Blogophilia 12.5

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Blogophilia 12.5
Songs from Blogs September 20 – October 15, 2009
Ripped @ 256k VBR
Run Time: 77:17

Tracklist:
01 Intro
02 The Big Pink – Dominos
03 Bear in Heaven – Lovesick Teenagers
04 Windmill – Ellen Save Our Energy
05 Real Ones – Every Dog Has His Day
06 Headlights – Telephones
07 Akron Family – Everyone is Guilty
08 Vampire Weekend – Horchata
09 Foreign Born – Early Warnings
10 The Clientele – Harvest Mix
11 Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard – Breathe Our Iodine
12 Real Estate – Beachcomber
13 Sweet Serenades – On My Way
14 The Bravery – Slow Poison
15 Death Cab for Cutie – Meet Me on the Equinox
16 Spiral Stairs – The Maltese T
17 Erin McKeown – The Foxes
18 The Static Jackets – My Parents Lied
19 Miss Derringer – Click Click, Bang Bang
20 Tegan & Sara – Hell
21 A Grave with No Name – Open Water
22 Devendra Banhart – Baby
23 Laura Veirs – Wide Eyed, Legless
24 Outro

I wasn’t planning to develop another mix so quickly, but a close friend of mine–let’s call him the Muck Man–was less than impressed with the Volume 12 mix. I liked volume 12, but I also know I’ve been working hard and was not in the best of moods when I was selecting songs for volume 12.  So we have volume 12.5 thanks to a friend of mine who once used this as a pickup line, “Do you like Metallica?”  when we were out club hopping on summer break from college. It was the eighties, what can I say?

Notes for this volume–I really love Breathe Our Iodine from the One Fast Move or I am Gone Soundtrack. I know that the guitar riff is derivative in that it has been used in a few different blues tunes, but Jay Farrar does a nice job of delivering Kerouac’s words.  I have an order in for the One Fast Move DVD and I can’t wait to see it.  I started reading Big Sur again the other night following my last post.

Other highlights from this mix–Real Ones – Every Dog Has Its Day is reminiscent of the Talking Heads. Akron/Family’s Everyone Is Guilty is guilty of being a great tune from an even greater album. Laura Veirs‘ Wide Eyed, Legless reminds me of Suzanne Vega’s Left of Center for some reason. I can’t wait to hear Ms. Veirs’ new album. For a long time, I’ve managed to keep The Big Pink’s Dominos off of the Blogophilia mixes, but I think it’s finally grown on me, and represents a good opening track for this mix. Other quick notes, I find Ellen Save Our Energy by Windmill very endearing; I think that Death Cab has ripped off the Canadian power trio, Rush with Meet Me On the Equinox; and I am glad that the Queen of the California Quail forced my hand and made me check to see if I had any Erin McKeown–she’s great with The Foxes.

Until next time…