Lit As Fuck Mix 2016: #200 - 166

Me at the beginning of 2016 vs. Now:

There's one huge advantage to waiting over 4 months over 7 months before posting our end-of-year list: Everyone on Facebook who inevitably protests with a top 10 that includes only 1 album listed 10 times isn't referring to us.

We had better things to do than care about firstness. Let's hear it for lastness.

We wanted to wait until The First 100 Days the NBA finals summer semester was over and done with. Let's roll with that.

2016 was intended as the first ever "Lit Mix" but instead we're just calling it "Lit As Fuck" or "Lit AF 2016." Global youth vernacular is no match for Lit AF 2016. We are the ruling class. Cornering the market on memes that no one likes anymore (i.e. Dat Boi and Powerpuff Yourself).

Voted "Worst Year-End-List" 24 years and counting, we are back for more of what you need. (Remember back in '93 when "Daughter" was our #1 and "Insane In The Brain" was our #5 and people were like "uh, what the fuck dude?" That shit was so tight. Although not as tight as such feedback as "do you still do those lists?" or "damn, whoever writes this shit is a giant fucking loser.")

A lot of this was sitting around since January, and we don't even remember what we put on this thing because we're so fucking drunk right now. Jump into this hot fire:

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| #200 - 166 | | #165 - 131 | | #130 - 101 | | #100 -71 | | #70 - 41 | | #40 - 21 | | #20 - 1 |

| All 200 Songs |

200. Votaries "Trick Tomorrow"
Jackson Scott earned himself the nickname "Bo Jackson Scott" because Bo knows. It's already been over three years since Jackson's debut, the dreamy & druggy Melbourne LP. After last year's wild proggy sophomore album, he's back to the slow-motion childhood euphoria from LP1 in the debut record from his new band Votaries.


199. Bear Hands "2AM"
At this point, we're totally fine with any reasonably decent indie bands who are down to sell the fuck out and sneak some shockingly listenable minor hits back into the lower stretches of the Billboard Modern Rock chart. Lord knows (and Lorde knows), the format's refusal to budge on their strict "no '90s throwbacks" policy has nearly destroyed itself from the inside out, despite that kids and adults across the country have expressed longing to hear loud crunchy guitars on the radio again. To make matters worse, the modern bands that currently receive the most airplay have virtually nothing in common with the college-rock crossovers that initially helped formulate KROQ's very existence. Under normal circumstances, "Something In The Way," Twenty One Pilots, "Runaway Train" and Fitz and the Tantrums should have nothing in common with each other and typically would not share playlist-space for most Spotify users. But for whatever reason, that exact 4-in-a-row is now entirely common (minus iHeartRadio's requisite ad interruption). Any opportunities for legit-decent bands like Bear Hands to disrupt modern rock's abysmal plunge into irrelevancy should be celebrated in 2016. Inoffensive and catchy. We'll take it.


198. Rihanna "Desperado"
It wouldn't surprise us if "Desperado" were among the first completed Anti songs from closer to when the sessions began in early 2014. It feels less avant and more like "classic" Rihanna than anything else nearby in its sequencing, almost like a transitional jam from a hypothetical 2015 record (alongside "Bitch Betta Have My Money" and "FourFiveSeconds").
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Tv6IHwPAA

197. No Age "Separation"
Spoiler Alert: This is probably the only band or artist of 2016 where every song they released (all 2 of them) made it into the Lit.
https://vimeo.com/179515569

196. The Dean Ween Group "Mercedes Benz"
"I don’t think that you’ve seen the last of Ween. As long as the two of us are still alive, there’s a Ween." Where there's a Ween, there's a way. That was Deaner's reaction to the emergence of Aaron Freeman, solo artist, retiring the name Gene Ween in 2012. Four years later, the world collectively sighed out their relief when Deaner's prediction totally came true. But who could have forseen his first forey into frontman-zone during the same calendar year? Surely not us. The ultra-brown "Exercise Man" and especially the drunken singalong "Mercedes Benz" justified the entire release.


