monthly mix

November songs

My November mix went something like this:

  1. “Iowa (Traveling III)” by Dar Williams
  2. “Lost Highway” by Willie Nelson
  3. “There’s Hope for You” by William Elliot Whitmore
  4. “Pantry” by Lyle Lovett
  5. “Blue Skies” by Young Republic
  6. “This Year” by the Mountain Goats
  7. “Don’t Change” by INXS
  8. “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)” by Outkast
  9. “Brother Sport” by Animal Collective
  10. “Two Weeks” by Grizzly Bear
  11. “Stupid in Love” by Rihanna
  12. “Ramalama (Bang Bang)” by Róisín Murphy
  13. “Sugarfoot” by Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
  14. “East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam” by Tom Russell
  15. “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Hellsongs
  16. “Stuck Inside of Mobile (with the Memphis Blues Again)” by Pat Guadangno & Tired Horses
  17. “Hell” by Tegan and Sara
  18. “Toenail Moon” by Wee Hairy Beasties
  19. “Over at the Frankenstein Place” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  20. “My Body’s a Zombie for You” by Dead Man’s Bones

I’m always open to one-for-one mix trades.

Goodbye, October

So, October. That was quite a month, huh?

It’s hard to believe it was just a month ago that I was in Las Vegas, much less that it was only a few weeks ago that my sister was married (sorry, still no photographs), or even that it was only about a week ago that my mother and I went to see Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! at Carnegie Hall. It was a very good month, but I’m actually looking forward to a relatively uneventful November, to be honest.

In the meantime, here’s some of the music I was listening to in October.

  1. “Transmission Pt. 1” by the Lower 48
  2. “Nina Simone” by Tom Russell
  3. “This Blackest Purse” by Why?
  4. “White Dove” by John Vanderslice
  5. “Oh What a World” by Sonos
  6. “This Land Is Our Land” by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
  7. “Older Now” by Grant-Lee Phillips
  8. “Dimestore Diamond” by Gossip
  9. “Time of the Season” by Ben Taylor Band
  10. “Alone and Forsaken” by Social Distortion
  11. “Bad Cover Version” by Jordan Galland
  12. “Alone Again” by Tok Tok Tok
  13. “Just Dance” by Gary Go (feat. Mr Dialysis)
  14. “Crazy Love” by Thea Gilmore
  15. “Sarah” by Ray LaMontagne
  16. “Sea of Heartbreak” by Rosanne Cash (feat. Bruce Springsteen)
  17. “Librarian” by My Morning Jacket
  18. “Pills” by Perishers
  19. “Say Say Say” by Kesang Marstrand
  20. “The Very Thought of You” by Nellie McKay
  21. “This Is For” by Ingrid Michaelson
  22. “Oh!” by Eric Hutchinson
  23. “The Walls Are Coming Down” by Fanfarlo

September in song

A relatively quiet month, musically. Here’s my mix for September:

  1. “See You Later Aligator” by Louise Attaque
  2. “Bastards of Young” by the Replacements
  3. “Tops” by the Rolling Stones
  4. “Pale Blue Eyes” by the Velvet Underground
  5. “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” by David Bowie
  6. “It’s Lonely at the Top” by Randy Newman
  7. “Fascination Street” by Xu Xu Fang
  8. “Technicolor” by Nurses

The sounds of August

Hard to believe August is over and done with, but I’m genuinely looking forward to the fall. Lots of things — like that trip to Vegas, my sister’s wedding — are coming up in the next couple of months. To quote Mr. Stinson, it’s going to be legen–wait for it…

Anyway, here’s a sampling of what I was listening to in August:

  1. “Old Mountain Line” by Po’ Girl
  2. “Baby Baby” by Chris Isaak
  3. “The Scientist” by Aimee Mann
  4. “Everything Under the Sun” by Common Rotation
  5. “Heart of Glass” by Old School Freight Train
  6. “Roots” by Show of Hands
  7. “She’s Got a Reason” by the Coral
  8. “The Man Who Played God” by Sparklehorse (feat. Nina Persson)
  9. “It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning” by We Were Promised Jetpacks
  10. “Tonight I Gave to Leave it” by Shout Out Louds
  11. “Dear Stephen Hawking” by Allo’ Darlin
  12. “Percussion Gun” by White Rabbits
  13. “Psychic City (Voodoo City)” by YACHT
  14. “Are You Fucking Kidding Me?” by Kate Miller-Heidke
  15. “Momma’s Boy” by Elizabeth & the Catapult
  16. “Things Have Changed” by String Swing
  17. “Dance Anthem of the 80’s” by Regina Spektor
  18. “100 Years” by Dr. Dog
  19. “It’s Only Time” by the Magnetic Fields
  20. “Apple” by Cat Jahnke
  21. “A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left” by Andrew Bird
  22. “The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!” by Penny Loafers
  23. “Community” by Mirah and Spectratone International

I’m really enjoying this new mix.

July sounded like…

This:

  1. “All My Days” by Alexi Murdoch
  2. “A Matter of Time” by the Leisure Society
  3. “Animal” by Mike Snow
  4. “The Whole Damn Thing” by Those Darlins
  5. “Between Two Lungs” by Florence + the Machine
  6. “To Ohio” by the Low Anthem
  7. “Northern Lights” by Bowerbirds
  8. “BFF!” by LANDy
  9. “Evelyn” by Boh Runga
  10. “All at Once” by Liechtenstein
  11. “Nikorette” vy Conor Oberst
  12. “I Can’t Make Me” by Butterfly Boucher
  13. “Duet for Emmylou and the Grievous Angel” by Rah Rah
  14. “Return of the Grievous Angel” by Gram Parsons
  15. “W.O.L.D.” by Harry Chapin
  16. “I Dreamt That You Dreamt That You Loved Me in Your Dreams” by Favours for Sailors
  17. “Luna” by Fanfarlo
  18. “You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You” by Dean Martin
  19. “We Almost Had a Baby” by Emmy the Great
  20. “The Lie” by Bad Veins
  21. “The Gardener” by the Tallest Man on Earth

It’s a really nice mix, I think. I know I enjoy it.