“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging.
Today’s “Listen In,” from the Maryland noise/punk band Chaos Destroy, makes great use of YouTube as a medium. In addition to tracks from the likes of Slint, Morrissey, and Arab on Radar, the mix also incorporates some of the archival videos and amateur-made weirdness that make the video-sharing service such a strange, beautiful thing (including, coincidentally, some 1986 footage of dancehall hero Cutty Ranks uploaded by ANIMAL founder Bucky Turco).
Get Lightning Strikes Twice, Chaos Destroy’s raw-as-fuck, oddly beautiful second album here, and listen to a few samples on SoundCloud.
“Boys Club,” Ween, 2005
“Salsa Shark,” Baklavaa, 2012
“Dayvan Cowboy,” Boards of Canada, 2005
“Stereo Mars Sound System,” Cutty Ranks, 1986
“Muy Panq,” Morbo, 2010
“Everyday Is Like Sunday,” Morrissey, 1988
“Por Dentro,” Dave Rata, 2011
“Father, Son, and the Goalie Post,” Arab on Radar, 2001
“Leaders Deceivers,” Thisclose, 2013
“Andy Griffith Theme Song,” Hot Blonde, 2010
“Good Morning Captain,” Slint, 1991
“Combination spawns,” Howard Quin, 2009
