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)
You Say Potato, I Say Get The Fuck On The Dancefloor
01. Amanda Blank- "Get It Now"
02. Ellie Goulding - "Starry Eyed" (Ellie Goulding)
03. Florence + The Machine - "Howl" (Lungs)
04. Chew Lips - "Salt Air" (IM // UR)
05. Neon Indian - "Terminally Chill" (Psychic Chasms)
06. Sam Sparro - "21st Century Life" (Sam Sparro)
07. Ra Ra Riot - "Can You Tell (Discovery Remix)"
08. Biggie Smalls - "Hypnotize"
09. Spiral Beach - "Rocket Fuel" (Ball)
10. Brazillian Girls - "Good Time" (New York City)
Are We Boyfriend & Girlfriend or Not?
I'd be much more inclined to be your boyfriend if you were a Trending
Topic on Twitter.
01. The Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen In Love?" (Singles Going Steady)
02. Lick The Tins - "Can't Help Falling In Love" (Some Kind Of
Wonderful Soundtrack)
03. Fugazi - "Do You Like Me" (Red Medicine)
04. Third Eye Blind - "Faster" (Out Of The Vein)
05. Mineral - "Slower" (The Power Of Failing)
06. Kid Kilowatt - "Rushing To Relax" (Guitar Method)
07. The Wedding Present - "This Boy Can Wait" (NME C86)
08. Pretenders - "The Wait" (Pretenders )
09. Seaweed - "Go Your Own Way" (Clerks Soundtrack)
10. Texas Is The Reason - "If It's Here When We Get Back" (Texas Is
The Reason EP)
11. Walking Concert - "What Does Your Heart Say?" (Run To Be Born)
12. Hot Snakes - "Why Does It Hurt?" (Suicide Invoice)
13. Seven Storey - "Dress Rehearsal" (Dividing By Zero)
14. Feelies - "Loveless Love" (Crazy Rhythms)
15. Shiner - "Too Much Of Not Enough" (Starless)
16. The Draft - "Stop Wastin' My Time" (Digital - EP)
17. Engine Down - "The Offer Of Something" (Under The Pretense Of Present Tense)
18. Monorchid - "What We Need Is More Than This" (Who Put Out The Fire)
19. PJ Harvey - "This Mess We're In" (Stories From The City, Stories
From The Sea)
20. Knapsack - "Steeper Than We Thought" (Day Three Of My New Life)
21. Pavement - "Two States" (Slanted & Enchanted)
22. Hoover - "Pretender" (The Lurid Traversal of Route 7)
23. The Replacements - "Unsatisfied" (Let It Be)
Moving into your first apartment
01. Shift - "Starting Over" (Get In)
02. Seaweed - "What Are We Taking?" (Actions and Indications)
03. Jawbreaker - "Pack It Up" (Bivouac)
04. Elliott - "Suitcase and Atoms" (U.S. Songs)
05. Death Cab For Cutie - "Why You'd Want To Live Here" (The Photo Album)
06. Chavez - "New Room" (Ride The Fader)
07. Quicksand - "Dine Alone" (Slip)
08. Giant Drag - "Pretty Little Neighbor" (Hearts And Unicorns)
09. Samiam - "Home Sweet Home" (Samiam / Texas Is The Reason - Your
Choice Live Series Split)
10. Desaparecidos - "The Happiest Place on Earth" (Read Music Speak Spanish)
Fuck you, I don't need a hall pass
01. Mötley Crüe - "Smoking in the Boys Room" (Theater of Pain)
02. Sebadoh - "Smoke a Bowl" (III)
03. Smashing Pumpkins - "Fuck You (An ode To No One)" (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
04. Sonic Youth - "Teen Age Riot" (Daydream Nation)
05. Black Lips - "Bad Kids" (Good Bad Not Evil)
06. Animal Collective - "College" (Sung Tongs)
07. Fuck Buttons - "Colours Move" (Street Horrrsing)
08. M83 - "We Own the Sky" (Saturdays=Youth)
09. Boards of Canada - "Smokes Quantity" (Music Has The Right To Children)
Something for the asshole who keeps putting Arcade Fire on the mix tapes, to show him/her better mus
I hate Arcade Fire too. These bands deserve/deserved to be bigger than them.
