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

Download it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4ecwod1lvs2a8l5

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

download lucky lucky here

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

Get it Here!

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