GOOD SCREAM MIX
Finally completed and posted - 2 days late for ALL CAPS DAY - the GOOD SCREAM mix I wrote about making.
Created with many helpful suggestions:
I did use Wilhelm screams, including THE Wilhelm Scream (there’s a scream between every song) but no Love Rollercoaster. But there are actually 2 John Pugh songs on here, !!! and Free Blood. Chris, good call - I’ll put some Screamin’ Jay on the next one.
I ended up not using Weed even though Sweet Morning Light was the original inspiration for this mix (along with the movie Blow Out, of course).
This was so fun to make, and still so fun to listen to. I need more suggestions because I want to make more of these mixes.
The Songs:
I listen to Mutiny in Heaven almost every morning, as a quick cleanser for my aural palate (gross, sorry), to set me back right again. I find myself wanting to grab people and yell into their faces: PUNISHMENT! REWARD!
Amasa suggested Careful With That Axe, Eugene - gorgeous. I don’t think I’d ever listened to this song before, and I didn’t have this album (Relics). Pink Floyd is my brother’s favorite band [and coincidentally the first big stadium show I ever saw, at Giants Stadium, I think, with my friend Sheetal, in junior high]. [and wait, I did see Laser Floyd at the Hayden Planetarium on a date when I was 16.]
Child in Time - The scream that starts around 2:30 makes me laugh out loud every single time I hear it. Colin (who suggested this song) did mention that some of the songs are a little “TONIGHT-aah!”
I love Buffalo’s cover of the Free song “I’m a Mover” - I love Buffalo in general, and those are inarguably some awesome screams.
You’re Gonna Miss Me - Roky Erickson is one of my personal heroes.
Psycho - this song was initially on one of my summer rock mixes, and then replaced with Strychnine. Good call, Colin.
T.V. Eye - this was a suggestion from the Tiger (I’m really trying to get that nickname for Rebecca to stick). A few days later I was reading a Da Capo Best Music Writing book and came across this, which is one of my favorite inclusions in the whole series.
Satori Pt. 1 - also suggested by the Tigerrrrr and it’s one of the best songs on here.
Little League - Yup. Cap’n Jazz. They sure did play here this summer. And I sure didn’t go, after almost going, but then drinking outside all day with an ex-boyfriend instead. That was a great decision. Good job, me!
** For the record, R just walked by, laughing, asking, “Is this CAP’N JAZZ?” Not a fan.
No Life Singed Her - Great Pavement song, one of my favorites. From Slanted & Enchanted, which is when I first heard them (1991?) They didn’t play this song at the Brooklyn show, but they did at some of the other shows, and they did play Two States at the Williamsburg Waterfront show, which sounds just the like The Fall, and which I had put on a Destinations/Justinations mix I made for Justin.
!!! and Free Blood, both featuring screams by John Pugh (and Maddy, in the case of Free Blood). Yadnus was my favorite song from Myth Takes.
The Beautiful Ones - Amazing. Brilliant. I fell in love with this song in the summer of ‘92, when I listened to Purple Rain on my walkman every day on the way home from my summer statistics class (because I failed or dropped out the 1st time, during the regular semester) while pining for the guy who had dumped me (he of the Drinkathon/Capn Jazz Missathon day). I was heart-broken. But on the plus side, listening to this song obsessively, over and over, many times a day for a period of a few weeks is not something I regret.
I did see someone do this song once during karaoke, one of the few times I’ve gone - I’ve since put a total moratorium on any and all trips to karaoke for me, even if they involve birthdays of some of my best friends because I. Hate. Karaoke. But whatever, this is neither the time or the place. I remember that I did see someone do this, and resisted the urge to just get up and walk out because COME ON.
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