mix tape x: MOVING

going through old posts, including one on which B made a request that i post my EPIC playlist from the road trip this summer, i realized i never did! here are the songs that are on my iPod under the playlist name MOVING:

1) "Boston" - Augustana
2) "All I Want" - Joni Mitchell
3) "Times Like These (Acoustic)" - Foo Fighters
4) "Home" - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
5) "No Rain" - Blind Melon (which is obligatory on any mixtape of significance i've made since 2003)
6) "The Weight of Lies" - The Avett Brothers
7) "What I Got" - Sublime
8) "Don't Stop" - unknown artist, discovered on a mix cd per chance ;)
9) "Come On Get Higher" - likewise
10) "Porch Songs" - Chris Pureka
11) "The Boys of Summer" - The Ataris
12) "Yoü and I" - Lady Gaga

mix tape ix

K's 2010
the songs that made my year. unapologetically and without explanation.

Disc 1
1) United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It On The Pop) - DJ Earworm
2) You Get What You Give - New Radicals
3) Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
4) Centerfold - J. Geils Band
5) Perfect - Simple Plan
6) Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz ft. Ludacris
7) Dirty Little Secret - All-American Rejects
8) Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
9) Magical World - Bassnectar remix, ft. Nelly Furtado
10) Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada
11) Love the Way You Lie - Eminem ft. Rihanna
12) Baba O'Riley - The Who

Disc 2
1) It's Alright - 311
2) Flow - Dub Fx
3) Alejandro - Lady Gaga
4) Let's Get Lost - Bat for Lashes & Beck
5) Dynamite - Taio Cruz
6) Take It Off - Ke$ha
7) Telephone - Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce
8) Over - Drake
9) Origin of Love - Hedwig and the Angry Inch sdtk.
10) Don't Stop Forever - DJ Milk remix, Chris Brown vs. Journey
11) Raise Your Glass - P!nk
12) United State of Pop 2010 (Don't Stop the Pop) - DJ Earworm

mix tape viii

haven't posted one of these in a while.
this pretty accurately describes my recent musical situation.

driving, vol. 3

1) "Joy to the World" - Three Dog Night
2) "Don't Stay Home" - 311
3) "Break Your Heart" - Taio Cruz ft. Ludacris
4) "Baba O'Riley" - the Who
5) "Feel Good Inc." - the Gorillaz
6) "I'm Gay" - Bowling for Soup
7) "When I Grow Up" - Garbage
8) "Magical World" - Bassnectar ft. Nelly Furtado
9) "Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10) "Dayvan Cowboy" - Boards of Canada
11) "Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix)" - Everything But The Girl
12) "You Can Have It All" - Yo La Tengo
13) "Dirty Little Secret" - All-American Rejects
14) "Alejandro" - Lady Gaga
15) "Sweet Dreams Are Made of These" - Eurythmics
16) "No Rain" - Blind Melon
17) "All Mixed Up" - 311
18) "Sweet Child o' Mine" - Guns N' Roses

mix tape vii

in lieu of actual writing, while i should be writing something else.

"people you should hear about (folk/rock/world/weird)"
recorded for a random mix cd exchange in january

1) "Molly O'Malley's" - Peter Mayer
2) "You Will Love This Song" - Amber Rubarth
3) "Cinema 4" - Brad Yoder
4) "Tire Swing" - Kimya Dawson
5) "Where Irish Eyes Are Burning" - the Ike Reilly Assassination
6) "Mix Tape" - from Avenue Q
7) "Boom Bang" -Rob Giles
8) "Romans" - Joy Ike
9) "Learn To Breathe" - Lost Iniquity
10) "Violins" - Julie Sokolow
11) "So Nice!" - Win A Sheep Free
12) "Porch Songs" - Chris Pureka
13) "Mixtape" - Butch Walker
14) "Until Morale Improves, The Beatings Will Continue" - Murder By Death
15) "Satellite (Show Me the Worth of the World)" - Tabla Beat Science
16) "Never The Same" - Supreme Beings of Leisure
17) "Good" - Earl Greyhound
18) "I Love You (Demo)" - The Velvet Underground
19) "Wonderwall" - Cat Power

mix tape vi

songs i've been listening to a lot lately (in no particular order, and not counting the songs that are perpetually on every playlist):

"Brighter than Sunshine" - Aqualung
"I Will Possess Your Heart" - Death Cab for Cutie
"If She Wants Me" - Belle & Sebastian
"One Thing" - Finger Eleven
"Everlong" - Foo Fighters
"Soul Meets Body" - Death Cab for Cutie
"Night Drive" - Jimmy Eat World
"In My Head" - Anna Nalick
"There's a Girl" - the Ditty Bops
"Times Like These" - Foo Fighters (the acoustic version, for some reason)

mix tape v

Like Looking in a Mirror ("Drain You")
mixed Feb 26, '04 (junior year of hs)

