For the last time: the accordion is a beautiful instrument!
I'm pretty sure all of these have accordions, but heck, with today's technology, it could be a keyboard, or an electric harmonica, or whatever the hell it was that guy from The Hooters played, or Tom Waits humming. Please accept this in the spirit it was meant.
01. Spiers & Boden - "Princess Royal / Cuckoo's Nest" (Bellow)
02. Beirut - "Nantes" (The Flying Club Cup)
03. Calexico - "Across the Wire" (Feast of Wire)
04. The Decemberists - "Engine Driver" (Picaresque)
05. The Gotan Projects - "Una Musica Brutal" (La Revanche del Tango)
06. Kate Rusby - "Wandering Soul" (Girl Who Couldn't Fly)
07. The Zydepunks - "Larideaux a Six Temps" (Exile Waltz)
08. Neko Case - "Thrice All American" (Furnace Room Lullaby)
09. Loudon Wainwright III - "Grey in L.A." (Strange Weirdos: Music Inspired By The Film Knocked Up)
10. Dar Williams - "I Saw A Bird Fly Away" (The Beauty of the Rain)
11. The Pogues - "Honky Tonk Woman" (Essential Pogues)
Baby, It's cold outside. (Songs for a Cute but not Too Mushy Christmas Mix)
Pour some Sparks in your (vegan) eggnog and cozy on up to these wintry wonders.
01. Kurtis Blow - "Christmas Rappin'" (Kurtis Blow)
02. The Apples In Stereo - "Winter Must Be Cold" (Fun Trick Noisemaker)
03. Big Star - "Jesus Christ" (Third/Sister Lovers)
04. Los Straitjackets - "Sleigh Ride" ('Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets)
05. Bob Dylan - "Here Comes Santa Claus" (Christmas In the Heart)
06. Mark Mothersbaugh - "Snowflake Music" (Rushmore Original Soundtrack)
07. Run-DMC - "Christmas In Hollis" (A Very Special Christmas)
08. The Flaming Lips - "Christmas at the Zoo" (Clouds Taste Metallic)
09. Jeremy Jay - "Winter Wonder" (Slow Dance)
10. The Russian Futurists - "It's Not Really Cold When It Snows" (Let's Get Ready To Crumble)
11. The Halo Benders - "Snowfall" (God Don't Make No Junk)
12. Julian Koster - "Jingle Bells" (The Singing Saw At Christmastime)
13. Disco Inferno - "Footprints In Snow" (D.I. Go Pop)
Your Favourite Songs from When you Were 13
This makes me feel really old!
01. Nirvana - "Come As You Are" (Nevermind)
02. Nirvana - "Love Buzz" (Bleach)
03. Pixies - "Alec Eiffel" (Trompe Le Monde)
04. Ice Cube - "Check Yo' Self" (The Predator)
05. Guns 'N' Roses - "14 Years" (Use Your Illusion 2)
06. Faith No More - "From Out of Nowhere" (The Real Thing)
07. Metallica - "Sad But True" (Metallica)
08. Pearl Jam - "Black" (Ten)
09. Skid Row - "Slave To The Grind" (Slave To The Grind)
10. Megadeth - "Symphony of Destruction" (Countdown To Extinction)
I want to fuck my roommate: the story of in-house sexual frustration
Side A:
01. The Kinks - "Got Love If You Want It" (You Really Got Me)
02. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Love Song No. 7" (Some Loud Thunder)
03. Feist - "Secret Heart" (Let it Die)
04. Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz Feat. Usher and Ludacris - "Lovers and Friends" (Crunk Juice)
05. Dinosaur Jr.- "Whenever You're Ready" (The Farm [Deluxe] Bonus Disc)
06. Notorious B.I.G. - "Friend of Mine" (Ready to Die)
07. Octopus Project with Black Moth Super Rainbow - "All the Friends You can Eat" (The House Of Apples and Eyeballs)
08. Roy Orbison - "Dream Baby" (The Very Best of Roy Orbison)
09. Yo La Tengo - "I Wanna Be Your Lover" (I'm Not There OST)
10. Sic Alps - "Love is Strange" (Description of the Harbor)
Side B:
