Mixtape #16: Halloweenheads

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, Halloweenheads:









1) Scared - John Lennon
2) Halloween - Dave Matthews Band
3) I Am Stretched On Your Grave - Sinead O'Connor
4) I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab for Cutie
5) My Body's a Zombie for You - Dead Man's Bones
6) Halloweenhead - Ryan Adams
7) Friendly Ghost - Eels
8) Dracula's Wedding - Outkast
9) Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - David Bowie
10) Earth Intruders - Bjork
11) Bodysnatchers - Radiohead
12) Spooky Girlfriend - Elvis Costello
13) They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Are Back from the Dead!! Ahhh!! - Sufjan Stevens
14) Scarecrow - Beck
15) The Boogie Monster - Gnarls Barkley
16) Thriller - Michael Jackson

Mixtape #15: Rainy Day Music

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, Rainy Day Music:









1) Your Letter - Mint Julep
2) Shot In the Back of the Head - Moby
3) David's Lamentation - The Good Players
4) House of Cards - Radiohead
5) Van Occupanther - Midlake
6) Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem
7) Love Comes to Me - Will Oldham
8) Born - Over the Rhine
9) Save Me - Aimee Mann
10) Staralfur - Sigur Ros
11) Sweet Song - Blur
12) Heart's a Mess - Gotye
13) Wonderwall - Ryan Adams
14) Mad World - Gary Jules
15) Another World - Antony and the Johnsons
16) Baby's World - Chris Garneau
17) Jezebel - Iron and Wine
18) The Book of Love - The Magnetic Fields

Mixtape #14: Book Notes

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, Book Notes -- a collection of songs about books and authors:









1) Novel Writing - Monty Python
2) Wrapped Up In Books - Belle and Sebastian
3) Paperback Writer - The Beatles
4) Shakespeare's Sister - The Smiths
5) Type Slowly - Pavement
6) Frodo (Don't Wear the Ring) - Flight of the Conchords
7) The Book I Read - Talking Heads
8) Bedside Story - Badly Drawn Boy
9) Sylvia Plath - Ryan Adams
10) Saul Bellow - Sufjan Stevens
11) Bookworm - Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
12) How's About Telling a Story? - Devendra Banhart
13) Write On - Sleeping In the Aviary
14) Write Your Story Now - Kevin Devine
15) Walt Whitman's Niece - Wilco
16) Emma, Dear - Drew Moody
17) Engine Driver - The Decemberists
18) One Short Story - Xavier Rudd
19) Bixby Canyon Bridge - Death Cab for Cutie
20) My Favourite Book - Stars
21) The Book of Love - The Magnetic Fields
22) Bookshop - Monty Python

Mixtape #13: Earth Songs

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, Earth Songs:









1) (Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads
2) There Is a Mountain - Donovan
3) The New Pollution - Beck
4) Earth - Imogen Heap
5) Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean - Paul Simon
6) The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
7) Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
8) Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
9) Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Neko Case
10) After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
11) Mother Nature's Son - The Beatles
12) Hand Me Down World - The Guess Who
13) Citizen of the Planet - Simon and Garfunkel
14) Where Do the Children Play? - Cat Stevens
15) Disappearing World - David Gray
16) Golden Earth Girl - Paul McCartney
17) No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature - The Guess Who
18) There She Goes, My Beautiful World - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
19) After the Garden - Neil Young
20) Nature Anthem - Grandaddy

Mixtape #12: Venti: Chill Songs for Smooth Roasts

This mix was inspired by my new friend, Coffee Shop Girl (or as I now know her to be called, Amanda). The Village Grind (the cafe she works at and I frequent) plays absolutely horrendous music and she was told that some of the songs she was bringing in were too "rock and roll." I took it upon myself to create a mix of mellower songs for the shop, that she could play over the speakers while working. If the owner doesn't allow for that, I'll still have the playlist on my iPod!

With SO many mellow, acoustic songs in my collection to choose from, this mixtape proved to be a difficult one to compile. However, I think I've arrived at a pretty good collection of songs suitable for sipping coffee. At any rate, here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, Venti: Chill Songs for Smooth Roasts:

(DISCLAIMER: I know "venti" is Italian for "twenty" and that there are actually 21 songs on this mix, but I just had an absolute dickens of a time trying to figure out which one song to cut. I decided I'd leave the 21st song on here -- for irony's sake, if nothing else.)

