The Official "Personal Soundtracks" Thread

[Brenden]

I don't dislike it; it's just that there's so little to it that I consider it more of an interlude rather than a song to be singled out on its own. But it's your mix and I assumed it had some personal meaning to you, so this isn't a criticism. (I put a 10-second Relient K "song" on my most recent mix, after all.)

It does, indeed. I have some very specific pictures from my memory when I hear the song.

[murlough23]

It does, indeed. I have some very specific pictures from my memory when I hear the song.

That tends to overrule everything else when making personal mixes like these; I have songs on some of mine that I didn't honestly like all that much until some personal experience got intertwined with the song in my mind, and it wouldn't make sense to anyone else why they're there.

NP: "In My Arms", Plumb

[murlough23]

The track listing for my January/February mix has finally solidified, and download links are now available.


DISC ONE (Download)
1. "Keep the Car Running", Arcade Fire
2. "Let Go", Edison Glass
3. "Here It Goes", Jimmy Eat World
4. "Devastation and Reform", Relient K
5. "The Haunting", Anberlin
6. "Sometimes I Can't Make It Alone", Mae
7. "Life in These Little Boats", Deas Vail
8. "808", Olivia the Band
9. "I'll Believe You When", Matchbox Twenty
10. "Forgive and Forget", Wavorly
11. "Guaranteed Nightlite", The Polyphonic Spree
12. "January Rose", Fono
13. "Bachelorette", Bjork *
14. "The Whaler", Thrice
15. "God Will Take Care of You", Plumb
16. "Rafe", Fauxliage


DISC TWO (Download)
1. "In the Girl There's a Room", Sara Groves
2. "Sacred", Caedmon's Call
3. "A Sight to Behold", Eisley
4. "Anybody There", Andrea Corr
5. "Learn You Inside Out", Lifehouse
6. "Hanasakajijii (Three: The Man Who Made Dead Trees Bloom)", Anathallo
7. "The Dark Side of Indoor Track Meets", Falling Up
8. "Nude", Radiohead
9. "White Bird", KT Tunstall
10. "Nothing Is Innocent", Over the Rhine
11. "No Cars Go", Arcade Fire
12. "She Held My Hand", Steven Delopoulos
13. "Resurrection Fern", Iron & Wine
14. "In Love", Jon Foreman
15. "What a Heart Is Beating For", Chris Rice
16. "The Glory of It All", David Crowder Band

(* Yes, I realize that Bjork song is over 10 years old, but it's as new to me as her current stuff is, and it stood out more than the remaining candidates from Volta. Plus the whole bit about going astray like a killer whale juxtaposes nicely with "The Whaler".)

[murlough23]

Bumping because I updated my above post to include download links (Sendspace), in lieu of being able to use the Pub.

[plvarona]

Talk about being way behind - this is a compilation I meant to burn at the beginning of this year, and I didn't do it until last weekend.

Basically, this is my "2007 in song" compilation, which means I'm using songs to describe different events and happenings in my life, sequenced chronologically.

1. "Inaugural Pop Music For Jane Margaret Byrne" Sufjan Stevens
2. "We Win!" David Crowder Band
3. "Good Monsters" Jars of Clay
4. "Holy Spirit" Nate Sallie
5. "Hold It Up to the Light" Smalltown Poets
6. "Go West Young Man" All Star United
7. "Iowa" Alli Rogers
8. "Umbrellas" Sleeping at Last
9. "Shoreline" Deas Vail
10. "Scratch" Kendall Payne
11. "Blank Page" Shaun Groves
12. "In The Middle" Mat Kearney
13. "Melody of You" Sixpence None The Richer
14. "Canaan Bound" Andrew Peterson
15. "Nothing (Without You)" Derek Webb
16. "A Page is Turned" Bebo Norman
17. "I Don't Want to Waste Your Time" Over The Rhine
18. "Noticed" Mute Math
19. "Burn Out Bright" Switchfoot

[murlough23]

8. "Umbrellas" Sleeping at Last

Man, I really want to know what personal event that song's attached to! (It's not even attached to a personal event for anyone in the band. I asked Ryan O'Neal about it after a concert and he said it was about his made-up future family.)

