Various Artists

Its summer mix season!

as not to dilute their essences, I divided todays music into two seperate folders, once you download them theres nothing to stop you from mixing them or throwing them all away though.

Disc 1 is Breezy ZIP 54.6 MB
01. Sheila - adios amor
02. Rita Pavone - scrivi
03. Michèle Mercier - la fille qui fait tchic ti tchic
04. All Stars Orchestra avec Pierre Sellin et les Heavenly Singers - Naked dames in furs
05. Nan Wynn & Victor Mature - oh, the pity of it all
06. Stenia Kozlowska - jak cie mily zatrzymac
07. Annie Girardot - la femme faux cils
08. Jerry Goldsmith -ladies will kindly remove their hats
09. Rocío Dúrcal - Contenta
10. Paul Small Orchestra - Thousand Goodnights
11. Piero Piccioni - A Place to Hide
12. The Rhythmakers - whos sorry now
13. The Raindrops - Kind of Boy You Can't Forget
14. Soledad Miranda - lo que hace a las chicas llorar
15. Christy - amore amore amore (with Piero Piccioni)
(15 total)
Soundtrack selections, girl singers and groups, a dash of 30s jazz, this one is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Disc 2 is Jammy ZIP 96.9
selected tracks:
01. Fox - s-s-s-single bed
02. Bagarre - lemonsweet (disco version)
03. Los Angeles T.F. - everliving fever
04. Mistral - Jamie
05. The Voyagers - Distant Planet (Vocal)
06. Babaluga - My Paradise (Extended Mix)
07. Temper - No Favors
08. Vicious Pink - always hoping
09. Sinnamon - I Need You Now
10. Neon - Skydiver
11. Sunbelt - spin it
12. Tara - fresh flesh
(12 total)

I remember growing up in a small town in Vermont, with very limited contacts to music. I remember being 7 or so and staring at the cover of my mom's South Pacific record cover (I was baffled that she was wearing coconuts on her breasts. I don't care what a GIS tells you the cover looks like, I remember. maybe it was the back) And playing the one tape I owned "Phantom of the Opera" and some of my parents tapes I could scrounge, the Beatles or Motown if I was lucky. There was the radio too, the only two songs I remember it playing are Achey Breaky Heart and Cats Cradle. And thats only because we learned to line dance to Achey Breaky heart in gym class, and once on my school bus everyone started singing along to Cats Cradle, even though we were all 6-11 years old we all knew it was an emotional song and so emoted with the proper amount of vim. A big event was when the Tunbridge Worlds Fair would come to our state. Not to "town" because nothing came to our town, but several towns over. Other than the games and foods of sugar and fried dough what I remember is the one ride. It was probably one of the tamest rides there, just a car that rode around a wavy track like this but what was interesting about it was the music. It played something I'd never heard before. A sound alien and intoxicating to me. It played eurodisco! Eurodisco had come to small rural Vermont. I swear one of the songs it played was "Spin It" by Sunbelt, but I could just be imagining that. Anyway this "Jammy" mix reminds me of that ride way back when.



If these get taken down too Im cancelling box.net and just going with megaupload.

A song for us all:
Jack Buchanan & Elsie Randolph - Like Monday Follows Sunday

Whoa you guys, there are some seriously badass songs here. Even liamtheruiner would like the mix as for once I fell in love with some lyrics. Lots of minimal synth and 60s rock n'pop. Lucky Blondo starts it off smoothly sidling up to you like a romeo or an assassin with his perfect 60s french ballad. Alvi & The Alviettes's Cologne via Taiwan minimal synth funk jam sounds like it could've come out now, though it was released in 1983. Danish Copyfokking did come out now, and their dance track makes bowel releasing use of the low end. My favorite of this bunch is probably the exuberantly creepy Jerry Angelo track, a sock hop song about being a controlling boyfriend. Polish Trzy Korony do some suave guitar work in their 60s rock tune. Minimal wave Sluik run the worst suicide hotline in their song "open window". Surf Bunny Beach is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Mitty Collier sings an impeccable soul song, followed by Pankow who provided a high momentum Italian industrial din. The Hollywood Jills have hands down the best vocals this time around with their girl group song, both hilarious and spot on. From Singapore Naomi & the Boys take off with their do a fuzzed out pop song, god I love that climax. Jo Lemaire And Flouze slow burn with their Serge Gainsbourg cover. A live Testcard F rev you up live, and Geile Tiere assure you the weather will be fine. Finally The Cryan' Shames bring it all home with their epic. Get it quick before it gets taken down by the man like the last mix!

Various Artists 8 ZIP 67.0 MB DELETED AGAIN FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT :( :(
01. Lucky Blondo - j'ai un secret à te dire
02. Alvi & The Alviettes - I'll Go To
03. Copyfokking - knippelsuppe (budas edit)
04. Jerry Angelo - three deadly sins
05. Trzy Korony - port
06. Sluik - Open Window
07. the surf bunnys - surf bunny beach
08. Mitty Collier - would you have listened
09. pankow - english waitresses
10. hollywood jills - he makes me so mad
11. Naomi & the Boys - bad loser
12. Jo Lemaire And Flouze - Je suis venir te dire que je m'en vais
13. Testcard F - Bandwagon tango (Peel Session)
14. geile tiere - just in case
15. Cryan' Shames - baltimore oriole

Top 100 Most Exquisite Songs Of All Time (70-61) *

*My favorite songs from my life 2002-2007

70)Snowy Red - Breakdown
Belgium: 1984
A saxophone is a dangerous thing to add into a synthpop song. Particularly in the 80s. However you'll find few synthpop songs as discriminating or as gorgeous as "Breakdown". Carol duets with the man who is Snowy Red in this wistful classic.

69)Forward Kwenda - Tadzugaira & Gonamombe Rerume
Zimbabwe: 1997
This is one of the songs I would take refuge in during the emotional rollercoaster days of high school. A voice that seems to embody sadness and the mbira plays its theme with its strange alien sound that's both rhythmic and melodic.

