Songs with Guests (Duets, Collaborations)

Speaks for itself.

1. I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams- Weezer ft. Petra Haden
2. Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men- The Strokes ft. Regina Spektor
3. Who- Five O'Clock Heroes ft. Agyness Deyn (soon to be Hammond)
4. Nothing Better- The Postal Service ft. Jenny Lewis (Not completely sure)
5. Handle With Care- Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins ft. Ben Gibbard, Conor Oberst, & M. Ward
6. Father & Son- Johnny Cash ft. Fiona Apple
7. Portland, Oregon- Loretta Lynn ft. Jack White
9. Young Folks- Peter Bjorn & John ft. Victoria Bergsman
10. Hell No- Sondre Lerche ft. Regina Spektor

Enjoyyy!

Songs To Mellow You Out

THAT'S RIGHT. THE SUBJECT TITLE IS A MUXTAPE TAPE TITLE. 

Rejoice everywhere! For I have found an alternative (not as good of course) for Muxtape! It's called Mixwit. This week's tape was inspired by my own freaking out about an orchestra audition, college, the SAT, getting sick, & my recent love for Sigur Ros as study music. Hurrrrrr's the tracklisting, enjoyyyyyyyy~

1. Neon Bible- The Arcade Fire

2. House of Cards- Radiohead

3. Marching Bands of Manhattan- Death Cab For Cutie

4. Lua- Bright Eyes

5. Brandy Alexander- Feist

6. Olsen Olsen- Sigur Ros

7. 1979- The Smashing Pumpkins

8. 'Til Kingdom Come- Coldplay

9. Plans- Bloc Party

10. Fake Empire- The National

Songs Selected By The Shuffle Feature On My iTunes

So I admit.. this is pretty pansy & boring of me. But I seriously couldn't think of a good topic for Sunday Selections. So I decided to let shuffle pick 10 songs out of my 7,809 songs. I'm a little wary as to what comes up, but I pinky promise that these are the first 10 songs on the first shuffle. Here goes!

1. We Tigers- Animal Collective

2. I'm Slowly Turning Into You- The White Stripes

3. Brass Monkey- Beastie Boys 

4. Race : Out- Battles

5. Obstacle 2- Interpol

6. That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate- Mission Of Burma

7. She's Lost Control- Joy Division

8. The Pot- Tool 

9. Rrrrrrright- Deerhoof 

10. Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby- Islands

Interesting. Speaking of interesting, ever wonder what Nirvana's Nevermind cover would look like in Legos? Click to find out here. ALSO, where in the world is Interpol? I miss them. I hope their next album is better. & I hope Paul Banks isn't too busy cavorting around with Helena Christensen. & also, lol @ Beastie Boys being on this playlist. 

Songs To Show The World I Don't Let Pfork Control Everything I Listen To

1. Checkmarks- The Academy Is

Besides his lyrics for this song is so contemptuous & sultry. Just imagine him singing this while swinging a microphone around onstage. Anyways, just one word: Williambeckett.

2. Umbrella (Rihanna Cover)- All Time Low

The dude's vocals sound like any other punk or alt band who half relies on their good looks & girl pants to make it big. But it's just even catchier than the real song!

3. Dirty Little Secret- The All American Rejects

SO FREAKING CATCHY AHHHH. I couldn't stop listening to it if the MisShapes themselves came & smacked me.

4. Stolen- Dashboard Confessional

Chris Carrabba delivers his feelings with such emotion/passion... This song is sappy though. I wonder how Conor Oberst manages to do the same thing, without being overly sappy/emo?

5. Nobody's Perfect- Hannah Montana 

I may be pushing the limit here with this one. 

6. This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race- Fall Out Boy

I have a good excuse for this one. I dislike Patrick Stump's voice, but I do enjoy the instruments in this one; RockBand hooked me.

7. Guilty Pleasure- Cobra Starship

Um.... William Beckett sings on this one?

8. Touchdown Turnaround- Hellogoodbye

I'm a sucker for powerpop. I'll even admit, I once went to one of their concerts. 

9. See You Again- Miley Cyrus

I plead the fifth.

10. Misery Business- Paramore

Hey, I'm just supporting girl vocal bands. & Bjork/Blondie doesn't really capture the angry riffing about the bitch in high school we all know about. 

