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Sunday, October 13
How Do You Like Me Now? - Toby Keith
I Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith
Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) - Toby Keith
Who's Your Daddy? - Toby Keith
Beer for My Horses - Toby Keith
Stays in Mexico - Toby Keith
Should've Been a Cowboy - Toby Keith
You Ain't Much Fun - Toby Keith
I Love This Bar - Toby Keith
Whiskey Girl - Toby Keith
If I'm out with my sister, and she's driving...
“Jump Around” - House of Pain
“Don’t Stop Me Now” - Queen
“The Boy in the Bubble” - Paul Simon
“Tequila” - The Champs
“Canary in a Coalmine” - The Police
“Don’t Bring Me Down” - ELO
“She Don’t Use Jelly” - the Ben Folds Lounge cover
“Bikini Girls with Machine Guns” - The Cramps
“One Tree Hill” - U2
“Maggie May” - The Pie Tasters
Let a Nigga Know - Saigon
Chicago Rillaz - Rhymefest
Everyday Struggle - Estelle ft. Rhymefest
What's Beef? - Notorious B.I.G.
War - Nas ft. Saigon
The Bitch in Yoo - Common
Bin Laden Weed - 36 Mafia
What You Got? - Chino XL
Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson
The Champ - Ghostface
"The More I See You," Sondre Lerche
"The Party's Crashing Us," Of Montreal
"Galvanize," The Chemical Brothers
"SexyBack," Justin Timberlake
"The House Rules," Kane
"Inside of Love," Nada Surf
"Keep Myself Awake," Black Lab
"The Naughty Song," Corey Lee
"Living Dead Girl," Rob Zombie
"Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)," Steve Harley, Duran Duran, or Erasure, it doesn't matter
John Wayne Gacy, Sufjan Stevens
Crazy, Gnarls Barkley
Heavy Metal Drummer, Wilco
Team Handed, Mogwai
I Summon You, Spoon
Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead
Fingers in the Factories, The Editors
The Hardest Button to Button, The White Stripes
How We Conquered the Western World on Horseback, Saxon Shore
Drive, R.E.M.
these are the 10 songs on the top of my random playlist now:
transmission/joy division(s'up naz!)
re-ignition/bad brains
stoney island/all natural
ragu/ghostface
join in the chant/nitzer ebb
computer world/kraftwerk
california/low
up the junction/squeeze
disconnection notice/sonic youth
loose translation/new pornographers
asobi seksu - strawberries
cursive - big bang
the gossip - standing in the way of control
art brut - formed a band
lady sovereign - fiddle with the volume
scotland yard gospel choir - ellens telling me what i want to hear
ted leo - counting down the hours
yo le tengo - our way to fall
eleni mandell - american boy
hum - stars
TITLE OF MIXTAPE: "I Was Hoping The Next Fuel Topic Would Be 'Where's The Best Place In Town For An Enema?'"
1. CAMPBELL BROTHERS -
Thank Ya
2. GHOSTFACE KILLAH - The Champ
3. RHYS CHATHAM - An Angel Moves Too Fast To See
4. SCOTT WALKER - Get Behind Me
5. MARVIN GAYE - Can I Get A Witness?
6. BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - The Seedling
7. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
8. GETZ/GIBERTO - The Girl From Ipanema
9. JULEE CRUISE - Questions In A World Of Blue
10. THE WANDERERS - If Drinking Too Much Means I Love You
mas que nada / sergio mendez
pilgrims / widespread panic
lost in a crowd / rusted root
mediteranean sun / al di meola, paco de lucia, john mclaughlin
dark hollow / grateful dead
american idiot / green day
hotter and hotter / rollins band
jurassic shift / ozric tentacles
into the mystic / van morrison
She Don't Use Jelly - Flaming Lips
Red Shoes - Elvis Costello
Bachelorette - Bjork
Street Fighting Man - Rolling Stones
Jolene - The White Stripes
Ruby Soho - Rancid
Bonita Applebum - A Tribe Called Quest
Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats
Hot Topic - Le Tigre
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Kate Bush- The Big Sky
Anything from Stereolab
Anything from Cymande
Stravinski- Rites of Spring
Anything frm Sonic Youth
Pretenders- Private Life
Cocteau Twins-Garlands
The Kinks- Strange Effect
The Damned- Shadow of Love