1) I Was Young When I Left Home - Antony and the Johnsons
2) Gold - Interference
3) A Few Honest Words - Ben Sollee
4) I Keep Faith - Billy Bragg
5) Everybody's Talkin' - Bobby Bare
6) Lay Me Down - The Frames
7) Ooh La La - Faces
8) Ghosts - Mark Geary
9) So Far Around the Bend - The National
10) You and I - Wilco (with Feist)
11) The Greatest - Cat Power
12) Heather, Remind Me How This Ends - Dolorean
13) Lord, Save Me from Myself - Jon Foreman
14) Something Else - Gary Jules
15) Dogs - Damien Rice
16) One of These Things First - Nick Drake
17) For Emma - Bon Iver
18) Decatur, or, a Round of Applause for Your Stepmother - Sufjan Stevens
19) At the Hop - Devendra Banhart
20) Dark As the Night - Doug Burr
21) Fresh Feeling - Eels

Mixtape #11 - This One Goes Out to All the Ladies

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, This One Goes Out to All the Ladies:









1) Ladies of the World - Flight of the Conchords
2) Black Girl Pain - Talib Kweli
3) The Girls Want to Be with the Girls - Talking Heads
4) Love Her Madly - The Doors
5) No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand
6) Daytime Nighttime Suffering - Paul McCartney
7) Working Girls (Sunlight Shines) - The Pernice Brothers
8) Women's Realm - Belle and Sebastian
9) Killer Queen - Queen
10) No Man's Woman - Sinead O'Connor
11) Nobody's Baby - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
12) Respect - Aretha Franklin
13) Woman Is the Nigger of the World - John Lennon
14) Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves - Eurythmics
15) Woman King - Iron and Wine
16) Army of Me - Bjork
17) She Just Wants to Be - R.E.M.
18) Girl In the War - Josh Ritter
19) She's Leaving Home - The Beatles

Mixtape #10 - Songs of the Sea

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, Songs of the Sea:









1) Home at Last - Steely Dan
2) Stuck On a Boat - Port O'Brien
3) Chanty - Son Volt
4) I'm Shipping Up to Boston - Dropkick Murphys
5) March Into the Sea - Modest Mouse
6) Fisherman's Wife - Califone
7) Gulf of Mexico Fishing Blues - Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby
8) The Devil Down Below - Gaelic Storm
9) The Mariner's Revenge Song - The Decemberists
10) Petrov, Yelyena and Me - Flight of the Conchords
11) Goodbye, Goodnight - Jars of Clay
12) Sailor Song - The Felice Brothers
13) Sailor and Widow - Keren Ann
14) The Whaler - Thrice
15) The Downeaster "Alexa" - Billy Joel
16) Pirates - Mr. Gnome
17) The Family and the Fishing Net - Peter Gabriel
18) Fisherman's Song - Port O'Brien
19) Ships - Tyler Ramsey
20) Song to the Siren - Tim Buckley

Mixtape #'s 8 and 9: Take Off Your Pants and Shake It! and Rock Your Socks Off! (and pants, shirt and, possibly, underwear)

That's right, ladies and gentlemen -- tonight you will be the first to see TWO mixtape track listings for the price of ONE!

These are the two toughest mixes I've ever made as there was no topic to work with -- instead I had the fit the mood of "dancing with your pants off." The toughest thing about it was that I didn't necessarily want to have them in any sort of order; rather, I wanted people to be able shuffle through it and be able to enjoy whatever popped up. Hopefully I achieved that.

Take Off Your Pants and Shake It!










1) Ocean of Lust - DeVotchka
2) I Feel It All - Feist
3) Minha Menina - A Band of Bees
4) We're from Barcelona - I'm from Barcelona
5) Shape of My Heart - Noah and the Whale
6) Is This the Last Time? - Donovan (w/ Variety Lab)
7) For the Price of a Cup of Tea - Belle and Sebastian
8) Toe Jam - David Byrne
9) A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
10) Meet Me In the Garden - Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele
11) Fair - Ben Folds Five
12) The Further I Slide - Badly Drawn Boy
13) Les Yper-Sound - Stereolab
14) Mr. Tough - Yo La Tengo
15) Selfish Jean - Travis
16) I Love You, You Imbecile - Pelle Carlberg
17) For Our Elegant Castle - Of Montreal
18) Sushi - Kyle Andrews
19) Scar That Never Heals - Jeremy Fisher
20) Closer - Jars of Clay
21) Another Day - Jamie Lidell
22) Turn On Me

