The Missing Mix

Why the missing mix? Why, because I was missing! On this particular Friday I had abandoned my co-workers for an Arts conference, and so in my absence they decided that "missing" would be my inspiration for the week. At first it seemed daunting, then I realized that there were lots of songs about missing people, then I remembered that I don't like those songs, then I struggled. In the beginning I came up with a lot of goofy rap songs ("I missed the Bus", I Left my Wallet in El Segundo", "Tune From the Missing Channel"), but when I heard Chris Clark's song "Absence", I knew I needed to find songs that complemented this amazing track. It wasn't until the night before that I realized I could use untitled tracks because they were missing titles, and so the mix was beefed up with a classic song from Gas' Pop album, and some dancefloor glitch from Saskatoon (Knar).

This is a much warmer electronic mix than the Silence mix of two rotations back, mainly because most of these characters are using real instrumentation as their source (even Oval now!). This is also the first mix where every track came from my existing collection (with the exception of the Clark track):

01 Marc Bolan - Untitled Poem

02 Fennesz - Herbert Missing

03 Odd Nosdam - Untitled One

04 Piano Overlord - You stole my stereo outro

05 Dylan Group - An Indolent Appreciation of What You Left Behind

06 Secret Mommy - Surgery (Medieval Rural Denture Rmx) by Piers Whyte

07 Knar - untitled (knar’s pop quiz theme)

08 Christopher Willits - order (no blueprint)

09 Oval - Emocor

10 blunderspublik - glimse

11 F.S. Blumm - Ohne Orte

12 Savath y Savalas - Untitled

13 The Books - Motherless Bastard

14 Clark - Absence

15 Gas - Untitled #01

16 Tujiko Noriko - Endless End

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I Don't MIND GAMES

I never liked playing Mastermind, because I always lost.
I like playing 20 Questions, although I quickly get bored.
I won't play chess because I get too impatient to stick to any strategy.
Do I Like Mind Games? Yes, I do. And I hope you do too.

1) What You Think Will Happen? - Heather Perkins
2) What Think You? – Walt Whitman
3) Paul Cries – Think About Life
4) Her Psychology Today – Guided By Voices
5) If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It - Death From Above 1979
6) Hypnotize – The White Stripes
7) Courtesy Laughs – Phoenix
8) Going Against Your Mind – Built To Spill
9) Familiarity / Manipulation - unknown
10) Use The Same Old Song – Mighty Mike
11) Your Silent Face – New Order
12) Death - White Lies remixed by Crystal Castles
13) 10 Month Psych Out - Megaheadphoneboy
14) Fake Away – Transistor Sound and Lighting Co.
15) It’s All In Your Mind - Beck

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The White Out Mix

In honour of the first snowfall (although I don't know if I agree that such an event should be honoured) I was given the theme "whiteout". It turned out to be a doozey! (Both the first snow and the mix!) Thematically, I went with songs that deal with snowy or cold subject matter, or have a tie in to snow and cold in some way. In addition, I added some tracks that deal with the colour white. So, although I'm sure no one was really excited about the first snow fall, I hope that listening to this mix (perhaps while curled up in front of a blazing fire while sipping a brandy or maybe just stuck in your car on your way to work with the heat cranked up) will help keep you warm!

The Whiteout Mix

1. Take Off - Bob and Doug McKenzie (with Geddy Lee)

2. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

3. A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

4. A Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon & Garfunkel

5. White Room - Cream

6. White Wedding - Billy Idol

7. Play that Funky Music (White Boy) - Wild Cherry

8. Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers

9. Girl with a Problem - The Northern Pikes

10. Prairie Town - Randy Bachman

11. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - White Stripes

12. Ob La Di, Ob La Da - The Beatles

Put on your toque and head out into the cold!

Hot & Cold

Because I received a double theme this week, I decided to split my mix into a Hot side and a Cold side...and as if that wasn't limiting enough, I added the restriction that each side would feature the same artists. I was inspired by the realization that The Cure have a lot of hot and cold themed songs. Here's what I came up with:

I was also motivated by a complaint that a co-carpooler made last year that I had "forgotten my roots" - meaning that I wasn't putting much electronic music in my mixes, so this mix is predominantly electronic, and occasionally peppered with guitars. I had to throw Witchypoo into the mix because it was the first song I thought of when I heard the theme, and I love anything Sid and Marty Krofft.

This one's also mixed - enjoy!

