MAN FIX (playlist)

when your inner Paula Abdul -- u know, that crazy voice inside your head -- is screaming "I'M SICK & TIRED OF YOU NOT APPRECIATING THE GIFT THAT I AM!!!" wellll, the only thing that will shut her up are the manly voices of the artists featured in this playlist:

MAN FIX - MP3 downloads

RADIOHEAD is the best band of my generation, no question about it. they will be back at the Hollywood Bowl this summer. enjoy the 2 songs on this playlist, recorded just a few days ago at their DC show. check IT out.

i've blogged about Eastbourne's DAVID FORD before; his video is amazing. Jenn turned me onto ELBOW from Manchester; they played at Avalon last Friday... the songs of Elbow & David Ford are great road trip singalongs!!! i haven't sang out loud in the car since i was a little kid. we'd jump into the car, head to the Provence or the French Riviera for the week-end. my dad would sing along to his Neil Diamond cassettes; my mom to Abba; all of us to Boney M. and i'd complain about both of them smoking cigarettes in the car!!! ok i remember in my teens, driving with friends from Quito to Atacames, smoking my own marlboros, singing along to really cheesy Latin pop songs by the likes of Mana or to the great ALPHA BLONDY...

somehow, we had convinced our parents to skip class for a week, or maybe they were back in Europe & we were home alone with the staff & it didn't matter. Esperanza was the best. she never told our parents about all the parties we had each time the folks were away. anyhew, we'd chill in Atacames "like adults." that was before we all had cell phones. my mom would sorta freak out when i would get back to Quito 3 or 4 days later than permitted. there was no way for her to contact me so... from my end i figured "no news good news." there was only one or two pay phones in Atacames back then, and they didn't always work. by the time i had to make a call i was broke anyway. i'd only have enough cash to make it back to Quito by bus whenever i could.

to this day, i remember every single word of Brigadier Sabari. also check out "Jerusalem" & "I Love Paris" on his myspace. Alpha Blondy was huge in Europe and if not in Quito, in Atacames for sure. that beach had a nice bohemian mix of locals of African descent, crusty white Europeans with dirty dreadlocks, surfers from California, Hawaii & Brazil, Cuban refugees or simply studying in Ecuador for a semester, Jamaicans on the run, shady Colombian drug dealers buying all my drinks to hang out with my high school girlfriends... or my hot girlfriends visiting from Europe; they'd always end up having "sexy times" with some hot local while i smoked all their weed & had deep meaninful conversations with some rastafarian hanging around. life was so much simpler back then... back in the day haha!
OK, back to the present playlist!

i love "Short Term Memory Loss" by ASTRONAUTALIS. happens to me all the time! i also threw in some WOLF PARADE for good measure. this wouldn't be a man mix/fix without some WHITE DENIM testosterone from Texas. i still wanted to add a feminine touch with a cover of Radiohead by San Diego's CALICO HORSE. to calm down after "Idiotheque" live, i wrap it up with Miami's amazing CAT POWER. Chan might be a woman, but she most definitely has balls for covering THE HIGHWAY MEN... check them out:


just in case you missed it, go to bottom of THIS POST to find a cool Holy Fuck remix of Radiohead.