68)La Bionda - I Wanna Be Your Lover
Italy: 1980
Whereas Snowy Red maximized synthpop's bittersweet potential, La Bionda take it to its playful arch extreme here. Though well ordered and structured with precision there's a feeling of a circus of sounds. Synth lines sparkle and shimmy and change colors and are supplanted by newer and more bizaare sounds in a flash. The chorus is flawless as well.

67)Brother Bones & His Shadows - Lou-Easy-An-I-A
America: 1940s [date unknown by me]
Brother Bones, the best whistler this side of the rainbow puts on a romp of a jazz tune here. The percussion sounds for all the world like dancing down a street. Effortlessly the horns get their hooks in you, the bass propels you forward and by the time Bones is whistling you find you're already out the door to Lou-Easy-An-I-A.

66)J Walter Negro and the Loose Jointz - Shoot the Pump
United States: 1981
A silly and sort of epic tale winds through this latin-hip hop track. This song encapsulates sort of how I imagine NYC in the 80s. Sassy, hot, tragic, funky.

65)Alredo Clerici - T'Ho Visto Piangere
Italy:1941
It seems to me the mp3 I have of this song has been ripped from vinyl and has gotten distorted in the process. This is actually one of the main reasons I find myself attracted to this song. The horn introduction sounds otherworldly. The distortion also gives the brass climax an unusual edge. Lastly the "T'ho Visto Piangere" refrain gets stuck in my head with ease and regularity.

64)Krzystof Komeda - Sarah in Bath
Poland:
As short as Tadzugaira & Gonamombe Rerume was long, its a simple acapella piece that is wonderfully sexy, and needs not any analysis.

63)Man Parrish - Heatstroke (mix)
United States:1983
The bubbling synth, vocoder domination, disco chorus flourishes, and amazing bass earn this song the title the JAM. I feel/ Heatstroke

62)Supercreep - Dissmissalism
United States: 1990s/2000s? [actual date is unknown to me]
A glam strut. The melding of synth, "la la's" and piano feels very convincingly here while in other songs they can feel like sham adornments (I'm looking at you britpop). I also adore the breakdown.

61)Gene Kelly - Singin In the Rain
United States: 1952
This is one of my all time favorite songs. I have no idea what it's doing way up at 61. The next 60 songs better be killer. This is one of the rare songs in which the lyrics are a major factor in my love. It's spirit and joie de vivre is surely something I aspire to. Luckily I've never watched Clockwork Orange and HAVE watched Singin' In the Rain a bunch of times, so I see only a one of the most marvelous cinematic scenes in my head attached to this.

[deleted by box.net due to copyright violation complaint, hope you got it in time folks!]

The two major themes here are the dark clouded laments of female singers from places like Brazil, Iceland, and Poland and a range of synthesizer dreampop with the normal wildcards of straight up pop and dance, italian scores, soul, tango, and 30s Jazz.

Various Artists 6 Zip 69.6 MB
01. Maysa - Pálida Ausencia
02. Herman Kenin - There's A Place In The Sun For You
03. La Roux - Reflections are Protection
04. arms of someone new - every seventh wave
05. Piero Umiliani - bob and hellen
06. Guðrún Á. Símonar - Af Rauðum Vörum
07. Friday Bridge - love and nostalgia
08. Veronica Maggio - Måndagsbarn
09. Disasters - Oh My God, This Sound...
10. Honey & the Bees - i'm confessin'
11. miguel calo - el vals soñador
12. Setha - dteuu
13. peter gordon & love of life orchestra - congo
14. Marta Mirska - pierwszy siwy wlos

Rapping Woman to Woman Zip 45.5 MB

There's a lot of well done characteristics to celebrate in soul music. The use of bass and horns or the passionate bittersweet vocals. And here we revel in vocals, but rather than the explosive vocals you might expect, this is a collection of songs featuring wonderful spoken interludes by the women of soul. It's more than mere exposition, they are often the stories of the song themselves, filled with humor, insight, infidelity and scorn. Enjoy the stories!

1. Laura Lee - since i fell for you
2. Millie Jackson - the rap
3. Ann Sexton - I'm His Wife (you're just a friend)
4. Shirley Brown - woman to woman
5. Marlena Shaw - Go Away, Little Boy
6. Doris Duke - feet start walking
7. Linda Jones - Your Precious Love

I lost all my playlists because my itunes became corrupted, so another pause on the countdown and all the fun mixes i had :(

another lazyman post of youtube:

Lilli Berlin & Zeltinger - True Love

For our third in the series of pitting two soundtracks from the same composer against each other for no good reason, we match
Sette Uomini D'Oro [1965]


against
Adulterio all'Italiana [1966]


by Amrando Trovaioli. Armando composed over 200 soundtracks and musicals, and during the 60s was married to gorgeous Sicilian Pier Angeli; he wouldn't be embarrassed to come to high school reunions. usual disclaimer: I most likely haven't seen any of the films mentioned, and its use in the actual film is not considered, all judgments are made purely from a music collectors standpoint.

