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HALLOWEEN MIX 2012
Hello again, Internet. It’s time to explore what things scare us or perhaps just dress trashy. Whichever you choose I think this mix will help. I have finally put all of the mixes on Mixcloud so you can play them instantly. This years mix is actually “mixed” together. There is a download link for the whole mix is just below the track list.
I included all of the previous mixes below the new one. Just click the links to play each mix.
Happy Halloween.
PFU #026
USE: BEING SCARED, IN COSTUME
- Shel Silverstein – Monsters I’ve Met
- Jeff Alexander – Come Wander With Me
- Amon Tobin – Run
- The Stooges – Gimme Danger
- Danny Elfman – This is Halloween [Japanese Version]
- Screaming Lord Stitch – She’s Fallen In Love With A Monster Man
- Beck – Mutherfucker
- Dr. Octagon – Blue Flowers
- Gegege No Kitaro – Opening Theme
- Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London
- The National – Anyone’s Ghost
- Danny Elfman – Selina Transforms [Pt. 1]
- Basement Jaxx – Dracula
- The Kingston Trio – Merry Minuet
- The Rolling Stones – Dancing with Mr. D
- Pat Boone – Moody River
- Squirrel Nut Zippers – The Ghost of Stephen Foster
- Dead Man’s Bones – Werewolf Heart
- Daphni – Ahora
- Cheryl Thompson – Black Night
- Lou Reed – Halloween Parade
- Soft Moon – Circles
- Dr. Dre & Ice Cube – Natural Born Killaz
- The Ghouls – Dracula’s Theme
- Paul Cary – Ghost of a Man
- Hasil Adkins – No More Hot Dogs
- David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time
- Bob Dylan – Not Dark Yet
- The Caretaker – Libet’s Delay
LISTEN TO 2012 HALLOWEEN MIX BY CLICKING HERE
PREVIOUS MIXES:
2011
2010
2009 [Scary Version]
2009
2008
PFU’s Best of 2011
COVER DESIGN GRACIOUSLY PROVIDED BY STRANGE CULTURE.
USE: Examining/enjoying the past year by the music it inspired.
PFU #021 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 1]
- Felt Letters – 600,000 Bands
- YACHT – Shangri-la
- The Cars – Free
- Eleanor Friedberger – My Mistakes
- Kanye West & Jay-Z – That’s My Bitch
- Emily Bell – Back To The Way I Was
- Thee Oh Sees – Dead Energy
- Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band – Stay Away [Nirvana Cover]
- Miami Horror – Holidays
- The Black Lips – Modern Art
- The War on Drugs – Baby Missiles
- Chain & The Gang – Detroit Music [Pt. 1]
- The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love?
- Patton Oswalt – The Vestibule of Dreams
- DJ Shadow – Run For Your Life
- Justice – Newlands
- The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
- Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix – The Wind Cries Mary [ft. GZA & U-God]
- Wire – Please Take
- SebastiAn – Tetra
- Telekinesis – Please Ask For Help
- Dirty Beaches – Sweet 17
- Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Tiger
- Four Tet – Locked
- Jacuzzi Boys – Zeppelin
- David Lynch – Good Day Today
- Veronica Falls – Stephen
- Moon Boots – Gopher It
- The Generationals – Dirty Mister Dirty
- Young Hunting – Into Yr Mind
- King Krule – Bleak Bake
- Okay Colour! – (Caribbean) Dreams
- The Caretaker – All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There
PFU #022 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 2]
- The Archers of Loaf – Web In Front
- Cut Copy – Need You Now
- Dom – Some Boys [ft. Emma]
- Dr. Dre – Kush [ft. Snoop Dogg & Akon]
- Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Wrong Time Wrong Planet
- Kids At The Bar – Young Ones [ft. Glasnost]
- Gospel Music – Let’s Run
- Lykke Li – Jerome
- Modest Mouse – That’ll Be The Day [Buddy Holly Cover]
- Night Beats – Puppet On A String
- Nicolas Jaar – I Got A Woman
- My Morning Jacket – Victory Dance
- Big K.R.I.T. – Dreamin’
- Radiohead – Lotus Flower
- Real Estate – Barely Legal [Strokes Cover]
- Stornoway – Zorbing
- Thurston Moore – Benediction
- Tom Waits – Kiss Me
- Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
- M.I.A. – 27 [Amy Winehouse Tribute]
- Washed Out – Soft
- Widowspeak – In The Pines
- Wu-Tang Clan – Only The Rugged Survive [ft. RZA]
- The Strange Boys – Me & You
- Deerhoof – Super Duper Rescue Heads!
