Part eight of an array of CD mixes I made for my wife over a long number of years! Read more about it here!
We used to live near this intersection and, while I love the angles and blue, the cover feels lackluster to me despite the ND filter effect (look it up!) and nothing about the typography works.
While I may not love the cover, I do love the mix.
MY ROBOT FRIEND’s ‘Robot High School’ is so fucking catchy.
If you’ve ever heard CLOUD CULT? Their songs? 100% trauma and devastation. Their songs will. Make. You. Weep. Saw them at Chicago’s Metro with a live painter interpreting their sound on-stage which? Yeah, that sounds pretentious, but it was so fucking messy and vulnerable, like we shouldn’t have been able to watch it unfurl.
SHOUT OUT OUT OUT’s ‘Forever Indebted’ is so hooky while also so absolutely crushing and escalates wildly while being brutal about finances, which … resonates even harder now.
I vividly remember playing SONS & DAUGHTERS’ ‘Guilt Complex’ to my wife shortly after a New Years countdown clicked down. For some drunken reason I couldn’t help but flail my arms about and sing along with it. Will she know why? Will you? Nope!
Revisiting these mixes, I am gobsmacked at how many of these bands I saw live, and how many memories I have from them. Hell, I remember leaning over the railing at Metro and singing along to THE KILLS. Make your own experiences, y’all.
Keep clapping. (Artist / Album / Song):
- FAKE / You Are Not Dead: A Guide To Modern Living / Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results
- THE KILLS / Midnight Bloom / Cheap and Cheerful
- MY ROBOT FRIEND / Robot High School / Robot High School
- aonami / SXSW 2008 Showcasing Artists / MISODISKO
- JONATHAN COULTON / Portal OST / Still Alive
- ASA-CHANG & JUNRAY / Jun Ray Song Chang / Hana
- VAMPIRE WEEKEND / Stereogum Presents… OKX: A Tribute To OK Computer / Exit Music (For a Film)
- CLOUD CULT / Feel Good Ghosts / When Water Comes to Life
- MAN MAN / Live at 9:30 Club 6/30/06 / Spooky Jookie
- SONS & DAUGHTERS / This Gift / Gift Complex
- THE VIOLETS / The Lost Pages / In Your Statue
- BODIES OF WATER / Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink / Doves Circled the Sky
- MIDNIGHT MOVIES / Nights EP / Nights In White Satin
- FEIST / Vanshe Technologic Remix / 1234
- SHOUT OUT OUT OUT / Not Saying Just Saying / Forever Indebted
- GOGOL BORDELLO / Super Taranta! / Wonderlust King
- HOLY FUCK / Holy Fuck / Lovely Allen
- THE HYLOZOISTS / La Fin Du Monde / The Man Who Almost Was