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


download them here

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!