"Try Again" is a song by Chris Bell for his band Big Star's 1972 debut album #1 Record. This mix includes an earlier version by an earlier incarnation of the band called "Rock City" as well as a live version by the band's usual lead singer Alex Chilton as well as the album version.
"I'm New Here" is a song by Smog from their 2005 album A River Ain't Much To Lose. Previous mixes included a cover by Gil Scott-Heron from his eponymous 2010 comeback album as well as a remix of that title track by Jamie xx. This mix includes a cover by Lucky Peterson a as well as a remix of Gil Scott-Heron's version by Makaya McCraven as well as Smog's original version.
Two other songs repeat across the mix. Public Enemy's "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos", from their 1988 album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back is on here with a rough monitor mix of Tricky's cover called "Black Steel", with Martina Topley-Bird on vocals, from a new reissue of his 1995 album Maxinquaye. Their original version appeared on a previous mix. "Plastic" is by a band called Oneness of JuJu that was originally called Juju & The Space Rangers. This ix includes their 1978 single as well as the original 45 version from a few years earlier.
The rest: The Roy Ayers'-produced 1982 single "Don't You Know" by flutist and singer Bobbi Humphrey, the 12 inch version of New Order's "Ceremony", The Cure's late 80s non-album rarity "To The Sky", Waylon Jennings' cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman" from his 1978 album with Willie Nelson, Ice Cube's aptly-titled sample-heavy "Jackin' For Beats", Michell Wiley's seductove 1977 single "I Feel So At Home Here", Ka's stoic "Having Nothin'" and Yoko Ono's song "Let Me Count The Ways" from her 1984 album Milk & Honey, credited to her and John Lennon a few years after his death.
