"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)
Gimme some good gardening songs
01. Andrew Bird - "Scythian Empires" (Armchair Apocrypha)
02. Beirut- "Scenic World" (Lon Gisland)
03. The American Analog Set - "The Green Green Grass" (Set Free)
04. Yeasayer - "Sunrise" (All Hour Symbols)
05. The Beatles - "Blackbird" (The White Album)
06. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - "Cold Roses" (Cold Roses)
07. Hem - "Half Acre" (Birds, Beasts, and Flowers)
08. Siouxie and the Banshees - "Hong Kong Garden (with Strings Intro)" (Marie Antionette)
09. Nick Drake - "Man in a Shed" (Five Leaves Left)
10. Feist - "Mushaboom" (Let It Die)
11. The Cure - "Plain Song" (Disintegration)
12. Laura Veirs - "Nightingale" (Saltbreakers)
13. Jens Lekman - "A Sweet Summer's Night On Hammer Hill" (Oh You're So Silent, Jens)
14. Asobi Seksu - "Strawberries" (Citrus)
15. Wilco - "Muzzle of Bees" (A Ghost Is Born)
16. Miracle Fortress - "Hold Your Secrets To Your Heart" (Five Roses)
It's almost time for the annual summer vacation pool party. Side A: Swimming in the sunshine Side B:
SIDE A:
01. The Flaming Lips - "It's Summertime" (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)
02. Animal Collective - "Grass" (Feels)
03. Phoenix - "Consolation Prizes" (It's Never Been Like That)
04. Lily Allen - "Smile (Version Revisited) [Mark Ronson Remix]" (Alright, Still)
05. Vampire Weekend - "Oxford Comma" (Vampire Weekend)
06. Little Joy - "Brand New Start" (Little Joy)
07. Spoon - "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
08. The Shins - "Australia" (Wincing The Night Away)
SIDE B:
09. The Beatles - "Sun King" (Abbey Road)
10. Delta Spirit - "Ode to Sunshine" (Ode to Sunshine)
11. Tokyo Police Club - "Your English is Good" (Elephant Shell)
12. Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Closer)
13. Doves - "There Goes the Fear" (The Last Broadcast)
14. Pixies - "Where Is My Mind?" (Surfer Rosa)
15. The Gaslight Anthem - "The ‘59 Sound" (The ‘59 Sound)
16. Wolfmother - "Vagabond" (Wolfmother)
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)
