I Wanna Wanna Don't Wanna!!!

As I was taking a long walk through my immaculate music collection I stumbled upon a number of impeccable songs that all carried a similar titling theme. So I began to dig deeper, delve further and decide on a few found favourites for my next mix.

This cassette comprises a list of songs featuring, in their title, an expressive yelp of "I Wanna . . ." and - on the flipside - "I Don't Wanna . . ." (The basic rule may have been broken on a couple of the tracks on Side B, but I've no doubt you will understand and, in your heart of hearts, begin to forgive . . .)

The Ramones loom large as half of their back catalogue consists almost entirely of songs beginning the "I Wanna . . ." title and refrain. And may the Lord bless their crippled souls for it: for He alone knows they could barely string syllables together whilst alive. (The tracks beginning and ending Side B, "I Don't Want to Grow Up", are the same Tom Waits composition, put to perfect use by the Brothers Ramone.)

Elsewhere, on Side A, there are desires for individuality from the Pistols, wanting to Scream, wanting to Die, wanting to be Your Dog, wanting to be Adored. There are some obvious favourites of yours and mine but without them this mix would not exist.

Side B contains the will, the want - via frequent, plaintive "Don't Wanna!"s - to love and be loved; to come in close, to leave me alone; to never grow old and to live forever. And, of course, the pleas are punked up, blissed out, skinny white-people electrified guitar shocks.

The program is as follows:
(click either Side A or Side B or both for your exclusive download)

Side A:

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
The Ramones - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Sex Pistols - I Wanna Be Me
Chris Knox - Wanna!!
Adam Green - I Wanna Die
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
The Laughing Clowns - I Want to Scream
The Breeders - I Just Wanna Get Along
Mach Pelican - Do Ya Wanna Dance?
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Sleater-Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Delroy Wilson - I Want Justice
The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand

Side B:

The Ramones - I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Hüsker Dü - Don't Wanna Know if You Are Lonely
The Drones - I Don't Ever Want to Change
Bob Dylan - I Don't Believe You
Big Star - Don't Lie to Me
Look Blue Go Purple - I Don't Want You Anyway
Teenage Fanclub - I Don't Want Control of You
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want to Get Over You
Double Happys - I Don't Wanna See You Again
Minor Threat - I Don't Want to Hear It
Mint Chicks - I Don't Want to Grow Old
Belle & Sebastian - I Don't Want to Play Football
The Chills - Don't Be - Memory
Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up


. . . a brief post-script:

If the links do not work, have timed out, or if your computer hates you, get in contact with myself so's you can send me a cassette to copy this or any of the other mixes.

Enjoy-oy-oy-oy!

Distant Dreams Parts 1 & 2

A blogger may disappear but a blog never dies. It still exists; it still swirls within the glorious abstract ether we know as the interwebs.

And so I return!

I return with new music to wrap your eager ears around.

Having purchased for myself a brand new second hand Stereo Double Cassette Deck last weekend I set about putting together a series of mix tapes which will be forever forthcoming, downloadable, and so limited as to be almost exclusive.

The first in the series is the Distant Dreams Cassette.

Compiled over two separate weekend sessions the tape moves from thick swaddled electro post-punk through to laid back laid out sleep-inducing tape-space. From the early morning TV test card soundtracks by This Heat and Young Marble Giants to the warped, almost shapeless night shades of shattered German consciousness courtesy of Harmonia, Bowie and D.A.F.

Its a strange journey and one you'll be lucky to wake up from.


Find Part 1/Side A, here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/418370574/Distant_Dreams_-_Part_1.mp3

. . . and Part 2/Side B, here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/418372264/Distant_Dreams_-_Part_2.mp3


Program is as follows:

Part 1/Side A:

The Cure - A Reflection
Kate Bush - Under Ice
Faust - So Far
Mars - Hairwaves
The Camberwell Now - Splash
Cabaret Voltaire - Theme From Earthshaker
Low Rise Estate - Untitled
Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna
Pere Ubu - Drinking Wine Spodyody
D.A.F. - Osten Wärht am Längsten
E.M.A.K. - Filmmuzik

Part 2/Side B:

Young Marble Giants - N.I.T.A.
David Bowie - A New Career in a New Town
Harmonia - Hausmusik
Suicide - Keep Your Dreams
Throbbing Gristle - Distant Dreams (part 2)
The Goat That Went "Om" - The Pirate Song
Liars - They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids
The Del-Byzantees - My Hands Are Yellow (From The Job That I Do)
This Heat - Twilight Furniture
Dark Day - Nudes in the Forest
Severed Heads - Lamborghini
Public Image Ltd. - Radio 4


Disclaimer:
If the tracks sound more than a little warped, a little wrong and overblown, slightly dull and inconsistent it may be because you yourself, dear listener, possess one or all of these qualities. Open your ears. The original cassette tape upon which these songs were recorded was found in a box on the side of the road, still wet from a passing storm. Expect the next posts to be of even greater or lesser quality.