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)
Apparently everybody has lots of sex at college except for me.
ME TOO
01. Andrew Bird - "Banking on a Myth" (Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs)
02. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Song Against Sex" (On Avery Island)
03. Belle & Sebastian - "Judy and the Dream of Horses" (If You're Feeling Sinister)
04. Girlyman - "Young James Dean" (Little Star)
05. Cloud Cult - "Happy Hippo" (Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus)
06. Broken Social Scene - "Handjobs for the Holidays" (Broken Social Scene)
07. Violent Femmes - "Gimme the Car" (Add It Up 1981-1993)
08. Mirah - "La Familia" (You Think It's Like This, But Really It's Like This)
09. Lisa Hannigan - "I Don't Know" (Sea Sew)
10. The National - "Slow Show" (Boxer)
11. Tilly and the Wall - "You and I Misbehaving" (Wild Like Children)
What about Jazz?
01. John Coltrane - "Acknowledgement" (A Love Supreme)
02. Charles Mingus - "Haitian Fight Song" (The Clown)
03. Freddie Hubbard -"Red Clay (Alt Take)" (Red Clay)
04. Pharoah Sanders - "You've Got To Have Freedom" (Pharoah Sanders' Finest)
05. Cannonball Adderly & John Coltrane - "Limehouse Blues" (Cannonball & Coltrane)
06. Keith Jarret, Gary Peacock,Jack DeJohnette - "Straight, No Chaser" (Live at the Blue Note)
07. Max Roach - "Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace)" (We Insist!)
08. Fats Waller - "Honeysuckle Rose" (Ain't Misbehavin)
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01. Jaco Pastorius - "(Soul Intro) The Chicken" (The Florida Concert)
02. The Seatbelts - "What Planet Is This?! (extended version)" (Cowboy Bebop Future Blues soundtrack)
03. Action Figure Party - "Action Figure Party" (Action Figure Party)
04. Michael Viner - "Apache" (Bongo Rock)
05. Mr. Scruff - "Champion Nibble" (Trouser Jazz)
06. Santana - "Oye Como Va" (Abraxas)
07. Junichi Kanezaki + Diligent Circle Of Ekoda - "WHAT'S TIME!?" (Najica soundtrack)
08. Deodato - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Prelude)
09. Mocean Worker - "Right Now" (Enter The Mowo)
10. Fila Brazillia - "Soul Sauce" (Verve Remixed 2)
11. Al Hirt - "Green Hornet" (Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack)
12. Ben Harper - "Mama's Trippin'" (The Will To Live)
Songs to buy new clothes to, because who doesn't love having style AND good taste in music?
01. The Kills - "U.R.A. Fever" (Midnight Boom)
02. Vampire Weekend - "Ottoman" (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Soundtrack)
03. Mando Diao - "High Heels" (Give Me Fire)
04. FM Belfast - "Underwear" (How To Make Friends)
05. Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations" (Sounds Of Summer - The Very Best Of The Beach Boys)
06. Poni Hoax - "Pretty Tall Girls" (Images Of Sigrid)
07. Black Moth Super Rainbow - "The Afternoon Turns Pink" (Dandelion Gum)
08. The Helio Sequence - "Can't Say No" (Keep Your Eyes Ahead)
09. School of Seven Bells - "Iamundernodisguise" (Alpinisms)
10. Fujiya & Miyagi - "Reeboks In Heaven" (Transparent Things)
11. The Raveonettes - "Black/White" (Beauty Dies)
12. Amanda Lepore - "My Hair Looks Fierce" (Introducing... Amanda Lepore)
Songs to Help Me Digest
01. Lupe Fiasco - "Gotta Eat" (The Cool)
02. Hot Chip - "Crap Kraft Dinner" (Coming On Strong)
03. Animal Collective - "Taste" (Merriweather Post Pavilion)
04. Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Tooth Decay" (Eating Us)
05. Crystal Castles - "Tell Me What to Swallow" (S/T)
06. Broken Social Scene - "Stomach Song" (Feel Good Lost)
07. The Raveonettes - "Bowels of the Beast" (Whip It On)
08. Bright Eyes - "Let's Not Shit Ourselves" (Lifted...)
09. The Buzzcocks - "Oh Shit" (Another Music In a Different Kitchen)
I want to go home.
A journey of what home really means after you've left it.
01. The Scene Aesthetic - "Dear Time Traveler," (Building Homes From What We've Known)
02. Mutemath - "After We Have Left Our Homes" (Mutemath)
03. The Mountain Goats - "Running Away With What Freud Said" (Taboo VI: The Homecoming)
04. Radiohead - "Subterranean Homesick Alien" (OK Computer)
05. Brightlife - "Where are You Now?" (Where Are You Now?)
06. The Vines - "Sick" (Highly Evolved)
07. Murder By Death - "Comin' Home" (Red Of Tooth and Claw)
08. Iggy Pop - "Neighborhood Threat" (Lust For Life)
09. Azure Ray - "Home" (Burn and Shiver)
10. The Go! Team - "I Never Needed It Now So Much" (Proof of Youth)
