Theme Mix Saturday: Frankenmix

A lot of favorites in here. “Body” is a new one, “Blood” one of my favorite Pearl Jam tunes, “Legs Away” and “Hands” have both been in my heavy rotation for some time now, so I guess the Frankenmix was inevitable. “Best Friend’s Arm”, of course, is from one of my all-time favorite albums. And, yeah, I like the Nirvana version of “Molly’s Lips” better than the original, so that’s the one that goes in the list.

The other great thing about building around random criteria is the discovery of songs that you had but hadn’t ever given just time to. GBV’s “Skin Parade” is definitely in this category, a song that starts out beautiful and wistful, lingering in an ashtray-laden greasy spoon atmosphere before kicking in to a driving rhythm in beautifully fuzzy high gear. Music to build monsters by.

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