Songs that will bring back my faith in the human race
Songs about the purest of faith, trust, truth, and love...
or people addressing some fucked up shit.
01. Against Me! - "Don't Lose Touch" (Searching for a Former Clarity)
02. The Blow - "Parentheses" (Paper Television)
03. MGMT - "Time to Pretend" (Time to Pretend)
04. Stars - "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" (Set Yourself on Fire)
05. Andrew Bird - "Tables and Chairs" (Andrew Bird and the Mysterious
Production of Eggs)
06. The Sounds - "Living in America" (Living in America)
07. Antony and the Johnsons - "For Today I'm a Boy" (I Am a Bird Now)
08. Cat Stevens - "Wild World" (Tea for the Tillerman)
09. The Mountain Goats - "This Year" (The Sunset Tree)
10. Devendra Banhart - "I Feel Just Like a Child" (Cripple Crow)
11. Mother Mother - "Verbatim" (Touch Up)
12. Illinois - "What Can I Do For You?" (What the Hell Do I Know?)
13. Elton John - "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" (Tapestry)
14. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - "Falling Slowly" (The Swell Season)
15. Ben Kweller - "Family Tree" (Sha sha)
16. The National - "Slow Show" (Boxer)
17. Spoon - "The Underdog" (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
18. Carole King - "Beautiful" (Tapestry)
Nice to meet you. Can I use you?
01. Belle & Sebastian - "Step Into My Office, Baby" (Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
02. Arctic Monkeys - "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" (Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not)
03. CSS - "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" (Musikexpress 101)
04. Death from Above 1979 - "Romantic Rights" (You're a Woman, I'm a Machine)
05. Men Women & Children - "Messy" (Men Women & Children)
06. Ben Kweller - "Wasted and Ready" (Sha Sha)
07. Of Montreal - "The Party's Crashing Us" (The Sunlandic Twins)
08. Pedro the Lion - "Penetration" (Control)
09. Rilo Kiley - "Portions for Foxes" (More Adventurous)
10. We Are Scientists - "Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt" (With Love and Squalor)
11. Bright Eyes - "Lover I Don't Have to Love" (Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground)
Unlucky fishbowl.
01. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "I Put a Spell On You" (Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie)
02. Madvillain - "Strange Ways" (Madvillainy)
03. The Libertines - "What A Waster" (Up the Bracket)
04. David Bowie - "The Width of a Circle" (The Man Who Sold the World)
05. The Futureheads - "Danger of the Water" (The Futureheads)
06. !!! - "Break In Case of Anything" (Myth Takes)
07. PJ Harvey - "The Mess We're In" (Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea)
08. Arcade Fire - "Ocean of Noise" (Neon Bible)
09. Kings of Convenience - "Misread" (Riot On An Empty Street)
10. Beulah - "Matter vs. Space" (When Your Heartstrings Break)
11. Jenny Lewis - "Handle With Care" (Rabbit Fur Coat)
12. Death Cab For Cutie - "For What Reason" (We Have the Facts And We're Voting Yes)
A mix tape to listen to after an epiphany following various hallucinogenic encounters with Elliott S
note from apixelrevolt: I've decided not to use any Elliott Smith songs in this mixtape. It seemed like cheating.
01. Lullaby for the Working Class - "Honey, Drop the Knife" (Blanket Warm)
02. The Beatles - "Fixing a Hole" (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
03. Silver Jews - "Death of an Heir of Sorrows" (Bright Flight)
04. Bright Eyes - "Reinvent the Wheel" (Four Winds [EP])
05. Ben Kweller - "I Need You Back" (On My Way)
06. Rilo Kiley - "Ripchord" (More Adventurous)
07. Heatmiser - "Cruel Reminder" (Mic City Sons)
08. Pedro the Lion - "Priests and Paramedics" (Control)
09. The Minus 5 - "Cemetary Row" (The Minus 5)
10. Telefon Tel Aviv - "Life Is All About Taking Things In and Putting Things Out" (Fahrenheit Fair Enough)
Songs for a vigilante to listen to during his nightly quest for justice.
note from mason: Some of these choices might seem a bit strange – these were picked more for their mood and musicality than for their lyrics – but I can perfectly see these accompanying some slow, panning shots of a well-dressed Stallone-type figure with an assault rifle.
01. The Raconteurs – "Store-bought Bones" (Broken Boy Soldiers)
02. Talking Heads – "Electric Guitar" (Fear of Music)
03. Agent Orange – "Bloodstains (original version)" (Living in Darkness)
04. As Tall As Lions – "Stab City " (As Tall As Lions)
05. Warsaw – "Walked In Line" (unreleased)
06. The Coachwhips – "The Alarm" (The Sound of San Francisco)
07. Thom Yorke – "And It Rained All Night" (The Eraser)
08. Spoon – "My Mathematical Mind" (Gimme Fiction)
09. The Fucking Champs – "Esprit de Corpse" (IV)
10. Fujiya & Miyagi – "Ankle Injuries" (Transparent Things)
11. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – "Ha Ha High Babe" (Take Them On, On Your Own)
12. Beck "E-Pro" (Guero)
13. Lightning Bolt "Assassins" (Wonderful Rainbow)
14. King Crimson "21st Century Schizoid Man" (In the Court of the Crimson King)
The Week of Poor Choices
note from tague: i think i know how you feel my dear. this has a lot of songs from my current feeling shitty mix.