side a:
1) "Ready For You" - Hoobastank
2) "Sorry to Burden You" - No Way Josie
3) "Think Twice" - Eve 6
4) "Minority" - Green Day
5) "Graduate" - Third Eye Blind
6) "Take Five" - Dave Brubeck Quartet
7) "Mad World" - Gary Jules
8) "Drain You" - Nirvana
9) "What You Are" - Audioslave
10) "UR" - Alanis Morissette
11) "Oceans" - Pearl Jam
12) "Save Me" - Hanson
13) "I Am the Walrus" - the Beatles

side b:
14) "Disenchanted Lullaby" - Foo Fighters
15) "The Motivation Proclamation" - Good Charlotte
16) "Idioteque" - Radiohead
17) "Numb" - Linkin Park
18) "What's My Age Again" - Blink-182
19) "My Beloved Monster" - Eels
20) "Wasting Time" - Collective Soul
21) "My Own Worst Enemy" - Lit
22) "Cast No Shadow" - Oasis
23) "When the World Ends" - Dave Matthews Band
24) "All Eyes On Me" - Goo Goo Dolls
25) "Push" - Matchbox 20
26) "On My Own" - the Used

mix tape iv

"PARK RANGER 911"
recorded on an actual cassette tape
mailed to a friend who's driving an old old SUV for her job this summer

side A:
1) Left on Laura, Left on Lisa - The Avett Brothers
2) You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Bob Dylan
3) I'm On My Way - The Proclaimers
4) We Will Vacation, You Can Be My Parasol - Be Your Own Pet
5) So Nice! - Win A Sheep Free
6) I vow to thee my country - Libera
7) Yukon Sally - Peter Mayer
8) Once In a Lifetime - Talking Heads
9) Why Don't We Do It In The Road - the Beatles
10) The Boy from Ipanema - Ella Fitzgerald
11) Skyler - Brad Yoder
12) Rusty Cage - Johnny Cash
13) You Will Love This Song - Amber Rubarth

side B:
1) Scarborough Fair/Canticle - Simon & Garfunkel
2) No Rain - Blind Melon
3) When The Night Feels My Song - Bedouin Soundclash
4) Skylark - k.d. lang
5) Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
6) I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today - from Avenue Q
7) Carey - Joni Mitchell
8) Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam - Nirvana
9) House of Earth - Mad Agnes
10) Thorn In Your Side - Namoli Brennet
11) Wonderwall - Oasis
12) Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

mix tape iii

a going-away present.

1) Better - Regina Spektor
2) The Origin of Love - Rufus Wainwright
3) Blackbird - the Beatles
4) Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
5) Unfinished Art - Amber Rubarth
6) Made of Steel - Our Lady Peace
7) Little Star - Stina Nordenstam
8) Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam
9) Glass Vase Cello Case - Tattle Tale
10) Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
11) Kids Will Be Skeletons - Mogwai
12) Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect - the Decemberists
13) Another Little Hole - Aqualung
14) I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay
15) Your Wrists - Julie Sokolow
16) Name - Goo Goo Dolls
17) I'm Lost Without You - Blink-182


happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it. for the rest of us, happy spring! maybe it will get warm soon.

mix tape ii

music inspired by Creating Change
...or, more accurately, by someone i met there.
(or, more simply, the playlist i made and listened to in the car on the way home.)

1) Strange & Beautiful - Aqualung
2) Breathe Me - Sia
3) One Chance - Modest Mouse
4) Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
5) Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
6) Queer - Garbage
7) Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
8) 21 things i want in a lover - Alanis Morissette
9) Here's to the Night - Eve 6
10) Night Drive - Jimmy Eat World
11) Been a Son - Nirvana
12) Cemetery Drive - My Chemical Romance
13) Date With the Night - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
14) Woman - Wolfmother
15) Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
16) Glass Vase Cello Case - Tattle Tale
17) Freaks - Imperial Teen
18) Easy - Barenaked Ladies
19) Love You Madly - Cake
20) You Never Know - Dave Matthews Band
21) Linger - The Cranberries
22) Letter To A Pretty Girl - The Avett Brothers
23) Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
24) The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service
25) Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

...i think i'm in trouble. =D

mix tape i

the Run is in 3 days!!! i'm only spazzing out a little. i haven't done any homework yet this week....why start now?

high energy mix for the Run:
1) Everytime We Touch - Cascada
2) real world - Matchbox Twenty
3) Drain You - Nirvana
4) I Wanna Be Sedated - the Ramones
5) Growing On Me - the Darkness
6) Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys
7) Woman - Wolfmother
8) I'll Make A Man Out Of You - from "Mulan"
9) Molly's Lips - Nirvana
10) Paint It Black - the Rolling Stones
11) Where's the Love - Hanson (yeah, i said it)
12) Even Flow - Pearl Jam
13) I'm On My Way - the Proclaimers
14) In Your Honor - Foo Fighters
15) sorry to burden you - No Way Josie
16) Festival Song - Good Charlotte
17) Drive My Car - the Beatles
18) Sheep Go to Heaven - Cake
19) Time Warp - from "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
20) i want you - Savage Garden
21) Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
22) No Rain - Blind Melon
23) Still Here Waiting - Eve 6