Brace yourselves - Nate's 1977 700MB MP3CDR mix is nigh

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Not sure how "nigh" it is; additional research/track-hunting could take upwards of a week given how full my writing agenda is. But I feel I should give everyone a heads-up anyways.

I'm not going to reveal the entire tracklist since it's nowhere near finished. I think it's safe to say I have most of the "gimme" tracks and artists (Pistols, "Heroes", Clash, Fleetwood Mac, "Flash Light", "I Feel Love"). So here's some of the more unusual or obscure cuts:

C.J. & Co., "Devil's Gun": dramatic disco stuff, suspenseful and epic, with a GREAT baritone singer and guitar by Dennis "Scorpio" Coffey.

Crime, "Frustration": One of the best singles from S.F. punk pioneers. Allllmost as good as "Hot Wire My Heart".

Donald Byrd & the Blackbyrds, "Mysterious Vibes": the best jazz/R&B crossover track I've ever heard; basis for Paris' "The Days of Old". Features some glittery sort of synth things and typically great Byrd trumpet.

Easy Cure, "Need Myself": Classic snotty Buzzcocky punk stuff, but they need to drop that "Easy" shit from their name if they wanna go places.

Eddie Hazel, "California Dreamin'": I put this on almost every single comp I made at some point this year because it's one of the most beautiful guitar songs of all time. Great echo effects and fucking amazing backup vocals.

Faze-o, "Get Some Booty": You might ask: "Nate, that is a promising song title, but could it possibly live up to my musical booty-getting needs?" Oh my yes.

Francine McGee, "Delirium": The opening drum break will make you go "oh shit, I know this beat", but then it gets into a whole bunch of electric piano disco-funk action and you'll sort of forget about the Chemical Brothers for a while.

Goblin, "La Via Della Droga (sequence 1: Main Titles)"
Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera, "Nucleo Antirapina": C'mon, you didn't think I'd make a comp and then not put Italian cop flick themes on it, did you?

Junior Murvin, "Lucifer": He's like the rudeboy Mayfield or something. Creepy super-minimalist underwater dub production and lyrics about evil.

Manzel, "Space Funk"
Melvin Bliss, "Synthetic Substitution": There's some great fuckin' songs after those breaks.

Suicide Commandos, "Mark He's A Terror": Scholtes or someone might be able to verify this for me, but I think this could be the first Minneapolis punk single. It's a bit downtempo-Voidoidy, great pop.

Tim Maia - "E Necessário": Brazilian R&B/funk quickie with a killer opening hook; I can imagine Kanye looping it, easy.

Warsaw, "The Kill": Jesus guys, I like the muddy death-bass punk stuff, but "Warsaw"? Come ON. With a name like that, these guys are even less likely to affect early '80s post-punk than Easy Cure are.

Wire, "Mannequin": This is probably the "wrong" Wire track. I don't care.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(BTW, that Warsaw track is such a naked "Sonic Reducer" ripoff)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(but i luv it anyways)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I am SO sending you a list.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 10 November 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

wooo!

― rob geary (rgeary), Monday, 10 November 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoops, that's a sax on the Byrd track, not a trumpet. Now I know how Greg Nice feels. Sort of.

I should also note that when I make these huge mixes, I split them up into folders and name each folder after a line from one of the songs within. Rest assured that one of these folders will be named "with a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound".

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

(Donald Byrd doesn't actually seem to be on the album at all, actually)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Just added: Isaac Hayes, "Out of the Ghetto". If anyone tells you that the Black Moses of Soul wasn't any good as a disco composer, they are lying. It's like his answer to the Isleys' "Fight the Power".

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Crime, yayayayayayay Crime! And nah I'm pretty sure that's the "right" Wire track.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, I always lurk, never post on here, but I had to write cuz I play "Mysterious Vibes" in my sets all the time...I love that track, all about the keyboard/vibes intro into the soprano sax. I usually play Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes-Hope We Can Be Together Soon into or out of it, another great intro...

― mayor motorcade (mayor motorcade), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

How come nobody plays the vocal of Delerium, Feeling Good? I think here "singing" is totally awesome.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Forgive me, for I am throwing in Marvin Hamlisch's "Bond 77".

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

any room to squeeze on some Saints and Radio Birdman?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahaha YES. ("Wild About You" and "Love Kills")

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been too busy to make a list. :-(

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It's OK, I think I've got it pretty much fleshed out, and it seems pretty complete. I'm going to narrow it down to about 170 songs, 80% of which are either funk, disco, punk or reggae/rocksteady/dub.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I am SO there. I would pay for thi$$$...

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

:-)
:-)
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:-)

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

no love for the classic rock, huh?

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha i guess it was just "rock" in 77!