- Cults – Never Saw The Point
- Chain & The Gang – Not Good Enough
- Paul Simon – Rewrite
- Wild Beasts – End Come Too Soon
- Youth Lagoon – July
- YACHT – Tripped and Fell in Love
- Yuck – Georgia
- Puro Instinct – Luv Goon
- Bosco Delrey – The Afterlife
- Charles Bradley – How Long?
PFU #023 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 3]
- Little Dragon – Little Man
- Peaches – Turn It On [Franz Ferdinand Cover]
- Edwyn Collins – Come Tomorrow, Come Today
- Explosions in the Sky – Trembling Hands
- Fujiya & Miyagi – Yoyo
- The Generationals – Please Be It
- Guided By Voices – Chocolate Boy
- Holy Ghost! – Wait and See
- I Break Horses – Winter Beats
- Mikal Cronin – Apathy
- Night Beats – High Noon Blues
- Radiohead – Morning, Mr. Magpie
- Toro Y Moi – Still Sound [Glasnost Remix]
- Okay Colour! – Tropical Fleetwood
- Ty Segall – My Head Explodes
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Ffunny Ffriends
- Lana Del Ray – Video Games
- M83 – Midnight City
- Atlas Sound – Terra Incognita
- Kanye West & Jay-Z – Niggas In Paris
- Justice – On’n’On
- Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – Huzzah! [Remix] [ft. Despot, Das Racist, & El-P]
- Royal Headache – Wilson Street
- The Soft Pack – Answer To Yourself
- Thee Oh Sees – Chem-Farmer
- WU LYF – Dirt
- Wild Flag – Electric Band
- Phantogram – 16 Years
- Cat’s Eyes – Over You
- Toro Y Moi – I Can Get Love
- The Drums – Money
- Widowspeak – Fir Coat
- Calvin Harris – Feel So Close
- Danny Brown – EWNESW
- Chairlift – Wrong Opinion
- Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’
- Johnny Falstaff – Honky Tonk Blood
- Marc Maron – Working Out Their Daddy Issues
- Marc Maron – “Stop Talking!”
PFU #024 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 4]
- The Sounds – It’s So Easy
- Real Estate – Out of Tune
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy – New Whaling
- Motel Aviv – The Unknown
- YACHT – Paradise Engineering
- Youth Lagoon – Daydream
- Battles – My Machines [ft. Gary Numan]
- Washed Out – A Dedication
- The Rapture – In The Grace of Your Love
- Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
- People Like Us – I’m Dreaming Too
- Phantogram – Don’t Move
- Quintron & Miss Pussycat – Ring The Alarm
- Andre Williams – My Time Will Come
- Anthony Jeselnik – Seduction
- Big K.R.I.T. – American Rapstar
- Bitch Perfect – Holiday in America
- Boris – Attention Please
- Beastie Boys – OK
- The Feelies – Nobody Knows
- Eleanor Friedberger – One Month Marathon
- Four Tet – Pinnacles
- Brian Lopez – Montjuic
- John Maus – The Crucifix
- Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever
- Major Lazer – Original Don
- Man Man – Spookie Jookie
- The Go! Team – Ready To Go Steady
- Adele – Rolling in the Deep
- Jacuzzi Boys – Los Angeles
- Veronica Falls – The Box
- The Antlers – Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
- Frank Ocean – Thinking About You
- The Roots – The OtherSide [ft. Greg Porn & Bilal Oliver]
- Candles of Paradise – In The Chapel
PFU #025 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 5]
- The Caretaker – Libet’s Delay
- Christmas – Pyong
- Clams Casino – Natural
- Crystal Fighters – At Home
- Dirty Beaches – Lord Knows Best
- Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx – Nightcall
- Charlotte Gainsbourg – All The Rain
- Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean
- The Psychic Paramount – Isolated
- Katy B – Disappear
- The Strange Boys – Over the River and Through the Woulds
- J. Viewz – Salty Air
- Cat’s Eyes – Face in the Crowd
- David Lynch – Pinky’s Dream
- Vockah Redu – Lay Wit U [J-Dawg Mix]
- Adele – Rumour Has It
- Raphael Saadiq – Good Man
- Atlas Sound – Mona Lisa
- Lauren Wood – Summer Skin [ft. Haley and Abby]
- Austra – The Noise
- Southern Backtones – Forever
- TV on the Radio – Caffeinated Consciousness
- Wale – Chain Music
- Wilco – The Whole Love
