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"I made a trade and all I got was...THIS TAPE!"

2012-01-31T06:12:00.000-08:00

I received a mix tape from Brian Polk of the zine, Yellow Rake! It's kind of the best thing ever.

He even sent me the latest issue!
Thanks Brian, I'll be finishing up the tape I'm making for you, soon!

Mixtapes for Aceh!

2011-12-14T21:12:00.000-08:00

"The mixtape is a crucial part of our subculture, and is solely responsible for the spread of punk influence worldwide. Mixtapes have introduced myself and many others to so many amazing bands, and the act of making them is one of the most sincere forms of friendship that exist in our world. So, we are asking our friends, our community, and anyone else who remotely gives a shit to make and donate one mixtape cassette to the kids in Aceh who were forced into detention solely for being punk. It’s a small gesture, but it means a lot to people who need our support."

Aborted Society Records collects mixtapes for the punks of Aceh

Send your tapes to:

Aborted Society Records
attn: Mixtapes for Aceh
1122 E. Pike Street #1377
Seattle, WA 98122-3934
USA

I've got an entire box to send out.

"Put Me Back In The Crowd"

2011-12-09T06:22:00.001-08:00

This would be the last tape of 2011.

SIDE A
W/I F.S. - "Ladies and Gentlemen Of The Road"
Pointed Sticks - "Out of Luck"
Fabulous Disaster - "Bi Polar"
The Dwarves - "One Time Only"
Sticks & Stones - "Thin White Line"
X (Australia) - "I Don't Wanna Go Out"
Reatards - "I'm So Gone"
The Gits - "Another Shot of Whiskey"
Mojo Nixon - "Don't Ask Me Why I Drink"
Hasil Adkins - "You're Gonna Break My Heart"
Jack Oblivian - "Honey, I'm Too Old For You"
Sneakin' Out - "Little Girls"
Alejandro Escovedo - "Sex Beat"
Butthole Surfers - "Pepper"

SIDE B
The Wipers - "Tragedy"
Bad Sports - "Would You Wait For me Too?"
Ramones - "You're Gonna Kill That Girl"
King Khan & BBQ - "Got It Made"
Davila 666 - "Alverez"
The Pelts - "Track 6"
Gun Club - "House on Highland Ave"
Knoxville Girls - "I Feel Better All Over"
99 Tales - "Tearin' My Hair Out"
Andre Ethier - "Promising Rainbows"
The Hoyle Brothers - "Don't Leave Yet"
Tom Waits - "Back In The Crowd"
Frank Black & The Catholics - "How You Went So Far"

Download the whole tape here!

"Curse Your Little Heart"

2011-10-13T15:09:00.000-07:00

SIDE A
Flash Pan Hunter
Man Man - Shameless
Wall of Voodoo - Tse Tse Fly
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Mischief Brew - Devil of a Time
S.S. Web - Drag me Straight to Hell
Seasick Steve - Thunderbird
Hank Williams III - Fadin' Moon
Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Do You Know Thee Enemy?
Conway Twitty - Lonely Blue Boy
Mojo Nixon - If I Can Dream

SIDE B
Simon & Garfunkel - Patterns
The Kinks - Lazy Old Sun
Cake - It's Coming Down
World/Inferno Friendship Society - Secret Service Freedom Fighting U.S.A.
The Ramones - Don't Come Close
Suzi Quatro - Breakdown
The Mamas & Papas - Look Outside My Window
Vermillion Sands - Sew My Heart
King Khan & BBQ Show - Invisible Girl
Shannon & The Clams - When You're On
Lindy Lane - Low Grades and High Fever
Elaine & The Shandells - Tell Me That You Care
The Honeycombs - Please Don't Pretend Again
Night Beats - Puppet On a String
Alice Cooper - Sun Arise

Download a zip file here.

