mixtape songs /

Happy New Year!

I genuinely feel that this tape speaks for itself, it’s made up of my favorite bands of 2006. In 2006 a lot of really great music was released and this is a collection of really great songs. The tape has two choice tracks from ten choice albums and you never have to feel bad about forgetting Joanna Newsom.

Islands – Rough Gem from Return to the Sea [equator records – 2006]
I would have liked to fit this track and liked so much that I thought about making a 120min tape just so I could fit it on. I didn’t though, obviously.

Side A - Rough

01. Beirut - “Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)” from Gulag Orchestar - 3:15
[Ba da bing! - 2006]
“what can I do?”

02. Ladyhawk - “Teenage Love Song” from Ladyhawk - 2:22
[Jagjaguwar - 2006]
“call me back later on if you can, we’ll sneak out and fuck in the family van”

03. The Decemberists - “The Crane Wife 1 & 2″ from The Crane Wife - 11:26
[Capitol Records - 2006]
“and all the stars were crashing round, as I laid eyes on what I’d found/ it was a white crane it was a helpless thing/ upon a red stain with an arrow in its wing/ and it called and cried”

04. Grizzly Bear - “Knife” from Yellow House - 5:14
[Warp Records - 2006]
“can’t you feel the knife?”

05. Sunset Rubdown - “Stadiums & Shrines II” from Shut up I am Dreaming - 3:57
[Absolutely Kosher - 2006]
“can I lift my dress up for you?/can I lift it in the night?/the white undersides of my thighs look much better in the dark light/ there’s a kid in there/ and he’s big and dumb and he’s kinda scared and he’s well he’s too old to be there/ he’s just looking for a ride”

06. M. Ward - “Poison Cup” from Post-War - 2:54
[4AD - 2006]
“and a sip, a sip, a sip or spoonful won’t do”

07. The Mountain Goats - “Woke Up New” from Get Lonely - 2:57
[4AD - 2006]
“and I sang—oh what do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do, without you?”

08. Danielson - “Did I Step On Your Trumpet” from Ships - 3:06
[Secretly Canadian - 2006]
“good luck getting this/ pleasing people”

09. Bonnie “prince” Billy - “Love Comes To Me” from The Letting Go - 4:31
[Drag City - 2006]
“I’m a hard-hearted, honey pot, hungry shepard and I’m longing to be born of you that’s her”

10. Hot Chip - “Colors” from The Warning - 5:27
[Astralwerks / EMI Canada - 2006]
“colors and colors and colors and colors”

Side B - Gem

01. Beirut - “Postcards From Italy” from Gulag Orchestar - 4:17
[Ba da bing! - 2006]
“we put our feet just where they had/had to go”

02. Ladyhawk - “New Joker” from Ladyhawk - 5:17
[Jagjaguwar - 2006]
“and in my car I ride the eastern hillside/rollin’ another and lightin’ it up/cause it the only way-at least that’s what I say/I’m burning forever with the lights of the city”

03. The Decemberists - “Crane Wife 3″ from The Crane Wife - 4:20
[Capitol Records - 2006]
“and I will hang my head/ hang my head low”

04. Grizzly Bear - “Easier” from Yellow House - 3:43
[Warp Records - 2006]
“I know, I know…”

05. Sunset Rubdown - “Us Ones In Between” from Shut up I am Dreaming - 4:26
[Absolutely Kosher - 2006]
“I’ve heard of creatures that eat their babies/ I wonder if they stop to think of the taste”

06. M. Ward - “Chinese Translation” from Post-War - 4:00
[4AD - 2006]
“What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart? And how can a man like me remain in the light? And if life is really as short as they say then why is the night so long?”

07. The Mountain Goats - “Wild Sage” from Get Lonely - 4:13
[4AD - 2006]
“and along the highway/where unlucky stray dogs bleed/wild sage growing in the weeds”

08. Danielson - “The Magic Suffix” from Ships - 2:54
[Secretly Canadian - 2006]
“before a time upon a noun there stood still a ship”

09. Bonnie “prince” Billy - “Cursed Sleep” from The Letting Go - 5:35
[Drag City - 2006]
“in her arms I trembled electric and she let me and she held me”

10. Hot Chip - “Boy From School” from The Warning - 5:17
[Astralwerks / EMI Canada - 2006]
“and I was I boy from school”