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
I decided it was about damned time that I made myself a new mix CD. For your convenience, I’ve included (when I can) links to where you can get these songs for yourself, should you so desire!
Hey! It’s been a while since I made a new mix CD! Hey! I’ve gotten a metric tonne of new music in 2010! Hey! I’ve made a mix CD with a couple of songs from a bunch of new albums I’ve collected! Hey! Here it is:
Stylo – Gorillaz feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def
West Coast Serenade – Palmdale
Art Rap Party – Open Mike Eagle
Stuff – Locust Street Taxi
Mike Kripke’s Basement – Three Ninjas feat. Light Bear
If It Feels Good It Is Good – The Jesus Rehab
Rapper O’s – Dumbfoundead
Blame It On the Girls – Mika
Catacombs – Julia Massey & The Five Finger Discount
On Melancholy Hill – Gorillaz
Happiness Has a Half-Life – Palmdale
I Rock – Open Mike Eagle
I Miss You (It’s Quiet) – Locust Street Taxi
Five Finger Discount – Three Ninjas
Seattle – The Jesus Rehab
Night Riders – Dumbfoundead
Touches You – Mika
WTF is Art Rap? – Open Mike Eagle
Fruit Tree/Motorcycle Bong – Julia Massey & The Five Finger Discount
That’s one hour and thirteen minutes of fine, quality music right there. Plus, this mix CD has a definite pattern. See if you can discern it—there’s one song out of place! Can you guess which one!?
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:
Always Been There Anyway – Julia Massey
Around the Bend – The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Brain Problem Situation – They Might Be Giants
Buddy Holly – Weezer
Cellars by Starlight – Kay Hanley
Golden Blunders – The Posies
Good Fish – Julia Massey
Have a F*****g Baby – Three Ninjas
Headphones on Your Heart – Leeni
House of Mayors – John linnell
The Last Thing On Your Mind – Lights
Little Fighter X – Fighter X
Lollipop – Mika
Lovebite – Order of the Crimson Wizard
Me + Yr Daughter – Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head
Over and Over – Leeni
Red Underwears – Three Ninjas
Say It Ain’t So – Weezer
Shut Up and Let Me Go – The Ting Tings
Soft Rocked By Me – Jonathan Coulton
Somewhere on This Couch – The Crazy Boy Floyds
The Way I Am – Ingrid Michaelson
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)
Dance, Dance, Dance – Lykke Li
Dirt Bike – They Might Be Giants
Doll Partz – Order of the Crimson Wizard
Heading Out at Dawn – Terrapin Productions
Jenny Towner – Julia Massey
Los Angeles – They Might Be Giants
Mario’s Café – Saint Etienne
Powers – Three Ninjas
Pride & Strawberry Wine – The Wastelanders
A Quiet Room – Tangentbot
Secret Skin – Busdriver
Spin Around – Josie & The Pussycats
Stairs – Locust Street Taxi
Starry Eyed Surprise – Oakenfold
Stop – Spice Girls
Sun Shower – Busdriver
Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus
Theme from “Greatest American Hero” – Joey Scarbury
True Affection – The Blow
Ugly Girl – Fleming & John
Vancouver – They Might Be Giants
Veronica – Elvis Costello
The Way I Am – Ingrid Michaelson
What’s Golden – Jurassic 5
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!