01. Deerhoof - "The Perfect Me" (Friend Opportunity)
02. Torche - "Grenades" (Meanderthal)
03. Lightning Bolt - "Mohawkwindmill" (Hypermagic Mountain)
04. No Age - "Boy Void" (Weirdo Rippers)
05. Comets On Fire - "Lucifer's Memory" (Avatar)
06. These Arms Are Snakes - "Prince Squid" (Tail Swallower and Dove)
07. Awesome Color - "Come and Dance" (Electric Aborigines)
08. Harvey Milk - "Motown" (Life...The Best Game In Town)
09. Future Of The Left - "The Lord Hates A Coward" (Curses)
10. Mika Miko - "Business Cats" (C.Y.S.L.A.B.F.)
11. Deerhunter - "Saved By Old Times" (Microcastle)
12. Coalesce - "The Plot Against My Love" (Ox)
Corny makes me uncomfortable, but I love you
Not conventional love songs, but not filled with typical wannabe indie-rock bullshit irony. Just good and simple. A personal favorite is Bishop Allen's "Corazon," a love song to a piano.
01. The Walkmen - "Canadian Girl" (You & Me)
02. Grizzly Bear - "I Live With You" (Veckatimest)
03. Ben Sollee - "Prettiest Tree On The Mountain" (Learning to Bend)
04. We Are Scientists - "After Hours" (Brain Thrust Mystery)
05. Pomegranates - "In The Kitchen" (Everything Is Alive)
06. The Acorn & Ohbijou - "Steep (Steep)" (The Acorn + Ohbijou)
07. Harlem Shakes - "Natural Man" (Technicolor Health)
08. Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - "HEERS" (Perishing)
09. Blind Pilot - "3 Rounds And A Sound" (3 Rounds And A Sound)
10. Born Ruffians - "Hedonistic Me" (Red, Yellow & Blue)
11. Say Hi To Your Mom - "These Fangs" (Impeccable Blahs)
12. Arthur & Yu - "1000 Words" (In Camera)
13. Bishop Allen - "Corazon" (The Broken String)
13. Fleet Foxes - "Your Protector" (Fleet Foxes)
I'm secretly having sex with my best friend's girlfriend, which is wrong, I know, but I just can't s
01. Bumblebeez - "Freak Ya Loneliness" (Prince Umberto and the Sister of Ill)
02. The Thermals - "A Stare Like Yours" (F****n A)
03. The Black Keys - "Your Touch" (Magic Potion)
04. The White Stripes - "Hypnotize" (Elephant)
05. Death From Above 1979 - "Sexy Results" (You're A Woman, I'm A Machine)
06. Japandroids - "Heart Sweats" (Post-Nothing)
07. Morningwood - "Take Off Your Clothes" (Morningwood)
08. Say Anything - "Alive With the Glory of Love" (...Is a Real Boy)
09. Led Zeppelin - "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Led Zeppelin I)
10. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - "Let's Make Out" (You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into)
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Kiss Kiss" (IS IS – EP)
12. Wolfmother - "Woman" (Wolfmother)
Songs that won't drive me crazy when I'm massaging my clients.
01. Jochem Paap - "Mbnt-Plng" (Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598)
02. Aphex Twin - "Untitled (Track 01)" (Selected Ambient works Vol. 2, Disc 1)
03. Vangelis - "Wait For Me" (Blade Runner Soundtrack)
04. Pete Namlook and Ritchie Hawtin - "Silent Intelligence Part V" (From Within 3)
05. Tetsu Inoue and Jonah Sharp - "Morphing Cloud" (Electro Harmonix)
06. Jochem Paap - "Dx-Synth" - (Vrs-Mbnt-Pcs 9598)
07. Pete Namlook - "Schmooze" - (4Voice III)
"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)
