Assorted Picks

The May Mixathon really got me thinking about mixes again, and this is another one that resulted from that burst of creative inspiration. This is more of a mixed genre effort, with a few tracks that had been deleted from previous mix efforts and which have now found a home together. The last track added was the one from The Bird and the Bee, and it made the whole thing finally feel whole. Thanks to Barry for turning me on to Jordon O'Jordon, who sings lead on Little Finger.

PICKING HUMS WITH LITTLE FINGERS

1 Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois- Sufjan Stevens

2 Buggin'- The Flaming Lips

3 Hounds of Love- Kate Bush

4 Here He Comes- Brian Eno

5 Casper- Daniel Johnston

6 Roam- The B-52's

7 Save Your Money- The Loud Family

8 Oh Napoleon- The Acorn

9 I'm A Fool To Care- Les Paul*MaryFord

10 One in a Million (Mono Single Version)- Giles, Giles & Fripp

11 Seeing Other People- Belle & Sebastian

12 Little Finger- Polka Dot Dot Dot

13 Please Go Home- Peter Bjorn And John

14 I Wish I Was In New Orleans- Scarlett Johansson

15 Shangri La- The Kinks

16 Come On Home- The Paladins

17 New York City- The Fleshtones

18 Bad News- The Trashmen

19 Scissors- Barbara Manning

20 No Fear Of Falling- I Am Kloot

21 My Love- The Bird and the Bee

22 Magic Trick (Live on KCRW)- M. Ward & Zooey Deschanel

23 A New Season- The Church

24 Dan And Marie Picking Hum- Sondre Lerche

Random Band Mix

Back in February there was a Facebook activity where fake album covers were created using a combination of Wikipedia and Flickr. I was inspired by the cover I created to come up with a mix that I felt corresponded with the cover image. This is the result of that inspiration.

MAY BE SOME TIME

1 Happy/Sad- Sunshine Club

2 Three- Massive Attack

3 The Artifact and Living- Michael Andrews

4 Give Me A Smile- Sibylle Baier

5 My Melting Snowman- fuck

6 Opposite Day- Andrew Bird

7 Jardín- Gustavo Santaolalla

8 Der Yek Goshe- Laleh

9 Glossolalia- Vic Chesnutt

10 Nature Morte (Still Life)- Graeme Revell 

11 Luftschloss- Eno–Moebius–Roedelius

12 Rainbo Conversation- Stereolab

13 ฉัน... (Thai Lullaby)- Pru

14 Day Eight- Explosions In The Sky

15 Earth Same Breath- Kendra Smith

16 Capricorn- Orion Rigel Dommisse

17 Shadows- Yo La Tengo

18 La Plage- Yann Tiersen

19 Feel The Sun- Tindersticks

20 St Augustine- Band Of Horses

21 Buried Alive- Christina Antipa

22 Recording A Tunnel- Bell Orchestre

23 El Desconfiado- Juana Molina

24 The Ugly Mire of Deep Held Feelings- Tall Dwarfs

25 Laser Beam- Low

27 Figure Eight- Blossom Dearie

Mix Madness!

The first 3 days of May have been set aside for a mix-a-thon on the ZeRO site, so I whipped up this confection for the occasion. It's mostly composed of the kinds of things that have been tempting my ears lately, and I'm pretty happy with the way the whole thing came together. I'm glad that Sammy suggested the mix-a-thon, it's got my creative juices flowing again, as it has for many other mixers on the site. I've already started two others, and have ideas for more brewing. Enjoy!

MELT YOUR HEART

1 Mexican God- Robyn Hitchcock

2 If I Knew- TheOriginal Sins

3 Swordfishtrombone- Tom Waits

4 Flagpole- Michelle Malone and The Low-Down Georgia Revue

5 People They Know- Peter Bjorn And John

6 Tape Song- The Kills

7 Ottoman- Vampire Weekend

8 Melt Your Heart- Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins

9 Bad Cat (Demo Recording)- Roy Orbison

10 Hound Dog- Betty Everett

11 Blind Mary- Gnarls Barkley

12 No Return- Yo La Tengo

13 Red Tide- Neko Case

14 This- Brian Eno

15 The Clockwise Witness- Devotchka

16 Heartbeats- José González

17 The Way I Am (Live on WERS)- Ingrid Michaelson

18 Love Is Lighter Than Air- The Magnetic Fields

19 No Aloha- The Breeders

20 I'll Be Your Man- The Black Keys

21 The Repudiated Immortals- of Montreal

22 My Man is a Mean Man- Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

23 La Ventana- Los Doltons

24 Lily and Parrots- Sun Kil Moon

25 So Desperate- The Mountain Goats

26 Under This Moon- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Hush-A-Bye

I've been promising to make a mix of lullabies for a loooooooong time, and have finally gotten around to it. This mix was designed especially for little ones, but it should be the kind of aural sleeping pill that will get most of us snoozing in no time. The songs from I Go To Sleep till the end are all very quiet, hushed songs, so there is little danger of becoming jarred awake by a sudden loud song. Hope it works!

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM

1 Sleepy Time On Peel Street Steve Tilston

2 Sleep Chet Atkins

3 Like Dreamers Do The Beatnix

4 Each Coming Night Iron And Wine

5 Corcovado (Quiet Nights) Astrud Gilberto

6 Everything Merges With The Night Brian Eno

7 Blackbird The Beatles

8 Lullaby of the Leaves Mary Hopkin

9 Lullaby (Mountain) The Acorn

10 Hush-A-Bye Peter, Paul & Mary

11 Sleep Donovan

12 Humming Chorus (from Madame Butterfly by Puccini) Erich Kunzel

13 I Go To Sleep The Kinks

14 and Dream of Sheep Kate Bush

15 A Dream, A Dream, A Dream Bert Jansch

16 Baby Mine Bonnie Raitt & Was (Not Was)

17 Island Of Dreams Martin Denny

18 Holland Sufjan Stevens

19 Dolly, Op. 56 (by Gabriel Faure) Julian Bream and John Williams

20 All I Have To Do Is Dream The Everly Brothers

21 Dreamsville {From Peter Gunn} Henry Mancini & His Orchestra

22 Lullaby + Exile M. Ward

23 Sleepwalk Santo & Johnny

24 Asleep And Dreaming The Magnetic Fields

25 Moe 'Uhane (Dream Slack Key) Sonny Chillingworth

26 I'll See You In My Dreams Miss Pat Collins [The Hop Hypnotist]