01. What we Had - The Handsome Furs
02. The Ghost of you Lingers - Spoon
03. Wet & Rusting - Menomena
04. Tonto - Battles
05. Fireworks - Animal Collective
06. Sci-Fi Kid - Blitzen Trapper
07. Reckoner - Radiohead
08. Start A War - The National
09. Cataracts - Andrew Bird
10. The Devil Never Sleeps - Iron & Wine
11. Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot! - Sunset Rubdown

I'm really kindof proud of this. I think everything came together nicely. The transitions are smooth, the songs are great, and the feel of the mix is consistently edgy, electric, and mechanical.

Thanks for the challenge. This was a fun experiment.

That Spoon track is great. Took me a couple of listens to appreciate its subtle swell, but man it is a good one.

1.Kanye West - Good Morning
2.Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
3.Spoon - You Got Yr Cherry Bomb
4.LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
5.Radiohead - All I Need
6.Of Montreal - A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
7.Twilight Sad - And She Would Darken the Memory
8.Jens Lekman - Your Arms Around Me
9.The National - Guest Room
10.Deerhunter - Hazel St.
11.MIA - Paper Planes
12.El-P - League of Extraordinary Nobodies

not a bad mix, if you ask me.

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Originally posted by pianofaerie: see the crack? solid brass.:
That Spoon track is great. Took me a couple of listens to appreciate its subtle swell, but man it is a good one.

I love it as a song. I still have a hard time with it in the context of the album.

I can see what you mean. It is sort of a black sheep. Maybe if it were placed somewhere near the halfway mark it could be utilized as a sort of sonic intermission / respite from all the groovy guitar and killer drum beats of the rest of the album--not that I have a problem with the guitars and drums!

Exactly. there are several places on the album where it would have fit. Just not in the #2 slot.

1. Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe by Okkervil River
2. Mistaken for Strangers by The National
3. Up On Your Leopard, Upon The End of Your Feral Days by Sunset Rubdown
4. Patty Lee by Les Savy Fav
5. Open Doors by Josh Ritter
6. Impossible by the Shout Out Louds
7. Futuristic Kids by Siberian
8. (Antichrist Television Blues) by The Arcade Fire
9. Shirin by Jens Lekman
10. The Angels Hung Around by Rilo Kiley
11. She's A Rejector by Of Montreal
12. Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine
13. Effect And Cause by The White Stripes
14. Call It off by Tegan And Sara

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Originally posted by achengy:
14. Call It off by Tegan And Sara

Heh, you nailed one of my favorite songs of the year, almost certain to make my own mixtape. I'm waiting on mine until I've heard the two Jesu discs I ordered up, though.

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Originally posted by EricG75:
In college my friends and I theorized that 3 and 5 were the best tracks on an album. The 3/5 rule. It holds true for a lot of albums.

Sometimes I like to think of it like a batting order. Number one's mission is to get on base by any means necessary. Then 2 and 3 also need to be strong, but they can also set 4 up for the grand slam. And so on, pick your own strategy.

I actually put my mix to the test, and decided to make a few changes, as follows:

1) Deerhunter- Fluorescent Grey
2) Caribou- Sandy
3) Menomena- Wet And Rusting
4) Deerhoof- The Galaxist
5) Blonde Redhead- Spring And By Summer Fall
6) Simian Mobile Disco- I Believe
7) The Animal Collective- Winter Wonder Land
8) Okkervil River- Title Track
9) The New Pornographers- Go Places
10) Dinosaur Jr.- Lightening Bulb
11) Black Lips- Off The Block
12) A Sunny Day In Glasgow

For good measure, I put together a second mix, aka Son of Frankenstein:

1) Jens Lekman- And I Remember Every Kiss
2) Caribou- Sandy
3) Dinosaur Jr,- Pick Me Up
4) Do Make Say Think- The Universe!
5) Okkervil River- Plus Ones
6) Von Sudenfed- Speech Contamination...
7) Sunset Rubdown- Stallions
8) Blonde Redhead- Heroine
9) Squarepusher- Welcome To Europe
10) Brother Reade- Man Of Steel
11) Parts & Labor- Fake Rain
12) Low- Murderer

ps- You'll notice a striking similarity between the 2 second tracks ... the song worked well on both mixes, and/or I got lazy.

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I'm addicted. All of mine have been battle tested for my pleasure. Here is the second disc to my last one.

1. "How Low" Jose Gonzalez
2. "Keep the Car Running" Arcade fire
3. "After Hours" Caribou
4. "Winds With Hands" Pelican
5. "Napalm Love" Air
6. "Green Gloves" The National
7. "Go Tell the Woman" Grinderman
8. "Simple X" Andrew Bird
9. "Middleman" Bright Eyes
10. "Cigarettes Wedding Bands" Band of Horses
11. "Paperweights" Enon
12. "What If I knew" Dinosaur Jr.
13. "American X" Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
14. "Lime Tree" Bright Eyes
15. "Wait for Love (You Know You Will)" Josh Ritter

I'm happy with this one too. Although had to put Bright eyes in twice to make it longer.

this is such an amazing idea. i wish i had all of these albums so i could listen to everybody else's mixtape. alas, i can only offer this list until the holiday season allows for the floodgates to pour over with musical goodness. it's decent, i suppose, though the transitions between songs is pretty rough in places.


