SURPRISE! april 2011
Download the SURPRISE! mix here. It’s mediafire. I apologize for any weird pop-ups telling you CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON! or asking if you want to work from home.
1. Broadcast - Evil Is Coming
Nitsuh Abebe/New York Magazine, “Remembering Trish Keenan”
2. Mr. Oizo & Gaspard Auge - Rubber (Rubber Soundtrack)
4. Rachid Taha/Christian Olivier - Tekitoi? (Who Are You?)
I think the version on this mix is actually a different version from the link above and from this awesome SNL skit (which is where I heard it) but it’s the only one I was able to locate. I didn’t read the Slate article until after I had found and listened to the song - and I feel ashamed to know that I like “Starbucks music.” But not really surprised.
7. ABBA - The Name of the Game
Over the winter I went on a serious Steve Coogan/Rob Brydon bender.
Shot in Bushwick, down the street from where I live.
9. Blue Magic - Just Don’t Want To Be Lonely
Also appeared in Rubber soundtrack.
From this mix (by Zev Eisenberg of Wolf + Lamb, for 3rd Ward) which I downloaded over the winter and this song sounded summery. And here’s some disco weather from Kristen Wiig.
Dirtbombs covered this on their new album, and Robert put the cover on his mix of self-indulgent songs (called Look at Me!, and featuring Kristen Wiig cover art).
SURPRISE! 30 seconds of abrupt, discordant, vaguely evil sounding weirdness. It’s from the Perfect Sound Forever 10” and I think I put it on a mix in ‘92.
13. Todd Rundgren - Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off
This album (A Wizard, A True Star)* is insane. Not in a “it’s so great it’s nuts” kind of way (although it is really good) but in a truly “cuckoo bananas” way. I love it the way I love Ariel Pink.
14. Asei Kobayashi & Micky Yoshino - Eat (Hausu soundtrack)
Have you seen Hausu? You really should, because it’s easily one of the craziest & best movies ever.
15. James Blake - Why Don’t You Call Me
This song is about calling names, not phones, but in my mind it works okay going into the next song, which is about calling phones.
16. The Books - Thirty Incoming
Creepy answering machine message song. I miss answering machines, with actual cassette tapes. My mother still has one, in her office. Oh, moms.
17. Lisa Germano - A …a Psychopath
Another creepy song, also with a telephone call. I was going to put The Replacements “Answering Machine” on this mix, but these are creepy, winter songs and the Replacements are not creepy. I fell in love with Lisa Germano in the late 90s when I was living in Seattle, and Josh, who was roommate at the time, asked if he could be obsessed with her, too. Which was cute.
Pretenders cover, sounding like a sexy German robot space alien from the 70s. Also on Treneff’s December mix!
19. PJ Harvey - Hanging In the Wire
This is what I imagine it would have looked like when PJ Harvey played this song at last night’s Terminal 5 show, had I been able to see anything other than the couple in their late 30s in front of me - tall lady with hair she really wanted to put in my mouth, and a short-ish balding chubby guy in plaid, whose ass she had cupped in her hand a fair portion of the show. You stay classy, Public Concert-goers!
awkwardness happening to someone you love/
the black cat, the black cat/
curiouser and curiouser
21. The Field - A Paw In My Face
Lionel Ritchie’s “Hello” was one of the clues in the Audio Round at Wednesday trivia.
Download the SURPRISE! mix here.
*Robert only ever remembers Todd Rundgren as the “Bang On The Drum All Day guy.”
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