WAITING FOR THE HINT OF A SPARK

An older mix of mine from 8tracks. This one’s thirty minutes of songs under two minutes in length.

1. Opening ~~ Eef Barzelay
2. Die ~~ Iron & Wine
3. Tuolumne ~~ Eddie Vedder
4. Acoustic #3 ~~ Goo Goo Dolls
5. Playground Love (Air Cover) ~~ Phoenix
6. Dearest ~~ Buddy Holly
7. Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby ~~ Alison Krauss
8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ~~ She & Him
9. All My Lovin’ ~~ Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
10. Plead The Fifth ~~ Relient K
11. Ebudae ~~ Enya
12. The Celibate Life ~~ The Shins
13. Hold On ~~ A Western Addition
14. A New Beginning ~~ Good Charlotte
15. Fell In Love With a Girl ~~ The White Stripes
16. Wait Wait Wait ~~ Opus Orange
17. Never Come Around ~~ La Sera
18. Rave On ~~ Buddy Holly
19. Brain on Ska ~~ Mustard Plug
20. Over the Rainbow ~~ Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

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I’ve been meaning to make a mix based on long tracks, and I finally got around to it. Here’s a two hour playlist with thirteen songs, all of which are all over eight minutes in length. (Except for the last one, which is five seconds less.)

• I Will Posses Your Heart ~~ Death Cab For Cutie
• Dance Yrself Clean ~~ LCD Soundsystem
• When I’m Alone (Leo Zero Remix) ~~ Lissie
• The Crane Wife, Pts. 1 & 2 ~~ The Decemberists
• If I Were to Write the Song…/Get Through This ~~ Cartel
• Hafsol ~~ Sigur Ros
• Infinity (Bachelors of Science Remix) ~~ The xx
• Touch Me I’m Going to Scream, Pt. 2  ~~ My Morning Jacket
• Hands (Retro/Grade Remix) ~~ The Ting Tings
• Siberian Breaks ~~ MGMT
• Hearts On Fire (Holy Ghost! Remix) ~~ Cut Copy
• You Won’t Be Mine ~~ Matchbox Twenty
• Transatlanticism ~~ Death Cab For Cutie

If you like it, please download and share with your friends. And your enemies,  if you’d like. I don’t judge. (Previously, my mixes were hosted through Box.net, but I can’t afford to keep that account, so I’m trying out Ge.tt.)

Silent Serenades

Here’s one of my old 8tracks mixes. It’s a very mellow mix full of acoustic and live songs. Good for when you wanna shut out the world for a little bit.

1. Piazza, New York Catcher ~~ Belle & Sebastian
2. 405 (Acoustic) ~~ Death Cab for Cutie
3. White Winter Hymnal (Daytrotter Session) ~~ Fleet Foxes
4. Up and Up (Acoustic) ~~ Relient K
5. Lake Michigan ~~ Rogue Wave
6. Guns & Ammo ~~ Minus The Bear
7. Hey Ya (Outkast Cover) ~~ Obadiah Parker
8. Dark Blue (Acoustic) ~~ Jack’s Mannequin
9. Talihina Sky ~~ Kings of Leon

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worn down and rusting

I Stumbled this 8tracks mix and just had to make my own.

1. Restless ~~ Audrey Assad
2. Day Old Blues ~~ Kings of Leon
3. First Day of My Life ~~ Bright Eyes
4. Politik ~~ Coldplay
5. I Love The Unknown ~~ Eef Barzelay
6. Airplanes ~~ Local Natives
7. Party in the U.S.A. ~~ Miley Cyrus
8. White Daisy Passing ~~ Rocky Votolato
9. Four More Years ~~ Teen Daze
10. God? ~~ The Dodos
11. Wrapped Up In Books ~~ Belle & Sebastian
12. Meow Meow Lullabye ~~ Nada Surf
13. Kids (MGMT Cover) ~~ Maxence Cyrin
14. For Emma ~~ Bon Iver
15. Better Off Alone ~~ Alice Deejay
16. Opus #12 ~~ Dustin O’Halloran
17. Every Time I Look For You ~~ blink-182 
18. Yesterday ~~ The Beatles
19. I’ll Be There ~~ Michael Jackson 
20. Transatlanticism ~~ Death Cab for Cutie

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wherever i'm with you

This is an old 8tracks playlist which I’ve been meaning to share with you guys and girls. It’s a mix for a journey home, and I hope you’ll enjoy listening to it during whatever trips life has in store for you.

1. Everyone Needs A Home ~~ Chris Walla
2. I Was Young When I Left Home ~~ Antony + Bryce Dessner
3. You Remind Me of Home ~~ Death Cab for Cutie
4. Bring It On Home To Me ~~ She & Him
5. Take Me Home ~~ Phil Collins
6. Find My Way Home ~~ William Fitzsimmons
7. First Train Home ~~ Imogen Heap
8. Home ~~ Foo Fighters
9. Home (RAC Remix) ~~ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
10. Home ~~ LCD Soundsystem
11. Last Train Home ~~ Lostprophets
12. Home Sweet Home ~~ Mötley Crüe

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please don't ask me why

After listening to Madder Red about fifteen times, I figured out why it’s so catchy: the chorus has no words. Anybody can sing along to a song without words. So I spent some time browsing my archive for more songs like this. Here’s the songlist:

1. Madder Red ~~ Yeasayer
2. Kites ~~ Geographer
3. Skippin’ Town ~~ The Drums
4. Apology ~~ Safetysuit
5. Use Somebody (RAC Remix) ~~ Kings of Leon
6. Two Weeks ~~ Grizzly Bear
7. Generator ^ First Floor ~~ Freelance Whales
8. Excuses ~~ the morning benders
9. Ragged Wood ~~ Fleet Foxes
10. White Nights ~~ Oh Land
11. Leaving So Soon? ~~ Keane
12. Dear Chan Marshall ~~ We Are Trees
13. Unecessary Trouble ~~ Hard-Fi
14. All Your Reasons ~~ Matchbox Twenty
15. Mirrorage ~~ Glasser
16. Mykonos ~~ Fleet Foxes
17. Free ~~ Sherwood

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