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Monument

If I can't be perfect at least make me good.<Download link for the whole mix. Right there. Right now. Available until it isn't.

Just A Ghost - I Am A Man With A St Tropez Tan (from 'Just A Ghost')
Michael Collins - The Boy Least Likely To (from The Great Perhaps)
She Didn't Want Me - The Almighty Rhombus (Soundcloud)
Magpies Eyes - Sea Pinks (Bandcamp)
Sorry or Something - Reverieme (Bandcamp)
Bill Drummond - Wake The President (YouTube)
Misguided Tour - Skelocrats (Soundcloud)
Do What You Want, Always - Bored Nothing (can't remember where I got it from but it was free...)
Tonight You Belong To Me - Beat Radio & Sarah Wood (Bandcamp)
Skin - Mount Sharp (Bandcamp)
Monument - Sleuth (from 'Nine Months Mix')
1-2-3-4 Get Fucked - Movieland (Bandcamp)
Let's Get Educated - Sourpatch (Bandcamp)
Engineer Man - The Young Sinclairs (Bandcamp)
∞ - Gal Gracen (Bandcamp)
Surrender - Lockets (Bandcamp)
Cruel - GERMANS (Bandcamp)
Silver - Tyrannosaurus Dead (Bandcamp)
Hey Sailor Boy! - Cosines (Bandcamp)
Ride - Shy Boys (Bandcamp)
Arabesque Bedouin - RADSTEWART (Bandcamp)
I Don't Want To Get Used To It - Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament (Bandcamp)

If I can't be good, at least make me okay.

Bright Lights

Don’t believe a word he says... <If you'd been quicker you could've downloaded the entire mix using that there link.

Kys - Tusindfald (Bandcamp)
Reliever - Capitals (YouTube)
Bright Lights - Just Handshakes (from 'Say It'. Bandcamp)
In the night - Coach Station Reunion (Bandcamp)
The Dreamer Song - The Boy Least Likely To (from The Great Perhaps)
Telephone - Alpaca Sports (Bandcamp and YouTube)
New Ex-Boyfriend - Kids On A Crime Spree (from Creep the Creeps on Soundcloud)
Bondi 98 - Dick Diver (from Calendar Days & on YouTube)
What's Done Is Done - Neil Jarvis (Bandcamp)
No mercy - Makthaverskan (Bandcamp)
Battleships - Pet Cat (Bandcamp)
Sowing Seeds - Paul Messis (from 'Case Closed')
Fine Fine Fine - The Mentalettes (Bandcamp)
Summerbrat - Orphans (Bandcamp)
In the Corners - Francisco the Man (Soundcloud)
Bukowski - Mark Wynn (from 'Social Situations' split LP & YouTube)
GW Bridge - Big Wave (Soundcloud)
The North West - The Sorry Kisses (from 'Social Situations' split LP & YouTube)
Not Alone - The Indelicates (from 'Diseases Of England')
Jane - Music For Voyeurs (from 'The Long Sleep')

Drinking gin and lemonade

Monument To A Lost Cause

Dance and sing all night... <tricky to miss download link for the whole mix. And don't forget to support the artists you like by paying for their music. It doesn't grow on trees you know.

Concrete - Breathe Out (from 'Absolute True Love' EP. Bandcamp)
Tina Weymouth - This Many Boyfriends (from 'This Many Boyfriends' & Soundcloud)
Agincourt - Tullycraft (from 'Lost in Light Rotation')
Gary Glitter Fan Convention - The Bitter Springs (on 'Everyones Cup Of Tea' LP also live on YouTube)
Monument To A Lost Cause - Post (on Idle Fret Free Download EP)
the Black Crow - The Wave Pictures (from 'The Songs of Jason Molina' - Bandcamp)
You Can't Win The Heart That You Broke - Rockingbirds (from The Return of the Rockingbirds')
Unopened Letters and Unanswered Calls - The Left Outsides (from 'The Shape of Things to Come')
Salty - North Highlands (Bandcamp)
Cement - PUPS  (Bandcamp)
Ghost World - Strange Relations (Bandcamp)
Take It Slowly - Life Model (Bandcamp)
Some For Me - September Girls (Bandcamp)
Figurehead (Wet) - Jonnie Common (from 'Figurehead' - Soundcloud)
Carpet Burns - Trwbador (from 'Trwbador' LP)
From Above - Death And Vanilla (Bandcamp)
Try to Be - Blue Hawaii (Bandcamp)
PPO Kissing Behinds - Sleaford Mods (on Idle Fret Free Download EP)
Riot On 1655 North Cherokee Avenue - Fulhäst (Bandcamp)
Fencing - Flies On You (Bandcamp)

bury your feet, shave your head

I Know We're Special

any time you want me< that was the download link. You obviously missed the excalmation marks and flashing neon signs. Sorry. If you're lucky you might find a re-post at midsummer or at the end of the year...