Rock Your Socks Off! (and pants, shirt and, possibly, underwear)










1) I Like to Rock the Party - Flight of the Conchords
2) North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
3) Dancing Choose - TV On the Radio
4) Napoleon Says - Phoenix
5) Valerie - The Zutons
6) Ever Present Past - Paul McCartney
7) Does This Mean You're Moving On? - The Airborne Toxic Event
8) The Good Ole Days - The Lodger
9) What Katie Did - The Libertines
10) Mother, We Can't Get Enough - New Radicals
11) I'm Not Crying, You're Not Crying, Are You? - Dear and the Headlights
12) Soma - The Strokes
13) The Angels' Share - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
14) Alive with the Glory of Love - Say Anything
15) When Did Your Heart Go Missing? - Rooney
16) Talk About It - The Metros
17) Good Day - Jukebox the Ghost
18) Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
19) Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
20) Alright - Supergrass
21) One Horse Town - The Thrills
22) Lover - Devendra Banhart

Mixtape #7 -- Recovery: Songs of Healing

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, Recovery: Songs of Healing. I'd like to dedicate this mix to Megan's father and wish him nothing but the best.

Slainte.




1) Getting Better - The Beatles
2) Recovery - New Buffalo
3) Reason to Believe - Bruce Springsteen
4) Don't Let It Bring You Down - Neil Young
5) With a Little Help from My Friends - Joe Cocker
6) Today Will Be Better, I Swear! - Stars
7) Still All Right - Adam Merrin
8) Living Life - Eels
9) Hold On Hope - Guided By Voices
10) Life Is Long - David Byrne
11) Sun Is Shining - Paul McCartney
12) Gold In Them Hills - Ron Sexsmith
13) Flowers In the Window - Travis
14) Everything's Not Lost - Coldplay
15) I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - U2
16) Either Way - Wilco
17) And the Healing Has Begun - Van Morrison
18) Today - Smashing Pumpkins

Mixtape #6 -- RAWR: Songs of the Purple Dinosaur

I recently told Megan that I am the best mixtape maker in the history of mixtape makers; John Cusack in High Fidelity doesn't have anything on me! With such a bold claim, she clearly had reservations about believing me whole-heartedly, so I told her to challenge me: any subject or mood at all! I'll make a mixtape for it.

Her most extravagant suggestion was "Purple Dinosaur."

So, without further ado, here is the final track listing for my most recent mixtape, RAWR: Songs of the Purple Dinosaur:

1) I Love You - Barney
2) Purple Anteater - Damien Jurado
3) Start Wearing Purple - Gogol Bordello
4) Dinosaur Egg - Scout Niblett
5) Allosaurus Lunch Hour - Prehistoric Stomp
6) The Beast and the Dragon, Adored - Spoon
7) The Whale Song - Modest Mouse
8) Dinosaur Act - Low
9) I Want You to Know - Dinosaur, Jr.
10) Get It On - T. Rex
11) Do the Evolution - Pearl Jam
12) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
13) Purple Stain - Red Hot Chili Peppers
14) (Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads
15) We R the Dinosaur - The Shapeshifters
16) My Beloved Monster - Eels
17) Cold Blooded Old Times - Smog
18) Ice Age - Pete Yorn
19) Purple Rain - Prince

Mixtape #5 -- THIS: The Mixtape

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, THIS: The Mixtape:









1) I Like You - Drew Moody
2) Starting a New Life - Van Morrison
3) Every Night - Paul McCartney
4) I'm Sticking with You - The Velvet Underground
5) The Man In Me - Bob Dylan
6) If Not for You - George Harrison
7) All I Want Is You - Barry Louis Polisar
8) I'd Rather Be with You - Joshua Radin
9) Together - William Shatner
10) Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
11) You Are the Best Thing - Ray LaMontagne
12) Funny Little Frog - Belle and Sebastian
13) Us - Regina Spektor
14) Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
15) Such Great Heights - Ben Folds
16) Think I'm In Love - Beck
17) If You're Into It - Flight of the Conchords
18) Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
19) Mars Loves Venus - The Brunettes
20) This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
21) Mushaboom - Feist
22) Beginnings - Chicago

Mixtape #4: All I'm Thinking About Is You: The Mixtape

Thank you, Megan, for the inspiration to create this mixtape.

