Hipsters, stop acting like you're in hell.

Songs for moody hipsters to lighten up to
01. !!! - "Hello? Is This Thing On?" (Louden Up Now)
02. Animal Collective - "My Girls" (Merriweather Post Pavilion)
03. Bloc Party - "Like Eating Glass" (Silent Alarm)
04. Deerhoof - "Snoopy Waves" (Offend Maggie)
05. Deerhoof - "Blue Cash" (Apple O')
06. Glass Candy - "Love Love Love" (Love Love Love)
07. Hot Chip - "Ready for the Floor" (Made in The Dark)
08. Minus The Bear - "Hooray (Dark Baby Remix)" (Interpretaciones Del Oso)
09. The Rogers Sisters - "Why Won't You" (The Invisible Deck)
10. TV on the Radio - "Let the Devil In" (Return to Cookie Mountain)
11. TV on the Radio - "The Wrong Way" (Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes)
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Hysteric" (It's Blitz)
13. Camper Van Beethoven - "Wasted" (Telephone Free Landslide Victory)
14. Modest Mouse - "Talking Shit about a Pretty Sunset" (This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About"
15. Ugly Casanova - "Parasites" (Sharpen Your Teeth)

Mix tape for my friend, who after years of trying, finally got pregnant

Congrats to the new mama

01. Devendra Banhart - "Long Haired Child" (Cripple Crow)
02. Kings of Leon - "Knocked Up" (Because of the Times)
03. Bon Iver - "Flume" (For Emma, Forever Ago)
04. Sufjan Stevens - "All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands" (Seven Swans)
05. Jose Gonzales - "Heartbeats" (Veneer)
06. American Analog Set - "The Only One" (Know by Heart)
07. Husky Rescue - "Sleep Tight Tiger" (Country Falls)
08. Mirah - "Birthday Present" (The Old Days Feeling)
09. Yo La Tengo - "Don't Have To Be So Sad" (Summer Sun)
10. Fiona Apple - "Waltz (Better Than Fine)" (Extraordinary Machine)

Apparently everybody has lots of sex at college except for me.

ME TOO

01. Andrew Bird - "Banking on a Myth" (Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs)
02. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Song Against Sex" (On Avery Island)
03. Belle & Sebastian - "Judy and the Dream of Horses" (If You're Feeling Sinister)
04. Girlyman - "Young James Dean" (Little Star)
05. Cloud Cult - "Happy Hippo" (Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus)
06. Broken Social Scene - "Handjobs for the Holidays" (Broken Social Scene)
07. Violent Femmes - "Gimme the Car" (Add It Up 1981-1993)
08. Mirah - "La Familia" (You Think It's Like This, But Really It's Like This)
09. Lisa Hannigan - "I Don't Know" (Sea Sew)
10. The National - "Slow Show" (Boxer)
11. Tilly and the Wall - "You and I Misbehaving" (Wild Like Children)

What about Jazz?

01. John Coltrane - "Acknowledgement" (A Love Supreme)
02. Charles Mingus - "Haitian Fight Song" (The Clown)
03. Freddie Hubbard -"Red Clay (Alt Take)" (Red Clay)
04. Pharoah Sanders - "You've Got To Have Freedom" (Pharoah Sanders' Finest)
05. Cannonball Adderly & John Coltrane - "Limehouse Blues" (Cannonball & Coltrane)
06. Keith Jarret, Gary Peacock,Jack DeJohnette - "Straight, No Chaser" (Live at the Blue Note)
07. Max Roach - "Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace)" (We Insist!)
08. Fats Waller - "Honeysuckle Rose" (Ain't Misbehavin)

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01. Jaco Pastorius - "(Soul Intro) The Chicken" (The Florida Concert)
02. The Seatbelts - "What Planet Is This?! (extended version)" (Cowboy Bebop Future Blues soundtrack)
03. Action Figure Party - "Action Figure Party" (Action Figure Party)
04. Michael Viner - "Apache" (Bongo Rock)
05. Mr. Scruff - "Champion Nibble" (Trouser Jazz)
06. Santana - "Oye Como Va" (Abraxas)
07. Junichi Kanezaki + Diligent Circle Of Ekoda - "WHAT'S TIME!?" (Najica soundtrack)
08. Deodato - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Prelude)
09. Mocean Worker - "Right Now" (Enter The Mowo)
10. Fila Brazillia - "Soul Sauce" (Verve Remixed 2)
11. Al Hirt - "Green Hornet" (Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack)
12. Ben Harper - "Mama's Trippin'" (The Will To Live)

Songs to buy new clothes to, because who doesn't love having style AND good taste in music?