Round 1: Main Vocal Theme
Anna Identici sings the main theme to Sette Uomini D'Oro heard here
Carmen Villani sings the main theme to Adulterio all'Italiana heard here
Adulterio is obviously influenced by the beat music which infected Italy from England. Carmen enthusiastically vamps and moans after a call and response with a male chorus. She steals the show from the guitar heavy instrumentation which is fine for the song, but usually worrisome in these cases for the rest of the soundtrack which likely was the base or will be based off parts of the song.
Sette is a lovely languid affair. Consisting mainly of plaintive organ topped by whistles, unobtrusive acoustic guitar and bass, with Anna's more restrained but sweet sounding vocals the song manages to be both a little unusual and beautiful. It's unsualness and more open relaxed form would seem to lend itself better to breaking down and variations used by soundtrack composers throughout other parts of the film.
Round 1 winner Sette Uomini D'Oro

Round 2: Vocal Variations
Sette's Seven Golden Men
Adulterio's Bada Caterina funny version
in Adulterio Villani already scatted her way through it so the real difference here is the toned down energy and instruments. The theme works very well as a mid tempo romp and Carmen's playfulness is matched well by the guitar.
Sette actually has a lot more wordless vocal theme's than Adulterio, all of which depart from Identici's song's style in favor of a jazzy uptempo boy/girl (The organ/whistling is taken up repeatedly in the theme titled "Rosanna") which while fun, is not something we haven't heard before.
Round 2 winner Adulterio all'Italiana

Round 3: Third Themes
Sette's themes were "Rosanna" found in the main vocal theme and elswhere, its 2nd theme was "Seven Golden Men" the fleet jazz vocals, and has a couple tertiary themes after those. both of those tertiary themes are a little weak to my ears, here is Brick Top
Adulterio's Main theme was Bada Caterina, and it's secondary theme was really "Io Brillo e Bollo" as yet unmentioned and it also had a couple tertiary themes. Here first is an instrumental version of Io Brillo e Bollo which is excellent, but really the star is the vocal version again with Carmen Villani. I think it's even better than Bada Caterina. The third string themes are "Scarpe Gialle" which is again not as strong as the rest, but also included are more interesting songs like "adulterio all' italiana sirtaki shake" a sort of "Zorba the Greek" type interlude which give Adulterio a stronger over all position.
Round 3 winner Adulterio all'Italiana

WINNER Adulterio all'Italiana!!! after being staggered in round 1, Adulterio proves that you can't count out italian beat music for soundtracks, and rocky beats jazzy in an upset.

Adulterio all'Italiana OST
Sette Uomini D'Oro OST

Top 100 Most Exquisite Songs Of All Time (80-71) *

*My favorite songs from my life 2002-2007

80)Anibal Troilo - A Mis Viejos
Argentina: 1963
The opening to this song is wonderful simple pleasure for me. The piano flows with such movement, like the rolling of a red carpet down a stairway. While the piano line originally captured my interest, it is soon hidden, a beast stalking underneath a beautiful jungle of strings. The apocryphal story of tango [read: horrible legend] is that it was born in Buenos Aires brothels, a pantomimed knife fight between two males cheered on by the prostitutes. It doesn't matter if its true. What matters is that present in the music is that near predatory lust which can go from cagey to explosive at the drop of a hat.

79)Xiu Xiu - Suha
United States: 2002
"Suha" feels like a slide into resignation. Xiu Xiu always appealed to me with their unusual sonic burbles that at once sounded familiar, as if they were representations of something internal. You can hear the burbles here as he starts the second line, I suppose they come from a heavily processed guitar that seems to get hit occasionally throughout the verses and is actually strummed during the chorus. As much as the light organ (or is it accordian?) sound sets a despondent mood, those little gurgles are why I love Xiu Xiu. From the singers voice to the mild horn climax, the whole song sounds like a perfect slab of raw emotion.

78)The Pentagons - To Be Loved (Forever)
United States: 1961
Another visceral song, The Pentagons "To Be Loved (Forever)" sets quite a different tone. From the saxophone sliding up into the signature doo wop "aaahhh aaaaaah aaaaahhh aaaah" into the opening line "To be in love/and not to be alone" wrapped in "oooooh oooooh's" sounds almost to me like someone pouring the embrace of a loved one into my ears. The rest of the song is merely excellent until he hits the falsetto and then for the last part of the song it returns to its velvety ecstasy.

77)Severed Heads - Harold And Cindy Hospital
Australia: 1986
"Harold and Cindy Hospital" starts off with a sort of industrial grunting followed by a pitch bent horn sample that kicks into a wicked sounding synth. Though for this section of the countdown so far there have been many excellent song openings, this one I think is my favorite. However it suffers like The Pentagons song with a slight drag in the middle as no new elements are added, but is likewise propelled into further glory in its third act which introduces a heavenly synth noise, and the song ascends into a warm place.

76)Pippilotti Rist - Wicked Game ("I'm a Victim of this Song")
Switzerland: 1998
Chris Isaak channeled Roy Orbison's mellifluous tones in the original version, in a song of wonderfully smoldering longing, but in this cover Pippilotti Rist's screams pierce through, exposing that the molten magma underneath. Rist's accented singing might jar the smoothness, but the payoff is grand. Though I take a more solemn view, this incidentally is the song most likely to elicit giggles from passengers when it comes on shuffle in my car.

75)The Flirts - Helpless
United States: 1984
This Bobby O produced track has about as much finesse and subtlety of well, the 80s. It is however, a warhorse of a dance track, steady and inevitable yet with a bit of a jittery touch.

74)Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
United States: 1988
Goodbye horses/I'm flying over you. Of course most of us were introduced to this song under... disturbing circumstances. But even divorced from its associations with Buffalo Bill, Precious and a starving girl, (or preferably divorced, I'm not a huge serial killer fan, or poodle fan come to that) the song is potent and mysterious. The instrumentation is slightly otherworldly. The vocals are assured, smooth and dark. The lyrics are enigmatic and conjure slips of dread.

73)Sexual Harrassment - If I Gave You A Party (Syrup version)
United States: 1984 (remix by Syrup 2001)
From the guy who wrote "I Need a Freak" comes this slightly spastic party jam. The vocals are completely redone to sound more abrasive and also more lively, the instrumentation is opened up a bit, the short clipped rhythm of the original is maintained but now there is a guitar and bass which dance along giving the song more of a flow. See also Mu's "Tell You Something" for a very similar style of song, which I could interchange with this track on the list.

72)Anna Identici - La Lunga Stagione Dell' Amore
Italy: 1970
The opening is brilliant. Forceful, delicate and gorgeous. The verses let Anna paint waves with the soft watercolor brushstrokes of her voice. The backing chorus of "Aaahhs" (of which I am always a sucker) sound peculiarly distant and timeless. By the time we reach 2 minutes in, the diversion of "La La La's" with the opening chords played again is absolutely sublime. This song would be much closer to the top 10 if I hadn't discovered it so recently thereby in actuality making it ineligible for this entire list.

