Monday, June 9, 2008

The Well Tempered Badonkadonk

Date:
June 9, 2008

Miracler:
Greg “Buns” Mills

Locations:
Berkeley, California

Bastard of Art and Commerce

Notes:
Hallogallo is long, but great.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yay! BeeGee's! XOK

Anonymous said...

Uhhhhh, best title ever!

Greg Mills said...

Thanks Andrew. I love you.

Anonymous said...

Great Wire song and I dig the Neu! Not sure if there should be two exclamation points at the end of that sentence. I had to look up what badonkadonk meant because I am old and square - now that I know, I am going to use the word repeatedly until my wife makes me stop.

To any other 3PMPM's out there - Greg's blog is always worth a visit. Check it out!

Greg Mills said...

Thank you, Bramfitt. I love you, too.

Oh, and a note about the BeeGee's song "In My Own Time": was covered brilliantly by the 80s Paisley Underground band The Three O'Clock.

And of course, Strange was covered poorly by Athens, GA's REM.

And Manfred Mann sings "Duce" as "Douche". He's South African, so we should make allowances for accent.

Anonymous said...

Yes, and that last point confounded me and my pre-adolescent friends for quite some time.

PS: Did Mister Mann record any hits NOT written by Bruce Springsteen? With all due respect, of course...

PPS: I love Bramfitt too!

Anonymous said...

Quinn the Eskimo (I believe written by Bob Dylan), and "there she was just a walkin' down the street singin' do-wa-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-do", made famous by the Ivan Reitman movie "Meatballs", starring P.J. Soles and some guys from SNL...

Mr. Blank said...

My fave mix yet -- a nice variety.

Thanks Buns!

I realized this morning that I've really started to look forward to these Mondays mixes.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, me too!
Thanks again Kelly for getting us back into the miracle business.

Greg Mills said...

Sure thing, M. Blank.

Greg Mills said...

One more liner note: UiLab is a Stereolab/Ui joint thing.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, and to Mr. Blank's point, with the mixes starting to add up, I'm enjoying this prodge a lot, too. And seriously—hearing from you guys here is making it much more fun for me and the mix makers. So, thanks!

Sorry that the tech woes continue to plague the project, though... it appears that two of Greg's songs are coming in out of order
(The Wire song should be Track 6, and The Fall song should be Track 17), even though we'd worked back and forth this weekend to avoid that.

Anybody got a clue how to make the track order sing? I'd created a How-To PDF which is clearly flawed. Happy to email it to any of you for your scrutiny. Would LOVE for someone to come out of the woodwork and help me with this.

Thanks, XOK

Greg Mills said...

And the Uilab song is of course a Brian Eno cover.
I'll stop now.

Anonymous said...

I like the Dirtbombs song. Don't know them. Will have to check'em out on Pandora. And the BeeGees song... Inspired by the Beatles is one thing but where have I heard that bassline before? "Taxman"?

Anonymous said...

Big day for the Miraclin' Badonkadonk! Happiest of birthdays, sir. XOK

Anonymous said...

Great mix - I don't think I've heard that Wire song in like, 10 years. It was a real treat.

Stephanie said...

Pure awesomeness.

Ray said...

Oh man, someone FINALLY put Hallo Gallo on a comp! Stereolab owes their whole career to this one song.

Brian E. said...

Hey All - Haven't commented much, as Sarah's taken lead on the downloads, due to my own computer issues.....Greg, great mix. I agree with Ray, that with the Eno cover, the Neu song, the Fall, VU, and Bee Gees, you've pretty nearly covered Stereolabs reason for existence. To their credit. Great Mix - Brian

Ray said...

The Konichiwa song had me in stitches.

sarah e said...

I would not even no where to start handing out the cred - great mix.

Anonymous said...

I feel like I've hard all of these songs before. In this same order.

Yes - it was the night you asked me to come over to listen to music on your new hi-fi stereo. Then we drank that funny smelling kool-aid. Then the lights flickered, and I woke up with a tattoo on my badonkadonk. Ah, sweet youth. Thanks for bringing it all back.