There’s no reason at all that it’s taken me so long to post the November “Moods” here. The show was cut essentially during a week long break for Thanksgiving from school that was most spent in a heavy depressive episode and had all my energy sapped up by the end of the semester. I’ve been free since Christmas Eve, but it’s still be tough to catch up with things here until now, the very last day of this year seemingly like no other 2020.
I’d chosen “Befuddlement” as the mood for November’s show for a couple reasons. One, I couldn’t figure out a mood that fully fit the gluttony that’s expressed in Big Barney’s “The Whole Thang,” and Two, given how weird that record really is when you think about it, that then led me to thinking about other records that have been sitting on one of my shelves for a long gestating (like all of my mixes apparently) mix dedicated to one of my favorite sub-genres that I focus on these days…”Weird Shit.”
So, you ended up with an hour of tunes that befuddle me to no end, in some cases the songs themselves are just confusing (like, how can it be that “The Dead Don’t Die Alive?” even if this was some kind of Zombie Apocalypse, wouldn’t the undead have to have been dead first, which means they would have had to have been alive? Nothing makes sense about the premise of that song), some are a bit bewildering, others are just strange. They all work with that idea of “befuddlement,” and a few have had me in that state for over 25 years…hope y’all dug it.