The Never Ending Mix Transforms.

You may have noticed that the NEIMT has been dormant since October. That's for two reasons.

The first is because of the daunting task of compiling an NEIMT Best of the Aughts collection (mixes #43, 44, and 45 linked below). There was so much good music that we explored in the 00's that is it criminal how many great songs have to get left behind whenever it gets incapsulated in as little as 60+ songs. But these last mixes are a great selection of NEIMT favorites as well as some extra guilty pleasures that, while never spotlighted here before, are definitely worthy of "best of the aughts" status. I hope you enjoy them.

The second reason, due to variety of reasons, it has become increasingly difficult to find the time to put these curated collections together every month. I always said the minute that operating the NEIMT became a "chore", it would be time to reinvent it. So these "best of the aught" mixes are going to be the last of this kind.

I am happy to announce that the Never Ending Mix will undergo a transformation starting very soon. The new format will bring some new voices into the mix and will also more interestingly deliver on the moniker Never Ending Mix.

Until then, enjoy the final mixes.

#45. We Aught Not

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The tracklist is as follows:

01 Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips /
02 Kissing the Lipless by The Shins /
03 Come On! Feel the Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens /
04 Imitosis by Andrew Bird /
05 Cold Cold Water by Mirah /
06 I, Manface by Man Man /
07 Leaf House by Animal Collective /
08 Offcell by Pinback /
09 Staring at the Sun by TV on the Radio /
10 Evergreen by Fiery Furnaces /
11 Amsterdam by Peter, Bjorn and John /
12 Abattoir Blues by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds /
13 Monkey by Low /
14 Unmade Bed by Sonic Youth /
15 Pyramid Song by Radiohead /
16 Comfy in Nautica by Panda Bear /
17 Ashes of American Flags by Wilco /
18 Lua by Bright Eyes /
19 Killing for Love by Jose Gonzalez /
20 God? by The Dodo's /
21 The Book of Right On by Joanna Newsom /
22 Don't be Afraid, You're Already Dead by Akron/Family /

#44. You Aught Too

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The tracklist is as follows:

01 Banquet by Bloc Party /
02 Mass Romantic by New Pornographers /
03 Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand /
04 Hearts of Oak by Ted Lead and the Pharmacists /
05 The Rat by Walkmen /
06 Hi-Lites by Hot Snakes /
07 Hyacinth Blues by Constantines /
08 Formed a Band by Art Brute /
09 Mr. Your on Fire Mr. by Liars /
10 Don't Think Lover by A Place to Bury Strangers /
11 Book of Flags by Q and Not U /
12 My Shadow by Jay Reatard /
13 Soul Jacker Pt.1 by Eels /
14 The Return of Evil Bill by Clinic /
15 7/4 Shoreline by Broken Social Scene /
16 Send Jolly to Raleigh by Des Ark /
17 Blue Orchid by White Stripes /
18 Cough Coughing by Menomena /
19 Don't You Evah by Spoon /
20 Float On by Modest Mouse /
21 Wake Up by Arcade Fire /

#43. For Aught Sake

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The tracklist is as follows:

01 DANCE by Justice /
02 Over & Over by Hot Chip /
03 Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz /
04 Chewing Gum by Annie /
05 LDN by Lily Allen /
06 Ooh La La by Goldfrapp /
07 Jesus Walks by Kanye West /
08 Fix Up Look Sharp by Dizzee Rascal /
09 99 Problems by Jay Z and DJ DangerMouse /
10 Galang by MIA /
11 All My Friends by LCD Soundsystem /
12 Hey Muscles I Love You /
13 Crazy by Gnarls Barkley /
14 Kilo by Ghostface Killah /
15 Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake /
16 Work It by Missy Elliot /
17 Grip Like a Vice by Go Team /
18 Play Your Part (Pt. 1) by Girl Talk /
19 Atlas by Battles /
20 Joy by Fout Tet /
21 The Crystal Cat by Dan Deacon /

#42. Sometimes Sad, Always Beautiful.

The object featured in this month's cover is probably the most beautiful object that I own. It's also a piece of garbage. I found it in Yelapa, Mexico, which is an old fishing village off the coast of Puerto Vallarta that you can only get to by boat. It sits adorably on a steep cliffside wall and walking through it is like walking back in time. I happened upon a woodturners outdoor studio and right there was a whole pile of these beautiful objects — just sitting there, looking all modern and striking. Turns out they are the waste pieces leftover after the woodturner rough cuts a bowl shape out of a block. The throw away object is so pure and simple yet incredibly breathtaking.

Through my wife's limited spanish, we were able to ascertain that Javier, the woodturner, was at his ranch up in the mountains and would not be back anytime soon. But there was no way I was going to leave without this piece of wood. We gave some neighborhood boys 10 dollars to give to Javier in exchange for one of his waste pieces. They looked at us like we were absolutely out of our minds. I have no idea if Javier ever got his 10 dollars, but I thank him everyday regardless.

I am not exactly sure what this has to do with this month's mix. It's a mix that captures some of the most beautiful songs I have come to know in my lifetime plus a bunch of others that hit just the right note for these late Fall days. Days full of beauty yet telling of the coming freeze. Each song has an underlying sadness the belies its gorgeousness. Just like my chunk of wood. Despite being the most beautiful thing ever, is still just a piece of trash.

Enjoy.

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The tracklist is as follows:

01 More Than Ever by Bedhead / 02 Some Summers They Drop Like Flys by The Dirty Three / 03 Imperial [108 B.P.M.] by Unrest / 04 Memphis by Babe the Blue Ox /
05 Start a War by The National / 06 My Door is Always Open by Noah and the Whale /
07 Sorry by Wind-Up Bird / 08 Steve Albini's Blues by Songs: Ohia / 09 New Drink for the Old Drunk by Crooked Fingers / 10 The Party by St. Vincent / 11 How I Blew It With Houdini by Long Fin Killie / 12 Dinosaur Act by Low / 13 A Minor Place by Bonnie Prince Billie / 14 Don't Become the Thing You Hated by Destroyer / 15 On Fire by Sebadoh /
16 Gloriette by David Grubbs /

#41. The Cow of Interrupting.