Beatles- Fixing a Hole
DeVotchKa – How It Ends
Echo & The Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
David Bowie – Lieb Dich Bis Dienstag
The Cure – Primary [Studio Out-take]
The Shins – New Slang feat. Iron and Wine (live)
Iron & Wine – Naked As We Came
Blonde Redhead – Misery Is a Butterfly
Devendra Banhart – I Feel Just Like a Child
Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
Milton Mapes – In The Corner Where It All Began
Ugly Americans - Orlando
Old 97's - Miss Molly
The Hold Steady - Better Dance With Who You Came With
Eagles of Death Metal - Cherry Cola
Bob Schneider - I'm Good Now
Supersuckers - I Want It All
Lily Allen - Knock 'em Out
The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
Louis XIV - Paperdoll
The Safes - Bottoms Up
1. poerl
2. qiokd
3. polia
4. ioutny
5. pli
6. airug
7. tusluy
8. awervh
9. baeru
10. jytrehr
Indian Summer - Dream Academy
Indian Summer - Glenn Miller
Indian Summer - The Doors
Indian Summer - Sheryl Crow
Indian Summer - Adam Gregory Indian Summer - Ozark Henry
'L'ete Indien (Indian Summer)'' - Invisible Borders
Indian Summer - Frank Sinatra
Indian Summer Sky - U2
Indian Summer - Al Stewart
Smack That - Akon ft. Eminem
SexyBack - Justin Timberlake
Yeah - Usher
Maria - Blondie
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley
Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Veronica - Elvis Costello
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Regulators - Nate Dogg & Warren G
What's Your Fantasy - Ludacris
Be Your Own Pet- Bicycle, Bicycle
Blood on the Wall- Mary Susan
Figurines- The Danger
Tom Waits- Till The Money Runs Out
Cocteau Twins- The Spangle Maker
Kings of Leon- Happy Alone
Holly Golightly- Your Love Is Mine
John Coltrane- Harmonique
The Doors- Indian Summer
1. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (aka best part of the Abbey Road medley) - The Beatles
2.Erotic City - Prince
3.What a Fool Believes- Michael McDonald
4.Age of Consent- New Order
5.Rearviewmirror- Pearl Jam
6.Who Loves the Sun- Velvet Underground
7.We Are the Sleepyheads- Belle and Sebastian
8.Refugee- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
9.Someday- The Strokes
10. You Won't See Me- The Beatles
because for me, it always begins and ends with The Beatles.
1) Wolf Like Me -TV on the Radio
2) Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap
3) That Old Pair of Jeans - Fatboy Slim
4) Emily Kane - Art Brut
5) Time - Tom Waits
6) Don't Feel Right - the Roots
7) Don't I Hold You -Wheat
8) Stuck between Stations - the Hold Steady
9) How to Save a Life - The Fray
10) Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Weirdo-Miles Davis
You Been a good Ole
Wagon- Bessie Smith
Troublesome- Tupac
My Block-Tupac
Summer Time-Janis Joplin
* Do You Like Me - Fugazi
* Agenda Suicide - The Faint
* I Want to Conquer the World - Bad Religion
* It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - REM
* Brown County - Endpoint
* The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan
* Will You Still Love Me In.... - Julie Doiron
* Shoe In - Ida
* Mushaboom - Feist & Postal Service
* Naked as We Came - Iron & Wine
A mix tape for Blagg
Careful with that Axe Eugene - Pink Floyd
Small Axe - Bob Marley
My Axe - Insane Clown Posse
Confusion Panel Reconstrucion Mix - New Order (from the Blade Soundtrack)
Let The Good Times Roll - Molly Hatchet
mAXwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n' Roses
Okay, I'm starting to strech it, so I'll stop here.
Ramona- Bob Dylan
There is a Darkness- Johnny Cash
Acony Bell- Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings
She Smiled Sweetly- Billy Bragg
O' Sailor - Fiona Apple
Johnsburg IL -Tom Waits
The Mountain Low- Palace Music
Gathering Flowers for the Masters Bouquet- Stanley Brothers
Why- The Coctails
waerba has the best mix yet!
To answer Emerson Dameron's titular question - I know a place - hot fudge, lemon, or mineral water.
