L.A. Burnout 1 & 2: a blog-made mixtape from the dear old warm Los Angeles

(source: Acquarium Drunkard)

Wanna feel the warm breeze of Los Angeles in the sixties and the seventies?

This spotiplaylist is made for you. It doesn't come from an old Rolling Stone article. Nor from a Pitchfork "best music" list. Neither from an archeological L.A.-oriented version of the Billboard top 40. This time I found it in a blog, called Acquarium Drunkard.

First volume has been published in 2009, second one few days ago. With MP3s included.

"L.A. Burnout is made up of the sounds floating around Los Angeles in the late ’60s and ’70s; a faded aural imprint of the canyons, beaches, wildfires, neighborhoods, late-nights and early mornings of a bygone L.A. Play this mix around dusk while driving through Topanga with the windows rolled down — it’s the next best thing to time travel."

I don't know where do you live. Since Spotify is an European pleasure, I guess few Spotirama readers can really synch the playlist, turn off the pc and drive through Topanga, while listening to it on their portable player. But maybe it's even better. Because all these voices (Neil Young, Byrds, Love, Joni Mitchell, Mamas and Papas...) are not only good in timetravelling. They sound rather skilled in spacetravelling, too. Enjoy! :o)

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THE PLAYLIST

(36 tracks out of 61, 59%, about 2 hours)

From L.A. Burnout:

Loudon Wainwright III - Hollywood Hopeful

Johnny Darrell - Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood

The Mamas & The Papas - Safe In My Garden

Standells - Riot On Sunset Strip

Jackie DeShannon :: Laurel Canyon

The Fun & Games - Topanga Canyon Road

John Mayall - Laurel Canyon Home

Spirit - Topanga Windows

Mama Cass Eliott - California Earthquake

The Birds - Precious Kate

Albert Hammond - It Never Rains In California

Jack Nitzsche - Lower California

Guy Clark - L.A. Freeway

Thomas Jefferson Kaye - L.A.

The Beau Brummels - Bless You California

Love - Maybe The People Would Be

Gene Clark - Los Angeles

The Byrds - Bad Night At The Whiskey

David Soul - Topanga

Neil Young - L.A.

The Mamas & The Papas - Twelve Thirty

Neil Young - Sweet Joni

Joni Mitchell - For The Roses

Jackie DeShannon - L.A.

Mickey Dolenz - Beverly Hills

Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City

Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

Gene Clark - From A Silver Phial

Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge

Neil Young - Revolution Blues

Warren Zevon - Desperadoes Under the Eaves

Phil Ochs - The World Began In Eden And Ended In Los Angeles [Live]

Flo & Eddie - Keep It Warm

Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters

John Phillips - Topanga Canyon

John Phillips - Malibu People

From L.A. Burnout 2:

Brian Wilson – Smog High

Shango – Day After Day

The Originals – California Sunset (I added the Neil Young version)

Brewer & Shipley – Dreamin’ In The Shade

The Mamas & The Papas – Mansions

Hill Barbata Ethridge – L.A. Getaway

Terry Melcher – Rebecca

Terry Allen – There Oughta Be A Law Against Sunn…

The Everly Brothers – Ventura Boulevard

Boffalongo – Snow White Lady

Charles Lloyd – TM

New Riders Of The Purple Sage – High Rollers

The Main Ingredient – California My Way

Ned Doheny – Postcards From Hollywood

Orange Colored Sky – L.A. (Los Angeles)

Boz Scaggs – Hollywood

Johan Blomgren – California Sundown

Tim Buckley – Freeway Blues

Don Everly – Southern California

Terry Melcher – Beverly Hills

Bobby Womack – Daylight

Art Garfunkel – 99 Miles from L.A.

Ambulance LTD – Arbuckle’s Swan Song

Leon Ware – Why I Came to California

Gabor Szabo – Theme From Valley of the Doll

Listen to it on Spotify: HTTP Link, URI. (SR0206)