My Hero ZeRO update

MISSING TRACKS

I've been informed that some of the tracks from the second half of the mix didn't come through on DL. I've upped the missing tracks to the same folder under "Missing MHZ", feel free to supplement your DL as necessary. I re-upped the second half adding Dick Dale (which for some reason wasn't included the first time) for anyone who hadn't gotten around to picking up the tracks yet.

Mixathon Tribute

The Zero May Mixathon was a huge success, and to commemorate the event, I compiled a playlist that pays tribute to each mixer's contribution. The original post with liner notes can be found HERE.

MY HERO ZERO

1.   Ed's Redeeming Qualities   MORE BAD TIMES Barrydali (Times) 2.   The Creation   TOM TOM Mahdishain (Human Jukebox-Poptagious) 3.   The Tinkertones   ROBERT THE ROBOT Robert Song (First of May) 4.   Cheech & Chong   FRAMED Frame 313 (GeekMix - April09 - Famous People) 5.   Connie Francis   JOHNNY DARLIN' Johnny Dark (May Day) 6.   The White Stripes   ST. JAMES INFIRMARY BLUES Mr. Mirage (Feeling A Little Strange) 7.   Outsiders   THE BEAR Bear (Mayday) 8.   Squirrel Nut Zippers   WASH JONES Doowad (Primer Prine- A Prine Primer) 9.   The Chambers Brothers   FUNKY Funky Ratchet (Almost Every Penny) 10.   Little Richard   JENNY JENNY Jenergy (Let Your Mind Roll On) 11.   The Rutles   PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE plushpig (The Mary month of May) 12.   The Cramps   STRANGE LOVE strange loop (Pail O' Innards) 13.   Architecture In Helsinki   FRENCHY, I'M FAKING French Connection/Frenchy (Sam's Psychedelic Inveigled Interfusion) 14.   John Carter   BROWN AND PORTER'S LORRY Bufo alvarius (yesterday I saw a girl) 15.   The Fire Escape   THE TRIP (Inside This House) valis (KAPOW!) 16.   The Surfettes   SAMMY THE SIDEWALK SURFER Sammyg123 (Secret Postcards) 17.   Mr. Ed   MISTER ED THEME Mixxer (Bigger Is Always Better (Alt-DJ by khradioguy and Mixxer)) 18.   Jimmy McGriff   AIN'tTIt FUNKY NOW DJKaren Adams (Funky Satchel of Hits v.1) 19.   The Trashmen   A- BONE kmbone (The thrown-together-in-a-hurry mix) 20.   Elliott Smith   A QUESTION MARK Pet Rocks (Some of Us Drink Because We're Not Poets) 21.   Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds   DEANNA (Acoustic Version) buglady (Melt Your Heart) 22.   Ramsey Lewis   WADE IN THE WATER The Wad (Late, Smokey & Dark) 23.   Cab Calloway   HOT TODDY Dead Man (Paul Is a Dead Man, Miss Him, Miss Him, Miss Him) 24.   Dick Dale   TIDAL WAVE short wave radio (Oldies Mix) 25.   Generation X   ONE HUNDRED PUNKS dafpunk (unvorhersehbarer frühling) 26.   Elvis Costello & The Attractions   RADIO, RADIO Khradioguy (Comfort Music) 27.   Beulah   GRAVIT(at)Y's BRINGING US DOWN gravitaty (The bridge between us is a rainbow) 28.   The Replacements   BASTARDS OF YOUNG Salman (Never Let the Bastards Bite Back) 29.   The Delmonas   PETER GUNN LOCOMOTION p the swede (Diggin' my popscene) 30.   Roy Clark   TEXAS TWIST Texas Hobart (Still Livin' On) 31.   Dizzy Gillespie - Stan GETZ   SIBONEY (PART I) Siobahn(Bending over backwards to please Stan Getz- Jazz in Britain) 32.   The Beatles   DOCTOR ROBERT RobC (It's a Man Ray kind of sky.) 33.   The Kingsmen   KILLER JOE retrojoe (Rhythm & Blues in 1947-1949, Part 1) 34.   Dale Hawkins   TORNADO tornadoZ (When You Wish Upon a Satellite) 35.   John Barry   CITY 2000 A.D. DJAbstract (Vapour City) 36.   Dudley Moore Trio   GOODBYE GEORGE G-sphere (I Wanna Be Trash) 37.   X   WILD THING wildthing (I WANT SOME GOOD MAN TO LOVE ME AND HEAVEN WHEN I DIE) 38.   Eileen   CES BOTTES SONT FAITES POUR MARCHER John Marcher (Can An Admittedly Weak Mix Be Made Better By Adding A Bunch Of 60's Radio Ads?) 39.   Aztec Camera   ORCHID GIRL Orchid (Juanita Sunrise) 40.   Hugo Largo   TURTLE SONG thatturtle (Like Lines of Clean Dangling Limbs) 41.   The Dickies   MANNY, MOE & JACK Moe (Mixathon!) 42.   Sheldon Allman & Stan Worth   TOM SLICK RACER Nomates (On The Spot (Alt DJ with sammyg123) 43.   The Undertones   WHAT'S WITH TERRY hemizen (The Sound of Young America) 44.   The Aquabats   ANTI- MATTER Mattsheckatight (12 Tracks of Acoustic Indie Goodness) 45.   The Lemonheads   MY HERO, ZeRO

