Mixtape: Forsooth, Baby

This mix started out as probably my sixth or seventh stab at a Canterbury-style prog mixtape, but I decided to drop that limitation (there's only so many incontinent woodwinds the human ear can tolerate) and stretch it to include late-era psychedelic pop and the whole of European prog rock. The first hour has pop-sized obscurities with bite, and the second hour is something of a cooling-off session with longer bits of prog and experimental. It's reminiscent of Sincerely Yours, Sunbrite, which is still my most popular mixtape (I promise the sequel is coming). If I may be so blustery, Forsooth, Baby is one of the greatest mixtapes I've ever done. Like, in-the-time-capsule-next-to-the-fidget-spinner great. Have at it.

Tracklist:

Granny Gets the Point

The Nice - Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack

Patto - Hold Me Back

Slapp Happy - The Drum

Woody Kern - Xoanan Bay

Quatrain - Fields of Love

That Girl's Certainly Learned to Dig Advanced Mathematics

The Paupers - Think I Care

Jody Grind - Little Message

The Gods - Lovely Anita

Clouds - Watercolour Days

Wild Silk - Toymaker

Bob the Prospect Has Taken the Van

Kevin Ayers - Song From the Bottom of a Well

The Racket Squad - The Loser

Tucker Zimmerman - A Face That Hasn't Sold Out

Gash - A Young Man's Gash (Part II)

The Old Bags

Greenslade - Bedside Manners Are Extra

Supersister - She Was Naked

Yggdrasil - I'm Getting Old

Art Bears - The Song of Investment Capital Overseas

Caravan - Aristocracy

Rare Bird - Sympathy

Peter Hammill - The Institute of Mental Health, Burning

Soft Heap - Short Hand

Area - Hommage á Violette Noziéres

Faust - Jennifer

The Savage Rose - Tarantula

Robert Wyatt - At Last I Am Free