Album cover image by Mansee.
***** Update Summer 2011*****
The Summer Barbeque Mix Lives Again!
All the best music for your summer bbqs, parties and get-togethers is right here on Music for the Month!
Original post, July 2010
They say size isn’t everything… of course they’re right – but when you mix size with style, big with bold, quantity with quality you can create something quite special. This is, I think what we have achieved here.
Remember these are not my songs – these are your songs – chosen by my old friends on MFTM and my new friends on Amazon – these are your songs – to be enjoyed by you.
The mix contains 145 songs, lasts for 9.3 hours and is 778 mb – so yes we do have a bit of a monster on our hands. To overcome this we’ve split the downloads into 4 but I would hope that once you’ve downloaded you will put it back together again in a new play list all its glory (the tracks are numbered so should go back in order, but if you need a hand with this let us know)
The first section (tracks 1 – 50) is the classic tracks. Perfect to meet and greet your guests, get their toes tapping, great as background music when you’re burning your marinated chicken wings and your Great Uncle Eric spills his Brown Ale over your posh neighbour’s new dress. Next up is the Oogie Boogie Woogie section (tracks 51 – 93) which basically does what it says it will – make you dance. In fact if someone isn’t dancing I would check for a pulse.
Third section is the Take a Chill Pill section (tracks 94 – 126) where the music simply floats outta the speakers and sublimely caresses your ear lugs – you may need to sit down or be horizontal at this stage.
The conclusion to this monster, mega, superduper music mix is the mega classic section (tracks 127 – 145) where you may find your normally sane and boring neighbours and friends up on your tables and chairs singing their little hearts out pretending their auditioning for the X factor – the local constabulary may be called at this point.
We also have a competition for you, where you can win a copy of my Album of The Month (Jim Guthrie) and a £20 (Pounds Sterling) Amazon voucher. Thanks to my new friends Andy and Leon at 3syllables records for donating the CD and for organizing our exclusive interview. To win these great prizes you have to identify the 4 musical interludes contained in the mix (tracks 1, 51, 94 & 127 – the short tracks with no info) – I will award 1 point for song title, 1 point for artist and 1 point for album, making a maximum of 12 points, what do points make…? Prizes! Please email me privately with your answers (see the Contact link at the top there) and I will keep everyone updated here – also feel free to comment on the mix and the competition, what you like etc.
Hope this is all clear – any probs let me know… and of course enjoy the music, this mix is a bit special.
The Barbeque Mix 2010 has now expired but the latest mixes are now ready – go read all about them!
Hope you enjoyed the Mix – as usual keep me and the Sheriff happy, if you like a song buy the album.
Laughing Dog
I think I just died and went to heaven.
You’ve included dozens of my all time favourite tracks and loads of stuff I’ve not heard before but already know I’ll love and be playing repeatedly.
I plan to play the whole mix from start to finish from first thing Saturday morning with a great big pile of ironing. So me and my ironing board say a great big thank you!
Hi LZ – glad you like, have you got 9.3 hours worth of ironing to do then – blimey!
Once you’ve listened to it a few more times let me know which new songs you like the most?
wow – ur right its a monster!!!!!! Some oldies here that I really shouldn’t have on my ipod but if they sound good what the hell
If I had to list every track I liked I’d be here for hours with a severe case of carpel tunnel syndrome at the end!
The thing is, I have quite a few of these tracks (Elkie Brooks/Summer Wine, Tom Jones/Sex Bomb, Paul Weller, Style Council, Percy Sledge, Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Beatles, Steely Dan, Eva Cassidy…. (I’ll stop there!) but I rarely bother to dig them out for a listen. Putting them together in a mix like this is brilliant because it gets me wanting to listen to more of their music…
[3 minute interval, B52's Love Shack just came on and I can't type and dance at the same time]
…where was I? Oh yes, a mix like this gets me digging out old stuff and hitting Amazon for more of the new stuff. No surprise there then. New to me tracks? Well Siena Root’s track In the Desert has intrigued me, very atmospheric. If I close my eyes I’d swear I was on the back of a camel in the blazing heat searching for water. Leroy Hutson? Where has he been all my life? And am really loving the Ashton, Gardner and Dyke track Resurrection Shuffle. Oh and Spanky Wilson – excellent!
[just a minute, Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark has just started, back in a few minutes...]
Sorry, don’t have time to leave comments at the moment, the music mix is just too damn good.
p.s. I don’t actually have 9.3 hours worth of ironing yet but that can and will be arranged!
Hi all.
