aaronpoehler.com mp3 podcast #1 - 26 songs, 95 minutes, pure awesome

April 20th, 2008 | Music

Here’s something I’ve planned on doing for quite awhile and finally got around to: doing a podcast for this site. I approached this like an old-school cassette mix tape, although not to the degree of dividing it into sides or anything. Nevertheless I ended up with about the same amount of music as would have fit on an old Maxell XL-II 100 minute tape, my old standby medium of choice back in the day. Go figure.

Anyway, I ended up with quite an eclectic mix spanning music of many genres produced over the last forty years. Enjoy, and I heartily encourage you to investigate further via the links below should anything in particular catch your ear and to support artists whose work you enjoy by purchasing their work.

Contained within aaronpoehler.com podcast #001:

1. My Dad Is Dead - Year of Loss (4:47) from Everyone Wants the Honey But Not the Sting
2. The Jesus And Mary Chain - All Things Must Pass (4:24) from Heroes - Original Television Soundtrack
3. Liam Lynch - This Town Sucks (3:01) from How To Be A Satellite
4. The Wedding Present - I’m From Further North Than You [Klee remix] (3:53) from Search For Paradise
5. Jim’s Big Ego - the Ballad of Barry Allen (4:11) from They’re Everywhere!
6. Luxuria - Animal in the Mirror (4:32) from Beast Box
7. The Soft Machine - Lullabye Letter (4:38) from The Soft Machine
8. Stew - Cavity (4:23) from Guest Host
9. William Shatner (featuring Aimee Mann and Ben Folds) - That’s Me Trying (3:44) from Has Been
10. Warren Zevon - The French Inhaler (3:41) from Warren Zevon
11. Negativland - Sycamore (2:27) from Escape From Noise
12. James McMurtry - Peter Pan (6:25) from It Had To Happen
13. Joseph Arthur - You Are Free (4:13) from Nuclear Daydream
14. Mummydogs - Dark Green Car (2:54) from Mummydogs
15. Outrageous Cherry - Only The Easy Way Down (2:42) from Out There In The Dark
16. The Concretes - You Can’t Hurry Love (1:57) from The Concretes
17. The Sweet - Teenage Rampage (3:31) from Greatest Hits
18. The Wildhearts - My Baby Is A Headache (4:24) from The Best of the Wildhearts
19. Scrawl - The Garden Path (3:10) from Travel On, Rider
20. Therapy? - Knives (1:55) from Troublegum
21. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues (4:18) from Grinderman
22. Cows - Ch (3:13) from Sexy Pee Story
23. Sleepers - No Time (3:08) from The Less An Object
24. The Dragons - Sleep When I’m Dead (2:31) from R*L*F
25. The Styrenes - He Was A Loser (3:42) from We Care, So You You Don’t Have To
26. Thin White Rope - The Fish Song (3:51) from The Ruby Sea

Technical notes: the whole thing was assembled in Cool Edit 2, and I used both Cool Edit 2 and Audiograbber to normalize the songs’ volume, boosting the older tracks and toning down the overzealous mastering of the newer tracks, edit out blank space in lead-ins and lead-outs, and fade the Soft Machine cut in/out (Soft Machine I is sequenced as pretty much one solid piece of music). The resultant .wav file was then encoded to VBR mp3 using the LAME alt-preset-extreme encoding profile and proper ID3 tags with cover art and complete track listing in comments section were added using Tag & Rename.

Listen below or download via right-click/save-as on the Download link below. I don’t know what you one-button Mac freaks do to download files, but do whatever it is you do to download stuff without a second mouse button.