days" (OK, it took a bit for the shuffle to warm up but now I'm in a good mood, 25 songs today since that's what Aquarium Drunkard threw out there, btw - the guy from this band, Mark Kozelek, is now the lead in Sun Kil Moon)
The Changes - "In the Dark"
Koko Taylor - "Wang Dang Doodle" (sneaking in some blues? um, nope take it back please, not today...although it is from World Cafe and a live version, kinda cool)
Sweater Girl - "Star" (sort of similar to Butterglory, unusual that these two bands would come up in the same shuffle)
Tracy Bonham - "Behind Every Good Woman" (is the song title the female version of Groucho Marx's quote "behind every good man is his wife...and behind her is his mistress"?)
The New Pornographers - "Letter from an Occupant" (Neko Case turned 40 this week, good for her, I'm not sure if she's a parent but if she is put her in the hall of fame of "parents who have not lost touch")
Liz Phair - "Stuck on a Island" (this is from a Matador Records compilation CD, this song was an outtake from White Chocolate Spaceegg and never released)
Nada Surf - "Where is My Mind?" (this is from a Pixies tribute album, BAD DAD Scotty will like this!) Saturday block party right? http://www.baddadband.com/
Athlete - "Airport Disco"
Badly Drawn Boy - "Bewilder" (not really a song, it's one of those interludes some bands like to use, so I'll put a real song from the album below, he has a new album coming out October 4th, It's What I'm Thinking)
They Might Be Giants - "Rabid Child"
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Calvin"
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