Here It Is!!!
If someone can make a Spotify list of this, it'd be great.
1. “Far From Any Road” The Handsome Family — MagUidhir
2. “Constructive Summer” The Hold Steady — Nibbish bonus
3. “USA BOYS” HEALTH — AMR bonus
4. “Waterfall” Fear of Men — Zack bonus
5. “In the Darkness” Foxygen — Hungry Joe
6. “Really Wanna See You” Lydia Loveless — AMR (or Can of Corn bonus)
7. “Expecting Brainchild” Guided by Voices — Freealonzo
8. “Follow Me” The Coathangers — Zack
9. “Fall in Love” Phantogram — Can of Corn bonus
10. “Wanderlust” Delays — Rhubarb Runner
11. “Are We Friends” Odonis Odonis — Zack bonus
12. “Panbowl” Sturgill Simpson — Algonad (or E-6)
13. “Grip Like a Vice” The Go! Team — Nibbish
14. “Treehouse” I'm from Barcelona — Pepper bonus
15. “Is This on Me?” Elite Gymnastics — AMR bonus
16. “Do It Again (Radio Edit)” Robyn & Röyksopp — Can of Corn
17. “David” Courtney Barnett — Pepper
18. “Shivers” Divine Fits — Scot
19. “Strunk” Die Antwoord — New Guy
20. “The Promise” Sturgill Simpson — E-6 (or Algonad)
21. “Great Leap Forward” Billy Bragg — Philosopher
I've never made a mix out of tracks others have selected before. It's different and took me a lot longer than if I'd picked 20 or so tracks myself.
The Guided by Voices track created the most problems for me. I'm still not satisfied with where I put it.
It turns out I liked Zack's list the best.
Thanks everyone for your submissions! Have a wonderful Independence Day Weekend! And may all your Christmases be white!
Late-breaking bonus: I just received notification that I passed my final Actuarial Paper thing. (Technically, my DMAC Project "Meets Minimum Requirements".) I'll present it in Vancouver at the very end of August and then I'll never ever have to learn anything ever again. Happy Independence Day to me! "Raise your Flag!"
Spotify version
Numbers 12 and 15 are not available on Spotify. Number 16 is not the radio edit.
Apparently my illicit version of the Sturgill album was mistitled. Fixed #12.
By which I mean, I'll get around to buying it later.
List updated.
So your bonus track is the only one not on Spotify.
Thanks so much.
Are you saying that you found the Elite Gymnastics?
No. Well, I found Elite Gymnastics, just not that track. It's listed as AMR bonus above, distinct from the super secret internet only spoiler'd Randy Newman track. I did find that one.
Oh, I get it now.
Here's an MP3 of #15.
It was a free online-only release, but it looks like the band called it quits last year, and purged most of the content on their website (which was just a tumblr).
Here's a soundcloud link.
The radio edit was necessary to let me fit everything onto a single CD*, which was my own self-applied constraint.
*except the online-only hidden bonus track which seemed like an awesome idea yesterday when I listened to it, as a great pairing with the Bragg track (which was the first song I knew where it went: "That's the last one!"), but after some separation, I'm not so sure. Feel free to exclude it.
I'm listening and enjoying, but for some reason Spotify is only giving me the option of listening to the tracks shuffled, rather than in order. I've never used Spotify before, so I'm not sure if I missed a way to listen in order. If it matters, I'm listening through the Spotify app on what is essentially an iPod touch.
Is there a little twisty arrow that is green near the bottom? On the Iphone app you touch that and the arrows turn white and will play the tracks in order.
Okay, just tried it. Apparently I can only listen to the tracks in order if I upgrade to premium. Huh.
Anyway, it's enjoyable all the same. I just got New Guy's track, though, and it kind of creeped me out.
Cash grab.
If you listen on a non-mobile device it will work properly.
Thanks, Scot.
Speaking of Spotify, I just went through and followed a bunch of Citizens. I'm acm006 if anyone's interested in having "Andrew listened to Party in the USA" in their feed three times a day.
Tracks 2 & 9 would have been my second and third on my list, so I didn't list them as they'd already been mentioned.
I honestly cheated and looked up who had added #2 to their list, so that mine wasn't redundant. I mean, it absolutely needs to be on a WGOM summer mix, but if it had already been put on there, I did have more tunes to add.
Also, Vic Mensa's "Down On My Luck" would've been a good choice for this mix. Cool video, too.
Haven't had a chance to listen yet, but the fact that you put 21 as closer tells me this should be good. That song is a perfect final taste.
Like I said, it was the obvious closer from the start (especially because I didn't have to decide y/n on it).
"Hey Jude" - Wilson Pickett Hey Jude
"Sledgehammer"- Peter Gabriel So
"Candy O" - The Cars Candy O
"The Guns of Brixton" - The Clash London Calling
"Every Day I Write the Book" - Elvis Costello Punch the Clock
"Happy Town" - The Replacements All Shook Down
"Help!" - The Beatles Help!
"Radiation Vibe" - Fountains of Wayne Fountains of Wayne
"All Over You" - Live Throwing Copper
"If I Should Fall From Grace With God" - The Pogues If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Wow great stuff here. Glad E-6 included The Promise, that song is awesome. Only stinker for me was that treehouse song.
He and algonad just said "Sturgill", so I picked those two.