MIXTAPE - May 2007

as noted in the previous mixtape post, may 2007 was a strange time. partly because of this and partly in spite of it (i like to paradoxically refer to my past reasoning because of some learned writer's behavior that makes me feel like i'm saying something profound) i was playing a lot of music and listening to a lot of music. i made a mix for a friend of mine shortly after returning to ohio (and dealing with the loss of my identity somewhere just south of the Canton-Akron airport on I-77, but that's another story) that was comprised half of songs that i was playing a lot at the time (other people's songs, not mine) and half of songs that were just really hitting me hard when i was listening to them.

i figured i'd throw this up on the ol' blog because i just rediscovered it on my hard drive and thought more people should enjoy it. the first half are the songs i was playing, and the second half were the listen-y ones. everything should be tagged correctly, but let me know if there's any trouble...it uploaded extremely fast and that makes me a little nervous that maybe something was lost in translation.

i hate that i can't use that idiom anymore without thinking of bill murray. i sort of wish he would have ended up stranded in time with andie mcdowell.

you don't get a link for that one. if you don't know what i'm talking about, go find out. then come back. and give me a sandwich.

tracklist:

1. the jayhawks - blue
2. the white stripes - i want to be the boy
3. rolling stones - dead flowers
4. phish - crowd control
5. the temptations - can't get next to you
6. creedence clearwater revival - long as i can see the light
7. norah jones - sunrise
8. paul simon - darling lorraine
9. ben folds - rockin' the suburbs
10. neal casal - free to go
11. tom petty - square one
12. bob dylan - most of the time
13. david gray - late night radio
14. jay-z and chris martin - beach chair
15. jurassic 5 - concrete schoolyard
16. elton john - my father's gun
17. ben folds - landed
18. ryan adams - hotel chelsea nights

tracks.

i'm scrounging (as i attempt to rid my harddrive of almost 40 gigs of new live shows) through my old cd wallets, trying to make space and i found some absolutely great old-school road-trip mixes (one featuring prominently outkast's "hey ya") that i might put up in the coming weeks if i actually have some free time. i'm not slacking on the new mixes though...i'm putting together tracks for this month and should actually have something decent by the end of the month.

as always, let me know if/when the link expires.