Something for the asshole who keeps putting Arcade Fire on the mix tapes, to show him/her better mus
I hate Arcade Fire too. These bands deserve/deserved to be bigger than them.
01. Deerhoof - "The Perfect Me" (Friend Opportunity)
02. Torche - "Grenades" (Meanderthal)
03. Lightning Bolt - "Mohawkwindmill" (Hypermagic Mountain)
04. No Age - "Boy Void" (Weirdo Rippers)
05. Comets On Fire - "Lucifer's Memory" (Avatar)
06. These Arms Are Snakes - "Prince Squid" (Tail Swallower and Dove)
07. Awesome Color - "Come and Dance" (Electric Aborigines)
08. Harvey Milk - "Motown" (Life...The Best Game In Town)
09. Future Of The Left - "The Lord Hates A Coward" (Curses)
10. Mika Miko - "Business Cats" (C.Y.S.L.A.B.F.)
11. Deerhunter - "Saved By Old Times" (Microcastle)
12. Coalesce - "The Plot Against My Love" (Ox)
Corny makes me uncomfortable, but I love you
Not conventional love songs, but not filled with typical wannabe indie-rock bullshit irony. Just good and simple. A personal favorite is Bishop Allen's "Corazon," a love song to a piano.
01. The Walkmen - "Canadian Girl" (You & Me)
02. Grizzly Bear - "I Live With You" (Veckatimest)
03. Ben Sollee - "Prettiest Tree On The Mountain" (Learning to Bend)
04. We Are Scientists - "After Hours" (Brain Thrust Mystery)
05. Pomegranates - "In The Kitchen" (Everything Is Alive)
06. The Acorn & Ohbijou - "Steep (Steep)" (The Acorn + Ohbijou)
07. Harlem Shakes - "Natural Man" (Technicolor Health)
08. Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - "HEERS" (Perishing)
09. Blind Pilot - "3 Rounds And A Sound" (3 Rounds And A Sound)
10. Born Ruffians - "Hedonistic Me" (Red, Yellow & Blue)
11. Say Hi To Your Mom - "These Fangs" (Impeccable Blahs)
12. Arthur & Yu - "1000 Words" (In Camera)
13. Bishop Allen - "Corazon" (The Broken String)
13. Fleet Foxes - "Your Protector" (Fleet Foxes)
I'm secretly having sex with my best friend's girlfriend, which is wrong, I know, but I just can't s
01. Bumblebeez - "Freak Ya Loneliness" (Prince Umberto and the Sister of Ill)
02. The Thermals - "A Stare Like Yours" (F****n A)
03. The Black Keys - "Your Touch" (Magic Potion)
04. The White Stripes - "Hypnotize" (Elephant)
05. Death From Above 1979 - "Sexy Results" (You're A Woman, I'm A Machine)
06. Japandroids - "Heart Sweats" (Post-Nothing)
07. Morningwood - "Take Off Your Clothes" (Morningwood)
08. Say Anything - "Alive With the Glory of Love" (...Is a Real Boy)
09. Led Zeppelin - "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Led Zeppelin I)
10. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - "Let's Make Out" (You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into)
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Kiss Kiss" (IS IS – EP)
12. Wolfmother - "Woman" (Wolfmother)
Songs that won't drive me crazy when I'm massaging my clients.
01. Jochem Paap - "Mbnt-Plng" (Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598)
02. Aphex Twin - "Untitled (Track 01)" (Selected Ambient works Vol. 2, Disc 1)
03. Vangelis - "Wait For Me" (Blade Runner Soundtrack)
04. Pete Namlook and Ritchie Hawtin - "Silent Intelligence Part V" (From Within 3)
05. Tetsu Inoue and Jonah Sharp - "Morphing Cloud" (Electro Harmonix)
06. Jochem Paap - "Dx-Synth" - (Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598)
07. Pete Namlook - "Schmooze" - (4Voice III)
"Tiny Mix Tapes Never Makes Me A Mix" Blues
01. Discovery - "Swing Tree" (LP)
02. Little Joy - "Brand New Start" (Little Joy)
03. Dirty Projectors - "Stillness is the Move" (Bitte Orca)
04. Electric Six - "Dance Pattern" (I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master)
05. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Think I Wanna Die" (Perishing)
06. Blind Pilot - "The Story I Heard" (3 Rounds and a Sound)
Beautiful Songs by Girls with Beautiful Voices NOT about Love or Heartbreak
01. The Bird and the Bee - "Polite Dance Song" (Please Clap Your Hands – EP)
02. Carina Round - "Into My Blood" (The Disconnection)
03. The Duke Spirit - "The Step and the Walk" (Neptune)
04. Feist - "Sea Lion Woman" (The Reminder)
05. Janelle Monae - "Sincerely, Jane" (Metropolis: The Chase Suite)
06. Joanna Newsom - "The Book of Right-On" (The Milk-Eyed Mender)
07. Regina Spektor - "Wallet" (Far)
08. Sia - "Soon We'll Be Found" (Some People Have Real Problems)
09. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Little Shadow" (It's Blitz!)
