Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Mix #29 - White Dance Parties

Creator: Editor
Occupation: Non-Blogger
Theme: White Dance Parties
Title: White Dance Parties


I am not a dancer. Not at all. I will admit that I have been on long side of a bottle a couple times and been a "dancer." It seems that most of these times happened before everyone seemed to have a video camera in their cell phone. The following is a list of songs that will make any (or all) white people dance instantaneously. Enjoy!

What will make White People Dance
Song - Artist

1) Ignition (Remix) - R. Kelly
2)Work It - Missy Elliot
3) B.O.B. - Outkast
4) Pro Nails - Kid Sister
5) Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
6) Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay -Z
7) Shut down the Club - Girl Talk
8) Somehoow - KY Prophet
9) Got Your Money - Ol' Dirty Bastard
10) Shake the Laffy Taffy - D4L
11) Yeah! - Usher
12) My Milkshake - Kelis
13) Hey Ya - Outkast
14) Lip Gloss - Lil Mama




Sunday, January 18, 2009

Sneak Previews

Mix Tapers,

As music fans you guys should check out the All Song Considered Sneak Preview page HERE.

It all streams... and it is out a couple of days early... and since we, here at Monday Night Mixtapes are all about streaming audio we thought we would share the love.

Bob Boilen can be a kind of lame, but I bet you can push through!

Enjoy!

Mix #28 - The President's Mix

Hello Mix Tapers!

I have been trying to think about what the first blog would be like after the hiatus. It feels like it should be bigger/better than usual (which put the pressure on me) because I haven't been writing, but then I realized that it is not that I haven't been writing, it has been that I haven't been sharing. Which means that I really have nothing to prove. Well at least not sharing with more than a couple of people at a time - generally after a lot of drink.
The end of the year almost always begs for mix tapes as you try to decide what you have found throughout the year and more importantly what has stuck as some outstanding new music. I don't have a year end review today... as more pressing issues are at play. Namely - the swearing in of a new President.

The first playlist consists of songs about presidents or tied/inspired by presidents. The second is a mix of songs by artists Obama as said are on his iPod.

Please listen, enjoy, and watch the president get sworn in!

Raise your glasses high.

Songs about/for/inspired by Presidents
Song - Artist
NOTE: I know the Wycelf Song is kind of bullshit... but sometimes things fit too well to be rejected for your personal taste. Also, I could have just played everything by the George Bush Singers. That shit cracked me up!

1) In Tennessee - The George Bush Singers
2) Campaigner - Neil Young
3) James K. Polk - They Might Be Giants
4) Christ For President - Billy Bragg and Wilco
5) Deep Thoughts (II) - The George Bush Singers
6) The Times They Are A-Changing - Bob Dylan
7) Day John Kennedy Died - Lou Reed
8) Eisenhower Blues - J. B. Lenoir
9) President - Wyclef Jean
10) Black President - NaS
11) Paint the White House Black - George Clinton


Obama's Ipod
Song - Artist
NOTE: Sheryl Crow... really?

1) Superstition - Stevie Wonder
2) Big Pimpin - Jay - Z
3) Kuai Lu - Yo Yo Ma
4) Steve McQueen - Sheryl Crow
5) Summertime - Miles Davis
6) Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
7) Beyonce - Single Ladies
8) Wheelin' - John Coltrane
9) Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
10) Honky Tonk Woman - Rolling Stones


obamas Ipod

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Happy New Years

So it has been a rough end of the year over here at the Mix Tapes Home Office. It seems I have found myself a tad laid off and have been traveling around 1930's style looking for work. There have been some times and I hope to bring you the music that tells the tales.

I just thought I would drop a little note saying that music is coming... from Tennessee and beyond.

Thanks to all who have been sending in - Especially, Jesse for the kick in the ass.

Back soon in '09

-Mgmt

Monday, October 13, 2008

Recent Purchases Vol. 2

Here is a little list of music that is newly purchased:

1) Rodriguez - Cold Fact ---- I got turned on to this record by Andrew down at The Groove in Nashville. NPR did a little story on it recently. The album was recorded in late 1969 and soon after both Rodriguez and the album disappeared. It has been recently reprinted and is totally worth it. Check it out. If you are in Nashville The Groove has vinyl.

2) Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue --- I was worried about this one. I really liked the first album quite a bit and was curious whether it could be duplicated or exceeded without The Watson Twins' help. After my first listen I am not sure what I think. There are some gems on there for sure, but I might have wanted her to not change her sounds at all. . . and well. . . she changed. I think it is worth a listen and I also think it is a grower.

3) Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul - This is a compilation released by The Numero Group. If you are not familiar with this label they find lost music (usually based on a genera) gather it up and release it as a compilation. The ABCs of Kid Soul was all recorded around the time The Jackson 5 were blowing up. Every small label tried their hand at creating a Jackson 5. All of these tracks have been rolling around in obscurity for a decades. I believe they were all recorded by kids between 12 and 17. Check this album out, and check this label out.

4) Otis Redding - Live at Whiskey A Go-Go
Otis Redding - The Soul Album
---- I picked up both of these albums after the reprint for less than they were actually worth. I suppose there isn't so much to say about it. If you don't know Otis Redding go out now and buy a record, go outside and blast it at night and drink a bottle of wine. You will be hooked from then on. These two records are excellent records to start with!

5) Eddie Bo - In the Pocket with Eddie Bo --- I have been looking for a record from this guy for a long time. I was hanging out up in Newport KY a couple of years ago catching up with old friends and Eddie Bo was the background for the evening. In the Pocket with. . . is a new release that collects a sampling of music that spans Bo's entire career. I enjoyed this record but it didn't live up to the memory of that first unfindable record I heard. Anything by Bo is recommended!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Enjoy the firey rollercoaster to the bottom!

My friends, the economy just keeps getting worse. . .


Monday, September 29, 2008

Mix #27 - Friends and Lovers

Creator: Michelle
Occupation: Artist; Music LOVER
Theme: Lovers that know how to play music
Title: Friends and Lovers

Holy Shit is this is a new mix! Yes, it is – and it is a doozy.

We have had 26 mixes with many different themes, but this one is the most personal and intriguing.

Michelle offers up a mix titled “Friends and Lovers.”

Simply the theme is: Everyone on this mix is someone that is a friend or a lover. For the sake of public anonymity we won’t say who is who or which is which, but I will say that are more lovers than friends on this list, the friends were added in after the original mix was completed to so that you “the listener” would have to try to figure it out – and Michelle said it would be ok to contact her to ask questions; try to guess or hear the stories. If the conversations are good, maybe they will make the comments.

Email Michelle at: damagehole@gmail.com

My first thought was “What a theme?” then it was “ You have fucked enough musicians to make a mix” and then it was “Oh, you didn’t fuck 'them'?“ and then it was "isn’t the term Rock & Roll a 20’s slang for sex in the first place?”
I am always looking for that type of convergence on this blog – and never really get it! Here is some info about the origins of the phrase “Rock & Roll”:

Three different songs with the title "Rock And Roll" were recorded in the late 1940s, and the phrase was in constant use in the lyrics of R&B songs of the time. The phrase was also included in advertisements for the film Wabash Avenue, starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature.
Before then, the phrase "rocking and rolling", as secular black slang for dancing or sex, appeared on record for the first time in 1922 on Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll". Even earlier, in 1916, the term "rocking and rolling" was used with a religious connotation, on the phonograph record "The Camp Meeting Jubilee" by an unnamed male "quartette".[2] The word "rock" had a long history in the English language as a metaphor for "to shake up, to disturb or to incite". In 1937, Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald recorded "Rock It for Me," which included the lyric, "So won't you satisfy my soul with the rock and roll." "Rocking" was a term used by black gospel singers in the American South to mean something akin to spiritual rapture. By the 1940s, however, the term was used as a double entendre, ostensibly referring to dancing, but with the sub textual meaning of sex, as in Roy Brown's "Good Rocking Tonight."

There you have it! From the beginning to Elvis to the backstage parties after 80’s hair metal bands – getting it on has always been linked to the phrase rock and roll

Enjoy the mix and send one if you want see more posted. I have received a handful of emails about people telling me their ideas. The ideas are great – you just have to make the mix. Keep the project going!