11. The Flaming Lips - "Suddenly Everything Has Changed" (The Soft Bulletin)
12. Radiohead - "Bulletproof...I Wish I Was" (The Bends)
13. Mos Def - "The Panties" (The New Danger)
14. Smashing Pumpkins - "Lily (My One And Only)" (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
15. Soap and Skin - "Extinguish Me" (Lovetune For Vacuum)
16. Explosions in the Sky - "What Do You Go Home To" (All of the Sudden I Miss Everyone)
17. Harvey Danger - "Woolly Muffler" (Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?)
18. Victor Jara - "El Lazo" (Deja La Vida Volar)
19. Crass - "Smother Love" (Penis Envy)
20. The Special Goodness - "Oops" (Land Air Sea)
Bonus Track: Men Without Hats - "Safety Dance" (Rhythm of Youth)
YOU WAITED TOO LONG
01. Subhumans - "Love Is..." (EP/LP)
02. Dale Crover - "The Hurter" (Dale crover EP)
03. Wicked King Wicker - "Often Referred To, But Never Seen" (Wicked King Wicker)
04. Wolves In The Throne Room - "Behold The Vastness And Sorrow" (Two Hunters)
05. Xasthur - "May Your Void Become As Deep As My Hate" (Telepathic With The Deceased)
06. Whitehouse - "Try And Be Grateful" (Thank Your Lucky Stars)
07. Moss - "Abortion Clinic" (Protected By The Ejaculation Of Wolves)
08. Autopsy - "Destined To Fester" (Mental Funeral)
08. Velvet Cocoon - "Laudanum" (Genevieve)
09. Monarch - "Swan Song" (Dead Men Tell No Tales)
A doo-wop shindig mix, makes you feel like you're in a 50s surf movie all about love and the summer
01. The Crew Cuts - "Sh-Boom" (Moments To Remember, Vol. 1)
02. Rumblers - "Surf Rat" (Surf Legends and Rumors 1961-1964)
03. The Cramps - "Goo Goo Muck" (Bad Music for Bad People)
04. Wanda Jackson - "Funnel Of Love" (Queen Of Rockabilly)
05. Link Wray and The Ray Men - "Drag Race" ("They're Outta Here," Says Archie)
06. Little Aron and The East Side River Boys - "I'm So In Love With You" (Rock-A-Billy Party Vol. 1)
07. Wanda Jackson - "Fallin'" (Queen Of Rockabilly)
08. Gene Vincent - "Dance To The Bop" (The Screaming End : The Best Of)
09. Pep Torres - "Wow! Wow!" (You and I)
10. Eddie Cochran - "Summertime Blues" - (Rockabilly Master Vol. 1)
Songs to restore my faith in Tiny Mix Tapes: the reviews are good, but why the fuck do 90% of the mi
If your tastes are so superior, make us some damn tapes already.
01. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Hold On" (Plastic Fang)
02. The Clash - "London Calling" (London Calling)
03. The Doors - "Peace Frog" (Morrison Hotel)
04. Jimi Hendrix - "Crosstown Traffic" (Electric Ladyland)
05. Whale - "Hobo Humping Slobo Babe" (We Care)
06. Johnny Cash - "Hurt (N.I.N. Cover)" (American IV: The Man Comes Around)
07. The Black Keys - "Girl is on my Mind" (Rubber Factory)
08. DJ Shadow - "Broken Levee Blues" (The Outsider)
09. Bush - "Letting the Cables Sleep" (The Science of Things)
The "how to make someone fall out of love with you" mix
Disregard Females, Acquire Currency
01. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - "Don't Do Me Like That" (Damn the Torpedoes)
02. Pavement - "Box Elder" (Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe)
03. Born Ruffians - "Badonka Donkey" (Red, Yellow, Blue)
04. Daniel Johnston - "Favorite Darling Girl" (Rejected Unkown)
05. Destroyer - "Your Blood" (Destroyer's Rubies)
06. The Dodos - "Small Deaths" (Time to Die)
07. The Exploding Hearts - "Sleeping Aides and Razor Blades" (Guitar Romantic)
08. Jens Lekman - "A Postcard To Nina" (Night Falls Over Kortedala)
09. The Field - "Little Heart Beats So Fast" (From Here We Go Sublime)
10. Dirty Projectors - "Thirsty & Miserable" (Rise Above)
As I Sweep up The Last of the Leaves
and the autumn sun is out
1. Tapes - "Intro + Gold Love Riddim" (Hissing Theatricals)
2. Clark - "Herzog" (Warp20: Chosen)
3. Luke Vibert - "Square Footage" (We Hear You)
4. Dub Specialist - "Take A Ride Version" (Studio One Dub)
5. M Beat Gernal Levy - "Incredible" (Rumble in the Jungle)
6. Mos Def - "Quiet Dog" (The Ecstatic)
7. Nathan Fake - "Dinamo" (Dinamo)
8. Autechre - "Drane" (Warp20: Chosen)
9. Ceephax - "Nordic House" (Exidy Tours)
I have been stalking my Ex-Girlfriend for three weeks and I need something to listen to while sittin
A Dumping Time-line, In Brief:
Week one: Delusional nostalgia of prior romance boggles mind.
Week two: Bitter depression officially sets in.
Week three: Final epiphany: Sex Sux (Amen)
01. The Kinks - "You Really Got Me" (The Kinks)
02. The Velvet Underground - "Over You" (1969: Velvet Underground Live, Vol. 2)
03. Broken Social Scene - "Lover's Spit" (You Forgot It In People)
04. The Modern Lovers - "She Cracked" (The Modern Lovers)
05. Portishead - "Numb" (Dummy)
06. Islands - "Creeper" (Anti-)
07. The Misfits - "Angelfuck" (Legacy of Brutality)
08. The Vaselines - "Sex Sux (Amen)" (Dum-Dum)
09. The Buzzcocks - "Orgasm Addict" (Another Music in a Different Kitchen)
10. Grinderman - "No Pussy Blues" (Grinderman)
Soundtrack to the Bible, Oxford's King James Version, to keep this agnostic awake and reading. And,
01. Washington Philips - "I Am Born to Preach the Gospel" (Key to the Kingdom)
02. PJ Harvey - "Hair" (Dry)
03. Norfolk Jubilee Quartette - "Daniel in the Lions' Den" (1927 Single)
04. Sufjan Stevens - "Abraham" (Seven Swans)
05. Mary Lee and the Congregation - "Jesus is Real to Me" (Negro Church Music)
06. Pixies - "Gouge Away" (Doolittle)
07. Pete Seeger - "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (The Bitter and the Sweet)
08. Bad Religion - "Sorrow" (The Process of Belief)
09. Bob Dylan - "Gates of Eden" (Bringing it All Back Home)
10. Tori Amos - "Marys of the Sea" (The Beekeeper)
11. Stanley Brothers - "Cry From the Cross" (The Definitive Collection)
12. A Silver Mt. Zion - "There's a River in the Valley Made of Melting Snow" (Pretty Little Lightening Paw)
13. Iron Maiden - "The Number of the Beast" (The Number of the Beast)
14. Ned Flanders and Family - "Rise and Shine" (Homer the Heretic)
