Everyday is Like Sunday, Except for Blue Monday and Ruby Tuesday, and...Well, Friday I'm in Love: Year-End Round-Up Part 3

by Condemned to Rock N Roll on Sun, 2008/12/28 - 4:25pm Post to Twitter

As the year winds down (or up, depending on half-full or half-empty glasses and whatnot), so does this blog. The Top Albums of 2008 countdown is over, and with this final installment, my weekly mix year-end round-up is now finished. This collection of mixes features themes on solo artists, travel, Scandinavia, autumn, 4AD, more synthpop, literature, more dance, more cover versions, Halloween, guilty pleasures, winter, celebrities, songs of 2008, and Christmas. Enjoy, and I hope I can fill 2009 with more quality mixes. It’s not quite over yet because Tuesday will feature one last mix of the year for New Year’s Eve. I think I shall than take a little break - it’s been a busy holiday season here at Condemned to Rock ‘n Roll.

See You Next Tuesday - Mikrofisch

Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones


Weekly Mix #31 – One Wo/Man Show Download

1. Kingdom (Booka Shade Remix) – Dave Gahan
2. White Wedding Parts I and II – Billy Idol
3. Psychic Cat – Kelli Ali
4. Sinking Feeling – Roisin Murphy
5. Streets of New York – Cerys Matthews
6. Dead Finks Don’t Talk – Brian Eno
7. Cuts You Up – Peter Murphy
8. The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get – Morrissey
9. Morning is Broken – Lloyd Cole
10. Fighting in the City Tonight – Luke Haines
11. A Girl Like You – Edwyn Collins
12. Hotel Room – Richard Hawley
13. It’s Oh So Quiet – Bjork
14. If You Gotta Go, Go Now – Jim Reid
15. The List – Lian Ray
16. Don’t Look Back – James Dean Bradfield
17. People Move On – Bernard Butler
18. Ambell Waith – Gruff Rhys
19. Circus Time – Euros Childs
20. We Can Be Anyone – Brett Anderson
21. One Man Show – Jarvis Cocker

Weekly Mix #32 – Wanderlust Download

1. Miami – The Tough Alliance
2. Tokyo Rose – Idles Eyes
3. The Secret Life of Arabia – David Bowie
4. Australia – The Associates
5. Europe – Killing Joke
6. India – The Psychedelic Furs
7. Every Day I Saw You in Egypt – Boo and Boo Too
8. Moscow Olympics – Orange Juice
9. New York, New York – Ryan Adams
10. Philadelphia – Magazine
11. Japan – Abwaerts
12. Berlin – Cupcake
13. NYC – Snow Patrol
14. Barcelone – Peppermoon
15. Paraguay – Kicker
16. Of Montreal – The Stills
17. Stockholm Syndrome – Yo La Tengo
18. Hymn to London – Bishi
19. Amsterdam – Peter, Bjorn and John
20. Berlin – Lou Reed
21. Teignmouth – Patrick Wolf
22. Vienna – Ultravox
23. Cardiff Afterlife – Manic Street Preachers
24. Milano – Sigur Ros

Weekly Mix #33 – No Death Metal Download

1. You Take My Breath Away - The Knife
2. Candy - Alice in Videoland
3. Sad Eyed Disco Dancers - Viola
4. No Control - Don Juan Dracula
5. Pressurized Chamber - Zeigeist
6. Touch Me - Lorraine
7. Living a Boy’s Adventure Tale - a-ha
8. 1981 - The Tough Alliance
9. Collapsing at Your Doorstep - Air France
10. Pulling Our Weight - The Radio Dept.
11. Slow Collision - The Deer Tracks
12. Am I Wry? No - Mew
13. Here Comes Mary - The Raveonettes
14. Lovefool - The Cardigans
15. Indigo - Twig
16. There’s a Sun - Windermere
17. (Here’s One For You) Underdog - Bedroom Eyes
18. The Chills - Peter, Bjorn and John
19. Jag hatar män - Elenette
20. The White Mantled King - Cats on Fire
21. When Prefab Sprout Wrecked My Mind - Blind Terry
22. Baby I Love Your Way - Irene
23. 1983 (Pelle and Sebastian) - Pelle Carlberg
24. Void - The Mary Onettes
25. A Very Sad Song - The Sound of Arrows
26. People - El Perro Del Mar
27. Track You Down - Sondre Lerche
28. The Girl With the Northern Soul Collection - Club 8

