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We’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5. If you see anything that makes less sense than usual, please advise.
Addendum: And by “2.5″ we mean “2.5.1.”
Prodded by Both Sides Now, I put together twenty-six songs about fools, of which there have been an abundance during what Mr Kasem calls the Rock Era. The Mothers track is not the original from Freak Out!, but the doo-wop remake from Cruising with Ruben and the Jets. The original photo is “The Pigeon Crowd” by Andrew*, borrowed under Creative Commons.
Track listing for 111140-2:
If you’ve been through here before, you’ve probably noticed one or more of the Major Babes series, which includes songs incorporating girls’ names.
Captain Obvious, more of a purist than I, has restricted his mix tape to songs where the name is the entire title, starting with Dylan’s “Delia” (from 1993’s World Gone Wrong) and finishing with “Rebecca” by Summer at Shatter Creek, aka Craig Gurwich. Despite this restriction, the collection is far more eclectic than anything I’m likely to come up with. Highly recommended.
Once again, we have a small collection of longer-than-average songs, illustrated with some longer-than-average legs. (Bless you, Hanes.) Nine tracks on this disc, minimum six minutes each: a couple of them exceed ten minutes.
Track listing for 111139-2:
This one sounds simple, ends up less so. The idea: create a fake band and their first album. Here’s how it works:
I admit to having fudged a bit on the last item. Not wishing to step on some photographer’s copyright, I took the third photo in the current list with a suitable Creative Commons license.
Anyway, here’s the Wikipedia entry, here’s the quote (from its own page), and this is the original photo. Behold:

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(Via Steph Mineart. Crossposted from here.)
Darrell “Whisky Prajer” Reimer has an eclectic mix to suggest, mostly but not entirely new stuff, from Bettye LaVette to the reconstituted Dinosaur Jr. Definitely worth your attention.
The title, of course, sends up Talking Heads, yet I resisted the temptation to include “Burning Down the House,” which qualifies as a song about a building. On the other hand, “Mayonaise,” in its Corganized form, isn’t really about food at all. Evidently the process of constructing these things is starting to get to me.
Track listing for 111138-2:
Mixaloo is a company which allows you to create mix tapes or playlists from music tracks on the web. You can share these mix tapes in your blogs or social networking profiles, when someone buys these tracks you will get paid from the sale. The current share is 50/50 between you and mixaloo. Creating playlists is free and you can create any number of playlists, but if your visitors or friends wants to hear them they have to buy these tracks.
You can search for artists, albums or tracks and select the tracks you want to add to the mix. Mixaloo has around 3 million songs in their catalog so you have better chance of finding your favorite music tracks.
It took about an hour to assemble 15 tracks from the Mixaloo library, and about thirty seconds to hack together a piece of artwork. I really don’t expect anyone to shell out $14.85 (which is, by coincidence, 99 cents per track) for this mishmash, but what the heck. The results are on the sidebar. You’ll need Windows Media Player 9 or higher.
Long-time sound (and video) guy Marc Wielage once observed that there were dozens of songs containing the words “hold on” or some variation thereof, so it was a relatively simple matter to assemble two dozen or so “hold” songs and then trim off enough to fit CD length. The young lady has been on hold for I don’t know how long.
Track listing for 111137-2:
The Sound Salvation Army, who describe themselves as “a few crazy Canadians who think we know what’s best for rock and roll”, have kicked off their inaugural mix tape with four songs on the subject of radio, a phenomenon that you may remember used to be carried on actual radio waves.
They lead off with Elvis Costello’s “Radio Radio,” which makes sense, and eventually they will have 13 tracks.