As someone who takes the music generating and appreciating enterprise very seriously (almost too seriously) the very existence of "funny" music has at times been hard to coexist with. Most often I try equate music with art. A masterpiece song is every bit as creative and genre bending as something like Picasso's Guernica. Funny art & music seems to be not only to be having too much fun to be "art" but also seems to be also making fun of those of us that would dare to be serious. Art is serious business damnit! There is no room for funny. Just like there's no crying in baseball.

Right?

But why so serious? Shouldn't we consider humor as a real an art form as anything? Sasha Baron Cohen, Arrested Development, Office Space, It's Always Sunny, etc... These things are genius in their use of humor and I would suggest that they should someday be in the Museum of Modern Art next to Warhol's Brillo Box sculpture.

Over the years there has been a gently accumulating cadre of songs that dare to bridge the space between serious music and seriously funny. It's probably the hardest creative thing to accomplish. It's such a tenuous balance. Too much one way and the whole thing falls flat. Roll your eyes and forget it.

So this mix, comprised mostly of long obscured or classic tracks, is my attempt to put together a set of songs that successfully straddle that line. Good music? Check. Humor? Check. Art? Well I'll let you decide.

Enjoy.

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The tracklist is as follows:

01 The Ice of Boston by The Dismemberment Plan / 02 Gangsters and Pranksters by Pavement / 03 Fume by Beck / 04 My Pal the Tortoise by Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 / 05 Sofa King by Danger Doom / 06 What's Up Fatlip? by Fatlip / 07 Sheep Go to Heaven by Cake / 08 Peaches by P.U.S.A. / 09 Experimental Film by They Might Be Giants / 10 Fake David Bowie Song by Liam Lynch / 11 Take the Skinheads Bowling by Camper van Beethoven / 12 Bananas and Blow by Ween / 13 Jesus Was Way Cool by King Missle / 14 Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues by McLusky / 15 Bitchin' Camaro by The Dead Milkmen / 16 Ape Suit by Steel Tigers of Death / 17 Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe by Whale / 18 I'm Fricking Awesome by MC Paul Barman / 19 Beef Jerky by Cibo Mato / 20 I Wish (Wicked Remix) by the long forgotten Skeelo / 21 Where'd The Cheese Go? by Pizza Hut Marketing & Ween

#40. Love You Long Time.

Well, here we are, once again in the middle-end of the summer, where the days just seem to stretch on forever. The muggy heat of our mid-west homestead starts to wear a little thin and dreams of the crisp fall leaves of October start to feel more and more real. Still, I realize it's important to enjoy the drawn out aesthetic the days take on here in the apex of august. But that got me thinking...

Music used to be long. Think Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and all the other white haired guys beginning with Bs. They didn't value the three and a half minute mark.They probably believed that if you're going to pour your blood, sweat and tears into creating and performing an amazing piece of music, well then it better damn well be around a little while. It better not be fleeting.

To honor all of these thoughts, this months's mix is dedicated to music with a slightly longer time code than the usual pop nugget. These are songs that demand you stick around a little while and slowly absorb what they have to say. In fact I would argue that their length is precisely what the songs are "about". They just wouldn't quite work as effectively if they were cut down in size. They require a little patience, so I encourage you to stick 'em out for their full-lengths. Preferably in the evening, with the windows open and a cold beverage in your hand.

While most songs are clearly not adherent to any kind of pop song structure, I also tried to focus on songs that weren't too abstract and ambient. Those are too easy to make hella long. All these songs, even the more abstract ones, have distinct beginnings, middles and ends (which is a general requirement I carry to consider something a "song"). I also focused on songs somewhere in the vicinity of 8 minutes to 15 minutes long. There is lots of great stuff in the 20 plus category but that just wouldn't work in the NEIMT format.

And yes, you may have noticed that this is NEIMT #40. Wow. We are over the hill. Well fret not my dear readers. We have no intention of calling it quits anytime soon. In fact, we are going to be starting a new set of themes that should give at least the next years worth of mixing a little kick in the pants. Stick around. Tell your friends.

Enjoy.

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The tracklist is as follows:

01 Didn't We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are by Shellac / 02 Gamera by Tortoise / 03 SZ2 by Battles / 04 The Ascension by Glenn Branca / 05 The Only Moment We Were Alone by Explosions in the Sky / 06 Mt. Eerie by The Microphones / 07 Angular Momentum by Hovercraft / 08 Reconstruction by Matmos / 09 Svefn G Englar by Sigur Ros / 10 Something Spooked the Horses by Zoviet France / 11 Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun by M83 /

#39. Even Less than the Sum of the Parts.

The culling together of all the covers from last months mix was so plentiful that another mix was a foregone conclusion. In fact that hardest part was getting it down to just 20. But alas it is here.

I am aware and apologize for July's mix arriving in early August, but the summer just does that. Too busy travelling, relaxing and whatnot to get the mix out on time. I am determined to NOT let the year be one mix short however. So look for things here at NEIMT headquarters to get caught up in August.

Thanks for listening. Enjoy.

Also check out the original covers mix published in April of 2005. It's a classic set and worth checking out. Go there now!

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The tracklist is as follows:

01 Tonight You Belong to Me (classic) by Nancy Sinatra / 02 Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads) by Nouvelle Vague / 03 Going Underground (The Jam) by Buffalo Tom / 04 Turning Japanese (The Vapors) by Liz Phair / 05 Hounds of Love (Kate Bush) by Futureheads / 06 Jump Into the Fire (Harry Nilsson) by LCD Soundsystem / 07 Toxic (Spears) by Mark Ronson featuring ODB / 08 I Against I (Bad Brains) by Massive Attack and Mos Def / 09 California Uber Alles (Dead Kennedies) by Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy / 10 Burning Down the House (Talking Heads) by Tom Jones and the Cardigans / 11 Digital Love (Daft Punk) by Alphabeat / 12 Let's Dance (Bowie) by M. Ward / 13 Ripple (Grateful Dead) by Jane's Addiction / 14 Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) by Chris Cornell / 15 I Wish I Was Him (Noise Addict) by Kathleen Hanna / 16 Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) by Patti Smith / 17 Cactus (Pixies) by David Bowie / 18 Feeling Good (Nina Simone) by The Eels / 19 (Etta James) by Man Man / 20 I Started a Joke (Beegees) by Faith No More /

#38 Cover Me, and I'll Cover You.