"One of Us"

2011-08-08T21:54:00.000-07:00

SIDE A

The Ditty Bops - Walk or Ride
Man Man - Spooky Jookie
The Sick - Nasty Habits
Petunia & The Vipers - Cold Heartbreaker
Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Port Authority Band
Ernest Tubb - Thanks A Lot
Hank Williams - Dear John
The Citywide Specials Cut Me in on the Action
J.G. Thirlwell - Mississippi Noir
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Monkberry Moon Delight
Shannon and The Clams - The Cult Song
Black Lips - Throw It Away
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black - Bring Back The Night

SIDE B

World/Inferno Friendship Society - Cats Are Not Lucky Creatures
NaNuchKa - Ripped Red Shirt
Human Wine - Script Language
Emilyn Brodsky - All You Want
Bad Heart Bull - White Fang
Liam Idiot - Demon Blues
Casa De Chihuahua - Cryin and Dancin
The Pine Hill Haints - Coon Dog Cemetery
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Smoking Again
Deadboy and the Elephant Men - Stop, I'm Already Dead
Golden Animals - My My My
Shocking Blue - Hello Darkness
The Greenhornes - Don't Come Running To Me

"Lover's Rock 45s"

2011-07-25T11:34:00.000-07:00

SIDE A

Blood Sisters - I'd Rather Go Blind
Carroll Thompson - I'm So Sorry
Bunny Maloney - Always on My Mind
Anthony "PureSilk Brightly" featuring Sandra Reid - Don't Tell me Tell Her
Blood Sisters - Don't Say Goodbye Too Loud
Brown Sugar - Hello Stranger
Louisa Marks and The In Crowd - Sixth Street
Jean Adebambo - I Want to Make it With You
Marie Pierre - Nothing Gained (From Loving You)

SIDE B

Horace Andy - Skylarking
Brown Sugar - Our Reggae Music
Blood Sisters- Let Me Be Yours
Investigators - Summer Time Blues
Jimmy London - The Road is Rough
Fabian Cooke - Mother and Child
Earth & Stone - Why Girl
Natural Mystic - At The Dance
Panchita La Touche - Saturday Night is Here Again
Brown Sugar - Black Pride
Blood Sisters - Let me Love You

Tapes from Kisston!

2011-07-25T11:14:00.000-07:00

"Call of the West"

2011-06-21T14:06:00.000-07:00

Summer Solstice mix! Just in time for my California vacation!

SIDE A

Howlin' Wolf - California Boogie

Hasil Adkins - No More Hot Dogs

The Cramps - Muleskinner Blues

The Hex Dispensers - My Love Is a Bat

Iggy Pop - Repo Man

The Gun Club - The Fire Of Love

The Sometimes Family - Knuckle Sandwich

Frank Black & The Catholics - California Bound

Human Wine - Kalifornia

World/Inferno Friendship Society - All of California

Foetus - Satan Place

Wall of Voodoo - Call of The West

Oingo Boingo - Country Sweat

SIDE B

Manfred Mann- You've Got To Take It

King Kahn & The BBQ Show - Love You So

The Ramones - California Sun

The Cramps - You Got Good Taste

Shocking Blue - Hot Sand

Ronnie and The Rainbows - Loose Ends

The Knitters - Give Me My Flowers

Simon and Garfunkel - Patterns

World/Inferno Friendship Society - 13 Years Without Peter King

Maneja Beto - Skin

Oingo Boingo - California Girls

Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone

Blood Sisters - What About Me?

Smith - Baby It's You

Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down

Most all of these songs are available for listening on youtube.

"A Tape For Mel, A Copy For Mom"

2011-05-17T08:32:00.000-07:00

I made Me a tape for her birthday at the beginning of May. It turned out to be so good, I made a copy for my mom, who I visit in only a few days.

"Under An Apri Moon"

2011-04-18T08:08:00.000-07:00

SIDE A

Cool Devices - Fatso
Reagan National Crash Diet - DNA
TSOL - Black Magic
The Cramps - Drug Train
Lords Of The New Church - Lil' Boys Play With Dolls
Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds - Floor Length Hair
Fur Bible - Plunder The Tombs
Heavy Trash - Didja' Hear My Name?
The Black Lips - I'll Be With You
The Ramones - Needles & Pins

SIDE B

Manfred Mann - Smokestack Lightnin'
Golden Animals -The Steady Roller
Tarbox Ramblers - Already Gone
Knoxville Girls - Virginia Avenue
Murder City Devils - Every Shitty Thing...
Sticks & Stones - Obvious
The Effigies - Forever, I Know
The Wipers - Over The Edge
Village - Love On A Whim

Two of five copies to be made.
You can download this zip file to enjoy the tape.

"Burn it all down. Burn it to the ground"

2011-03-28T10:38:00.000-07:00

"Poetry and Bodies Coming to your Party"

2011-03-28T09:59:00.000-07:00

"Stupid PG Tape Recorded From Vinyl"

2011-02-08T14:41:00.000-08:00

"It's your decision, your decision's you."

