March 2009
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February 2009
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"Love" at first sight. →
“Love at first sight. It may sound trite, but its true, you know.” Late Night Maudlin Street by Morrissey Love at first sight is a farce as far as I’m concerned, so this mix is too. It’s about lust. It follows the progression of pretty regrettable one night stand. Sort of. Gay Bar - Electric Six Girls and Boys - Blur True Love Pt. #2 - X Brick House - The Commodores P.Y.T....
The hormonal roller coaster of high school...
My lyric was from “Apple Trees” by Ozma. An apple pie, the number pi, I studied you in math class. I did all my work, but never got your digits. This mix is a story of a pour soul who fell desperately for a classmate who was simply not interested. The scorned teen is T, the object of T’s affections is S.
Girl - Beck T sees S at the mall over summer break and is instantly drawn...
If you really love her, you kill her
“I’m just a killer for your love” - Blur I found myself falling into pretty much two types of songs for this one: Man kills woman for cheating/revenge, or some weird family revenge/twisted family killing thing. I chose to include songs based on familial love, not just love-love, because those make for some interesting lyrics. Interesting to note that almost all lyrical cheating...
middle distance runner
“so won’t you run to me tonight? tonight let’s not talk about next summer, ‘cause i’ll only ever be a middle distance runner ” - sea wolf’s ‘middle distance runner’
it’s a little tough to tie much to this theme … so i tried to come up with a lot of ‘middle’ songs. mid-lengthed, mid-tempo’d, mid-etc.
i guess you...
Exploring Love, Loss and Absurdity Through the... →
- Lee
Given Theme: cause you need to be back In the arms of a good friend And I need to be back In the arms of a girlfriend - Matthew Sweet, “Girlfriend” How I Subverted It: Maybe it’s the title, a single line, or the concept, but all these songs deal with body parts. Like arms. Maybe the arms of a good friend. Maybe the arms of a girlfriend. “In Your Arms Tonight” – Hedwig and the...
i believe in love...
i believe in love. i’ll believe in anything that’s going to get me what i want and get me off my knees — leonard cohen’s “forest fire.” (link)
i kept it pretty basic with this mix. the overarching theme as i saw it is a sort of disenchantment with love. that’s what i ran with, anyway.
1. the way i feel inside by the zombies
2. when the day is short by...
It's better to break a face than to break a heart →
But IS it? Was “Beautiful Song” by Cansei der ser Sexy right? God only knows. But hey, I had my task, and I made the right mix. I took it from the point of view of vaguely angry or vaguely kinky.
1. Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex
Ha, is it about the fetish industry, or the male industrial complex? The shackles of society, or being tied up to get off? The world may never know.
2....
Get me all worked up like that
Theme: When you run your hand All up and run it back down my leg Get excited and bite my neck Get me all worked up like that
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Tracklist: 1. Sexx Laws - Beck 2. Touch Me - The Doors 3. Take My Breath Away - Berlin 4. ‘Round Midnight - Thelonius Monk 5. Spooky - Dusty Springfield 6. I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 7. The...
December 2008
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duets →
duets, clay masters
john fahey & cul de sac - “the new red pony”
johnny cash & nick cave - “i’m so lonesome i could cry”
mark knopfler & emmy lou harris - “donkey town”
medeski martin and wood & dj logic - “sugar craft”
ramblin’ jack elliot & tom waits - “louise”
thurston moore & christina carter...
THE ELEMENTS: Songs about earth, air, fire and...
My personal rules: Roughly the same amount of songs for each element (3, 3, 4, 5) and the word had to be in the song title. Bonus points for more than one element in a song title (used for transition purposes). I also wanted to keep a distinctive outdoorsy kind of feel.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wmemmhbxmum/The%20Elements.zip
1. “This Bitter Earth” - Dinah Washington
There are...
Bears Who Like to Hug and Kiss
For the camper who hates sleeping under the stars alone.
1. Cole Porter (sorry I don’t know the singer or the band) - Let’s Fall in Love
2. Hank Williams - Settin’ the Woods on Fire (the gem of this mix)
3. Teddy Bears - To Know Him is to Love Him
4. Randy Newman - Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
5. Dennis Wilson - (I Found Myself in a) Wild Situation
6. The Beach...
DANGEROUS COASTAL SEX MIX
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1. CAN - YOO DO RIGHT.
Yoo Do Right on the Beach. Yoo Do Yoo Right on the Beach. Yoo Do Me Right on the Beach. Me Do Yoo Do Me Right on the Beach.
2. WIRE - SAND IN MY JOINTS.
“Damn, girl! Didn’t you bring no blanket?!”
3. SONGS OHIA - OCEAN’S NERVES.
Your moaning is making the ocean nervous.
4....
Superheroes !!! (word)
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WOO! I spent alot of time on this CD, since I feel like there are alot of good, obvious songs that relate to superheroes (you know, Yoshimi, Time Travel is Lonely, etc..) that I could have stuck on a mix and called it good. So these are a bunch of songs that I think are less literal, but still remind me of...
