Mixtape 159 :: Call Me When You Get There
The Rare Occasions
I will let you in on a secret weakness: a band like The Rare Occasions can seize control of my playlist just by showing up with a surplus of pop hooks and grade AAA harmonies.
In this episode: The Avett Brothers, Black Pumas, Boise Cover Band, Cherry Glazerr, Colourbox, Django Django, The English Beat, The Epizootis, Erin McKeown, Evaporators, Fastball, Frankie & The Poolboys, G. Love & Special Sauce, Head of Femur, Josh Caterer, Juana Molina, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Link Wray, Madness, The Mountain Goats, My Robot Friend, Ozric Tentacles, Polysics, The Rare Occasions, Ratboys, Robyn Hitchcock, The Routes, Rube Waddell, Sonic Boom, Spirit of the Beehive, TLO, TLO, Trilok Gurtu & Robert Miles, The Wedding Present
| Song | Artist | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call Me When You Get There | The Rare Occasions | Easier said than done | |
| 2 | Love Comes In Waves | Fastball | Still fast | |
| 3 | Space Blows | Ratboys | Fuzzing loud | |
| 4 | Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft | The Wedding Present | And their aggressive jangle | |
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| 6 | Ain't That Lovin' You Baby | Link Wray | Still the original | |
| 7 | Ewa on the Beach | Frankie & The Poolboys | With a genuine drip | |
| 8 | Watercooler | TLO | ||
| 9 | Chain Gang | Boise Cover Band | Originally by Pretenders | |
| 10 | Trash People | Cherry Glazerr | We all know some | |
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| 12 | Black Moon Rising | Black Pumas | Soul grinding | |
| 13 | Small World | Trilok Gurtu & Robert Miles | Make yourself comfortable | |
| 14 | Tei! Tei! Tei! | Polysics | Manic japanic | |
| 15 | Barney Rubble Is My Double | Evaporators | Totally Flintstoned | |
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| 17 | ENTERTAINMENT | Spirit of the Beehive | A bit of the far out there | |
| 18 | Pleura | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | For beat-counting obsessives | |
| 19 | The Butterfly Effect | The Epizootis | Big finish | |
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| 21 | Foot In Mouth | The Routes | Under some form of suggestion | |
| 22 | Baby's Got Sauce | G. Love & Special Sauce | It’s a hot type of sauce | |
| 23 | Rockin' In A Flat | Madness | Or G sharp if you will | |
| 24 | Ranking Full Stop | The English Beat | I said stop | |
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| 26 | I Something You (Live) | Robyn Hitchcock | It's a comfortable existence | |
| 27 | When I Drink | The Avett Brothers | A classic from the start | |
| 28 | Fresca | TLO | ||
| 29 | Hobo Luv | Rube Waddell | More hobo music | |
| 30 | Walt Whitman | My Robot Friend | He was super into robots | |
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| 32 | Need You Around | Josh Caterer | An unmistakable voice | |
| 33 | Rhode Island Is Famous For You | Erin McKeown | Anyone from Rhode Island? | |
| 34 | Isn't It A Shame | Head of Femur | The big open sound | |
| 35 | Abandoned Flesh | The Mountain Goats | Those goths! | |
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| 37 | Tawkin Tekno (Remix) | Sonic Boom | Mesmerizing sounds | |
| 38 | Just Give 'Em Whiskey | Colourbox | Samples galore | |
| 39 | Cara De Espejo | Juana Molina | Looping through infinity | |
| 40 | Vedavox | Ozric Tentacles | Far-off microtones | |
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| 42 | Spirals | Django Django | Around and around and ever-tighter | |
