You Must Be From Away

>Mix and Match #9

[Disclaimer #1: The mixes and the majority of the tracks from all of these mixtapes are the original C90s from the late 70’s/early mid 80’s. Vinyl to tape. Play a couple of hundred times. Tape to mp3. Snap, crackle, pop and hums are free of charge]

[Disclaimer #2: Meg from Nelson is helping out for a couple of weeks. To say that our musical tastes have few touch points would be an understatement. If you’re surprised to find Barry Manilow, Andy Williams or Liberace here, don’t look at me]

No Phil Collins. I think I was in remission.
Nice linkage here. I think so, anyway
Starts with Wolfgang Ambros and Dylans” Like a rolling stone” with an impenetrable Austrian accent. Great reading.
Then Bob with “Jokerman” – Mark Knopfler with delicacy counterpointing Mick Taylor’s raunchy edge
Then Knopfler from “Local Hero” – one of the great “small” films
Then the Eagles with “All night long” from “Urban Cowboy”. Played in Houston as did “Local Hero”
“Caravan” because Van the Man really would have played all night long ” One more time”… kick”
Clapton was there on the night, too and I first heard “Badge” driving my bosses car to the airport through the Domain in Auckland
Trivia: George Harrison was at Eric’s place and said “”Badge”.That’s an interesting title” and Eric said “No, George. It’s says “Bridge” That’s the bridge. But then again, why not…?”
True story.
Fizzles out there, but Meatloaf and Steinmann match.
And if you want more Zevon, there’s a “Don’t ask me (about WZ)” from last week

Allan Wia A Stan – Wolfgang Ambros from Das Beste Von Wolfgang Ambros
Jokerman – Bob Dylan from The Best Of Bob Dylan
Going Home: Theme Of The Local Hero – Mark Knopfler from Screenplaying
All night long – Eagles from Live
Caravan – Van Morrison from The Last Waltz (Disc 2) [Live]
Badge – Cream from The Best of Cream
Catch me I’m falling – Real Life from Heartland
I want a new drug – Huey Lewis & The News from Sports
Hot nite in Dallas – Moon Martin from Shots From A Cold Nightmare
Snakes on everything – Little Feat from Little Feat
New sensations – Lou Reed from New sensations
Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan from Highway 61 Revisited
Razor’s edge – Meatloaf from Midnight At The Lost And Found
Rock and roll dreams come through – Jim Steinmann from Bad for good
No surrender – Bruce Springsteen from Born in the U.S.A.
Six feet of snow – Little Feat from Down on the farm
The late show – Jackson Browne from Late for the sky
Kiss the bride – Elton John from Too low for zero
Desperados Under the Eaves – Warren Zevon from Warren Zevon
Me & Johnny – Rick Springfield from Living in Oz

Mix and Match 9.mp3 87.8MB 1:33:40 (Must have stretched the tape..)

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Mix & Match #8

[Disclaimer #1: The mixes and the majority of the tracks from all of these mixtapes are the originals from the late 70’s/early mid 80’s. Vinyl to tape. Play a couple of hundred times. Tape to mp3. Snap, crackle, pop and hums are free of charge]

[Disclaimer #2: Meg from Nelson is helping out for a couple of weeks. To say that our musical tastes have few touch points would be an understatement. If you’re surprised to find Barry Manilow, Andy Williams or Liberace here, don’t look at me]

An explanation or 2 needed here (and a mea culpa for yet another Phil Collins. Fuck me sideways. What was I thinking back then)

Bap is a band from Cologne and they write and sing in the local dialect (which I understand mostly and speak pitifully badly). Legendary status and hugely influential in the early 80s.

Jupp (“Joseph”) is pure brilliance.

Tells the story of a tramp who meets up with his mates under the Severin’s Gate (Severinstor – Fringspooz – see what I mean about dialect..) with a flagon of cheap Italian wine and his worldly possessions in a plastic bag and tells tall tales.

Balancing on the Equator, knife fights that cost him his thumb, the thousands of women, playing cards with two yeti in Kathmandu, gold fever, dancing the twist with a cobra, a checkered zebra, Lola, the blond fairy from Beijing….
And then someone asks him about Stalingrad

“Wo litt dann Stalingraad ? En welchem Land es dat?” (Stalingrad? Where’s that? Which country’s Stalingrad in?)
Stalingraad pack hä nie, irgendwie. (Stalingrad left its mark. He’s never recovered)

Goosebump stuff. There were hurt vets before Vietnam. For sure. Just no TV.

“Ahn ‘ner Leitplank” – Ode to a crash barrier – is a glance out of a car window passing a car crash. Pathos heaped on a mite thickly.