- Lindsey Buckingham – Rock Away Blind
- Freddie Gibbs – Heaven Can Wait
- Ghostface Killah – Purified Thoughts [ft. GZA & Killah Priest]
- Girls – Vomit
- Tom Waits – Talking At The Same Time
- Toro Y Moi – New Beat
- Nerves Junior – Champagne & Peaches
- Night Beats – Ain’t Dumbo
- Radiohead – Little By Little [Caribou Remix]
- My Morning Jacket – Movin’ Away
- SebastiAn – Ross Ross Ross
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Witchhunt Suite for World War III [9/11 10th Anniversary]
- Chain & The Gang – Music’s Not For Everyone
Winners! PFU’s Best of 2010
Yes, I know. This blog is supposed to focus on specific practical uses for music. However, this year was, in my opinion, one of the better years for music in quite a while. That moment when you get a new record and it’s so good you can only to feel happy to be alive. I had that feeling a lot this year. I felt that a look back at some of my favorite tracks would be a solid enough use to warrant a post. Keep in mind this is not a music review. I’m not try to say: “given the state of music today I feel that these tracks are the most relev-“. No. No, I am not. Honestly, I kind of hate that sort of thing. These are just some of the songs that made me happy, in a year when new music made me happier than most year in recent memory. We are all at strange whims to music, and when people go against those natural urges to be “thorough” or “hip”, it’s just silly. I know I probably missed several great releases and they will be conspicuously absent to some, but…I don’t get paid to do that. Feel free to alert me of some great tracks on your own list. I hope you enjoy the great songs I was lucky enough to catch this year. There are way too many, and they are in no particular ranking. I’ve left the album info on the files so you can find the albums easier in case there is something unknown that you really like. Go and buy it.
PFU #014: The Best of 2010 [Pt. 1]
USE: Reflecting on a great year of music.
- Anti-Pop Consortium – Volcano [Four Tet Remix]
- Boyz IV Men – Garbaggio
- The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
- Sunol – Save Me A Place [Fleetwood Mac Cover]
- Freddie Gibbs – National Anthem (Fuck The World)
- Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
- The Strange Boys – Be Brave
- Angelina Lucero – I’m On Fire [Springsteen Cover]
- Glass Candy – Feeling Without Touching
- Deerhunter – Desire Lines
- David Cross – I Can’t Get Beer In Me
- Tobacco – Fresh Hex [ft. Beck]
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Revolution’s A Lie
- Daft Punk – End of Line
- Tame Impala – I Don’t Really Mind
- Class Actress – Terminally Chill [Neon Indian Cover]
- Sonny & the Sunsets – Too Young to Burn
- The Roots – How I Got Over [ft. Dice Raw]
- Cults – Go Outside
- Caribou – Sun
- Thee Oh Sees – I Was Denied
- Yeasayer – O.N.E. [Glasnost Remix]
- She & Him – Gonna Get Along Without You Now [Skeeter Davis Cover]
- The Magnetic Fields – You Must Be Out of Your Mind
- New Young Pony Club – The Optimist
- Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – River Styx
- Röyksopp – Forsaken Cowboy
- Antoine Dodson & The Gregory Brothers – Bed Intruder Song
PFU #015: The Best of 2010 [Pt. 2]
- Arcade Fire – Ready To Start
- Kid CuDi [ft. LCD Soundsystem, Chip Tha Ripper, & Christian Bale] – All Talk
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round
- Proxy [Todd Buker] – In Just [Demo] [ft. Jason Williamson]
- Kanye West – Power [ft. Dwele]
- Thee Oh Sees – Mega-Feast
- Vandertramp – Step Into My Arms [Demo Mixdown #1]
- Wild Nothing – Gemini
- Of Montreal – Famine Affair
- White Fence – The Love Between
- Girl Talk – Let It Out
- Destroyer – Chinatown
- Amon Tobin – Hey Mr. Tree
- Bonobo – Kong
- Boyz IV Men – Trance Armstrong
- Das Racist – Rapping 2 U [ft. Lakutis]
- The Hood Internet – Nuthin’ But A Journal Thang [Dr. Dre vs Class Actress]