01. The Lawrence Arms- "Minute" (A Guided Tour of Chicago)
02. Belle and Sebastian- "Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying" (If You Are Feeling Sinister)
03. Bob Dylan- "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
04. Samiam- "Sunshine" (Astry)
05. Saturday Looks Good To Me- "Until the World Stops Spinning" (Every Night)
06. Sundowner- "Midsummer Classic" (Four One Five Two)
07. Superhopper- "It's Alright, It's Okay" (Party Killers)
08. Rilo Kiley- "A Better Son/Daughter" (The Execution of All Things)
09. Defiance, Ohio- "I'm Just Going to Leave" (Share What Ya Got)
10. Against Me!- "8 Full Hours of Sleep" (Reinventing Axl Rose)
11. Cursive- "The Night I Lost the Will to Fight" (Domestica)
12. Dan Potthast- "So Many Days" (Sweets and Meats)
13. The Draft- "Out of Tune" (In A Million Pieces)
odd little love songs for my odd little girlfriend
01. TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me" (Return To Cookie Mountain)
02. Her Space Holiday - "Something To Do With My Hands" (The Young Machines)
03. Aqueduct - "Dinner Mints" (Pistols At Dawn)
04. The Boy Least Likely To - "Be Gentle With Me" (The Best Party Ever)
05. I'm From Barcelona - "Treehouse" (Sing!!)
06. The Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" (Funeral)
07. The Smiths - "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" (The Queen Is Dead)
08. Coco Rosie - "By Your Side" (Le Maison de Mon Reve)
09. The Moldy Peaches - "Anybody Else But You" (The Moldy Peaches)
make me your girlfriend or you'll never see me naked again.
01. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Song Against Sex" (On Avery Island)
02. Two Gallants - "Nothing To You" (The Throes)
03. Dr. Dog - "The Girl" (We All Belong)
04. Randy Newman - "Tickle Me" (Randy Newman Live)
05. Gary Wilson - "I Wanna Lose Control" (You Think You Really Know Me)
06. The Flaming Lips - "She Don't Use Jelly" (Transmissions From The Satellite Heart)
07. Broken Social Scene - "I'm Your Fag" (You Forgot It In People)
08. Daniel Johnston - "Like A Monkey In A Zoo" (Songs Of Pain)
09. Cloud Cult - "Living On The Outside Of Your Skin" (Advice From The Happy
Hippopotamus)
10. Jonathan Richman - "The Girl Stands Up To Me Now" (Having A Party With Jonathan Richman)
11. The Gerbils - "Crayon Box" (Are You Sleepy?)
12. Lou Reed - "Sick Of You" (New York)
can you love two people at the same time....with the same name?
let this mix be your magic eight ball: if you can love these same-named songs at the same time, then you're good, but if you consistently feel like you have to choose one, I recommend backing off.
01. Natalie Merchant - "Carnival" (VH1 Storytellers)
02. Joan Osborne - "Pensacola" (Relish)
03. Joni Mitchell - "California" (Blue)
04. Bob Dylan - "I Want You" (Greatest Hits)
05. Richard Thompson - "Push and Shove" (Finding Better Words - The Essential Richard Thompson)
06. R.E.M. - "Catapult" (Murmur)
07. Fastball - "Damaged Goods" (All the Pain Money Can Buy)
08. The Beatles - "I Want You" (Abbey Road)
09. Amy Correia - "Carnival" (Carnival Love)
10. Rufus Wainwright - "California" (Poses)
11. Fatboy Slim feat. Justin Robertson - "Push and Shove" (Palookaville)
12. Gang of Four - "Damaged Goods" (Entertainment!)
13. Soul Coughing - "Pensacola" (El Oso)
14. Counting Crows - "Catapult" (Recovering the Satellites)
songs that make a compelling case for bringing the word "rad" back
A mix I made for this guy I started seeing earlier this year, completely "rad"-inspired: lead singer of a punk-alt rock band, a skater, the tight androgynous pants, the fedora, the Allston indie-punk bar he always goes to, the whiskey he drinks. Totally rad.
This was my way of telling him how rad I thought he was/think he is...the most rad songs I could think of; songs that would make him say, "yeah, that mix was rad...and yeah, wow, so is she".
And all in a little under 80 minutes. ;)
01. The Walkmen - "Lost In Boston" (A Hundred Miles Off)
02. The Misfits - "Hybrid Moments" (Legacy of Brutality)
03. Eagles of Death Metal - "Bad Dream Mama" (Peace Love Death Metal)
04. Devo - "Gut Feeling" (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo/DEV-O Live)
05. Nation of Ulysses - "Last Train To Cool" (Plays Pretty For Baby)
06. Mewithoutyou - "The Ghost" ([A-->B] Life)
07. The Dirtbombs - "I Can't Stop Thinking About It" (Horndog Fest)
08. Sebastien Tellier - "La ritournelle (Mr. Dan's Magic Wand mix)" (La Ritournelle (Remix) - EP)
09. Love - "Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark and Hilldale" (Forever Changes)
10. My Morning Jacket - "It Beats 4 U" (Okonokos)
11. The Barbarians - "Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl" (self-titled)
12. Division of Laura Lee - "Dirty Love" (Das Not Compute)
13. Girl Talk - "Smash Your Head" (Night Ripper)
14. Patti Smith - "Gloria" (Horses)
15. The Kooks - "See The World" (Inside In/Inside Out)
16. Madlib - "Toe Fat" (Beat Konducta)
17. Arab Strap - "Love Detective" (The Red Thread)
18. The Modern Lovers - "Hospital" (self-titled)
19. Liars - "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack" (Drums Not Dead)
20. Keny Arkana - "Outro" (Mix Tape Vol. 1: L'esquisse)
21. Zen Guerilla - "Fingers" (Positronic Raygun)
22. Concrete Blonde -"It'll Chew You Up And Spit You Out" (Still In Hollywood)
