Song Of The Day: John Mayer ‘Go Easy On Me.’ Still pretty pissed off about the whole mixtape, Mediafire, bullshit, but I will continue to keep posting tunes on a regular basis. Here’s an unreleased tune from John Mayer.
Mix #177
1) ‘Call It What You Want’ Foster The People
2) ‘Slow Train’ Joe Bonamassa
3) ‘High Low Middle’ My Brightest Diamond
4) ‘Across The Sea’ Weezer
5) ‘Cuz You’re Gone’ Goo Goo Dolls
6) ‘Match Box’ The Kooks
7) ‘America’ Ben Taylor
8) ‘The Celestials’ The Smashing Pumpkins
9) ‘Strange World’ Parachute
10) ‘Should You Return’ Copeland
11) ‘Imprefect Tense’ Frank Turner
12) ‘Doves’ The Black Angels
13) ‘Speak For Me’ John Mayer
14) ‘Going Nowhere’ Oasis
15) ‘Infinite Arms’ Band Of Horses
Mix #162
1) ‘Warbrain’ Alkaline Trio
2) ‘Change (Alternate Version)’ Blind Melon
3) ‘Spanaway’ The Movielife
4) ‘Memo’ Signals Midwest
5) ‘All Night Laundry Mat Blues’ Joe Walsh
6) ‘Welcome Home (Sanitarium)’ Metallica
7) ‘Beth/Rest (iTunes Sessions)’ Bon Iver
8) ‘You’re Not Alone’ Homegrown
9) ‘The Long Run’ The Eagles
10) ‘After Hours’ We Are Scientists
11) ‘Little Lion Man (Live)’ Mumford & Sons
12) ‘Blast Off’ Descendents
13) ‘Slow Dancing In A Burning Room (Acoustic)’ John Mayer*
* as requested (thanks Jackie)
Mix #157
1) ‘Heropsychodreamer’ Live
2) ‘Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967’ John Mayer
3) ‘40 Oz’s To Freedom’ Sublime
4) ‘Black Cow’ Steely Dan
5) ‘Fragile Bird’ City & Colour
6) ‘Rope’ Foo Fighters
7) ‘Leave My Woman Alone’ Ray Charles
8) ‘Not For You’ Pearl Jam
9) ‘Jamaica Next’ The Movielife
10) ‘For The Workforce, Drowning’ Thursday
11) ‘On The Lie’ Goo Goo Dolls
12) ‘Run To You’ Bryan Adams
Mix #142
1) ‘That’s The Way Love Goes’
Janet Jackson
2) ‘Polish The Broken Glass’
Matt Pryor
3) ‘Reset’
Outkast, Khujo Goodie, & Cee Lo Green
4) ‘Born and Raised’
John Mayer with David Crosby & Graham Nash
5) ‘Close To You’
Maxi Priest
6) ‘The Space Between’
Valencia
7) ‘Why Are We So’
Lux
8) ‘Where’s Popeye?’
Vida Blue
9) ‘Nick Northern’
Snuff
10) ‘Sugar Magnolia’
The Grateful Dead
11) ‘When The Levee Breaks’
Led Zeppelin
Song Of The Day: John Mayer ‘Born and Raised.’ Mayer’s new album (‘Born and Raised’) in my opinion, isn’t his strongest effort. In fact, when he underwent surgery on his vocal chords, the doctors may have disposed of some of his songwriting skills. The highlights of the album are too few to constitute giving it a mediocre review. The first single ‘Shadow Days,’ is blatent rip off of George Harrison’s first solo effort, not to say it’s void of all charm, because the song is catchy and well played. ‘Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967,’ has the potential to be a great song if it weren’t for Mayer’s obvious questions that even a high school letter men-ed quarterback would get: (‘Cause when you’re done with this world. You know the next is up to you.’) The first time I heard that, I said out loud to no one, ‘No shit, Sherlock.’ The rest of the album is watered down Laurel Canyon wanna-be classic rock by a still contemporary artist. But then I heard the title track ‘Born and Raised,’ featuring Graham Nash and David Crosby (Mayer’s attempt at being Crosby, Mayer, and Nash) I got excited. This is the best song on the album; thanks in part to half of CSNY. But the arrangement is strange; the harmonies pop in and out in some strange places, especially at the end of the tune when their voices blend for only 4 beats. Had they gone for, I don’t know, 24 more beats, the song may have caused people to hit repeat a few time. It’s a nice quiet song that still gives me hope for the future of John Mayer, because if this album is Mayer’s Swan Song, then that bird is going drown.
All Over A Bowl Of Bitter Beans