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, there's love. maybe misguided love at that. (Lace and Whiskey, people!)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's a tentative preliminary song list (albeit not the running order):

abba - the name of the game
ac-dc - let there be rock
adverts - gary gilmore's eyes
al green - belle
alan parsons project - i wouldn't want to be like you
alice cooper - it's hot tonight
alternative tv - how much longer
althea & donna - uptown top ranking
augustus pablo - pablo meets mr bassy
banda black rio - maria fumaca
barry white - it's ecstasy when you lay down next to me
bee gees - stayin' alive
big youth - four sevens
bill withers - lovely day
billy cobham - arroyo
billy joel - the stranger
bixio-frizzi-tempera - nucleo antirapina
blackbyrds - mysterious vibes
blondie - detroit 442
blue oyster cult - godzilla
bob marley and the wailers - the heathen
bohannon - come dance with me
bootsy's rubber band - the pinocchio theory
brian eno - king's lead hat
brick - dusic
burning spear - throw down your arms
buzzcocks - whatever happened to
c.j. & co. - devil's gun
cameo - post mortem
can - don't say no
cerrone - supernature
chaka khan & rufus - hollywood
charles mingus - three or four shades of blues
cheap trick - southern girls
chic - dance, dance, dance (yowsah, yowsah, yowsah)
crime - frustration
culture - get ready to ride the lion to zion
curtis mayfield - do do wap is strong in here
david axelrod - tony poem
david bowie - heroes
dead boys - sonic reducer
dennis brown - stay at home
devo - (i can't get no) satisfaction (original 1977 single)
dictators - science gone too far!
dillinger - cokane in my brain
donna summer - i feel love
double exposure - my love is free
earth wind & fire - jupiter
easy cure - need myself
eddie fisher - cosmic blues
eddie hazel - california dreamin'
eddie holman - it's over
electric light orchestra - mr blue sky
elvis costello - less than zero
evelyn 'champagne' king - shame (12-inch)
faze-o - get some booty
fela kuti - zombie
first choice - doctor love
fleetwood mac - you make loving fun
francine mcgee - delirium
gil scott-heron - we almost lost detroit
giorgio moroder - i'm left, you're right, she's gone
goblin - la via della droga (seq. 1 - main titles)
graham central station - now d-u-wanta dance
graham parker and the rumour - thunder and rain
gregory isaacs - war of the stars
hawkwind - quark strangeness and charm
heart - barracuda
horace andy - do you love my music
hues corporation - i caught your act
ian dury - sex and drugs and rock and roll
idris muhammad - could heaven ever be like this
iggy pop - lust for life
isaac hayes - out of the ghetto
isley brothers - footsteps in the dark
james mason - sweet power your embrace
johnny guitar watson - a real mother for ya
johnny thunders and the heartbreakers - chinese rocks
junior murvin - lucifer
kc & the sunshine band - i like to do it
kiss - love gun
kraftwerk - trans-europe express
lenny williams - choosing you
linda clifford - from now on
linton kwesi johnson - five nights of bleeding (for leroy harris)
loleatta holloway - hit and run
lynyrd skynyrd - that smell
mandre - solar flight
mandrill - ali bombaye (zaire chant 1)
manzel - space funk
marvin gaye - got to give it up (part 1)
marvin hamlisch - bond 77 (james bond theme)
mary monday & the bitches - i gave my punk jacket to ricky
mass production - people get up
maze ft. frankie beverly - while i'm alone
melvin bliss - synthetic substitution
miguel de deus - black soul brothers
muddy waters - blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll
parliament - flash light
pere ubu - heaven
peter gabriel - solsbury hill
peter tosh - stepping razor
philadelphia international all-stars - let's clean up the ghetto
pink floyd - sheep
plastic bertrand - ca plane pour moi
pleasure - joyous
prince far i - under heavy manners
queen - sheer heart attack
radio birdman - love kills
ramones - pinhead
randoms - abcd
randy newman - baltimore
real kids - reggae reggae
richard hell and the voidoids - blank generation
rose royce - do your dance (12-inch mix)
roy ayers - running away (12-inch version)
runaways - neon angels on the road to ruin
ryo kawasaki - bamboo child
santa esmeralda - don't let me be misunderstood
serge gainsbourg - discophotèque
sex pistols - holidays in the sun
slave - slide
smokey robinson - theme from big time
space - magic fly
steely dan - josie
suicide - ghost rider
suicide commandos - mark he's a terror
sweet - midnight to daylight
t. rex - teen riot structure
talking heads - psycho killer
t-connection - do what you wanna do
teddy pendergrass - the whole town is laughing at me
television - guiding light
television personalities - 14th floor
the avengers - we are the one
the boomtown rats - lookin' after # 1
the brothers johnson - strawberry letter 23
the clash - police and thieves
the commodores - brick house
the congos - fisherman
the damned - neat neat neat
the dils - i hate the rich
the emotions - best of my love
the ethiopians - slave call
the jam - away from the numbers
the kinks - juke box music
the police - fallout
the saints - wild about you
the stranglers - something better change
the trammps - disco inferno (full-length version)
the weirdos - we got the neutron bomb
thin lizzy - bad reputation
tim maia - é necessário
tom waits - burma shave
trinity - three piece suit
ultravox - young savage
van halen - big trouble (1977 demo)
war - galaxy
warsaw - the kill
willie hutch - we gonna party tonight
wire - mannequin
x-ray spex - oh bondage up yours
yvonne elliman - if i can't have you
zeros - don't push me around