This being the middle of summer and all, I thought it would be a good time to let our hair down over here at NEIMT headquarters. And the result of this flying, fluttering hair is the release of yet another all covers mix.

Cover songs, especially of the "wink-wink" variety, are the greatest guilty pleasure in all of music. They are pure high-fructose corn syrup. All sugar high and no substance. But why should that keep us from enjoying them? Especially, in the middle of a hot, muggy summer in which taking yourself too seriously can lead to serious injury.

So dear reader, I hope you enjoy this cotton-candy filled concoction. There are a whole lot more of these cover gems to fill at least a couple more mixes. So tune back in soon for the potential of part 2.

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The tracklist is as follows:

01 Hot in Herre (Nelly), Jill Sobule / 02 Gin And Juice (Snoop Dogg), The Gourds / 03 No One Knows Feat Domino (Queens of the Stone age), Mark Ronson / 04 911 Is a Joke (Public Enemy), Duran Duran / 05 Crazy In Love (Beyonce), The Magic Numbers / 06 Academy Fight Song (Mission of Burma), REM / 07 Your Daddy Don't Know (Toronto), The New Pornographers / 08 Walking the Cow (Daniel Johnston), TV on the Radio / 09 Heroes (Bowie), The Magnetic Fields / 10 Jump (VanHalen), Mary Lou Lord / 11 All is Full of Love (Bjork), Death Cab for Cutie / 12 Army Of Me (Bjork), Liars / 13 Close To Me (Cure), WHY? / 14 Isolation (Lennon), Lee Renaldo / 15 All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem), John Cale / 16 Quicksand (Bowie), Dinosaur Jr. / 17 Ex Guru (Fiery Furnaces), David Byrne / 18 Temptation (New Order), Jeremy Warmsley / 19 War Pigs (Black Sabbath), Cake / 20 Nuclear War (Sun Ra), Yo La Tengo /

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*BLAST FROM THE PAST* Also check out the original covers mix published in April of 2005. It's a classic set and worth checking out.
See the original post. Download the '05 Mix.

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#37 No More Masterpieces.

For nearly 15 years now I have been a struggling musician, mostly of the indie rock persuasion. I am completely self taught and more than a little tone-deaf. I am not technically proficient or melodically inclined. I label myself as struggling because as an artist I still believe in the idea of perfection. I have expected myself for far too long now to be able to write and play as close to perfect rock masterpieces as I could. It's a heavy weight I put onto my shoulders and pretty much ensures a nearly constant level of dissatisfaction with my work.

Then recently I heard the artist Gregory Crewdson speak about his work. He said something along the lines of...

"Every artistic endeavor begins with the idea of perfection but inevitably ends in disappointment. But it is this idea that ultimately leads to the creation of the next work."

This struck me very profoundly in that it really summarized the struggle I have always encountered when creating any work of art, be it music or otherwise. I strive for perfection, but at the same time it's okay that I never actually achieve it. Because then what. What is a genius creator of a masterpiece to do next? I find that idea more frightening than any alternative.

So this mix is dedicated to the idea of never achieving any kind of perfection. The songs contained have a restless rawness to them. These are songs that are searching. Reaching.

I hope you enjoy.

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The tracklist is as follows: (No links this month. Just google 'em.)

01 Finale, Twi the Humble Feather / 02 Nothing But Change Part II, Harlem Snakes / 03 Fun that We Have, Julian Plenti / 04 Folk Song Oblivion, The Phantom Band / 05 Bertie Hey, Ball of Flame Shoot Fire / 06 Bull Black Nova, Wilco / 07 Everyone is Guilty Akron/Family / 08 Never Stops, Deerhunter / 09 Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh, Say Hi / 10 Teen Muscle / Teen Hustle, The Rock*A*Teens / 11 The Feeling, Peter Bjorn and John / 12 The Howling, The Phantom Band / 13 And the Hazy Sea, Cymbals Eat Guitars / 14 Three Decades, The Horrors / 15 Soft Skull (In My Room), Crocodiles / 16 Ships With Holes Will Sink, We Were Promised Jetpacks / 17 Stator/Asymptote, Arks / 18 My Time Outside The Womb, Titus Andronicus / 19 Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga), The Decemberists / 20 Anti-Orgasm, Sonic Youth /

#36: From Discord Find Harmony

Last March I posted one of my favorite mixes, "Space yes, but not time. No." I encourage you to search the archive for it. It became known in my mind as that year's electro/dancy mix. And maybe it's not totally a coincidence that at about the same time this year, I once again have enough great upbeat tracks to curate another collection that is sure get my head (and yours) bobbin' and shakn'. I guess there must be something especially "spring" about music like this for it to keep coming up at this time every year.

My relationship with any music that could be classified as electro or dance-oriented is, let's just say complicated. I came of age with rock and punk music in my veins and I was a snob about it. Any music that was overly produced, had "too many effects" or had non-organic instrumentation (read keyboards or digitally enhanced beats) was not to be considered for consideration. It's no wonder Fugazi were like gods to me for a long time.

Obviously over time, as I matured and expanded my worldview I came to accept that good music was good music. All instruments are just tools to make something and I would eventually discover that making good music is just as hard on digital instruments as it is traditional organic instruments. It doesn't matter how it's made, just if it's any good. The albums of Meat Beat Manifesto, Mouse on Mars and The Prodigy had a profound effect on this particular evolution of my hearing ability.

All this being said, this is not an electronica or drum and bass mix. While I like a lot of that music, I'll have to save that theme for another time. Moreover this is a mix of great pop music that uses electronic and digital instrumentation to great effect.

As the title suggests, I really sought to bring together diverse sounds and styles and with a considerable focus on songs that found a way to perfectly combine a little noise with its pop and hip-hop sensibilities.

I hope you enjoy.