The Sounds of Summer

Last year's summer mix.

HERE COMES THE SUMMER

1 Hello- Die Rattles

2 Silver Lining- Beulah

3 Here Comes The Summer- The Undertones

4 Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo- Jens Lekman

5 Down South, 10 Hours, I-5- All Girl Summer Fun Band

6 Nova SS 1968- Scruffy The Cat

7 Mona Lisa- Conway Twitty

8 Summer Teeth- Wilco

9 Ne sois pas si bête- France Gall

10 Bam B-b-bam Bam Bam- Junior Varsity

11 Dance To The Surfing Band- Hal Blaine

12 Beach Girl- Hound Dogs

13 Wild Bikini- Tullycraft

14 (I Can't Explain) Gonna Tell Your Man- The Pebbles

15 Love Makes The World Go Round (Yeah Yeah)- Perry Como

16 Panic Button- Edgar Allen & The Po' Boys

17 Baby Love- Supersnazz

18 The Girl Can't Help It- Little Richard

19 Last Dance- Math & Physics Club

20 Yam Yam Cha Cha- Sakura and The Quests

21 (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame- Elvis Presley

22 The Frog- Billy Pitcock & The People

23 That's If You Want Me To- The Beau Brummels

24 Railroader- Ole Jensen

25 Fizz Pop- Advantage Lucy

26 Glowworm- The Apples in Stereo

27 Bye Bye Baby- The Detroit Cobras

28 Help Yourself- Tom Jones

29 You're Wondering Now- Amy Winehouse

30 Davy Jones Liquor Locker- The Neptunas

31 Louie, Louie Go Home- David Bowie

Take a Walk

An upbeat, catchy walking mix from last year.

