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Mixmania Summer Edition

Lauren

One of the strangest things about blogs is that it is not uncommon to see very serious posts about war and death juxtaposed with posts about cats and music. Excuse this regrettable oddness while I post my Mixmania CD playlist as I have been urged to (finally) do.

This playlist is characterized as a list of songs that would make me get down all over town with the windows down singing my sweet ass off.

1) Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission
2) Mr. Airplane Man – Not Living At All
3) Jon Brion – Walking Through Walls
4) The Icicles – Sugar Sweet
5) David Bowie – Let’s Dance
6) The Detroit Cobras – Hey Sailor
7) The Dirtbombs – Chains of Love
8) Belle and Sebastian – She’s Losing It
9) The Undertones – You’ve Got My Number (Why Don’t You Use It?)
10) The Vibrators – You Broke My Heart
11) Suggie Otis – Strawberry Letter #23
12) Hi Tek ft. Jonell – Round and Round
13) Cee-Lo Green – The Art of Noise
14) Peaches – Operate
15) Of Montreal – The Party’s Crashing Us
16) Firewater – Mr. Cardiac
17) The Blasters – I’m Shakin’
18) Le Tigre – Deceptacon
19) Calexico – Corona
20) Saturday Looks Good To Me – Alcohol
21) Cibo Matto – Sunday Part II

To be put in the mail today or tomorrow.

6 thoughts on Mixmania Summer Edition

  1. it’s not a regrettable oddness, or at least it shouldn’t be. it’s one of the things that give many blogs their appeal & relevance – the fact that they represent the messy patchwork nature of everyday life. life is terrorist attacks right smack next to cats & making mixes. i’m pretty worried right now that i still haven’t heard back from one friend in London. does it mean i don’t have to worry about picking up cat food & milk on the way home? not really… i just have to do both.

    and, while terrorist bombs exploding are undeniably tragic, when you consider the horrors much of the world is subject to on an everyday basis (e.g. Iraq, Haiti, the Sudan, Colombia, etc.) then you’d have to be checking yourself every second wondering if it’s appropriate or not to be discussing hair dyes or cat turds while [insert daily apocalyptic horror of choice here] is going on…

  2. Precisely so-I was up posting a bit about my husband’s birthday which is lame given the greater scheme of things but I went ahead, still mindful of suffering elsewhere. Nice mix!

  3. This must be a generational thing, as I’ve not heard of any of these songs, nor the musicians.

    Check out my list…it gives my age away! (47)

  4. Libertine, I’ll bet you’ve heard at least one of these, the most likely being Jon Brion. He put out a pop album several years ago on a little label that doesn’t sell through the usual venues. In the meantime he has written scores for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Buckabees, Punch Drunk Love, and Magnolia. Plus he produces albums for artists like Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple.

    Good, happy, poppy, and smart music.

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