Tape of the week: my Moody Blues cassette. It holds three albums, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, To Our Children’s Children’s Children and A Question of Balance.
Every Friday, The Mixtape brings you five songs picked by people, from the sixties to this year. Watch this week’s video below, hear all five on our playlist, or put on Acid Flashback Radio and let us do the picking.
This week’s mixtape
ASide A
1. Live
Fairies Wear Boots
Black Sabbath, Paranoid, 1970 (live in Paris, 1970)
Black Sabbath in Paris in 1970, from a fan restoration of concert footage with remastered audio. It closes the Paranoid album, and it is a good way to hear the band at full volume in the same year they first hit America.
This week’s video
2. Deep track
Nice To Be Here
The Moody Blues, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 1971
Ray Thomas wrote it and sang it, and the idea is pure storybook, a concert played by woodland creatures. It is an album track, not a single, and it is on the tape up top. It was also our Song of the Day.
3. Psych nugget
I See the Light
The Five Americans, 1966
It was the most requested song in Dallas before the band even had a record in stores. The Five Americans started out as The Mutineers at a small Oklahoma college, and this one reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was our Song of the Day.
BSide B
4. New psych
The Miller’s Wife
Hypnotic Floor, from The Friendly Moss Forest Creatures Lived Happily In Perpetual Twilight
A Vienna band that mixes psych, kraut and prog rock with fuzzy riffs and spaced-out synths. Eric plays them on Psychedelic Psaturday this weekend.
5. Rock now
Walk That Walk
The Nude Party, Look Who’s Back, 2026
A tip from a friend’s daughter. The Nude Party formed in 2012 at Appalachian State in Boone, North Carolina, put out three albums on New West, and are now on their own with Look Who’s Back.
Hear all five
Every song from this issue is on The Mixtape, Vol. 1, our own playlist. Five new songs every Friday, fifty in all, then Vol. 2 starts fresh.
AThis weekend on Acid Flashback Radio
Ken from Mississippi takes over Acid Flashback Friday for all three hours with deep tracks, old and new, and Psychedelic Psaturday with DJ Kaigem includes Hypnotic Floor from this week’s mixtape. See the full weekend lineup.
BToday in Rock History
On October 30, 1970, Black Sabbath played what is widely credited as their first U.S. show, at Glassboro State College in New Jersey. The band arrived late and, by most accounts, knocked out the power. Read Today in Rock History for October 30.
CSong of the Day this week
- Song of the Day: “The Story In Your Eyes” by The Moody Blues
- Song of the Day: “Nice To Be Here” by The Moody Blues
- Song of the Day: “I See the Light” by The Five Americans
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