Other stuff on here: The Rolling Stones acoustic take of "Cocaine", early rap single "Rapping Dub Style" by General Echo, the swinging "Kiss Me Cindy" by J.E. Mainier's Mountaineers, Jens Lekman's droll "Black Cab", a demo version of The Pretenders' "Brass In Pocket", the Police-sampling "Let The Words Flow" by Chill Rob G, Van Morrison's rare "Bit By Bit", Paul Weller's Neil Young cover "Out On The Weekend", Clipse's wry "Mr. Me Too" and early Motown single "The Chaperone" by LaBrenda Ben & The Beljeans.
Songs that repeat: Led Zeppelin's "Since I've Been Loving You", which get a nice reading by Corrine Bailey Rae; Frank Sinatra singing "My Way" with a cover by 70s soul singer Major Harris; and another song associated with Sinatra, "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)", here done by Bobby Womack and The Roy Haynes Quartet.
To the theater of the bizarre: two more on the mix. Noted schizophrenic Wesley Willis is here with a police procedural over a drum machine called "He Goes To Prison". Equally crazy is award-winning political cartoonist Justin Bilicki. We worked together and around the time of this mix, he took a break from his band to create a dissonant track with my work nickname "clar" repeated over and over.
The recorded song was presented to me in my office, among other parting gifts, as a little joke after five years of having, when I could, a blast at work. It's totally silly and you probably won't enjoy it but it means a lot to me.
