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Funky Fresh - 4/18/2013

I made this for one of my best friends.  We play a lot of E,W&F in one of the bands we’re in, so that’s why I included so many songs by them.

  1. In the Stone - Earth, Wind & Fire
  2. Express Yourself - Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
  3. Give Up the Funk - Parliament
  4. Now/At the Party - Maxwell
  5. Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire
  6. Fire - Jimi Hendrix
  7. That Lady - The Isley Brothers
  8. Brick House - The Commodores
  9. Let’s Groove - Earth, Wind & Fire
  10. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus feat. Chaka Khan
  11. Cloud Nine - Gladys Knight & The Pips
  12. I Love Music - The O’Jays
  13. Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
  14. Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
  15. Sing a Simple Song - Sly & The Family Stone
  16. Dirty (Interlude)
  17. Dirty (Junior’s Juke) - Earth, Wind & Fire

Someone made this for me a while ago:

  • Punk Rock Girl - The Dead Milkmen
  • Bombshell - Operation Ivy
  • She - Misfits
  • Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
  • Bomb the Twist - The 5.6.7.8’s
  • My Way - Sid Vicious
  • TV Party - Black Flag
  • When the Shit Hits the Fan - Circle Jerks
  • Shitlist - L7
  • Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies
  • Rock the Casbah - The Clash
  • 21st Century (Digital Boy) - Bad Religion
  • I Don’t Wanna Hear It - Minor Threat
  • Fearless Vampire Killers - Bad Brains
  • Bob - NOFX
  • I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
  • Kool Thing - Sonic Youth
  • You Really Got Me - The Kinks

September 11, 2012: Partial Indie Nonsense / Partial 80s Awesomeness

  • We Are the Sleepyheads - Belle & Sebastian
  • Head Over Heels/Broken - Tears for Fears
  • Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
  • We Looked Like Giants - Death Cab for Cutie
  • Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
  • If I Could - Phish
  • All My Little Words - The Magnetic Fields
  • Lightness - Death Cab for Cutie
  • Hold On Love - Azure Ray
  • God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
  • Gold Day - Sparklehorse
  • Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime - Beck
  • Love You More - Alexi Murdoch
  • I’ll Be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground
  • Say Yes - Elliott Smith
  • To Be Alone With You - Sufjan Stevens
  • Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine

September 8, 2012: Ultimate Cheese

  • Baby I’ma Want You - Bread
  • Reminiscing - Little River Band
  • Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
  • Baby, I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton
  • Heard It In a Love Song - The Marshall Tucker Band
  • Ventura Highway - America
  • I’m Not In Love - 10cc
  • Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
  • Superstar - Carpenters
  • So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section
  • Make It With You - Bread
  • I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
  • You’re the Inspiration - Chicago
  • How Much I Feel - Ambrosia
  • If - Bread

September 7, 2012 

  • Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
  • Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder) - Maxwell
  • So In Love - Jill Scott feat. Anthony Hamilton
  • Find Myself in You - Brian McKnight
  • Come Go With Me - Teddy Pendergrass
  • Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes of Mine - D’Angelo
  • Between the Sheets - The Isley Brothers
  • The Point of it All - Anthony Hamilton
  • Sara Smile - Hall & Oates
  • Adore - Prince
  • You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
  • Distant Lover - Marvin Gaye
  • No Ordinary Love - Sade
  • For You - Pieces of a Dream

Playlist: A few months ago

  1. You Got Lucky - Tom Petty
  2. Don’t Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders
  3. Fisherman’s Blues - The Waterboys
  4. All The Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
  5. Conquistador - Procol Harum
  6. The Weight - The Band
  7. Ventura Highway - America
  8. Helplessly Hoping - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
  9. Just Dropped In - Kenny Rogers
  10. Dear Mr. Fantasy - Traffic
  11. A House Is Not a Motel - Love
  12. Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground
  13. Song to the Siren - Tim Buckley

8/25/12: Playlist

  1. Feel It All Around - Washed Out
  2. Ramona - Craft Spells
  3. Reel Around the Fountain - The Smiths
  4. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Nouvelle Vague
  5. Relaxin At Club Fuckin - Koop
  6. Thieves Like Us - New Order
  7. (Forever) Live and Die - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  8. It Could Be Sweet - Portishead
  9. When the Sun Hits - Slowdive
  10. I Lose - Girls Names
  11. Believe - Shimmering Stars
  12. Good Feeling - Violent Femmes

Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck: new playlist. big surprise; it's 80s alternative.

This one is pretty good, too.

datkaitlin:

reel around the fountain - the smiths

i knew i wanted to include this song, but it was difficult for me to figure out where to put it…i think making it the first song is appropriate…”it’s time the tale were told of how you took a child and you made him old”

kiss me on the bus - the…

Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck: New Playlist.

I made this playlist last year.  It’s pretty cool.

datkaitlin:

Not really sure how I feel about this one.

A friend of mine always tells me to send him music, so I sent him these in this order. then i realized it was probably pretty ok.

July 24th, 2011

  1. the Magnetic Fields - All my Little Words
  2. the Carpenters - Close to You
  3. Elvis Costello -…