Alan Licht Has Ruined Music For An Entire Generation

like Lester Bangs said of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, the Calvin Johnson Has Ruined Rock For An Entire Generation 7" can be used to clear up your head when you wake with a hangover (and "to prepare you for what's in store the rest of the day"). I woke up slightly hungover today, but didn't test this till much later in the day. Maybe it was the food or green tea that eased my agony, but hearing this certainly didn't hurt.







download - Side A Tone Poem For the Nikki Sixx Million / Side B Six Million Licks For Tone Lōc

Has the "Calvin" 7" gotten any comments? I cracked up when I saw the sleeve.

ALAN: Well, Calvin has not been reached for comment... I was always more of a Heather fan, anyway... Jon Fine came up to me accusing me of "stealing" the title from (Sub Pop's) Nils Berstein, who originally coined the phrase. When I pointed out that I credited "all songs" on the record to Nils, he confessed that he hadn't actually bought or even heard the record, just saw the cover. It's not that much of a "statement," just a t-shirt Nils gave me. I have a t-shirt that says "Wheelchair Sports" on it, I could have called it that too. By the way, there's a track on the new Free Kitten LP called "Alan Licht Has Ruined Music For An Entire Generation."

from an interview here

mix

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1. John Cale - Mr. Wilson
2. Levitation - Smile
3. Brian Eno - The Dove
4. Eyeless in Gaza - New Risen
5. The Dream Syndicate - That's What You Always Say
6. The House of Love - Ray
7. The Railway Children - A Gentle Sound
8. The Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane
9. Jacobites - Before I Die
10. Emitt Rhodes - With My Face on the Floor
11. Razorcuts - Jade
12. Strawberry Switchblade - Trees and Flowers (single version)
13. The Teardrop Explodes - ...And The Fighting Takes Over
14. Mellonta Tauta - Elefantes
15. Kendra Smith - Interlude - Saturn
16. Heidi Berry - Gather All the Hours
17. The Pastels - Comin' Through
18. Flamin' Groovies - Way Over My Head
19. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
20. The Chameleons - The Fan and the Bellows
21. The Only Ones - The Whole of the Law
22. Weekend - Nostalgia
23. Cindytalk - Through Flowers
24. The Dentists - I Had An Excellent Dream

images from the film "Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" (Valerie a týden divu)

Pop Mix

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1. Galaxie 500 - Strange
2. The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters - They Fell For Words Like Love
3. The Siddeley’s - My Favourite Wet Wednesday Afternoon
4. The Ramones - Don’t Come Close
5. Squeeze - Up the Junction
6. Look Blue Go Purple - Cactus Cat
7. McCarthy - Keep An Open Mind Or Else
8. The Popguns - Landslide
9. Silver Apples - Seagreen Serenades
10. The Green Pajamas - I’ve Got A Crush On You
11. Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes - The Rain Fell Down
12. The Brilliant Corners - Trust Me
13. The Chesterfields - Lunchtime For the Wild Youth
14. The Verlaines - Pyromaniac
15. Girls At Our Best! - Pleasure
16. R.E.M. - Gardening At Night
17. The June Brides - Sunday To Saturday
18. The Pastels - Automatically Yours
19. Felt - Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow
20. The Sundays - I Kicked A Boy
21. Razorcuts - Storyteller
22. The Loft - Up the Hill and Down the Slope
23. Devo - Gates of Steel
24. One Thousand Violins - Halcyon Days

(comic art by Gilbert Hernandez)

mix

one of two mixes made for a friend who left the country for a year. several changes were made to avoid repeated songs already posted on this blog. the second mix will be (even more!) pop.





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1. Epic Soundtracks - Fallen Down
2. The Feelies - When Company Comes
3. Jean-Paul Sartre Experience - I Like Rain
4. The Bodines - William Shatner
5. The Clean - The Blue
6. The Durutti Column - Belgian Friends
7. Ninotchka - I’ve Got Wings
8. The Close Lobsters -Violently Pretty Face
9. Bobb Trimble - Take Me Home Vienna
10. Orange Juice - Consolation Prize
11. The Go-Betweens - That Way
12. Brighter - Does Love Last Forever?
13. Josef K - Pictures (Of Cindy)
14. U-Roy - Chalice In The Palace
15. The Chameleons - Looking Inwardly (Peel Session)
16. My Bloody Valentine - Never Say Goodbye
17. Talulah Gosh - Don’t Go Away
18. The Vaselines - Oliver Twisted
19. The Wedding Present - Brassneck
20. Dolly Mixture - Everything and More
21. The Jazz Butcher - She’s On Drugs
22. The Wake - Pale Spectre
23. Kraftwerk - Franz Schubert

Peter Astor "Walk Into the Wind" single

Side A - single version of "Walk Into the Wind"
Side B - acoustic versions of three songs taken from the album Submarine
1. Your Sun Leaves the Sky
2. Submarine
3. Firesong

features the lovely Heidi Berry on backing vocals.

downlad Peter Astor





Peter Astor was singer/guitarist for The Loft and the The Weather Prophets. Both bands were also on the Creation Records roster.

A.C. Marias - Some Thing

this is the B-side to her cover of Time Was. Amazing lineup of Barry Adamson, Bruce Gilbert and Rowland S. Howard.

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Goth Mix "Twilight Mire"

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1. The Gun Club - Moonlight Motel
2. Joy Division - Ice Age
3. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Spinning Round
4. Magazine - Motorcade
5. This Mortal Coil - Not Me
6. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound
7. Christian Death - Spiritual Cramp
8, The Damned - New Rose
9. Specimen - Syria
10. Sex Gang Children - Sebastiane
11. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
12. Cranes - Jewel (Robert Smith Remix)
13. Backworld w/ Rose Mcdowall - Devil’s Plaything
14. Death in June - The Calling (MKII)
15. Death in June - Fall Apart
16. Coil - Windowpane
17. The Tear Garden - Ophelia
18. The Wolfgang Press - Dig A Hole
19. Xmal Deutschland - Sickle Moon
20. Lowlife - A Sullen Sky

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Goth Mix "Panic"

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1. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cascade
2. The Glove - Punish Me With Kisses
3. The Tear Garden - Romulus & Venus
4. The Chills - Pink Frost
5. House of Love - Christine
6. Bauhaus - She’s in Parties
7. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Monkey’s on Juice
8. Coil - Panic
9. Skinny Puppy - Far Too Frail
10. Killing Joke - Follow the Leaders
11. Clan of Xymox - No Words
12. Specimen - Sharp Teeth, Pretty Teeth
13. The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
14. Xmal Deutschland - Reigen
15. The Gun Club - Sleeping in Blood City
16. Tones on Tail - Christian Says
17. Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight
18. And Also the Trees - The Critical Distance
19. The Cure - One Hundred Years

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