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The tracklist is as follows: (Follow the links below to ways of supporting the artists)

01 1901, Phoenix 02 God Put a Smile Upon Your Face, Mark Ronson 03 Will Get Fooled Again, Max Tundra 04 Woof Woof, Dan Deacon 05 Dull Life, Yeah Yeah Yeahs 06 Knife, CSS 07 Knickerbocker, Fujiya and Miyagi 08 Get It Up, Santogold vs Diplo 09 What It's All About, Girl Talk 10 Success, DJ Cam 11 Thundermouth, Beans 12 Fender Bender, Kid Koala 13 Clap for the Killers, Street Sweeper 14 Kill All Hippies, Primal Scream 15 Middleclass Stomp, Subtle 16 Pretty Green, Mark Ronson 17 Paris is Burning, Ladyhawke 18 Help, I'm Alive, Metric 19 In The Backyard, Tender Forever 20 Paddling Ghost, Dan Deacon

#35: I Will Make a Ghost of Who Tempts Me.

In somewhat of a reaction to sticky, sappiness of lasts month's mix, I now present to you my dear subbascribers with the heaviest, noisiest and most "metal" mix I could muster. It's loud and abrasive and a little difficult to listen to at high volumes straight through. This mix is surely not for everyone. So consider the faint-of-heart among you, warned.

Still I must confess a couple caveats to the said "metal-ness" of this NEIMT.

First, I am not a true metal music fan. Traditional metal groups like Iron Maiden or Megadeth (or Dokken if that's your thing) never really had much appeal to me. Same with the really dark demon-image loving stuff like Cannibal Corpse and the like. You'll find none of that here. So the purists can save the angry emails about how "unmetal" and lame you think this mix is.

Not being a fan of traditional metal has certainly not hindered my love for music that is loud, harsh and full of throat scraping screams. A lot of this mix is more on the indie/hardcore side of the metal spectrum, but all are songs that beg to be turned up really loud and have never failed to get my head banging and my air drumming arms flailing. I love everyone of these noisy nuggets. Hope you do to.

P.S. - The Bullyrag tracks herein are from a friends long out-of-print record that never fails to make me very happy. Seek it out if these songs appeal to you. You won't regret it.

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01 The Wolf is Loose, Mastodon 02 Ibitsu, Boris 03 Captain Caveman, Lightning Bolt 04 Focus Pocus, Big Business 05 For Respect, Don Caballero 06 What's a Little Reign, Fucking Champs 07 Touch Test, Blacklisted 08 Building the Perfect Bomb, Bullyrag aka Fucking Thunder 09 We have explosives! - Schmexplosives!, Text 10 Just One Fix, Ministry 11 Unsung, Helmet 12 Set Fire to the Face on Fire, Blood Brothers 13 All Ease, Sleepytime Trio 14 Shiner, Rodan 15 Thirteen Monsters, Lightning Bolt 16 Holding Hands, Downset 17 Rockstar Nailbomb!, The Fall of Troy 18 Bikini Sports Ponchin, Maximum the Hormone 19 Everyone Else, JR Ewing 20 The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized, Bullyrag aka Fucking Thunder

#34: Of Twin Thoughts.

As I have stated many times, and probably to the annoyance of those friends and acquaintances around me, both my wife and I really dislike valentines day. There are many reasons, but mainly it's just the whole institutionalization of love and romance that we can never get our heads around. It always wilts the honesty of a sweet gesture with the inevitability of the corporate holiday. That's not to say that I think everyone should eschew the celebration. To each their own. It's just not something we can find anything special in.

That's also not too say that I lack any interest in romance. Quite the opposite. I am extremely, happily married (for 7 wonderful years) and really relish finding new ways to make my girl feel good and loved. In my view, if you don't enjoy that, then why on earth would you ever be married?

So what more cliched yet totally sweet way to "woo" your new or old love, than with a mixtape. Good question. It was something I did many times over again back in the day. Yet, I recently realized that in all this time that I have been publishing the NEIMT, I have never once made one specifically for my wife. In a roundabout way they are all for her, but never before was it pointedly so. So here it goes.

The following mix is comprised of what I consider to be some of the sweetest songs ever made. Most have some significance to the formative years of our relationship and every year since, though I wouldn't use the word romantic because that would color your expectations in the wrong way. There is no "Between the Moon and New York City" here or anything. This is first and foremost a mix of great songs and I believe that there is a lot on here that most people wouldn't necessarily expect (and some that are most definitely classic).

One last warning, there are moments herein that are genuinely emo.

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01 Sweet Avenue, Jets to Brazil 02 Always For You, The Album Leaf 03 Shell Life, Half String 04 Cardiac Atlas, June of 44 05 On Reflection, The Appleseed Cast 06 A Picture, Strictly Ballroom 07 Penelope, Pinback 08 Ride Home, Rex 09 Planetary, Rainer Maria 10 Picture Postcard, The Promise Ring 11 A Dozen Roses, Braid 12 Rubella, Smoking Popes 13 Promise of Love, American Analog Set 14 Watery Hands, SuperChunk 15 La La Love You, The Pixies 16 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps, Cake 17 Shady Lane, Pavement 18 Mushaboom, Feist 19 Return of the Frog Queen, Jeremy Enigk 20 Good Feelings, Violent Femmes

#33 The Only Relative Thing About The Truth Is Our Opinion Of It.

You know, the "new" can be such pain in the ass. I mean the new year has come and gone, as well as the highly anticipated inauguration, and the collective wisdom was that "change" was supposed be in our veins and such. But change is, as they say, god damn hard. For example, its now the end of January, and my one resolution, to start exercising, is pretty much DOA. Part of me thinks that I can't force it, and just have to wait until I truly come to the heartfelt realization that it is my best interest. Part of me knows that's a bunch of bull.

In a way, it's similar to my unending struggle to keep up with the endless stream of new music that keeps finding itself in my digital collective. For the longest time now, I have collected music far faster than I consume it. I valiantly try to keep up and for the most part I could sustain my head above water. Despite it all, there is an embarrassing amount of music that I have collected, or as one might claim "own", that I have never even listened to. How sad.

