Playlist: Geography Lesson

June 14th, 2008

This is a new version of a mix I’ve made for a couple of folks. It occured to me one day how many great songs have proper noun place names for a title, so I started collecting them on one playlist. This is what I have so far:

    1. Portland, Oregan - Loretta Lynn & Jack White
    2. Haiti - The Arcade Fire
    3. California - Joni Mitchell
    4. Amsterdam - Peter Bjorn & John
    5. Georgia, Georgia - Elliot Smith
    6. West Texas - Bob Dylan
    7. Australia - The Shins
    8. Sodom, South Georgia - Iron & Wine
    9. Ohio - Damien Jurado
    10. America - Simon & Garfunkle
    11. Arizona - Pedro The Lion
    12. Ohio - Modest Mouse
    13. New York, New York, New York - Martha Wainwright
    14. LDN - Lily Allen
    15. Cayman Islands - Kings of Convenience
    16. NYC - Interpol
    17. Ohio - CSN&Y
    18. Italy - Akron/Family

Who knew Ohio was such a muse for the forlorn/socially-minded/angry folkster set?

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Playlist: La Crème

May 29th, 2008

I’ve had it in my mind to compile an iTunes playlist with my essentials: the songs that I don’t just enjoy or appreciate, but that have played a salient role in my personal, aesthetic, or emotional development. I don’t know that it will ever be something that I finish, but it’s been a worthwhile exercise so far. Thiese aren’t really the tracks I put out too early in a mix tape relationship: those are a different beast altogether. These are the songs that I turn to when I don’t have to be cool. Or can’t be cool. So either way that’s a good chunk of time.  Here’s the dame so far, in all her no particular order twenty track glory:

1. Cosmic Dancer - T.Rex
2. Needle in the Hay - Elliot Smith
3. Chelsea Hotel #2 - Leonard Cohen
4. I Don’t Blame You - Cat Power
5. The Guns of Brixton - The Clash
6. Helplessly Hoping - CSN&Y
7. Some Things Last a Long Time - Daniel Johnston
8. Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
9. I’ve Been Thinking - Handsome Boy Modeling School
10. Flesh - David Gray
11. If She Wants Me - Belle & Sebastian
12. Buckets of Rain - Bob Dylan
13. Lover, You Should’ve Come Over - Jeff Buckley
14. Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
15. Where Is My Mind? - The Pixies
16. The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
17. Somedays - Regina Spektor
18. Natural Disaster (Live) - Loudon Wainwright III
19. Track 4 [Untitled] - Sigor Ros
20. Street Hassel - Lou Reed

 

 

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