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Mixtape 173 • Detroit Basketball

The three-piece punchy pop formula should be familiar to everyone by now, but the sounds of Bad Bad Hats are an elegant proof of their own.

The three-piece punchy pop formula should be familiar to everyone by now, but the sounds of Bad Bad Hats are an elegant proof of their own.
Bad Bad Hats
SongArtistNotes
Detroit Basketball
Bad Bad Hats
Are they winning?
My Ladies Can't Remember the Eighties
Euphone
Good vibrations
Don't Ignore the Air
The Mommyheads
Subtle currents
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Power Broker Blues
The Gravel Pit
Big power
Stepkids In Love
Switches
Such a conundrum
Watercooler
TLO
Dear M
C. Gibbs And The Cardia Bros.
Harrisonesque
I Dig Love (2020 Mix)
George Harrison
Fifty years
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Rock Me Baby
The Shivas
Warm and gooey
Good Guys + Bad Guys
Camper Van Beethoven
Simple and effective
Capturing Moods
Rilo Kiley
With a maritime feel
I Feel It All
Feist
Familiar chimes
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The Incessant
Meat Wave
Pounding on the surf
Black to Comm
The Schizophonics
Hot tonight
Saith Arch Bach
Datblygu
Welsh and fascinating
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Trouble
Death By Unga Bunga
More than a punchline
Tighten My Tie
The Like Young
Like, really tight
Popcorn
TLO
You're Gonna Save Me
The Nicoteens
At their Big Starriest
— • BREAK • —
Broken Goods
The Routes
Punked out in Shanghai
Nosebleed
Illinois
Country fried freak show
Lalita
The Love Language
But is it Chardlingo?
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When the Morning Greets You With a Smile
Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel
Bring me my paisleys
Breathe Me In
The Moles
Original Australian lo-fi
If Not Now, Then When?
King Gizzard + the Lizard Wizard
The new Australian lo-fi
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Love To Love You Baby
Tom Tom Club
Originally from Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder
86 The Mayo
The Slackers
Sage advice
Happy Life
Money Mark
A nice jaunt
Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
Deconstructed Donovan
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Slade Treacher
µ-Ziq
Washing your delicates
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