Best Title Tracks Ever
In somewhat chronological order...
01. Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction" (Psychotic Reaction)
02. Sly & The Family Stone - "Stand!" (Stand!)
03. Neil Young - "After The Gold Rush" (After The Gold Rush)
04. Black Sabbath - "Paranoid" (Paranoid)
05. Nick Drake - "Pink Moon" (Pink Moon)
06. Iggy & The Stooges - "Raw Power" (Raw Power)
07. Television - "Marquee Moon" (Marquee Moon)
08. The Saints - "I'm Stranded" (I'm Stranded)
09. Funkadelic - "One Nation Under A Groove" (One Nation Under A Groove)
10. AC/DC - "Highway To Hell" (Highway To Hell)
11. The Clash - "London Calling" (London Calling)
12. Devo - "Freedom Of Choice" (Freedom Of Choice)
13. Meat Puppets - "Up On The Sun" (Up On The Sun)
14. Jeff Buckley - "Grace" (Grace)
Songs cut from the final edit of Apocalypse Now...or the soundtrack in your head while readin
01. Leonard Cohen - "The Old Revolution" (Songs From A Room)
02. Randy Newman - "Political Science" (Sail Away)
03. Bob Dylan - "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" (The Bootleg Series Volume 1)
04. The Mamas & the Papas - "California Dreamin'" (If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears)
05. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Bring Me the Head of Paul McCartney on Heather Mills' Wooden Peg (Dropping Bombs on the White House)" (My Bloody Underground)
06. The Stooges - "We Will Fall" (The Stooges)
07. The Black Angels - "The First Vietnamese War" (Passover)
08. Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)
09. Jimi Hendrix - "Machine Gun" (Band Of Gypsys)
10. Joy Division - "Atrocity Exhibition" (Closer)
11. The Descendants - "M-16" (Milo Goes to College)
I don't like you. Can you leave me the hell alone please?
01. The Departure - "All Mapped Out" (Dirty Words)
02. Camera Obscura - "The False Contender" (Let's Get Out of This Country)
03. Shop Assistants - "I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You" (Will Anything Happen)
04. Eagle*Seagull - "I'm Sorry But I'm Beginning to Hate Your Face" (Indiecater Vol.2)
05. Panda Bear - "Bros" (Person Pitch)
06. Pixies - "Something Against You" (Surfer Rosa)
07. Sex Pistols - "No Feelings" (Nevermind the Bollocks)
08. Bikini Kill - "Don't Need You" (The CD Version of the First Two Records)
09. Smog - "It's Rough" (Wild Love)
10. The Cure - "Us or Them" (The Cure)
11. Röyksopp - "Go Away" (The Understanding - Bonus Tracks)
So I've seen lots of good requests that are answered by a crappy mixtape. Take an old request that s
Unnecessary. Taste is taste is taste is personal. So... to disrespect, to the obscure yet loved, and to righteous individual interest!