Peach - Emily Reo (Bandcamp)
Slow Trains - Anaesthetics (Soundcloud)
Don't Go Crazy Before I Do - Jeff Mellin (featuring Jenny Dee) (Bandcamp and Vimeo)
I Know We're Special - Pale Spectres (Bandcamp)
California Shrills - Eva On The Western Castle Island (Bandcamp)
Family Hold Back - Songs For Walter (Soundcloud)
Dumb Fun - The Keepsies (Bandcamp)
Come & Go - The Wildes (Bandcamp)
Part-time Jewellery Maker - POST (Bandcamp)
Good Times - Songs (Bandcamp)
And Even Now - The Bitter Springs (from Everyones Cup Of Tea. On YouTube)
Blindness For The Kids - Poledo (Bandcamp)
LSD and the Age of Interest - Weekender (Bandcamp)
This Is Where The Story Ends - So Sexual (Bandcamp)
Parallel - Tear Talk (Bandcamp)
Solutions - Death Masks (Bandcamp)
John Childers - The Sweets (Bandcamp)
St Peters - Camperdown & Out (Bandcamp)
Roxy Brown - Popstrangers (from Antipodes)
Hold On Magnolia - Darren Hanlon (from 'The 'Weary Engine Blues' Project')

I don't play games. I'm not Morrissey.

My Old Haunts

neither of us seemed to mind as we used the photograph for warmth < that's that was a subtle download link for the whole mix(tape)

Side 1

Stupid Fucking World - Dan Mariska & The Boys Choir (Bandcamp)
Head for Heights - Anna Bradley (Bandcamp)
This Must Be The Place - This Many Boyfriends (Soundcloud)
Kiss Ya - The Fabergettes (Bandcamp)
Boy - Chalk And Numbers (Bandcamp)
Who Would Want to be Loved? - Kid Canaveral (from 'Now That You Are A Dancer')
Stones - Lizard Kisses (Bandcamp)
Life's A Boy - Royal Shoals (Bandcamp)
Falling Over Our Fear - Just Handshakes (We're British) (YouTube)
My Mother the War - 10,000 Maniacs (live on The Tube on YouTube

Face B

Las Bailarinas Azules (The Blue Dancers) - Hacia Dos Veranos (from 'Limay' LP. Bandcamp)
My Old Haunts (Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood) - The Blue Aeroplanes (from 'Anti-Gravity')
The Field Where I Died - Kestrels (from 'A Ghost Story'. via Bandcamp)
Love So Estranged - the bilinda butchers (Bandcamp)
Oh Joel - Sauna Youth (Soundcloud)
Some Nothing Song - Bypassers (Soundcloud)
Smile Like A Lemon Peel Kiss Like A Papercut - Jeff Mellin (featuring Helen King & Steph Goodman) (Bandcamp and Vimeo)
Use Me - Goodman (Bandcamp)
Touch of Evil remix - the girl with the replaceable head (original version on Bandcamp)
Patricia - Hong Kong In The 60s (Bandcamp)

your heart is a muscle that pumps blood to your limbs

Home Is Where My Head Is

I missed the answer to the question I forgot I asked <that was a download link. You're too late.

