Songs With Literary References to Play in the Independent Book Store Where I Work
Oh baby I love books, I love music, I love mixes! Honestly what better trio is there than that?
01. Joy Division-"Atrocity Exhibition" (Closer)
02. Morrissey-"Now My Heart Is Full" (Vauxhall and I)
03. The Smiths-"Cemetery Gates" (The Queen Is Dead)
04. The Cure-"Killing an Arab" (Boys Don't Cry)
05. Radiohead-"My Iron Lung" (The Bends)
06. They Might Be Giants-"I Should Be Allowed to Think" (John Henry)
07. Belle & Sebastian-"This Is Just A Modern Rock Song" (Push Barman to Open Old Wounds)
08. Yo La Tengo-"The Crying of Lot G" (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-out)
09. Tom Waits-"Alice"(Alice)
10. David Bowie-"1984"(Diamond Dogs)
Songs With Literary References to Play in the Independent Book Store Where I Work
Oh baby I love books, I love music, I love mixes! Honestly what better trio is there than that?
01. Joy Division-"Atrocity Exhibition" (Closer)
02. Morrissey-"Now My Heart Is Full" (Vauxhall and I)
03. The Smiths-"Cemetery Gates" (The Queen Is Dead)
04. The Cure-"Killing an Arab" (Boys Don't Cry)
05. Radiohead-"My Iron Lung" (The Bends)
06. They Might Be Giants-"I Should Be Allowed to Think" (John Henry)
07. Belle & Sebastian-"This Is Just A Modern Rock Song" (Push Barman to Open Old Wounds)
08. Yo La Tengo-"The Crying of Lot G" (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-out)
09. Tom Waits-"Alice"(Alice)
10. David Bowie-"1984"(Diamond Dogs)
For the the drive-through car wash when you spend the extra $3 to get the trippy rainbow soap
(extra long mix, so you better make sure 7-11 has your quarters)
01. Black Moth Super Rainbow- "Forever Heavy" (Dandelion Gum)
02. The Advantage- "Batman-Stage 1" (Elf Titled)
03. Les Savy Fav- "Who Rocks The Party" (The Cat and the Cobra)
04. Weezer- "Surf Wax America" (Weezer-Blue Album)
05. Colourbox- "The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme" (The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme EP)
06. Ghost- "Hazy Paradise" (Hypnotic World)
07. Fu Manchu- "Free and Easy (Summer Girls)" (No One Rides For Free)
08. Caribou- "After Hours" (Andorra)
09. Eluvium- "Indoor Swimming At The Space Station" (Copia)
10. Les Rallizes Denudes- "Flames Of Ice" (December's Black Children)
11. The Pretty Weapons- "Lady Of The Space Realm" (The Pretty Weapons)
12. M83- "Lower Your Eyelids And Die With The Sun" (Before The Dawn Heals Us)
13. Klaxons- "Gravity's Rainbow (Van She Remix)" (Xan Valleys EP)
14. Los Mono- "Promesas" (Somos los que etamos)
15. Midnight Juggernauts- "Ending Of An Era" (Dystopia)
16. Casino Versus Japan- "Local Forecast" (Go Hawaii)
I've never driven in snow before, and now its snowing.
Tap the brakes.