71)Goldfrapp - Pilots
England: 2001
(Not to be confused with "Pilots (on a star)" which has added embellishments polluting its pristine skies) It is quite aptly orchestrated as the song masterfully gives a sensation of gliding through the clouds. Not in a loud bulky airplane, but in a peter pan dream-like way. From the underrated Felt Mountain. Heavenly.

I'm not dead! I just moved. let's get onto business...
More of the 60s (and some 50s and 70s) sensual Italian torch songs sung by beautiful and talented women. Meant to fill your heart with longing, enjoy.

Cobblestones, Heels, and Heartache Vol 2 Zip 56.4 MB

La Lunga Stagione Dell' Amore Anna Identici
Un Sorriso Milva
Potrai Fidarti Di Me Carmen Villani
Lui Rita Pavone
La ballata del tempo Lea Massari
Sorridono Louiselle
amore di donna Anna Marchetti
Sinno' Me Moro Alida Chelli
Domani ti sposi Ornella Vanoni
Pioggia Katyna Ranieri
Eh Già La Ragazza Del Clan
Innamorata Io Lolita
la bambola Patty Pravo
Tu sei quello Orietta Berti
Non ho l'eta per amarti Patricia Carli
Lontano Dagli Occhi Mary Hopkin
Io Sono Quel Che Sono Mina


hey check it out, I can write on jpegs!

Top 100 Most Exquisite Songs Of All Time (90-81) *

*My favorite songs from my life 2002-2007

I thought adding a date and country of origin would be interesting, although even before doing a statistical analysis I know where and when my ear most likes to be.
Country is picked on where the musician or band hailed from or is most associated with. It's of course tricky, for instance Benjamin "Bert" Ambrose was born in England, grew up in the United States and ping ponged a bit between the two countries before finally hitting it big with a steady gig in England.

90)Riz Ortolani - Killer's Weapon
Italy: 1967
It's brief. The guitar is the swirling of dust and the hot breath of anticipation held inside your chest. And then after a quick rumble of drums, the horns kick into town; heroic and untouchable. Swiftly they've passed through, leaving corpses of whatever Doubt was foolish enough to stick around.

89)Marie Laforêt - La Vendemmia Dell' Amore
France: 1964
I'll admit a bit of a nostalgia factor might have influenced the picking of this particular song (and the fact that it's the Italian language version rather than French). Lucky for my integrity and your ears it's hard to go wrong with a Marie Laforet song in any event. Her music seems to me to have an austere classical structure with ornate and elegant production. Furthermore while the bulk of ye-ye singers have voices like soda-pop, Marie has a voice like vino rosso. In this song about 'the grape harvest of love' string and flutes accompany Marie on an idyllic September romance among the vines.

88)Rita Pavone - Datemi un martelo
Italy: 1964
Ostensibly a cover of "If I Had a Hammer", it is in the great tradition of the non-english speaking music world, a cover only in melody, not in words or meaning. While the original was a political folk song, the sprightly Rita is just having fun. The whole song is mischief. The background has the clank and murmur of a party, as in Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up (Pt 1)". Hand claps, call and response choruses, silly lyrics, and Rita's cute sounding vocals, make a fan out of me. This is a good one to search for on youtube too.

87)DNTEL - Why I'm So Unhappy
United States: 2001
It's unclear whether the twittery trip-hop/glitch beat ages well, but what I come for is the dreamed out fizz. During this era Jimmy Tamborello (who is DNTEL, featuring guests vocalists such as on this song Rachel Haden) was a to me something of a wizard at conjuring the melting edges of dreamstates through ocean waves of electronics and a twisting whirlpool of guitar.

86)Bert Ambrose & His Orchestra - Good Evening
England: 1930
The word "jaunty" never felt more at home than as a descriptor for this song. "Good Evenin'" is simple and straightforward, yet never fails to put some swagger in my step. Upbeat horns and strings and a delightfully effete croon (sadly I'm not clever enough to identify the singer) makes me want to suck in the breath of life and wink at girls, with just enough magic left in the tune to make me believe I wouldn't get slapped.

85)Huey "Piano" Smith & his clowns - If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another
United States: 1962
An absolutely infectious romp, starring an ensemble of vocals supported by horns and a piano. When the girl chorus refrain comes in I lose it and get an unstoppable urge to wag my finger.

84)Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You
Australia: 2004
Kylie has several times hit pop perfection, and this is certainly such a moment of glorious effervescence. It has the double whammy of the 'glitter synth' and chorus that makes you feel like you're dancing in the arms of Kylie (her whispering must help to this effect). Who could possibly top this pop hit?

83)ABBA - Take A Chance On Me
Sweden: 1977
ABBA did pop perfection as default. It goes without saying that the vocal interplay is the main appeal here, though I also find the lyrics strangely fascinating. If you're all alone/after the pretty birds have flown. Such exuberant settling! Also I swear they say listen to some music/maybe just cocaine at some point, but I'm sure that's just my imagination.

82)Claude Debussy - Nuages
France: 1899
Ok this way predates the 2002 starting date I set for myself, as it is one of the first "classical music" pieces I fell in love with back in high school (1998?). My portal to the world of orchestras and dead composers was Debussy and "Prelude a L'apres d'un faune". I went out and bought a CD with that piece and "La Mer" and some nocturnes including "Nuages". Listening to Debussy is about harmonies as much as anything and I remember being so fascinated by the series of chords at 2:23 and again at 3:30. The whole song is lush, gorgeous and melancholic.

81)André Popp - Ophelia
France: 1972
A tune both gaseous and purposeful. Maybe like a gas leak left on by a hitman giving you your last few minutes of strange light-headed bliss before curtains for Tintin. The second act of the song, with the electric piano (or whatever that is) and muted guitar manages to come on more seductively than the cooing woman of the first act. A fantastic song.