- Lykke Li – Get Some
- LCD Soundsystem – You Wanted A Hit [Soulwax Remix]
- PJ Harvey – Written On The Forehead
- The Drums – The Future
- Dan Auerbach – The Prowl
- El Guincho – Bombay
- Chromeo – Hot Mess
- Midnight Juggernauts – Lara Versus The Savage Pack
- Miike Snow – Animal [Mark Ronson Extended Dub Remix]
- Twista – The Heat [ft. Raekwon]
- Louis C.K. – Cell Phones and Flying
PFU #016 – The Best of 2010 [Pt. 3]
- Jose Gonzales [Junip] – Rope and Summit
- The Chemical Brothers – K+D+B
- Hot Chip – Hand Me Down Your Love
- Girl Talk – Jump on Stage
- Daft Punk – Derezzed
- Cut Copy – Where I’m Going
- Janelle Monбe – 57821 [ft. Deep Cotton]
- Caribou – Odessa
- LCD Soundsystem – I Can Change
- MGMT – Congratulations
- New Young Pony Club – Lost A Girl
- Crystal Castles – Not In Love [ft. Robert Smith]
- Ratatat – Neckbrace
- Vampire Weekend – Taxi Cab
- DJ Cuba Gooding Jr. – Romerex [Dance Theme]
- The Black Keys – Sinister Kid
- Best Coast – Crazy For You
- Baths – Aminals
- New Pornographers – Your Hands (Together)
- Ty Segall – Girlfriend
- Surfer Blood – Harmonix
- The Fresh and Onlys – Waterfall
- Deerhunter – Helicopter
- Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plane
- The Gaslamp Killer – Monsterfromtheunderground
- DJ Shadow – Def Surrounds Us
PFU #017 – The Best of 2010 [Pt. 4]
- Brian Eno – 2 Forms of Anger
- Beck’s Record Club – Devil Inside
- Gonja Sufi – DedNd
- Gil Scott-Heron – Me And The Devil
- Girls – Thee Oh So Protective One
- Scissor Sisters – Running Out
- Twin Sister – Lady Daydream
- Sunol – Headlands
- The Walkmen – While I Shovel The Snow
- Band of Horses – Factory
- Uffie – Sex Dreams And Denim Jeans
- The Art Museums – Oh Modern Girls
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Beverly Kills
- Crocodiles – Flash Of Light
- Nice Face – Nobody’s Dead Here
- Japanther – Surfin’ Coffin
- La Roux – Bulletproof [Glasnost Remix]
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
- The Strange Boys – Night Might
- David Cross – The One Show About Drugs and Stuff
- Lemonade – Lifted
- The Clientele – As The World Rises And Falls
- Marnie Stern – Nothing Left
- Javelin – Vibrationz [Album Version]
- Ceo – Come With Me
- Toro Y Moi – Blessa
- Jacuzzi Boys – Bricks or Coconuts
- Beach House – Silver Soul
PFU #018 – Best of 2010 [Pt. 5]
- Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Lovesick
- Spoon – Got Nuffin’
- Miike Snow – Billie Holiday
- Das Racist – You Outta Know
- M.I.A. – Born Free
- The Vaselines – Sex With An X
- Ducktails – Don’t Make Plans
- Deerhunter – Revival
- Wolf Parade – Little Golden Age
- The Morning Benders – Promises
- Dr. Dre – Forgot About Dre [ft. Eminem] [Tape Bros. Remix]
- PS I Love You – Facelove
- Wavves – Idiot
- Crooked Fingers – Black Rose
- Atlas Sound – Mona Lisa
- Foals – Total Life Forever
- Charlotte Gainsbourg – Trick Pony
- Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
- Arcade Fire – Month of May
- Holy Fuck – SHT MTN
- Smith Westerns – Weekend
- DOM – Jesus
- Kanye West – Good Friday [ft. Common, Pusha T, & KiD CuDi]
- Caribou – Bowls
- Daft Punk – Fragile
- Abe Vigoda – Beverly Slope
- Curren$y – Breakfast
- Forest Swords – Rattling Cage
- Gayngs – The Gaudy Side of Town
- Blackbird Blackbird – Heartbeat
- Lætitia Sadier – Summertime
- LCD Soundsystem – Home
Boo. We’re Back…and We’re Moving On.
Hello kids. I know it’s been way, way, way too long since I’ve posted anything, but this blog is officially back in business. Due to several reports that the Heartbreak Anthology was bringing the room down, it has been discontinued…well moved. It was a good way to lead off this blog, but the options are so immense that I decided to give the heartbreak mixes their own blog. It’s a blog of all heartbreak music that will be done by me and lots of guests. That way we can cover all of the bases on that subject in terms of gender, race, orientation, etc.
