Songs to sing along to in the car

Okay, I'll admit it - when I hear a great song while driving by myself I can't help singing along like a big dork. So as riduclous as I might look to the driver in the car next to me, I belt it out - dashboard druming and all. And it's great. Here is an hour's worth of some of my favorite sing-along songs for when I'm stuck in the car:

1. Birthday - The Sugarcubes
2. Fake Plastic Trees (acoustic) - Radiohead
3. Tear in Your Hand - Tori Amos
4. Just Like Honey - The Jesus and Mary Chain
5. Van Diemen's Land - U2
6. Ain't No Way - Aretha Franklin
7. In A Little While - U2
8. I I E E E - Tori Amos
9. Wake Up (acoustic) - The Arcade Fire and David Bowie
10. Seven - Sunny Day Real Estate
11. Collect Call - Metric
12. Nightswimming - REM
13. Black - Pearl Jam
14. Stay Alive - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

The Quarterly Mixtape Project lives!

the "mixtapes from my brother" mixtape

directly inspired by all the songs i'd listen to with my then 17-year-old brother in the car on the way to wherever on the kitsap peninsula and/or all the mixtapes he'd mail to me when i was a highschool-aged dumbass in yakima, wa.

1. imperial teen - yoo hoo
2. cake - stickshifts and safetybelts
3. weezer - in the garage
4. veruca salt - spiderman 1979
5. camper van beethoven - take the skinheads bowling
6. sponge - speed racer
7. toadies - possum kingdom
8. pulp - like a friend
9. tripping daisy - i got a girl
   
10. cypress hill - i want to get high
11. beastie boys - brass monkey
12. smashing pumpkins - disarm
13. mxpx - chick magnet
14. the mighty mighty bosstones - where did you go
15. reel big fish - sell out
16. save ferris - she has a girlfriend now
17. soul coughing - circles
18. propellerheads - on her majesty's secret service
19. run DMC vs jason nevins - it's like that
20. aphex twin - girl/boy song
21. cake - frank sinatra

Caitlin Dale's "That First Sunny Day"

A mixtape by Caitlin at four.ten:

1. Annuals - Brother
2. Ra Ra Riot - Can You Tell
3. Animal Collective - Girls
4. Marco Benevento - The Real Morning Party
5. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
6. The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbor
7. Jose Gonzalez - Down the Line
8. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
9. TV on the Radio - Golden Age
10. The Dodos - Red and Purple
11. Beck - Walls

looks like i'm not the only one who subscribes to the short mixtape paradigm. whew.

For Bouncing on the Metro

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is my great honor to present to you this contribution from my good friend Jimmy Marble.

1. Animal Collective - Bluish
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost
3. Joy Division - Disorder
4. Beat Happening - In Between
5. Beach Boys - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
6. The Beatles - She Said, She Said
7. Brian Eno - Needle in the Camel's Eye
8. Lou Reed - Andy's Chest
9. CocoRosie - Animals
10. Lykke Li - Let it Fall
11. Maps and Atlases - Witch
12. My Bloody Valentine - Blown a Wish
13. K9000 - Act Up
14. Beat Happening - Cat Walk
15. Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine
16. Mirah - (Exactly Where We're From)
17. I Love You Avalanche - Miranda
18. Camera Obscura - Teenager

"physics makes us all its bitches"

while in portland this weekend, it occurred to me to create a mixtape wherein every song has a song title or at least one lyric that makes a direct reference to a chemical reaction or a physical process.

turns out this wasn't as easy as i had initially thought it would be and i had to bend the rules a little.

anyways, here.

-mant

1. Starflyer 59 - Nice Guy (5:10)
2. Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit (3:34)
3. David Bazan - Cold Beer And Cigarettes (3:52)
4. Blonde Redhead - Dr. Strangeluv (4:47)
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock (3:55)
6. Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance With You (3:32)
7. Pinback - Crutch (4:21)
8. Wintersleep - Fog (1:35)
9. Islands - Swans (9:30)
10. Weezer - Only In Dreams (8:45)
11. The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning (3:28)

Tom's "I am the LOLrus"

This was Q3 of '07 response to Holly's mixtape. Death Cab and Iron and Wine were on the radio, Ceremony and Phil Collins were on my mind. The rest were just kinda plucked out and fit for me.

1. David Bowie & Queen - Under Pressure
2. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
3. Dusty Springfield - Spooky
4. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
5. New Order - Ceremony
6. Pulp - Like A Friend
7. The Cure - Pictures Of You
8. Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination
9. Seu Jorge - Rebel Rebel (The Life Aquatic)
10. Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
11. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
12. Stevie Nicks - Edge Of Seventeen
13. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
14. Human League - Don't You Want Me
15. Talk Talk - It's My Life
16. The Stills - Of Montreal
17. Air - Remember
18. Daft Punk - Something About Us
19. Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Get Away
20. Phil Collins - Against All Odds

Holly's "I Fought the LOLs, And the LOLs Won" mixtape

Holly made this in Oct 07, but it's great so I had to post it.

