Date:July 1, 2009
Miracler:
Kelley Hawks
Location:
San Francisco
About this week's Miracler
On the post-shipwreck desert island of my life, Kelley Hawks will always claim a special place. First because she will have suspected the possibility of a shipwreck when we set out that day (Always Be Prepared) and so will bring along a giant picnic basket full of yummy nutritious fixin's with all the details considered down to candles, bug spray, and clips to hold the tablecloths to the picnic tables (which she'll build from found timber) as well as a jambox full of groovy music and fresh batteries. Then she and her man Tom will get everybody out on the dance floor and teach us some steps. Following some handcrafted Hawksian drink specials, we'll all sleep soundly in the palmfrond cabanas she fashioned us when we were out lamely trying to send up smoke signals. Next morning, after serving us a hearty breakfast, Kelley will decide it's time to get us babies back to the mainland and will radio for help on one of several (Always Be Prepared) forms of communication she invented while we were sleeping.
Safe to say you're in equally good hands here today. Mix is here.
15 comments:
Hi Kelly!
love the inclusion of lcd soundsystem. always fun when he sings. excuse me, talks.
Somehow thoroughly eclectic and seamless at once — it's as if you tapped into some universal groove flowing between and amongst this diversity, like a strain of a pop virus (only, you know, one of those happy, healthy viruses). Me like.
One small bone to pick (is that the phrase? it's odd to write): FB's Teenager of the Year brims with the excellent; I'm not sure I would have chosen Headache. That said, I like how it's sandwiched b/w Tiki and TSU.
thanks for the mix.
That version of Patricia is... really good. There's some kind of weird menace in it.
Thanks, Kelley. I'm looking forward to diving into this tonight. I'm a little surprised that it took the 3MPMP this long to get Kirsty MacColl on a mix. Somewhere up in rock and roll heaven, she's thanking you. And then, hopefully, turning to Jim Croce and telling him to fuck off.
I'm digging Santeria. Talk about a departure from the original! Fun mix, lady. And I like hearing the Tiki culture wafting out through the vents.
Love the mix and the cover. It has that strange blend of familiar & sideways. Sounds very SF. Thank you Kelly Hawks you get a 5 from zero to 5.
thanks for the eclectic & fun mix, loved the soul!
Like the unusual Jonathan Richman with a groove & the LCD being Richman-like, & Seks Bomba, & haven't heard the 10cc song in years, maybe decades, & the Livin's EZ, which I never heard before. Thanks!
Oh yeah, 3mpmpers, I'm moving to Albany. Anyone know anyone who knows anyone who knows about preschool?
Sam, ask Greg Mills-- he loves there and is the owner of a couple kids. I think you're Facebookers, right?
middle third had me grooving in my chair. Lots I've never heard. Thx!
Just what I needed to get me out of my music rut. I carried it to the car, to the office, and back to the car. I really enjoyed it.
Beautiful collection of songs, Kelley. Lovely cover, too.
Hah! Noticed that the TSU Tornadoes have that Archie Bell "Tighten Up" horn sound. Looked 'em up, and, yep-- they backed up the Drells' masterpiece. Works well with "Sexy Coffee Pot." (Where can one get one of those, anyway?)
Thanks for including Kristy MacColl. The song sampled is "Spanish Grease" by Willie Bobo, right? Two great artists together at last: groovin' it an' movin' it on a tropical beach in Music Heaven.
"Stoned in The Bathroom"-- hah! Chubby done smoked himself a fatty. Can't wait to lay that one on my fellow aging hippy friends.
"Headache" is one of those wormhole songs that I can never ever get out of my head. (And it never gives me one.) Weird to admit to preferring Frank Black's first couple of solo albums over anything done by the great and hallowed Pixies? The stuff has that big Jeff Lynne sound. Only ELO without the MOR.
Santeria is news to me. Thanks! Thanks also for The Streets' number. First song of his on my pyooter.
P.S. Thanks for including Victoria Williams. Sadly, the sound quality is choppy. (Maybe only my download?) But even even seeing Victoria's name conjures up good vibes. What an artist!
I'm one of those Aquarius Records people that nearly crashed your site... sorry about that... but selfishly very glad I did.
Still listening with much appreciation to the mixes I've found, but this is my favorite so far. Unexpected without seeming pretentious or forced...loving it!
Thanks.
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