Today was one of those “I hate my life” days, but since I came home from work things are slowly turning around. Maybe a little Sunday Mix Tape will help sooth my frazzled nerves.
RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I’ll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. Today I had a feeling like I wanted to build an entire mix tape around the Tom Waits song “What’s He Building?”, so that’s what I did. That song came on twice at work this week and it always makes me crack up when I hear it. The rest of the songs attempt to capture the mood of the Waits tune, but none of them can come close to replicating it. The goal of this endeavor, as always, is to pique your interest in these artists so you’ll support the artists and buy their albums.
Sunday Mix Tape – Number 150
What The Hell Is He BUILDING In There?
01. Ativin – Interiors
02. GHQ – Radiance Illuminate
03. Oxbow – The Valley
04. Tim Hecker – October
05. Autistic Daughters – Rainy Day In June
06. Earth – The Dire And Ever Circling Wolves
07. William Basinski – Fringe Area
08. Tom Waits – What’s He Building?
09. Fly Pan Am – Arcades-Pamelor
10. Angels Of Light – What You Were
11. Hochenkeit – Smoking Skin
12. Einsturzende Neubauten – U-Haft Muzak
13. Songs: Ohia – One Harrowing Night
14. Set Fire To Flames – Omaha
15. Mark Hollis – Westward Bound
