Tuesday, February 28, 2006

The Monthly Mix

Customer: Do you have Soul?
Rob: That all depends.
- High Fidelity (2000)

Each month I make a mix cd. It takes a fair amount of time to make these. Finding new music, in the quantity that you need, each month, in order to make a quality mix is no simple task. February's mix is in "production". These essentially replace the radio for me. It's nice because I can look at my back catalogue over the year and I have 12 discs that make up what I listened to in 2005. I have just started the 2006 catalogue.

January's mix was entitled:

above is a dragon


The track list is as follows.

1. This Year - The Mountain Goats
2. Girl In The War -
3. Off The Record - My Morning Jacket
4. Bed Is For Sleeping - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy/Matt Sweeney
5. Mornings Eleven - The Magic Numbers
6. Star Bodies - The New Pornographers
7. All I'm Thinkin' About - Bruce Springsteen
8. Joy! Joy! Joy! -
9. Stream Running Over - Apples In Stereo
10. Hurt - Johnny Cash
11. Love's Lost Guarantee - Rogue Wave
12. Time Bomb - Goldspot
13. You Are the Rake - Sufjan Stevens
14. In the Sun (Featuring Joseph Arthur) - Michael Stipe
15. The Salt Islands - Cub Country
16. Tristan and Iseult -
17. Snow Is Gone - Josh Ritter
18. Upside Down - Jack Johnson
19. Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Will's monthly iMix? So you can easily share the wealth and become an iCult figure?

Unknown said...

iMix - Cool Hand, you are truly laying down the gauntlet. If I find some time I might try this out...although I am not sure all of these would even be on iTunes.

Bruce - I actually got this track from you e.d.s. Sometimes I need to mine the archives of my music collection and round out mixes. The last couple times I "mined" I used Cracker. Maybe I'll give Bruce a shot on the next go-around.

Unknown said...

a_ue_overtime still gets rotation in my office and it made Susan's iPod.

Unknown said...

a_ue_overtime: classic title. perhaps one of my best titles ever, glad it still makes the rounds.

Anonymous said...

Very cool list. Excellent choice with Josh Ritter's "Girl in the War," although any song off "The Animal Years" could find a home on a mix.