Cross Your Fingers Hold Your Toes: Summer 2011
Select “Read More” to view the streaming playlist. 01. “Our Deal” by Best Coast “When you leave me / The bed is empty / And I feel crazy / Cause I didn’t say anything / I wish you would tell me / How you really feel / But you’ll never tell me / Cause that’s not our deal” Reminds me of The Beach Boys; just a simple, catchy song with dreamy surf guitars supporting it. Short, sweet and just long enough to be perfection, to boot; this will contrast wildly with the 10 minute long end song on the mix. 02. “Cross Your Fingers” by Laura Marling “Cross your fingers, hold your toes / We’re all gonna die when the building blows / And the house that you were born in / Is crumbling at the corners /...
Read MoreFeed Your Head: Spring 2011
01. “Pioneers” by Bloc Party “If it can be broke then it can be fixed / If it can be fused then it can be split / It’s all under control / If it can be lost then it can be won / If it can be touched then it can be turned / All you need is time / We promised the world we’d tame it / What were we hoping for?” I was skeptical of the song at first, because Bloc Party is really hit or miss for me. Ultimately, I really love the lyrics and the theme of our need to organize, and progress often setting us back and blowing up in our face. All the lyrics they choose to repeat seem important to me, and I like the feeling of being stuck in a loop, which is another thing I feel the song communicates. 02. “The Chamber” by The Last...
Read MoreOur Common Goal (Was Waiting For The World To End): Winter 2010
Winter was full of external, negative forces. My closest friend moved away to Chicago. My mother was hospitalized and near death. So, to make up for it, I kind of had to generate my own energy, though I hope the mix also conveys some of the ambient mellow melancholy. LISTEN 01. “Introduction to Romeo” by Nellee Hooper 02. “I’ll Take Us Home” by Matt & Kim 03. “U.R.A. Fever” by The Kills 04. “Black Sheep” by Metric 05. “Dance Yrself Clean” by LCD Soundsystem 06. “Collect Call (Tom Wrecks Remix)” by Metric 07. “Word Problems” by deadmau5 08. “Fire In Your New Shoes (ft. Dragonette)” by Kaskade 09. “Sofi Needs A Ladder” by deadmau5 10. “Animal...
Read MoreI Spilled The Bucket : Fall 2010
In honor of Halloween time there are organs, ghosts, witches and strange, often discordian arrangements. 01. “She Brings New Water” by Head of Wantastiquet. 02. “Year of the Dog (arr. Rob Moose)” by Osso & Sufjan Stevens. 03. “New Clouds, Hot Clouds” by Spiral Beach. 04. “In the Room Where You Sleep (feat. the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children’s Choir)” by Dead Man’s Bones. 05. “Your Rocky Spine” by Great Lake Swimmers. 06. “Strange Love” by Slim Harpo. 07. “Crystalised” by The XX. 08. “Ain’t It Strange” by Dr. Dog. 09. “Cuddle Fuddle” by Passion Pit. 10. “Walking With A Ghost” by Tegan and Sara. 11....
Read MoreFlying Over the Streets Tonight : Summer 2010
The title is from the last song on the mix, a song I can’t stop listening to. I was lucky enough to get to hang out at EDC this summer and see Deadmau5, and Kaskade (artist of the last song). My family took a vacation in Hawaii, which was the number one vacation of my life so far. I also got to go on a whirlwind road trip from Colorado, through the Black Hills of South Dakota and into Wyoming. Musically, I enjoyed the Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack (never saw the movie), so there are a few songs from there on here, mixed throughout. There’s a mashup of Blur and Kasabian by Party Ben, some instrumental tracks, with Coldplay on piano and Vitamin String Quartet covering Massive Attack’s famous song on the strings. This is for a sweltering summer, full of freeway...
Read MoreTwo Steps Til the Finish Line : Spring 2010
I ended up enjoying a few (what I would ineptly call) Indian-sounding songs, from albums I’d recently bought off of iTunes (by Astronaut Wife and Splashdown), so I ended up compiling the songs around that. Spring is also the time I could not stop listening to The Shins’ Wincing the Night Away over and over. Fun Fact: I wrote a paper this semester on their song “Australia”. I would have put it on here, but I’ve listened to it 54 times to the end (the second highest played song), according to iTunes. The vast majority of that was within the time span of a few weeks, which has worn me out on it a little, and so I put the first song from the album (“Sleeping Lessons”) on here instead. 01. “So Long,...
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