01 history song - the good, the bad, and the queen
02 all the old showstoppers - the new pornographers
03 you got yr cherry bomb - spoon
04 halloweenhead - ryan adams
05 born losers - matthew good
06 a girl in port - okkervil river
07 make it wit chu - queens of the stone age
08 (antichrist television blues) - arcade fire
09 1234 - feist
10 i'm slowly turning into you - the white stripes
11 the lighthouse - interpol

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Originally posted by Mike (A Pimp Named Slickback):
I'm addicted. All of mine have been battle tested for my pleasure. Here is the second disc to my last one.

1. "How Low" Jose Gonzalez
2. "Keep the Car Running" Arcade fire
3. "After Hours" Caribou
4. "Winds With Hands" Pelican
5. "Napalm Love" Air
6. "Green Gloves" The National
7. "Go Tell the Woman" Grinderman
8. "Simple X" Andrew Bird
9. "Middleman" Bright Eyes
10. "Cigarettes Wedding Bands" Band of Horses
11. "Paperweights" Enon
12. "What If I knew" Dinosaur Jr.
13. "American X" Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
14. "Lime Tree" Bright Eyes
15. "Wait for Love (You Know You Will)" Josh Ritter

I'm happy with this one too. Although had to put Bright eyes in twice to make it longer.

Yeah and I am sorry, ya pirate, but “Middleman” is number 8, the beautifully sad “Lime Tree” is number 13 and the Ritter song is number 14.

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Originally posted by m. clayton:
2) Blitzen Trapper- Wild Mountain Nation
6) The Snake The Cross The Crown- Behold The River

These are two of my favorite songs of the year. They'll almost certainly be on my mix when I get around to making it this weekend.

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Originally posted by paradox:

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10. Andrew Bird – “Scythian Empires”

These two almost made my list, especially Mr. Bird.

Ha, we must be pretty alike, because despite not particularly liking the Bird album, I do love that track and think it has a good chance of making my mix.

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Originally posted by Rain:
1. Great Lake Swimmers - "Your Rocky Spine" (Oniagra)
2. Breathe Owl Breathe - "Kids + Cats" (Canadian Shield)
3. Bowerbirds - "Bur Oak" (Hymns for a Dark Horse)
4. The Acorn - "Flood Part 1" (Glory Hope Mountain)
5. Iron and Wine - "White Tooth Man" (The Shepard's Dog)
6. Jose Gonzalez - "Killing for Love" (In Our Nature)
7. The Ike Reilly Assassination - "Broken Parakeet Blues" (We Belong to the Staggering Evening)
8. Okkervil River - "Plus Ones" (The Stage Names)
9. Begushkin - "Olly" (Nightly Things)
10. Sam Amidon - "Little Sachel" (All Is Well)
11. Peter and the Wolf - "Better Days" (The Ivori Palms)
12. Bon Iver - "For Emma" (For Emma, Forever Ago)
13. Phosphorescent - "The Waves at Night" (Pride)

I really like how this mix came out. Hopefully, I will make a few more like this before the year is out.

Wait, wait, wait. There are only 8 tracks on the Bon Iver album, how could it be at spot #12? I do like the mix though. Who is Sam Amidon?

Here is another one, it’s OK, I guess:

1. Interpol – “Pioneer to the Falls”
2. Okkervil River – “Unless It’s Kicks”
3. Spoon – “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb”
4. Animal Collective – “For Reverend Green”
5. Bright Eyes – “Make a Plan to Love Me”
6. Blonde Redhead – “Silently”
7. Queens of the Stone Age – “Make it With Chu”
8. Grinderman – “Honey Bee (Let’s Fly to Mars)”
9. Radiohead – “Jigsaw Falling into Place”
10. The National – “Racing Like a Pro”
11. The New Pornographers – “Adventures in Solitude”
12. The White Stripes – “Catch Hell Blues”
13. Josh Ritter – “Empty Hearts”
14. Modest Mouse – “Invisible”

Actually no, I do like it a lot.

Batting orders aside, how come I haven't been privileged enough to experience the Music that most of you are including in your Frankenstein mixes? I thought I was doing fairly well... I guess in this scene, Siouxsie, Tori, Bjork, Arcade, Spoon, and Rufus simply won't cut it. Day-um. I'm in need of education (help me, please).

Well you just joined, so you have some catching up to do. You want me to suggest some albums to check out?

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:

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Originally posted by Rain:
1. Great Lake Swimmers - "Your Rocky Spine" (Oniagra)
2. Breathe Owl Breathe - "Kids + Cats" (Canadian Shield)
3. Bowerbirds - "Bur Oak" (Hymns for a Dark Horse)
4. The Acorn - "Flood Part 1" (Glory Hope Mountain)
5. Iron and Wine - "White Tooth Man" (The Shepard's Dog)
6. Jose Gonzalez - "Killing for Love" (In Our Nature)
7. The Ike Reilly Assassination - "Broken Parakeet Blues" (We Belong to the Staggering Evening)
8. Okkervil River - "Plus Ones" (The Stage Names)
9. Begushkin - "Olly" (Nightly Things)
10. Sam Amidon - "Little Sachel" (All Is Well)
11. Peter and the Wolf - "Better Days" (The Ivori Palms)
12. Bon Iver - "For Emma" (For Emma, Forever Ago)
13. Phosphorescent - "The Waves at Night" (Pride)

I really like how this mix came out. Hopefully, I will make a few more like this before the year is out.

Wait, wait, wait. There are only 8 tracks on the Bon Iver album, how could it be at spot #12? I do like the mix though. Who is Sam Amidon?

I dunno I made this when I was drunk, but it was a good mix of all 2007 tracks so I thought it was relevant. Sam Amidon is a singer songwriter who writes beautiful acoustic ballads, with lush string and horn arrangements. It has been really growing on me and though the middle of the album drags a bit, the end is one of the best of this year.