Songs for the the stay-at-home dad
Turn up the volume! Here are a few family- and child-themed songs to shake your booty to when you are all alone doing the dishes. Note the Queen and Guns N' Roses songs designed to attract the older listener such as yourself
01. Wolf Parade - "You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son" (Apologies to Queen Mary)
02. Queen - "Son and Daughter" (Queen)
03. Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - "Me + Yr Daughter" (Glistening Pleasure)
04. MGMT - "Kids" (Oracular Spectacular)
05. Jon Lajoie - "Stay at Home Dad" (You Want Some Of This?)
06. Guns N' Roses - "Sweet Child of Mine" (Appetite for Destruction)
07. Kanye West - "Family Business" (The College Dropout)
08. Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go" (Neon Bible)
Songs that remind you of Pet Sounds
If you haven't listened to the a capella version of Pet Sounds, you need to
01. Animal Collective - "Do the Nurse" (Animal Crack Box)
02. Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks" (Veckatimest)
03. Burial & Four Tet - "Wolf Cub" (Moth/Wolf Cub)
04. Antony - "If It Be Your Will" (Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man [OST])
05. Feist - "It's Cool To Love Your Family" (Monarch [Lay Your Jewelled Head Down])
06. Dreamend - "A Place In Thy Memory" (Maybe We're Making God Sad And Lonely)
07. Graham Wright - "Birds of a Feather" (Unreleased)
08. Astrud Gilberto - "Dreamer" (The Astrud Gilberto Album)
09. Les Napoleons - "Ne m'oublie pas" (A Go-Go)
10. Crystal Antlers - "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Spanish Archer One)
11. Owen - "Use Your Words" (At Home with Owen)
12. Spodnà Prádlo - "Dance Ewok Dance (Demo)" (Unreleased)
13. [Ingenting] - "Precis Så Jag Känner" (Mycket Väsen För Ingenting)
We're going to go stand in line at 3 in the morning to buy shit we dont need or want, but it's going
These are songs that I imagine would play on the way to the store, in the store, and back home from whichever store you are waiting in line in. Since I think the best time to experience music is when you don't have to be in control of what's playing, these songs ride the line between the possibility of being played on a muzak/car radio and tracks that should be played over the waves in a more perfect alternate universe
01. Phoenix - "Definitive Breaks" (United)
02. Van Halen - "Runnin' With The Devil" (Van Halen)
03. The Nerves - "Hangin On The Telephone" (The Nerves)
04. Roxy Music - "More Than This" (Avalon)
05. XTC - "Making Plans For Nigel" (Drums & Wires)
06. Gene Pitney - "Every Breath I Take" (Back to Mono (1958-1969))
07. Plastic Bertrand - "Ça Plane Pour Moi" (Ça Plane Pour Moi)
08. Trashcan Sinatras - "Obscurity Knocks" (Cake)
09. Cheap Trick - "Surrender" (Heaven Tonight)
10. Julee Cruise - "Floating" (Floating Into The Night)
11. Alton Ellis - "You've Made Me So Very Happy" (Trojan Box Set: Jamaican Superstars)
12. Brian Eno - "Some Of Them Are Old" (Here Come The Warm Jets)
13. Bruce Springsteen - "Jungleland" (Born To Run)
The "I Hate My Fucking Roommate" Mix Tape (featuring: awesome songs that will make him want to move
Not sure what musical tastes the roommate has, but blasting these tracks would surely have annoyed my ex-roommate. Enjoy
01. The Velvet Underground "I Heard Her Call My Name" (White Light/ White Heat)
02. Black Flag "Rat's Eyes" (Slip It In)
03. Bad Brains "Banned in D.C." (Attitude)
04. Choking Victim "Fucked Reality" (No Gods/ No Managers)
05. The Germs "Shut Down" (GI)
06. Outbreak "Chewed Up Spit Out" (Failure)
07. The Replacements "Like a Rolling Pin" (All For Nothing)
08. Holy Modal Rounders "If You Want to Be a Bird" (Easy Rider Soundtrack)
09. Pig Destroyer "Verminess" (Terrifier)
10. American Distress "Ill Logic" (Fraudalent Times)
Well, what's wrong with a little destruction?!