Okay so for the next post, expect lots of news from Pfork, Sgum, the usual. Hope this 3 day departure from the norm of tight indie constrictions, hasn't bunched your panties too much. 

Songs To Listen While Shopping Through Ikea

All of these songs hail from........ you guessed it! Sweden! This week's muxtape was inspired  by the fabulous Ikea. Nothing but love for Sweden! Click to listen.

1. Maple Leaves (EP Version)- Jens Lekman

2. In The Morning- Razorlight

3. Heartbeats- Jose Gonzalez (I get double points bc it is a Swede covering another Swedish band's song!)

4. Dance With Me- The Sounds

5. Collection of Stamps- I'm From Barcelona

6. Pass This On- The Knife

7. Young Folks- Peter Bjorn & John

8. Lovefool (Radio Edit)- The Cardigans

9. Main Offender- The Hives

10. Make Out Fall Out Make Up- Love Is All

Songs From Movies With Good Taste In Music

MUXTAPE.

1. One Way Or Another- Blondie

Mean Girls. Yes, Mean Girls. It was actually a good movie. 

2. We're Going To Be Friends- The White Stripes

Napoleon Dynamite. The hype at my school about this movie was kinda like the hype of Vampire Weekend or The Strokes on music blogs everywhere. I didn't think it was that great though. But his dance moves were pretty sweet. 

3. Immigrant Song- Led Zeppelin

The soundtrack from School of Rock was a little too rock'n'roll for me, but Zep is classic. The "Celloo-ho, it's a bass!"

4. Caring Is Creepy- The Shins

For all of you who think I have bad taste in movies & so far have chosen "mainstream" or sucky movies, here's a song from Garden State. Who can deny the hardcore indieness of this film? With the Shins loving Natalie Portman & song choices of Coldplay & Iron & Wine. 

5. The Book I Write- Spoon

Spoon wrote this song for Stranger Than Fiction. It was a little darker than I was expecting. The movie I mean. As for the song, I absolutely love the song & wish Spoon would release it on an EP or something. Anyways, what movie can say they've featured a Maximo Park or M83 song as well?

6. Search & Destroy- Iggy & The Stooges

Now we reach a film by my favorite director, Wes Anderson. While The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou wasn't my favorite Anderson film (we'll talk about that in a minute), it was still an entertaining movie with a pretty original plot line. Finding a jaguar shark to avenge a friend's death? Yeah. So I think this song represents the movie pretty nicely.

7. What Ever Happened?- The Strokes

I bet you knew I couldn't refrain from featuring a Strokes song. Well you were right. Okay so not going to lie, Marie Antoinette was a big disappointment. I'd read two books about her including the one the movie was based on. The movie was just.... fail. Basically it was just an eye candy movie. Cool costumes, nice scenery, colorful cakes everywhere. & nice ear candy too, what with the Cure & New Order in the background & all.

8. These Days- Nico

Now we get to my favorite Anderson movie as well as my favorite movie of all time. The Royal Tenenbaums. I absolutely lovelovelovelove this movie as well as the music. I think every song just compliments the scene it appears in. 

9. The Call- Regina Spektor

You may remember this post about this song a while back. It's from The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. I kind of feel like a loser for admitting I like this movie... but the pull of the Wardrobe is just too strong! Rather, the pull of William Moseley. Haha. Whatevs. This is such a good song. I love Regina Spektor. I love William Moseley. I love this movie. So there. 

10. Anyone Else But You- The Moldy Peaches

You've probably been waiting, saying what kind of "Songs From Movies With Good Taste In Music" Muxtape would this be without something from Juno! We'll it wouldn't be, so that's why this is here. 

So now that I've somewhat introduced the topic of movies, & The Royal Tenenbaums, it seems only fit that I should show you the new Vampire Weekend music-mini-movie for "Oxford Comma." It's done in a style a la Tenenbaums, if you've seen it before, you'll see what I mean. 

• MTV
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Also, did you know Ezra Koenig used to be a school teacher? What I wouldn't give to have had him as MY teacher..... click for the full story. 

Speaking of The Shins, the same Shins from Garden State, they're starting their own record label say what?