[plvarona]

Man, I really want to know what personal event that song's attached to! (It's not even attached to a personal event for anyone in the band. I asked Ryan O'Neal about it after a concert and he said it was about his made-up future family.)

Actually, there isn't much of a story behind that one.  "Umbrellas" just happened to be playing on my car stereo the minute I crossed the Louisiana border while I was moving here.  (I was listening to the Keep No Score CD at the time.)  However, it was one of those things that made me go "Hmmm...  I wonder if there's any significance to that."  So I decided to capture that here and see if it turns out to be prophetic or not.

[murlough23]

My latest mix for July/August, with two standout pictures from our Southwest Roadtrip as the cover images:



DISC ONE

   1. "Resurrect Me", Jon Foreman
   2. "Living Well Is the Best Revenge", R.E.M.
   3. "Viva la Vida", Coldplay
   4. "Ragged Wood", Fleet Foxes
   5. "Allergies", Barenaked Ladies
   6. "Turn on the Lights", Sanctus Real feat. Peter York
   7. "Hologram", Katie Herzig
   8. "Sealion", Feist
   9. "Grounds for Divorce", Elbow
  10. "Club Thing", Yoav
  11. "All the World", Fauxliage
  12. "No One Really Wins", Copeland
  13. "This Place Is Painted Red", Deas Vail
  14. "A Thousand Winters Melting", The Myriad
  15. "Safe to Land", Jars of Clay
  16. "Jean Val Jean", Edison Glass



DISC TWO

   1. "Highly Suspicious", My Morning Jacket
   2. "Otherside", Third Day feat. Robert Randolph
   3. "Before Tomorrow Comes", Alter Bridge
   4. "Bryn", Vampire Weekend
   5. "How They Made Cameras", Falling Up
   6. "Mirrorball", Elbow
   7. "In My Arms", Plumb
   8. "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife", Drive-By Truckers
   9. "The Last Words", Ivoryline
  10. "Around", Sixpence None the Richer
  11. "Falling for You", Leeland
  12. "Moving Mountains", Thrice
  13. "Deep in Your Eyes (There Is a River)", Jon Foreman
  14. "Half Our Lives", Sanctus Real feat. Katie Herzig
  15. "Strawberry Swing", Coldplay
  16. "Lay Me Down", Cindy Morgan

[dgp11776]

   1. "Resurrect Me", Jon Foreman
   3. "Viva la Vida", Coldplay
   4. "Ragged Wood", Fleet Foxes
   6. "Turn on the Lights", Sanctus Real feat. Peter York
   7. "Hologram", Katie Herzig
  11. "All the World", Fauxliage
  12. "No One Really Wins", Copeland
  13. "This Place Is Painted Red", Deas Vail
  14. "A Thousand Winters Melting", The Myriad
  15. "Safe to Land", Jars of Clay
  16. "Jean Val Jean", Edison Glass

   2. "Otherside", Third Day feat. Robert Randolph
   9. "The Last Words", Ivoryline
  14. "Half Our Lives", Sanctus Real feat. Katie Herzig
  15. "Strawberry Swing", Coldplay

Nice picks.  Just curious - which version of "No One Really Wins" is that?  I like the original, but the acoustic version from Dressed Up and In Line is gorgeous.  The line "It's a fight between my heart and mind" makes me swoon.

[murlough23]

Nice picks.  Just curious - which version of "No One Really Wins" is that?

It's the original, which I know is a bit out of date compared to all of the other current stuff on the list, but I just discovered In Motion this year. I love how loud the drums are on that song - they're just raw and they dominate the song. It's like being right there in the studio with the band playing the song all in one take, which is really weird in comparison to the meticulously crafted stuff on Eat, Sleep, Repeat, which is beautiful but must have been ProTooled to death.

I like the original, but the acoustic version from Dressed Up and In Line is gorgeous.

