Mixtape 98 :: Pickin’ The Chicken

by Julius C. Lacking Julius C. Lacking
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Is it noise, or is it Memorex? The Boredomes don’t seem to care much, as long as they get to make their fine, fine racket.

In this episode: The Beat Farmers, Boredoms, The Chameleons UK, Enon, The Hoosegow, Janis Joplin, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Kinks, Laibach, Lucas, Michael Holland, The Nicoteens, Oranger, The Police, Speedy West + Jimmy Bryant, Split Enz

  Song Artist Notes
1 Pickin' The Chicken Speedy West + Jimmy Bryant You don’t hear much pickin’ like that these days
2 Are You Waiting For Me? The Hoosegow Queen Esther rules the kingdom
3 High Society Enon Did you feel that?
4 Swamp Thing The Chameleons UK Gothic!
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6 Everybody's Gonna Be Happy The Kinks Not online! Horrible
7 Lay Down Your Head, Child Oranger One of my favorite albums of 2000
8 Very Rare The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion I could loop it all night long
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10 Lucas With The Lid Off Lucas Not French -- Danish!
11 You're Gonna Save Me The Nicoteens Greetings to the Reinels and Burleys
12 Reason To Believe The Beat Farmers Hey, it starts just like “La Grange”
13 B for Boredoms Boredoms Is there anything they can’t do?
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15 Move Over Janis Joplin The voice that broke the mold
16 Fever For You Michael Holland Vocalist for Jennyanykind
17 Secret Journey The Police From Ghost In The Machine
18 I Got You Split Enz First video I ever saw
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20 Final Countdown Laibach Relentless and Teutonic