Suggled Up

Under the covers. Covers. Get it? Covers?

1. matt pond PA - Holiday Road (Lindsay Buckingham)

2. Karen Abraham with the Austin Lounge Lizards- White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)

3. Damien Jurado - When I Light Your Darkened Door (J. Tilman)

4. Joss Stone & Melissa Etheridge - Cry Baby/Piece of My Heart (Janis Joplin)

5. John West - Umbrella (Rihanna)

6. Nina Gordon - Straight Out of Compton (NWA)

7. M. Ward - Let My Love Open the Door (Pete Townshend)

8. CocoRosie - Ohio (Damien Jurado)

9. Chapin Sisters - Toxic (Britney Spears)

10. Conor Oberst, M. Ward & Jim James - Girl From the North Country (Bob Dylan)

11. She & Him - When I Get to the Border (Arlo Guthrie)

12. Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake)

You'll have to let me know if this thing works. If so, I think I've just found the new format for our blog.

Watch all of these. Just do it.

What's on your playlist these days? Why?

So I'm doing a list with liners as the spirit moves. Cheers, Goph!

1. Honey Pie - The Beatles
I love the line "I'm in love but I'm lazy...so won't you please come home"

2. I Will - The Beatles
Great one to sing with couches of people.

3. Hey Ya - Obediah Parker

4. Toxic - Yael Naim


5. Pale September - Fionna Apple

6. Swordfishtrombone - Tom Waits

7. Smiley Face - Gnarles Barkley


8. Le Vieux cheval - Le Vent du Nord
These guys are a French Canadian folk band from Quebec. They're beardy and wear pork pie hats and play hurdy gurdies and generally rule.

9. Golden - Jill Scott


10. To Build a Home - Cinematic Orchestra

Considering the Proceedings

To avoid this just becoming a list of songs that we don't really listen to...yeah...how are we gonna avoid that? Can we schedule times to do song exchanges - and during those times put in order the tunes from the list that we already have?

Cuz it'd be easy just to make lists and not really listen to the other person's stuff. And I don't wanna do that. I wanna hear your tunes.

How can we make the listening part easier? Cuz we both have quite a few songs that the other person doesn't. Is there a quicker or more practical exchange than IM and trying to limewire all the songs we need? Do we need to?

Should we make a pact to not post a new assignment until we've listened to the other person's previous lists - or at least the songs on it we've not heard yet?

Discuss.

Songs to Cook Breakfast By

So make me a mix of songs to cook breakfast by. Not just cereal and milk. But an early morning culunary endeavor.

When I've attempted cooking mixes, I've found that it needs to be a good balance of songs that add to the rhythm of the task at hand, and tunes that somehow inspire things to taste good (musically or lyrically). And for breakfast, there's gotta be a little musical caffeine slowly dripped in to help us wake up.

For an added challenge, steer clear of songs that are about food or breakfast time unless they're too friggin' perfect to leave out.

So there you have it. Enough songs to get the food from the cupboard and fridge to the plate.
Then we'll use the other person's mix to make such a breakfast, and report back with our findings (extra credit if a recipe is contributed).

Aimee's Breakfast Cooking Mix:
1. I Know My Love - Danny Carnahan
2. Samba da Minha Terra (live at Carnegie Hall) - Joao Gilberto
3. Venice - The Books
4. Venus as a Boy - Bjork
5. Langt Ner I Smaland/Slangpolska - Vasen
6. Better People - India Arie

(that's 23 minutes and 41 seconds....is that enough?)

A mix assignment for you:

Consider and post a reply with your findings:

Behind Your Ear-
Songs that should be played at a low volume so that the music can whisper. Songs that must have a path of stillness cleared through the room for them when they are played.

Extra Credit:
Compose and produce an album of original songs that fit these criteria.

Aimee's Behind Your Ear Mix (with a few no-brainers):
1. When Jesus Wept - Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble
2. Cocoon - Bjork
3. Kolo Kolo Kolo - Bobby McFerrin
4. Secret - Meryn Cadell
5. Njosnavelin (Nothing Song) - Sigur Ros
6. Szerelem Szerelem - Marta Sebestyen
7. The Sunken Cathedral - Claude Debussy
8. Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming - M. Praetorius/arr. J. Sandstrom
9. Teardrop - Massive Attack
10. Lonely House - Kurt Weill

TWO CHALLENGES

Ideally these shoudl be made after midnight while you're intoxicated.

Challenge one: Speachless

An entirely lyricless mix.

Spoken word IS allowed, but only as ambient/conversational accents. Nothing sung. "Classical" music NOT permitted.

One hour's music required.

A MAXIMUM of ten tracks allowed.

Mine:
1) When You're Gone- Friends of Dean Martin
2) Dead Flag Blues- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3) Yasmin the Light- Explosions in the Sky
4) Ratts of the Capitol- Mogwai
5) A French Galeasse- Rachel's
6) Torino_ Spaghetti Western
7) Orion- Rodrigo y Gabriella
8) The World is Our____- This Will Destroy You


Challenge two: Cry baby, bry, make your mama sigh

Make me cry in ten songs or less. I guarentee I will listen to them intently in turn in one sitting.