Weekly Mix #34 – Thou Hast Thy Music Too Download

1. Harvest Home - Big Country
2. Applebush - Josef K
3. Autumn - Bombay Bicycle Club
4. Brothers & Sisters – Duels
5. Autumnsong - Manic Street Preachers
6. No Winter, No Autumn - Moscow Olympics
7. Autumn Almanac - The Kinks
8. Trumpets and Violins - Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
9. September Lady – Felt
10. Bedroom Scene - The Delays
11. Unshakable - Autumn’s Grey Solace
12. Vanilla Scent - Six Red Carpets
13. Summer Gave Us Sweets But Autumn Wrought Division - The Strange Death of Liberal England
14. In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction – Idlewild
15. Autumn is Your Last Chance (Acoustic) - Robyn Hitchcock
16. We Coughed Up Honey - Bodies of Water
17. Ghosting - Mother Mother
18. The Blower’s Daughter - Damien Rice
19. Autumn - Kingfishers Catch Fire
20. Augustine - Patrick Wolf

Weekly Mix #35 – Forward March Download

1. Go! - Tones on Tail
2. Small Bones, Small Bodies - Future of the Left
3. Babymaker - Pale Saints
4. Working Day - It Hugs Back
5. The Plague - The Mountain Goats
6. Muesli - Minotaur Shock
7. Neon Beanbag – Stereolab
8. Nantes – Beirut
9. En Particulier - Blonde Redhead
10. Crushed - Cocteau Twins
11. Hours - TV on the Radio
12. Noam Chomsky Spring Break 2002 - Department of Eagles
13. Nick the Stripper - The Birthday Party
14. Controversial Subject - The The
15. Black Houses - Modern English
16. Nachtschatten - Xmal Deutschland
17. Crowds – Bauhaus
18. Ruddy and Wretched - This Mortal Coil
19. Ecstasy - The Wolfgang Press
20. Fond Affections - Rema Rema
21. Where is My Mind – Pixies
22. Wax and Wane - Cocteau Twins
23. How Ghosts Affect Relationships - His Name is Alive
24. The Song of the Sibyl - Dead Can Dance

Weekly Mix #36 – A Way To Keep My Troubles Distant Download

1. Planet Earth (Night Version) - Duran Duran
2. In Camera Obscura (12" Dance Mix) - Figures on a Beach
3. Kelly (Album Version) - Van She
4. Lights & Music - Cut Copy
5. The Promise (O.N. Mix) - When in Rome
6. West End Girls (Dance Mix) - Pet Shop Boys
7. Nothing Comes to Mind - Cause & Effect
8. You Spin Me Round (Murder Mix) - Dead or Alive
9. Get Seduced - The Faint
10. I Wish - Real Life
11. The Promise – Visage
12. Dancing With Tears in My Eyes – Ultravox
13. In the House - Images in Vogue
14. Breaking the Boundary - Fiat Lux
15. Don’t You Want Me (Extended Mix) - The Human League
16. Radio Heart - Radio Heart featuring Gary Numan
17. Sweet Dreams – Eurythmics
18. Listening - Pseudo Echo
19. Billy’s Fever - Bazooka Joe
20. Feel the Silence - Elegant Machinery
21. Courtship Dating - Crystal Castles
22. Blue Years - Little Nemo
23. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell

24. Bonus Track:
Inner City Pressure - Flight of the Conchords

Weekly Mix #37 – Sight Reading Download

1. Gravity’s Rainbow - Klaxons (Reference: Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow)
2. Wild Boys - Duran Duran (Reference: William S. Burroughs’ The Wild Boys)
3. Love and Destroy - Franz Ferdinand (Reference: Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita)
4. 1984 - David Bowie (Reference: George Orwell’s 1984)
5. Song For Clay (Disappear Here) - Bloc Party (Reference: Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero)
6. Tristan - Patrick Wolf (Reference: The Tristan Legend Cycle)
7. Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division (Reference: JG Ballard’s Atrocity Exhibition)
8. Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground (Reference: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs)
9. Killing an Arab - The Cure (Reference: Albert Camus’s The Stranger)
10. Albert Camus - Titus Andronicus
11. Day of the Triffids - Ash (Reference: John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids)
12. Lolita - Elefant (Reference: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita)
13. My Iron Lung - Radiohead (Reference: Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49)
14. R.P. McMurphy - Manic Street Preachers (Reference: Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
15. Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (Reference: Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays)
16. Something Wicked - British Sea Power (Reference: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth)
17. Cemetry Gates - The Smiths
18. Macbeth - John Cale (Reference: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth)
19. A Picture of Dorian Gray - Television Personalities (Reference: Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray)
20. Golden Hair - Syd Barrett (Reference: James Joyce’s "Poem V")
21. Billy Liar - The Decemberists (Reference: Keith Waterhouse’s Billy Liar)
22. Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush (Reference: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights)
23. November Rain - Guns ‘n Roses (Reference: Del James’s "Without You")
24. A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety - Elvis Costello (Reference: William Butler Yeats’s "A Drunken Man’s Praise of Sobriety"
25. Sylvia Plath - Ryan Adams

Weekly Mix #38 – Versus Download

1. Send Him Back (Pilooski Edit) - The Pointer Sisters
2. Sexy Kiss Machine - 2 Many DJs
3. Electric Feel – MGMT
4. Great Time - Paul St. Paul and the Apostles
5. Aerodynamic - Daft Punk
6. Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly - Placebo vs. Pet Shop Boys vs. Kate Bush
7. Digital Versicolor - Glass Candy
8. White Knight Two – Surkin
9. Steamulation - Justice vs. Gambit
10. Harshy Tasty Beats - Coin-Operated Boy
11. Something New vs. I Feel Space - The Black Ghosts vs. Lindstrom
12. Down In It (Shred) - Nine Inch Nails
13. Bizarre Love Triangle (Extended Dance Mix) - New Order
14. I Want Your Love – Chromatics
15. Don’t Go (12" version) – Yazoo
16. Back of the Van – Ladyhawke
17. Charlotte - Booka Shade
18. Roar - Hercules & Love Affair
19. Sunrise – Yeasayer
20. Bloodsport - Sneaker Pimps

Weekly Mix #39 – Old Habits (And Artists) Die Hard Download

1. When Doves Cry - The Amplid (Original: Prince)
2. I’m So Excited - Le Tigre (Original: The Pointer Sisters)
3. Suffragette City - Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Original: David Bowie)
4. Fame - Duran Duran (Original: David Bowie)
5. Heroes - Nico (Original: David Bowie)
6. Stand and Deliver - The Young Knives (Original: Adam and the Ants)
7. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - Supergrass (Original: The Smiths)
8. Telegram Sam - Bauhaus (Original: T.Rex)
9. Dropout Boogie - The Kills (Original: Captain Beefheart)
10. Sound and Vision - The Sea and Cake (Original: David Bowie)
11. The Lovecats - OK Go (Original: The Cure)
12. Be My Baby - We Are Scientists (Original: The Ronettes)
13. Just - Nickel Creek (Original: Radiohead)
14. It’s a Sin - JJ72 (Original: Pet Shop Boys)
15. Windmills of Your Mind - Colourfield (Original: Noel Harrison on The Thomas Crown Affair film score)
16. When You Sleep - The Antlers (Original: My Bloody Valentine)
17. Teenage Lust - Oliver North Choir (Original: The Jesus and Mary Chain)
18. My Girl - The Jesus and Mary Chain (Original: The Temptations)
19. Bizarre Love Triangle - Charlotte Martin (Original: New Order)
20. Blue Monday - The Cloud Room (Original: New Order)
21. Sweet Dreams - Bat For Lashes (Original: Eurythmics)
22. Run to Your Grave - Slow Club (Original: Mae Shi)