Here is the FINAL track listing for my latest mixtape, All I'm Thinking About Is You: The Mixtape:




1) Love You In the Fall - Paul Westerberg
2) Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison
3) So Happy Together - The Turtles
4) Dreaming of You - The Coral
5) All I'm Thinkin' About - Bruce Springsteen
6) Too Busy Thinking About My Baby - Marvin Gaye
7) I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
8) Two of Us - The Beatles
9) Ghosts - Mark Geary
10) Dream About Me - Moby
11) Thinking About You - Pete Yorn
12) How Can I Tell You - Cat Stevens
13) All I Have to Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers
14) Closer - Travis
15) Dreams - The Cranberries
16) I Want to Hold Your Hand - T.V. Carpio
17) Gotta Have You - The Weepies
18) In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
19) Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
20) East from West - Denison Witmer

Mixtape #3: Under the Harvest Moon: Songs for Laying In a Field, Wrapped Up In a Starry Blanket

Here is the most up-to-date track listing for my latest mixtape, Under the Harvest Moon: Songs for Laying In a Field and Drinking Merlot, Wrapped Up In a Starry Blanket:

(song inclusion and order are subject to change upon inspiration)


1) Harvest Moon - Neil Young
2) Moonlight - Bob Dylan
3) Blue Moon - Bob Dylan
4) Pink Moon - Nick Drake
5) Each Coming Night - Iron and Wine
6) Dark As the Night - Doug Burr
7) Lay Me Down - The Frames
8) Blanket - Diego Sandrin
9) Amie - Damien Rice
10) Field Below - Regina Spektor
11) Satellite - Dave Matthews Band
12) The Song We Were Singing - Paul McCartney
13) No More Wishing - Hayley Taylor
14) Nightswimming - R.E.M.
15) Falling Slowly - The Swell Season
16) The First Time - U2
17) Something In the Night - Bruce Springsteen
18) The Nest That Sailed the Sky - Peter Gabriel
19) Tonight (Reprise) - Smashing Pumpkins

All I have to do now is listen to it, whilst laying in a field, with a bottle of wine, wrapped up in a starry blanket to know if I captured the mood just right or not.

Mixtape #2: Welcome to the Working Week: Songs to Get Through Long Work Days

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, Welcome to the Working Week: Songs to Get Through Long Work Days:








1) Welcome to the Working Week - Elvis Costello
2) Superman - Lazlo Bane
3) Another Day - Paul McCartney
4) Finest Worksong - R.E.M.
5) Here It Goes Again - OK Go
6) Middle Management - Bishop Allen
7) It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr
8) Cleaning Windows - Van Morrison
9) Diner - Martin Sexton
10) Step Into My Office, Baby - Belle and Sebastian
11) Parade - Pretty Girls Make Graves
12) A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
13) Hey Julie - Fountains of Wayne
14) My Only Offer - Mates of State
15) Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
16) Hooch - Everything
17) Fuzzy - The Incredible Moses Leroy
18) Five Years Time - Noah and the Whale
19) Saturday Night - The Thrills
20) P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night) - George Harrison
21) You Only Live Once - The Strokes

Mixtape #1: Le Mix CD Francais: Music So French, It Must Be Liberated!!

Here is the final track listing for my latest mixtape, Le Mix CD Francais: Music So French, It Must Be Liberated!!

1) Foux da Fa Fa - Flight of the Conchords
2) C'est Ma Vie - Phonoboy
3) L'elephant - Tom Tom Club
4) Lo Boob Oscillator - Stereolab
5) A Lete De La Saint-Martin 68 - Miou Miou
6) Fantino - Sebastien Teller
7) Mer du Japon - AIR
8) Solaar Pleure - MC Solaar
9) L'amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours - Feist
10) Une Anee Sans Lumiere - Arcade Fire
11) J'T'emmène au Vent - Louise Attaque
12) Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie - Belle and Sebastian
13) Paris 2004 - Peter Bjorn and John
14) Michelle - The Beatles
15) Belle - Jack Johnson
16) Paris - Yael Naim
17) Sympathique - Pink Martini
18) Cœur De Parisienne - Reprise d'Arletty - Rufus Wainwright
19) The Professor and La Fille Danse - Damien Rice
20) Au Fond du Temple Saint - David Byrne, with Rufus Wainwright
21) Les Champs-Elysees - Joe Dassin