Just back from a couple of weeks away. On the flight out, I listened to June’s mini-mix and have to say that I really enjoyed it – some of the tunes on it were mind-blowingly beautiful. Don’t suppose there’s a play-list available is there, as I didn’t recognise alot of it?
Also – must comment on how good the BBQ mix is. Perfect stuff for drinking and shuffling in the sun. Shame I joined the site just that little too late to make a few suggestions…
Hope you’re well, one and all.
Hi Techy – hope you had a good one, where did you go in France?
Glad you like Junes Mini Mix and the BBQ mix – I thought you had contributed – never mind next time.
You must chat with LZ about putting your radio show on here – would be a great addition to the the site.
Just posting the info about Junes Mini Mix now – did you like the interludes?
Sorry that I haven’t had time to comment on the BBQ mix yet, please be assured that normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
Someone keep a few burgers and beers for me (unless Sinny has scoffed them all already).
I’m hiding a batch of burgers and Tesco’s Finest sausages at the back of the fridge for you Spacey but I think my dear brother has polished off the beer and the last bottle of wine so we’ll send one of the sprogs out to stock up when you get here
Hello peeps.
I’m so excited about listening to this!
It’s taking AGES to download…..I found this site in the most random way and I’m so pleased.
I love what you have to say and the comments everyone has been leaving so I’m now going to bookmark you so I can keep up to speed with all your latest.
There…done!
I’ll get back to you with my, most humble, opinion about the BBQ tunes.
Hopefully it will be ready to rock (no pun intended!) by tomorow for my little soiree in the garden.
Thanks again.
Tricia x
Hi Tricia and welcome to musicforthemonth.com
It will take a while to download as its a bit of a monster with 145 tracks and over 9 hours of music – hope you have plenty of marinated chicken wings and fally down pop. Would love to hear what you think about the music…and the other stuff on here.
Laughing Dog
Welcome Tricia. The recruits are coming through thick and fast. Marvellous. Talking of new recruits, Spacepiggy has made me snigger out loud several times…
LD – I did enjoy the interludes – very atmospheric. Ma Flid lives in South of France now (near Nice), so as her privileged son and heir, I am lucky enough to go out and visit a couple of times a year. Great weather, great food, great booze, great music and great books seem to be the standard procedure. Lying in a hammock, with a glass of wine, headphones on a book in my hand basically…. I’ll button it now, as I don’t want a reputation for being a smugnuts.
LZ – if you reead this, what’s the best way to get my recorded radioshows posted up here?
I’m hoping to do another show in the next week or so – I will of course keep y’all posted.
Hi smugnuts deeply jealous as what you describe is my perfect holiday too – what wine would you be drinking? A local red?
Please don’t encourage Mrs. SP to much – I feel that Spacey regards this place as his own musical garden shed – you know a place to escape – wouldn’t want to spoil that. Gotta admit she adds a wee bit of colour here though
Mmh, have you ever heard of the theory that the only reason why Sigmund Freud constantly talked about perversions was because he was a pervert himself? Do you have to escape your relationship or might there be another reason that you started this site?
FYI – Spacey doesn’t need a garden shed, he feels quite at home in my dungeon (:
naughty, naughty…
Mrs SP – you are naughty naughty – saw this and thought of you
Yay ! Devo ! And so starts the thin edge of the 80′s wedge. Try to detect it, it’s not too late …
Hi, LD! I know this song (why might that not surprise you), but thanks anyway! Yay! Whippy Spanky! Let us know if you need some much desired punishment, I bet Spacey would be grateful for a day off!!!
I’s not naughty, I’s just loopy…
Anyway, let’s get back on track. We’re supposed to be discussing Mr D’s mighty mega BBQ mix here, not revealing our innermost desires and fears.
Now, with what 145 tracks on there, there is no way I am going to comment on every one of them. Probably just as well as I can see me running out of adjectives before I get even half way through the list.
If I knew the track listing before I turned up at the barbie, then it would most definitely be my intention to arrive fashionably late….very late. If there’s one voice I don’t want to hear as I arrive at any get together, that has to be Bryan Adams. In fact, I think I’ll give the first 19 tracks a miss. Yes I know that Dr Feelgood are in there, but did you have to pick their most predictable and inane song?
So, after about an hour or so, my plan is to pop in and grab a few tinnies and a burger while Steely Dan is playing. I’m not hanging around too long though, maybe as far as Thin Lizzy. That gives me about 20 minutes before I have to clear out when probably Led Zeppelin’s worst ever song comes on. Looks like I’ll miss Bob Marley’s best but that can’t be helped. Maybe use the next half hour or so to go and raid your neighbour’s collection and try some of that wheat beer. But don’t worry, I will be back.