Punk rock! (and Mogwai)
01. Iggy & The Stooges - "Search And Destroy" (Raw Power)
02. The Clash - "White Riot" (The Clash)
03. The Damned - "Smash It Up" (Machine Gun Etiquette)
04. The Adolescents - "Wrecking Crew" (The Adolescents)
05. Mogwai - "I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School" (The Hawk Is Howling)
06. Cockney Rejects - "Oi, Oi, Oi" (Greatest Hits, Volume 2)
07. Black Flag - "Spray Paint" (Damaged)
08. Sex Pistols - "Anarchy In The UK" (Kiss This)
09. Fear - "We Destroy The Family" (The Record)
10. Zeke - "Rip & Destroy" (Dirty Sanchez)
11. Dead Kennedys - "Forest Fire" (Plastic Surgery Disasters)
Soundtrack to the Relationship I Wish I Had
01. The Lemonheads - "Into Your Arms" (Come On Feel The Lemonheads)
02. Air - "All I Need" (Moon Safari)
03. The Velvet Underground - "I Found A Reason" (Loaded)
04. Pixies - "Gigantic" (Surfer Rosa)
05. Iron & Wine - "Naked As We Came" (Our Endless Numbered Days)
06. Stereolab - "The Emergency Kisses" (Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night)
07. Yo La Tengo - "Autumn Sweater" (I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One)
08. PJ Harvey - "Good Fortune" (Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea)
09. Jane's Addiction - "Summertime Rolls" (Nothing's Shocking)
10. Cat Power - "Could We" (The Greatest)
11. Four Tet - "You Were There With Me" (Everything Ecstatic)
WHY AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU
Oh trust me, I hear you
01. Mother Mother - "Ghosting" (O My Heart)
02. Gregory And The Hawk - "The Bolder Thing To Do" (Gregory And The Hawk)
03. Right Away, Great Captain – "Love, Come & Save Me" (The Bitter End)
04. Why? - "Broken Crow (a cover by Nick T.)" (The Hollows)
05. Electric President – "Insomnia" (Electric President)
06. Adam Green – "Who's Your Boyfriend" (Gemstones)
07. Neva Dinova – "Poison" (One Jug Of Wine Two Vessels)
08. Okkervil River - "Song Of Our So-Called Friends" (Black Sheep Boy)
09. The Age of Rockets - "Let's see if you bastards can do 90" (The Drive Home)
10. Carissa's Weird – "September Come Take This Heart Away (Songs About Leaving
10. Sufjan Stevens – "Dumb I Sound" (A Sun Came!)
11. Beulah – "Don't Forget To Breathe" (Yoko)
12. Elephant Parade – "Goodbye" (Bedroom Recordings)
Snap/Crackle/Pop: if actual music came from my rice krispies
These songs bring to mind an image of small little cereal bits having some
sort of poppy dance party
01. Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead" (Chunk of Change)
02. Matt & Kim - "Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare" (Grand)
03. Peter Bjorn and John - "Let's Call It Off (Girl Talk Remix)"
04. Vampire Weekend - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwasssa" (Vampire Weekend)
05. Lykke Li - "Dance Dance Dance" (Youth Novels)
06. The BPA - "Toe Jam" (I Think We're Going to Need a Bigger Boat)
07. of Montreal - "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse" (Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)
08. Noah and the Whale - "5 Years Time" (Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down)
09. Hall & Oates - "You Make My Dreams" (The Essential Daryl Hall & John
Oates)
10. The Ting Tings - "Great DJ" (We Started Nothing)
New York City's big, and I'm lonely
01. Simon and Garfunkel - "The Only Boy Living in New York" (Bridge Over Troubled Water)
02. The Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset" (Something Else by the Kinks)
03. Interpol - "NYC" (Turn on the Bright Lights)
04. Yo La Tengo - "I Feel Like Going Home" (I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass)
05. The Notwist - "The Devil, You + Me" (The Devil, You + Me)
06. The Robot Ate Me - "They Ate Themselves" (They Ate Themselves)
07. Modest Mouse - ""Workin' on the Leavin' the Livin'" (Building Nothing Out of Something)
08. Death Cab for Cutie - "Coney Island" (The Photo Album)
09. Enon - "In This City" (High Society)
10. Elliot Smith - "Alphabet Town" (Elliot Smith)
11. They Might Be Giants - "I'll Sink Manhattan" (Don't Let's Start)
12. LCD Soundsystem - "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" (Sound of Silver)
13. Sonic Youth - "NYC Ghosts & Flowers" (NYC Ghosts & Flowers)
Hipsters, stop acting like you're in hell.
Songs for moody hipsters to lighten up to
01. !!! - "Hello? Is This Thing On?" (Louden Up Now)
02. Animal Collective - "My Girls" (Merriweather Post Pavilion)
03. Bloc Party - "Like Eating Glass" (Silent Alarm)
04. Deerhoof - "Snoopy Waves" (Offend Maggie)
05. Deerhoof - "Blue Cash" (Apple O')
06. Glass Candy - "Love Love Love" (Love Love Love)
07. Hot Chip - "Ready for the Floor" (Made in The Dark)
08. Minus The Bear - "Hooray (Dark Baby Remix)" (Interpretaciones Del Oso)
09. The Rogers Sisters - "Why Won't You" (The Invisible Deck)
10. TV on the Radio - "Let the Devil In" (Return to Cookie Mountain)
11. TV on the Radio - "The Wrong Way" (Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes)
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Hysteric" (It's Blitz)
13. Camper Van Beethoven - "Wasted" (Telephone Free Landslide Victory)
14. Modest Mouse - "Talking Shit about a Pretty Sunset" (This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About"
15. Ugly Casanova - "Parasites" (Sharpen Your Teeth)
Mix tape for my friend, who after years of trying, finally got pregnant
Congrats to the new mama
01. Devendra Banhart - "Long Haired Child" (Cripple Crow)
02. Kings of Leon - "Knocked Up" (Because of the Times)
03. Bon Iver - "Flume" (For Emma, Forever Ago)
04. Sufjan Stevens - "All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands" (Seven Swans)
05. Jose Gonzales - "Heartbeats" (Veneer)
06. American Analog Set - "The Only One" (Know by Heart)
07. Husky Rescue - "Sleep Tight Tiger" (Country Falls)
08. Mirah - "Birthday Present" (The Old Days Feeling)
09. Yo La Tengo - "Don't Have To Be So Sad" (Summer Sun)
10. Fiona Apple - "Waltz (Better Than Fine)" (Extraordinary Machine)