Weekly Mix #40 – Anglopunk’s Bloody Good Halloween Mix Download

1. This is Halloween - Danny Elfman
2. Ramalama (Bang Bang) - Roisin Murphy
3. Monster Mash - Bobby Pickett and the Crypt Kickers
4. Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
5. Clap For the Wolfman - The Guess Who
6. Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
7. The Time Warp - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
8. Halloween - Siouxsie and the Banshees
9. Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Bauhaus
10. Release the Bats - The Birthday Party
11. I Put a Spell On You - Arthur Brown
12. Halloween - Sonic Youth
13. Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
14. I Was a Teenage Werewolf - The Cramps
15. Transylvanian Concubine - Rasputina
16. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - David Bowie
17. Date With a Vampyre - The Screaming Tribesmen
18. Do the Hippogriff - The Weird Sisters
19. Vampire Racecourse - The Sleepy Jackson
20. Waiting For the Wolves - Daisy Chainsaw
21. Faces & Masks - The Cherubs
22. Vampire Love – Ash
23. Frankenstein - New York Dolls
24. Tales From the Crypt Theme
25. Nanageddon - The Mighty Boosh
26. Magic Dance - David Bowie
27. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
28. My Vampire - Soho Dolls
29. Vampire - Paul St. Paul and the Apostles
30. For Halloween - No Kids
31. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
32. Ghosts – Comateens
33. Thriller - Michael Jackson
34. Every Day is Halloween – Ministry
35. The Addams Family Theme
36. All Cats Are Grey - The Cure
37. Skeletons - The Sound
38. Lycanthropy - Patrick Wolf
39. Please Mr. Gravedigger - David Bowie
40. Graveyard - Public Image Ltd.
41. Theme For a Witch - David R. Prangely and The Witches
42. Waking the Witch - Kate Bush
43. Bat’s Mouth - Bat For Lashes
44. Hip Deep Family - The Tiger Lillies
45. If I Only Were a Goth - Thoushaltnot

Weekly Mix #41 – A Very Happy Unbirthday To Me Download

1. Can You Dig It? - The Mock Turtles
2. Sugar Sugar - The Archies
3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Deep Blue Something
4. Local Boy in the Photograph – Stereophonics
5. Manic Monday - The Bangles
6. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
7. Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
8. I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick
9. Footloose - Kenny Loggins
10. Faith - George Michael
11. I Want You - Savage Garden
12. Spiralling – Keane
13. Creeps Me Out - Ima Robot
14. American Psycho - Treble Charger
15. Jump - Van Halen
16. Power of Love - Huey Lewis & the News
17. Tarzan Boy – Baltimora
18. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls
19. (I Just) Died in Your Arms - Cutting Crew
20. Never Tear Us Apart – INXS
21. Black Black Heart - David Usher
22. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

Weekly Mix #42 – Big Black Scissor Bite Download

1. Tundra Rap - The Mighty Boosh
2. What the Snowman Learned About Love – Stars
3. Out There On the Ice - Cut Copy
4. Winter’s Memory of Summer - The Delays
5. Iceblink Luck - Cocteau Twins
6. L’heure d’hiver - Little Nemo
7. Snow Showers - Trembling Blue Stars
8. Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire
9. January’s Little Joke - Trashcan Sinatras
10. Snowflake – Mew
11. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
12. The Throat of Winter - T.Rex
13. The Fox in the Snow - Belle & Sebastian
14. Song For the Winter Sun - The Loom
15. Wait For the Wintertime – Yeasayer
16. Winter’s Coming – Temposhark
17. Winterlovers - Manic Street Preachers
18. Under Ice - Kate Bush
19. Coma - Bella Koshka
20. Other Cars Go - It Hugs Back
21. Winter - The Sound
22. In the Cold I’m Standing - M83
23. Glosoli - Sigur Ros

Weekly Mix #43 – Andy Warhol Grossly Underestimated Download

1. Buddy Holly – Weezer
2. Paul Simon - The Russian Futurists
3. Bowie Eyes - The Very Sexuals
4. Prince Harry - Soho Dolls
5. Down With Prince - Hot Chip
6. Michael Douglas - Neon Neon
7. Richard Nixon Died Today – Negativland
8. Johnny Cash - Sons & Daughters
9. Elvis - These New Puritans
10. Man Ray - The Futureheads
11. When Tom Cruise Cries - The Rakes
12. Lighten Up, Morrissey – Sparks
13. Kevin Carter - Manic Street Preachers
14. Andrew Ridgeley - Black Box Recorder
15. Molly Ringwald - Strawberry Story
16. William, It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths
17. Where’s Bill Grundy Now? - Television Personalities
18. Whatever Happened to Corey Haim? - The Thrills
19. Andy Warhol - David Bowie
20. Levi Stubbs’ Tears - Billy Bragg
21. Clint Eastwood – Gorillaz
22. Dietrich/Fondyke (A Brief History of Movie Music) – Jobriath
23. Houdini - Kate Bush
24. 2HB - Roxy Music

