Mixtape #24: Tintin In Strong Acid

Side A

Jill Read - "Maybe"

Richard Swift - "Lady Luck"

The Troggs - "With A Girl Like You"

Foxygen - "San Francisco"

John Cale - "Cleo"

Beach Fossils - "Careless"

Ruby Andrews - "You Made A Believer Out Of Me"

The Liverpool Echo - "Sally Works Nights"

Bleached - "Dazed"

Side B

Terry Huff & Special Delivery - "Just Not Enough Love"

Black Marble - "A Great Design"

The Fentones - "Until The Dawn"

Kurt Vile - "Amplifier"

Garland Jeffreys - "Wild In The Streets"

Phosphorescent - "Song For Zula"

The Stone Roses - "Sally Cinnamon"

Holy Shit - "Written All Over Your Face"

Broadcast - "The Gallops"

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David Bowie's "I Have Not Been To Oxford Town"

Over recent weeks, I've been playing David Bowie's "I Have Not Been To Oxford Town" repeatedly. The song, from his 1995 album Outside, is on a burned disc in my car (yes I still make mixes) and it's one of the few songs that doesn't grow stale after a few listens. Bowie is narrating as much as he is singing the lyrics over heavy set of drums and a guitar riff (which starts to shin at the 1:10 mark) that is brilliant. It reminds a bit of the riff on the Brian Eno and John Cale collaboration "Spinning Away," which I used to listen to during long scenic hikes in New Zealand. It has the same sort of futuristic and heavily-spaced charm that's perfect for letting your mind wander.

"I Have Not Been To Oxford Town" recently came on my radar after hearing a cover of it in the excellent cult-classic science-fiction movie Starship Troopers. It plays during the prom scene, except "Oxford town" is changed to "paradise." Who knew a gory movie about killing aliens would lead me back to David Bowie?

David Bowie - "I Have Not Been To Oxford Town" (from Outside)

John Cale & Brian Eno - "Spinning Away" (from Wrong Way Up)