Friday Mixtape #45 - Use Somebody - mp3

This week's mixtape is another themed mix... it's made up entirely of cover songs... and covers done in my favorite way... completely different to the original! It's pretty mellow, which might be a good musical choice for my fellow Irish dwellers as we need to calm ourselves after the Paddys Week festivities.

Also included of course is a Big Star cover in honor of the late Alex Chilton who passed away this week. Enjoy.

Friday Covers Mixtape #45 - Use Somebody - mp3

Included on the mix this week:
1. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Is In [Mickey Newbury]
2. Walter Wanderly - The Girl From Ipanema [Antonio Carlos Jobim]
3. The Stranglers - Walk On By [Dionne Warwick]
4. Nada Surf - Blue Moon [Big Star]
5. J Mascis - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [The Smiths]
6. Bat For Lashes - Use Somebody [Kings of Leon]
7. Grizzly Bear - Boy From School [Hot Chip]
8. The Morning Benders - Dreams [Fleetwood Mac]
9. Sia - Gimme More [Britney Spears]
10. Dr. Fox's Old Timey String Band - Kids [MGMT]

Weekend Hangover Mixtape #44 - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - mp3

Another non-friday mixtape.... and this time I can only blame the drink. To help those of you like me, who over-indulged this weekend, I've put together a bit of a relaxing come-down mix. Even if you aren't nursing a sore head, it's a very Sunday evening appropriate mix, a tinge of the sad and melancholy, as relaxing and calming as possible.

Enjoy the rest of your day off, stay in your jammies, relax and drink sugary tea and chocolate and close your eyes and listen to this mix.

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Weekend Hangover Mixtape #44 - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - mp3

Included in the mix this week:
1. Tomita - Clair de lune
2. The Aislers Set - Alicia's Song
3. The Velvet Underground - Stephanie Says
4. Love - Alone Again Or
5. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
6. Cults - Go Outside
7. The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
8. Pulp - Bad Cover Version
9. Samantha Jones - Don't Come Any Closer
10. Brian Eno - An Ending

Weekend Mixtape #43 - The Get Go - mp3

This week, due to life's usual way of getting in the way, Friday's mixtape became a "weekend mixtape". So I decided to give my mix a theme of something some of you might be likely to do at the weekend... exercise. Well, speaking for myself I've been in training for the Great Ireland Run which takes place in April.

This mix is designed to be the perfect upbeat driving accompaniment to any type of workout; whether it's an exercise kind of workout, or a workout on your dancing shoes. I'd say it's particularly good for spinning as the speeds change from double time to halftime, but my plan is to use it while running, or even to time myself in the gym. It's exactly an hour, with a five minute cool down & stretch at the end. Oooh wee!

So if you feel like sweating it out... or just pretending to, give this mix a listen.

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Weekend Mixtape #43 - The Get Go

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The workout mixtape includes:
1. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
2. Man Parrish - Heatstroke
3. Roxy Music - Same Old Scene (Glimmers Remix)
4. Classixx - I'll Get You (Ft. Jeppe)
5. Marina and the Diamonds - Hollywood (Monarchy Gliese Remix)
6. Chromeo - Night by Night (Siriusmo Remix)
7. Phoenix - Fences (Friendly Fires Remix)
8. New Young Pony Club - The Get Go
9. Ladyhawke - Another Runaway
10. Kraftwerk - Tour De France
11. Devo - Whip It
12. A Certain Ratio - Do The Du
13. Lali Puna - Grin and Bear
14. Michael Sembello - Maniac
15. Erasure - Stop!
16. Morrissey - You're The One For Me Fatty
17. Nouvelle Vague - I Melt With You
18. The Smiths - Stretch Out And Wait

Sunday Mixtape #42 - Real Life - mp3

This week's mix is designed to be filling like a big Sunday dinner. It's got lots of unusual flavors that meld together into a exciting musical melange. It's a bit disco and uplifting and dancy, which is unusual for a Sunday I suppose, but it's meant to pick up your spirits despite the fact the weekend is coming to a close. There is a little fun treat hidden in there which is a song from an old band I was in that has since been re-jigged into a song for my current band. Ooooh sneaky.

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Sunday Mixtape #42 - Real Life

Included on the mix this week:
1. Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work
2. James - Fire So Close
3. Distractions - Time Goes By So Slow
4. Fingerprintz - Wet Job
5. Aeroplanes - Transport One
6. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
7. Sons & Daughters - Dance Me In (JD Twitch & The Truffle Club's Optimo Remix)
8. Tanlines - Real Life (Memory Tapes Remix)
9. Alyoa - It's Been Too Long (Lifelike Top Gun Mix)
10.David Naughton - Makin' It

Friday Mixtape #41 - Nothing But A Heartache - mp3

Last week I gave you love... so it's only fair that I give you some songs from the other side, the heartbreak side. That's right, this is a mixtape chock full of anti-love songs for the cynic that lives inside all of us. Come on, life isn't all roses and chocolates.

So settle yourself into your couch, grab that tub of Ben & Jerry's and the remote, and have an anti-love night all to yourself.

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Friday Mixtape #41 - Nothing But A Heartache

Featured anti-lovers this week:
1. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
2. Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
3. Florence & The Machine - Kiss With A Fist
4. The Cars - My Best Friends Girl
5. Clare and the Reasons - That's All
6. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
7. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison
8. The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache
9. Dion - Runaround Sue
10. Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do?

Friday Mixtape #40 - Boys & Girls In Love - mp3

I've never been a big sap that's worried about Valentines Day traditions. Yeah I'm guilty of being smug and in a relationship and all, but I'm a bigger fan of romantic gestures that aren't suggested by a card company or restaurant offering a prix fixe.

BUT

I do love a good love song, and what better time to let my inner sap who enjoys romantic music come out but at Saint Valentines... right? So here you go. Go on and burn it on a CD and pretend you made the mixtape yerself... (except for that bit where I talk at the start... so maybe nevermind)

Anyways, enjoy all you lovers and non-lovers and wannabe lovers... this mix is for you <3

Friday Mixtape #40 - Girls & Boys In Love

Included on the mix this week:
1. Orange Juice - L.O.V.E. Love
2. Pulp - Something Changed
3. The Rumble Strips - Girls & Boys In Love
4. The Maccabees - First Love
5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love?
6. Black Kids - Love Me Already
7. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
8. Chairlift - Bruises
9. When In Rome - The Promise
10. Martha & The Vandellas - My Baby Loves Me
11. Madeline Bell - You Don't Love Me No More
12. The Page Boys - Sweet Love
13. Buddy Holly - Love Like Yours

Friday Mixtape #39 - Weekend - mp3

This week's mix demonstrates, without a doubt, that my taste is quite varied - starting with an oh so brand new remix of Noah & The Whale, before descending into a spangly cowbell-laden disco section, until moving into garage music, new & old, and then finishing off with some trusty girl groups. Dreamy electro? Yep. Shameless disco. Uh huh. Cher? Sure! Belarussian Garage? Well of course!

There's more info on the main site: loveactionluvs.blogspot.com - but you're clearly just here for the music.

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Friday Mixtape #39 - Weekend

Included in the mix this week:
1. Noah & The Whale - Love of an Orchestra (Nightwaves Remix)
2. Class Action - Weekend
3. Andrea True Connection - More More More
4. Nick Glider - Hot Child in the City
5. Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
6. The Stampletons - Pretty Little Girl
7. The Phoenix - Every Now And Then I Cry
8. Pat Lewis - Look What I Almost Missed
9. Cher - Dream Baby
10. Yvonne Prenosilova - When My Baby Cries