I Just Wanna Be Your Sweetheart: May 2011

So yeah, it's been about a month since I posted a mix, so here ya go. This time around, it's all about givin' the ladies some. All 14 tracks on this mix feature female vocalists, and most of them rock serious balls. Most of the tracks are from the 90s, and even the more recent ones sound like they could have originated in the Buzz Bin circa 1995.

I'm still riding on a wave of 90s nostalgia after last month's mix, and I spent most of that decade with my teenage heart swooning over every pissed-off, screeching, cooing, babydoll dress-clad female rock n' roller I could uncover. That hasn't really changed over the past decade, either. A chick swinging a guitar around is just like kryptonite, dude. Hopefully, I'm not the only one who feels the same way.

Anyhow, this mix is like the imaginary soundtrack for a sequel to Clueless that never got made. It's loaded with huge guitars, walls of harmonies, feedback, a fair bit of screaming, and songs about lesbians, movie stars, male sexual inadequacy, unwanted pregnancies, drug addiction, and more witty lyrics about stupid dudes than you can shake a stick at. Hope y'all dig it!

I Just Wanna Be Your Sweetheart: May 2011

1. The Long Blondes - "Lust In The Movies"

2. Sleater-Kinney - "Little Babies"

3. The Muffs - "Oh Nina"

4. Tilt - "Leanin' Like A Barn"

5. Elastica - "Stutter"

6. Veruca Salt - "Volcano Girls"

7. The Donnas - "Take It Off"

8. Letters To Cleo - "Anchor"

9. Anna Waronker - "I Wish You Well"

10. The Go-Gos - "How Much More"

11. Baby Shakes - "Love Machine"

12. PJ Harvey - "C'mon Billy"

13. Lush - "I've Been Here Before"

14. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Trashman In Furs"

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Random Old Records Podcast #31

Holy shit, is is really May already? Well, according to the calendar it is, so here's episode #31 of Random Old Records! April was a freakin' amazing month for rock n' roll, and I spent it buying a metric fuck-ton of records and getting my face melted off at live shows by the Black Lips, Vivian Girls, Ty Segall, The Fresh & Onlys, The Black Angels, Davila 666, Magic Jake & The Power Crystals, and YOWZA! Yeah, luckily a whole buncha sweet bands played around Cincinnati and got a fantastic turnout each time, so hopefully that bodes well for the summer and we'll be seeing even more coming soon!

Anyway, Random Old Records #31 is loaded with an hour of new rock n' roll, including a BRAND NEW track from glam pop wizard King Tuff, fresh off a recent Scion A/V split single with the Hex Dispensers. It's called "Hands" and it sounds like a long lost Slade song or some shit. His upcoming LP is gonna be something else! The featured label this time around is Trouble In Mind, who should get some kinda award for putting out dozens of records without a single bad one in the bunch! This time around, you'll hear a track from each of their latest releases (Wrong Words, The Paperhead, Jeffrey Novak, and Alex Cuervo), plus Mean Jeans doing a TORRID Sparks cover from the TiM Record Store Day split 7"! That The Paperhead LP is freakin' amazing, by the way. It's a buncha 18 year old kids channeling vintage 60s psych pop through a 90s Elephant 6 lens and wrapping it all in a haze of youthful vigor and pie-eyed optimism. Not to be missed!

Speaking of Record Store Day, you'll hear a previously unreleased track from The Black Angels and Ty Segall lighting up T. Rex's "Buick Mackane" culled from their respective RSD releases. Also, this baby's got even more new music from Natural Child, Silver Shampoo, White Mystery, Hunx & His Punx, Dum Dum Girls, Shannon & The Clams, and loads MORE! And while I'm throwing out recommendations, the debut Natural Child LP is a MUST HEAR and might just end up as my #1 of the year once December rolls around. It's the best late 70s hard rock album I've heard in a long-ass time, and you should expect a full review on the blog in the next week or so! As always, thanks for listening and reading, and expect more reviews, mixes, fresh jams, and podcasts coming soon!

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Random Old Records #31
1. Magic Jake & The Power Crystals - "Power Crystals"
(Magic Jake & The Power Crystals, Burger 2011)
2. Natural Child - "Hard Workin' Man"
(1971, Infinity Cat 2011)
3. Ty Segall - "Buick Mackane"
(Ty Rex, Goner 2011)
4. Silver Shampoo - "Streaks Of Satan"
(Higher and Higher, Krazypunx 2011)
5. Alex Cuervo - "Hands Of Glory"
(4 Song Solo EP, Trouble In Mind 2011)
6. King Tuff - "Hands"
(Hex Dispensers/King Tuff 7", Scion A/V 2011)
--Werewolves On Wheels!
7. Dum Dum Girls - "He Gets Me High"
(He Gets Me High, Sub Pop 2011)
8. White Mystery - "Good Girl"
(Blood & Venom, self-released 2011)
9. Shannon & The Clams - "Toxic Revenge"
(Sleep Talk, 1234 Go! 2011)
10. The Unwed Teenage Mothers - "Change Your Mind"
(Blonde Girls, Play Pinball 2010)
11. Mean Jeans - "Forever Young"
(Record Store Day 2011 7", Trouble In Mind 2011)
12. White Wires - "Pogo 'Til I Puke Tonight"
(Pogo 'Til I Puke Tonight 7", Ugly Pop 2010)
--How do you get to know someone?
13. Hunx & His Punx - "Tonite Tonite"
(Too Young To Fall In Love, Hardly Art 2011)
14. First Base - "She's Boy Crazy"
(She's Boy Crazy 7", Play Pinball 2010)
15. The Guitars - "She's Got Your Heart"
(High Action, self-released 2011)
16. The Fresh & Onlys - "Fascinated"
(Play It Strange, In The Red 2010)
17. Jeffrey Novak - "Looking Down At You"
(4 Song Solo EP, Trouble In Mind 2011)
18. The Paperhead - "Do You Ever Think Of Me?"
(The Paperhead, Trouble In Mind 2011)
--You must have a widescreen navel!
19. Snake Flower 2 - "You Can't Erase A Mirror"
(Memory Castle 7", Southpaw 2011)
20. The Black Angels - "At Night"
(Phosgene Nightmare, Blue Horizon 2011)
21. The Wrong Words - "Wrong Again"
(The Wrong Words, Trouble In Mind 2011)
22. Sex Clark Five - "Detention Girls"
(Strum and Drum, Records To Russia 1986)
23. Rockpile - "When I Write The Book"
(Seconds Of Pleasure, Columbia 1980)