Now, if I time it right, I should make it back for Lee Scratch Perry. First came across him thanks to an old Uni lecturer and was mightily impressed. Some good enough sounds for a while now so I can use this time up constructively raiding the beer supply. Particularly impressed with the choice of The Waterboys and Alex Harvey. Probably stay around up until Humble Pie, even though that means sitting through Fine Young Cannibals. Still, that’s about an hour and I am sure that once you’ve had me in your garden for an undisturbed hour you’ll be considering showing me the gate anyway.
Which is just as well because then, for me anyway, your mix just falls to pieces. Don’t like disco (at all), or cheesy ’80′s songs (no matter how drunk I am). Don’t like the pseudo rock of Van Halen (with Michael Jackson ferchrissakes!!!). In fact, apart from one or two songs scattered here and there (The Knack, ZZ Top) there’s nothing to interest me until we reach the hundreds. Just hope you have a handy pub nearby. Or maybe I should just head into the desert and commune with the lizards.
So I’ll head back in time to catch Siena Root, somehow seems apt after spending the last few hours with nothing but camels and sand for company. I would like to say that I will then stay around till the end, but it probably won’t happen. Not if I have to sit through Quincy Jones, Eva Cassidy, The Style Council, oh oh, this could be another long list. But at least the dross does get broken up a bit with Supertramp, Cab Calloway, Manic Street preachers and Space Debris. But never in a million years (if I could still stand after drinking the beer supply dry) would I be there to hear Semisonic finishing things off. If you had to have something as predictable as Closing Time to finish off, why not pick a decent one? Either Tom Waits or Fairport Convention would have done nicely.
I know that this mix has been made up of suggestions from this website and from Amazon discussions. But I could never play even a quarter of the songs at any party I was hosting. Quite honestly I wouldn’t want to. So many of the songs on here (think Abba, Boney M and their ilk) are the reason why, when we are on holiday we don’t hang around to catch the hotel entertainment. Mindless drivel for brainless people.
I really can’t accept that normally sane people, with a respectable enough taste in music (not necessarily my own taste but that’s beside the point) would revert to suggesting some of the puerile crap that is on here and think that that is what constitutes a good night’s entertainment. The Bee Gees??, Hot Chocolate???, Kid Creole & his goddam Coconuts!!!!!! I get the feeling Mr D is having us on somehow.
So this becomes the first mix that Mr D has posted which gets deleted from my hard drive. Too many songs which will never get played, and all the good ones I have anyway. It’s just taking up valuable space which would be better put to use with good music on it.
Sorry to be so scathing Mr D, but the mix just didn’t do it for me. And I don’t know what any of the interludes are either!!
Go Spacy ! Let out your inner Ken
Whey hey Spaceys back – and boy I have missed him. Thought he’d been a wee bit quiet and nice lately – but this is one of his best
– great stuff.
Where do I start? I don’t really know…..I do know that I do love the majority of songs on here and was pleasantly surprised by the variety and quality of the music suggested by you here and from Amazon (where the majority came from).
It was always my intention to create a BBQ mix that would be enjoyed by all and would provide good music for an evening – this was of course an impossible task – but I’ve used it a few weeks ago at one of BBQ’s and it all sounded good.
And I know that the disco part is perfect to strut your funky stuff to as I’ve used these songs when I’ve DJ’d at parties here – not my 1st choice of songs either but “for the sake of art darling – one must do what one must do”.
Remember “variety is the life of spice”
Don’t worry URD, the inner Ken is well and truly out of the bag. I decided that things were just getting a bit too comfortable on here, nothing like a good bit of controversy to keep everyone on their toes. Now let’s get a search party out for Ken.
Important Announcement
The competition to win a 20 pound Amazon voucher and a copy of Jim Guthries new CD by guessing the musical interludes as ended and the winner is…………………no-one
Nobody entered!
Were they too hard? Don’t think so and I thought that someone would be able to guess one or two – never mind I hope you still enjoyed the music.
The answers are.
Track 1 – Intro by Newton Faulkner from Hand Built By Robots
Track 51 – Musical Interval by Scott Matthews from Passing Stranger
Track 94 – Intro Lectric Chile Goat by Tommy Guerrero from Soul Food Taqueria
Track 127 – Seagulls by PJ Harvey from Uh Huh Her
Does that mean that we have to do it all over again?