THESE TUNES WERE MADE FOR WALKING

1 Walking on Sunshine- Katrina and The Waves

2 You Can't Walk In Your Sleep- The Go-Go's

3 I'm Walkin'- Fats Domino

4 Take a Walk With the Fleshtones- The Fleshtones

5 Lover's Walk- Elvis Costello & The Attractions

6 The Walk- The Cure

7 Electric Avenue- Eddy Grant

8 Walk Like an Egyptian- The Bangles

9 The Walk- Jimmy McCracklin

10 We Walk- R.E.M.

11 Walking the Cow- Kathy McCarty

12 Walk On By- Cake

13 Young Fresh Fellows Theme- Young Fresh Fellows

14 Wild Man Walk- Ebonettes

15 These Boots Are Made For Walkin'- The Ventures

16 Walkin' Down the Street- The Coctails

17 Here Comes My Baby- Yo La Tengo

18 The Wiggely Pig Walk- Hugo Montenegro

19 Walk Right In- Rooftop Singers

20 When I'm Walking- Jonathan Richman

21 Walk on the Wild Side- Lou Reed

22 Walkin' Bass- Henry Mancini

23 I Walk the Line- Johnny Cash

24 You're Out Walking the Streets Tonight- The Sir Douglas Quintet

25 Walkin' After Midnight- Patsy Cline

26 Sleepwalkers- They Might Be Giants

Robots Run Amok

Last year's robot-themed mix of mechanical mayhem:

This one starts out in the best possible way: using technology to improve human life... the Bionic Man! (one of my favorite shows when I was a kid). Tracks 1-9 feature benevolent androids/robots, in a world where we have been developing them to serve mankind.

The middle of the mix, tracks 10-17 transition into a future where robots have become commonplace. We are now using and abusing them (track 18) for our convenience. Although everything seems ideal, trouble is brewing on the horizon... the robots grow tired of our abuse and decide it's time to overthrow their oppressors. 

We glimpse the beginning of the end by track 19, when we realize we cannot trust robots. It's all downhill from there, and the battle between robots and humans begins, with only brave Yoshimi standing up to the rebellious droids. By track 26, it's all but over, with Queen rounding out the mix with a track from News of The World (with the infamous robots vs. humans album cover). 

ATTACK OF THE MECHANICAL MEN

1 The Six Million Dollar Man- Oliver Nelson

2 Humanoid Boogie- The Bonzo Dog Band

3 The Man With The Lightbulb Head- Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians

4 Robot Man- Connie Francis

5 My Robot- Looper

6 Mr. Robot- Les Baxter

7 If I Only Had a Heart- The Tin Man [Herbert Stothart]

8 Robot Parade- They Might Be Giants

9 Robots- The Slackers

10 Robot Segue- Beck

11 The Robots In My Bedroom Were Playing Arena Rock- Softlightes

12 The Mechanical Man- Bent Bolt & The Nuts

13 Robot Man [Scorpions Cover]- The Epoxies

14 The Robots [Kraftwerk cover]- Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto

15 Robot High School- My Robot Friend

16 Do The Robot [Saints Cover]- Spent Idol

17 Ok Robot- Bruce Haack

18 We're In Business (Never Trust a Robot)- Andrew Thompson

19 Gigantor- The Dickies

20 Giant Robot-Birdhead- The Aquabats

21 Anarchy in the UK- 386 DX

22 Machines- Lothar & the Hand People

23 Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1- The Flaming Lips

24 Robot Rock- Daft Punk

25 Robots (Humans Are Dead)- Flight of the Conchords

26 All Dead, All Dead- Queen

Fleshtones Fever!

My favorite Fleshtones tracks on 2 discs. Liner notes from the AOTM post last year:

Super Rock: "Super Rock is taking the best, most exciting elements of rock & roll, and exaggerating and amplifying them beyond proportion, with no apology whatsoever." Bill Milhizer, Fleshtones Drummer (1980-present) 

It all began in 1976 in Queens, New York, when roommates Keith Streng and Jan-Marek Pakulski discovered that a previous tenant had left behind some instruments in the basement of their apartment building. Not knowing how to play, they started teaching themselves by playing along with their favorite 60s rock songs by such artists as the Kingsmen, the Raiders, the Coasters and the Kinks. Originally, their ultimate goal was to become a rockin' party band. Streng, on guitar, and Pakulski, on bass, were soon joined by neighborhood friends Peter Zaremba on harmonica, keyboards, and vocals, and Lenny Calderon on drums. The Fleshtones quickly became famous locally for their basement dance parties fueled by *Blue Whale cocktails. 