And it's getting worse lately. More and more my job has become less and less the kind of thing where I can get away with popping on the headphones and remain unbothered for several hours at a time. So now I am positively drowning. Last years "best of" lists were, for the first time in a long while, full of things I had heard about but didn't have the time to listen to. These are thoughts that do not sit well with me.

Anyway, I digress. Part of what has kept me doing these mixes is the fact that it forces me to sit down for several hours and absorb all the music I have recently (and not so recently) accumulated onto my ever shrinking digital storage otherworld. I know it sounds weird that I have to "force" myself to do one of my favorite things, but it's a happy force. A needed self imposed discipline to make time for the important things.

Long story short is that sometimes you have to force yourself to do the things that are the best for you. Isn't that screwed up?

Since a majority of the most recent mixes have focused largely on older music, I am dedicating the first mix of the new year to only the "new" in all its forms. I am not promising you'll only hear things you hadn't before, but these are all things relatively new to me. Regardless they are quickly becoming some of my favorite "new" things.

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01 All to Shit, Lightspeed Champion 02 Un Dia, Juana Molina 03 Witch, Maps & Atlases 04 The Vowels, Pt. 2, Why? 05 No One Does It Like You, Department of Eagles 06 Taste, Animal Collective 07 All the Time, Vivian Girls 08 Lantern Lights, Abe Vigoda 09 Lost to the Lonesome, Pela 10 Group Transport Hall, Women 11 Happy As Can Be, Cut Off Your Hands 12 Oh Yeah!, Housse de Racket 13 I Can Tell, White Denim 14 Learn To Learn, The Week That Was 15 The Deathbridge in Lethbridge, The Rural Alberta Advantage 16 Out of Time, The Dutchess and the Duke 17 Dotted Lines, Electric President 18 No One's Better Sake, LIttle Joy 19 Baby, Alexis Taylor 20 Everyone I Know is Listening to Crunk, Lightspeed Champion

#32: NOT A CLOCK. A CLOUD.

It's the end of the year and it's funny that the last mix is actually part 2 of the "positively happy" theme from the previous month. I guess it's appropriate that the year end is nothing more than the conclusion of something that had been building for a long time. The songs contained herein are comprised of the more dance and beat oriented variety. If this doesn't get your head and booty bobbin, there may not be much hope for you. Seriously the song "Fascination" is the feel good song of the year. Possibly the decade. It's operating on the "Walking on Sunshine" or "Let's Hear it for the Boys" kinda level.

Not only is this positivity born from the political rebirth experienced in the last months, but it's also bubbling up from some of my recent thoughts on the nature of consciousness and life. I have just finished reading "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" and it's one of the best books I have read in a while. It's got me thinking about the brain and the fact that almost every aspect of the human experience is a hodge-podge of synaptic sensation, subjective interpretation, and faulty recollection. The brain is really just making up everything as we go. It's even possibly fabricating what we sense as the "self". The title of the mix is a reminder that our experience is not driven by time, but by the multiplicity of ways the self chooses to experience the world. So choose wisely and don't let life to be dominated by a linear state of mind. After all there is no absolute tick of the clock.

And no, it's not mistake I have included Coolio's "Fantastic Voyage".

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01 Katamari on the Rock, Katamari Damacy Soundtrack
02 Paul Simon, Russian Futurists
03 Happy Rap, Junior Senior
04 Fascination, Alphabeat
05 Lucas with the Lid Off, Lucas
06 Going Out of My Head, Fat Boy Slim
07 A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays, De La Soul
08 Fantastic Voyage, Coolio
09 Hot Topic, Le Tigre
10 Konichiya Bitches, Robyn
11 Working For Vacation, Cibo Matto
12 I Told Her on Alderaan, Neon Neon
13 Joy!, Gay Dad
14 Here Comes..., Tahiti 80
15 Praise You, Fat Boy Slim
16 Since I Left, The Avalanches
17 Cantaloop, US3
18 Deeper Shade of Soul, Urban Dance Squad
19 I Believe in You YACHT
20 Up a Tree Again, Looper

#31: WE SOLVE OURSELVES

So here we are, at the other side of the great divide, and damn it feels great. As promised, this months mix is an attempt to create the happiest and most hopeful mix I could. I had no idea how hard that would be. I never quite realized how rare truly positive music is. Perhaps it's me, but almost all of the music I consume and collect has some element of angst, tension or cynicism in it. I even had to include more "classic" songs than I normally would as means to build up the appropriate amount of celebration. Perhaps the human element just finds struggle more interesting than contentment.

Anyway, this mix is comprised of songs that are not only "happy" but also capture a certain element of youthful naivety that I believe is required of the uncompromisingly positive. Even though I claim that this mix was inordinately hard to create, the process actually resulted in two full mixes. The next installment will publish in a week or so as the final mix of the year. I hope you enjoy them.

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01 American Music, Violent Femmes
02 Big Dipper, Built to Spill
03 King of Carrot Flowers Part 1, Neutral Milk Hotel
04 5 Years Time, Noah and the Whale
05 Dr. Worm, They Might Be Giants
06 Why Did We Ever Meet?, Promise Ring
07 Step Into My Office, Baby, Belle & Sebastian
08 Saturday Night, Bay City Rollers
09 Lust for Life, Iggy Pop
10 Alright, Supergrass
11 Why Doe the Sun Shine?, They Might Be Giants
12 Race for the Prize, Flaming Lips
13 A Life of Possibilities, The Dismemberment Plan
14 Chicago, Sufjan Stevens
15 Kim & Jessie, M83
16 Section 12 (Hold Me Now), Polyphonic Spree
17 We're From Barcelona, I'm From Barcelona
18 The Contents of Lincoln's Pockets, Rainer Maria
19 Can't Hardly Wait Replacements
20 (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?, Elvis Costello

#30: ANTICIPATING THE HUMAN

Four years ago, I started the never-ending internet mixtape in the month of October with what I dubbed Rocktober. It was an opportunity to celebrate an overwhelming abundance of great rock songs that were just coming out of the woodwork at that time. On subsequent Rocktober mixes I explored many other facets of the rock meme I love so, much to the unsurprising enjoyment of my dear subscribers.

