[mixed cd archive - 01] vomiting out of a 1970s holden commodore at 2pm whilst wearing a tiara

archiving my mixed CDs created over the years! i'll be uploading these in small batches going forward since i decided to sunset my spotify and move away from streaming services entirely, so these are just lists on a page...exactly the way i used to discover and build playlists before streaming platforms took off!

linked songs are my personal favourites/highly recommended songs from each mix! and yes, track order DOES matter to me. no shuffling unless i say so!

this issue collects the following playlists:

vomiting out of a 1970s holden commodore at 2pm whilst wearing a tiara

swamp witch blues

those 70s songs you know all the lyrics to like seasons in the sun and beautiful day

grapefruit

macho pizza places that only play 90s/00s commercial rock

vomiting out of a 1970s holden commodore at 2pm whilst wearing a tiara

or, 'scenes from the australian suburbs'

Sabotage - Beastie Boys

King Of The Road - Fu Manchu

Sick, Sick, Sick - Queens of the Stone Age

Swallow My Pride - Soundgarden

High Roller - Dozer

Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney

Aneurysm - Nirvana

You Fucked Up - Ween

A Certain Shade Of Green - Incubus

Wild In The Streets - Circle Jerks

Nervous Breakdown - Black Flag

Green Machine - Kyuss

Throw Up - Red Fang

Down With The Sickness - Disturbed

Spit It Out - Slipknot

Tension Head - Queens of the Stone Age

White Limo - Foo Fighters

Wolf Like Me - Local H

Archived: Dec 24, 2019

Length: 1hr, 5 mins

Notes: This is one of my favourite ever mixed CDs ever made, inspired by witnessing a Grade 12 Scavenger Hunt incident where this exact scene played out right before my eyes! This contains a lot of 90s rock bands and some real cheeky song title choices. I'd say I made this around 2013-2015.

grapefruit

night drivin' vibes

拒絕再玩 - Leslie Cheung

街のドルフィン - Kingdo Hamada

Angel Disco Love - Sunset Rollercoaster

怎麼天生不是女人 - Grasshoppper

Fantasy - Earth, Wind & Fire

SUMMER BLUE - Bread And Butter

We Ride - Brave Girls

BOSSA MARINA - Chisato Moritaka

Bullet Proof Soul - Sade

Like Yesterday - Paul Cherry

Girl of My Dreams - Donny Benet

Baby I'm Sacred Of You - Womack & Womack

Give Life Back To Music - Daft Punk

Created: Sept 20, 2021

Length: 57 mins

Notes: I don't exactly remember why it's called 'grapefruit' but, whatever, it doesn't matter. It contains a mixture of old and modern cantopop, citypop and other easy listening disco/funk tracks. Leslie Cheung (forever my favourite actor, and I really adore his music career!), Grasshopper, Earth Wind & Fire, and Sade are some of my favourite artists of all time, even though I don't talk about them nearly as often as I should!

Because I can't resist, I wanted to talk about Grasshopper's 怎麼天生不是人. Sadly I'm not a Cantonese speaker, but this loosely translates to "why aren't I born a woman?". The theme of the lyrics expresses frustrations of being unable to cry and express your true emotions because you were born as a man, and the sensual allure of wanting to become a woman. It's a really fascinating queer coded song in the scope of 1990s Hong Kong.

swamp witch blues

mostly 80s and 90s australian punk/psych i guess

Swampland - Scientists

Save My Soul - Lime Spiders

Sad Girl - The Stems

Say A Spell - The Birthday Party

Slave Girl - Lime Spiders

Johnny - The Celibate Rifles

Love 200 - Tully

Another Sin - The New Christs

51st State - Exploding White Mice

You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators

Cherry Red - Lime Spiders

Gimme Gimme Gimme - The Celibate Rifles

How Do You Know? - Lyres

Blood Red River - Scientists

Swampland - The Birthday Party

Faceache - Exploding White Mice

Under Your Mushroom - The Stems

Reverberation - 13th Floor Elevators

Mr Clean - The Eastern Dark

Born Out Of Time - The New Christs

Crying Sun - Radio Birdman

Ride On - Beasts of Bourbon

Created: April 14, 2018

Length: 1hr, 31 mins

Notes: Some classic Aussie pub psych/punk bands!

those 70s songs that you know all the lyrics to like seasons in the sun and beautiful day

from a tumblr ask box request in 2013

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

You're So Vain - Carly Simon

Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Wild World - Yusuf/Cat Stevens

Into The Mystic - Van Morrison

Old Man - Neil Young

Roxanne - The Police

Heroes - David Bowie

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac

Tiny Dancer - Elton John

Dark Lady - Cher

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Lola - The Kinks

Tangerine - Led Zeppelin

Baba O'Riley - The Who

Miss You - The Rolling STones

A Horse With No Name - AMerica

Hotel California - Eagles

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Layla - Derek & The Dominos

Sweet Surrender - Tim Buckley

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

Summer Breeze - Seals and Crofts

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

More Than A Feeling - Boston

Archived: Dec 24, 2019

Length: 1hr, 54 mins

Notes: I grew up listening to classic rock, and these are all songs I know better than the back of my own hand

macho pizza places that only play 90s/00s commercial rock

eating woodfired pizza listening to the greatest hits of triple m

Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows

Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

Closing Time - Semisonic

Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Fly - Sugar Ray

She's So High - Tal Bachman

You Get What You Give - New Radicals

Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve

All Star - Smash Mouth

Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters

Every Morning - Sugar Ray

Kyrptonite - 3 Doors Down

With Arms Wide Open - Creed

Change (In The House Of Flies) - Deftones

How You Remind Me - Nickelback

The Reason - Hoobastank

Shimmer - Fuel 1

In The End - Linkin Park

Cochise - Audioslave

Drive - Incubus

Archived: Dec 24, 2019

Length: 1hr, 20 mins

Notes: Exactly what it says on the tin. Based on my personal experiences at a woodfired pizza place I used to frequent when I lived in Newcastle, NSW.

look if you can't admit this is absolute peak 90s divorced dad rock...when those strings kick in? i feel like trent reznor when he said he cried to dua lipa's levitating...