SATISFACTION: A mix made for dancing in your... →
Because I hate working and all but the most superficial responsibilities, I took my theme (Satisfaction) in the direction of waking up on a particularly charming day, blowing off work, and then sitting around, or rather dancing around, in my underwear. Not that that happens regularly or anything.
-jen
Get Up Offa That Thing – James Brown Listen to that scream! How cool would it be to wake up to...
your enthusiasm is not appreciated (link)
-alyssa.
it’s true. your enthusiasm is not appreciated, but i made the mix for you anyway. most of these are, in my opinion, dance songs for sad bastards, who never appreciate enthusiasm anyway.
1. love at first sight by kylie minogue
2. call me by blondie
3. girls on film by duran duran
4. disco 2000 by pulp
5. can’t hardly wait by the...
Soundtrack for a Hangover - A parable in 13 songs →
-Lee
Go out, drink, drink too much, make regrettable decisions, make more regrettable decisions, feel like shit and pass out, wake up, regret waking up, headache, sickness, rinse, repeat. A post-postmodern parable.
1. Take Your Mama - Scissor Sisters
2. Brandy Alexander - Feist
3. Too Drunk to Dream - Magnetic Fields
4. Swinging Party - The Replacements
5. Poses - Rufus Wainwright
6. This...
Escape →
The theme I drew was “Escape.” Because I’ve been thinking of how superb it would be to run free and abroad, it’s basically about leaving things and people behind and breaking ties with everyting.
1. Leaving Town-Dexter Freebish
2. Tank!-The Seatbelts
3. Arrivals/Departures-Vox Vermillion
4. Country’s A Callin’-Luscious Jackson
5. Urge for Going-Joni...
The Devil →
by Quentin i forgot the xml file, but here’s the order they go in. remember, the devil is in the details. fall: marion barfs - clint mansell the devil, you + me - the notwist sister isabel - frank black and the catholics crossroad blues - robert johnson white planes - john vanderslice friend of the devil - the grateful dead blue orchid - white stripes casper, the friendly ghost - daniel...
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Ladie's Night →
By Marcus Tegtmeier
I don’t know who’s theme this is, mine was “Space Age Music To Make Love To”.
01. Ladies’ Night - Kool and the Gang
02. Hey Ladies - The Beastie Boys
03. Hello It’s Me - Todd Rundgren
04. Breaking It Up - Lykke Li
05. Dare - Gorillaz
06. Let’s Dance - David Bowie
07. Fuck The Pain Away - Peaches
08. Le Freak - Chic
09. Push It...
West Coast →
- by John
“So all these people come here, and then there’s all this publicity, and… “Northern Exposure” and “Twin Peaks” and all this stuff, and everyone wants to come here and live the good yuppie lifestyle, but all this time there’s all these people that are underneath that were here first and they’re just starving and they’re all...
Space Age Songs to Make Love To →
Katie H.
Nothing is Spacier or Sexier than a theremin.
1) Project: Pimento “Diamonds are Forever”
2) Silicon Drum “Theremin Skank”
3) MSK “How Far is Mars from the Earth?”
4) Bud Averill “Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair”
5) RS Theremin “Touch the Soul”
6) The Silver Wizard Project “Psychedelic Fucking Machine”
7)...
"Stroking" Your Ego: Commentary on a Mix Cd →
Marypat’s Contribution
I feel like every mix tape/cd/custom playlist is at least a little self-indulgent. When a person compiles a collection, they are essentially saying, “My music is better than yours, and I can express myself immaculately through the words of others.” That’s why, as my own personal commentary on a mix cd, I chose to share 13 songs about the ultimate self-indulgence with all of...
This Mix Tastes Like Burning: Songs that Remind You of Traumatic Injuries
By Delphine
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1. “Murder” New Order 2. “Heart Cooks Brain” Modest Mouse 3. “Knife” Grizzly Bear 4. “Gouge Away” Pixies 5. “Lady Godiva’s Operation” The Velvet Underground 6. “She Blinded Me With Science” Thomas Dolby 7. “Mr. Your On Fire Mr.” Liars 8. “Butcher’s Tale...
This Mix Kills Fascists →
Patriotic Americans – This Mix Kills Fascists
Christr Vogt
pā-trē-ət: noun – A musical dissident whose aim in songwriting is to thwart economic unfairness and war-mongering with the ultimate goal of putting Democracy back in the peoples’ hands by rocking their assess. 1. “Hank Aaron” – Smoke I’ll admit outright that I was looking for a reason to include Smoke on my mix probably even before I...
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Lessons on Saving the World →
I’ll try to get some album art up later this week, but in the meantime, here’s my mix. The following liner notes are contained in the zip file.
Lessons on Saving the World Hello, my name is Justin McDowell, and I decided to interpret this mix theme as a zombie movie soundtrack. (For this mixer, the theme I contributed was Sequel to a Soundtrack; I guess I’m a little obsessed with movie...