195. Satin Jackets “Feel Good”
Y2K-era pop that didn't chart that we wish woulda charted.


194. Ariana Grande “Dangerous Woman”
Nicely coasting between the top 10 and 20 all throughout summer 2016, we think "Dangerous Woman" (peaking on August 8th at No. 8) may have stalled the launch date of Rihanna's suspiciously similar 6/8 chiller "Love On The Brain" (peaking December 13th at No. 20 but placing higher on Lit Mix 2016 ***SPOILER***). (Note: Within 2017, the song peaked at #5.)


193. The Spirit Of The Beehive "Natural Devotion"
Bees + Philly = 💖


192. Cavern of Anti-Matter "Liquid Gate"
No new Deerhunter or Stereolab in 2016? No problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIPfPQslS-s

191. Kvelertak “Nattesferd”
There really is a Wikipedia entry for everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I189nD_yeQs

190. Schoolboy Q f/ SZA “Neva Change”
Not never.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGzkgLYick

189. Czarface “Two In The Chest”
Two faces, scum of the slum, I got your whole body numb, blowing like Shalamar in '81.


188. Dinosaur Jr. “Goin Down”
The long-awaited conclusion to the "Goin" trilogy that began with with 1993's "Goin Home" and their Kiss cover "Goin Blind." (Not kidding.)


187. Tony Molina “No One Told He”
A day in the shred life of Brendan Small.


186. Consequence f/ Ty Dolla $ign "Ask Somebody"
Ain't no Dolla like the one I got.


185. Ben Grigg “Complications”


184. Mannequin Pussy “Denial”


183. Carl Sagan's Skate Shoes "(1)"



182. Left & Right "Mouse Drum"
Undone The Swelter Song. "Mouse Drum" sounds like how last summer felt - lazy as fuck because it was just too damn sweltering. The beercan-opening noise seemed gratuitous at first, but it's a "fuck it" indicator.


181. Nick Jonas f/ Ty Dolla Sign “Bacon”
Feelin' these lyrics: "There's only one thing in this world I love more than being with you, and that's four or five chunks of juicy pork heaven covered in maple syrup dripping straight into my throbbing femoral artery." The video and the VMAs performance took place at a '50s diner, and it surprised us that all the extras were not wolfing down mile-high piles of salty glistening sizzlers. All the while, Krusty The Clown could have been way in the back of the soundstage receiving heart surgery. Now THAT's a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUB97ilIqE

180. Kevin Morby “I Have Been to the Mountain”
Is Woods cool? We don't know that band.


179. YG “Police Get Away Wit Murder” / YG f/ Nipsey Hussle "FDT"
Directly descending from Public Enemy and NWA. We feel like one of those two groups utilized the same "rap singalong chorus" from "Police Get Away," but for some reason we're (probably incorrectly) convinced that this derives from Leaders Of The New School: "Just another case of that old PTA." We know Busta Rhymes was among hiphop's more unheralded innovators until after "Woo-Haa," but we never thought of him as an artist who created one of the basic fundamentals of old school rap. And yet, this may have been the case? (We're not rap historians, so we're probably wrong about this.) As for "FDT," we heard it among the low points of Still Brazy right up until November 9th. Go figure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7LuvdZ8CUs

178. Total Slacker "Turn On The Lights"
No, YOU'RE a slacker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRUTvjvvBw

177. Homeboy Sandman "Talking (Bleep)"



176. Dark Mtns “Wake To Dream”


175. No Age "Serf To Serf"
Congratulations to No Age on recieving our coveted "All the marbles" award. They're probably the first ever instance where all the marbles they released in 2016 - both of sides of their 7-inch - appear on this lit as fuck mix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsRAf-9pWQ4

174. Schoolboy Q f/ Miguel & Justine Skye “Overtime”
Buncha damn hippies gettin' stoned on the refers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l72-AuyMDEs

173. Weaves "Birds & Bees"
Weaves loves bees. More importantly, we suspect that Weaves loves bees more than they love birds, which is the correct assessment. (Birds are also cool tho.)