2011-02-02T15:02:00.000-08:00

First tape of 2011 was completed in the blizzard on Groundhog's Day. Once again the hand of fate sticks her dollar in the jukebox and plays the cruelest songs. Here's the soundtrack to current life for me. The triple copy is so I can give one to a pen pal in Iowa and the other as a birthday present for Will. Of course I'd like a copy for myself too...

SIDE A:

Devo - Gates Of Steel
Wall Of Voodoo - Tomorrow
Oingo Boingo - Water
Southern Death Cult - Apache
Lords Of The New Church - Holy War
Alice Cooper - Body
John The Savage - Toby Bear
World/Inferno - Canonize Philip K. Dick, OK?
Sneakin' Out - Little Girls
Willie Dixon - 29 Ways
Nu Tornados - Magic Record
Captain Beefheart - Zig Zag Wanderer
Duane Eddy - Stretchin' Out
The Knitters - I'll Go Down Swingin'

SIDE B:

Shocking Blue - Hello Darkness
Vermillion Sands - 20 Hours
The Hex Dispensers - One Less Ghost
Occult Detective Club - I'm a Ghost
The Mean Jeans - Tears in my Beers
Peter & The Test Tube Babies - Ghost In My Bedsit
Naked Raygun - Metastasis
The Vandals - Bad Birthday
The Phenoms - The Cross Section
Dear landlord - Highfives
Elvis Hitler - Shotgun Shell
The Dwarves - I'm a Living Sickness
The Dirtbombs - Born in a Haunted House
Clutch - Escape From The Prison Planet
The Seeds - Nobody Spoil My Fun

"If you know better, you can do better."

"in honor of martin luther king jr. day"

2011-01-17T11:08:00.001-08:00

Been awhile, eh? I'm half way through making a tape for the New Year but for now here's a tape from Kisston.

"keep your reckless heart, your crooked teeth & that wrecked nose"

2010-11-09T14:06:00.000-08:00

2010-10-27T18:51:00.000-07:00

A couple years back, I purchased the bible on tape from a thrift store. Yep, the entire Old Testament in twelve cassettes. It wasn't narrated by Larry King & half the tapes were missing from the case. I recorded over them, as the years went on & mostly used the bible case for transporting multiple tapes in the same space of most iPods & their accessories take up.

This is what I'm packing in my "good book" over vacation.

L to R:

11/12/2007 Milwaukee

A nonsensical mix tape made by myself & my two friends; Sam & Whiskey, in the city of Milwaukee.

We'll Cheers Until Our Bottles Break

Made in the past month of two by Whiskey for me.

Real Gone * Blood Money

Two Tom Waits' albums on one tape made in summer of 2008.

Tiger's in the woods & Cameras in the Skies

A mix tape made for me by Kisston for my birthday.

Summer Stench/Black Rider

Mystery mix & the Tom Waits' album on one tape made in possibly the spring of 2008.

Cold Chain of Wet Boots & Rain

Fall mix made in November of 2009.

L to R:

Halloween Twist Party

Garage & surf rock Halloween themed songs. October 2010.

For Mom

Mix tape made for my mom in 2003.

Alternative Country

Mix tape made in winter of 2004

All Tomorrow's Parties Will Be In October

Mix tape from fall of 2009 from Will.

If Thats the way that you feel then thats the way that you feel

Fall mix in 10/10

One giant Good Grief for man kind

Fall mix of 2009

***All tapes not accounted for will be soon

Halloween 2010

2010-10-25T08:18:00.001-07:00

This tape doesn't actually come with a track list as I think half the fun for the listeners is the mystery. But here it is for those who can't listen.

Side A
Nuclear Rabbit - What Would He-Man Do?
Butthole Surfers - Ulcer Breakout
Henry Rollins - Freaked
New Bomb Turks - I want My Baby...DEAD
Betty Blowtorch - I wish you'd die!
Lunachicks - Light as a Feather
Joey Ramone - Spirit in My House
Hypstrz - The Witch
Hex Dispensers - Old Crone (99 cats)
Elvis Hitler - Crush Your Skull
Heavy Trash - I Want Oblivion
The Cramps - Papa Satan Sang Louie
Misfits - London Dungeon
The Flaming Sideburns - Black Moon
The Gun Club - Like Calling Up Thunder
Black Lips - Trapped In a Basement
Alice Cooper - I Love The Dead