I'll make a note to check it out. The version of In Motion that I bought actually has a bonus disc with acoustic versions of "Don't Slow Down", "Pin Your Wings", and two other songs I've never heard before, so if those aren't on Dressed Up and in Line, I can pass 'em along for you.

The line "It's a fight between my heart and mind" makes me swoon.

I was originally going to put that song next to "Jean Val Jean" because both songs mention a fight/battle between grace and pride. But it didn't work, tempo-wise. The sudden cut out of "No One Really Wins" into Deas Vail's "This Place Is Painted Red", which opens with its own rapid-fire drumming, was a happy accident that I discovered when I had WinAmp on random.

"Jean Val Jean" turned out to work well after "Safe to Land", because "Safe to Land" is about an individual frightened that they've run out of grace, and "Jean Val Jean" is about extending grace to someone who doesn't deserve it. "Safe to Land" is one of the best songs that Jars of Clay has ever written, and coming from me, that's saying a hell of a lot.

On the back half, it was now or never for "Half Our Lives" and "Strawberry Swing". Those are the quintessential "peaceful summer songs". I almost cut them in favor of Coldplay's "Violet Hill" (I have a strict policy that an artist can only appear once per disc) and to make room for other artists who didn't end up getting represented at all on either disc, but it just felt wrong to save them for a mix made in the fall. "Violet Hill" will probably make the next compilation. Actually, most of Coldplay's and Sanctus Real's latest albums will probably find their way onto these mixes eventually.

On another note, I think my wife is becoming a Katie Herzig fan. She loves the song "Forevermore" (which is one of my favorites, too) and put it on a mix CD that she made for her friend's kids, that was otherwise mostly populated by Disney songs.

NP: "Frank Morris", Capital Lights

[Ian]

I'll make a note to check it out. The version of In Motion that I bought actually has a bonus disc with acoustic versions of "Don't Slow Down", "Pin Your Wings", and two other songs I've never heard before, so if those aren't on Dressed Up and in Line, I can pass 'em along for you.

Those two songs come from Beneath Medicine Tree, which is just as good as their other two albums.

EDIT:
Here's my in progress soundtrack of 08 highlights:

Portishead - Machine Gun
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
Death Cab for Cutie - Cath...
My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
Apes & Androids - Make Forever Last Forever
Why? - The Hollows
Jade - Ready
Chris Wood - England in Ribbons
Wintersleep - Weighty Ghost
Goldfrapp - Clowns
M83 - Skin of the Night
Jon Foreman - Somebody's Baby
Balmorhea - Barefoot Pilgrims
Animal Collective - Water Curses
Have A Nice Life - Bloodhail
The Bug - Jah War
The Mars Volta - Goliath
Cloud Cult - May Your Heart Stay Strong
The Envy Corps - Story Problems
Sigur Ros - Festival

Some of these songs were just impossible to fit in nicely, but I did my best.  I'll post a download later.

[murlough23]

EDIT:
Here's my in progress soundtrack of 08 highlights:

Nice ninja edit there. It took me forever to notice there was anything new in this thread.

Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
Jon Foreman - Somebody's Baby
Sigur Ros - Festival

These are all solid picks (well, the second half of "Festival", anyway - it's definitely a good song to close with). I'm surprised that someone else considers "Highly Suspicious" to be a highlight. It seems to really irritate a lot of people who are otherwise fans of MMJ.

Some of these songs were just impossible to fit in nicely, but I did my best.

This is often the reason why otherwise good songs don't make the final cut on some of my mixes - it's just too difficult to make them fit in with their surroundings. Usually I just put them off until a later mix and eventually find a home for them.

I'll post a download later.

Are we still doing that? I had stopped doing it a while back because I didn't think anyone would actually download it. But I'm more than willing to resume the practice.

[spacebrat311]

I love Highly Suspicious.