Here is the mix:

Friends & Lovers
Song - Artist

1) Sour Mash - Cory Branan
2) Red Door - The Thugs
3) Only the Lonely Devil Knows - These United States
4) Devil - Caleb Stine and the Brake Men
5) (I just want to ) be your man - Magical, Beautiful
6) So Desperate - The Mountain Goats
7) South Electric Eyes - The Legendary Shack Shakers
8) Trump Style - Kimya Dawson
9) A song for Henry Darger - Karl Blau
10) My Autograph - James Farrell
11) Better - Tigers Con Queso
12) I Want a Train - Jamey Wood
13) Motherfucker - Bobby Bare Jr.
14) Better Before You Were Big Time - Ted Russell Kamp
15) The Way You Needed Love - The Coalmen
16) Last Wish - Ballhog!
17) 1981 (or Waving at you as we part at light speed will look like I am standing still - Adam Arcuragi
18) Americana is a Faggot Word That Only Faggots Use - Gabe Zander
19) My Only Friend - The Mother Truckers
20) Slow Down Chicago - Canasta
21)Lips of an Angel - Hinder
22) Betelgeuse - Far Rad
23) Right On Down - Shake It Like a Caveman

Friends and Lovers

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Mix #26 - At a Loss for Words

Creator: Jesse Chula
Occupation: Inside Advertising Sales
Theme: Instrumental
Title: At a Loss for Words

Jesse delivers. This tape came in late last week - and I have had this post ready for about 3 days - sorry to keep you guys waiting. . .

This is a mix I have been waiting for since the I first started posting mixes. When decided to request/post mixes I had a couple of ideas for mixes I hoped I would get, and this is one of them.
I am not the biggest fan of instrumental tracks. I suppose that is because I am lyrics person - it is the same reason I can be a fan of old shitty recordings, and super lo-fi music - but without lyrics we get to write our own stories. Without lyrics it is easier for every listener to get a different experience. Couple that with the fact that by making a mix tape you are are taking any influence the author of the song had by placing in a specific order on the original album, and you seem to have more control on altering the songs meaning. I think it leads to a mix tape whose intent is uniquely decided by the listener.

Special Note: Judy is a Dick Slap is my second favorite dirty intramental track title - a close second right behind, "Lick my Love Pump" from Spinal Tap. In D minor - the saddest of all keys.

This mix is from Jesse Chula who sent in a mix near the very beginning of the blog. It is good to get another mix from him! Thanks, Jesse.

Anyway onwards!

Enjoy.


At A Loss For Words
Song - Artist
1) Chun Li's Spinning Bird Kick - Arctic Monkeys
2) Judy is a Dick Slap - Belle & Sebastian
3) You Still Believe in Me - M.Ward
4) Life in Technicolor - Coldplay
5) Two Bass Hit - Miles Davis
6) Time is Tight - The Clash
7) In the Deep Shade - The Frames
8) Three Way - The Magnetic Fields
9) Midtown - Tom Waits
10)Fuckin' in the Bushes - Oasis
11) Glasgow Mega-Snake - Mogwai
12) Georgia Vs. Yo La Tengo - Yo La Yengo

At a Loss for Words

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Mix #25 - Songs that Were Stuck in my Head

Creator: Nicola Gillan
Occupation: Researcher
Theme: The Playlist Mix
Title: Songs that were stuck in my head in July. . . But I am totally over them now!

Although, we are lagging, temporarily, on timely posts here is a good one. I have some work that mixes are on their way to me, so I think Mondays will start working out again.

Send them in guys/gals.

Enjoy this mix!



1) I am a Scientist - Guided By Voices
2) Know by Heart - American Analog Set
3) Trees Lay Be - Josephine Foster
4) Papillion - Rilo Kiley
5) Plus One - Okkervil River
6) Shiver - Coldplay
7) Gone, Gone, Gone - Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
8) I thought I saw your Face Today - She & Him
9) Waiting to Know You - Fiery Furnaces
10) Red - Okkervil River
11) Here's the Thing - Girltalk
12) An Experiment - Mates of States
13) I wish I was the Moon - Neko Case

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Mix #24 - Heroes & Villians

Creator: Casey Chalmers
Occupation: Videographer
Theme: Heroes & Villains
Title: Heroes & Villains

Here we are days late due to technical difficulties. Sometimes the internets have a way of working against us. It has been a very lazy four days of trying and finally on Thursday, you have a mix tape! We never really claimed to punctual or prompt (or honest, or respectful.) I didn't think it was going to happen this week.