The Heartbreak Blog is called IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU. It lives here: http://heartbreakcity.wordpress.com
Now it’s time to get Happy. To atone for such a long absence I’m welcoming everyone back with THREE Halloween mixes, and not a minute too soon. I’m including the Halloween mix that I made last year and two for this year. One is meant to be more generally listenable and the other is specifically designed to scare or at least unnerve whoever is listening to it. There are some fall mixes coming next week. Stay tuned, thanks for coming back, and have a great Halloween.
NOTE: LINKS RE-UPPED!!!!
PFU MIX #005
USE: Keeping Yourself Happy While Shopping for Costumes & Driving Drunk in a Costume [in 2008].
- Richard Pryor – Wino Dealing With Dracula
- The White Stripes – Little Ghost
- I Monster – The Blue Wrath
- Ray Stevens – Laughing Over My Grave
- David Bowie – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Clea Bradford – My Love’s a Monster
- Vampire’s Sound Incorporation – Necronomania
- Thee Oh Sees – Ghost in the Trees
- Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs – Devil Do
- Carole Bennett – Haunted Lover
- The Sonics – Psycho
- Jean Van DerPyl – Nobody Loves a Witch
- Destroyer – Your Blood
- Sunset Rubdown – A Day In The Graveyard
- Jerry Wald – The Creeper
- Suicide – Ghostrider
- The Keytones – I Was a Teenage Monster
- Evangelicals – The Ghost of Abner E. Norman (The Halloween Song)
- Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Alligator Wine
- The Kingsmen – Haunted Castle Party
- Serge Gainsbourg – Docteur Jekyll And Mister Hyde
- Michael Jackson – Thriller [DiscoTech Remix]
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PFU#006
USE: Getting Yourself Excited to Dress as Someone Else
- Richard Pryor – The Exorcist
- Make*Up – Save Yourself
- TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
- Louis Armstrong – St. James Infirmary
- The Cramps – Human Fly
- Louis Farrakhan [The Charmer] – Zombie Jamboree
- Julie London – Dark
- The Fall – Psycho Mafia
- Lightnin’ Hopkins – Black Ghost Blues
- Screamin’ Lord Sutch – Monster In Black Tights
- Bernard Herrmann – Taxi Driver (A Night Piece for Saxophone & Orchestra)
- Cat Power – Werewolf
- The Gaslamp Killer – Unknown Instrumental #8
- Tommy Collins – Black Cat
- Soft Boys – Kingdom Of Love
- Ethel Ennis – Mad Monster Party
- Clara Rockmore – Liebeslied
- Piero Umiliani – Cantata Per Maryam
- Charles Manson – Look At Your Game, Girl
- Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry – Disco Devil
- Duane Eddy – Stalkin’
- Pulp – Frightened
- Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs – Lil’ Red Riding Hood
- Henry Mancini – Experiment In Terror
- Pavement – The Killing Moon
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PFU MIX #007
USE: Scaring You, Your Friends, and Their Familes
One Quick Note about Track #5: A few days after that song was recorded, Pat Hare shot his baby. Enjoy.
- Charles Manson – Uptown
- Sonic Youth – Inhuman
- Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
- Amon Tobin – Bloodstone
- Pat Hare – Gonna Murder My Baby
- Goblin – Profondo Rosso
- Shellac – Prayer to God
- John Carpenter – The Shape Stalks Laurie
- Lightning Bolt – 13 Monsters
- Claudine Longet – Lullaby From Rosemary’s Baby (Sleep Safe And Warm)
- Suicide – Frankie Teardrop [Excerpt]
- Akira Ifukube – Godzilla Comes to Tokyo Bay
- The Manson Family – No Wrong Come Along
- Tom Waits – What’s He Building in There?
- Mark Murphy – Come and Get Me
- Beck – Cut 1/2 Blues
- Ennio Morricone – Adonai
- Louis and Bebe Barron – An Invisible Monster Approaches
- Pussy Galore – Die Bitch
- Alex Bartha’s Hotel Traymore Orchestra – It Must Be Swell To Be Laying Out Dead
- John Carpenter – Halloween III (Main Title)
- Henry Thome – Wolf Bait
- Alain Goraguer – Mira et Ten
- The Who – Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde
- Goblin – Waiting Death
- Mogwai – Stanley Kubrick
- Ray Noble & his Orchestra – Midnight, The Stars, And You
- White Noise – The Black Mass (An Electric Storm in Hell)
- Elizabeth Clare Prophet & The Church Universal And Triumphant – Decree 10.05