[murlough23]

My soundtrack for September/October:


DISC ONE
1. "Versions of Violence", Alanis Morissette
2. "The Resistance", Anberlin
3. "Addicted", P.O.D.
4. "Dancing Choose", TV on the Radio
5. "Outrage", Capital Lights
6. "If", House of Heroes
7. "There Is Nobody", Yoav
8. "Closer", Jars of Clay
9. "How in the World", Family Force 5
10. "Starlings", Elbow
11. "Sun It Rises", Fleet Foxes
12. "The Moon Is a Magnet", Jon Foreman
13. "My Moon My Man", Feist
14. "Make It Mine", Jason Mraz
15. "Undercover", Deas Vail
16. "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Part 2", My Morning Jacket


DISC TWO
1. "Coming Home", Alter Bridge
2. "Where Do I Go From Here", Relient K
3. "The Accident", The Myriad
4. "Broken Lungs", Thrice
5. "Violet Hill", Coldplay
6. "Amazing Grace (Give It Back)", Sixpence None the Richer
7. "Run to You", Third Day feat. Lacy Mosley
8. "Should You Return", Copeland
9. "Librarian", My Morning Jacket
10. "Blue Ridge Mountains", Fleet Foxes
11. "Forevermore", Katie Herzig
12. "Time Is Fiction", Edison Glass
13. "Eternal", Sanctus Real
14. "The House of God, Forever", Jon Foreman feat. Sarah Masen
15. "My Alleluia", Jaci Velasquez
16. "Children of the Heavenly Father", Plumb

[Ian]

Best of 2008 part 1

Portishead - Machine Gun
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
Death Cab for Cutie - Cath...
My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
Apes & Androids - Make Forever Last Forever
Jade - Ready
Chris Wood - England in Ribbons
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
Goldfrapp - Clowns
M83 - Skin of the Night
Jon Foreman - Somebody's Baby
Balmorhea - Barefoot Pilgrims

Best 0f 2008 part 2

Animal Collective - Water Curses
Phantom Planet - Dropped
The Mars Volta - Goliath
Have A Nice Life - Bloodhail
Cloud Cult - May Your Heart Stay Strong
The Envy Corps - Story Problems
Sigur Ros - Gobbldigook
Heidi Talbot - Bedlam Boys
TV on the Radio - Family Tree
Broken Iris - One Track Minded Age
Keane - Love is the End

I'll probably have another part by the end of the year.  If anyone would like me to upload these I'd be more than happy to, but I won't bother if no one wants it.

[murlough23]

I'll probably have another part by the end of the year.  If anyone would like me to upload these I'd be more than happy to, but I won't bother if no one wants it.

I would like to hear the final mix when you're done with all three parts.

[plvarona]

It's that time of year again.  I just burned my "Personal WOW" CD.  Here's the track listing:

Phil's Personal WOW CD 2008

Disc 1 - Triple A/Hot AC:
1. "Resurrect Me" Jon Foreman
2. "Wallfly" Steven Delopoulos
3. "My Last Amen" downhere
4. "Run to You" Third Day
5. "Seattle" The Classic Crime
6. "Closer to the Moon" Alli Rogers
7. "Around" Sixpence None The Richer
8. "All Things New" Andrew Peterson
9. "The Mystery of Our Day" The Reign of Kindo
10. "Stare The Monster Down" delirious?
11. "Come All You Weary" Thrice
12. "I Saw What I Saw" Sara Groves
13. "This is Home" Switchfoot
14. "So Much For My Sad Song" Chris Rice
15. "Hope is Where We're Starting From" Justin McRoberts
16. (Bonus Track) "Not Alone" Seabird
17. (Bonus Track) "Hologram" Katie Herzig

Disc 2 - Rock/Alternative
1. "Life In These Little Boats" Deas Vail
2. "Disappear" Anberlin
3. "Closer" Jars of Clay
4. "A Clean Shot" The Myriad
5. "Forgive and Forget" Wavorly
6. "Devastation and Reform" Relient K
7. "In The Valley of the Dying Sun" House of Heroes
8. "Closer Arrows" Monarch
9. "Buy The Truth" Cool Hand Luke
10. "Outrage" Capital Lights
11. "Untouchable" Luna Halo
12. "Crushcrushcrush" Paramore
13. "Cold Condition" Edison Glass
14. "The Song of the Year" All Star United
15. "Show All The World" Narnia
16. (Bonus Track) "You Know We're All So Fond of Dying" Children 18:3
17. (Bonus Track) "Higher Ground" Glenn Kaiser Band

[murlough23]

It's that time of year again.  I just burned my "Personal WOW" CD.

