The first four tracks on this mix all clumped together. I started with "Horchata", from Vampire Weekend's second album
Contra. (FYI, a
horchata is a traditional beverage, made of ground almonds, sesame seeds, rice, barley, or tigernuts.) With "Horchata" as the germ, I built three other songs with fun and exotic instrumentation around it: the pseudo-reggae of "Last Night", the steel drums of the least-cool Rod Stewart song ever, and the accordion of "
Gumboots", from Paul Simon's
Graceland (aka "You don't feel you could love me/But I feel you could")
- "Last Night" Traveling Wilburys
- "Horchata" Vampire Weekend
- "Love Touch" Rod Stewart
- "Gumboots" Paul Simon
- "Peace Train" 10,000 Maniacs; I just saw Yusuf, aka Cat Stevens, at Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity.
- "An Innocent Man" Billy Joel
- "Sentimental Heart" She & Him
- "Ruby Tuesday" The Rolling Stones
- "Summer" Buffalo Tom
- "We Are Sex Bob-Omb" from Sex Bob-Omb dovetails nicely into...
- "Yer Blues" The Beatles
- "Rollin' and Tumblin'" Muddy Waters inspired the title of this mix:
If the river was whiskey, and I was a divin' duck
I would dive to the bottom, never would I come up
- "Damn Good" David Lee Roth: Have you ever completely forgotten a song? Forgotten a song so completely that you don't even remember knowing it in the first place? I recently bought David Lee Roth's solo CD Skyscraper for $1. David Lee Roth's solo career took off when I was a teenage Van Halen fan, so me and my friends had a lot of loyalty to Diamond Dave. I wanted the CD for the hit single "Living In Paradise", but for the heck of it I listened to the whole disc one day. That's when I rediscovered "Damn Good", an acoustic ballad (with nice guitar work from Steve Vai.) It's NOT a "damn good" song, BUT the point is, I had not heard the song in 22 years! It was weird dusting the cobwebs off this teenage memory.
- "Put Me On Top" Aimee Mann
- "Bang Bang Bang" Tracy Chapman
- "Smoke On The Water" Deep Purple
- "Hunger Strike" Temple of the Dog
- "I Hate Myself For Loving You" Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, the original version, before it was appropriated for Monday Night Football.
- "I Love Your Smile" Shanice I think I added this song because I saw someone on TV named Shanice?
- "Shadowboxer" Fiona Apple