Listen to Some Day
"Barking Dogs, Rustling Leaves"
"Rattling Keys, Doors Opening"
"Two Men at Once"
"Door Knocking"
"Enter Two Women, Greetings"
"Me, of course, with Two Men and Two Women, at Once"
"Laughing, Talking, Moaning, Chirping, Laughing, Talking"
"Trains and Traffic"
"Buzz of Electricity"
"Breathing"
1. Joseph Arthur "Even Tho"
2. Rachel Yamagata "Be Be Love"
3. David Mead "Girl on a Roof"
4. Collective Soul "Run"
5. starsailor "Love is Here"
6. Cowboy Junkies "Blue"
7. Queen/David Bowie "Under Pressure"
8. REM "Electron Blue"
9. REM "E-bow the Letter"
10. Brandi Carlile "Fall Apart Again"
1. Mood to Burn Bridges -- Neko Case (this song got me through law school)
2. Two Trains -- Little Feat
3. Vagabond Moon -- Willie Nile
4. Stay All Night -- Willie Nelson (LET WILLIE GO)
5. Burning Streets -- Joe Strummer
6. It's No Use -- The Byrds
7. Same Rain -- Sam Phillips
8. If I Needed Someone -- The Beatles
9. Gypsy -- Suzanne Vega
10. Pure & Easy -- Pete Townsend (If you see someone doing the windmill on the el, that'll be me)
Ten randomly chosen from my "happy" playlist:
* Kyle's Mom's A Bitch
* Girlfriend -- Matthew Sweet
* The One On The Right Is On The Left -- Johnny Cash
* Sneaky Feelings -- Elvis Costello
* Lily White Hands -- The Gossip
* By the Time I Get to Arizona -- evolution control committee
• The Ballad Of The Shape Of Things -- Blossom Dearie
* Freewheel -- Team Dresch
* Angst in my Pants -- Sparks
* There's Only One Thing Left To Say -- Velocity Girl
Randomly chosen by Odysseus, my trusty iPod:
“Astroglide” – The Mystechs
“Getting Away With It” – electronic
“Extremis” – HAL (feat. Gillian Anderson)
“Supervixen” – Garbage
“Stratford On Guy” – Liz Phair
“Michael” – Franz Ferdinand
“Alison” – Elvis Costello
“Open Your Eyes” – Goldfinger
“Here Comes Your Man” – The Pixies
“I'm Not Afraid” – Fleming & John
Girls – Nizlopi
My Winding Wheel – Ryan Adams
All Our Vice – New Amsterdams
Lounger – Dogs Die in Hot Cars
Idol – Amanda Ghost
Heartbeats – The Knife
See The World – Gomez
La Ritour – Sebastian Tellier
Carry Me Ohio – Sun Kil Moon
This Modern Love – Bloc Party
Belle & Sebastian- "Expectations"
Beatles- "I'm only Sleeping"
Kate Bush- "Hounds of Love"
Yardbirds- "For Y0r Love"
Yardbirds- "Heart Full of Soul"
Yardbirds- "Shapes of Things"
Kate Bush-"Sat in Your Lap"
Stereolab- "wow and flutter"
Air- "Female d'Argent"
Thievery Corporation-"LeMonde"Flaming Lips- "All We Have is Now"
Tribe Called Quest-"Go Ahead in the Rain"
In My Life - Beatles
Cheated Hearts, acoustic vers. - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Mexican Blue - Jolie Holland
A Field Below - Regina Spektor
My Wandering Days Are Over - Belle & Sebastian
Stewball - Peter Paul & Mary
The Greatest - Cat Power
Love Connection, Part 2 - Parenthetical Girls
Shut Up I Am Dreaming... - Sunset Rubdown
Two of Us- Beatles
Bill 9:04 wins the indie rocker award. Never heard of even one of those groups.
What's this "mixtape" you speak of? Music on thin magnetic tape? That's insane! ;-)
I now have a sudden urge to find a cassette and tighten it to the beginning with my finger...
Lived in Bars -- Cat Power
Just in Time -- Nina Simone
Hi-Fi -- M. Ward
Rally -- Phoenix
On a String -- The Changes
Mushaboom -- Fiest
Poison Cup -- M. Ward
For Real -- Okkervil RiverWill You Love Me Tomorrow -- The Shirelles
I like songs that make me smile (OK giggle a little) and want to skate fast.
Can You Feel The Beat/ Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam
I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor/ Sugarbabes (Arctic Monkeys cover)
Munich/ Editors
Banquet/ Bloc Party
Here It Goes Again/ OK Go
No Imagination/ The Hong Kong
What Are You Waiting For?/ Franz Ferdinand (Gwen Stefani cover)
SexyBack/ Justin Timberlake
The Rat/ The Walkmen
West End Girls/ Pet Shop Boys
I find this whole thread is offensive to deaf people. Also, to people allergic to magnetic tape.