10. Bat for Lashes - "Daniel" (Two Suns)
Compiled by: mome rath
01. Kate Rusby – "Village Green Preservation Society" (Awkward Annie)
02. ADELE – "Hometown Glory" (Hometown Glory – EP)
03. Amy MacDonald – "This Is the Life" (This Is the Life)
04. Ani DiFranco – "Red Letter Year" (Red Letter Year)
05. Duffy – "Live and Let Die" (War Child Heroes, Vol. 1)
06. Rilo Kiley – "It's A Hit" (More Adventurous)
07. The Bird And the Bee – "I Hate Camera" (The Bird and the Bee)
08. Regina Spektor – "Ghost Of Corporate Future" (Soviet Kitsch)
09. Sol Seppy – "Supermarket Sweep" (Supermarket Sweep – Single)
10. Florence + The Machine – "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" (Lungs)
11. The Be Good Tanyas – "The Junkie Song" (Chinatown)
12. Karine Polwart – "Baleerie Baloo" (Scribbled In Chalk)
13. Anja Garbarek – "Can I Keep Him?" (Briefly Shaking)
14. Lisa Loeb – "Airplanes" (The Purple Tape)
15. Charlotte Martin – "Veins" (Veins)
16. Jolie Holland – "Mad Tom of Bedlam" (Escondida)
17. Nerina Pallot – "Damascus" (Fires)
18. Amy Correia – "Coney Island, USA" (Lakeville)
19. Beulah – "Leaving Home" (Leaving Home – Single)
20. Charlene Soraia – "Pictures In My Mind" (Daffodils & Other Idylls – EP)
Compiled by: vedaholli
This was no easy task. It's amazing how much we women like to sing about love. Even when I didn't think a song was about love at first, there was often some hidden lovey metaphor. I've done my best.
01. Cat Power - "The Greatest" (The Greatest)
02. Regina Spektor - "Laughing With" (Far)
03. Jenny Lewis- "Pretty Bird" (Acid Tongue)
04. Sia- "Beautiful Calm Driving" (Some People Have Real Problems)
05. Feist - "Gatekeeper" (Let It Die)
06. Neko Case - "Deep Red Bells" (Blacklisted)
07. Lavendar Diamond - "My Shadow is a Monday" (Imagine Our Love)
08. Patty Griffin - "Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)" (Children Running Through)
You Don't Look Anything Like Your Match.Com Profile
01. Bruce Springsteen - "Brilliant Disguise" (Tunnel Of Love)
02. The Album Leaf - "Wishful Thinking" (Into the Blue Again)
03. Radiohead - "Let Down" (OK Computer)
04. The Black Keys - "Grown So Ugly" (Rubber Factory)
05. Michael Jackson - "One More Chance" (Number Ones)
06. Atlas Sound - "Cold as Ice" (Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel)
07. The Samuel Jackson Five - "Face the Fax" (Goodbye Melody Mountain)
08. The Fiery Furnaces - "Though Let's Be Fair" (Rehearsing My Choir)
09. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Last Chance for Love" (American X: Baby 81 Sessions)
10. Grandaddy - "Goodbye?" (Excerpts From the Diary of Todd Zilla)
11. Cold War Kids - "Red Wine, Success!" (Robbers & Cowards)
Mix 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 drunkenly ride my bike to while the cops are chasing me
So, here's the story. You're hanging out in a local bar kicking back to some AC/DC when you, in your drunken state, decide to tell a passing cop to "Expletive Off". Karma strikes and the cops start to chase you, but they aren't just any cops. These are freaking ROBOCOPS! You hop on your bike and have a crazy bicycle race to save your life, and luckily you live to tell the tale
01. AC/DC - "Have a Drink on Me" (Back in Black)
02. N.W.A. - "F**k Tha Police" (Straight Outta Compton)
03. The Police - "Roxanne" (Outlandos d'Amour)
04. Radiohead - "Karma Police" (OK Computer)
05. Kanye West - "RoboCop" (808s & Heartbreak)
06. Queen - "Bicycle Race" (Jazz)
07. The Beatles - "Run For Your Life" (Rubber Soul)
08. Passion Pit - "Live to Tell the Tale" (Chunk of Change - EP)
As glamorous as my $35 Chanel red lipstick...
01. Bat for Lashes - "Daniel" (Two Suns)
02. Franz Ferdinand - "Fabulously Lazy" (Fabulously Lazy – Single)
03. Gwen Stefani - "Cool" (Love, Angel, Music, Baby)
04. Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Closer)
05. The Killers - "Mr. Brightside" (Hot Fuss)
06. No Doubt - "Making Out" (Rock Steady)
07. The Raveonettes - "Black/White" (Beauty Dies)
08. Regina Spektor - "Lady" (Begin To Hope)
09. Telepathe - "So Fine" (Dance Mother)
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps" (Fever to Tell)
I'm unemployed and you may be pregnant...
On being young, Indie-rock and pregnant in the Mid-West.
01. Mountain Goats - "No Children" (Tallahassee)
02. Girls - "Lust For Life" (Single)
03. Land of Talk - "All My Friends" (Applause,Cheer, Boo, Hiss)
04. Radiohead - "True Love Waits" (I Might Be Wrong; Live Recordings)
05. Bratmobile - "Polaroid Baby" (Potty Mouth)
06. Ben Folds - "Emaline" (Ben Folds Live)
07. Built To Spill - "Twin Falls" (Theres Nothing Wrong With Love)
08. Micachu And The Shapes - "Guts" (Jewellery)
09. Yo La Tengo - "Oklahoma OK" (FakeBook)
