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I’m Missing a Bunch of Album Art!

Still no baby! Everything’s ready for her (including us), but no birth over the weekend. Instead, I made a couple of Mix CDs. Yes, actual, physical CDs. Yes, I still do that sometimes, though it has actually been a couple of years since I’ve done so. So because it’s been so long, I decided to make a double-disc. I also threw out my rule about trying to have only one repeat from previous discs (there are a lot of repeats on these).

For this set I just arranged my collection alphabetically by artist and started at the top. I tried not to use more than 2 songs for any given artist chosen. I got down to the “P” artists before I filled up two discs! I fudged the order a couple of times (Julia Massey shouldn’t be on the first disc, for example), but whatever.

So here are the track lists. Wherever possible I tried to link to somewhere where you could download the song, or at least to a place where you can listen to the song. I was actually able to find them all… except for the songs that I wrote myself…

Anyway, enjoy! There are some good stuffs on these:

Disc 1

1. Ducktails – Moon by The Advantage
2. Black Velvet by Alannah Myles
3. Paradise by Ana Laan
4. Airbrushed by Anamanaguchi
5. All the Same to Me by Anya Marina
6. Title Screen Music from the Animal Crossing OST
7. Around the Bend by The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
8. Search for the Giant Squid by Ballzack
9. Draw a Crowd by Ben Folds Five
10. Stay the Same by Bonobo with Andreya Triana
11. Avantcore by Busdriver
12. The Story of the Earth, So Far by Julia Massey & the Five Finger Discount
13. The Factory by The Crazy Boy Floyds
14. Photograph by Def Leppard
15. Mercy by Duffy
16. Lazy Bones by Esquivel
17. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
18. The Frug by Rilo Kiley
19. Little Fighter X by Fighter X
20. Skeleton by Jimes
21. Queen of Wishful Thinking by Saucecore
22. Me and My Brother by Ballzack
23. Haunted House by The Crazy Boy Floyds

Disc 2

1. Spin Around by Josie & The Pussycats
2. Spaceships by Julia Massey & The Five Finger Discount
3. Take It Like a Man by Kay Hanley
4. LonLon Ranch by Koji Kondo
5. Awake by Leeni
6. Nice Weather for Ducks by Lemon Jelly
7. Chemistry by Locust Street Taxi
8. Just Another Day from the Lost Viking OST
9. Bucky Done Gun by M.I.A.
10. Good Morning Moon by Marian Call
11. Over and Over by Leeni
12. Crashman Stage from Mega Man 2 OST
13. Don’t Worry ‘Bout Us by Julia Massey & The Five Finger Discount
14. Daybreak by Michael Haggins
15. No Myth by Michael Penn
16. Lollipop by Mika
17. Zanac – Area 2 by Miyamo Shant
18. Taste the Bass by Mono Puff
19. Dear Carbon Nanotubes by Locust Street Taxi
20. Starry Eyed Surprise by Oakenfold
21. Experimental Dream FLCL by Open Mike Eagle
22. Things I Think About On Planes by Palmdale

Whoops! forgot to do this until today (only 2 days late)

Link of the Month:
Dads are the Original Hipsters
Sorry hipsters, your dad was the original hipster and he was killing it back in the day. This site has photographic proof that no matter how cool you think you are, your kids will think you are an absolute dork. And they’ll be right.

Album of the Month:
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: Fruit
This is an incredibly infectious and poppy album that has sweet hints of 60s spy jazz music liberally sprinkled thoughout its happy, bouncy, electro-pop sensibilities. Danish vocalist Mette Lindberg has a thin, girlish voice that I find incredibly appealing in such stand-out tracks as “Around the Bend” (which was featured in an iPhone commercial), “Golden Age,” and “Bad Fever.” Also they seem to have a song about Ghost Rider. Awesome fun.

Book of the Month:
Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition by Stan Sakai
It is a great shame of mine that I do not own any Usagi Yojimbo comics. You may remember him from some (strange) crossovers with TMNT, but Usagi has a life completely on his own, and is celebrating his 25th anniversary. Usagi Yojimbo is easily in the top five greatest comic book series of all time, and I would love to own every single issue. I’ll begin my collection with this extremely handsome edition that collects the first seven volumes of the series (from Fantagraphics) with many fantastic extras. Hopefully I will be able to continually add volumes to my collection.