Side B
Sheldon Allman - Children's Day at The Morgue
The Gravestone Four - Rigor Mortis
The Coasters - Bad Blood
Jack Hammer - Black Widow Spider Woman
Screaming Lord Sutch - My Monster In Black Tights
The Connoissurs - Count Macabre
King Khan & His Shrines - Shivers Down MY Spine
Artie Shaw - Gloomy Sunday
Oingo Boingo - Hello Satan
Messer Chups - Dried Human Head From Equador
Dead Milkmen - Jason's Head
Groovie Ghoulies - Little Medusa
Canadian Riffle - Creep
The Damned - Dead Beat Dance
The Kills - Fuck The People

"Today...the rest of my life begins"

2010-09-20T18:39:00.000-07:00

Feel left out no more, my friends! You can download side A & B of this fall mixtape I made, this afternoon. Sound quality is dead on for cassettes & comes in m4a format. Two files. Enjoy!

Side A

Side B

"The Summer of Discord"

2010-09-02T09:26:00.000-07:00

This is the mix I mentioned two posts ago. Made in July, it expresses my true feelings of this summer. I made it with a pen pal in mind & will be mailing it out shortly.

"When there's no enemies I sit & stare at my TV"

2010-09-02T08:24:00.000-07:00

When I said "post in a few days" I meant over a month later. So here it is September & that means this blog is a year old. Ye-ah! But the mix I have for you today is actually my August mix & a gift for my friend Sophie.

Buh-buh-buh-birthday.

2010-07-26T17:17:00.000-07:00

It's birthday month & I got two mix tapes from Kisston. Radical.

"I don't wanna do shit!" & "Tigers in the woods & cameras in the skies..."

I didn't get around to making myself a birthday mix this year. But I have another summer tape that I'll post in a few days.

"Some things about summer never change"

2010-06-17T10:32:00.000-07:00

Boy howdy! My PC took a dump on me at the end of April, so I've been unable to make any mixtapes for over a month. No wonder I've been so damn nervous. But I've spent some time exploring the wonderful world of Mac & finished my summer mixtape.
& it's a double!
FINALLY!

Anyone care to trade?

"The Vermillion Sands...& some other stuff"

2010-04-22T15:01:00.000-07:00

I've searched high & low & finally came up with enough songs by The Vermillion Sands to put on a 60 minute tape along with a half finished mix I started a week ago. Recently, my friend Will had asked me to make a copy of a cassette from his collection. While I was at it, I made a second copy of the Vermillion Sands tape.

Maybe it's for you?

"Unlock The Secret Voice"

2010-04-08T17:27:00.001-07:00

"in the meantime"

2010-03-26T08:38:00.000-07:00

"Let There Be Twang"

2010-03-26T08:37:00.000-07:00

"Girls Like Laura Palmer End Up Dead"

2010-03-12T17:47:00.000-08:00

There are three covers on this tape. Can you name them all?

"Stay Gold, Pony Boy"

2010-03-02T14:01:00.000-08:00

"It's Been A Long Time Comin"

2010-03-02T13:15:00.000-08:00

"All the world is a stage dive"

2010-02-26T11:39:00.001-08:00

"Nothing Is Cool"

2010-02-18T15:56:00.001-08:00

"We're Not Dead Yet"

2010-02-14T15:29:00.000-08:00

"Life is uncertain, eat dessert first!"

2010-02-12T15:25:00.000-08:00

"Hey, remember that time when I was broke? I didn't care, I just bummed from a friend."

2010-02-12T15:23:00.000-08:00

"KMR"

2010-02-12T15:19:00.000-08:00

"Two-thousand wine & roses life lessons"

2009-12-30T15:00:00.000-08:00

"Cold chain of wet boots & rain"

2009-11-19T17:05:00.000-08:00

"It's good for your soul...November"

2009-11-01T11:31:00.000-08:00

"The Chillest Tape Ever"

2009-10-26T16:52:00.000-07:00

"Free Razor Blades With Every Scotch"

2009-10-19T11:47:00.000-07:00

"100 Minutes Of Spooky Shit"

2009-10-18T14:54:00.000-07:00

"Chicken Soup For The Scumbag Soul"

2009-10-05T10:36:00.000-07:00

"All Tomorrows Parties Will Be In October"

2009-10-04T13:22:00.000-07:00

"One Small OOF For Man, One Giant Good Grief For Man Kind"

2009-09-23T11:28:00.000-07:00