01. The Smiths - "Is It Really So Strange" (Thank Your Lucky Stars)
02. Animal Collective - "Pride And Fight" (Holinndagain)
03. No Age - "Every Artist Needs A Tragedy" (Weirdo Rippers)
04. Gang Of Four - "Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time" (Entertainment!)
05. Pixies - "Is She Weird" (Bossanova)
06. The Octopus Project - "Music Is Happiness" (One Ten Hundred Thousand Million)
Indie West Coast vs Indie East Coast
Part I: WEST COAST
01. The Decemberists- "Leslie Anne Levine"(Castaways and Cutouts)
02. Jenny Lewis- "You Are What You Love"(Rabbit Fur Coat)
03. Death Cab For Cutie- "Bend To Squares"(Something About Airplanes)
04. Minus the Bear- "Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse"(Highly Refined Pirates)
05. Mirah- "Don't Die On Me"(C'mon Miracle)
06. Rilo Kiley- "Pictures of Success"(Take Offs and Landings
07. Modest Mouse- "Trailer Trash"(The Lonesome Crowded West)
08. The Helio Sequence- "Back To This"(Keep Your Eyes Ahead)
09. Fleet Foxes- "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song"(Fleet Foxes)
10. Elliott Smith- "Fear City"(New Moon)
Part II: EAST COAST
01. Asobi Seksu- "It's Too Late"(Asobi Seksu)
02. Neutral Milk Hotel- "Holland, 1945"(In The Aeroplane Over the Sea)
03. Ted Leo- "Counting Down the Hours"(Shake the Sheets)
04. Yo La Tengo- "Tears Are In Your Eyes"(And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out)
05. Superchunk- "100,000 Fireflies"(The Question Is How Fast EP)
06. Cat Power- "Faces"(Myra Lee)
07. Mice Parade- "Ende"(Bem-Vinda Vontade)
08. Sebadoh- "Kath"(III)
09. The National- "Beautiful Head"(The National)
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- "Phenomena"(Show Your Bones)
Songs for your best friend who lives in France, where he is hungry and cold.
01. Her Space Holiday - "The World Will Deem Us Dangerous" (XOXO Panda and the New Revival)
02. Autolux - "Sugarless" (Future Perfect)
03. Herman Dune - "Whatever Burns The Best Baby" (Not On Top)
04. Lou Reed - "I'm So Free" (Transformer)
05. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "Patio Song" ( Barafundle)
06. Port O'Brien - "I Woke Up Today" (The Wind and the Swell)
07. Rolling Stones - "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Let It Bleed)
08. The Dodos - "Winter" (Visiter)
09. The Essex Green - "Rue De Lis" (Cannibal Sea)
10. The Honeydrips - "Here Comes The Future" (Here Comes The Future)
Songs for a Dusty Western Dystopia
Bad blood, it got your mare...
01. Ennio Morricone - "Abolicio" (Queimada)
02. The Tallest Man On Earth - "It Will Follow the Rain" (s/t EP)
03. Earth - "Rise to Glory" (The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull)
04. John Jacob Niles - "The Maid Freed From the Gallows" (Child Ballads)
05. Child Readers - "Nothing Out Living Flowers" (Memory and Fantasy)
06. Raccoo-oo-oon - "Call Out Your Friends" (Is Night People)
07. Om - "Pilgrimage" (Pilgrimage)
08. Thee Silver Mt. Reveries - "There's a River in the Valley Made of Melting Snow" (Pretty Little Lightening Paw)
09. The Music Tapes - "Schedevka" (Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes)
10. Bob Dylan - "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" (The Times They Are A-Changin')
Compiled by: Conor
1. The White Stripes - "Conquest" (Icky Thump)
2. The Beatles - "Come Together" (Abbey Road)
3. The Strokes - "Reptilia" (Room On Fire)
4. Beck - "Devil's Haircut" (Odelay!)
5. Bob Dylan - "Shelter From The Storm" (Blood On The Tracks)
6. The Stooges - "Search and Destroy" (Raw Power)
7. Johnny Cash - "God's Gonna Cut You Down" (American V)
8. Led Zeppelin - "Black Dog" (Led Zeppelin IV)
9. The Velvet Underground - "There She Goes Again" (The Velvet Underground & Nico)
10. The Ventures - "Walk Don't Run" (Walk Don't Run)
Compiled by: moonshiner
01. Cat Power - "Lord Help the Poor & Needy" (Jukebox)
02. M. Ward - "Right in the Head" (Post-War)
03. Alela Diane - "Tired Feet" (The Pirate's Gospel)
04. Billy Bragg & Wilco - "Eisler on the Go" (Mermaid Avenue)
05. Bright Eyes - "Middleman" (Cassadaga)
06. Willy Mason - "Sold My Soul" (Where the Humans Eat)
07. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - "Ramblin' Man" (Ballad of the Broken Seas)
08. Marissa Nadler - "Dying Breed" (Songs III: Bird on the Water)
09. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "The Seedling" (The Letting Go)
10. The Mountain Goats - "Dilaudid" (The Sunset Tree)
11. David Dondero - "Laying Low in Eli, Nevada" (South of the South)
12. Jana Hunter - "Have You Got My Money" (Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom)
13. Castanets - "I'll Fly Away" (City of Refuge)
Compiled by: neilan316
Should be listened to while driving through a sandstorm in your spray-painted dune buggy.