Yet this months mix breaks with the October trend for a couple of reasons. One because I have already focused on some raw rock textures in past mixes, namely last months. Two, because that would be too easy response to what is happening to this country right now. Surely there is a lot of anger and violence being felt right now that would be perfectly sated by some aggressive thrashing. But anger is not what I feel anymore. I've spent the last 8 years full of frustration and rage. But now I am filled with a deep sense of hope (yes I said it) and I am overwhelmingly excited about the prospects of the country heading in a new positive direction — a direction that chooses progress over grief. I mean I actually feel like I could proudly wave an American flag for the first time since I can even remember.

But everything isn't all wine and roses yet, I am too much a pessimist to believe that. Any positivity is equally offset by a nagging, electric anxiety. One that remembers the atmosphere of doom that saturates our world. One that knows that this country is capable of approaching the precipice of the great divide, only to crumble under the pressure of the leap that needs to be made, retreating into the violence of fear. This is not a leap of faith, but one of reason. We are so close. I hope we can maintain our sense of reason as we face the blackness of the unknown.

I hope to see everyone on the other side of the divide, having experienced a very real, necessary, and unprecedented change. And when you come back to the NEIMT next month, you will find my attempt to create the absolute most unapologetically happiest mix ever created. Either that, or the saddest mix ever. Good luck to all of us.

And for goodness sake, please take the time to cast your vote.

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The tracklist is as follows:
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01 Wolfy, Giant Sand
02 Bang On, Breeders
03 Living on the Outside of Your Skin, Cloud Cult
04 Soul Jacker Pt. 1, Eels
05 This Life Cumulative, Joan of Arc
06 Era Prison, The Joggers
07 Mod Style '68, Single Frame
08 Pattern, French Toast
09 Cappo, No Age
10 Two States, Pavement
11 My Office, Wicked Farleys
12 Corpse Pose, Unwound
13 No One Does It Like You, Department of Eagles
14 Conjugate the Verbs, Enon
15 Hot Freaks, Guided By Voices
16 C-C (You Set the Fire in Me), Tom Vek
17 Logos, Faded Paper Figures
18 I Feel Better, Frightened Rabbit
19 Sounds, Earlimart
20 Golden Age, Tv on the Radio

#29: THICK IN THE NECK OF THE WOODS

Every month I am amazed at how the mix always comes together. I had no idea what this one was going to be like at all. I just started combing through my massive library hoping to fine one or two songs that would provide the inspiration. At first this mix was all about quirky indie pop. But then I ran across the song Bellbottoms by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. I hadn't heard that song in a long time, but it felt good. And a song that sweaty and salty couldn't sit next to some of the twee pop that was populating the playlist. So I rebuilt the whole thing with songs that expressed something similarly visceral and honest, songs that both honor a history of blues and country while also being decidedly modern.

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The tracklist is as follows:
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01 Bellbottoms, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
02 White Belts, Make Up
03 Rich Girls Like To Steal, The Delta 72
04 Fuck the People, The Kills
05 Genius, Kings of Leon
06 Searching for a Ghost, Heartless Bastards
07 Love in a Trashcan, Raveonnettes
08 Three Cool Chicks, The 5, 6, 7, 8s
09 Bumblebee, The Casual Dots
10 Chinese Children, Devendra Banhart
11 God & Suicide, Blitzen Trapper
12 Flame that Killed John Wayne, Mekons
13 Break 'Em On Down, Soledad Brothers
14 Broadway, Old 97's
15 Nothing Short of Thankful, The Avett Brothers
16 Shelton Express, The Black Crabs
17 I Don't Want To Die (In The Hospital), Conor Oberst
18 Ballad of Cable, Calexico
19 O Lee O, O'Death
20 When the President Talks to God, Bright Eyes

#28: SUNTITLED

This months mix is something I have been cultivating for a while, waiting for just the right time of the year to drop it on y'all. Well the burnt out bleakness that is August in the midwest couldn't be more perfect. So I present to you an amazing collection of ambient, classical, and minimalist compositions that I believe are some of most beautiful music ever put into 1s and 0s. Here you'll get everything from achingly forlorn classical string arrangements to glitchy, fuzzed-out technominimalism.

To those of you that have never really spent much time with this kind of music, I would warn that it can't really be consumed the same way pop/rock/indy/country/hip hop can. It's a totally different animal. I would encourage you to put this on next time you are working hard on the computer and need a little white noise to fill in the silence. Or better yet, turn off all the lights in your house so that the only light is the trickle-in from the outside, open all your windows to let in the natural sounds of your environment bleed in, crank this mix up on a good stereo and just sit back with a good cocktail in your hand. Bliss.

Also note that the Glissade track comes via a friends newly launched label, Deep Space Recordings. Mad respect.

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The tracklist is as follows:
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01 Amreik, Eluvium
02 FUYU, Hologram
03 The Other Face, Fennesz
04 To, Goldmund
05 Shop in Store, Oval
06 Curious (about the way you'd speak my name if you loved me), all your gardening needs
07 A Concert for Television, Jan Jalinek
08 Hyas and Stenorhynchus, Yo La Tengo
09 Moon Mall, Johnny Greenwood
10 Untitled, Glissade
11 Open Spaces, Johnny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood original soundtrack)
12 Vier, Gas
13 Cloudhopper, Matmos
14 Rhubarb, Aphex Twin
15 Jpace, Phoenecia
16 Dungtitled (in A Major), Stars of the Lid
17 Sweet Love for Planet Earth, Fuck Buttons
18 Spring Heeled Jack Flies Tonight, Tim Hecker
19 Waves, Waves, Waves, M83
20 Flowers for Yulia, Max Richter

#27: NOT TALKING ABOUT DANCE LESSONS

This months fix is finally making use of six months worth of collecting wonderful songs in the new folky-indie-hippie vein that seems to have exploded since this time last year. As you might notice, The Dodos make an unprecedented 3 time appearance in one mix. That's because I just couldn't decide which song to cut. They are just so good. Overall the focus of the mix is on acoustic sounds with a diverse worldly aesthetic, sensitive emo boy lyrics, a healthy dose of handclaps, a little art rock and a far amount of reverb. This mix also allowed me to put in some things that I have been trying to find places for for a while. Namely Yma Sumac and George Harrison. Both of which I listen to a lot, but rarely do they have a commonality with the indie rock that tends to be my focus here on the NEIMT. And last I'll note that I realize I am like 6 months behind with that Bon Iver song, but I just couldn't help myself. It's just that good. If you haven't yet been numbed to its charm, then here is one more chance.