Mix title: Laundry is Not a Date
Sinnerman - Nina Simone
Bonzo Goes to Bitburg - The Ramones
Box Elder - Pavement
Backslider - Jon Spenser Blues Explosion
Free Money - Patti Smith
Mr. November - The National
Certain Songs - The Hold Steady
Eric's Trip - Sonic Youth
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Tom Jones Levitation - Skull Orchard
1 The Rapture / Get Myself Into It
2 Curtis Mayfield / You've Been Cheatin
3 Sparklehorse / Knives Of Summertime
4 Oh No! Oh My / Walk In The Park
5 Ratatat / Wildcat
6 Joanna Newsom / Cosmia
7 Yo La Tengo / Pass The Hatchet...
8 Emily Haines / Our Hell
9 My Brightest Diamond / Golden Star
10 The Decemberists / When The War Came
The Church, "Block"
John Mayer, "Waiting For the World To Change"
The Black Crowes, "Thunderstorm 6:54 PM"
Lush, "De-Luxe"
Lenny Kravitz, "Dig In"
Duran Duran, "My Antartica"
Waylon Jennings, "Lukenbach, Texas"
Al Jarreau, "Moonlighting"
Paul McCartney, "Fine Line"
Jeff Beck, "I Ain't Superstitious"
Only Ten! Here goes:
The Rapture - Get Myself Into It
Grandaddy - Elevate Myself
TV on the Radio - Dirtywhirl
Hot Chip - Colours
Junior Boys - In The Morning
Long Winters - Teaspoon
Asobi Sesku - New Years
Yo La Tengo - Beanbag Chair
Editors - Bullets
Lily Allen - Smile
Keyshia Cole - Love
Justin Timberlake feat. T.I. - My love
Outkast - Idlewild Blue
Kelis feat. Pharrell and Clipse - Milkshake remix
Dj Krush - Final Home (anybody going tonight?)
Kool Keith - Dr. Octagon
Gnarles Barkley - Just a Thought
Little Brother - Cant stop Wont stop
Ying yang twins - shake
Looking at topics like this remind how much I enjoy music.
Tame - Pixies
Roads - Portishead
Harmour Love - Syreeta
Ironclad - Sleater-Kinney
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Miss Teen Wordpower - The New Pornographers
Tainted Love - Gloria Jones
Gravity - The Dresden Dolls
Death of a Salesman - Low
Alison - Elvis Costello
shut up i can too count
oh wait...
okay one more
how about Luda - whats your fantasy remix with shawnna, trina, and foxy brown
Hell Ain't a bad Place to Be - AC/DC
Dirty Back Road - B-52's
Any Day Now - Cop Shoot Sop
Get out of My Head - Firewater
Locomotive - Guns n Roses
Symbol in my driveway - Jack Johnson
URAQT - M.I.A.
Calinte (dark Entries) - revolting cocks
Guitar Town - Steve Earle
Playhouses - TV on the Radio
1. Not Even Jail - Interpol
2. Hero - Bloc Party
3. Fancy Claps - Wolf Parade
4. Save Your Day - Jose Gonzalez
5. Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead
6. My Curse - The Afghan Whigs
7. Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke
8. Transformer - Gnarls Barkley
9. What a Wonderful Man - My Morning Jacket
10. Pounding - Doves
Deal - Joe Lovano
Sex/Work (Clarence/Anita) - Don Byron
LittleNiles - Stefon Harris & Jacky Terrasson
Epistrophy - TJ Kirk
B Count - Mario Pavone
No. 1 - New Air (Henry Threadgill)
God Bless the Child - Eric Dolphy
I’m Not a Spy - Ray Anderson
Dolores - Kurt Elling
Jump Up – Jason Moran
i promised to make a housewarming mix tape for some friends who are having a party tonight, this is good timing. however, this will not be their mix.
1. meds - placebo
2. ether - kristin hersh
3. marker in the sand - pearl jam
4. severance - bauhaus covering dead can dance
5. drown out - glen hansard and marketa inglova
6. drowning man - U2
7. avalanche - thea gilmore
8. here comes the rain again - eurythmics
9. throwing muses - call me
10. something short and instrumental
1. Ghostface- Be Easy
2. Link 80- Harvester of Sorrow
3. Who's the Boss- Theme Song
4. Weather Girls- It's Raining Men
5. 7,00 Dying Rats- Anal Cunt is Gay
6. The Clash- Train in Vain
7. J.T.- Sexy/back
8. Saigon- Color Purple
9. Lupe Fiasco- Kick/Push
10. Dillinger Escape Plan f/ Mike Patton- Come to Daddy
11. Suicide Machines- Hey
12. Coltrane- Giant Steps
13. Golden Girls-Theme
Title: Ultra America Mix
Indian Reservation – Paul Revere and the Raiders
Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
Society’s Child – Janis Ian
They Don’t Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore – Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
I Enjoy Being a Girl – B. J. Baker
When I’m 64 – The Beatles
Old Man – Neil Young
Short People – Randy Newman
Don’t Put It Down – Steve Curry
Tomorrow Belongs to Me – Chorus of Nazi Youth
A friend and I were working on a cheesy mix a couple of months ago. Here's what we came up with:
Freak Me- Silk
I Wanna Sex You Up- Color Me Badd
Knockin' Boots- H-Town
Like A Prayer- Madonna
Sex Me- R. Kelly
SexyBack- JT
See the theme? We're open to more suggestions. It's going to be hilarious.