Lots of good stuff on there. I'd love to hear it if you have a way to share it.

And I'll be making my "Best of 2008" mix to share with y'all soon. For now, here's what I've got slated for my November-December mix:

DISC ONE
1. "God Is Smiling", Delirious?
2. "A Miracle", The Elms
3. "Golden Age", TV on the Radio
4. "My Dear Machine", Sixpence None the Richer
5. "Italo", Anathallo
6. "Good Morning Fire Eater", Copeland
7. "Baby's a Red", House of Heroes
8. "Let the Little Lady Talk", Capital Lights
9. "The Fix", Elbow feat. Richard Hawley
10. "Instead of a Show", Jon Foreman
11. "Songbird", Katie Herzig
12. "Beautiful Bird", Cindy Morgan
13. "Thank You Too!", My Morning Jacket
14. "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", Vampire Weekend
15. "I Can't Stay", The Killers
16. "I'm Yours", Jason Mraz

DISC TWO
1. "Don't Let Them See You!", The Myriad
2. "Not Allowed", Copeland
3. "Underneath", Alanis Morissette
4. "It's Not You, It's Me", Jaci Velasquez
5. "From Priests to Thieves", Deas Vail
6. "Cast Your Bread", Cool Hand Luke
7. "The River", Anathallo
8. "Miserabile Visu (Ex Malo Bonum)", Anberlin
9. "Voices", House of Heroes
10. "42", Coldplay
11. "Lay Down My Guns", Sanctus Real
12. "Your Protector", Fleet Foxes
13. "Waiting for My Night", Katie Herzig
14. "Silent Night", Sixpence None the Richer feat. Dan Haseltine
15. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", Annie Moses Band
16. "Invisible God", Andrew Peterson

[Ian]

I'll off to wait til I get of break to up this (got dial-up at home), but here's my playlist for 2008 (super-favs*):

Portishead - Machine Gun
The Mars Volta - Goliath
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious*
Death Cab for Cutie - Cath...
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
TV on the Radio - Family Tree*
Animal Collective - Water Curses*
The Envy Corps - Story Problems*
Barlmorhea - Barefoot Pilgrims*
Goldfrapp - Clowns
M83 - Skin of the Night
Friendly Fires - Jump in the Pool
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules' Theme
Helios - Glimpse
Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
Copeland - The Suitcase Song (The Day I Lost My Voice)
Shugo Tokumaru - La La Radio*
Keane - Love is the End
Declan de Barra - Red Forest

I reeeeeally wanted to include Laura Marling - Night Terror, but I couldn't fit it in very nicely and I wanted keep it to 20 songs.  You should give her a listen though, her entire CD is very good.

[murlough23]

Here's my condensed "Best of 2008" mix, which attempts to represent my favorite artists and albums from the year 2008, as well as a few individual songs that really stood out even though the album overall might not have. I squeezed in as much as I could while keeping both discs under the 80 minute limit.

DISC ONE
1. "No Cars Go", Arcade Fire
2. "The Sky Is Falling", Thrice
3. "Sunrise", Olivia the Band
4. "All Our Memories", Edison Glass
5. "A-Punk", Vampire Weekend
6. "A Clean Shot", The Myriad
7. "That Man I Shot", Drive-By Truckers
8. "Blackbird", Alter Bridge
9. "God Will Take Care of You", Plumb
10. "Rafe", Fauxliage
11. "In the Girl There's a Room", Sara Groves
12. "Thank God", After Edmund
13. "We Need Each Other", Sanctus Real
14. "Kingdom of Comfort", Delirious?
15. "Baptize My Mind", Jon Foreman
16. "Mirrorball", Elbow
17. "Falling for You", Leeland
18. "Lay Me Down", Cindy Morgan