If you want to see something pretty click hurrr. It's Conor Oberst's new album cover & the first time he's put himself on one. He seems a lot cleaner.

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Songs To Welcome The Advent Of Summer/Happy Memorial Day!

Hope this muxtape goes well with your BBQ & sunny weather!

1. Consolation Prizes- Phoenix

2. The Underdog- Spoon

3. Trains To Brazil- Guillemots

4. I Feel It All- Feist 

5. Crooked Teeth- Death Cab For Cutie

6. Tropical-Iceland- The Fiery Furnaces

7. Campus- Vampire Weekend

8. I'm Always In Love- Wilco

9. Oregon Girl- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 

10. Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby- Islands

Songs To Appreciate The Acoustic Guitar

So let's try something new... for this week's Sunday Selections, click hurrr.

I'll leave that particular playlist up until whenever it's time for a new Sunday Selection so enjoy this new format!

Songs To Help Maintain My Emotional Stability

...As AP exams/the SAT/ACT/Symphony audition near.

1. Let It Be- The Beatles 

2. Ceremony- New Order

3. Fake Empire- The National

4. Hotel Chelsea Nights- Ryan Adams

5. Jesus, etc.- Wilco

6. Raindrops- Regina Spektor

7. I Heard You Looking- Yo La Tengo

8. This Aching Deal- The Shocking Pinks

9. First Day Of My Life- Bright Eyes

10. Advance Cassette- Spoon

If you couldn't surmise, I am frrrreaking out about school & my life & just zomg & I seriously just need to chill. But it's really hard seeing as how tomorrow I'll resume the daily torture that is high school. 

Anyways, I kinda rediscovered Bright Eyes & I was wondering what happened to Conor Oberst?? He went from emo heartthrob to a blue-haired... I don't even know, grandpa? I think it was that weird spiritualist camp he went to. 

Pre Cassadaga:

Post Cassadaga:

All I know is that I used to be in love with him (I named my first iPod after him) & now I am slightly creeped out by his appearance. 

So on Friday I went to shopping & I must say these stores are doing everything they can to attract the hippest of the hip to buy their over-priced merchandise. Take for example, Hollister. Can you say SENSORY OVERLOAD? Their biting perfume/cologne scent was all over the store & the pounding music & the dim lighting with the fake foliage everywhere made it very hard for me to actually see their clothes. I was too busy sneezing/squinting my eyes & dodging the random fake plants they had placed every which where. No wonder I've never bought any of their stuff. Sometimes though, they play cool music & I looked online to see if they had anything on the music selection they play in the stores. Imagine my horror as I discovered Vampire Weekend alongside Simple Plan. Look. 

Songs To Listen To While Stalking & Lurking & Being A General Creep

1. Spy On You- Deerhoof

2. Every Breath You Take- The Police

3. Creep- Radiohead

4. Close To Me- The Cure

5. Crash- Dave Matthews Band

6. Run For Your Life- The Beatles

7. Can't Get you Out of My Head- Kylie Minogue

8. One Way Or Another- Blondie

9. Emily Kane- Art Brut

& just for kicks & giggles...

10. Invisible- Clay Aiken!

The song titles will bring you to the lyrics so you can wonder who the object of Thom Yorke's or Clay Aiken's "love" was.

Songs That Fuel My Fetish for Iceland

1. Hyperballad- Bjork

2. I Swim I Sing- Seabear

3. Sæglópur- Sigur Ros

4. Earth Intruders- Bjork

5. Hoppipolla- Sigur Ros

6. Arms- Seabear

7. Cat Piano- Seabear

8. Birthday- The Sugarcubes

9. I Know You Can Smile- Slowblow

10. Staralfur- Sigur Ros

Songs That Prove That Classical String Instruments Can Be Cool

1. M79- Vampire Weekend

2. The Opposite of Hallelujah- Jens Lekman 

3. Fake Palindromes- Andrew Bird

4. Eleanor Rigby- The Beatles

5. Four Winds- Bright Eyes

6. We Both Go Down Together- The Decemberists

7. The Magic Position- Patrick Wolf

8. Pull Shapes- The Pipettes

9. On The Radio- Regina Spektor

10. Hummingbird- Wilco