Home, Sick

Date
September 26, 2012

Miracler
Kevin Seidel

Location
San Francisco

If we've learned anything about Miracler KS over the years,
it's that a Seidel mix will likely garner a plethora of comments from the gang. Is it because he's a writer or because he's a musician or because he's kind of a graphic designer, too, but he seems to have all the stuff that go into making a pop-u-lar mix. Why, just last year, he gave us the 23-commenter A Short Story, about which you/we said, 

BEST PRODGE COMMENT MAYBE EVER: 'Kevin Seidel could upload a Del Taco receipt and I'd  listen to it. The man can do no wrong.'     'I love this package! The notes, the vivid characters (the Japanese whore stole my heart), the suspenseful flow, and of course the way it got me dancing.'     'There really isn't one song on this that I don't dig, but here's the thing—it really works as a mix for me. Thanks for the short story!'     'Totally fun, Kevin. ANd what made it even more special was the seamless transition to the next song in my iTunes library—Nan Vernon singing 'Moon River.' Thanks!'     'There is another short story in which a man sits alone for two days in a Brazilian hotel room on the outskirts of the city and listens to this collection of select songs over and over again until he finally can accept what the world has done to him and what he has done to the world. Then he showers, shaves, pickups up his case, and takes a taxi downtown.'     'Tito Puente and Mike Patton back-to-back. Fantastic.'     'Even before downloading the music, I have to say the story outlined is intriguing and the cover are is beautiful.'     'You can feel the story unfolding through the mix. and some fast-faves here for me: almost all of them got thrown into the 'greatest hits' playlist over here.'     'You had me with the liner notes...they totally made me excited to dive in, you clever thang.'     'Deep deep down oh yeah! Highly cinematic satisfactions—thanks!'     'Quite the cosmopolitan mix! The Fahey was a nice twist.'     'A great mix and absolutely perfect liner notes.'     'I really loved your last mix 'Exile' and this shows another side of Seidel. It really works and hangs together—thanks.'     'Wow! I love this! The story AND the songs. Love it! Love it!'     'Totally genius mix, Kevin. Eclectic like the best of 'em, and you just gotta lover the subyacent narrative. I keep playing this again and again, and every time there's something else that makes me smile, like Steinski's intro, or Mike Patton's camp moment, or those liner notes! Thank you!'

Other Miracle mixes, all concept-driven and commented-on by many, like Exile in Mainstream and Downside and Upside and Songs in the Key of PCH and bonus Definitive Collection MIx: Grant-Lee Phillips and Solos and Supergroups: A Double Album, have passed through this URL in the past, but my fingers are too tired to tell you how much you liked em. Go see for yourself.

And then we'll move on to today. Never one to toss us a treasure chest without a key to open it, here are KS's liner notes.

HOME SICK 

Meat Puppets: Intro – It inevitably starts with a fever

Midnight Oil: Only the Strong – An underrated band with an opening line about being locked in your room. Apropos.

White Denim: I Can Tell – “…I can tell by your talking…you’re not right.”

Al Hirt: Green Hornet – Go ahead, switch on the TV.

Harry Nilsson: Me and My Arrow – from his animated movie The Point! which is perfect TV viewing when laid up in bed.

The Soledad Brothers: Shaky Puddin’ – My Mom believed pudding had medicinal properties. Thanks Mom.

Sherwood Schwartz & George Wyle: Gilligan’s Island – need I say more?

Man or Astroman?: Television Fission – By now, you’ve watched so much TV, your eyes hurt.

The Heavenly States: Never Be Alright – I just rediscovered this band. The song fits.

Liam Lynch: United States of Whatever – Sorry. This stuff is funny when you're sick.

Walter Schumann: Dragnet – Just the facts, ma’am.

Willie Bobo: Fried Neck Bones and Some Home Fries – Why not? You’ve already had pudding.

Vic Chesnutt: Speed Racer – I don’t know the connection between Speed Racer and being an atheist. I do know I watched a lot of it when I was sick, and otherwise, as a kid.

Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - So many great themes from these guys.

Visqueen: Hand Me Down – I have no clever reason why this song fits in this mix, but it's good.

I Am Kloot: To the Brink -  “This stuff strips the life from your bones.”

Villagers: The Pact (I’ll Be Your Fever) – Let's hope you feel better tomorrow. 

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