No
I’m having a BBQ next week and I’m trying to put a playlist together for a very mixed bunch of guests – several who will no doubt request that they put their own music on because it’s sooo much better. The idea is to try and keep everyone happy with music that we can all enjoy in the background at first, then more prominent as the night gets longer….. before easing it back down again when it gets very late/ early depending on your perspective…
In The Trees – Faze Action
Slack Hands (Aquasky Mix) – Galliano
Paris – Groove Armada
Morning Sun – Plump DJs
Son’s Gonna Rise – Citizen Cope
Stranger – Noah & The Whale
VCR – The XX
Candy – Paolo Nutini
Hot Knives At Lunchtime – The Aloof
The Sun Rising (Tom’s Drum N Bass Mix) – Beloved
Movin’ On Up – Primal Scream
Smile Like You Mean It – The Killers
Crawl – Kings Of Leon
The Joker – Steve Miller Band
Jessie – Mother Earth
Tourist – Athlete
Steal My Sunshine – LEN
Everyday People – Arrested Development
19-2000 (Soulchild remix) – Gorillaz
Summertime (Hybrid remix) – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Groove Is In The Heart – Deelite
Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
Fire – Kasabian
Brown Sugar – Rolling Stones
Jail Bird – Primal Scream
Gimme Some Lovin’ – Spencer Davies Group
Song 2 – Blur
Heavyweight Champion Of The World – Reverend & The Makers
Right Here Right Now – Fatboy Slim
Push It – Salt ‘n’ Pepa
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ – Michael Jackson
Love Rollercoaster – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Alright Now – Free
Kinky Affro – Happy Mondays
Love Spreads – Stone Roses
Two Princes – Spin Doctors
Semi-automatic – Boxer Rebellion
Lady Madonna – The Beatles
She’s A Rainbow – Rolling Stones
Ohh La – The Kooks
All These Things That I’ve Done – The Killers
Black & White Town – Doves
Two Tribes – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Rocks – Primal Scream
My Friends – Stereophonics
Cutt Off – Kasabian
Stylo – Gorillaz
Walk This Land – E-Z Rollers
Love Sweet Sound – Groove Armada
You Got The Love – Florence & The Machine
If I Found Out – Athlete
Let Your Love Flow – Bellamy Brothers
Australia – Manic Street Preachers
Heart-shaped Box – Nirvana
Get What You Give – New Radicals
Billy Jean – Michael Jackson
Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Nalin & Kane remix) – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
I Am The Resurrection (full length) – Stone Roses
Never Believe – Dillinger
Check It Out – Beastie Boys
Rabbit Heart – Florence & The Machine
Walk Like A Panther – The All Seeing I
Ruby – Kaiser Chiefs
Get Back – Beatles
Something In The Air – Thunderclap Newman
Naïve – The Kooks
God’s Cop – Happy Mondays
Loaded – Primal Scream
Obsessive Fan – Les Double Six
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Crystallised – The XX
Paris – Groove Armada
Tape Loop – Morcheeba
Underground Crown Holders – Aim
Clint Eastwood (original mix) – Gorillaz
Everything In Its Right Place – Radiohead
Sweet Harmony – The Beloved
The Heart’s A Lonely Hunter – Thievery Corporation(feat David Byrne)
Only Love Can Break Your Heart – St Etienne
Waterfall – Stone Roses
California Soul – Marlena Shaw
Butcher Blues – Kasabian
Chicago – Groove Armada
Melancholy Hill – Gorillaz
My Broken Heart – Noah & The Whale
In My Life – The Beatles
Trouble Man – Marvin Gaye
The Pusher – Steppenwolf
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Firesuite – Doves
Suntoucher – Groove Armada
Aint Got Time To Waste – Aim
Come Together- Primal Scream
Jumbo – Underworld
Disco 2000 – Pulp
Golden Brown – The Stranglers
Once In A Life Time – Talking Heads
Alive & Kicking – Simple Minds
Down Under – Men At Work
Make Me Smile – Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Hey Jude – The Beatles
Techy – fantastic play list if any of your friends do moan then check their deaf aid for batteries.
Few highlights for me are:
Semi-automatic – Boxer Rebellion
Firesuite – Doves
Love Spreads – Stone Roses
Two Princes – Spin Doctors (didn’t you play this the other week?)
Son’s Gonna Rise – Citizen Cope (our old friend Sinny introduced this guy to us on MFTM before he left)
Great music – hope you have a night to remember, any chance of posting this mix here please, pretty please with sugar on.
Hi LD – sure can, or most of it anyway (as a few of the tracks will already be on the radio-show).
I’ll get the radioshow up here first, before interest fizzles out, them maybe put up an abbreviated BBQ mix up here afterwards – sound like a deal?
Something for everyone there Tech’y & “Everything In It’s Right Place”.
And it’s back! The 2010 BBQ mix is back for 2011:
http://musicforthemonth.com/2011/07/10/bbq-mix-2011/