A mix to leave on a table at the neighborhood cafe to introduce someone to your favorite music
01. Nat King Cole - "Nature Boy" (The Greatest Hits)
02. Au Revoir Simone - "Stay Golden" (Verses of Comfort, Assurance, and Salvation)
03. Real Live Tigers - "Riverbeds" (This Is Sometimes A Riverbed)
04. Leonard Cohen - "Famous Blue Raincoat" (Songs of Love and Hate)
05. Tinyfolk - "If I Were An Owl" (Platapeasawallaland: A Rainy-Day Owlbum)
06. Man Man - "Black Mission Goggles" (Six Demon Bag)
07. Per Se - "Adelaide" (PDX Pop Now Compilation 2004)
08. Herman Düne - "I Wish That I Could See You Soon" (Giant)
09. David Bowie - "Young Americans" (Young Americans)
10. The Microphones/Mt. Eerie - "I Whale" (Live Before the Halloween Show 2003)
11. Destroyer - "Farrar, Straus and Giroux" (Streethawk: A Seduction)
12. Port O'Brien - "Tree Bones" (Nowhere To Run)
13. Final Fantasy - "This Lamb Sells Condos" (He Poos Clouds)
14. The Blow - "What Tom Said About The Girls" (Concussive Caress, Or, Casey Caught Her Mom Singing Along With The Vacuum)
15. Jolie Holland - "Darlin' Ukelele" (Escondida)
16. The Sarcastic Dharma Society featuring Thanksgiving - "Red" (Unreleased Track)
17. The Shaky Hands - "Summer's Life" (The Shaky Hands)
18. Liz Isenberg - "Two Weeks ‘Til The Midwest" (Hampshire Songs)
19. Wolf Parade - "Grounds For Divorce" (Apologies to the Queen Mary)
20. I'm From Barcelona - "We're From Barcelona" (Let Me Introduce My Friends)
i am so high and all i want to do is listen to cool instrumental noises for the next four hours
It's not four hours long, so just stick it on repeat.
01. Sonic Youth - "Intro" (Bad Moon Rising)
02. Black Flag - "The Process of Weeding Out" (The Process of Weeding Out)
03. !!! - "Instinct" (Gold Standard Labs Remix Series Volume 2)
04. Explosions in the Sky - "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We
Slept" (Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall
Live Forever)
05. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Untitled" (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
06. Glider - "After the Flight" (Sand From Water EP)
07. Candies - "Our System" (Leaving Our Homes)
08. Modest Mouse - "Custom Concern (Instrumental)" (Moon & Antarctica Bonus
Tracks)
09. Miles Davis - "Bitches Brew" (Bitches Brew)
10. Out Hud - "The L Train is a Swell Train and I Don't Wanna Hear You
Indies Complain" (S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D)
songs that are about love, yet don't mention love even once.
Ok, Ryan Adam's "Come Pick Me Up" includes a line about 'an old love letter," but not tech. about love
01. The Flying Burrito Brothers - "Hot Burrito No. 1" (The Gilded Palace Of Sin)
02. R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (Out Of Time)
03. Buffalo Tom - "Frozen Lake" (Let Me Come Over)
04. Ash - "Shining Light" (Free All Angels)
05. Brandi Carlile - "The Story" (The Story)
06. Ryan Adams - "Come Pick Me Up" (Heartbreaker)
07. Butch Walker - "Mixtape" (Letters)
08. Nickel Creek - "When You Come Back Down" (Nickel Creek)
09. Glen Phillips - "Easier" (Winter Pays For Summer)
10. The Pipettes - "Sex" (We Are The Pipettes)
11. Paul Westerberg - "Runaway Wind" (14 Songs)
12. Marah - "The Apartment" (If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry)
songs that willl finally convince me that i, too, can dance in public
If two separate MJ songs don't do it, nothing will.
01. Sly and the Family Stone - "I Want To Take You Higher" (Greatest Hts)
02. Tom Tom Club - "The Genius of Love" (Tom Tom Club)
03. Jackson 5- "Dancing Machine" (The Ultimate Collection)
04. Sam Cooke - "Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha" (Portrait of a Legend)
05. Kurtis Blow - "The Breaks" (Kurtis Blow)
06. Wilson Pickett - "Soul Dance Number Three" (Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits)
07. New Order - "Temptation" (Trainspotting)
08. Stevie Wonder - "I Was Made to Love Her" (Stevie Wonder: Greatest Hits)
09. T.Rex - "I Love to Boogie" (Great Hits 1972-1977)
10. Michael Jackson - "Remember the Time" (Essential Michael Jackson)
11. Buddy Holly - "Rave On" (Buddy Holly)
Spring is in the air and my unit is in bloom
I hope that you can give this to someone... and find what you are looking for.
01. Mates of State - "Like U Crazy" (Bring It Back)
02. Jamiroquai - "Falling" (Synchronized)
03. Feist - "One Evening" (Let It Die)
04. M. Ward - "Let's Dance" (Transfiguration of Vincent)
05. Daft Punk - "Something About Us" (Discovery)
06. Bob Marley - "Turn Your Lights Down Low" (Exodus)
07. The Postal Service - "Grow Old With Me" (Make Some Noise EP)
08. Jack Johnson - "Better Together" (In Between Dreams)
09. Incubus - "Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)" (S.C.I.E.N.C.E)
10. Pablo- "This Will Be Our Year" (Half The Time)
11. Air - "Playground Love" (Virgin Suicides Soundtrack)
12. Robin Thicke - "Lost Without U" (The Evolution of Robin Thicke)
13. The Turtles - "Happy Together" (Happy Together)
14. The American Analog Set - "The Only One" (Know By Heart)
15. Paul McCartney - "This Never Happened Before" (The Lake House Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Vlad The Impaler In Love
this is my first mixtape for TMT. It's kind of a mix of songs that I felt were explicitly appropriate or that just struck me as creepy. Enjoy.