172. Horse Jumper Of Love "Spaceman"


171. Omegas “Drug Zoo”
What it sounds like when guitar bro from Mad Max starts projectile vomiting during one of his big apocalypse dude solos.


170. 2 Chainz “Felt Like Cappin”
Too many chains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_lJoNZeXE

169. Underworld “If Rah”
We wore out our Beaucoup Fish and dubnobasswithmyheadman CDs during college, so it's been a minute. The new Underworld album is definitely a "for fans only" type of affair with "If Rah" as its obvious album stand out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6f3yLHifFI

168. Dowager “Sleep Paralysis”


167. Gucci Mane “At Least a M”

Get on fleek.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLpp8KRMXys

166. Pusha T f/ Jay-Z “Drug Dealers Anonymous”
The other day, we were listening to that station in Chicago that plays only good new rap and they played this song. True story.


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| #200 - 166 | | #165 - 131 | | #130 - 101 | | #100 -71 | | #70 - 41 | | #40 - 21 | | #20 - 1 |

| All 200 Songs |

tiny classified ads 1996

We probably knew that Don Lapre killed himself about 1 year ago. But we probably forgot. His infomercial lives on, some of which we still have memorized:

The following portion of "Sick Mix '96" has been funded by weekly checks, every single week.

#35 Charles Bronson "Let's Start A Revolution So I Can Go Break Some Shit"

It's the 3rd song on this. I'll show you what, youth. They only wanted to sing.

#34 Jay-Z "Dead Presidents"

Tragedy today, as former President Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves. He was delicious.

#33 Failure "Blank"

Downtune the high-E to a D and you're good to go.

#32 Stereolab "The Noise Of Carpet"

The noise of mark.

#31 Sloan "The Good In Everyone"

The intro of the video is as long as the song which has an intro longer than the "song" part of the song.

#30 Elliott Smith "Angeles"

16 months later, Elliott was opening for Celine Dion on live television. How do these things happen?

#29 Chavez "Flight '96"

Bottle rocket flight?

#28 Weezer "El Scorcho"

weerez (WEER-ez) n. A variation on the name of alternative rock band "weezer." Originally seen in the "El Scorcho" music video. "Dude, I totally got some pussy at the weerez concert." http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=weerez

#27 Nada Surf "Icebox"

Bury me in sorrow, Johnny Football-hero.

#26 Junior Mafia "Get Money"

Disrespect my click, my shit's imperial.

#25 Aphex Twin "Girl/Boy Song"

G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGggggggggggggg (these are some of the lyrics to "Girl/Boy Song"... or at least that's what we sang/screamed the first time we heard it)

#24 Beck "Where It's At"

That was a good drum break! We forgot how awesome this video is.

#23 764-Hero "Obviously Awful"

Obscure B-Side... hasn't made it onto Youtube just yet. (Fuck.) Here's the A-Side, which should've been in this list anyway. But it's no "Obviously Awful."

#22 Dr. Octagon "I'm Destructive"

Smearing green lightning bugs. Copulating having sex. Tickets for Van Halen.

#21 Smashing Pumpkins "Mouths Of Babes"

Video doesn't have the whole song. :( Perhaps unnecessary band-movie-novel connections will make up for this: In 1996, Fountains Of Wayne toured with Smashing Pumpkins, not long after contributing the song "That Thing You Do" to the movie of the same name, which Tom Hanks wrote and directed, who also acted with recently deceased actor Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile which was a book originally written by Stephen King in 1996, which was the year Smashing Pumpkins released "Mouths Of Babes" on the Zero EP. Full circle.

springer 1996

The most recent Sifl & Olly refers to 1996 as the last time that "physically touching things" was acceptable. We would embed the vid here, but S&O is way too 1998-oriented. Not happening.