Whatever - Fury Things (from 'EP2'. Bandcamp)
Home Is Where My Head Is - Whirr (from 'Pipedreams'. Bandcamp)
I'm a Conservative - The Eversons (from 'The Eversons' EP. Bandcamp)
London Bound - Just Handshakes (Bandcamp)
Save Me - The Choo Choo Trains (from 'I Choo-Choo-Choose You' 7". Bandcamp)
Not Every Idiot Knows How To Drive A Car - The Dentals (from 'Tennessee' LP. YouTube)
Daylight - The Kinks (YouTube)
Apeman - Raw Geronimo (from 'God Save The Kinks' cassette. Bandcamp)
Go Wild in the Country - Bow Wow Wow (YouTube)
Favourite Fallen Idol - Adorable (YouTube)
Heavy Denim - Stereolab (YouTube)
Crawfish - A Classic Education (from Covo Club 7". Soundcloud)
Sell It To Me - Street Chant (from 'With A Little Help From Our Friends' EP. Bandcamp)
Michael J. Foxworthy - Small Reactions (Bandcamp)
Streamers - The Blue Aeroplanes (from 'Beatsongs' reissue. YouTube)
Phantoms Run The Factory - Twin Library (from 'Lowways' LP. Bandcamp)
With Every Heartbeat - Beat Radio (from 'Hurricanes' EP. Bandcamp)
A Million Times - Alpaca Sports (from new 7". YouTube)
Avenue of Splendours - Paperfangs (from Past Perfect)
Blueness (live piano version) - Chris T-T (from 'Good Songs in Small Rooms: Live 2005-2011'. Bandcamp)

smile a smile and sing a song

These Songs Will Make You Love Me

Wouldn't it be pretty to think so? <that was the download link in case you were wondering... But you're too late.

What If You Caught Me - Pony Time (from 'Go Find Your Own' LP. Bandcamp)
Dancing Balloon - Os Drongos (from 'Greetings From Cuckoo Bay' EP. Bandcamp)
Teenager - Go Violets (Bandcamp)
Pretty Girls - Thee AHs (from 'Future Without Her' LP. Bandcamp)
So Sad To Say Goodbye (Baffin Island remake) - Tiny Fireflies (From 'Across Oceans #1' EP. Eardrums Pop)
I Go To Sleep - Princess Chelsea (from 'God Save The Kinks' compilation. Bandcamp)
Son Of A Gun - HEHFU (Soundcloud)
Yeah x7 - Mark Wynn (from 'Eggs, Kes and that bike I never bought you even though that I would like to' LP. Bandcamp)
This is Not Love - Yeah Jazz (YouTube)
What Am I Going To Do - Paul Messis (from 'The Problem With Me' LP. Bandcamp)
This Song Will Make You Love Me - The Great American Novel (Bandcamp)
Minute On The Dancefloor - Birds Of California ( from the 'One and Only' LP. Bandcamp)
Lost In Light Rotation - Tullycraft (Soundcloud)
Tie Dye (Your Life) - Literature (Bandcamp)
Heaven - Popstrangers (Soundcloud)
Road to Ruin - Grand Rapids (Bandcamp)
Dirty Diver - Transistors (Bandcamp)
Jean's Waving - Amor de Días (from 'The House At Sea' LP. Soundcloud)
Everybody's Changing - Veronica Falls (from Waiting For Something To Happen LP)
Scarlet - The Motorcycle Boy (from unreleased LP)
Water Damage - Dick Diver (from forthcoming 'Calendar Days' LP. Bandcamp)
Golden Summer Smile - The New Slave (Bandcamp)

I can't really dance, but I'd like to take a chance...

Shine On Me

So far things have been a little bit fesity on the Unpopular mixes of 2013. And after a somewhat down-tempo start I think this first for February continues to bristle, helped out by a few more old favourites than of late. Download the whole lot here, until I decide I've been too good to you and take the link back down. 

Halcyon days (what a loada toss) - Mark Wynn (from 'Singing Outta Tune In Bars'. New album 'Eggs, Kes and that bike I never bought you even though that I would like to' available now.)
You Shook Me All Night Long - Allo Darlin' (from 'Covers' 10" EP)
From Forgotten Powerstation On The Moon - Testbild! (from 'Where Did This Begin? A Testbild! Retrospective 2000​-​2012')
Ascend & Descend - Death and Vanilla (from 'I hear a new world: 1958–1962')
Greetings From Paris - Northern Portrait (from 'Pretty Decent Swimmers' 1o" EP. Soundcloud)
A Warmer Coast - Mariage Blanc (from 'Undercurrents')
Shine on Me - Elen Never Sleeps (from 'Silver' EP)
Sharon - Yeah Jazz (YouTube)
Inside My Mind - The Market Squares (Bandcamp)
'71 - The Delphines (from 'WMSE Live')
1978 - Toy Love (from 'Toy Love 2xLP')
Can't Wait 'Til '78 - The Wasps (YouTube)
Can't Get Enough Of You - The Rich Hands (from 'Girl')
They Made Me Cut My Hair - YOOFS (from 'Shady Acres')
Adult/Ery - SCARS (YouTube)
Frying tonight - Flies on you (from 'Nothing To Write Home About')
The Craze That Never Caught On - The Wind-up Birds (from 'Acting Think For Money (volume 2)')
Parafin Brain - The Nightingales (from Pissed & Potless: The Definitive Nightingales Collection')
Shirt Scene - Marc Riley With The Creepers (from 'Shadow Figure' EP)
Ambivalence - Pin Group (from 'Ambivalence')

