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Mixtape 152 • The Power of the One

You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.

You can say that bedrock funk bassist Bootsy Collins is The One, and you would be right on so many levels.
Bootsy Collins
SongArtistNotes
The Power of the One
Bootsy Collins
George feels it
Inspiration Information
Sharon Jones + The Dap-Kings
Can’t get any Shuggier
Femme Africaine
Star Feminine Band
Happiness guaranteed
Its Got Old
King Gizzard + the Lizard Wizard
Surprisingly mellow
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Noodle Soup
Born Ruffians
A fullsome chorus
Tom Young Of Radioface
Bad Bad Meow
Lotta name-dropping
Wrong
True Love
You try googling “true love wrong”
Black Boots
Young Fresh Fellows
Sure sounds stompy
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It's A Whale
Deer Tick
Big sound
Tick
Ween
tickticktick
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Jackson Cannery
Ben Folds Five
The piano racket
Black Coffee In Bed
Squeeze
All of it
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Automaton
Certain Animals
Interrupting guitar
Hold My Hand
Death Valley Girls
A grandiose racket
Crash At Lake Placebo
Guided By Voices
Somewhat organized
All My Friends
Primitons
Classic jangle
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No One Holds You (Closer Than the One You Haven't Met)
The Lemon Twigs
AM radio in the springtime
Mystery Dance
Elvis Costello
Turn it up!
Plastic Halo
Hafdis Huld
Delicate iceflower
Lola
The Kinks
For our brave servicepersons
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Lies
The Last
Straight outta the aighties
Getting Into Knives
The Mountain Goats
On a spiritual path
Brownie Hawkeye
Jason Collett
For the camera fiends
On Any Other Day
The Police
The other ones are complete bullshit
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Icky
They Might Be Giants
Jibbery jiants
Close to You
The Avalanches
Let's have a bit of everything
Mambo No. 5
La Zikabilo
Snappy in that French way
Cruel To Be Kind
Marshall Crenshaw
With Christine Ohlman, the Beehive Queen
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Little Bird
Ghost Funk Orchestra
Again with the five
Scott Cronce Is The CEO
Global Goon
Interstellar surging
3000
Dr. Octagon
Always 20 years ahead
Killer Queen Dub
The Bug
Harsh and groove
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Angry Girl
Ascendants
Don’t cross her
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