Mixtape Monday

After a two-week hiatus, here’s the new Mixtape For Hookers. I already wrote a description of this once, and then the power went out because it’s all windy out. and the post didn’t save because I hadn’t given it a title yet. Let’s hope that’s not a sign of annoyances to come.

This mix has a few things of note: one is that it’s sort of deliriously happy, which is mostly in response to the fact that a) there’s a frigging monsoon going on outside, and b) I have to work in a little while because my employer doesn’t consider Presidents’ Day a holiday. Also, some of the songs refer to things I haven’t had a chance to write about yet, like seeing Calvin Johnson for the first time on Saturday or buying The Best of Stevie B at the Funk-O-Mart in Philadelphia last weekend, or going to the Sex Workers’ Art Show last night, where some lovely person before the show started played both the Toni Basil and Machine songs on today’s mix. I really didn’t think anybody knew There But For The Grace of God, and anybody I’ve ever played it for has poo-pooed it. But, I’m sorry, I just get a little bit teary-eyed when the family leaves New York to get their daughter away from the blacks or the Jews and the gays, only to have her run back to the city and live on the streets, with the family realizing finally that “too much love is worse than none at all.” Also, that epic song breaks this site’s five-minute rule, so take note if you’re hooking while you’re listening.

As always, if you like the music, go out and buy it. In a real store, preferably, just like Erykah does:

1. Calvin Johnson And Mark Pickerel, Sand
2. The Delays, Bedroom Scene
3. Sweet, Teenage Rampage
4. Operator Please, Crash Tragic
5. Syreeta, Your Kiss Is Sweet
6. Toni Basil, I’m 28
7. Machine, There But For The Grace Of God
8. Stevie B, I Wanna Be The One
9. Supremes, Bits And Pieces
10. Rachel Stevens, Some Girls
11. Clinic, Cement Mixer
12. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Young Shields
13. France Gall, Das war eine schöne Party
14. These New Puritans, Elvis
15. Yoko Ono, Sisters, O Sisters
16. Rhea, Dont Let Go
17. Saint Etienne, Everything I Touch Turns To Gold