(Well, technically, it's post #501, due to a lost Jackie Gleason post that got pulled by Blogger for some reason.)
Five hundred is a big round number. And at a time when bloggers keep packing up shop (Shiny Grey Monotone and Themes From Great Cities both called it a day this year) or straight up dying, I just keep on swinging with moderate consistency. Call it kicking against the pricks, or tilting at windmills, or just dry humping the equine's corpse. I don't know when to quit.
So it is that I do something a little special, though still in theme with the current layout of the blog. I've been wanting to do another mixtape, even though the last one I made got the fewest views of any post I made in the past twelve months. This one's in honor of the late Mythkoz over at Old, Weak But Always A Wanker, whose passing over the summer I discovered a few weeks ago. I have a slowly-shrinking list of blogs I visit daily, and discovering OWBAAW shortly after they launched in 2017 was one of the inspirations to pick up the keyboard again in earnest back in April 2020. Finding a record I've listened to for 30 years posted (in French) next to one I'd never heard before made me want to do the same, albeit on a different scale, Whether I wrote a new record that I was falling in love with, or a movie coming out on Blu-ray that I wanted to rewatch, or even a collectible, I sought to bring the same joy of discovery that Mythkoz and countless others had done over the past 15+ years.
What we have hear is a punk mix of my own creation. S/O to Jonder and Stinky for providing constant inspiriation to do these from time to time.. 30 tracks, 85 minutes, all songs culled from 7" releases. Everything came out between 1975 & 1983. Don't get me wrong; I'm no purist. There are luminaries in the mix next to obscurities. But I wanted to stay in that sweet spot of proto punk into punk/new wave/power pop into the first sounds of hardcore. Each recording is still also available over at OWBAAW for your sampling pleasure.
As for the cover model: it's Mary Monday, early punk goddess of the Bay Area scene. She was born in the Midwest during the waning days of World War II. She died in 1988, far north of me in Anchorage. In between, she released a single, ungodly great 45. She seems like a real character, one of those folks who touch you in a remarkable way. She'll never be forgotten.
1 comment:
Congrats on #500, and thanks for the shout out! Seems like more than a coincidence: I was drafting a blog post yesterday that mentioned the passing of Mythkoz, Ipecac (from Shiny Grey Monotone) and Gaius (from Twilight Zone), as well as blogs like TFGC shutting down. You and I were on the same wavelength!
Looking forward to hearing this based on the tracklist and that "sweet spot" of late 70's and early 80's punk rawk. Rest In Punk, Mythkoz!
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