Even though I’m probably busier than I’ve been in a while, can’t help but get the feeling that I’m a lazy sack of sassafras. Maybe it’s because I slept probably 40 hours this weekend, or that I can’t function in the morning without a half gallon of coffee. This week’s mix is all about slidin’ back on the front porch, lettin’ your feet up, crackin’ a brew and lettin’ it stew. Play it … kinda loud. Or quiet. I dunno. Just chill wit’ it.
SIDE A
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01. Mendocino / Sir Douglas Quintet These guys were all about the chillin’.
02. Down on the Corner / Creedence Clearwater Revival Ahh, Willie and His Poor Boys. CCR is something I definitely need to hear on a lazy day.
03. Lazy Days / Flying Burrito Brothers This was a surprisingly low-key way to kick off the band’s second album, but the song is a grower.
04. Music To Commit Suicide By / Roy Wood The UK B-side to Roy’s classic “Forever”.
05. Lazy Bones / Jackie Mittoo See dem bones a dancin’!
06. Things We Like To Do / NRBQ Adorable cornballs!
07. Trouble / Little Feat I missed the Feat play the Hardly Strictly Fest here in SF a few weeks back, but something tells me I wouldn’t have been missing a whole bunch.
08. Close My Eyes / Arthur Russell Strange that Russell would show up on this mix, but this song grabbed me during its use in the spectacular Wild Combination documentary on the avant-garde icon.
09. Dire Wolf / Grateful Dead Sorry, dumb song titles or not, the Dead have them some jamz. And laaaaaaazy jamz at that.
10. Jigsaw Puzzle / Rolling Stones Sitting around doing a jigsaw puzzle has got to be up there with the World’s Laziest Activities …
11. Zurich Is Stained / Pavement Zurich is stained, an’ I’m too lazy to clean it up …
12. I’m So Tired / The Beatles Sooooo sreeeepy … sooooo tiled …
13. Albatross / Fleetwood Mac This early-period Mac hit never fails to get me in a good mood.
SIDE B
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14. Ballad of Easy Rider / The Byrds Easy ridin’ down that troublesome American road of freedom … sweet freedoms …
15. Naked, If I Want To / Moby Grape Well, if you want to, sure!
16. Wigwam / Bob Dylan From Dylan’s puzzling mish-mash Self Portrait. Hardly anything on it that’s salvageable, but this gem sticks out of the bunch.
17. (Is Anybody Going To) San Antone / Doug Sahm We’ve used it before, but it’s so perfect I’m gonna pull a repeat.
18. Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water / The Honeybus All aboard the Honeybus! First stop, sunny times lane!
19. Lazy Sunday / The Small Faces From the band’s a-little-too-British Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake.
20. Lazy Bones / Esquivel Now wiggle dem lazy bones!
21. Sunny Afternoon / The Kinks The sunny time afternoon
22. End Of A Century / Blur Oh I missed this jam. Shouldn’t have let it go for so long …
23. Let The Good Times Roll / Harry Nilsson Jammin’ time.
24. Braces Tower Dub / Augustus Pablo No one looks more chilled than Augustus sitting by a river playing his melodica.
25. Stay Loose / Belle & Sebastian So chilled out they let the song go on for six minutes …
26. Aquarela do Brasil / Erasmo Carlos Ah, my numero uno lazy times song.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Christian BC // Oct 26, 2009 at 6:14 am
That Beatles picture is amazing.
“Zurich Is Stained” is my favorite Pavement song.
I’m surprised how many of these songs have the word ‘lazy’ in the title.
2 Joel // Oct 26, 2009 at 9:52 am
i’m surprised how effective doing a search on my hard drive makes a good mix tape for me!
3 matt // Oct 26, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Dude, I just got off work, I got a brew in my hand and a lady on my arm and all I want to do is get a nice chill on. This mix is perfect!
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