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


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