Mixtape: The Art of Giving Up 2 (730 Days)

This is the sequel to The Art of Giving Up, my ninth most popular mixtape, created almost exactly one year ago. Like the first one, this is a nearly interminable collection of outsider audio: odd music, odd spoken word, odd home recordings -- basic oddness. Since my interest in such work was directly inspired by the people behind the internet-famous 365 Days Project, this second volume consists entirely of selections that were published on that site in its two non-consecutive years of active updating. WFMU currently hosts the archives.

A whole lot of this stuff is wildly inappropriate, contains some adult subject matter, and for some reason really wanders off into the weird-sex material. But also: religious conversions, commercials, movie and TV stars singing, child hypnosis, talking to plants, groupies, wayward wrestler press conferences, and dressing one's self. Moments of hilarity matched with moments of pure disturbance (like Eddie Furman -- ew). I'm not trying to scar you for life. Just the weekend will be fine.

Tracklist: 

Rege Cordic & Mr. Sargent - Sounds of Ground Breaking

Ford Motor Company - It's the Going Thing

The Gene Lowell Chorus - I'm Dressing Myself

Frugal Gourmets - Satan's Blood

Unnamed Hypnosis Record - Dreams

Chet Bolins - Rock 'n' Roll on the Radio

Michael Mills - Meatloaf

Leslie Harris & the House of Fire - Jogging for Jesus

Anna-Lisa Ingemansson - Oxdragarsång

Eddie Furman - Jobs I'd Like to Have

Georgina Dobson & Simon Cupboard - The Message

Jerry Colonna - You're My Everything

PSA - VD Song

Wolfman Jack - Free Shots

Tortura - Track 11

Cook Records - Not Programmed for Love

Katie Lee - Repressed Hostility Blues

Avon Natural Sheen - Man Talk

Jodie Foster - La Vie C'est Chouette

Happy Monsters - Clap Your Tentacles

Joe Beard - What Does a Bad Person Look Like

Johnny Legend - Che Guevara

Molly Roth - Plant Talk

Let My People Come - I'm Gay

Carlton Your Doorman (Lorenzo Music) - The Girl in 510

Yamaha Music Foundation - The Salad Song

Coyote McCloud & Clara Peller - Where's the Beef?

Peter Gault & Amy Rachelle - Cosmic Vagina

Medic Emetics - Menopause

Tony Randall - Doo-Wacka-Doo

Gloria Kirkpatrick - Miss Heroin

Ali & His Gang - Ali's Historical Theme Song

Burt Reynolds - Room for a Boy (Never Used)

This is OLDSmobility - I Need a Guy

Bourbon Family - Booze Booze

Brute Force - King of Fuh

Dean Michael, the Singing Hypnotist - All of Me

The Groupies - Excerpt

Robyn Archer - Dicks Don't Grow On Trees

Angora Space Dream - Semtex

Debbie Dawn - Hands

Jack Parr & Jack Haskell - I-M-4-U

Fred Blassie - Blassie, King of Men

The Dovells - Teen Tragedy Medley

Leona Anderson - Rats in My Room

Sammy Hall - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Hell (I Got Saved, Saved, Saved)

The Reverend Glen Armstrong - Even Squeaky Fromme Loves Christmas

Wild Man Fischer - Young at Heart

Unknown Artists - You're Just in Love

Sam Butera - Last Dance