01. Desert Sessions - "Cowards Way Out" (Volume I-II)
02. Apples in Stereo - "The Oasis" (The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone)
03. Carissa's Wierd - "Farewell to All These Rotten Teeth" (Songs About Leaving)
04. Beck - "Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997" (Mellow Gold)
05. Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah - "Blue Turning Gray" (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
06. Iron & Wine and Calexico - "Red Dust" (In The Reins)
07. The Devil Makes Three - "The Bullet" (The Devil Makes Three)
08. Ray Lamontagne - "Narrow Escape" (Trouble)
09. Grandaddy - "El Caminos in the West" (Sumday)
Drowning out the little voices of self-doubt
Cheer up, kid! Life isn't so bad, honest! Here are some happy pop songs to shush those little voices.
01. Those Dancing Days - "In Our Space Hero Suits" (In Our Space Hero Suits)
02. Annemarie - "Bubblegum I See" (ABC on TV)
03. Architecture In Helsinki - "That Beep" (That Beep)
04. Kimya Dawson - "I Like Giants" (Remember That I Love You)
05. Bonne Idée - "It Will Be Back" (Bonne Klée)
06. Lucy & The Caterpillar - "Beans on Toast" (Lucy' Opinion)
07. Seabear - "Arms" (The Ghost That Carried Us Away)
08. Oh, Atoms - "Sugar Mouse" (You Can't See The Stars From Here)
09. HjaltalÃn - "Traffic Music" (Sleepdrunk Sessions)
10. Gregory & The Hawk - Coco (In Your Dreams)
11. Brilliant At Breakfast - "Strawberry V" (Demo)
AMERICA: A map using music.
01. Cat Power - "American Flag" (Moon Pix)
02. Elliott Smith - "L.A." (Figure 8)
03. The Lucksmiths - "The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco" (Warmer Corners)
04. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - "Jeane, if You're Ever in Portland" (Twinkle Echo)
05. M. Ward - "Four Hours in Washington" (Transistor Radio)
06. Math and Physics Club - "Cold As Minnesota" (Math and Physics Club)
07. Wilco - "Via Chicago" (Summerteeth)
08. Sufjan Stevens - "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore!
Reconsider!)" (Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State)
09. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "Ohio" (So Far)
10. Death Cab for Cutie - "Lowell, MA" (We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes)
11. The Walkmen - "Lost in Boston" (A Hundred Miles Off)
12. Interpol - "NYC" (Turn on the Bright Lights)
13. Modest Mouse - "Florida" (We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
14. Bob Dylan - "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (Blonde on Blonde)
15. Ben Kweller - "Commerce, TX" (Sha Sha)
16. Okkervil River - "Kansas City" (Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See)
Guitar freakouts that beautifully gel with the song to create one marvelous form of cacophonous beau
I actually don't like Wilco, but I do like guitar freakouts, especially ones that beautifully gel with blahblahblah -- point is: they fucking rock. Intros, outros, solos, who knows. I wanna thrash around in my room and have to keep from punching the wall ‘n' shit. RIGHT?!
01. Bardo Pond - "Montana Sacra II" (Ticket Crystals)
02. Pterodactyl - "Esses" (Pterodactyl)
03. Band of Gypsys - "Stone Free" (Live at the Fillmore East)
04. Gang of Four - "Anthrax" (Entertainment!)
05. The Who - "Young Man Blues" (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970)
06. Dirty Three - "I Remember a Time When Once You Used To Love Me" (Horse Stories)
07. Sonic Youth - "Madonna, Sean, And Me / Expressway to Yr. Skull" (EVOL)
08. Built to Spill - "I Would Hurt a Fly" (Perfect from Now On)
09. Fugazi - "Glue Man" (13 Songs)
10. The Velvet Underground - "Venus in Furs" (The Velvet Underground and Nico)