Next: 80-71

Top 100 Most Exquisite Songs Of All Time*

*or less bombastically, my favorite songs from the period of my life 2002-2007

If you know me and this journal, chances are you've seen/heard many of the songs in this countdown. This is for the obvious reason being this journal's existence is to share my favorite music. But lists are fun and I hope you enjoy it anyway. I made no concessions to balance out the styles that dominate or are neglected and some artists are repeated, one of them six times I believe.

100)Faun Fables - Girl That Said Goodbye
United States: 2001
Faun Fables is mostly the work of one Californian Dawn McCarthy. This song features acoustic guitar, recorder and the vocals of Dawn. There are plenty of plucked/strummed acoustic guitar and recorder combo songs I don't love, and what makes this one special is well, the melody and vocal execution. Well aren't I off to a smashingly elucidating start.

99)Antonio Carlos Jobim & Luiz Bonfa - Manha de Carnaval
Brazil: 1959
This one might deserve to be higher in the list, but the order until the top 20 is entirely mercurial. This song is from the film Orfeu Negro. Its composer needs no introduction. The humming over the guitar is enrapturing enough, but somehow is even heightened once she (the singer, name unknown to me) breaks into the words, the roll of the Portuguese on her tongue gives it even more shape and impact.

98)Doris Monteiro - Vamos Partir Pro Mundo
Brazil: 1971
We're staying in Brazil for the next one, in fact Doris actually recorded the first compositions of Jobim. One might call this song "sappy" sounding, but my first impression was that the song sounded like Love. Ok that is sappy. Vamos Partir Pro Mundo bears many of the hallmarks of the next composer's music too, hallmarks I can't get enough of. Pulsing horns, vocals like waves and some beautiful impressionistic chords.

97)Ennio Morricone - Matto, Caldo, Soldi, Morto... Girotondo
Italy: 1969
Morricone is the master, and I'll go ahead and say upfront that it is he who appears the most on this countdown. This song is from Vergogna Schifosi and as most of the best his best soundtracks do, it features Edda Dell'Orso. It starts off with some hypnotic chanting, and then becomes this wonderful magical swirl sound. I think what I love best and is most successful about Morricone for me is his soft and gorgeous textures he milks from the timbre of his often unusual instrumentation.

96)Don't Be A Stranger - Yellow Moon
Sweden: 2007
Swedish "indie" if you will and I won't thank you. To me the song very successfully conveys a longing that tugs and tugs. A more direct if less graceful "Manha de Carnaval".

95)Al B Sure! - Noche Y Dia
United States: 1988
In the 80s, Giorgio Moroder upped the ante for the electro-ballad with "Take My Breath Away" (performed by Berlin). A year later the romantic quarterback of New Jack Swing Al B Sure! would come out with Nite and Day. I'm not sure why I prefer the spanish version of this song, It's just the one I always find myself playing.

94)Alexander Von Borsig - Hiroshima
Germany: 1982
The buzz "Hiroshima" starts out in is either the smoldering wreckage or the tension in the air just before, until slowly the lilting refrain creeps in. Soon a dichotomy emerges between the cold repetitive chants and the breathless grasping and screams of a second voice. The result is a sort of leaden whimsy.

93)Gigliola Cinquetti - Quando M'Innamoro
Italy: 1968
The chorus. oh the chorus. The chorus achieves what Gigliola's contemporary Mina (whom will be quite at home on this list) often does at her best, it inhabits my motor cortex. I feel like I have one of those Donnie Darko bubble snakes coming out of my chest that ducks and weaves and contracts with the rhythm, dynamics, and descending melodic motion. The rest of the song is cake too, with a nice little horn line, and some flute like bluebirds in the garden of love. Yes I have corny tastes. Well those of you who think so might be glad for the next song.

92)Swans - Fool
United States: 1986
The piano sounds like it's about to collapse on the floor and the guitar sounds like its just the kind of jerk to help push it down. And the vocals, the vocals sound like they need a shave. With menace and just a glint of steel, "Fool" muscles its way onto the top 100.

91)Patty Pravo - La Bambola
Italy: 1968
This song was my introduction to the world of the 60s Italian songstresses and it was a bit spoiling, like french-kissing instead of shaking hands. A tug of war between the guitar, Patty's voice and the orchestral strings in a high energy tour de force. Yeah I just said Tour De Force like some sort of high falutin' dandy reviewer.

Next: 90-81

This is the most incredible thing I've seen/heard in a while


Which reminds me, there will be more Cobblestones, Heels, and Heartaches. That mix might not have gotten a lot of downloads/interest, but I've always admired kid_sportswear and his Modern Mutant Handbook/Modern Modern Handbook foxbase with his Sunshine Pop rogerlodge with his The Anesthetic's Wearing Off and I want to try my hand at a DIY mix series centered around my own favorite beloved genre. You've been warned (mostly that I plan on repeating 2 songs from some Various Artists mixes).

Let's play a game. Pretend someone created a program in which you could upload 3-5 songs and the program would analyze each song for different characteristics and then create from all the best parts one master song. What's the rhythm pattern like for each instrument? Whats the texture palette like? Lyrical content? use of Bass? etc, basically all the kinds of things Pandora.com looks for, (except they use human employees with headphones filling out questionnaires to categorize the characteristics of the songs on their site, for real) Now for the sake of simplicity, let's pretend we wanted to create a killer dance song, what 3-5 songs might you upload*?

Nancy Martin - Can't Believe
The bone structure on this song is just flawless. that beat draws you in from the beginning, I love the touch of that cicada buzz that comes in and out.

Shoc Corridor - Iceberg
This song moves at more of a prowl than a dance gallop, but it has many song DNA genotypes I would want passed on to my future rhythmically footed offspring. The ethereal organ, slithery bass, and somewhat unusual lyrics I would want to be flourishing in our little dance music progeny.

