Of all my mixes, this is the one most centered around a certain feeling: sweet melancholy spiced with the gleefully bizarre (thank you, Screamin’ Jay). The only recent addition is the Susan Cadogan track which, admittedly, makes for an odd transition into salty Memphis Minnie, but what the hell. I couldn’t leave out either.
“Strip-Teas” is a little surf-inspired number from the soundtrack of one of my favorite films, Sedmikrásky (known as Daisies here in the U.S.A.), the standout of the short-lived Czech New Wave movement. If you love mod girls behaving badly, do check it out.
The Arthur Russell and Marvelettes songs are two of my desert island jams. Neither are quite representative of what the artists are known for–too gentle to become big hits–but both are amazing tunes about loving that feeling of being too deep in love.
