Hip-D PodBlast » Mixer » Inspired by TV’s “Lost”

While WinAmp was rolling through some random tracks earlier today, a certain song (one of those listed below, in fact) set off the lightbulb above my head to try and put together a Mixer with nothing but songs that could be loosely associated with the hit ABC TV series Lost.

As you’ll hear, some of these tracks fit the theme perfectly, while others are a complete reach. Regardless, I hope you have as much fun listening to it as I had putting it together.

If nothing else, maybe it will help satisfy your Lost urges until the next episode airs…

• “Plane Crash” – Toadies
• “Marooned” – The Webb Brothers
• “Jack Never Crashes” – The Deathray Davies
• “James” – Josh Rouse
• “Shannon” – Volebeats
• “Lottery” – Damien Jurado
• “O Claire” – Cheap Trick
• “Charlie Freak” – Steely Dan
• “Smoke Signal” – The Band
• “Michael” – Franz Ferdinand
• “Do You Remember Walter?” – The Kinks
• “Give My Love to Rose” – Johnny Cash
• “Ana Lucia” – Sloan
• “Desmond Don’t Go” – Daryll-Ann
• “The Closets of Henry” – Guided by Voices
• “From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)” – The Decemberists

Hip-D PodBlast » Mixer » “These Minstrels Will Soothe My Jangled Nerves”

For my second Mixer, I thought it would be fun to see what it might be like if I were the Program Director at a “Classic Rock” station. Because instead of playing all the same tired old hits, I’d find some quality stuff by artists you just THOUGHT you were tired of hearing, and prove they’re still worth spinning, after all. Or, in a few instances, great solo tracks by members of legendary bands.

Here’s the tracklisting:

• “Hey, I Think They Liked Us!”
• The Rolling Stones – “Live With Me”
• Van Halen – “So, This Is Love?”
• The Pursuit of Happiness – “Ten Fingers”
• David Gilmour – “Blue Light”
• The Church – “Reptile”
• Payola$ – “Eyes of a Stranger”
• Alice Cooper – “Grim Facts”
• ZZ Top – “Pearl Necklace”
• Michael Penn – “Free Time”
• The Police – “Canary in a Coalmine”
• Joe Walsh – “Happy Ways”
• Jerry Jeff Walker – “Sangria Wine”
• Van Morrison – “Blue Money”
• Buffalo Springfield – “Good Time Boy”
• Steppenwolf – “Everybody’s Next One”
• Steve Miller & Paul McCartney – “My Dark Hour”
• Joe ‘King’ Carrasco and The Crowns – “Let’s Get Pretty”
• Jerry Harrison/Casual Gods – “Never Let It Slip”
• Robert Plant – “Pledge Pin”
• Neil Young – “Pressure”
• R.E.M. – “Low Desert”
• Pete Townshend – “Jools and Jim”
• The Ramones – “Teenage Lobotomy”
• “We Need Another Vietnam”

Hip-D PodBlast » Mixer » “Wait a Minute — This Sounds Like Rock and/or Roll!”

This marks the first installment of a new recurring feature here at Hip Displeasure: Mixers. Basically, mixers are streaming mix CDs created exclusively for Hip-D, and this one is called “Wait a Minute — This Sounds Like Rock and/or Roll!”

Here’s the tracklisting:

• “Remember when we used to make out to this hymn?”
• “Kick Me And Cancel” – Robert Pollard
• “Thou Shalt Wilt” – Loose Fur
• “Knee High” – French Kicks
• “Elijah” – Frank Black
• “Magic” – Ben Kweller
• “Never Do This Again” – The M’s
• “Plow You Under” – Scott H. Biram
• “Monument Sails” – Centro-Matic
• “The Bee” – Starlight Mints
• “The Education Song” – The Gourds
• “Weed Party” – Band of Horses
• “Hummalong” – The Drams
• “Fire Island, AK” – The Long Winters
• “White Collar Boy” – Belle and Sebastian
• “Cope” – The Futureheads
• “Summersong” – The Decemberists
• “European Oils” – Destroyer
• “Night Driver” – Tom Petty
• “Maybe Sparrow” – Neko Case
• “VERA said that?!?”