Possibly their greatest recording was the classic "Hexbreaker", my first and still my favorite Fleshtones disc. The "Hexbreaker" lineup was, in my opinion, their very best, with Keith Streng (guitar & vocals), Peter Zaremba (lead vocals, harmonica & organ), Bill Milhizer (drums & vocals), Jan-Marek Pakulski (bass, vocals), and Gordon Spaeth (sax, harmonica, organ, vocals). I remember encountering this album at Rasputin Records in Berkeley in 1985. I bought it on a whim, took it home and couldn't stop 

playing it. That record was hugely influential on my developing tastes in rock 'n' roll, and I am forever indebted to them for recording it. 

The Fleshtones put on what was probably the best live show I've ever seen, at the DNA lounge in San Francisco in the early 1990s. At one point in the show, they jumped off the stage and (wearing wireless mics) kept playing while they danced with the audience and started making their way around the club. I was on the upper mezzanine (which wrapped around the upper floor) and they came up the stairs, still playing, while making their way around the mezzanine and back down the stairs. Soon after that we lost sight of them, as they'd left the building briefly, played out on the sidewalk for a few minutes and then came back inside to cheers and thunderous applause. That was one rockin' show-- but the thing that stuck with me the most was what they did afterwards. They all stood outside the door and thanked their fans for coming. I went home that night pumped with adrenaline and beaming from ear to ear. Nothing in the world quite beats the Super Rock! 

32 years later, their lineup has gone thought several changes, but they are still channelling the spirit of every great rock 'n roll party band that ever existed, and have rightfully taken their place among them. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present one of the hardest working bands in Rock 'n' Roll: The Fleshtones! 

* The Blue Whale 

1 can frozen lemonade concentrate 

Fill can once with blue Curaçao 

Fill can twice with Vodka 

Add lots of ice 

SUPER ROCK!

DISC ONE:

1 Take a Walk With the Fleshtones

2 Shadow-Line

3 One Less Step

4 All Around the World

5 Hard Lovin' Man

6 I've Gotta Change My Life

7 Push On Thru'

8 Cold, Cold Shoes

9 Psychedelic Swamp

10 The World Has Changed

11 Legend of a Wheelman

12 Girl From Baltimore

13 Hope Come Back

14 Alright

15 Right Side of a Good Thing

16 Chinese Kitchen

17 Let's See the Sun

18 Beautiful Light

19 Ride Your Pony

20 This House is Empty

21 Accelerated Emotion

22 She's My Baby

23 Whatever Makes You Happy

24 New Scene

25 Roman Gods

DISC TWO:

1 I'm Back Again

2 Stop Fooling Around

3 What's So New (About You)?

4 Outcast

5 American Beat '84

6 Want!

7 We'll Never Forget

8 Can't Get Enough Of Your Love

9 Double Dipper

10 I Was a Teenage Zombie

11 Screaming Skull

12 D.T. Shadows

13 Deep in My Heart

14 Let's Go

15 Hall of Fame

16 Destination Greenport

17 Pickin' Pickin'

18 Burning Hell

19 Good Enough For You

20 BRAINSTORM

21 R-I-G-H-T-S

22 A Motor Needs Gas

23 Feel The Heat

24 The Dreg (Hexbreaker-77)

25 Super Hexbreaker

A Bounty of Beatles Songs

Last year I compiled a 2-disc compilation of Beatles cover songs.  These are my favorite covers of songs recorded (although not all officially released) by the Beatles. I arranged the songs chronologically by the dates they were originally recorded/released (though I think it's possible that Little Willie John recorded his version before the Beatles, I love the version so much I left it in). I tried to stick with versions I thought were truly inspired, in many cases, putting individual stamps on classic songs. Here it is for anyone who missed it the first time around. Thanks to Avocado Rabbit for the Fiona Apple track. 

