Mixtape #25: Don't Let This Summer Be A Bummer

Side A

Hello

Chairlift - "I Belong In Your Arms [Japanese Version]"

Dirk Diggler & Reed Rothchild - "Feel The Heat"

Generationals - "Durga II"

Don Covay - "You're Good For Me"

Woods - "Impossible Sky"

Dusty Springfield - "When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes"

Richard Swift - "Drakula (Hey Man!)"

Warm Soda - "Jeanie Loves Pop"

Martha Wainwright - "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole"

Side B

Radiation City - "Foreign Bodies"

Benjy Ferree - "Fear"

Arthur Lee - "Everybody's Gotta Live"

Tangiers - "I Wanna Go Out"

Miyazaki - "Sequence"

Those Darlins - "Let You Down"
Heron - "Goodbye"

Karen Dalton - "Something On Your Mind"

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The Deadly Snakes: Morbidly Catchy Gospel Punks

Garage punk gospel is what Toronto's Deadly Snakes delivered on their 2003 record Ode To Joy. The band— broken up since 2006—achieved a sort of delirious rapture on that record: a wild-eyed organ-humming sound that could have been recorded on the wooden pew of an old abandoned church. With songs like "I Want To Die" and "There Goes Your Corpse Again," they were like an equally morbid and charming cousin of Jonathan Fire*Eater: one that read too many comic books, smoked too many cigarettes and was always fidgeting with something on his mind.

Deadly Snakes - "Oh My Bride" (from Ode To Joy)