You can get it here!

Tricks or Treats!!

Hey all.

I was given the honour of creating the Halloween themed mix this year. (I think mostly because it was my turn during the week of Halloween) For this mix I decided that I would pick songs that were either tricks or treats. Some may even play tricks with your mind. Also, I picked some songs that were by some "creepy" type artists. To top it all off I book-ended the mix with a couple of Scary Soundtrack items. I hope you enjoy!

P.S. the image in the cover is my pumpkin from this year. It took a long time to carve that...

1. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

2. Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground

3. Candy Store Rock - Led Zeppelin

4. Surrender - Cheap Trick

5. The Garden - Guns N' Roses

6. Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper

7. Fly the Orient - Tricky Woo

8. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

9. Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett

10. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

11. (Don't Fear) the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

12. Time Warp

Got your costume? Begin your Trick or Treating here!

In the Beginning... the Bible Mix (parts 1 & 2)

So, as a Christian I wanted this mix to be special, inspirational even. But as a music snob I wanted this mix to be infectious and hook-filled. The end product is two equally rad mixes... and a little boasting too.

Part 1 - Books of the Bible

1. Genesis - Tangerine Dream
2. Exodus - DJ Ray (remix)
3. Beast Life - Numbers
4. Six and Seven Books of Moses - Toots and the Maytals
5. Only God Can Judge Me - 2Pac
6. Extra Kings - The Avalanches
7. Death To The Feelers - Matthew Dear
8. A Question Mark - Elliot Smith
9. Prick Tat - Luke Vibert
10. Instant Karma - John Lennon
11. Remember The Romans - Boat
12. Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus
13. Start To Melt - Peter, Bjorn & John
14. Sloop John B - The Beach Boys
15. Hey Jude - Mutato Muzik


Part 2 - Religious Mixed Baggage

1. Love Defined (the Bible) - Daniel Johnston
2. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
3. Jesus The Mexican Boy - Iron & Wine
4. I'm In Hell - The Microphones
5. Heaven Is A Truck - Pavement
6. Angel Hair - Hockey Night
7. Do You Believe In Rapture? - Sonic Youth
8. Lord, Help The Poor & Needy - Cat Power
9. Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
10. Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam - Nirvana
11. Support Our Troops Oh! (Black Angels Oh!) - Xiu Xiu
12. The Incarnation - Sufjan Stevens
13. How I Beat The Devil - The For Carnation
14. Ono Soul - Thurston Moore
15. Oh My God, Oh My God, Everybody, Oh My God - North of America


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Feeling Thankful

As a way to ring in the Thanksgiving long weekend, I took on the challenge of creating a mix in which I displayed thankfulness. This undertaking turned out to be a bit more difficult than I had expected, but thankfully I am very happy with the final results. I did manage to blend in two guilty pleasures from my youth, and my challenge to you will be to spot them.

So, for your listening pleasure...

Thankfulness

1. Thank You - Duran Duran (cover)
2. I Will Be Grateful for This Day - Bright Eyes
3. Thanks A Lot - Third Eye Blind
4. Thank You For Your Love - Antony and the Johnsons
5. The Reasons - The Weakerthans
6. Thanks to You - The Flaming Lips
7. Thank Your Lucky Stars - 311
8. Be Thankful for What You've Got - Massive Attack
9. I Wanna Thank You - Sloan

Download here.
Linds xo

The Sounds of Silence

I was given the theme of "silence" after having almost lost my voice the week previous. For some reason I still tried to teach, making for a lot of giggling teens and much less productivity.
This is probably my most musically diverse mix, but to compensate this is my first mix that is MIXED; i.e. cross-faded. I'm pretty proud of the result. So set your player to "gapless", sit back, and enjoy the cacophony that is SILENCE.

p.s. I couldn't resist taking the piss a bit by performing John Cage's classic 4'33" at my computer while burning the CD.

01] First Moog Quartet - Sounds of Silence
02] White Noise - Love Without Sound
03] Carlos Futura - Sounds of Silence
04] Phase Terminale - The Silence of Glass
05] Hirokazu Tanaka - Silence
06] Family Fodder - Silence
07] Belle and Sebastian - Nothing in the Silence
08] The Gaylads - Sounds of Silence
09] Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Envelopes Another Day
10] Alan Feanch - Stay Silent
11] El Tarro de Mostaza - El Ruido del Silencio
12] Flying Saucer Attack - For Silence
13] Blunderspublik - 4m33s

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Lucky Lucky You!

