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)
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)
