Showing posts with label May 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label May 2010. Show all posts

Sunday, May 30, 2010

audio adderall

i wish i had an awesome excuse for posting this at the last minute... but an o-chem final isn't awesome.
this was a challenging theme... it's hard to pick songs at/under 2:00 that form a non-shitty mix. here's hoping this is not too shitty.

short attention span mix

01 All To Shit - Lightspeed Champion
02 You Gave Your Love To Me Softly - Weezer
03 Tim, I Wish You Were Born A Girl - Of Montreal
04 Halves and Have-Nots - Mates of State
05 All-Star Me - Saves The Day
06 Let's Get Known - The Unicorns
07 Steadier Footing - Death Cab For Cutie
08 Weird Divide - The Shins
09 Brightest - Copeland
10 22 Grand Job - The Rakes
11 Don't Know How To Say Goodbye - The Pigeon Detectives
12 My Year In Lists - Los Campesinos!
13 La Valse d'Amélie - Yann Tiersen
14 District Night Prayer - Q and Not U
15 Clap Your Hands - Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah!
16 Space Travel is Boring - Modest Mouse
17 My Echo - Rival Schools
18 I Wanna - Matt & Kim
19 From Me 2 U - Reggie and the Full Effect
20 I Liked The Boys - The Long Blondes
21 Twin Falls - Built to Spill
22 Traffic Cops - Calvin Harris
23 18,000 Lira - Art Brut
24 Sacrifice Theory - AFI
25 Mansard Roof - Vampire Weekend
26 Hey, Wanna Throw Up? - Minus the Bear
27 Playing With Lights - The Rocking Horse Winner
28 How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down? - The Silver Jews
29 Come On - Two Tongues
30 Snake Oil Tanker - Alkaline Trio
31 The Wind - Cat Stevens
32 Boxcar - Jawbreaker
33 Leaving Town - The Casket Lottery
34 Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente!
35 Sailor Man - Turbonegro
36 Talk To Me - The Stills
37 Absolutely Cuckoo - The Magnetic Fields
38 Janine III - Camille
39 Nothing Feels Good - The Promise Ring
40 I-1100 - Thursday

Sunday, May 23, 2010

quick and to the pointless


















sup dudes

this is my first mix on here so i hope the format is alright for everyone, i did it on itunes. if it doesnt organize itself automatically for you its prob best to keep the order to maximize listening amazement. itunes homies can auto-organize it with the track number column. this mix has a bunch of happies and it moves through a few genres so i hope you dig it.

artist - song
1. Jon Brion - Dmi Thing in which New Information is Introduced
2. The Walkmen - Flamingoes (for Colbert)
3. John Frusciante - Untitled #6
4. Spoon - Dracula's Cigarette
5. Madvillain - Supervillain Theme
6. Quasimoto - Privacy
7. Raekwon - Pyrex Vision
8. DJ Shadow - Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96
9. Talib Kweli - On My Way
10. Clinic - DJ Shangri-La
11. Modest Mouse - So Much Beauty in Dirt
12. Optiganally Yours - Last Ride of the Pony Express
13. Lucky Dragons - Typical Hippies
14. Starfucker - Jupiter
15. Thee Oh Sees - The Turn Around
16. Sparklehorse - Ballod of a Cold Lost Marble
17. Mall - Harboring Hosts
18. Nirvana - Tourette's
19. Queens of the Stone Age - Quick and to the Pointless
20. British Sea Power - Favours in the Beetroot Fields
21. Eat Skull - Thank You Smoke Breaks
22. Grass Widow - Cut It Off
23. Urinals - I'm Like You
24. Black Tambourine - Heartbeat
25. Wipers - Telepathic Love
26. Nobunny - Don't Know, Don't Care
27. The Beets - My Bones, My Flesh and Me
28. Circulatory System - Illusion
29. Colleen - Carry-Cot
30. The Microphones - Instrumental II

take it


shap

Monday, May 17, 2010

Where's the Ritalin?


Starts out slow and instrumental, then progresses into alt-country, then mellow folksy, then finally gets punk rock, upbeat-y at the end. Please enjoy.

My zip file uploaded them all out of order, but I suggest you listen to them in this order:

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1. Sufjan Stevens- In this temple, as in the hearts...
2 The Avalanches- Little Journey
3 Matmos- Rag for William S Burroughs
4 Beirut-La Banlieu
5 Magnetic Fields- Wi' Na Me Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
6 Eels- Theme from blinking lights
7 Cat Stevens- Tea for the tillerman
8 Okkervil River- Black sheep boy
9 Jenny Lewis with the watson twins- Run, Devil run
10 Neko Case- A widow's toast
11 Lucero- Banks of the arkansas
12 Cat Power- Islands
13 Francoise Hardy- Doights
14 Nick Drake- Harvest breed
15 The Smiths- Please please please let me get what i want
16 The Shins- The Celibate life
17 Cut chemist- Motivational speaker
18 Outkast- ?
19 Man Man- Little boxes
20 Lou Reed- New York Telephone conversation
21 Casiotone for the painfully alone- I should have kissed you when i had the chance
22 Drakkur Sauna- Very much alone, Part 4: oh fuck..
23 Mountain Goats- Down here
24 Husker Du- Never talking to you again
25 Ted Leo and the pharmacists- First to finish, last to start
26 Against Me!- T.R.S. (This shit rules)
27 Pixies- Alison
28 Future of the Left- Fingers become thumbs!
29 Buzzocks- Love you more
30 Misfits- Attitude
31 Rocket from the crypt- Panic Scam
32 Titus Andronicus- Titus andronicus forever
33 Prince- Ronnie, talk to russia
34 Elvis Costello and the Imposters- The Imposter
35 The Simpsons- We Do (The stonecutter's song)

Sunday, May 2, 2010

On a Good Day

I'm so going to get an award for being such an early bird! You do give out awards, right?
Anyway, here are 28 songs under 2 minutes because I like the number 28 (as much as you can "like" a number, I guess). I just listened to it and it does go by really fast but still enjoyable? Hopefully you find it enjoyable. Enough for a nice bike ride! I won't write lengthy descriptions for each song because that's too intense so here is the track list and album cover:

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1. A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Magna for Annie, Josh & Robin
2. Crocodiles: Screaming Chrome
3. The Death Set: Blah!
4. Peter Bjorn and John: Writer's Block
5. Final Fantasy: ->
6. Morrissey: Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together
7. Inara George: Night Happens
8. Karen O: Igloo
9. PJ Harvey: No Child Of Mine
10. Patrick Wolf: The Shadowsea
11. Anni Rossi: Ecology
12. Belle and Sebastian: Simple Things
13. P:ano: Working
14. Talulah Gosh: Beatnik Boy
15. France Gall: Oh! Quelle Famille (avec Petits Chanteurs De I'lle-De-France)
16. Brigitte Bardot: L'appareil à sous
17. Natalie Portman's Shaved Head: Sophisticated Side Ponytail
18. Mika Miko: I Got A Lot (New New New)
19. Cold Cave: Hello Rats
20. Battles: Snare Hanger
21. Micachu: Sweetheart
22. Foot Ox: New Boyfriend
23. Phoenix: Congratulations
24. St. Vincent: We Put A Pearl In The Ground
25. God Help the Girl: A United Theory
26. Mirah: Recommendation
27. The Dodos: Eyelids
28. Joanna Newsom: On a Good Day