We used to watch Talk Soup every single day (5 days a week) throughout 1996. Notable show highlights include Sally Jesse Raphael's infamous "I don't need you punk for my ratings" speech, or anytime they would follow up a clip by saying "and here's some footage of what happened afterwards" and just show pictures of houses on fire and explosions. We can't find any of those but here is what the show was typically like on a Tuesday or Wednesday:

Time to read a little viewer mail!!! Heyhey, alright.. This week's letter reads "when will you finish this tedious 1996 bullshit??" and the answer is "now maybe." You wont BEILIEVE...

#56 Mortician "Embalmed Alive"

Making the most sense. This should be #1. We fucked up.

#55 Jamiroquai "Virtual Insanity"

Flank to hold any lack to brought

#54 Soundgarden "Pretty Noose"

Hey man if you guyw wan a tak about a mean ther's been a raid of stu gifs immediate at rush high order....

#53 Mobb Deep "GOD Part 3"

Mor stu

#52 Beck "Sissyneck"

Serious adulthood pickin up the slack. learn the good manners. say HI and GOODBYE or else it's rUDE JERK

#51 Tool "Stinkfist"

Board game miniatjure played for the first thirty seconds but they got shoe'd away. I was offer dangerous cars and van dragonsit gets worse when you let them know the have your information. it'w supposed to be tuckd away and hidden to keep away undesirables from getting to it.

#50 Unwound "Corpse Pose"

Cost was lost. Something turned into the weather pagse and think i fell asleep. yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

#49 Jay-Z featuring Foxy Brown "Ain't No N****"

Jay-Z holds the blue fountain drink cops while Foxy is the boss who keeps showing up with more crazy capers for them all new adventures. He says right in the song "diamonds and leather."

#48 Fiona Apple "Shadowboxer"

office video game it's barely have ot try mode. might wannaw try out http://youtu.be/r8_ALny-P0w?t=2m8s

#47 Elliott Smith "Speed Trials"

draggon draggin' sweet pinball off to his new man-cave. Dats the boy.

#46 Stereolab "Spark Plug"

"With the giant quack, and i still have to do the dishes?"

#45 Wilco "Misunderstood"

Ariel is setting up her new daycare center, checking thing out makin sure everything's in order before the first momet they arrive. and in the middle of settng up and cleaning the loud part of this sound jumps from no where. The fucking line keeps moving too but him him.

#44 Stone Temple Pilots "Big Bang Baby"

deadpan goofiness is so hard to find thse days. Like the star shows up and it's the for guys and they're just like "hey man, whatever, Brady Bunch love" and shattering glasses onto gorilla helmets. Good 90's vid.

#43 DJ Shadow "Stem/Long Stem"

"Stem (Cops and Robbers Mix)" is cool but GIANT SPOILER WARNING to those who haven't seen Heat yet. P.S. You should see Heat (1995).

#42 Fountains Of Wayne "Radiation Vibe"

Receive quarters in the dark. Dark quarters. It got brought AAH.

#41 OutKast "ATLiens"

"Let me see them titties." She said "ok."

#40 Weezer "Across The Sea"

The Rolling Stone myth never happened. RS readers were asked "What was the worst album of 1996?" and the album that got the second highest votes was the same record as "words and dreams and a million screams." No one is able to present tangible evidence of this, and so it never happened. Go back to bed.

#39 Beck "Devil's Haircut"

Springer punched out that dude in one epiode. Not the one where he says "You shut your face" though:http://youtu.be/r8_ALny-P0w?t=2m8s

#38 Underworld "Born Slippy"

Ya wee cunts, Rent Boy and Spud, can't believe ya made it thisfar. Such a perfecty day feed animals at the zoo.

#37 Olivia Tremor Control "Can You Come Down With Us"

Stand next to Jean Luc-Picard, pretend that you are in Deep Spade Nine.

#36 DJ Shadow "The Number Song"

More big bass. The middle-section is when the master of ceremonies arrives wearing his big cape that he holds up the whole time while the audience goes nuts.



No energy to complete this ugly bitch but it will get done.

90's Jams (Bonus): Stereolab "Ping Pong" (1994)

Good keyboards in this one...