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The tracklist is as follows:
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01 Fools, The Dodos
02 Four Points, Friska Viljor
03 Ragged Wood, Fleet Foxes
04 Abandon, French Kicks
05 The Cigarette Girl From the Future, Beauty Pill
06 I Was a Daughter, Basia Bulat
07 Tamacun, Rodrigo y Gabriela
08 The Ballad of Butter Beans, Man Man
09 Gopher, Yma Sumac
10 Song in 3/4, Loch Lomand
11 Walking, The Dodos
12 You May Be Blue, Vetiver
13 The Dogs of Buenos Aries, Mirah
14 New York 1930, The Dimes
15 Skinny Love, Bon Iver
16 Sandy Feat (7" version), High Places
17 Wedding Bell, Beach House
18 God?, The Dodos
19 Wah Wah, George Harrison
20 Bye Bye Bye, Plants and Animals

#26: SLOWLY APPLYING CONTRAINTS

As most of my friends know, I really don't like the sun. I spent 20 years growing up in Arizona and I think that has resulted in my being able to rarely ever see the sun again. I suppose that's why I loved living in Seattle so much. 8 months of cloudy drizzle was right up my alley. When the sun is out, I feel guilty for not being out there soaking it all in the way I am "supposed" to, when actually I'd just prefer to be inside reading a book.

On the other hand there is a lighter sense of being that comes with the arrival of summer. The heat gives license to dress more casually and loosen up all the tension that builds over the winter. Even I enjoy a good day spent at an awesome beach.

So this mix attempts to capture both the unbridled "fun" of summer tempered with just the right mix of dread and anger that slowly grows stronger as the summer drags on, steamy day after steamy midwest day. There are three major movements in this mix. The first third is probably the best first third of a mix I have ever constructed. I danced my ass off to it the other night. It's that good. The middle comes down a little bit to showcase some really earnest and melodically beautiful songs. The last part ramps the intensity up again, only this time the angst is more palpable. The whole thing ends with four fucking great songs. Make that five. No six. Seriously this mix is gold! Enjoy.

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The tracklist is as follows:
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01 New Wave, Against Me!
02 Living Well is the Best Revenge, REM
03 Constructive Summer, The Hold Steady
04 The Wagon, Dinosaur Jr.
05 Katrina, The Black Lips
06 Sound of Summer, Art Brut
07 The Sons of Cain, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
08 J,aime vous voire quitter, The Islands
09 Relative Surplus Value, The Weakerthans
10 Used Guitars, Red Collar
11 This is no fun, School of Language
12 In a Cave, Tokyo Police Club
13 Breaks, American Princes
14 Pillowhead, Failure
15 Lost in Amber, Steel Tigers of Death
16 Gift, Sugar
17 Lovenest, The Wedding Present
18 Don't Think Lover, A Place to Bury Strangers
19 No Lucifer, British Sea Power
20 Well Thought Out Twinkles, Silversun Pickups

#25: LOVELY THINGS WE BURIED, PART 2

This is the second installment of the late 70s and early 80s pop, punk, post punk and new wave compilation. Lots of angular guitars by artists both new and old. Some probably familiar tracks woven amongst some more obscure stuff. Enjoy!

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01 All in the mind, Mother and the Addicts
02 Outlaw, Mission of Burma
03 See no evil, Television
04 Araby, The Reivers
05 The City is Here for You to Use, The Futureheads
06 A Question of Degree, Wire
07 Instant Hit, The Slits
08 Anticipation, Delta 5
09 Who Shot the Baby?, Dogs Die in Hot Cars
10 This City Holds Us All, The Situationists
11 Off Duty Trip, The Raincoats
12 Sgt. Rock (is going to help me), XTC
13 You Can't Fool Me Dennis, Mystery Jets
14 Re-Make/Re-Model, Roxy Music
15 Krimi, Kleenex/Liliput
16 Armageddon, The Au Pairs
17 Return the Gift, Gang of Four
18 Cool, Pylon
19 Eyes Wide Open, Radio 4
20 Victoria, Fall

#24: LOVELY THINGS WE BURIED, PART 1

This mix is part of a massive beast that I have been working on perfecting for a long time now. Mostly inspired by my new obsession with Jay Reatard. All the feelings I feel when I bug out in the car to his songs like "Greed, Money, and Useless Children" are deeply rooted in the longtime fascination I've had with late 70s and early 80s pop, punk, post punk and new wave. Those genres, like all genres, are a muddy mess to classify, but in the end that sound in unmistakeable and infectious. Kinda like how Indie rock is a genre that has no aesthetic value but you know it when you hear it. But I digress.

Putting this together was just too hard to narrow down to a measly 20 songs. So it's coming in two parts. This first part focusing on more pop oriented new wave tracks as well as the more bar rock meets art rock detritus that sit in between the post punk and new wave isms. Like I said it's a muddy mess. You'll hear very familiar tracks mixed in with some that are more obscure, both new and old. The second installment is just as good as this, if even better. So stay tuned.

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01 Away from the numbers, The Jam
02 Los Angeles,X
03 Mystery, The Wipers
04 My Family Jay Reatard
05 Astral Glamour, The Homosexuals
06 My Perfect Cousin, The Undertones
07 (Making) Teenage Faces, The Exploding Hearts
08 Roadrunner, The Modern Lovers
09 Teenage Nights, Nice Boys
10 Jet Boy, Johnny Thunders
11 Hibernate, High Tension Wires
12 Sitting Around At Home, The Buzzcocks
13 My Shadow, Jay Reatard
14 Janie Jones, The Clash
15 Monk Time, The Monks
16 Hanging on the Telephone, The Nerves
17 Rip Her to Shreds, Blondie
18 Cool For Cats, Squeeze
19 Message of Love, The Pretenders
20 Lip Service, The one and only Elvis Costello

#23: SPACE… YES. BUT NOT TIME. NO.