Luck be an mp3 tonight! It's the carpool mix so nice I named it twice. Lucky Lucky is now ready for download, a few days late for my weekend in Vegas but never the less ready to guarantee your getting lucky!*
(*luckiness may vary from person to person, do not continue use if you develop a rash, lucky lucky is not to be confused with or taken orally as the popular breakfast cereal lucky charms)

1. The Evens – Blessed Not Lucky
   
2. Royal City – Bad Luck
   
3. Picastro – Whore Luck
4. The National – Lucky You
5. Apostle of Hussle – Baby You’re Lucky
6. Lucky Dragons – Givers
7. Dntl – Dumb Luck
8. New Young Pony Club – Get Lucky
9. Radiohead – Lucky
10. The Strokes – Trying Your Luck
11. Sloan – A Side Wins
12. Moldy Peaches – Lucky Number Nine
13. Magnetic Fields – The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
14. Modest Mouse – Shit Luck

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Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice!

Hello! I'm very excited to have been invited to participate in this year's Carpool Challenge. Being a bit of a self-professed music snob, this will prove to be both a fun and difficult undertaking. The theme of my first mix came about as a direct result - I assume - of my personality: I'm sweet, pack a punch, but deep down am just plain nice. Right gents?

While putting this mix together, I discovered that I have quite an affinity for both female lead vocalists and strings. I'm not sure what that says about me, but I'm sure there are some deep, dark, Freudian implications.

I am truly humbled to have my mix(s) become a part of this entertaining tradition. So, here it goes, the first mix of the 2010-2011 school year.

Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice

1. Raw Sugar - Metric
2. Sugar and Spice - Basia Bulat
3. Sugar Sugar - The Archies
4. I Can't Help Myself - The Four Tops
5. Sugar Wife - The National
6. Sugarcube - Yo La Tengo
7. Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
9. Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel
10. Some Sweet Day - Sparklehorse
11. Honey Bop - Wanda Jackson
12. Honeybear - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13. Sweet Darlin' - She & Him
14. The Sweet Part of the City - The Hold Steady
15.Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
16. It's Nice to Know You Work Alone - Silversun Pickups
17. Nice Dream - Radiohead

Download here.
xo

Lady in the 'pool!

There's a lady in the pool! As soon as we get her added as an author, she can post her "Sugar & Spice" mix!

The Bird Mix

So, after watching a pretty terrible movie trailer on the previous Friday for a movie called "Birdemic" (click the link to watch the trailer if you want to waste 2 minutes of your life that you will never get back) that everyone else thought was pretty hilarious, I was given the theme Birds. I can't say that I was terribly impressed with this theme at first, but that's the name of the game I guess. I did my best and I feel that the final product is not too bad. I really had to search to fill this one and didn't have an awful lot of extra tracks at my disposal. (without resorting to "snowbird" by Anne Murray) So, flip this mix on, and give it a try.

1. Fly like an Eagle - The Steve Miller Band
2. And your Bird can Sing - The Beatles
3. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything there is a Season) - The Byrds
4. Heart full of Soul - The Yardbirds
5. Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
6. Already Gone - Eagles
7. Wrap it up - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
8. Learning to Fly - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
9. Twice as Hard - The Black Crowes
10. Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
11. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

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Summer update

Hello loyal fans,

You may have already guessed that we carpoolers are carpooling to a school, which is why there hasn't been a mix since the end of June. If you are reading this and are NOT a teacher, you should consider changing professions.
As a result of my heat-induced lethargy, I just noticed that my mediafile links are dead, so if you run across this blog and are interested in any of the mixes, just ask us to "re-up" the files in the comments section, and we will gladly do that with all of this spare time that we are burdened with.
We are also losing a carpool member in the fall, but we may be adding a female perspective, so stay tuned!

See you in september!

Gearbox

Let's hope it's an Endless Summer mix

So, for the final installment of the inaugural season I was given Summer as my theme. Surprisingly, this was a more difficult mix to put together than the other two. In the end, I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome of this mix although, I'm a little biased and I did include a few tracks that I could only qualify as being self indulgent. However, you also can't have a Summer picnic without a little Cheese whiz. Let me just close by saying that it has been fun, and I look forward to continuing the great carpool challenge in the fall. Thanks to my other carpoolies for their efforts as well. I have thoroughly enjoyed all the mixes! I hope you've all enjoyed mine as well. Enjoy the Summer!

