Mixtape: Onlooker's Jubilee

Finally, to close out the calendar year on mixtapes, here's an hour of (mainly) '60s pop songs from Europe. It goes heavy on the Belgians, the Germans and the Slavs. It veers between schmaltz-pop and photocopied psych-pop with admirable dexterity. It also contains a song in English with a French title recorded by a Liberian band based in Germany. Because gene pools are for suckers. Have a great new year; let's see what kind of trouble we can get ourselves into in 2018.

Tracklist:

Marina Occhiena - Insegnami Ad Amar (Italy)

Didi & His ABC Boys - Das ist Musik (Germany)

Alice Dona - T'as pas t'as pas (France)

Joanna - Hold Up Inusité (Belgium)

The Lords - Have a Drink on Me (Germany)

The Snap Shots - Hip-Hip Hurray (Belgium)

Die Sweetles - Früher oder später (Germany)

Rupert's People - Dream on My Mind (Great Britain)

New Trolls - Cristalli Fragili (Italy)

Niebiesko-Czarni - Skończyły się wakacje (Poland)

Voula Georgouti - Do Not Leave (Greece)

The Soulful Dynamics - Mademoiselle Ninette (Liberia/Germany)

The Klan - Already Mine (Belgium)

Nöel Deschamps - Ah, Si J'Avais Pensé (France)

The Matadors - Hate Everything Except of Hatter (Czechoslovakia)

The Big Men - La Ragazza Preferita (Italy)

Graham Gouldman - The Late Mr. Late (Great Britain)

Joy & the Hit Kids - I Hold No Grudge (Germany)

Czerwono-Czarni - Sandwicz (Poland)

Sheephouse - Ladder (Great Britain)

Stellius - What I'd Like (France)

Václav Neckář - Tu Kytaru Jsem Koupil Kvůli Tobě (Czechoslovakia)

Les Sunlights - Les Majorettes (Belgium)

Monty Babson - Utopia (Belgium)