It's Monday! I want to talk about music! It counts.
Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with housewifery, other than you could listen to these mixes at home. I fancy myself a decent mix-tape artist. Of course, tapes are now long gone (seriously, there's an entire generation that has no idea what a "tape" is other than the sticky stuff that you use to keep things together - MIND. BLOWN.), so now it's CD's. Around the time my iPod car charger/dock broke, I went through a "here's who you need to listen to" exchange with a friend, so at least I had options OTHER than radio. While my new cd's are awesome, I'm getting a LITTLE tired of them. So since I'd bought a ton of cd's to make the mixes for my friend anyway, why not use them for more options in the car?
Unfortunately, I've been a little melancholy lately (I blame my new addiction to Death Cab for Cutie a la' my friend - dear lord, help me, I've gone hipster/emo), so the mixes are a little melancholy. They're mellow, but one is a little faster and chipper than the other one. They flow into each other nicely, and while I wouldn't recommend cleaning to them, they'd be good for relaxing or a casual dinner party.
First, the slow and low mix:
1. "Once Around the Block", Badly Drawn Boy The Hour of Bewilderbeast
2. "Don't Change Your Plans", Ben Folds Five The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner
3. "Somedays", Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch
4. "Sparks", Coldplay Parachutes
5. "Cybele's Reverie", Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup
6. "All Is Full Of Love (Video Version)", Björk Björk: Greatest Hits
7. "Midnight In A Perfect World", DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
8. "Samson", Regina Spektor Begin To Hope
9. "Twilight", Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill
10. "Talking Bird", Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
11. "Walking To You", Everything But The Girl Amplified Heart
12. "Hello, It's Me", Todd Rundgren The Virgin Suicides
13. "Such Great Heights", Iron & Wine Garden State Soundtrack
14. "Sea Of Love", Cat Power Juno (Music from the Motion Picture)
15. "Ramona", Beck Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
16. "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes", Beck Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
17. "Maps", Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell
18. "Needle in the Hay", Elliott Smith The Royal Tenenbaums
And the slightly more upbeat but still mellow mix! Credit for about half of these songs is actually due to an acquaintance from high school, who burned me two awesome mix cd's of music I'd never heard, and I still listen to at least half of the songs she burned at any given time. Seriously, I'm good at mixes, but she is GREAT!
1. "One Of These Things First", Nick Drake Garden State Soundtrack
2. "Expectations", Belle & Sebastian Juno (Music from the Motion Picture)
3. Four Corners", The Sea and Cake One Bedroom
4. "Best Thing Ever (maybe not)", Viva Voce Lovers, Lead the Way! & The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
5. "Pass It On", The Coral Magic and Medicine
6. "Question", Old 97's Satellite Rides (1 of 2)
7. "I Feel It All", Feist The Reminder
8. "Strange Apparition", Beck The Information
9. "All Good Naysayers, Speak Up!", Sufjan Stevens Michigan
10. "The Coast is Always Changing", Maximo Park Live in Tokyo
11. "I Luv the Valley OH!", Xiu Xiu Fabulous Muscles
12. "No Cars Go", Arcade Fire Neon Bible
13. "I Will Possess Your Heart", Death Cab For Cutie Narrow Stairs
14. "Last Goodbye", Jeff Buckley Grace
15. "I Will Follow You Into the Dark", Death Cab for Cutie Plans
16. "The Only Living Boy In New York", Simon & Garfunkel Garden State
They're good driving around music, which is good, because I commute 2 hours a day. Oy. Anyway, enjoy!
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