1. Summer Song - Joe Satriani
2. Patio Lanterns - Kim Mitchell
3. Centerfield - John Fogerty
4. Summertime Blues - The Who
5. All Canadian Surf Club - The Tragically Hip
6. Summer Nights - Van Halen
7. Behind the Sun - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & the Family Stone
9. Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
10. Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
11. Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
12. Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
13. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
14. School's Out - Alice Cooper

Start your summer by clicking here!

competition

"all getting sliced and diced, competitions paying the price."

sorry to tease, no there's no LL cool J here folks. i'm a competitive kind of person when in a competitive context, but this car pool challenge gig is no monday night rec hockey or tier 9 ultimate. while others may boast of their winning mixes, to me it's success for all listeners. enjoy what i put together, and there's no lil wayne either (unless that's what you call wayne coyne).

1. Guided By Voices - Game of Pricks
2. The Cribs - Learning How To Fight
3. The New Pornographers - My Rights vs. Yours
4. The Boy Least Likely To - The Battle of the Boy Least Likely To
5. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
6. Broken Social Scene - Canada vs. America
7. Sloan - Pillow Fight
8. Death From Above 1979 - Losing Friends
9. Blonde Redhead - Futurism vs. Passeism
10. Caribou Remixed by Short Bloom - Sun (Remix Competition)
11. Beulah - Matter vs. Space
12. Boats - Summercamp vs. The Fake Moustache Tree
13. Chords of Canada - The Queers vs. The Who
14. Cat Power - Paths of Victory

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NUMBERS

Last installment of the GCC for me. It was a lot of fun finding tracks about numbers. I wanted to take the mix in a totally different direction focusing on telephone numbers but choose to scrap it for "flow" and "emotion" which is a common element in my mixes.

There are a couple of cherries in this mix and one serious guilty pleasure. Enjoy.

TRACK - ARTIST
Gr-500 - Christian Fennesz
3 - Mice Parade
One Step Inside... - The Notwist
Two Steps, Twice - Foals
Sixteen - Sebadoh
fourteen - beat happening
It is 5 - Architecture in Helsinki
High Fives - Four Tet
Formula One - Potuznik
Two Hands Clapping - Takahiro Kido
One Minute - The Album Leaf
10 Mile Stereo - Beach House
Polygon Medpack 2.0 - Oval & Christophe Charles
55566688833 - James Figurine
14 Zero Zero - Console
3cp - Fuxa
Eleventh! - Arovane
i’m 9 today - Múm
100% - Chromeo

Mix is one long track in MP3 format. Run time 1:03 mins.
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Punishment

The theme of punishment was foisted upon me thanks to my cockiness and constant assertion that the mixes were in fact some sort of contest (which I, of course, was winning).
I could have taken it in several directions. I COULD have lived by the rule that "turnabout is fair play" and made a mix of punishing tracks by Ryoji Ikeda, Maryanne Amacher, Masonna, Merzbow, Aube, etc. ...and everyone would have vetoed it (except maybe Colourways). I COULD have made a mix of punishing black, doom, speed, or grindcore metal...and everyone would have hated it. So, I made a mix of happier songs that deal with punishment of some form. Admittedly, it does get dark at the end, but I couldn't resist adding some trad folk, even if it doesn't make for good morning carpool listening. As it turns out, some of my favourite songs of late are on this mix.
INTRO
01] HAPPY CATS - DESTROY THAT BOY
02] THE BEATLES - RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
03] KASENETZ-KATZ SINGING ORCHESTRAL CIRCUS - QUICK JOEY SMALL
04] MANFRED MANN - MY NAME IS JACK
05] COOKIES - WOUNDED
06] TIMON - BITTER THOUGHTS OF LITTLE JANE
07] CHRYSALIS - DR. ROOT'S GARDEN
08] THE ZOMBIES - CARE OF CELL 44
09] DAVID BOWIE - BARS OF THE COUNTY JAIL
10] JASON CREST - BLACK MASS
11] HARPER'S BIZARRE - SIT DOWN, YOU'RE ROCKING THE BOAT
12] LEE HAZLEWOOD - I HAD A FRIEND
13] JOHN JACOB NILES - THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS
14] SHIRLEY COLLINS - THE OXFORD GIRL
15] ALASDAIR ROBERTS - THE CRUEL WAR

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p.s. I've written an guitar arrangement for "The Oxford Girl"; ask me to play it for you sometime. I'll probably refuse out of crippling shyness.

p.p.s. The illustration on the cover is by s.britt - isn't he great?

