MeFi Mix #2 - A Mid-Tempo Rock Song Glut

I posted this out to 15 lucky souls around the world a few weeks ago. For it's lack of cohesiveness and relative insanity of included artists and tracks, I think it stands up fairly well. Enjoy!

A Mid-Tempo Rock Song Glut

01. Doug Sahm - Rock-Tick-Tock
02. Self - I Am a Little Explostion
03. Late of the Pier - Random Firl
04. Harvey Danger - Carlotta Valdez
05. The Walkmen - The Rat
06. Reggie & the Full Effect - Good Times, Good Tunes, Good Buds
07. Gil Mantera's Party Dream - Alligator Missions
08. Women - Sag Harbor Bridge
09. Pitty Sing - Anyway
10. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
11. Mink Deville - Let Me Dream If I Want To
12. Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - Take Off Your Sunglasses
13. Arif Sag - Osman Pehlivan
14. The Sea & Cake - Weekend
15. The Small Faces - I Feel Much Better
16. Nobody - Tori Oshi
17. The Mooney Suzuki - The Broken Heart
18. Prince - Crimson & Clover
19. Mount Eerie & Julie Dorion - Lost Wisdom
20. Lambchop - Your Fucking Sunny Day
21. The Jazz Butcher - Mr. Odd
22. Headset - Breath Contrails
23. Sixto Rodriguez - Crucify Your Mind
24. Danielson - Five Stars & Two Thumbs Up

The cover image is a very small part of a Turing Machine built in John Conway's Game of Life. Instead a track list in the liner notes, I included a long rant/thoughts that follows the mix through each of the tracks. It's in tiny print, but the full-size image (click for) is easily (un)readable:

MeFi Mix #1 - Do Not Kink

Yet another source of my overflowing love for the community blog MetaFilter has been the CD swaps organized about twice every year. The idea is simple: burn 5 copies of a mix to CD and mail them to the 5 other people in your assigned swap set. Expect a mix in return from each of those same 5 folks.

Though I don't think I've ever participated in a swap where all 6 swap set members have come through, now that I think about it.

Still, about 7 years of this has loaded me up with great music mixes from around the world. I've started digitizing them now, and the first one up is (randomly) Do Not Kink!, sent to me in 2003.

These are included in the archive.
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I can't remember who put this mix together. Here's the mystery mixer's liner notes:

Do Not Kink!

1. Gridlock by The Pogues
2. Cornflake Girl by Jawbox
3. Look Up by Stars
4. Ivanka by Imperial Teen
5. Air Batucada by Thievery Corporation
6. Because of Money by 3rd Generation Band
7. Paperwings by Damien Jurado
8. Ray of Gob by Go Home Productions
9. To Hell With Good Intentions by Mclusky
10. Merchandise by Fugazi
11. I'll Be Around (Live) by The Afghan Whigs
12. Polaris by Nortec Collective and Bostich
13. Ce n'est pas pour nous by Le Nombre
14. And the Washington Monument (Blinks) Goodnight by Q and Not U
15. Barra Barra by Rachid Taha
16. Pack Yr Romantic Mind by Stereolab
17. I Got Erection by Turbonegro
18. Status by Mr. Lif feat. Insight
19. Young Offenders by The Constantines
20. Grounded (Live) by Pavement

back cover


This is a pretty good mix. I dig how it takes a bunch of artists I already like (The Pogues, Stars, Mclusky, Stereolab, Q and Not U, Constantines, Pavement) and then goes in a completely different (though not wholly unexpected) direction. A somewhat juvenile and awesome direction.

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