But the rest is beaut…
Waterloo Sunset does ‘Ooh lala ooweeoo” to perfection
Bob Seger – still doing it well – for the thundering bass drum as he rolls away
Page 43 for the ease of it all. And Lee Sklar’s bass
Joe Walsh. Subtle as a brick and delicate with it. Not here, necessarily…
Skip “Somebody’s Baby. Please. Although it’s for a Cameron Crowe movie, so it squeezes by. Just.
The Loner still frightens me with its intensity
As primal screams go, Won’t get fooled again is in a class by itself.
Andrew Gold belongs in last week’s suck-without-a-trace M&M, actually.
Dr John doesn’t

And I’ve seen 7 of these acts live.
Not bad, eh.

Really wanted you – Emitt Rhodes from Mirror
Walk away Rene – Ricky Lee Jones from Girl at her volcano
It don’t matter to me – Phil Collins from Hello, I Must Be Going
Jupp – Bap from für usszeschnigge
Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks from Boots Rock Collection
Roll me away – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band from The distance
Page 43 – Crosby & Nash from David Crosby & Graham Nash
Bright Side Of The Road – Van Morrison from The Best Of Rock Legends
I can play that rock & roll – Joe Walsh from You Bought It You Name It
Steppin’ out – Joe Jackson from Night and day
Nashville cats – Lovin’ Spoonful from The Lovin’ Spoonful
Somebody’s baby – Jackson Browne from Best
The sea refuses no river – Pete Townshend from All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
The loner – Neil Young from Neil Young
It’s a mistake – Men at work from Cargo
Looking For The Next Best Thing – Warren Zevon from The Envoy
Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who from The Best Rock Album In The World
Ahn ‘ner Leitplank – Bap from vun drinne noh drusse
Hope you feel good – Andrew Gold from What’s wrong with this picture
Such a night – Dr John from The Last Waltz

Mix and Match 8.mp3 82.4MB 1:27:55

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Mix & Match #7

[Disclaimer: The mixes and the majority of the tracks from all of these mixtapes are the originals from the late 70’s/early mid 80’s. Vinyl to tape. Play a couple of hundred times. Tape to mp3. Snap, crackle, pop and hums are free of charge]

Not a significant duff-ness factor here.

I bought a music magazine in Wellington in January 1967 on the way to RNZAF Wigram and the 47 Air Crew training course. I read about how Brian Wilson had multitracked this and that and layered sound on sound on sound to make “Vibrations” and I was hooked. S

tuff like that probably crowded out important things (like navigation and airman skills), so that they decided they didn’t have enough aircraft to entrust me with one ( lot of water around New Zealand…) and I should perhaps look for a different career track.

Some stuff here is obscurely good. Great even.
Karla Bonoff rode in on the tailcoats of the LA music mafia and got devoured by the machine – “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” (Hunter S. Thompson)
Sniff ‘n’ the tears, Marc Benno, Greg Copeland. Sunk without a trace.

I remember buying “Night moves” at a record store near the station in Frankfurt (v. dodgy part of town back then) and the guy said sneeringly “It’s just the same old stuff”.
And I said” Yeah, but does it so WELL”. And I’ll stand by that.

It’s probably uncool to like Burton Cummings, but he deserves to be here for his Guess Who stuff.

Only know Robert Palmer in a silk suit with open-mouthed dollies swaying in the background? Listen to him with Feat and bits of the Meters.

And isn’t “Too drunk to remember” the perfect anthem to good times..?
Is for me.

Good vibrations – Beach Boys from 20 Golden Greats
Personally – Karla Bonoff from Wild heart of the young
Gold – Sniff ‘n’ the Tears from Ride blue divide
Front page news – Little Feat from Down on the farm
Walk out in the rain – Eric Clapton from Backless
What kind of love is this – Amazing Rhythm Aces from How The Hell Do You Spell Rhyhthm?
The Fuse – Jackson Browne from The Pretender
Quarter of a man – David Lindley from El Rayo-X
Lost in Austin – Marc Benno from Lost in Austin
Dance dance dance – Steve Miller Band from Fly like an eagle
My own way to rock – Burton Cummings from My own way to rock
Starting place – Greg Copeland from Revenge will come
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd from Rediscover The 70’s (You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet)
Lawyers guns and money – Warren Zevon from Excitable Boy
Ship of fools – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band from Night moves
No Woman No Cry (Live) – Bob Marley & The Wailers from One Love
Stand and fight – James Taylor from Dad loves his work
Couldn’t get it right – Climax Blues Band from Gold Plated
Too drunk to remember – Carlene Carter from Musical Shapes
Sneaking Sally Through The Alley – Robert Palmer from Best Of The Test (Disc 2)
Someone To Lay Down Beside Me – Linda Ronstadt from Hasten down the wind

Mix & Match 7.mp3 82.4 MB 1:27:54