01. Gwar- "Vlad The Impaler" (Scumdogs of the Universe)
02. Queens Of The Stone Age- "Tension Head" (Rated R)
03. Desert Sessions- "Dead In Love" (Desert Sessions Vol. 9 & 10)
04. Calexico- "Black Heart" (feast of wire)
05. Creedence Clearwater Revival- "Bad Moon Rising" (Chronicle)
06. Talking Heads- "Psycho Killer" (77)
07. Eagles Of Death Metal- "Stuck In The Metal" (Peace Love Death Metal)
08. Massive Attack- "Angel" (Mezzanine)
09. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds- "Lovely Creature" (Murder Ballads)
10. The Avalanches- "Frontier Psychiatrist" (Since I Left You)
11. RJD2- "The Horror" (Dead Ringer or The Horror EP)
12. UNKLE- "Bloodstain" (Psyence Fiction)
13. Tom Waits- "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" (Blood Money)
Bonus/Alternative Tracks
QOTSA- Mosquito Song- Songs For The Deaf
Desert Sessions- Covered In Punk's Blood- Desert Sessions Vol. 9 & 10
Talking Heads- Swamp- Speaking In Tongues
i'm so bored at work
This will help you get over the mid work day hump.
01. Suburban Legends- "Come Back Home" (Dance Like Nobody's Watching)
02. Jamiroquai - "Canned Heat" (Synkronized)
03. The Fiery Furnaces- "South Is Only a Home" (Gallowsbird's Bark)
04. Head Automatica - "Nowhere Fast" (Popaganda)
05. Amon Duul - "Archangel Thunderbird" (Yeti)
06. Cake - "I Will Survive" (Album)
07. Heavens - "Patent Pending" (Patent Pending)
08. The Films - "Black Shoes" (The Films-EP)
09. Hellogoodbye - "Here (In Your Arms)" (Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!)
10. The Academy Is... - "Slow Down" (Almost Here)
11. Kerrier District - "Ce Porte" (Kerrier District 2)
12. Mika - "Relax, Take It Easy" (Life In Cartoon Motion)
13. Young Love - "Discotech" (To Young To Fight It)
14. Deltron 3030 - "Things You Can Do" (Deltron 3030)
15. Sublime - "Santeria" (Sublime)
Pitchfork's Twee as Fuck mix tape was way lame-o. Oh mighty tmt, show me the way to twee goodness.
Note from Deanna: You have NO IDEA how long I was waiting for someone
to request something like this :]!
01. Tullycraft - "Twee" (Beat Surf Fun)
02. The Shermans - "Adulthood for Beginners" (Happiness is Toy Shaped)
03. Heavenly - "C is the Heavenly Option" (Le Jardin De Heavenly)
04. All Girl Summer Fun Band - "Video Game Heart" (2)
05. Tiger Trap - "You and Me" (Tiger Trap)
06. Honeybunch - "Hey Blue Sky" (Time Trials 1987-1995)
07. Lois - "Valentine" (Butterfly Kiss)
08. Beat Happening - "Not A Care In The World" (Music To Climb The
Apple Tree By)
09. The Lucksmiths - "Guess How Much I Love You" (A Good Kind of Nervous)
10. Tender Trap - "Talk in Song" (Film Molecules)
11. Marine Research - "At the Lost and Found" (Sounds From the Gulf Stream)
12. Rocketship - "I'm Lost Without You Here" (A Certain Smile, A
Certain Sad)
13. Bunnygrunt - "Tadpole" (Action Pants!)
14. Talulah Gosh - "Don't Go Away" (Backwash)
I'm having trouble finding good, real, folk music that isn't old Appalachian dudes playing the same
01.Iron & Wine – "On Your Wings" (Our Endless Numbered Days)
02.Espers – "Mansfield and Cyclops" (Espers II)
03.Midlake – "Kingfish Pies" (Bamnan & Slivercork)
04.Beirut – "Brandenburg" (Gulag Orkestar)
05.Daylight's for the Birds – "Worlds Away" (Trouble Everywhere)
06.Sparklehorse – "Apple Bed" (It's A Wonderful Life)
07.Beach House – "Childhood" (Beach House)
08.Grizzly Bear – "Central and Remote" (Yellow House)
09.Brightblack Morning Light – "A River Could Be Loved" (Brightblack Morning Light)
10.The Album Leaf – "September Song" (An Orchestrated Rise to Fall)
Songs to Lose Your Sense of Identity To
Hey, enjoy.
01. Mogwai - "Summer [Priority version]" (Young Team)
02. Cocoa Tea - "Over the Years" (Tune In)
03. Marvin Gaye - "Sparrow" (Here, My Dear)
03. Edan - "Torture Chamber" (Beauty and the Beat)
04. AFX - "Canticle Drawl" (Analord 01)
05. Bark Psychosis - "Absent Friend" (Hex)
06. The Dead C - "Voodoo Spell" (The White House)
07. The Auteurs - "Unsolved Child Murder" (After Murder Park)
08. Hood - "L. Fading Hills" (Outside Closer)
09. Four Tet - "As Serious As Your Life" (Rounds)
10. Eno - "Little Fishes" (Another Green World)
11. The Zombies - "Time of the Season" (Odyssey and Oracle)
12. Hot Chip - "And I Was a Boy from School" (The Warning)
13. John Lucien - "Rashida" (Rashida)
14. Faust - "I've Got My Car and My TV, Pt. 1" (Faust So Far)