I cheated with "Disco Inferno" (release date: 12-29-76). So what?

Songs I wish I could put on here but can't find for the life of me: Edwin Starr, "Everybody Needs Love"; Rico, "Ska Wars"; Average White Band, "The Message"; something from Delroy Wilson's Money; Les McCann, "Music Lets Me Be"

Suggestions/corrections are welcome.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

you are insane for using "I Like to Do It" instead of "I'm Your Boogie Man" or (especially) "Keep It Comin' Love."

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

insane like a fox! "i like to do it" is great. of course this takes nothing away from "i'm your boogie man," which is so powerful even rob zombie couldn't defunkify it.

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

nate i envy your free time (or at least your motivation)

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

matos, those two tracks were '76

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

(at least sez AMG)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Which makes it pretty weird that "Keep It Comin' Love"'s chart peak came in fall 1977.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

nevermind then

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Heartbreakers: "Chinese Rocks" or "Born to Lose"
Wreckless Eric: "The Whole Wide World"

"Complete Control" instead of "Police and Thieves"!!!

"Lust for Life" MUST open

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

yes it should, followed immediately by "Ca Plane Pour Moi"

Fuck. "Complete Control" is great, plus it frees up more space. You Win Again.

(oh, and uh ctrl-f "chinese rocks", you)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, ok. looked under "h" and "t," not "j."

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

yes it should, followed immediately by "Ca Plane Pour Moi"

if you put "Complete Control" 3rd you have the Greatest Opening Gambit Ever, pretty much.

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

so long as I get to put Van Halen next to Banda Black Rio (yes, this could conceivably work)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

other stuff I forgot and have to shoehorn in:

jimmy smith - give up the booty
ltd - back in love again

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Rezillos, "Can't Stand My Baby"

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yay!

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I am the biggest knuckleknob ever. You think I had the wrong Clash track? That's nothing: I've just now realized that Augustus Pablo had this song in 1977 called "East of the River Nile". GUH FUH DUH!

Also thrown in:
fred wesley & the horny horns - peace fugue
fantastic four - mixed up moods and attitude
chrome - my time to live
king errisson - well have a nice day
neil young - like a hurricane (I know the songs on American Stars 'n' Bars were all recorded during a span from '74-'77 but I'm pretty sure this one was '77; I am also pretty sure that even if it's not it qualifies "enough" and I'm putting it on because it is fantastical)

I've ditched a couple songs, but probably nothing anyone'll miss.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 13 November 2003 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit. Bohannon's "Come Dance With Me" is '78. "Bohannon Disco Symphony" is '77 and it's enjoyably dumb but it just won't be the same as the eerie/sexxxual midnight-prelude-to-nudity track I originally picked out. Is donut bitch still doing '78?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 13 November 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Nate, there's more than one "East of the River Nile", the first recorded in 1971. Don't feel too bad.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 13 November 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

and Donut Bitch is polishing off '78 as we speak

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 13 November 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

OK. I'll probably pick something else off that album (since I just listened to the '77 version of "River Nile" and I don't like it as much).

I have no idea when I'm going to finalize this. I keep thinking back to the '79 mix and how I completely forgot First Choice.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 13 November 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

you so totally fucking need to track down Orchestra Super Mazembe's "Kassongo" for this. that is all.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 16 November 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Gladly -- if you promise not to freak out over my recent decision to replace "Lust For Life" with "Tonight".

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 16 November 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot stop playing the guitar solo at the halfway point of The Brothers Johnson's "Strawberry Letter 23"... my god, that's like the second-most beautful thing on this whole mix after Television's "Guiding Light"

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 16 November 2003 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

lurker russell here... I was just going to post that "Guiding Light" was a phenomenal choice. It gets buried under "See No Evil" and "Prove It" while listening to the album, but shines (no pun intended) on it's own. Nate, what can I barter for a copy of the 1977 mix?

― russell s, Monday, 17 November 2003 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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