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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