This latest, four-day-late, installment is a double disk. Heroes & Villains. The one thing that instantly jumped out at me is how fascinated musicians are with comic book heroes, especially the Wu-Tang. I suppose it makes sense - being into music is pretty nerdy, and loving super heroes is pretty nerdy.

Also, check out how how bad Betty Davis wants the Lone Ranger to make sweet, sweet masked love to her!

Enjoy!

Heroes
Song - Artist

1) Heroes and Villains - The Beach Boys
2) Big Darkness - Crooked Fingers
3) Supa GFK - Ghostface Killah
4) The Lone Ranger - Betty Davis
5) Waitin' for Superman - The Flaming Lips
6) Gothem City - R. Kelly
7) SuperHoes - Funkdoobiest
8) Superman - The Clique
9) Wonder Woman - Lee Dorsey
10) Fearless Vampire Killers - Bad Brains
11) Heroes from our Past - Dropkick Murphys
12) Judge Dred in Court - Derrick Morgan
13) Spidey's Wild Ride - Tom Waits
14) Rza - B.O.B.B.Y
15) Supa Ninjaz - Cappadonna
16) Heroes - David Bowie
17) White Trash Heroes - Archers of Loaf
18) PinBall Wizard (live) - Elton John
19) Jones from Indiana - Daughters

Heroes

Villians
Song - Artist

1) Diary of a Madman - Gravediggaz
2) Human Fly - The Cramps
3) Creep in the Cellar - Butthole Surfers
4) Ballad of Jim Jones - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
5) City of Hobgoblins - The Fall
6) She-Devil Rock - The beguiled
7) Witch - The Sonics
8) Horror of Party Beach - Sloppy Seconds
9) AstroZombies - The Misfits
10) Ghoulies are go - Groovie Ghoulies
11) HalfSharkAlligatorHalfMan - Dr. Octogon
12) Dracula's Wedding - OutKast
13)Mutant Hoochie Mamas - Kentucky Prophet
14) Basketcase - DangerDoom
15) King Kong - Tom Waits
16) Six Kids of Mine - Alan and Richard Bishop
17) Crooked Fingers - Bad Man Coming
18) I am a Witch - Helium
19) Book of Revelations - Sun City Girls
20) Skelet0n Man - Evangelicals
21) Michael Myers Resplendent - The Mountain Goats
22) The Enemy - Dirty Pretty Things
23) Walking my Gargoyle - Gothic Archies
24) Good Guys and Bad Guys - Camper Van Beethoven

Villains

Monday, July 21, 2008

Mix #23 - A mix for ME!

Creator: Andrew Craig
Occupation: Photographer/Server
Theme: Un-themed (kind of)
Title: A mix for Andrew by Andrew


So after a week off, I received two mixes from Andrew Craig. If you are new or don't remember his previous mixes check them out HERE.

Many times when we are talking about mix tapes they have an expressed purpose - an intent. The intent is usually based on what we want the listener to get out of the mix. So that is the simple equation:

target audience + intended message = a unique group of songs

The songs you choose are then supposed to cause some kind of action (or emotion). That is why mixes are often created at the beginning of relationship, at the end of relationships, someone moving away, graduations. The big events. The events you feel like you need to define.

So what happens in the iPod era? We are creating mix tapes (playlists) for everything. We are creating them because we are "On-The-Go". It is easier. There is less searching, seemingly less consideration. A mix because it is easy. So what are we left with?

A bunch of really kick-ass, "this-is-what-I-have-been-listening-to-and-I-am-going-to-burn-a-copy-for-my-next-road-trip-and-give-one-to-mixtapes-because-they-need-it" type of mixes -- and that is what we have today.

Enjoy!

Song - Artist
1) Letters from Home - DJ Shadow
2) Badxson Fire - Brian Eno
3) Stephanie Knows - LOVE
4) Diamonds in the Mind - Leonard Cohan
5) Such a Night - Dr. John
6) The Contenders - The Kinks
7) Mrs. Henry - Bob Dylan
8) Congo Drums - Jonathan Richman
9) Simply Shady - George Harrison
10) Howling for my Body - Howlin' Wolf
11) Just the right Bullet - Tom Waits
12) Cobwebs - The Who
13) Bonaparte's Retreat - Willie Nelson
14) Don't just do Something - Spiritulized
15) Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messaging Company


Thursday, July 10, 2008

First Rap/Folk Beef

Hey Mix-tapers,

Here are two links to cellist (and mondaynightmixtapes favorite) Ben Sollee's "beef" song about Kayne West.

