An attempt to make up for my tardiness.

Yikes, I have truly been a negligent blogger! So, I'm going to go all out here and post my last three (that's right, three) mixes. Perhaps the second semester will see me taking my blogging responsibilities more seriously!

Brogger's Mix #3 - The Hangover Mix (Beginning, Middle, End, and Regrets)
This particular playlist was inspired by an incredibly unpleasant morning brought on by, what else, too much alcoholic indulgence. In an attempt to have all of the listeners experience my pleasure and pain along with me, I structured the mix in chronological order according to the events of the night and following morning:

1. Let's Have A Party - Wanda Jackson
2. Eat That Up, It's Good For You - Two Door Cinema Club
3. Drunk Girls - LCD Soundsystem
4. Hurricane Drunk - Florence & The Machine
5. Time Stand Still - Cut Copy
6. Yasahisa - Chatmonchy
7. Too Drunk To Fuck - Dead Kennedys
8. Puke & Cry - Dinosaur Kr.
9. Sick Muse - Metric
10. Today Will Be Better, I Swear - Stars
11. I Feel Better - Hot Chip

Live vicariously here.

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Brogger's Mix #4 - Looking Back: The Mix to End 2010

To ring in the New Year, I was commissioned to create a mix about reminiscing. Sometimes it is difficult not to spend too much time looking back at what choices and mistakes we've made in the past, especially at the end of the calendar year, but I hope this mix provided its listeners with some happiness and started their year off right.

1. With Every Heartbeat - Robyn ft. Kleerup
2. Don't Look Back - Teenage Fanclub
3. Don't Look Back in Anger - Devendra Barnhart
4. Take It Back - She & Him
5. Look Back In Anger - David Bowie
6. In the Backseat - Arcade Fire
7. Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Neko Case
8. Night Windows - The Weakerhans
9. Come Back Home - Two Door Cinema Club

Remember the New Year here.

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Brogger's Mix #5 - The Terminal Mix


This particular creation was inspired not by "the end" or "death" as the theme might suggest, but by a music venue in New York's Hell's Kitchen. This club - Terminal 5 - is somewhere I have longed to go for a very long time. Terminal 5 features performances from folk and indie bands, many of which I have desperately wanted to see. So, in honor of their incredible schedule over the next few months, I present the Terminal 5 Mix:


1. New York, New York - Ryan Adams
2. Fancy Footwork - Chromeo
3. Kathleen - Josh Ritter
4. Good Arms vs Bad Arms - Frightened Rabbit
5. Heart it Races - Dr. Dog
6. For Nancy - Pete Yorn
7. Upon Viewing Bruegel's Landscape With the Fall of Icarus - Titus Andronicus
8. Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith) - Crystal Castles
9. Heart On Fire - Cut Copy
10. Barely Breathing - The Hold Steady
11. Love You Madly - CAKE
12. Total Life Forever - Foals

Take a trip to NYC here.

xo
Linds

3-mix

So, in honor of this being my last mix before the birth of my first child, I was awarded the theme 3 to signify that my family will now consist of three members. This mix was a little more difficult than I thought it would be. Perhaps I felt compelled to make it a good one as it does carry a certain significance with it. The mix consists of some songs simply with the number three in the title or in the song, some songs from albums titled simply three, some matchbox 30 (specifically for Brown! Wink!) some songs that were thrice titled, a "triple play" of sorts and lastly a trio of songs that sing of a new child. I hope that you enjoy the mix. I gotta go soon. Wish me luck!!

3-mix

1. Three's Company Theme
2. Three Cool Cats - The Silver Beatles
3. ABC - The Jackson 5
4. That's the Way - Led Zeppelin
5. 3 AM - Matchbox 20
6. 3 dressed up as a 9 - Trooper
7. Three Pistols - The Tragically Hip
8. Wait, Wait, Wait - Joel Plaskett
9. Say Say Say - Paul McCartney
10. Shambala - Three Dog Night
11. Triple Trouble - Beastie Boys
12. Three Minute Song - Grady
13. Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
14. Daughters - John Mayer
15. Beautiful Boy - John Lennon

Ready to hear the mix? 1-2-3 Go!

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

Grab it here!

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!