drop another tab of acid

Once We Were School Kids (Drunk On Youth and Friendship)

Is it Blue Monday today? Or was it last Monday? I thought it was meant to be the third Monday in January (which is today) but some people seemed to 'celebrate' it last week. Well, it was The Sun and The Mail. I guess they can't count. In more ways than one. Boom boom.

Well, if it is 'officially' Blue Monday today, here is a treat to cheer you up. And if it isn't then here's a treat anyway. Who needs an excuse to share good vibes and good tunes anyway? Download ahoy here. Remember the rules: if you dig something buy it from the artists and labels. 

Once We Were School Kids (Drunk On Youth and Friendship) - Brown (from 'Mannequins' on Bandcamp)
A Nice Shed - The Doyleys (from 'Smithers' on Bandcamp)
Down & Out - Camperdown & Out (Bandcamp)
Canna - Arms of Tripoli (Bandcamp)
The Best Of Our Years - Beat Hotel (from 7" single on Random Acts of Vinyl. Soundcloud)
Done To My Love - Gayze (Bandcamp)
Bitterness Is The Appropriate Response - The Indelicates (from 'Diseases of England Part 1')
Slashing it down - Flies on you (from 'Nothing To Write Home About'. Bandcamp and Vimeo)
The 4th Chord - Galoshins (from 'EP1'. Bandcamp)
Security - The Wolfhounds (from 'Cheer Up' 7". On Bandcamp)
Follow the Leader - The Stammer (Bandcamp)
All The Time - Blooper (from ltd edition 7" single. Bandcamp)
Night Person - Goodman (Bandcamp)
All The Sad Young Literary Men - The Great American Novel (Bandcamp)
We're Gonna Get Fucked - The Death Of Pop (Soundcloud)
Strategy - The Naima Train (ltd edition 7" single. Bandcamp)
Touch (Ikons Remix) - Westkust (from Luxury)
A Train to Moscow - Daybehavior (from Follow That Car! LP YouTube)

you've got no pedigree, chum

Cornered

Cheer Up - The Wolfhounds (new single on Odd Box. get it on Bandcamp)
I Am Right - Sonic Youth (YouTube)
Cornered - Fat Children (from 'It Came From The Attic' compilation. Also on 'Three Quarters of a Fistful')
Blood - Palms (From 'Some Songs Side-by-Side'. Soundcloud)
15 Golden Balls pt. 1 - Sharpie Crows (Bandcamp)
Apostate - Brown (from 'It Came From The Attic' compilation)
Windscreen Wipers - Dog Fish Cat Bird (from eponymous 1986 casette release)
Half of a Century - The Delphines (Bandcamp)
Baltimore - Trick Mammoth (from 'It Came From The Attic - The B-Sides' compilation)
Scotch + Soda - Swiss Alps (Bandcamp)
It Takes All My Time - Skelocrats (Bandcamp)
Just Kids - Sacred Paws (From 'Some Songs Side-by-Side'. Soundcloud)
Hours - Mmdelai (Bandcamp)
I Love Thousands Every Summer - Paradise (Bandcamp)
As Long As I Have You - Alpaca Sports (from new single on Luxury and Cloudberry. Soundcloud.)
HML - Delay Trees (from the 'Soliti Zip Volume 2' compilation)
Lemonade - Tyrannosaurus Dead (Bandcamp)
Waiting In The Wings - Big Wave Riders (from the 'Soliti Zip Volume 2' compilation)
Absolute Peace - I DREAM IN TRANSIT (Bandcamp)
Massive Song - Mark Wynn (Bandcamp)

cold winds are colder now