Check what people are say here and here.

After you read you can download the track and listen HEAR!

Is this song being received the way it was intended? Who knows, but Andy Warhol said: "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

Check out Ben's newest release: Learning to Bend.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

People in my neighborhood #1

This is a little segment where I will factually a describe situation that took place between me and someone that lives in my neighborhood.

So there I was. . . at the bar the other night and one of those troll-like-drunk-60-year-old men, who went by the handle, "K-Mart" was talking to the girls that we were with about Vietnam and black jet pilots being an impossibility in his mind and then he got to me. He patted my belly and before he could say anything I said, "Before you say anything you should check out this (motions to upper arm) because I have been working out" he said, "I am the best God Damn street fight in East Nashville." The way he said it I knew it was quite possibly true and I could find out anytime I pleased. This ended the interaction. When were leaving he was singing Tootsie-Roll and telling the bartender who was obviously working to "get a god damn job."

Also, I was down at the park yesterday and as I passed a 12 year old boy with a Gumby-Kid&Play haircut and HE said, to ME, "Nice Hair, Fag" and then laughed at me. I am not sure what gay hair looks like, but I am pretty sure my hair is straight, and far more straight than a haircut from a 90's party movie on a little boy. What's next? Are his parents going to dress him like Sinbad and make him get Cross-Color shoes? I had nothing to say so I just kept on my way.
Right near the house a bumble bee flew up my shorts, but you can relax because it didn't get the "honey" and I made it home safely.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Mix #22 - Happy Birthday America

This Mix is a little out of format. It was just a quick little collection of songs about America. Things here at the Home Offices are chaotic and I wanted to get something up to celebrate the America's birthday. Special thanks to Matt Smith and Nelle Blevins for contributing some of the song choices.

I have been having technical issues all day, so there are a few songs that I wanted on the list that might be stuck somewhere in the internet.

The forth of July is a day where people celebrate freedom and America by getting drunk off shitty beer and blowing stuff up - which is probably pretty close to how the founding fathers spent their time, only they were probably banging chicks too... and owning slaves, but I don't think we are suppose to talk about that part anymore.

Yesterday a shirtless, mulleted homeless man came up to a group of us in the street and bummed a cigarette. When he turned around he is ass was hanging out. As he was walking away I yelled, "Your ass crack is showing" and he yelled back, "Crack kills motherfucker." And then sprinted up the street. There is some legit freedom in that little transaction. Happy Birthday America!

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Mix #21 - State by State by Kertis

Creator: Stephen Kertis
Occupation: Video Producer
Theme: State Songs
Title: State by State by Kertis

At one point I was traveling by car from Kentucky to New Orleans and tried to make a series of mix tapes that would be correlate to each state we were traveling through. Alabama was impossible, but I was able to hit a zydeco track when we rolled into NOLA. That is not exactly a track about Louisiana but, I feel like that is fairly close to success.

All songs on this mix include a state name. I actually had assembled about 30 songs, but 15 of them either sucked ass, or didn't fit exactly. I was going to weed it down to 13 tracks about the first 13 colonies, but that didn't seem to fit either . . . so what you get is 15 songs about states. During the search through my collection I found more songs about Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee than any other states. Which kind of makes sense. I could have probably done a whole Beach Boys mix about California, but that seems like cheating.

There are two tracks by Stufjan Stevens, but that makes sense since he makes albums dedicated to states.

Also, it seems like John Darnielle does a lot of "Going to ____" songs. Most them are about strife or hating/loving/hating someone. So that works out well.

Here is the mix. Enjoy.

Send one in and spread the word!

