Staying Indoors And Staying Weird. MIXTAPE LOVELETTER

“The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don’t wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway…I’ve started to make a tape… in my head…”

                                                                       Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

                 So I compiled this weeks mixtape and had it finished by Thursday night.  Then around 2pm Friday afternoon I got the great idea to scrap the tape and start a new Back To The Beach mixtape as a sequel to last weeks tape.  Sidenote: it took 5 days to compile last weeks mix.  It’s painstaking work finding punk songs with beach in the title.  Try it.  Google “punk songs about the beach” or “punk songs with beach in the title”.  YOU GET NOTHING!!!!  Just a bunch of forums with people trying to convince you that”beach punk” is a thing.  It isn’t.  So here is the mix I originally started with and next week I will have Back To The Beach 2: Frankie Slaps Annette ready for your ears.  This mix here is dedicated to the weird non-beachgoing kids…

Mixtape Name:  HEY, WHAT’S WITH THOSE WEIRD KIDS?

***Side A***

“Love Comes In Spurts” by Richard Hell & The Voidoids

“Evil Livin” by This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb 

“You Suck” by The Yeastie Girlz 

“Roid Rage Talkshow” by Zoinks! 

“Smart Patrol/ Mr. DNA” by Devo 

“Let Beauty Loose” by Nitzer Ebb

“I Slept In An Arcade” by Black Randy & The Metro Squad 

“Figure Of Fun” by The Birthday Party 

***Side B***

“Dyin For It” by The Vaselines

“Birdhouse In Your Soul” by They Might Be Giants

“Starvation Dance” by Really Red 

“St. Vitus Dance” by Bauhaus 

“Straight To The Office” by Scared Of Chaka 

“Fuk Shit Up” by Blatz            

“Naked Girl Falling Down The Stairs” by The Cramps 

“8^th Grade Nerd” by Assorted Jelly Beans 

             So that’s it freaky weirdos.  Think of this tape as a starter pack in Magic: The Gathering.  It can lead you on a journey that will place you forever indoors, away from the sun.  That or make you awesome and attractive to the ladies/dudes.

Every week Friday at 7:00pm Elitist Geezer Punk Radio on Tapdetroit.com will be providing you with a mixtape that pays due credit to the punk scenes of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and that’s it.  If you were in a band or knew some bands or collected any CD’s of local punk bands please send us your shit at…

     gogeezorgohome@gmail.com

…or even if you just have a great story from your days of Dr. Martens Boots and chain wallets jot it down in an email along with a song request and, who knows, I’ll probably play it.

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