MIXTAPE - Salem and Seattle

in the interest of adding some structure to this blog, and also to make it generally clear to casual readers which entries are nerdy video game posts, which are journal samples, and which are other things, i've started labelling everything that's not just random thoughts. so if you see a post without an all-caps title, it's probably random. otherwise, you should already know what you've gotten yourself into.

so, here's another new thing i want to start doing. getting back to making mixtapes, writing occasional reviews, and making best-of music lists. not because i think my opinion is really well informed or matters, but just because it's fun. so here's my first mixtape, made entirely from albums i played on my way to and from salem and seattle this past weekend. i listened to a lot of not-ryan adams stuff (believe it or not), but then when i sat down to arrange a bunch of the tracks it i realized that the selection sort of precluded a neat song flow. so i basically split the tracklist into two halves, with more electronica-oriented songs for the first half, and the more standard, rocky-type tunes on the second half. i only included one cardinals song, and it's a cover anyway (you're welcome), and i put my favorite dylan track from "time out of mind" at the end as a sort of coda because, let's face it, it's really better than all the other songs on the tracklist combined.

here's the list:
1. The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
2. Nujabes Featuring Substantial and Pase Rock - Blessing It (Remix)
3. Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
4. Stereolab - Hallucinex
5. Girl Talk - Hold Up
6. Nujabes Featuring Cise Starr and Akin - Feather
7. Jurassic 5 - Influence
8. Nujabes - The Final view
9. Radiohead - Reckoner
10. Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer (Alternate Version)
11. The Jayhawks - Tailspin
12. The Rolling Stones - Shine A Light (Live)
13. Coldplay - God Put A Smile On Your Face
14. Grant-Lee Phillips - I Often Dream of Trains
15. Norah Jones - Thinking About You
16. Bert Jansch - Hey Pretty Girl
17. Grant-Lee Phillips - City of Refuge
18. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Down In A Hole
19. Coldplay - The Scientist
20. Bob Dylan - Trying To Get To Heaven

and here's the jamz.