mixtape songs /

TW Walsh who was featured in a earlier post for his creative commons (read: free and legal) released album The Soft Drugs has put together a mixtape, with his favorite lyrics from each song, for your listening pleasure. For those of you who aren’t familiar, TW Walsh has released a few solo albums under his name and used to play and write with David Bazan in both Pedro The Lion and Headphones.

In his words:

“This mixtape is a pretty good cross-section of my taste. just a bunch of songs that sound good together. ”

side 01

01. daniel lanois - power of one - shine / 2003
“why sit waiting for the thing to come? get lit / feel the power of one”

02. crystal skulls - blocked numbers - no room for change / 2005
“hand gestures fly past your face. they illustrate what we already understand”

03. beatles - let it be naked - don’t let me down / 1969
“it’s a love that lasts forever / it’s a love that has no past”

04. david vandervelde - the moonstation house band - nothin’ no / 2007
“lemme tell you baby nothin’ no is gonna keep us apart”

05. the doobie brothers - minute by minute - what a fool believes / 1979
“as he rises to her apology…anybody else would surely know”

06. doves - some cities - some cities / 2005
“some cities crush, some cities heal”

07. elvis costello - button my lip - the delivery man / 2004
“don’t wanna talk / about some peppermint gum”

08. leonard cohen - is this what you wanted? - new skin for the old ceremony / 1974
“you were KY jelly / i was vaseline”

09. local rabbits - the lights turn on - this is it here we go / 2002
“after three it’s VIP only / they herd out the common, plain and homely”

10. love as laughter - in amber - laughter’s fifth / 2005
“did you like me as a statue? will you love me when i break out?”

11. al green - i’m a ram - gets next to you / 1971
“gonna drive on / ’til i get there”

side 02

01. talking heads - making flippy floppy - speaking in tongues / 1983
“noone makes a monkey out of me”

02. steely dan - daddy don’t live in that new york city no more - katy lied / 1974
“he can’t get tight every night / pass out on the bar room floor”

03. lee hazelwood - after six - love and other crimes / 1968
“i’ll give you my watch for a fifth of scotch”

04. milo jones - it’s all right to cry - lifeline / 2005
“it’s all right to know / your asshole fits around my toe”

05. bob dylan - the man in me - new morning / 1970
“the man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein’ seen”

06. silkworm - the devil is beating his wife - developer / 1997
“i wanted to believe that anything was possible / we’re in it together / no bitter end in sight”

07. destroyer - the sublimation hour - streethawk: a seduction / 2001
“isn’t that what rock and roll is all about, princess?”

08. herman dune - seven cities - not on top / 2005
“i woke up in seven different cities / with the same stain of ketchup
on my khakis”

09. josh ottum - who left the lights on? - like the season / 2007
“i’ve already decided to go”

10. lcd soundsystem - disco infiltrator - s/t / 2005
“stop! we can’t shake the waste!”

11. melvern taylor - working stiff - fabuloso / 2006
“now i mind my manners when i’m talking to the boss”

12. richard swift - buildings in america - dressed up for the letdown / 2007
“please don’t laugh / don’t say that it’s ok”