The Weather Mix

Hey again. For this mix, my theme was weather. Initially I thought that there would be an abundance of "rain" songs (there were by the way) and that they'd all be depressing. I think that this mix is kind of a happy little mix instead which was a pleasant surprise. As a side note, I was originally going to put on some favourites of mine (Rain Song: Led Zeppelin, Riders on the Storm: The Doors etc.) but these tracks were all 8 minutes plus. As we've tried to keep these mixes to under an hour, I would have been limited to only a few songs. So, I've opted to pick only tracks around 5 minutes or shorter. I think this mix has more surprises. Enjoy!


1] One Fine Morning - Lighthouse
2] Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra
3] The Wind - Cat Stevens
4] Dust in the Wind - Kansas
5] Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
6] I Love a Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt
7] Midnight Rain - Wide Mouth Mason
8] Still Rainin' - Jonny Lang
9] Naked in the Rain - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10] Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan
11] No Rain - Blind Melon
12] Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
13] Cold Day in the Sun - Foo Fighters
14] Beautiful Day - U2

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Doubles Your Pleasure

So I figure a nice mix is really just supposed to be about making a good musical path to follow. You start somewhere cool, you end up somewhere cool and hopefully you enjoy the way you got from point A to point B. Maybe you even learn something along the way, who knows? I've been rather busy at home the past while, so this week's mix is just really an enjoyable musical path for me. There may be some obvious mile markers along the way, but as the title implies, this mix is all about pleasure. Enjoy.

1. Why? – Sick 2 Think

2. Why? – The Vowels Pt. 2

3. Hymie’s Basement – American Won

4. Hymie’s Basement – American Too

5. Gorillaz – Double Bass

6. The Roots – Double Trouble

7. Junior Boys – Double shadow

8. The Ponys – Double Vision

9. I am the Dot – Double Vision

10. Eric’s Trip – Secret For Julie

11. Shotgun and Jaybird – Secret

12. Pavement – Two States

13. Pavement – Stereo

14. Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy

15. Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2

16. Sonic Youth – Do You Believe in Rapture?

17. Sonic Youth – JC

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SMALL CREATURES

This is the fifth installment of the GCC and was unfortunately a little rushed due to a new small creature in my life. I thought about small and cute creatures that I appreciated and looked for tracks in my music library of the same name.

ARTIST - TRACK
1. M83 - BIRDS
2. MR SCRUFF - FISH
3. PATRICK WATSON - BIG BIRD IN A SMALL CAGE
4. BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY - ONE WITH THE BIRDS
5. NATHAN MICHEL - CRICKET
6. WORLD’S END GIRLFRIEND - THE OWL OF WINDWARD
7. PLASTIKMAN - KRIKET
8. FOUR TET - TURTLE TURTLE UP
9. DO MAKE SAY THINK - MARCH OF WORMS
10. BUILT TO SPILL - I WOULD HURT A FLY
11. PARACHUTES - BUGS
12. MOSKITO - TERRIER
13. IRON & WINE - FLIGHTLESS BIRD, AMERICAN MOUTH
14. DAVID FRANCEY - RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD

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Carpool Knights

Ah.. the carpool knights mix. This is from week two of the GCC. This week week we had to work out a couple of kinks but it went over well. How lovely was it to dig back into early techno, house, dubstep... thanks for not forcing me to follow through with Good Knights

CARPOOL KNIGHTS

The Suburban Knight - Magnetic Timetable
Round Table Knights - Belly Dance
Knights of the Turntable - Techno Scratch
Inland Knights - Another Way
Pete Rock - Give it to Ya’ ft. Little Brother
MSTRKRFT - Neon Knights
Roni Size ft. Beverley Knight - No More
Knight Rider Theme (Techno Remix)
Sukh Knight - Lick It
Spectrasoul - Melodies ft. Mike Knight

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Carpool Challenge - "Progress"

As soon as the theme "progress" was suggested, I jumped all over it. I love kitschy optimistic songs about how great the future will be. As you can see below, I summarized 7230 years in 45 minutes, beginning at the dawn of civilization, progressing through the industrial revolution, speeding past the present day, and jettisoning into the 23rd century!

