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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

It stars all three of the Ben Folds Five (a joke I have always loved), and some very special guests:

FRAGGLES! I heart the quick rendition that the whole cast does of the theme song after the main video.

This song is from The Ben Folds Five’s latest album (after more than 10 years), The Sound of the Life of the Mind.

One thing you might not know about me is that I don’t listen to a lot of music, by which I mean I tend to focus on a small selection of music and then listen to it over and over and over again.

One of the things I do is I make Mix CDs that I listen to while I’m driving around—to and from work, to and from Fools Play, etc. Thing is, I only make one Mix CD about every three months and that’ll be pretty much all that I’ll listen to until I make another one.

Traditionally I go iTunes and organize my music by most recently added, then start pulling the best songs over to a new playlist as I work my way back in time through my music collection. This way my Mix CDs tend to have a handful of songs that I’ve acquired recently. I also try not to put in too many songs that were in my previous Mix CD. But I don’t add much music to my collection very often, so doing it that way only fills up a portion of the CD. So then I delve into my list of all-time most listenable songs. Y’know, the songs that I don’t really ever get tired of listening to (the playlist that I call “Ultimate Flawless Victory” in iTunes) and toss in a few of those. Then I look at all of the songs in my collection that I’ve given four or five stars and toss in a few of those.

These Mix CDs are both reflective and projective. I try to incorporate how my musical tastes have changed over the past three months while at the same time trying to predict what I’ll want to listen to for the next three months.

Here are the last two CDs I created:

August 2009:

1. Always Been There Anyway – Julia Massey
2. Around the Bend – The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
3. Brain Problem Situation – They Might Be Giants
4. Buddy Holly – Weezer
5. Cellars by Starlight – Kay Hanley
6. Golden Blunders – The Posies
7. Good Fish – Julia Massey
8. Have a F*****g Baby – Three Ninjas
9. Headphones on Your Heart – Leeni
10. House of Mayors – John linnell
11. The Last Thing On Your Mind – Lights
12. Little Fighter X – Fighter X
13. Lollipop – Mika
14. Lovebite – Order of the Crimson Wizard
15. Me + Yr Daughter – Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head
16. Over and Over – Leeni
17. Red Underwears – Three Ninjas
18. Say It Ain’t So – Weezer
19. Shut Up and Let Me Go – The Ting Tings
20. Soft Rocked By Me – Jonathan Coulton
21. Somewhere on This Couch – The Crazy Boy Floyds
22. The Way I Am – Ingrid Michaelson
23. You Don’t Know Me – Ben Folds (featuring Regina Spektor)

November 2009 (there is one repeat song from the August CD—see if you can spot it)

1. Dance, Dance, Dance – Lykke Li
2. Dirt Bike – They Might Be Giants
3. Doll Partz – Order of the Crimson Wizard
4. Heading Out at Dawn – Terrapin Productions
5. Jenny Towner – Julia Massey
6. Los Angeles – They Might Be Giants
7. Mario’s Café – Saint Etienne
8. Powers – Three Ninjas
9. Pride & Strawberry Wine – The Wastelanders
10. A Quiet Room – Tangentbot
11. Secret Skin – Busdriver
12. Spin Around – Josie & The Pussycats
13. Stairs – Locust Street Taxi
14. Starry Eyed Surprise – Oakenfold
15. Stop – Spice Girls
16. Sun Shower – Busdriver
17. Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus
18. Theme from “Greatest American Hero” – Joey Scarbury
19. True Affection – The Blow
20. Ugly Girl – Fleming & John
21. Vancouver – They Might Be Giants
22. Veronica – Elvis Costello
23. The Way I Am – Ingrid Michaelson
24. What’s Golden – Jurassic 5
25. Your Love Is a Drug – Puffy AmiYumi

I have no idea what these songs say about me, so feel free to psychoanalyze me to your hearts’ content based solely on the content of these lists. Enjoy!