I've sent in probably close to 50 requests without one being made into a mix tape. Sometimes I think
I assure you there is no conspiracy. We robots are just highly irresponsible.
01. Sonic Youth - "Superstar" (If I Were a Carpenter)
02. Bon Iver - "Bloodbank" (Single)
03. The American Analog Set - "Million Young" (Know by heart)
04. Camera Obscura - "I need all the friends I can get" (Let's Get Out of This Country)
05. Neko Case - "Maybe Sparrow" (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
06. Drive-by Truckers - "Goddamn Lonely Love" (The Dirty South)
07. Beirut - "Elephant Gun" (Lon Gisland EP)
08. LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" (Sound of Silver)
09. Nina Nastasia - "Our Day Trip" (On Leaving)
10. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - "I'm Falling" (Goodnight Oslo)
11. The Decemberists "The Island"
12. Glasvegas - "Geraldine" (Untitled Album)
13. The Shins - "Caring is Creepy" (Oh, Inverted World)
14. Passion Pit - "I've Got Your Number" (Chunk of Change)
Songs to Walk Barefoot and/or Lie in the Grass To
01. The Lovin' Spoonful - "Daydream" (Daydream)
02. Air - "Alpha Beta Gaga" (Talkie Walkie)
03. Röyksopp - "Happy Up Here" (Junior)
04. The Airborne Toxic Event - "The Girls In Their Summer Dresses" (The Airborne Toxic Event)
05. Bob Marley & The Wailers - "One Love/ People Get Ready" (Exodus)
06. Fatboy Slim - "Sunset (Bird of Prey)" (Halfway Between The Gutter and The Stars)
07. The Lemonheads - "Frank Mills" (It's A Shame About Ray)
08. Peter Gabriel - "Solsbury Hill" (Peter Gabriel (Car))
09. The Maccabees - "Toothpaste Kisses" (Colour It In)
10. Mylo - "Emotion 98.6" (Destroy Rock & Roll)
11. Radiohead - "No Surprises" (OK Computer)
12. The Rifles - "Toe Rag" (Great Escape)
13. Violent Femmes - "Blister In The Sun" (Violent Femmes)
14. Moby - "Porcelain" (Play)
15. Kings of Leon - "Where Nobody Knows" (Aha Shake Heartbreak)
Mix Tape for a Bipolar Relationship
01. Cloud Cult- "No One Said it Would Be Easy" (Feel Good Ghosts)
02. Pixies- "Is She Weird?" (Bossanova)
03. Band of Horses- "No One's Gonna Love You" (Cease to Begin)
04. Au Revoir Simone- "Sad Song" (The Bird of Music)
05. The Sounds- "The Queen of Apology" (Dying to Say This to You)
06. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- "Is This Love?" (Some Loud Thunder)
07. Bon Iver- "Skinny Love" (For Emma, Forever Ago)
08. CocoRosie- "Werewolf" (The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)
09. Neutral Milk Hotel- "Two Headed Boy, Pt. 2" (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
10. Antony & the Johnsons- "One Dove" (The Crying Light)
11. The Black Keys- "Psychotic Girl" (Attack and Release)
12. Built to Spill- "You Were Right" (Keep it a Secret)
13. Death from Above 1979- "Going Steady" (You're a Woman, I'm a Machine)
14. The Dodos- "Men" (Beware of the Maniacs)
15. Chairlift- "Make Your Mind Up" (Does You Inspire You)
16. Violent Femmes- "Breakin' Up" (New Times)
Songs to listen to at an airport at night.
01. Coldplay - "Don't Panic" (Parachutes)
02. Earlimart - "Time for Yourself" (Hymn And Her)
03. Working for a Nuclear Free City - "Apron Strings" (Businessmen & Ghosts)
04. The Postal Service - "Nothing Better" (Give Up)
05. Radiohead - "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" (In Rainbows)
06. Broken Social Scene - "Lover's Spit (Redux)" (Bee Hives)
07. Blonde Redhead - "Heroine" (23)
08. Zero 7 - "Throw It All Away" (The Garden)
09. Alexi Murdoch - "Orange Sky" (Time Without Consequence)
10. Charlotte Gainsbourg - "AF607105" (5:55)
Don't even try getting me into a religious debate.
01. Fucked Up - "Looking for God" (The Chemistry of Common Life)
02. Wilco - "Can't Stand It" (Summerteeth)
03. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "We Call Upon the Author" (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!)
04. Neko Case - "John Saw That Number" (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
05. Franz Ferdinand - "The Fallen" (You Could Have It So Much Better)
06. Green Day - "Church on Sunday" (The Warning)
07. Spiritualized - "No God Only Religion" (Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space)
08. Billy Joel - "Only the Good Die Young" (The Stranger)
09. My Morning Jacket - "I Think I'm Going to Hell" (The Tennessee Fire)
10. Modest Mouse - "Jesus Christ Was An Only Child" (Lonesome Crowded West)
11. Meat Puppets - "Lake of Fire" (Too High To Die)
12. Lily Allen - "Straight to Hell [ft. Mick Jones]" (War Child Presents: Heroes)
13. Hella - "Biblical Violence" (Hold Your Horse Is)
14. Shellac - "Prayer to God" (1000 Hurts)
15. The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil" (Beggars' Banquet)
16. St. Vincent - "Jesus Saves, I Spend" (Marry Me)
17. AC/DC - "Highway to Hell" (Highway to Hell)
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)