01. Animal Collective (feat. Vashti Bunyan) - "I Remember Learning How To Dive" (Prospect Hummer EP)
02. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Home On Ice" (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
03. The Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go" (Arcade Fire)
04. Beirut - "Scenic World" (Gulag Orkestar)
05. Built To Spill - "The Weather" (Ancient Melodies of the Future)
06. The Fiery Furnaces - "Tropical Iceland" (EP)
07. The Teenagers - "Au Revoir Simone Fallen Snow Remix" (Remix)
08. The Velvet Teen - "Into the Open" (Out of the Fierce Parade)
09. Iggy Pop - "I am a Passenger" (Iggy Pop)
10. Piano Overlord - "Stay Home" (Torture EP)
11. The Album Leaf - "in between lines" (one day i'll be on time)
12. Spoon - "You Gotta Feel It" (Kill The Moonlight)
13. Beulah - "Don't Forget To Breathe" (Yoko)
14. Broken Social Scene - "pitter patter goes my heart" (You Forgot It In People)
Son of You Say Potato, I Say Get The Fuck On The Dancefloor
01. MSTRKRFT - "Bounce (feat. N.O.R.E.)" (Bounce - Single)
02. MGMT - "Electric Feel (Justice Remix)" (Electric Feel (Justice Remix) - Single)
03. Justice - "D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT Remix)" (Cross)
04. N.E.R.D. - "Everyone Nose (All The Girls Standing In The Line For The Bathroom)" (Seeing Sounds)
05. The Whip - "Trash" (X Marks Destination)
06. Justin Timberlake - "SexyBack" (FutureSex/LoveSounds)
07. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - "We Are Rockstars" (You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into)
08. Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out" (Franz Ferdinand)
09. Crystal Castles - "Vanished" (Crystal Castles)
10. Justice - "DVNO" (Cross)
11. Passion Pit - "The Reeling" (Manners)
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll" (It's Blitz!)
13. Amanda Blank - "Make It Take It" (I Love You)
14. Muscles - "My Friend Richard" (Guns Babes Lemonade)
My Christian boyfriend won't fuck me
(heaven and hell version)
01. Stone Roses- "I Wanna Be Adored" (The Stone Roses)
02. Amon Düül II- "The Marilyn Monroe-Memorial Church" (Tanz der Lemminge)
03. Bad Brains- "House Of Suffering" (I Against I)
04. Depeche Mode- "Master and Servant" (Some Great Reward)
05. The Flaming Lips- "Hit Me Like You Did The First Time" (Hit to Death in the Futurehead)
06. Boredoms- "Nice B-O-R-E Guy" (Pop Tatari)
07. Whitehouse- "Try and be Grateful" (Thank Your Lucky Stars)
08. Six Organs of Admittance- "The Acceptance of Absolute Negation" (For Octavio Paz)
09. Sonic Boom- "Lonely Avenue" (Spectrum)
10. Autoclave- "I'll Take You Down" (Autoclave)
11. Mayhem- "Pagan Fears" (De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas)
12. Caetano Veloso- "Empty Boat" (Caetano Veloso)
13. Galaxie 500- "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste" (Today)
14. Spiritualized- "I Want You" (Lazer Guided Melodies)
15. U.N.K.L.E.- "Lonely Soul" (Psyence Fiction)
16. Von- "Lamb" (Satanic Blood)
17. The Brian Jonestown Massacre- "You Look Great When I'm Fucked Up" (And This Is Our Music)
Songs to listen to while dining with your Vicodin-addicted grandmother
01. Low - "On The Edge Of" (The Great Destroyer)
02. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - "Watery (Drowning Is Just Another Word For Being Buried Alive Under Water)" (Scribble Mural Comic Journal)
03. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - "Mitleid Lady" Mitleid Lady)