01. The Kills - "U.R.A. Fever" (Midnight Boom)
02. Vampire Weekend - "Ottoman" (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Soundtrack)
03. Mando Diao - "High Heels" (Give Me Fire)
04. FM Belfast - "Underwear" (How To Make Friends)
05. Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations" (Sounds Of Summer - The Very Best Of The Beach Boys)
06. Poni Hoax - "Pretty Tall Girls" (Images Of Sigrid)
07. Black Moth Super Rainbow - "The Afternoon Turns Pink" (Dandelion Gum)
08. The Helio Sequence - "Can't Say No" (Keep Your Eyes Ahead)
09. School of Seven Bells - "Iamundernodisguise" (Alpinisms)
10. Fujiya & Miyagi - "Reeboks In Heaven" (Transparent Things)
11. The Raveonettes - "Black/White" (Beauty Dies)
12. Amanda Lepore - "My Hair Looks Fierce" (Introducing... Amanda Lepore)

Songs to Help Me Digest

01. Lupe Fiasco - "Gotta Eat" (The Cool)
02. Hot Chip - "Crap Kraft Dinner" (Coming On Strong)
03. Animal Collective - "Taste" (Merriweather Post Pavilion)
04. Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Tooth Decay" (Eating Us)
05. Crystal Castles - "Tell Me What to Swallow" (S/T)
06. Broken Social Scene - "Stomach Song" (Feel Good Lost)
07. The Raveonettes - "Bowels of the Beast" (Whip It On)
08. Bright Eyes - "Let's Not Shit Ourselves" (Lifted...)
09. The Buzzcocks - "Oh Shit" (Another Music In a Different Kitchen)

I want to go home.

A journey of what home really means after you've left it.

01. The Scene Aesthetic - "Dear Time Traveler," (Building Homes From What We've Known)
02. Mutemath - "After We Have Left Our Homes" (Mutemath)
03. The Mountain Goats - "Running Away With What Freud Said" (Taboo VI: The Homecoming)
04. Radiohead - "Subterranean Homesick Alien" (OK Computer)
05. Brightlife - "Where are You Now?" (Where Are You Now?)
06. The Vines - "Sick" (Highly Evolved)
07. Murder By Death - "Comin' Home" (Red Of Tooth and Claw)
08. Iggy Pop - "Neighborhood Threat" (Lust For Life)
09. Azure Ray - "Home" (Burn and Shiver)
10. The Go! Team - "I Never Needed It Now So Much" (Proof of Youth)

My decadence is bigger than yours

Sex, drugs, and a smidgen of rock ‘n' roll!

01. The Velvet Underground - "Venus In Furs" (The Velvet Underground & Nico)

02. The Velvet Underground - "Heroin" (The Velvet Underground & Nico)

03. Jane's Addiction - "Three Days" (Ritual De Lo Habitual)

04. Lou Reed - "Walk On The Wild Side" (Transformer)

05. Nine Inch Nails - "Closer" (The Downward Spiral)

06. Lords Of Acid - "The Power Is Mine" (Our Little Secret)

07. Dwarves - "Free Cocaine" (Lucifer's Crank)

08. Queens Of The Stoneage - "Feelgood Hit Of The Summer" (Rated R)

09. Rolling Stones - "Dead Flowers" (Sticky Fingers)

10. Rolling Stones - "Rocks Off" (Exile On Main Street)

11. Hanoi Rocks - "Love's An Injection" (Self-Destruction Blues)

We are having sex. You want to keep it a secret. Here is a mix to make you feel super uncomfortable

01. Television - "Friction" (Marquee Moon)
02. Sonic Youth - "Kissability" (Daydream Nation)
03. The Gerbils - "Fluid" (Are You Sleepy?)
04. Buzzcocks - "Orgasm Addict" (Singles Going Steady)
05. Kings of Leon - "Soft" (Aha Shake Hearbreak)
06. Pixies - "Tame" (Doolittle)
07. Blood on the Wall - "Heat" From The Day" (Awesomer)
08. Liz Phair - "Fuck and Run (Exile in Guyville)
09. Cake - "Italian Leather Sofa" (Fashion Nugget)
10. T.Rex - "Bang A Gong" (Get it On) (Electric Warrior)
11. The Strokes - "Barely Legal" (Is This It)
12. Cansei De Ser Sexy - "Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above" (Cansei De Ser Sexy)
13. Guided by Voices - "Hot Freaks" (Bee Thousand)
14. The Magnetic Fields - "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits" (69 Love Songs Vol. 1)
15. Tegan and Sara - "Living Room" (If It Was You)
16. Blonde Redhead - "(I Am Taking Out My Eurotrash) I Still Get Rocks Off" (La Mia Vita Violenta)

Song titles that sound like definitions in the dictionary

01. Stars - "A Thread Cut With a Carving Knife" (Sad Robots EP)
02. Anberlin - "A Heavy Hearted Work of Staggering Genius" (Never Take Friendship Personal)
03. Emery - "The Note From Which a Chord is Built" (The Weak's End)
04. Sunny Day Real Estate - "How it Feels to be Something On" (How it Feels to be Something On)
05. Air - "Somewhere Between Walking and Sleeping" (Pocket Symphony)
06. The Early November - "Something That Produces Results" (The Room's Too Cold)
07. Aphex Twin - "To Cure a Weaking Child" (Richard D. James Album)

08. Múm - "The Land Between Solar Systems" (Finally We Are No One)
09. Black Moth Super Rainbow - "When the Sun Grows on Your Tongue" (Dandelion Gum)
10. Thrice - "The Melting Point of Wax" (The Artist in the Ambulance)
11. Death Cab For Cutie - "Different Names For the Same Thing" (Plans)
12. Figurines - "Cheap Place to Spend the Night" (When The Deer Wore Blue)
13. Daphne Loves Derby - "To Struggle With Light Colors" (Good Night, Witness Light)
14. Sufjan Stevens - "A Conjunction Of Drones Simulating The Way In Which Sufjan Stevens Has An Existential Crisis In The Great Godfrey Maze" (Illinois)

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