I made a spring-themed mix for my peeps. I drew a cute cover (must scan to put here) and had a track listing of course. I had planned on making liner notes, but I ran out of time and it would have involved weird printing out techniques to print on the inside of my cd booklet and i am lazy! So I think I'll just put it here:
01. Volver intro
I snagged this from the trailer for Almodóvar's Volver. The translation goes as follows: Penelope Cruz's character confronts her sister, asking "Is there something I don't know which I should?" Her sister replies "A ton."
02. Lesley Gore - Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows
I was working on this mix for over a month, agonizing on the order of songs, none of them were quite right, til this song came into place. Perfect! I love it!
03. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - A Bottle of Buckie
Not many people write good friendship songs. This is a great one :) This is off his latest "Living with the Living."
04. Lily Allen - LDN
This came out last year and I guess is more of a summer song, but who cares? I love me some britpop, especially ska-tinged. Ah, what a perfect ode to a city. You love it despite its madness. Maybe you love it for that reason. I do :) Her whole album "Alright, Still" has that same feel: sounds cute and fun, but lyrically is darker, snarkier, jaded.
05. Mika - Love Today
More britpop, but campier! Mika is pure pop crack. It also makes me practice my falsetto which can only be a good thing. The songs on his album "Life In Cartoon Motion" are either wheeee or aww ;_;
06. The Knife - Heartbeats
Mlebot and me have waxed poetic on this song. It's just so good. It's nostalgic and heartbreaking and heartswelling and all this good stuff. The way she sings "we had a promise made, we were in love" is just about the perfectest thing ever!! <3 (Haha I am like the worst describer ever! Also a proud member of the hyperbole club :)
07. M - Close To Me (the Cure cover, in French)
I snagged this off a music blog and unfortunately don't know much about them. The original is quite possibly my favorite Cure song. One of my mix recipients said she was dancing around the room when she heard this. Yes yes yes, that's exactly the response I was looking for!!! My suggested dance move for this track: elbows at sides, with forearms at 90 degree angles, fingers pointing out, going up and down a few inches, while you shake your shoulders and swivel your hips to the beat. HAHA!!
*update* Info on M on wiki!
08. April March - Laisse Tomber les Filles (written by Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall cover)
I read somewhere that the English version of this song "Chick Habit" was used in the credits of Grindhouse. I've heard it, but it does no justice to the French version, which I have no idea what it's talking about, but goddamn, do I care? No way, total bopfest. You dance to this one like a 60s yeye girl! Bonus points for using your faux French to sing along.
09. Pirates of the Caribbean - He's A Pirate (soundtrack)
Thanks for TJ for this track! It's spectacularly swashbuckling fun. Arrr! I have piratey fight fantasies in my head when i'm in the subway.
10. Lupe Fiasco ft Jill Scott - Daydreaming
I love me some Lupe Fiasco. The chorus "I fell asleep beneath the flowers, for a couple of hours" is so great. Is that not what spring makes you feel like? Then of course there's powerful social commentary in the song. Can't get too comfortable ;)
11. Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day
What a great sunny song! I am especially partial to the "Another day in June, we’ll pick eleven for football / We’re playing for our lives, the referee gives us fuck all" Hee hee, brilliant!
12. KT Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
Also a last summer song, but man, does this not rock? And make you walk down the street like a strutting rooster? No, just me? -_-
13. Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plan Pour Moi
More French songs! A version of this was used in a Pepsi commercial, but you don't need to know that! Wham-bam, French new wave classic! This is also really good for fake-singing along to. Not that I do that, you know.
14. Goat Explosion - Come On, Make Me Feel
Goat Explosion is great. All their songs are great. Electropop is still alive! Thank God!
15. Amelie - La Valse d'Amelie (soundtrack)
OMG! I caught this movie on tv not too long ago and that last scene, her and her love scooting around Paris to this instrumental song! Gah! <-- i am very succinct
16. Maneja Beto - Ciudadano
Ciudadano is Spanish for city dweller. But it sounds semi-laid back, and yet the lyrics decry the city, with the singer lamenting "oh God, oh God."
17. Arash - Iran Iran
My sis sent me this youtube song. World Cup songs are fantastic! I'm gonna make a future post all about them. I love me some world music (to use that odd term... western music is not part of the world?). This song is in Farsi/Persian, but lord if i don't try to sing along too. Iran Iran Iran! :)
18. Bjork - Declare Independence
Raise your flag!
19. Neil Armstrong - Lunar Landing 1969
I love including quotes in my mixes. I thought this fit great after Bjork.
20. Inca Son - Viaje a la Montaña
Lovely instrumental piece by this Andean musical group. The song title translates as Trip/Voyage to the Mountain. Nothing reminds me more of mountains than the pan pipes, this sort of eternal whisper.
More fun posts to come! So many ideas, I write them down now: musical theatre, world cup songs, hopefully with youtube clips.
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Yeah, I recognized the song from grindhouse but I was confused as to why it was in french. Ron knew it was the song too when he heard it in my car. I guess you haven't seen Grindhouse yet. I liked and think it's worth seeing. Just kind of long, so sneak in some snacks. Oh wait, I don't think it's in theatres anymore. Do you guys have a dollar theatre? It was at our dollar theatre about 2 weeks ago.
Anyway, thank you for the spring mix. I think having a mix for everyone to share is a great idea. In fact, in last.fm if you mark a track that you're playing as "add to playlist", you can create a "playlist" widget to add to your blog and then your readers can listen to your mix, right then and there.
Also, i think this will be a rockin' blog! Yay!
I'll rent Grindhouse when it becomes available :) I'll have to get crackin' on playlists, last.fm is becoming addictive!
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