So, sometimes I purposefully make mixes: for a pretty girl, for a friend, for driving fast, for chilling out. Other times I make accidental mixes, in that I keep playing the same songs over and over for a while from various places in my life. So it makes sense to a mixtape out of it instead of going through the trouble of looking up this one on Hype Machine, this one on a CD in the car, this one only on an MP3 on my computer, that one off a Myspace somewhere, and etc. and etc. This is an accidental mixtape of the highest order.
I usually don’t repeat artists on mixtapes, unless I’ve really been listening to their songs over and over. But this one I have several artists that make repeats. Still, it’s not like the Summer ’08 mixtape, which I put Josh Ritter’s “Girl in the War” as every fourth or fifth track so I wouldn’t have to skip back to the beginning so often. I almost put that song on this one this time, but it got bumped by hip-hoppers Chiddy Bang. Somewhere a folk singer just had a heart attack.
My last few days:
1. “Gold and Warm” by Bad Veins
2. “Kids” by MGMT
3. “The Opposite of Adults (KIDS)” by Chiddy Bang
4. “My Father Was a Horse” by Wild Light
5. “Let My Love Open the Door” by Audio Adrenaline
6. “Go Home” by Bad Veins
7. “Oh Christmas Tree! Or Happy Birthday” by Elijah Wyman
8. “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” by Sufjan Stevens
9. “Fantastic Lovers” by Elijah Wyman
10. “Hallelujah” by David Bazan (probably my favorite Leonard Cohen cover)