Well, Mix CD, but you get the idea. The time has come my friends. Much delayed due to the great music meltdown and my own laziness, I now have selected 50 tracks for my latest compilation CD. Trouble is, these 50 songs come to 3:17 (197 minutes) and they need to come to 150 minutes to fit onto two CDs. So something’s gotta go. What should it be?
Also, if there’s something fairly recent you think should be here, let me know and I’ll try to give it a listen.
Andrew Bird – Heretics
Apples In Stereo – Energy
Balun – Snol
bitter:sweet – The Mating Game
Bloc Party – Helicopter
Bright Eyes – At The Bottom Of Everything
Cake – Pentagram
Daft Punk – Technologic
David Sugar – We Weren’t Put Together
Faunts – Instantly Loved
Fountains Of Wayne – Someone To Love
Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle Injuries
Gnarls Barkley – Gone Daddy Gone
Her Space Holiday – The Past Presents The Future
Hurra Torpedo – Total Eclipse Of The Heart
John Vanderslice – Dear Sarah Shu
Liars – Drum And The Uncomfortable Can
Lyrics Born – Callin’ Out (live at KEXP)
Mark Schwaber – On Your Way
Matthew Sweet And Susanna Hoffs – Care Of Cell #44
Maximo Park – Acrobat
Mint Royale – Show Me
Of Montreal – A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
Oh No! Oh My! – Walk In The Park
OK Go – Get Over It
PINE*am – Gymnopedie 0.1
Pnau – Journey Agent
Rilo Kiley – Portions for Foxes
Secret Mommy – Kool Aid River
Shriekback – Waterbaby
Sonic Coaster Pop – Future Electric Machine
Suzanne Vega – Frank & Ava
Tapes N Tapes – Insistor
Teddybears – Hey Boy
The Arcade Fire – No Cars Go
The Avett Brothers – Talk On Indolence
The Books – Smells Like Content
The Decemberists – O Valencia
The Flaming Lips – My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
The Go! Team – Ladyflash
The Maggies – Dead Jones
The Minders – Same Time, Same Place
The Mountain Goats – Up The Wolves
The Olympic Hopefuls – Let’s Go
The Pipettes – Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
The Thermals – An Ear For Baby
West Indian Girl – What Are You Afraid Of
Yo La Tengo – Black Flowers
Youth Group – Skeleton Jar
ZX Spectrum Orchestra – Dollar Power
(I think that offering 50 mp3s for download would probably stretch the boundaries of fair use, but almost all of this stuff you should be able to find via youtube, myspace, elbo.ws, or the Hype Machine.)
A resounding yes, yes, yes to Journey Agent. Do not cut that. To be honest, I think you’re jumping the gun on Frank & Ava. I’d hold on Suzanne Vega until the CD comes out. F&A is a good song, but it’s not a handsdown classic, and you KNOW there’s going to be something stronger on the album.
I don’t know most of what’s on this, actually, so I can’t speak to most that stuff. Maximo Park? Lyrics Born? The Thermals? Who are these people?
Also, between OK Go, The Olympic Hopefuls’ “Let’s Go” and The Go! Team, and The Arcade Fire’s “No Cars Go” you’re all about the going!
Who is Lyrics Born? The best hip-hop vocalist on the scene right now perhaps. http://lyricsborn.com/media.php
FYI the Avett Brothers are playing the Iron Horse on 5/13 (game day).
If you dig them you might want to check out the Can Kickers from New London CT. They play around here… next time at the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival in June.
The Thermals will, in fact, rock your socks off. I would have gone for Pillar of Salt, just cause it makes me want to bounce around on a trampoline.
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