01] Evolution Control Committee - 5000 BC
02] Mike Vickers - Evolution
03] Pluxus - April 1724
04] Paul Keogh - Steady Progress
05] Thomas Edison - Electricity & Progress
06] Broadcast - City in Progress
07] American Standard - The Time for Change
08] Sing Along With JFK - Alliance for Progress Bossanova
09] Raymond Scott - Bendix: The Tomorrow People
10] Hot Butter - Space Walk
11] Alan Hackshaw - Move With the Times
12] The Sherman Brothers - The Computer Song
13] Dauerfisch - 2000
14] Electric Family - 2007
15] Jean Jacques Perrey - Passport to the Future
16] Bruce Mitchell & Rick Miller - Rapid Transit
17] James Hyde - Future Progress
18] Yoshinori Sunahara & Mars Art Lab - Preview
19] Raymond Scott - Bendix 2: The Tomorrow People

I want to give special thanks to the amazing blogs The Library Hunt and Dusty Shelf for providing so much great fodder for me to wade through.

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Girl's first name

So, officially, I guess my playlist was the 4th. You'll have to bug Delinquent Driver to get the third. This was my first stab at it though. I'm thinking we could make a side game out of this one to see what the most common name is. I found a lot of Mary's but that was just me. Enjoy!


1] Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
2] Lucy in the sky with Diamonds - The Beatles
3] Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
4] Wendy under the stars - Odds
5] Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
6] Suite Judy blue eyes - Crosby Stills Nash and Young
7] Sister Sally - Wide Mouth Mason
8] The wind cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
9] Vera - Pink Floyd
10] Have you seen Mary - Sponge
11] Mary had a little lamb - Stevie Ray Vaughan
12] Cordelia - The Tragically Hip
13] Mary Jane's last dance - Tom Petty
14] Jamie's Cryin' - Van Halen
15] My Sharona - The Knack

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Deliquent driver...

Gearbox here...I am posting on behalf of Colourways, whose mix is conspicuously missing from the blog. His excuse is that his wife had a baby the week after his "Knights" mix debuted, and he claims that this is distracting. Hopefully one day his mix will go cyber, as it was surprisingly techno...I naturally assumed that we would be assaulted with adventure metal, but he took it in the complete opposite direction. Colourways, if you're out there, please share your artistry!

Planetary Alignment

Here's my first installment of our charming little challenge. I'd like to thank the other car-poolers for giving me such a broad theme, and the academy for this lovely award. It's truly and honour.

Planetary Alignment

1] Venus and Mars - Paul McCartney & Wings

2] Paradical - Mouse On Mars

3] Particles Expanding and Retreating (from Heaven and Earth) - Eyeball Hurt & The Medicine

4] For the Planet Pluto - The Music Tapes

5] Planet Sweetness - Transistor Sound & Lighting Co.

6] 3rd Planet - Modest Mouse

7] Kidnapped by Neptune - Scout Niblett

8] Venus - Shocking Blue

9] Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground

10] Planet Caravan - Mercury Rev

11] Another Planet - The Notwist

12] Mercury - Bloc Party

13] Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa

14] Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S

15] Venus - Air

16] Venus - John Coltrane

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Inaugural mix

Welcome to Jeecie Peecie, the Great Carpool Challenge! In case you haven't read the sidebar, this blog is a home for the "mixtapes" that come out of our carpool's weekly challenge: The driver must create a mix based on a theme decided by the passengers. The mixer has one week to complete the mix, and he must present it on Friday's commute. I was the first victim, and I was given the theme "Zombies" to work with. Not too daunting, but I added a personal rule that I would not use Metal or Rockabilly songs in the mix, thereby greatly reducing the range of Zombie tunes available to me. Here's what I came up with:

01] The Magics - Zombie Walk
02] Xavier Cugat - Zombie
03] King Flash & Calypso Carnival - Zombie Jamboree
04] The Vampires of Dartmoor - Frankenstein Grusst Alpha 7
05] Daktaris - Voodoo Soul Stew
06] The Zombies - Leave me Be
07] Disco Zombies - Disco Zombies
08] The Rotators - Zombie Tango
09] Fabio Frizzi - Escape From the Flesh Eaters
10] Zombi - Surface to Air
11] Manual Zombie - Woods Off of Interstate 55
12] Zombi - Andromeda
13] Manual Zombie - Justifying to God

All in all it does not sound at all zombiesque. Get it here.