Mux012: November 2008, the reissue

Still bitching about shot lists.

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1. TV on the Radio - Halfway Home
2. Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More
3. Deerhunter - Vox Celeste
4. The Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Ice-Land
5. School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
6. Born Ruffians - Sole Brother (Daytrotter Session)
7. Johnny and the Moon - Green Rocky Road
8. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
9. The Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
10. Rogue Wave - Publish My Love
11. Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me To Do The Math(s)
12. Marnie Stern - The Devil Is In The Details

Mux013: Black Friday, the resissue

In honor of the most ridiculous calendar day of American consumeristic greed, I'm reissuing last year's Black Friday "schizomix" with a bit of retconning. See, when I first made it, I included the title track from the abortion that is Guns N Roses' Axl Rose's Chinese Democracy as a grand, limp-fish joke. I might have actually deluded myself into thinking I could enjoy such a cock-rock single, but my enjoyment with the song lasted a mere handful of days. And keeping in line with a good mix rule of thumb to keep things under forty-five minutes, it has been graciously axed from this fine array of songs.

Thus, the link, which I'm contractually obligated to say is hosted by the fine folks at drop.io.

1. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
2. Wolfmother - The Joker and the Thief
3. Marnie Stern - The Package Is Wrapped
4. Weezer - Pork And Beans
5. Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos
6. Blitzen Trapper - Not Your Lover
7. Rogue Wave - Harmonium
8. Deerhunter - Agoraphobia
9. Brendan Canning - Hit the Wall
10. Nirvana - All Apologies
11. Radiohead - Let Down

Mux013: Black Friday Schizomix

If the sudden mad rush of the holiday season had a part-rock, part-slow, part-obligatory-guilty-pleasure-Chinese-Democracy-song, part-weird soundtrack, this might be it:

1. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
   
2. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
   
3. Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief
   
4. Marnie Stern - The Package Is Wrapped
   
5. Weezer - Pork and Beans
   
6. Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos
   
7. Blitzen Trapper - Not Your Lover
   
8. Rogue Wave - Harmonium
   
9. Deerhunter - Agoraphobia
   
10. Brendan Canning - Hit the Wall
    
11. Nirvana - All Apologies
    
12. Radiohead - Let Down

Mux012: November 2008

Now some time since Dear Science came out, I finally figured out that the only way to properly include "Halfway Home" on any mix is to take the album's advice and stick that cut at the top. A little awkward transitioning into a Jay Reatard song, but when is that ever easy? "Always Wanting More" has such a triumphant riff that I can't deny it the eternal glory of finding its way onto JDK's Mux012. And while I'm still enjoying Deerhunter's Microcastle in its entirety, I'll save some of its better standalone tracks for later, and here I'll offer up the shoegaze jam "Vox Celeste," one of the few accessible songs off Weird Era Cont., Microcastle's ugly b-sides cousin that masquerades as an "album."

Here's my November mix/mux/muxtape/whatever and the tracks:

1. TV on the Radio - Halfway Home
   
2. Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More
   
3. Deerhunter - Vox Celeste
   
4. The Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Ice-Land
   
5. School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
   
6. Born Ruffians - Sole Brother (Daytrotter Session)
   
7. Johnny and the Moon - Green Rocky Road
   
8. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
   
9. The Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
   
10. Rogue Wave - Publish My Love
    
11. Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me To Do The Math(s)
    
12. Marnie Stern - The Devil is in the Details