04. Lungfish - "Black Helicopters" (Artifical Horizon)
05. Brightblack Morninglight - "All We Have Broken Shines" (Brightblack Moorninglight)
06. Broadcast - "Pendulum" (Haha Sound)
07. A Place To Bury Strangers - "I Know I'll See You" (A Place To Bury Strangers)
08. Cold Cave - "Hello Rats" (Love Comes Close)
09. Japanther - "Untitled" (Skuffed Up My Huffy)
10. My Bloody Valentine - "Glider" (Loveless)
11. Neil Young - "What Happened Yesterday" (Mirrorball)
12. Nadja - "Needle In the Hay (Elliot Smith Cover)" (When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV)
13. Neu! - "Negativland" (Neu!)
14. Alan Vega - "Thirteen Crosses (Live 2008)"
15. Prurient - "Cocaine Death" (Cocaine Death)
16. Public Image Limited - "Careering" (Metal Box)
Bands That Are Trying To Make Pet Sounds, Again
"It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life ... I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album ... I love the orchestra, the arrangements ... it may be going overboard to say it's the classic of the century ... but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways ... I've often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John [Lennon] so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence ... it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines ... and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. "God Only Knows" is a big favourite of mine ... very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On "You Still Believe in Me", I love that melody - that kills me ... that's my favourite, I think ... it's so beautiful right at the end ... comes surging back in these multi-coloured harmonies ... sends shivers up my spine." -Paul McCartney
01. Beulah - "If We Can Land A Man On The Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart" (When Your Heartstrings Break)
02. The Explorer's Club - "Don't Forget The Sun" (Album)
03. Tenki - "Desirous" (Red Baby)
04. The Grifters - "Mysterious Friends" (Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Sampler)
05. Sufjan Stevens - "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" (Illinoise)
06. Olivia Tremor Control - "I Have Been Floated" (Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol.1)
07. Apples In Stereo - "Submarine Dream" (Discovery of a World Inside the Moone)
08. Frank Black - "Hang On To Your Ego" (Frank Black)
09. The High Llamas - "Sparkle Up" (Retrospective Rarities & Instrumentals)
10. Beachwood Sparks - "Something I Don't Recognize" (Beachwood Sparks)
11. Bullion - "God Only Knows" (Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee)
12. Animal Collective - "Winter's Love" (Sung Tongs)
13. Golab - "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (http://www.golabgo.com/petzounds.html)
I Don't Want To Live Here Anymore
I know the feeling.
01. The Smiths - "London" (Louder Than Bombs)
03. The Postal Service - "This Place Is A Prison" (Give Up)
04. Pavement - "Box Elder" (Westing (By Musket & Sextant))
05. Joy Division - "Something Must Break" (Still)
06. The Rolling Stones - "No Expectations" (Beggars Banquet)
07. Stiff Little Fingers - "Gotta Gettaway" (Nobody's Heroes)
08. Mogwai - "Take Me Somewhere Nice" (Rock Action)
09. The Fall - "English Scheme" (Grotesque (After The Gramme))
10. Soundgarden - "Boot Camp" (Down On The Upside)
If I could find a dive bar with indie karaoke, these songs would be in the first few pages of new ad
01. Santogold - "LES Artistes" (Santogold)
02. Against Me! - "Thrash Unreal" (New Wave)
03. Saves The Day - "At Your Funeral" (Stay What Your Are)
04. Band of Horses -"The Great Salt Lake" (Everything All The Time)
05. Ben Kweller - "Wasted and Ready" (Sha Sha)
06. The Black Keys -"So He Won't Break" (Attack and Release)
07. The Replacements - "Pool & Dive" (The Best of The Replacements)
08. The MISFITS -"Die, Die My Darling" (Earth A.D.)
09. The Flaming LIps - "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (At War with the Mystics)
10. Cut Copy -"Feel the Love" (In Ghost Colours)
11. Yeasayer - "Tightrope" (Dark Was The Night)
12. The Decemberists - "Sons and Daughters" (The Crane Wife)
13. Rilo Kiley - "Portions For Foxes" (More Adventurous)
Why the fuck can't I sleep? Please, please, make me a tape that will relax me and not distract me in
Ahhhh... Sleep.
Side A:
01. Josh Ritter - "The Temptation of Adam" (The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter)
02. Bon Iver - "Blood Bank" (Blood Bank - EP)
03. Youth Group - "Dying At Your Own Party" (The Night Is Ours)
04. Wilco - "We're Just Friends" (Summerteeth)
05. Ryan Adams - "Starlite Diner" (29)
06. Hayden - "More Than Alive" (In Field & Town)
07. Regina Spektor - "Human Of the Year" (Far)
Side B:
08. Faded Paper Figures - "North by North" (Dynamo)
09. Ray LaMontagne - "Lesson Learned" ('Til The Sun Turns Black)
10. Neil Halstead - "Elevenses" (Oh! Mighty Engine)
11. Neko Case - "Hold On, Hold On" (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
12. Jump, Little Children - "Cathedrals" (Magazine)
13. Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticism" (Transatlanticism)
14. The National - "Green Gloves" (Boxer)
15. Bloc Party - "Signs" (Intimacy)