Track 1: 1962 single (A-side) 

Track 2: 1962 Recorded Live at the Cavern Club 

Track 3: 1963 Recorded at Dick James Publishing Studio 

Tracks 4-8: 1963 "Please Please Me" 

Track 9: 1963 single (A-side) 

Track 10: 1963 Broadcast on "Pop Go the Beatles" (BBC) 

Tracks 11-13: 1963 "With the Beatles" 

Tracks 14-15: 1964 "A Hard Day's Night" 

Tracks 16-17: 1964 Singles (A-sides) 

Track 18: 1964 "Beatles For Sale" Sessions (unreleased) 

Tracks 19-20: 1964 "Beatles For Sale" 

Track 21: 1965 Recorded at EMI Studios, London 

Tracks 22-27: 1965 "Help" 

Track 28: 1965 Single (B-side) 

Tracks 29-38: 1965 "Rubber Soul" 

Tracks 39-44: 1966 "Revolver" 

Track 45: 1967 "Magical Mystery Tour" 

Tracks 46-47: 1968 Singles {46: (A-side) 47: (B-side)} 

Tracks 48-52: 1968 "The Beatles" (White Album) 

Tracks 53-54: 1969 "Abbey Road" 

Tracks 55-57: 1970 "Let It Be"

I'VE JUST SEEN A FAKE

DISC ONE:

1 Love Me Do- Sandie Shaw

2 Some Other Guy- The Big Three

3 Bad To Me- Billy J. Kramer With The Dakotas

4 Baby, It's You- Cilla Black

5 Ana (Anna)- Los Straitjackets

6 Chains- The Delmonas

7 Do you Want To Know a Secret- The Chipmunks

8 A Taste Of Honey- Esther Phillips

9 I Want To Hold Your Hand- Game Theory

10 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry Over You- Merseybeats

11 Hold Me Tight- Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, Lisa Hogg

12 You Really Got A Hold On Me- M. Ward & Zooey Deschanel

13 I Wanna Be Your Man- The Milkshakes

14 A Hard Day's Night- The Supremes

15 I'll Cry Instead- Joe Cocker

16 Can't Buy Me Love- Ella Fitzgerald

17 I Feel Fine- The Ventures

18 Leave My Kitten Alone- Little Willie John

19 Baby's In Black- John Doe with Virgil Shaw

20 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby- Johnny Cash

21 That Means A Lot - The Beatnix

22 I Need You- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

23 Ticket To Ride- Camarata & His Orchestra (Featuring Tutti's Trombones)

24 Act Naturally- Dwight Yoakam

25 Tell Me What You See- Teenage Fanclub

26 I've Just Seen A Face- Ludella Black

27 Yesterday- Ray Charles

28 Day Tripper- Sergio Mendes

29 Drive My Car- The Donnas

30 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)- Cornershop

31 Nowhere Man- Low

DISC TWO:

1 Think For Yourself- Yonder Mountain String Band

2 The Word- Mindy Smith

3 Michelle- Ben Harper And The Innocent Criminals

4 Girl- Rhett Miller

5 I'm Looking Through You- Ted Leo

6 Wait- Ben Kweller

7 Run For Your Life- Thee Headcoatees

8 Eleanor Rigby- Bobbie Gentry

9 I'm Only Sleeping- The Vines

10 Here, There And Everywhere [The Beatles vs. Claudine Longet]- ccc

11 She Said, She Said- Overwhelming Colorfast

12 And Your Bird Can Sing- Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs

13 For No One- Rickie Lee Jones

14 Blue Jay Way- Lord Sitar

15 Lady Madonna- Tom Jones

16 Revolution- Grandaddy

17 Dear Prudence- Siouxsie & The Banshees

18 Obladi Oblada- Patrick Zabe

19 Happiness Is A Warm Gun- The Breeders

20 I Will- La Fragua

21 Mother Nature's Son- Sheryl Crow

22 I Want You (She's So Heavy)- Booker T. & The MGs

23 Here Comes the Sun- We Five

24 Two Of Us- Aimee Mann & Michael Penn

25 Across The Universe- Fiona Apple

26 Let It Be- Bill Withers