1. Hooverphonic - Renaissance Affair
2. Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies
3. Rainer Maria - The Aweful Truth Of Loving
4. The Clash - Spanish Bombs
5. The Clash - Clampdown
6. Elliot Smith - Rose Parade
7. Frou Frou - Let Go
8. Guided by Voices - The Best Of Jill Hives
9. The Mountain Goats - No, I Can't
10. Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
11. The Pixies - Alec Eiffel
12. The Replacements - Alex Chilton
13. Sleater Kinney - Words And Guitars
14. Sloan - G Turns To D
15. The Smiths - Ask
16. Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel The Illinoise!
17. Tom Waits - Hang Down Your Head
18. Violent Femmes - American Music
19. Summer Lawns - Piano Song
20. The Mendoza Line - Under Radar
21. Danny Elfman - Making Christmas

Ben's "Gently Pull Your Sleepy Ass Out of Bed" mixtape

Bench says, "Inspired by the opening scene from Vertical Ray of the Sun, here are some excerpts from my "Gently pull your sleepy ass out of bed" playlist, clocking in at 79:57:"

1. The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
2. Willie Nelson - Matador
3. Clem Snide - Fontanelle
4. The White Stripes - We're Going to Be Friends
5. Clem Snide - Strong Enough
6. Leonard Cohen - The Partisan
7. Clem Snide - Find Love
8. Crooked Fingers - Boy with (100) Hands
9. Iron & Wine - Love and Some Verses
10. Crooked Fingers - You Must Build a Fire
11. The Mortal Coil - You and Your Sister
12. Jack Johnson - No Other Way
13. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
14. Norah Jones - Until the End
15. Willie Nelson - Georgia on my Mind
16. Alison Kraus - Gravity
17. Willie Nelson - She is Gone
18. Iron & Wine - Naked as We Came
19. Norah Jones - Seven Years
20. This Mortal Coil - Mr. Somewhere
21. Willie Nelson - Stardust
22. Kings of Convenience - Winning a Battle, Losing the War
23. Mandalay - Don't Invent Me

Holly's Mixageddon: The Riposte

1. AR Rahman & M.I.A. - O... Saya
2. Psyche - Goodbye Horses
3. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
4. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
5. U2 - New Year's Day
6. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Bad Reputation
7. Final Fantasy - This Is the Dream of Win & Regine
8. Bob Mould - The Silence Between Us
9. Beulah - Score From Augusta
10. Loudon Wainwright III - Grey In L.A.
11. The Beatles - Martha My Dear
12. Cloud Cult - No One Said It Would Be Easy
13. Wings - Maybe I'm Amazed
14. John Williams - Flying Theme (From "E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial")
15. A-ha - Hunting High and Low
16. The Smiths - That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
17. XTC - Sacrificial Bonfire
18. Eugene Mirman - Teen Wolf, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights

Katie's Q1 Attempt - What does a book sound like?

So lately I've kinda been into this little series of books some of you may have heard about called Twilight. :) And I thought it would be a fun project to score the second book. So here's my take on what New Moon sounds like. Each song is intended to be sung by a particular character in the book, almost like conversations. Enjoy.

New Moon

1. The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night (Edward)
2. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Edward)
3. Beirut - The Penalty (Edward)
4. Metric - Help, I'm Alive (Bella)
5. Johnny Cash - Hurt (Edward)
6. Björk & PJ Harvey - Satisfaction (Bella)
7. Mike Doughty - Your Misfortune (Jacob)
8. The Smashing Pumpkins - Landside (Bella)
9. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks Of My Tears (Bella)
10. Counting Crows - A Murder of One (Jacob)
11. Björk - Joga (live) (Bella)
12. Jason Webley - Again the Night (Jacob)
13. Radiohead - Creep (Edward)
14. Melissa Etheridge - Come To My Window (Bella)
15. Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová - Falling Slowly (Edward & Bella)
16. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (Edward)
17. Garbage - You Look So Fine (Bella)
18. Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma (Edward)
19. Jason Webley - Lullaby (Jacob)

Tom's "Mixtape: Part Deux"

This started out as a couple songs that have been stuck in my head, and I filled it out with other stuff I like.

1. Shonen Knife - Top of the World
2. Pulp - Common People
3. Duran Duran - Ordinary World
4. The Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning
5. Felix Da Housecat - Ready 2 Wear
6. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Beggin (pilooski re-edit)
7. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
8. Elliott Smith - Baby Britain
9. Peter, Bjorn And John - Young Folks
10. Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
11. Beastie Boys - Get It Together
12. Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything Is Alright)
13. Aretha Franklin - Chain Of Fools
14. Billy Joel - A Matter of Trust
15. George Michael - One More Try
16. Toto - Africa
17. The Sundays - Wild Horses
18. The Cranberries - (They Long to Be) Close to You