Song - Artist
1) Tennessee - Silver Jews
2) Portland Oregon - Loretta Lynn & Jack White
3) Look At Miss Ohio - Gillian Welch
4) California Über Alles - Dead Kennedys
5) Washington Blues - Elizabeth Cotten
6) Say Yes! To M!ch!gan! - Sufjan Stevens
7) Going To Michigan - The Extra Glenns
8) Colorado Girl - Townes Van Zandt
9) Banks Of The Arkansas - Lucero
10) Going To Georgia - The Mountain Goats
11) Kentucky Bootlegger - New Lost City Ramblers
12) Louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman
13) Virginia Avenue - Tom Waits
14) Come on! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
15) Mississippi - Bob Dylan


Wednesday, June 25, 2008

What's on the President's Ipod?

Two posts in one day? Believe it!

What does Obama listen to? I would have expected some more soul names dropped, but I can't fault anyone for liking Blood on the Tracks. Check it!

Also, get Paste magazine for a dollar a year. Click it!

Recommends #8

Things here at Mixtape Central are busy busy busy. I thought I would hit you with a single line.

1) Dancing all around the World - This just proves that some people might not make more money then you, but they have way way way better jobs. Check it out!

Monday, June 23, 2008

Mix #20 - Takin' My Leave

Creator: Melanie Meadows
Occupation: Creative Director
Theme: Leaving
Title: Takin' My Leave

Leaving a relationship (or being asked to leave) is one of the most consistent themes for a mix tape. Falling in love or out of love seems to be a subject musicians are always revisiting through their careers. This means that the songs to pull from on either of these topics are massive.

I would be interested to post a "falling in love mix" from a relationship that ended in flames if anyone still has one laying around. I wonder if there is any foreshadowing of what would eventually come on those mixes.

Speaking of mixes. I need more of them if this little project is to continue. So spread the word if you enjoy it!

There is an Amy Winehouse track on here. Read more about how crack turned 24 year old Amy Winehouse into the living equavilant of a 87 year old "Old West" prospector here.

Melanie says:
Whether it's is deciding how to do it, lamenting the decision or simply rejoicing in it, these songs are all about leaving someone behind.

There it is. Pour a little of your brew out for George Carlin and enjoy the songs.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
-- George Carlin

Song - Artist
1) One Less Set of Footsteps - Jim Croce
2) Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
3) 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
4) Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
5) Little Black Backpack - Stroke 9
6) Take a Letter Maria - R.B. Greaves
7) She's Leaving Home - The Beatles
8) Too Gone Too Long - Randy Travis
9) I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford) - Elton John
10) Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles


Monday, June 16, 2008

Mix #19 - Stemming

Creator: Michelle Sciumbato
Occupation: Artist
Theme: Dissecting the psyche
Title: Stemming

Here is Michelle's Mix. Good mix and Michelle has some words on the motivation of putting these songs together. If you like/hate The Brian Jonestown Massacre and/or The Dandy Warhols you should rent Dig. It makes them all look like douchebags. I heard it was put together for $7000 bucks. That is keeping the dream alive.

To find out more about Michelle and her work, check out www.sciumbato.com.

Enjoy!

From Michelle:
With the idea of the projected self in mind, under supervision of the structural model of the psyche... only rimming the ego, the understood expression of intent, while also acknowledging the fundamental desire and drive submerged in the id. (The id is responsible for our basic drives such as food, sex, and aggressive impulses. It is amoral and egocentric, ruled by the pleasure–pain principle; it is without a sense of time, completely illogical, primarily sexual, infantile in its emotional development, and will not take "no" for an answer. It is regarded as the reservoir of the libido or "love energy".)

some of the songs lyrics hold them responsible and clearly in control of meaning, while other parts of the music is unintentionally fulfilling something for both the artist and audience. it is important to me to orchestrate a mix with harmonious transitions and not let song titles or lyrics alone dictate my decisions. so the compilation of this is not only working the songs together but working my own methods, meanings and satisfactions into it as well.

twelve songs. thirty eight point eight minutes. that's all i want/need.

1) You Look Great When I'm High - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
2) Pile Of Gold - The Blow
3) Paranoia in B-flat Major - The Avett Brothers
4) Never Say Never - Queens Of The Stone Age
5) Mohammed Ali (and me) - Cory Branan
6) Miss World - Hole
7) (I Just Want To) Be Your Man - Magical, Beautiful
8) I Am Over It - The Dandy Warhols
9) Eat Your Heart Up - The Blow
10) Clique Application Form - Mclusky
11) Better - Tigers Con Queso
12) Soon Enough - The Constantines