Weekly Mix #44 – Mini Quiche Download

1. Girls & Boys - The Subways
2. Up All Night - The Young Knives
3. The Beginning of the Twist - The Futureheads
4. Diamond Hoo Ha Man – Supergrass
5. Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
6. Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
7. Being Here - The Stills
8. Paris - Friendly Fires
9. Kids – MGMT
10. Paris is Burning – Ladyhawke
11. You Cross My Path - The Charlatans
12. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
13. Olive Eyes – frYars
14. Little Bit - Lykke Li
15. Caravan Girl – Goldfrapp
16. Rockist Part 4 - School of Language
17. An Eluardian Instance - Of Montreal
18. Galaxy of the Lost - Lightspeed Champion
19. Chemtrails – Beck
20. Shiller – Ratatat
21. Death Take Your Fiddle – Spiritualized
22. Magic Doors - Portishead

Weekly Mix #45 – Better Than Fruitcake Download

1. Christmas Number One - The Black Arts
2. Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) - The Ramones
3. Father Christmas - The Kinks
4. We Three Kings - Reverend Horton Heat
5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Bright Eyes
6. Little Drummer Boy - The Dandy Warhols
7. Christmas Reindeer - The Knife
8. Can You Hear What I Hear? - Bodies of Water
9. Frosty the Snowman - Cocteau Twins
10. Christmas Fire - The Deer Tracks
11. She Came Home For Christmas – Mew
12. Put the Lights on the Tree - Sufjan Stevens
13. Child’s Christmas in Wales - John Cale
14. Fairytale of New York – Stars
15. The Christmas Song - The Raveonettes
16. Christmas is Cancelled - The Long Blondes
17. A Christmas Duel - The Hives and Cyndi Lauper
18. White Christmas - The Pipettes
19. Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes
20. Baby, It’s Cold Outside - Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews
21. It’s Christmas Time - Yo La Tengo
22. Carol of the Bells - The Polyphonic Spree
23. December Will Be Magic Again - Kate Bush
24. Winter Wonderland – Goldfrapp
25. Christmas and Train Trips and Things - Trembling Blue Stars
26. It’s Xmas So We’ll Stop - Frightened Rabbit
27. Merry Christmas (I Love You) - Hawksley Workman
28. Listening to Otis Redding At Home During Christmas - Okkervil River
29. Last Christmas - Manic Street Preachers
30. Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby and David Bowie
31. Christmas Song – Mogwai
32. Christmas on Earth – Momus
33. The Christmas Wish - Kermit the Frog

Weekly Mix #46 – Something Borrowed Download

1. My Sharona - Polysics (Original: The Knack)
2. Heart of Glass - The Associates (Original: Blondie)
3. Sharp Dressed Man - Dragonette (Original: ZZ Top)
4. I’m On Fire - Chromatics (Original: Bruce Springsteen)
5. It’s Oh So Quiet - No Age (Original: Bjork)
6. No Love Lost - LCD Soundsystem (Original: Joy Division)
7. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Magazine (Original: Sly & the Family Stone)
8. Call Me - The Dandy Warhols (Original: Blondie)
9. People Are Strange - Echo & the Bunnymen (Original: The Doors)
10. John, I’m Only Dancing - The Chameleons (Original: David Bowie)
11. Heaven - Voxtrot (Original: Talking Heads)
12. I Think We’re Alone Now - Lene Lovich (Original: Tommy James and the Shondells)
13. Wouldn’t It Be Good - Soulwax (Original: Nik Kershaw)
14. Third Uncle - Bauhaus (Original: Brian Eno)
15. Paint It Black - Marc Almond (Original: The Rolling Stones)
16. You Only Live Twice - Bjork (Original: Nancy Sinatra)
17. Faith - The Boy Least Likely To (Original: George Michael)
18. Think I’ll Run Away - Euros Childs (Original: The Turtles)
19. The One I Love - Sufjan Stevens (Original: REM)
20. Rocket Man - Kate Bush (Original: Elton John)
21. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - David Usher (Original: Manic Street Preachers)