1. The Eraser - Thom Yorke
2. Hands Open - Snow Patrol
3. Malibu Love Nest - Luna
4. See the World - Gomez
5. Across the Border - Bruce Springsteen
6. Better Off Without a Wife - Tom Waits
7. Muzzle of Bees - Wilco
8. What Does It Mean Now - World Party
9. Smile - Madeleine Peyroux
10. This Is Us - Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris.
*66 - the afghan whigs
*this modern love - bloc party
*abel - the national
*i will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie
*hold you in my arms - ray lamontagne
*six months in a leaky boat - ted leo/pharmacists
*100,000 fireflies - superchunk
*st. jimmy - green day
*no key, no plan - okkervil river
*sexyback - justin timberlake (i can't help it!)
Luke Temple - Make Right With You
Rachel Ries - Only You
Hello Saferide - the Quiz
eef barzelay - ballad of bitter honey
Dana Falconberry - Paper Sailboat
herman dune - I wish I could see you
The Library trust - Snowstorm
Smog - The Well
Regina Spektor - On the Radio
The Damnwells - Golden Days
Lullaby - Dixie Chicks
Birds And Bees - Patrick & Eugene
Such Great Heights - Snow Patrol
Why - Annie Lennox
PM's Love Theme - Craig Anderson
Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
Northern Sky - Nick Drake
Good Feelings - Violent Femmes
Sleepwalking - Modest Mouse
It's A Shame About Ray - Lemonheads
Unsatisfied - Replacements
Oh no - did I put Such Great Heights on there as Snow Patrol? Oh well, put Snow Patrol on the mixed tape too, they both tend to hog my stereo
Certainly nothing by Jet...
i walk the line - the minute long version from the Levi's ad
speak slow - tegan and sara
does he love you - rilo kiley
the bronze beached boys - pas/cal
blue glasses - smokey & miho
age of consent - new order
suspended from class - camera obscura
calendar girl - stars
i'll be your mirror - VU and nico
catch my disease - ben lee
- the centaur (acoustic version), buck 65
- walking the plan, apollo up!
- pillar of salt, the thermals
- pop song, cLOUDEAD
- all the world is green, tom waits
- holland 1965, neutral milk hotel
- time trap, built to spill
- i think i lost my headache, QOTSA
- a simple desultory philippic, simon & garfunkel
- john wayne gacy, sufjan stevens
not necessarily in that order.
Rebel Girl -- Bikini Kill
Party Girl -- Elvis Costello
Vanishing Girl -- The Dukes Of Stratosphear
Punk Rock Girl -- Dead Milkmen
Modern Girl -- Sleater-Kinney
Just An Old Fashioned Girl -- Eartha Kitt
Retard Girl -- Hole
Vampire Girl -- Jonathan Richman
P.U.N.K. Girl -- Heavenly
Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl -- Unrest
Bankrobber - The Clash
Dirty Water - Standells
Maybe Your Baby - Stevie Wonder
St. Augustine - Band of Horses
Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War - Paul Simon
Caravan - Van Morrison
Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
All Green - Clem Snide
Bernadette - Four Tops
Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars
Throw It All Away - Brandi Carlile
Buckets of Rain - Neko Case (Dylan cover)
We Died a Little Today - Alejandro Escovedo
The Weight - The Band (w Staples Singers)
Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Penny on the Train Track - Ben Kweller
Far, Far Away - Wilco
Golden Slumbers - The Beatles
Urban Ethos [26]
What is Chicago's "urban ethos"?
Cool Glass of... [16]
What're you drinking?
Supreme Decision [22]
What's your reaction to the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act?
Taking it to the Streets [20]
Chicago Street Fairs: Revolting or Awesome?
I Can Be Cruel [9]
Be real: what is the meanest thing you've ever done?
Naz / September 21, 2006 2:13 PM
Currently, I'd put these on a mixtape:
- Compliments, Bloc Party
- Hey Ya, Obadiah Parker/Mat Weddle
- What Else Is There?, Royskopp
- Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division
- Singing In The Rain, Mint Royale
- Staying Alive, Bee Gees
- Dorothy at Forty, Cursive
- Low Tide, ISIS & Aerogramme
- The Plan, Built To Spill
- In A Steadman Spray, The Velvet Teen