Good Morning Friends! I hope you had a most excellent weekend. It is another Monday and as a result, it is time to bring you another Mix. For those who are new to the blog, this is a series I have been doing every Monday for the last couple of months, where I present a brand new Mixtape for your listening pleasure. As a kid, I made an awful lot of mixtapes because a good chunk of that time was in the “pre-cd hard to listen to a single track” era. The goal was to create something that was a “listen-through” or an album that I could just push play and ignore until I needed to flip it over. Granted a fair number of these tapes were designed as a way of sharing my own musical tastes with friends, but now I am sharing them with you, my readers.
Remember the Eclipse
This mix is one that I have been sitting on for a while because it has a problem, and I have not been able to remedy it. So in crafting these mixes, I have tried to apply a series of rules to them, one of them has been that no single album could have the same band twice. I have skirted this a few times by including side projects that include members of the bands already on the list, but I have attempted my best to stay true to this logic. Remember the Eclipse however has a glaring flaw in the inclusion of two different songs by The Bravery. I did not realize this flaw until I had already listened to the album several times and realized it had the ideal flow. I have been sitting on it ever since because I could not seem to figure out how to perform surgery on the playlist and strategically replace that one piece because in some ways it seemed like the ideal thing for the ideal location. So instead I am releasing this one as is, knowing that it violates my own tenets… and going to be okay with that. The name comes from a coffee house that used to exist… and for some reason popped into my head while creating this.
Track List
- An Honest Mistake – The Bravery
- Time to Pretend – MGMT
- Believe – The Bravery
- Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Someday – The Strokes
- Satellite – Guster
- Feel It Still – Portugal, the Man
- Crooked Teeth – Death Cab for Cutie
- Back in Your Head – Tegan and Sara
- 11th Dimension – Julian Casablancas
- The Way We Get By – Spoon
- Tongue Tied – Grouplove
- All These Things That I’ve Done – The Killers
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There we have it friends, the sixteenth Mixtape in this series. It began with the song An Honest Mistake by The Bravery… and in the end, I guess that is fitting given that I committed my own honest mistake in creating the list. If you find yourself wanting to catch up on the other fifteen mixes in the series, check out the archive link below.