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Mixtape 159 • Call Me When You Get There
I will let you in on a secret weakness: a band like The Rare Occasions can seize control of my playlist just by showing up with a surplus of pop hooks and grade AAA harmonies.
The Rare Occasions
| Song | Artist | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
Call Me When You Get There | The Rare Occasions | Easier said than done | |
Love Comes In Waves | Fastball | Still fast | |
Space Blows | Ratboys | Fuzzing loud | |
Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft | The Wedding Present | And their aggressive jangle | |
| — • BREAK • — | |||
Ain't That Lovin' You Baby | Link Wray | Still the original | |
Ewa on the Beach | Frankie & The Poolboys | With a genuine drip | |
Watercooler | TLO | ||
Chain Gang | Boise Cover Band | Originally by Pretenders | |
Trash People | Cherry Glazerr | We all know some | |
| — • BREAK • — | |||
Black Moon Rising | Black Pumas | Soul grinding | |
Small World | Trilok Gurtu & Robert Miles | Make yourself comfortable | |
Tei! Tei! Tei! | Polysics | Manic japanic | |
Barney Rubble Is My Double | The Evaporators | Totally Flintstoned | |
| — • BREAK • — | |||
ENTERTAINMENT | Spirit of the Beehive | A bit of the far out there | |
Pleura | King Gizzard + the Lizard Wizard | For beat-counting obsessives | |
The Butterfly Effect | The Epizootis | Big finish | |
| — • BREAK • — | |||
Foot In Mouth | The Routes | Under some form of suggestion | |
Baby's Got Sauce | G. Love + Special Sauce | It’s a hot type of sauce | |
Rockin' In A Flat | Madness | Or G sharp if you will | |
Ranking Full Stop | The English Beat | I said stop | |
| — • BREAK • — | |||
I Something You (Live) | Robyn Hitchcock | It's a comfortable existence | |
When I Drink | The Avett Brothers | A classic from the start | |
Fresca | TLO | ||
Hobo Luv | Rube Waddell | More hobo music | |
Walt Whitman | My Robot Friend | He was super into robots | |
| — • BREAK • — | |||
Need You Around | Josh Caterer | An unmistakable voice | |
Rhode Island Is Famous For You | Erin McKeown | Anyone from Rhode Island? | |
Isn't It A Shame | Head of Femur | The big open sound | |
Abandoned Flesh | The Mountain Goats | Those goths! | |
| — • BREAK • — | |||
Tawkin Tekno (Remix) | Sonic Boom | Mesmerizing sounds | |
Just Give 'Em Whiskey | Colourbox | Samples galore | |
Cara De Espejo | Juana Molina | Looping through infinity | |
Vedavox | Ozric Tentacles | Far-off microtones | |
| — • BREAK • — | |||
Spirals | Django Django | Around and around and ever-tighter | |
- The Avett Brothers
- Black Pumas
- Boise Cover Band
- Cherry Glazerr
- Colourbox
- Django Django
- The English Beat
- The Epizootis
- Erin McKeown
- The Evaporators
- Fastball
- Frankie & The Poolboys
- G. Love + Special Sauce
- Head of Femur
- Josh Caterer
- Juana Molina
- King Gizzard + the Lizard Wizard
- Link Wray
- Madness
- The Mountain Goats
- My Robot Friend
- Ozric Tentacles
- Polysics
- The Rare Occasions
- Ratboys
- Robyn Hitchcock
- The Routes
- Rube Waddell
- Sonic Boom
- Spirit of the Beehive
- Trilok Gurtu & Robert Miles
- The Wedding Present
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