So this mix started completely different. Full of neo-folk and textured singer songwriter stuff. It was really good too. Then the new Portishead & Gnarls Barkley albums leaked and they were so good, that I was instantly compelled to make a mix surrounding them. So here you get two of the best new Portishead songs and a Gnarls Barkley supa-jam surrounded by a plethora of electro inspired tunes that undulate between moody neo-noir set pieces and get the funk out grooviness. So the other mix will have to wait for another day. This was just too good an opportunity to pass up. Enjoy.

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01 Ready for the Floor, Hot Chip
02 Would Be Killer,Gnarls Barkley
03 Royal Gregory, Holy Fuck
04 Casting Agents and Cowgirls Busdriver
05 Asbestos Lead Asbestos Meat Beat Manifesto
06 Christiansands, Tricky
07 We Carry On, Portishead
08 Retina, Ellen Allien and Apparat
09 Dead Fingers Talking, Working for a Nuclear Free City
10 You've Got To… (Norman Cook Mix), The Young Punx!
11 Luxury Pool Neon Neon
12 Phantom, pt. 1, Justice
13 Solid Gold International Pony
14 Cancelled Pieces, Steve Jansen
15 Holdon, Apparat
16 Drivin' Me Wild, Common & Lily Allen
17 The Sex Has Made Me Stupid Robots in Disguise
18 Ramalama (Bang Bang), Roisin Murphy
19 Machine Gun, Portishead
20 Hey Muscles I Love You, Muscles
21 Thou Shalt Always Kill, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

#22: I WANNA BE YOUR JOEY RAMONE

Let me start off by saying that I generally dislike marginalizing musicians & artists by categorizing them as female. I mean it should be largely irrelevant when it comes assessing the quality and meaning of art. It's as insane as having a best actress category in the Academy Awards. How is what they are doing different from the male actors? Why are we unable to compare & evaluate them to each other?

So why the hell am I creating an all female mix, on f'ing valentines day of all things? Well the exception I take to the previously mentioned rule is with a certain grouping of female artists that blew my furtive little mind when I was just a youngin'. They made their femininity the subject of their aesthetic and message to a point that it would be missing the point to ignore. I believe we must consider their femininity when considering and enjoying the music in order to fully appreciate their intent. So there.

For a long time, I considered the fact that I was a full-on flannel-wearing Seattle grunge evangelist a key component of my self-perceived outsider status. What can I say? I was a suburban kid and my idea of a real counter-culture hadn't really developed yet. But my tastes and politics really began to change when I discovered, mostly via the soundbytes from Kurt Cobain, the pure ecstasy of a group called Bikini Kill. I bought the first 7" I could find and I was never really the same since.

Loving Bikini Kill led me down a long road of consuming any and every female punk or rock artist I could. For a while I thought myself as "feminist-minded", as much as a suburban white male could anyway. Meaning I was more likely to come to the defense of womans' issues or on the offense against patriarchal hypocrisy than I would the opposite. I played Rock for Choice benefit shows as well as read and even wrote the occasional leftist 'zine with passionate yet embarrassingly not-though-through tirades against the establishment. I tried my best to identify with feminist issues but mostly I strove to separate myself from the uber-aggressive dude culture that saturated my world in high school and college. I simply didn't enjoy bitch and dick jokes either. Go figure.

As I said earlier, the fact that I feel so compelled to post this mix dedicated to my most adored female musicians is fairly contradictory. I did it last year, I am doing it again and I'll probably do it again next year. Be that as it may, the result is still a pretty kick-ass mix of all the stuff that got me excited so many years ago. What you get here, my dear reader, is a best of the best of the best. Like Rocktober's mix, it's comprised mostly of songs from the mid nineties and it's not for everyone. It's loud, abrasive and oh so awesome.'

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01 I Like Fucking, Bikini Kill
02 He's My Thing,Babes in Toyland
03 50ft Queenie, PJ Harvey
04 Whatever, Red Aunts
05 Laisse Tomber Les Filles, April March
06 Go Home (Seattle Version), Joan Jett and Kathleen Hanna
07 Guilt Within Your Head, The Gits
08 Babydoll, Slant 6
09 The History of My Future, 7 Year Bitch
10 Plump, Hole
11 Bata Motel, Crass
12 Pat's Trick, Helium
13 Decoder, Chinchilla
14 Obsessed With You, X-Ray Spex
15 Kids in America, The Muffs
16 Uncle Phranc, Team Dresch
17 Vxrx, Cold Cold Hearts
18 Clap and Cough, Discount
19 Anonymous, Sleater-Kinney
20 I Hate Danger, Bikini Kill

THE 2007 PAST AND FUTURE TENSE MIX (Part 2)

Part 2: The Future Arrives, Unannounced.

"You can't stop what's comin." So say's the amazing film No Country For Old Men. As awesome as that was, I find that all that dread about the future a bit fatalistic. It's important to revere the past but also to approach the future as a clean slate of endless possibilities. Otherwise what is the point.

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01 Yea Yeah, Matt & Kim
02 Away From Here, The Enemy
03 You! Me! Dancing!, Los Campesinos!
04 The Plot, White Rabbits
05 Like I Needed, Rogue Wave
06 Don't You Evah, Spoon
07 Jesus Saves, I Spend, St. Vincent
08 Everything's Just Wonderful, Lily Allen
09 Red Meat, Ball Of Flame Shoot Fire
10 Fireworks, Animal Collective
11 See A Penny (Pick It Up), YACHT
12 All My Friends, LCD Soundsystem
13 Collarbone, Fujiya & Miyagi
14 In The Club, White Williams
15 Ice Cream, Muscles
16 cape cod kwassa kwassa, Vampire Weekend
17 I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You, Black Kids
18 Grip Like A Vice, The Go! Team
19 Let's Dance To Joy Division, The Wombats
20 The Crystal Cat, Dan Deacon