More mix disc covers from my recent past

More old mix disc covers and tray cards. A few mixes got misplaced or damaged over the years, but I still have most of them.

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Two mixes of tracks pulled exclusively from my vinyl. 

LEFT: I don't really hate jazz. I just thought it would be funny if THAT'S what got such a reaction from those people.

RIGHT: SOTT stands for "Son of Tape Tree", which was a mix exchange on the Audities power pop list. 

Captain Beefhear Eats a Cupcake - another mix disc

Another collaged cover with a wallpaper pattern for a background...

Captain Beefhear Eats a Cupcake

01 - WIRE TRAIN - Chamber Of Hellos (In a Chamber 1984)
02 - the RIFLES - She's Got Standards (No Love Lost 2006)
03 - STEPPENWOLF - Everybody's Next One (Steppenwolf 1968)
04 - SPOON - Wanted To Be Your (Telephono 1996)
05 - ANTI PASTI - No Government (Last Call 1981)
06 - the WOGGLES - Rattle Her Bones (Get Tough 1997)
07 - FIELDS - Brittlesticks (7 from the Village 2006)
08 - KIM WILDE - 2 6 5 8 0 (Kim Wilde 1981)
09 - AL KOOPER - Making Plans For Nigel (previously unreleased 1995 - Rare and Well Done)
10 - RAMONES - Planet Earth 1988 (Too Tough To Die 1984)
11 - the PINK FAIRIES - Chromium Plating (Kings of Oblivion 1973)
12 - thee MILKSHAKES - Can't Seem To Love That Girl (thee Knights of Trashe 1984)
13 - ccc - 3 MCs and 4 Mods (the Who vs Beastie Boys mashup 2006)
14 - ANN MARGARET - Thirteen Men (1966)
15 - DEAF SCHOOL - Where's the Weekend (Second Honeymoon 1976)
16 - MYRACLE BRAH - Going Crazy (the Myracle Brah 2000)
17 - the WHO - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Magic Bus 1968)
18 - the MIGHTY LEMON DROPS - The Heartbreak Thing (Laughter 1989)
19 - ORANGE JUICE - The Day I Went Down To Texas (Texas Fever 1984)
20 - the ANGELS - Take A Long Line (Face to Face 1978)
21 - MC5 - Tonight (Back in the USA 1970)
22 - EUGENIUS - The Moon's A Balloon (Mary Queen of Scots 1994)
23 - the SONICS - Have Love Will Travel (Here are the Sonics 1965)
24 - IGGY and the STOOGES - Down on the Street live (August 31 2006)

Another mix disc, this one's called "a little wow."

a little wow.

01 - the FRATELLIS - Chelsea Dagger (Costello Music 2006)
02 - RAM JAM - Too Bad On Your Birthday (Ram Jam 1977)
03 - HUSKER DU - It's Not Funny Anymore (Metal Circus 1983)
04 - LITTLE WILLIE JOHN - My Nerves (single 1956)
05 - STARLIGHT MINTS - Inside Of Me (Drowaton 2006)
06 - CHEAP TRICK - Can't Stop It But I'm Gonna Try (All Shook Up 1980)
07 - the TURTLES - Your Maw Said You Cried (It Ain't Me Babe 1965)
08 - the WOODENTOPS - Hear Me James (Giant 1986)
09 - JACK SHIT - Boney Was a Warrior (Rogues Gallery-Pirate Ballads Sea Songs and Chanteys comp 2006)
10 - the LIVING END - English Army (It's For Your Own Good 1996)
11 - MURRAY KELLUM - I Dreamed I Was A Beatle (single 1964)
12 - the REDCUERS - Small Talk from a Big Mouth (the Reducers 1984)
13 - FIELD MUSIC - You're Not Supposed To (Field Music 2005)
14 - EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - Call Me A Liar (Inside Out 1972)
15 - JULIAN COPE - Try Try Try (20 Mothers 1995)
16 - the KOOKS - She Moves In Her Own Way (Inside In Inside Out 2006)
17 - QUEEN - Fight From The Inside (News of the World 1977)
18 - UTOPIA - Infared and Ultraviolet (Utopia 1982)
19 - QUEENS OF THE STONEAGE - Monsters In The Parasol (R 2000)
20 - the UNDERTONES - Nine Times Out of Ten (Hypnotised 1980)
21 - ALICE COOPER - You Look Good In Rags (Special Forces 1981)
22 - the ANDERSON COUNCIL - Friday's Girl (the Fall Parade 2006)
23 - KING CRIMSON - Model Man (Three of a Perfect Pair 1984)
24 - the WONDERMINTS - My Friend Jack (Wonderful World of the Wondermints 1997)
25 - GANG OF FOUR - He'd Send in the Army live (Urgh A Music War 1981)

some pics from a recent New York trip

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 ABOVE: Joe Strummer wall painting - I don't remember exactly where this is. I recall taking the picture somewhere after drinking lots of beer and before drinking more beer.

 ABOVE: Noodles at a little place behind a news stand and a shoe shop in "the other China Town". A fabulous place with only 4 tables and some of the greatest smells ever. I would never be able to find this place again.

Mix Disc Mania! A look back at some old mix discs.

Here are some older mix disc covers and backtrays that I've made over the years. I've always loved putting together mixes, first on tape and then eventually CD-Rs, but occasionally having a good cover idea was enough to make me start a new mix.

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 I don't remember exactly who said it, but the title is a reference to a story told on a talk show about being treated like an insider at oldschool Jersey restaurants with tips like "it's not on the menu, but try the Steak Sinatatra. To die For!"

 

 I'm a sucker for a good theme disc, and songs about the radio is a pretty easy one (along with the classic "Girl's Name Songs" and "Calendar Songs" themes).

Lights at Sox Park

Lights at Sox Park. Yes, I know it has a corporate name, but I try to not use it whenever possible.

 

some misc recent pictures

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ABOVE: "Look! Listen! Live!" - a sign near the train station in Lombard

BELOW: a lion at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo

More pictures around Chicago

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Pictures around Chicago: the Rookery Building

A few pictures of the Rookery Building (209 South LaSalle Street in the Loop)...

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some pictures of the DuPage Theater in Lombard Illinois

I think there's an ordinance on the books that says if you're going to take more than three pictures of buildings in Lombard, at least one of them has to be of the abandoned DuPage Theater.

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Some more pictures from around Chicago

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