Naif Orchestra - Nine to Five
But some unhinged fun is of course needed somewhere in the bloodline too, and this song has it in spades. I love all the colorful instrument usage in this and this is the only song of the bunch with a truly catchy chorus.

*no uploading necessary to participate in this hypothetical!

The new and improved SoulseekNS is offering up all kinds of treasures in the form of my long dormant "wishlist" finally reawakening. The old soulseek would only sputter out periodically 1 or 2 artists, and always the ones I was too lazy to remove. But now all sorts of things I had forgotten about are popping up, here are two:

Frank Oz - Monster in the Mirror


one of the many children's songs I would love to cover, and not all indie rock Teddy Bears Picnic I mean to to treat them respectfully for their lyrical content. Wubba wubba.

Porno Pop Moon Family - Say Hello To Porno Pop
Porno Pop was a successor to Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons, which I mistakenly called Swiss last time, but are Swedish. They also contain a member of Zzzang Tumb. It sounds much more Kitchen than Tumb though. So say hello to Porno Pop Moon Family and also goodbye because they only released 1 other song ("in the beginning of time" which is also pretty excellent and more Tumb than Kitchen) I believe.

HAY GUYS
I'm going to hang up my hat for the online mixes for a little while and do some other stuff here. My first order of business is to offer anyone a mix CD trade. I know, this is so internet circa 2003! (also liamtheruiner is doing a much more original and ambitious variation on this here [and he says its open to anyone so don't be shy!] which I know some of you have already seen, but I've never claimed originality or cutting edge here)

The deal:
1)leave a message in the comments (which will be screened) with your email or mailing address and any info you want brought into consideration to help me personalize it for your peculiar music fetishes. and viola! sometime this summer I send your very own mix CD.
2)If you want to send me one, then hey! i'll be thrilled. mention you'd be willing to do so in your comment or in whatever email exchange might take place. however you don't have to send me one to get one.
Thats it!

I hope at least a couple people take me up on this, I have nothing to do this summer.

You'll notice that the Hi-NRg eurodisco fever that gripped me earlier has not totally subsided. In fact half of this is a straight up dance plague. It's my belief you should listen to those first 4 songs in order, not that some magic pattern unlocks if you do, it's just that how i've listened to them the last few weeks, and I think its a good progression. Also listen to those real loud. (I swear that Gina & Flexix song became 10X better when i listen to it in my car rattling all the stray debris on my seats) I have been crazy obsessed with those 4 songs. Other than that I've almost given up the hope that anyone listens to online mp3 mixes in order. Ornella Vanoni and Drinking Electricity return to tear some hearts out, and various others add some diverse flavors and spice.
Enjoy!

Various Artists Volume 5 Zip 91 MB
1)Summer Time Plastic Mode
2)I Wanna Believe Gina & The Flexix
3)Chinese Eyes Fancy
4)Ideomatic Rockets
?)On The Beach At Fontana Fall Of Saigon
?)Love Me (Special Version) Punch
?)Love disgrace Amin Peck
?)The Promise Drinking Electricity
?)Beyer No.91 Les Jeunes Etoiles
?)L.S.D. Marina Babs & De Hippe Vogels
?)No Jazz Natalino Otto
?)Fragole e cappellini Aurelio Fierro e Trio Joice
?)Quello che c'è tra me e te Louiselle
?)È difficile non amarsi più Ornella Vanoni
?)Moon Effect Pseudo Code



Oh and if anyone wants to download some older stuff, maybe better do it now as I might have to clear some storage space for my next project...

This introduces some new concepts into the "Various Artists" compilation series, including: distortion! sadness! ugliness! softly strummed acoustic guitars!

Various Artists Volume 4 64.2 MB
1)03 Micose & The Mau Maus
2)Necromania Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab
3)nightfall in camp Martial Canterel
4)Embrace On The Summit Breather
5)Fotomodelle Piero Umiliani
6)Hold My Scissors Magic Is Kuntmaster
7)Devil's Nightmare Alessandro Alessandroni
8)Ave Maria Robley Evans
9)What's The Use Of Living Without Love King Oliver
10)Yellow Moon Don't be a stranger
11)The Echoes Fade Poeme Electronique
12)pokoik na hozej Mira Ziminska
13The Lion And The Serpent Hybryds

Today I present one of my favorites: "Le Signore Della Canzone Italiana". Female singers popular principally in Italy during the 60s singing bittersweet love songs. Yes I have posted a bunch of youtube videos of these types of songs, and some of those songs are on here. give a listen and tell me what you think. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!


Cobblestones, Heels, and Heartache Mix Zip 60.0 MB
L'abbraccio Donatella Moretti
Le Pedigree Dina Vray
Quando M'Innamoro Gigliola Cinquetti
Mama Dalida
Cuore Rita Pavone
Andiamo a miettene il grano Louiselle
benzina e cerini Maria Monti
Vicino 'O Mare Katyna Ranieri
Lasciati baciare col letkiss Le Gemelle Kessler
Scandalo Al Sole Miranda Martino
Guarda Cosa Fai betty curtis
Io vivrò senza te (live) Mina
Il Bosco Innamorato Tonina Torrielli
Se C'è Una Stella Wilma Goich
Ma Che Freddo Fa Nada
Quello che conta Mary Di Pietro
casa bianca Ornella Vanoni



You may have noticed that the second song is French, this was just to illustrate how sneaky the French are.

