MUSIC: Mixed Bag 2: The Bonus Disc

Some of you who participated in Lefty Brown's Mixed Bag 2 CD exchange project will probably be getting your packages in the mail today, so now's the time to tell you about the extra I wanted to include that delayed the shipment.

Turns out, Zombie Tom of Zombie Eat Brains wanted to join in. How could I say no? So along with my disc, You'll Play It and You'll Like It, Vol. 2, you will find his disc, When There's No More Room In Hell, This Mix Will Walk the Earth, or, Music To Eat Brains By.

The disc does have an alarming preoccupation with zombies, and brain eating, and whatnot, which should come as no surprise to you. What is surprising is that it turned out to be a pretty excellent mix, with a fairly large range of music. There's heavy metal, punk, 60s classic rock, and 90s arena rock; there's surf music, Caribbean music, rap, and Grateful Dead-style acid folk (for lack of a better term) from G Love and Special Sauce; alt rock, 80s new wave, and techno metal (or whatever the hell you'd call Rob Zombie); there's a song from a cartoon, and a prog-rock instrumental.

It started out as a joke -- how many songs have the word "zombie" in them? -- then turned into a challenge, and wound up being (I think) a solidly diverse and entertaining mix. Hope you like it!