In Which Tuesday Beckons This Flashbacky Meta Mixtape That You And Your Close Ones Will Enjoie

Last Thursday was my roommate for the summer’s going away party. We went to this Belgian beer garden near West 4th. It was surprisingly cheap and it’s not like people were going to drink that hard on a Thursday anyway. Still I feel like at least someone should have gotten embarrassed at the very least. Sadly that did not happen. Then I wrote this post. Don’t you feel connected to me and this music now?

This ran on BreakThru radio in a slightly different form. You can check out their sweet stuff here.

I am certainly enjoying the music of today. Please listen to these songs and tell me what they remind you of.

“She’s a Superstar (live)” — The Verve (mp3)

A classic live rendition of a song that is so clearly one part McCabe and one part Ashcroft. The grinding, softcore chorus is so addictive that this song could have simply rocked out, but the lyrics are gorgeous, some of Dick’s best songwriting. This never was much of a studio song anyway.

“Bittersweet Symphony (live)” — The Verve (mp3)

Their most famous song, it could work as an acoustic thing and I think it even has worked, but this version offers something a little different, with Richard doing his best “LOOK AT MEEEE” vocal and it getting very rawky near the end.

“New Year” — The Go Find (mp3)

A new classic.

“The Voyage” — Adam Weber (mp3)

Adam Weber website

“All Apologies (MTV Unplugged)” — Nirvana (mp3)

Kind of a good song.

Nina

“Feeling Good” — Nina Simone (mp3)

This song is apparently from here.

She would have won American Idol with this one. This is more fun than chopsticks. Amazing lyrics.

“Sinnerman” — Nina Simone (mp3)

Is probably going to get used in movie previews until long after Danish is long dead by my hand. (That was a dumb joke, but seriously it would be sweet to prophecy your entire life that you were going to kill someone else and then do it. I bet I could get in wikipedia for that. He kept saying “seriously” a lot. If I was going to do that, I’d pick someone more famous than Danish, maybe the guy who played the principal on Saved by the Bell? I’d also consider Dennis Rodman.) The song is from John McTiernan’s classic remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.

“Fly Me to the Moon” — Anita O’Day (mp3)

“Here Comes the Sun” — Nina Simone (mp3)

Just the wildest and funnest.

Nina all “wasssupppppp” OK I guess that really wasn’t a mixtape, oh well.