I started the mix thinking I was going to make a good ol' fashioned Disco mix (which is why things like Celi Bee and Asha Puthli are present). However when I considered what I wanted out of my disco songs, simple drum machine beats over wailing women and some sexually menergized men, the soft neon splender of "Pillow Talk", the wonderful sounding elastic beat and Carol Jiani imploring for "Mercy" on the track of the same name, I came up with this instead (Hi NRG Italo Space EuroDisco).

recommmended if you liked Bedtime at the Children's Soft Disco



Music To Fondle Strangers To mix Zip 93.0 MB
Pillow Talk Lustt
The Night Azul y Negro
superman Celi Bee & the Buzzy Bunch
He's Speedy Like Gonzales Passengers
upside down Vanessa
Mercy Carol Jiani
Magic Fly Space
Light a Light Peppermint
peek-a-boo-boogie Asha Puthli
Guilty Hotline
She Can't Love You Chemise
I Like Plastic Marsha Raven
Homosexuality Modern Rocketry
Menergy (12'') Patrick Cowley



mix name courtesy of gigant0r

"A traditional New Orleans Jazz Funeral for the late tuba player Kerwin James who died in Oct. 2007"



good enough to repost from:
black_man_land

A typical jazz funeral begins with a march by the family, friends, and a brass band from the home, funeral home or church to the cemetery. Throughout the march, the band plays somber dirges and hymns. A change in the tenor of the ceremony takes place, after either the deceased is buried, or the hearse leaves the procession and members of the procession say their final good bye and they "cut the body loose". After this the music becomes more upbeat, often starting with a hymn or spiritual number played in a swinging fashion, then going into popular hot tunes. There is raucous music and cathartic dancing where onlookers join in to celebrate the life of the deceased. Those who follow the band just to enjoy the music are called the second line, and their style of dancing, in which they walk and sometimes twirl a parasol or handkerchief in the air, is called second lining.

informative enough to repost from:
Wikipedia.org
(I know, I am such a lazy poster)

Featuring: the "Danish Brigitte Bardot" setting the roof on fire, our old friend Chrisma back from the dead with a doctored name ("K"s don't exist in Italian!) and are pushed to the edge, a 60s Italian Teen Idol, a rendition of an old Duke Ellington song by a legendary german vocal group that makes the Kings Singers sound like the audition tapes for the 90s sitcom "The Nanny" all played back at the same time, a strangely moving cover song culled from a Swiss video artist, some echo-y reverb soaked disco from 1979 by a man who started off doing rockabilly in the 50s, an extremely captivating tune from 1929 featuring an american jazz violinist prodigy, some scorching saxaphone Soul from the cheated and dissed, shimmery Italo disco extolling that old italian lifestyle, some sleazy swinger music from the King of "splatter" cinema, an Italian soundtrack master imagines an Italian wandering into London at the height of beat music, a French soundtrack legend hits you with a deadly blast of horns and chilling bout of bossa nova, an all female American 60s garage band makes some moody melodic excitement, a tender 70s funk/disco ballad by a Jamaican fronted British group, some immaculate Motown Gospel, and finally one of the most successful black jazz bands of the 20s with vocals by a precocious child star of vaudeville.


Various Artists Volume 3 Zip 76.1 MB
molotow cocktail party Vivi Bach & Dietmar Schönherr
Crucial Point Krisma
Zingara Bobby Solo
Creole Love Call Comedian Harmonists
Wicked Game Les Reines Prochaines feat Pipilotti Rist
Lil' Sis Watsonian Institute
Doin' The Raccoon Eddie South
without a reason janet & the jays
dolce vita ryan paris
Suburban Roulette Herschell Gordon Lewis
mr dante fontana (ep version) Piero Piccioni
L'ame soeur à l'hameçon Michel Legrand
I'm Leaving You The Luv'd Ones
Oh Honey The Delegation
give god a chance the Gospel Stars
Take A Picture Of The Moon Fletcher Henderson & Baby Rose Marie

Boasts, cautionary tales, and above all, funk, this is early hip hop.

This is the New Rock mix 117.4 MB Zip
I Am The Judge Grandmaster Caz
Delancey Street Dana Dane
games of life Just Four
to the beat, y'all Lady B
Rap, Bounce, Rock, Skate Trickeration
Gucci Time Schoolly D
Punk Rock Rap Cold Crush Brothers
B Boys Style (club) Lil' Jazzy jay & Cool Supreme
Problems Of The World Today Fearless Four
It's Your Rock (instrumental mix) Fantasy Three
Step Off The Furious Five
Street Justice The Rake
Captain Rock To The Future Shock Captain Rock
Five Minutes Of Funk Whodini
Fast Life Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde
Rappin Dub Style General Echo
Dance to This Roxanne Shanté
Shoot The Pump J Walter Negro And The Loose Jointz

Gigliola Cinquetti - Dio Come Ti Amo


Dalida - Mamma (french version)


Post some of your favorites

Zaah zaaah zeee zah zoo zaaa, di gue ding ding di gue di gue zaah zeee. If you happen to be in my hemisphere, and what's more, my latitude you might notice springtime is upon us. Mud Clay and Sticks (though all fun things to play with in the sunny green times) and A Nous Deux 01* are a last gasp of a winter songs for me, and then oh god then its all Zaah zaaah zeee zah zoo zaaa di gue ding ding di gue di gue zaah zeee because mmm I am a music ditz.


Various Artists Volume 2 57.5 Zip
mud,clay and sticks Five or Six
Happy Go Lucky Me Paul Evans
In Your Eyes Dream Disco
Ma Tu Catherine Spaak
Iko Iko Dixie Cups
Good Times Drinking Electricity
good old owl Niobe
A Nous Deux (01) Francis Lai
electric lady JYL
Domani sì I New Dada
Where Are You Girl Of My Dreams (+ Anona Winn) Al Bowlly & Ray Noble
Città vuota Mina
Zigarillo Botho Lucas Singers und die Sound Masters
Exercice En Forme De Z Jane Birkin
Di-Gue-Ding-Ding Michel Legrand
So Long, Farewell The Children



*actually upon reflection this could be a summer night song instead of a winter song, but definitely not a springtime song.

Alright, in an effort to do more than 1 entry a month, I'm going to supplement the scrupulously chosen themed mixes with from the hip MIX mixes. The kind of mixes I can compile in one night (like tonight!) and then not spend an hour making sure when you put them on your media player they are in the right order (I wonder if all my file renaming and track number retagging actually works?). So here it is girlfriend, how god intended mixes to be, a glorious hodge podge.

