So I was listening to Two Cow Garage quite a bit this week and got the line “Waking up to cassette tapes and ashtrays all filled up from the night before; smoke filled lungs and tapes full of songs with a stranger laying on the floor” stuck quite nicely in my head. So this week’s Top 5 is: What are your top 5 mix tape openers. I know mine change from day to day and today I was limited by the selection at work but I quite proud of these picks anyway. Here’s mine, now what are yours?
AUTOPSY IV’S ANSWERS: If I’ve ever made you a mix tape then odds are one of these 5 songs will open it up and a few more will show up on it:
The Murder City Devils – 18 Wheels
Clutch – Cypress Grove
Scott H. Biram – Blood, Sweat & Murder
The Drive-By Truckers – Zip City
The Drive-By Truckers – Where The Devil Don’t Stay
Ryan Bingham – South Side of Heaven
Ive had others, but this one wins by far.
John Frusciante – Going Inside
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – All Around You (Intro)
[both lame choices since they’re opening songs anyway, but so what]
Josh Ritter – Me & Jiggs
Allen Ginsberg – Vomit Express
John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom
California- Will Quinlan and the Diviners
Shot Shot- Gomez
Catch A Collapsing Star-The Mendoza Line
Charred Resentment just the Same- South San Gabriel
Windfall- Son Volt
1. Gov’t Mule – Blind Man in the Dark
2. Albert King – I’ll Play the Blues for You
3. Lucero – Sing me no Hymns
4. Drive-by Truckers – Never Gonna Change
5. Cross Canadian Ragweed – Dimebag
6. James McMurtry – Choctaw Bingo
Ryan Bingham, “Southside of Heaven”
DBT, “Where the Devil Don’t Stay”
Two good ones already mentioned.
Glossary, “Save Your Money For The Weekend”
Sonic Youth, “100%” or “Teen Age Riot” or “Sugar Kane”
Wilco, “Heavy Metal Drummer”
X, “Fourth of July” or “White Girl”
Son Volt, “Dynamite”
Uncle Tupelo- Factory Belt
The Cult- Love Removal Machine
Split Lip Rayfield- Should Have Seen it Coming
Old 97’s- Doreen
Whiskeytown- Too Drunk to Dream
Choctaw Bingo is a soild call!
Okay well, shit, okay, ughh, alright here ya go:
Johhny Cash-Sam Hall
R.L. Burnside-Snake Drive
T-Model Ford-Chicken Head Man
Hank Williams-Move It On Over
Ten Foot Polecats-Bar Hoppin
Twerp – I can lick any son of a bitch in the house