3. (For Ian Backer) Happy, But With A predilection For Grumpiness

01 - The Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays (Live)
02 - Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - If You Don't Want To Fuck me, fuck off
03 - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - The Past Sure Is Tense
04 - Dan Arborise - You'll All Get What's Coming To You
05 - David Alan Coe - Living On The Run
06 - Fairport Convention - Autopsy
07 - Florence & The Machine - My Boy Builds Coffins
08 - Freddie King - The Sky Is Crying
09 - Funkadelic - Brettino's Bounce
10 - Green On Red - Jimmy Boy
11 - Jackie Wilson - I'll Be Satisfied
12 - James Brown - Mama's Dead
13 - Jarvis Cocker - Fucking Song
14 - John Hammond - Your Funeral, My Trial
15 - John Lee Hooker - Goin' Mad Blues
16 - John Martyn - Amsterdam
17 - Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - I Wanna Be Loved
18 - Josiah Altschuler - Crow Jane
19 - Kevin Coyne - Dog Latin
20 - Lambchop - Mr Crabby
21 - Murray Head - Boy On The Bridge
22 - The Pogues - Streams Of Whiskey

This one goes out to the intrepid Antipodean explorer, Mr Ian Backer, aka Sledgbrainerd, etc, etc.
I thought he might appreciate a mix made whilst i was comparatively happy but which left lots of room for grumpiness and other less than great feelings to creep in. What can I tell you, to my disgrace I actually enjoy sad music, murder ballads, tetchy musical attacks, etc etc. I have a feeling Ian does too. A fair few of the selections here have appeared on mixes I have done on ZeRO in the last year or so. I know that site is mostly beyond ian's purview, so I happily include them here. Track 18 for instance turned up on a round table murder ballad collection, but it is so wonderful and unusual (how many such genre songs do you know of accompanied by plucked cello?) that I include it here. One song of note is 16, which is I think one of only two murder ballads John Martyn recorded, and certainly the only one he wrote. The James Brown track is one of those songs you would only play if you wanted to be miserable I think. After hearing this collection end to end just now, I felt pretty good so I guess I am just weird. In a very good and fine way, I think the recipient of this mix might be too. Enjoy it mate.

Next up: Retro Joe. (A clue, it might include 60s songs that were hits in the UK but not the USA)