Various Artists Vol. 1 64.2 MB
1.ciao amore ciao - Dalida
2.Track 10 - Los Amaya y Su Combo Gitano y Los Wawanco
3.Night is coming on - Polyphonic Size
4.Shonay Shonay - Dolly Mixture
5.Rockin' Chair - Mills Brothers
6.DB7 (Drawn by the Palanquin)- Akira Ifukube
7.Ça Recommence - Les Baronets
8.A Girl In Love Forgives - Bernadette Castro
9.Garcon Manque - Micky Amelyne
10.I think I'm growing down - Lady June
11.Love Trial - Kelly Marie
12.Manhattan Serenade - Tommy Dorsey with Jo Stafford
13.Si tu veux que je dise - Gillian Hills
14.Mary Ann - Laghonia
15.Nagaremono no Mure - Kobayashi Akira
16.cowboy track - Pink Industry
17.L.O.V.E. Feelings - Soft Cell

To celebrate my return from six months in Italy I present to anyone still left reading this a collection of Italian Jazz from around the 1930's early 40's. Big Band/Swing/Jazz whatever you call it wasn't an easy gig in Italy during this time as Fascist Mussolini wasn't hot to trot on a style of music originating in America catching fire on the Italian radio. But let's not get into that ugly mess when what we are enjoying here are some simply lovely, catchy songs full of brass, piano, violins and alluring singing in a beautiful language.

Ritmo e Eleganza Mix 54.3 MB
Crapa Pelada Gorni Kramer
Maramao Perchè Sei Morto Maria Jottini E Trio Lescano
conosci mia cugina Ernesto Bonino
Silenzioso Show Norma Bruni
La classe degli asini Natalino Otto
I ragazzi dello swing Duo Fasano
Tornerai Trio Lescano E Quartetto Funaro
vivere Tito Schipa
Il Giovanotto Matto Ernesto Bonino
Ma L'Amore No Lina Termini
Mamma Mi Ci Vuole Un Fidanzato Nella Colombo
Ma Le Gambe Enzo Aita E Trio Lescano
Violetta Alfredo Clerici e Dea Garbaccio
L'uccellino Della Radio Silvana Fioresi
T'ho Vista Piangere Alfredo Clerici

though I update so infrequently no one would ever know. and I won't even be bringing music! maybe I'll come back with some to share though.


(La Mala Rodriguez - Nanai)

Soft Disco, Naive Disco, Children's Disco, you could call it many things. It's mostly pure synthdriven, lacking harsh or sharp textures, containing "innocent" sounding singing full of youthful exuberance. This pretty much describes "italo" I admit, but soft disco can include more. I guess. I'm just making it up. As a counterpoint to the sunshine singing, I added a bunch of more menacing sounding dance songs, with "guilty" sounding singing, if you will. Anyway I think this mix is lots of fun and have listened to these tracks on average of 1,000,000 times each: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Bedtime at the Childrens Soft Disco mix Zip 87.9 MB

Bedtime at the Childrens Soft Disco tracklisting
Disco laser Rony Emanuel
the ultimate warlord The Immortals
Le Banana Split Lio
terror story Iron Curtain
Frogs In Spain Fake
Junger Mann Der Plan
trust no woman Zyx
my heart begins to beat Savage Progress
The Force (12") Nancy Nova
matta ta Patrizia Pellegrino
Nite Chromatics
Jenny ha gokigen naname Juicy Fruits
Helpless The Flirts
Baby you are a... Neonbabies
Disco Sugalo
Moja mama Videosex







With a little help:
"Terror Story" provided by rogerlodge (from his mix series "the anesthetic's wearing off")
"Trust No Woman" provided by cumpig (from his mix "close your nose for the diarrhea")
"Ultimate Warlord" provided by battle_mode (from general generosity)
all three of those people could make better mixes than this with files in their computer's trash bin.

Mmmm the whistle, impromptu instrument of the contented heart, dusty showdown theme, or sometimes ethereal call from beyond the haze. Here I collected mostly the former and some of the latter in a mix filled with whistling! One of the harder mixes to consciously compile, I pretty much had to wait until an appropriate song popped up on shuffle, even so I had to cut back some songs (the electronic music part didn't really fit overall sound, sorry Stahlnetz and the great Richard Bone song "Schoolgirls"). Ennio Morricone, whose most famous signature sound is the whistle has his spaghetti western tendencies represented here by Alessandro Alessandroni, who actually performed the guitar and whistle for Morricone's Fistful of Dollars, while the Morricone track is something much different and more mysterious. The Doris Day song is probably my favorite of the lot, with a fine mixture of humming and whistling, embodying the daydream aesthetic of the lovely warble. But don't let expectations ruin it for you, its all about being relaxed.

Pursed Lip Reply mix Zip 58 MB

Pursed Lip Reply Tracklisting
Seq. 01 (Clint Il Solitario) Nora Orlandi
My Heart Knows A Lovely Song Danny Kaye
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries Rudy Vallee
A Load Of Hay Doris Day & The Page Cavanaugh Trio
38th Parallel Tom Scott with Whistlers
Sequence 1 (Gli Fumavano Le Colt) Bruno Nicolai
Shadows On The Window Bing Crosby
la grotta dell'amore Piero Ciampi
for fistfull of dollars - guitar & whistle Alessandro Alessandroni
Che Strano Ennio Morricone
in the pines Smog
Un aller simple, version 1 François de Roubaix
Canzone Arrabbiata Finale Nino Rota
The Trouble with Harry David Carroll
Bambino Luis Mariano
A Media Luz Marek Weber
Comme De Bien Entendu Arletty & Michel Simon
Scapricciatiello Katyna Ranieri
Le Ciel Nous Fait Rever François de Roubaix
Love Walked In The Flamingos