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RETTSOUNDS - DEADBEAT DAD MIX

Dream Syndicate

Much like a deadbeat dad on his weekend visit, I got nothing for ya. The first burst of semi-decent weather has found me gallivanting around these North Shore ’burbs in celebratory mode, taking in the sand and sea and reveling in the fact that the low birth types who are usually down there screaming at the top of their lungs about womens’ butts are nowhere to be found. Just me, the lady, and some random Filipinos. Paradise.

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The drives back and forth from the beach have found this particular mix blasting outta our crap heap station wagon in the classic fashion: Portable CD player plugged into the antiquated tape deck via an adapter. I suppose I could have just plugged some sort of sound calculator into the adapter as well, but the portable CD player is the only way to go if you wanna feel something of a tangible connection to your portable sounds as far as I’m concerned. Or you could rig up an actual turntable in your car like some 1950s hotshot who just sold the patent for kitty litter. Now that’d be something! But how would you switch the records while driving? And then you’d have all the covers strewn all over the interior of the vehicle. Yeah… now that I think more about it… scratch that idea. Fuckin’ stupid. I’ll stick with the CD. But feel free to enjoy this mix in whatever format you prefer.

UV Race

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1) The Pooh Sticks – ‘Young People’
2) The Partisans – ‘Blind Ambition’
3) 14 Iced Bears – ‘Come Get Me’
4) UV Race – ‘Lost My Way’
5) Val McKenna – ‘House for Sale’
6) Todd Rundgren – ‘Determination’
7) Those Lovely Hula Hands – ‘Missa On Marilyn?’
8 ) Pale Saints – ‘Babymaker’
9) Jimmy Campbell – ‘Lonely Norman’
10) The Damned – ‘Morning Bird’
11) Deaf Wish – ‘VHS & Cheese’
12) Grin – ‘White Lies’
13) Nude Beach – ‘Story of a Man’
14) Moving Targets – ‘Less Than Gravity’
15) Literature – ‘Manmade Man’
16) The Ballroom – ‘Baby, Please Don’t Go’
17) Jean Paul Sartre Experience – ‘Up in the Sky’
18) Jesus & Mary Chain – ‘Almost Gold’
19) Three – ‘Shitberries (Demo)’
20) McKay – ‘At My Home’
21) Dream Syndicate – ‘Merritville’
22) King Darves – ‘Dance Dance Dance’

TONY RETTMAN