DISC TWO
1. "Allergies", Barenaked Ladies
2. "Living Well Is the Best Revenge", R.E.M.
3. "Viva la Vida", Coldplay
4. "Ragged Wood", Fleet Foxes
5. "Adore Adore", Yoav
6. "Gobbledigook", Sigur Ros
7. "Hologram", Katie Herzig
8. "Sealion", Feist
9. "Highly Susipcious", My Morning Jacket
10. "Otherside", Third Day feat. Robert Randolph
11. "Amazing Grace (Give It Back)", Sixpence None the Richer
12. "Safe to Land", Jars of Clay
13. "Undercover", Deas Vail
14. "The Resistance", Anberlin
15. "Dancing Choose", TV on the Radio
16. "Outrage", Capital Lights
17. "If", House of Heroes
18. "Should You Return", Copeland
19. "Cast Your Bread", Cool Hand Luke
20. "The River", Anathallo
21. "Invisible God", Andrew Peterson

Let me know if any of you want to hear this, and I'll upload it somewhere. I'm up for listening to anyone else's year-end mixes if they have the means to upload them.

[NinjaRob17]

Here's kind of what my best of 2008 mix would look like.

Disc One
1. "Miserabile Visu (Ex Malo Bonum)" -Anberlin
2. "Technicolour (Featuring D'Morgan)" -Andy Hunter
3. "Deepspace 5oul" -Beat Rabbi & Deepspace 5
4. "Don't Lie" -Bon Voyage
5. "Starling" -Brave Saint Saturn
6. "Outrage" -Capital Lights
7. "You Know We're All So Fond Of Dying" -Children 18:3
8. "Gravedigging" -The Classic Crime
9. "Violet Hill" -Coldplay
10. "Failing In Love" -Cool Hand Luke
11. "The Day I Lost My Voice (The Suitcase Song)" -Copeland
12. "White Lights" -Deas Vail
13. "I Will Possess Your Heart" -Death Cab For Cutie
14. ""Chain Fight" -Deepspace 5
15. "Inside The Fire" -Disturbed
16. "Graphic Designer" -Electric Six

Disc 2
1. "Radiator" -Family Force 5
2. "White Winter Hymnal" -Fleet Foxes
3. "A Concealed Weapon" -The Foxglove Hunt
4. "Run" -Gnarls Barkley
5. "Slapped Actress" -The Hold Steady
6. "In The Valley Of The Dying Son" -House Of Heroes
7. "Russian? We're Barely Moving!" -The Human Flight Committee
8. "The House Of God, Forever" -Jon Foreman
9. "My Grandfather, The Cubist" -Joy Electric
10. "How The West Was Won" -Katie Herzig
11. "Crawl" -Kings Of Leon
12. "It's Time For Drastic Measures, They're Not Taking You Seriously" -Listener Project
13. "Skin Of The Night" -M83
14. "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream (Part 2)" -My Morning Jacket
15. "A Clean Shot" -The Myriad
16. "1,000,000" -Nine Inch Nails

Disc 3
1. "Hammerhead" -The Offspring
2. "New Orleans" -Portugal. The Man
3. "Living Well Is The Best Revenge" -R.E.M.
4. "Salute Your Salution" -The Raconteurs
5. "The Moments In Between" -The Reign Of Kindo
6. "The Beginning" -Showbread
7. "Hephaestus - The Hammer Of The Gods" -The Showdown
8. "Gobbledigook" -Sigur Rós
9. "If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It" -Snow Patrol
10. "Minor Keys" -Starflyer 59
11. "The Black River" -The Sword
12. "DLZ" -TV On The Radio
13. "Desperate Times Desperate Measures" -Underoath
14. "A-Punk" -Vampire Weekend
15. "Pork And Beans" -Weezer
16. "I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge" -The 77's

[murlough23]

6. "In The Valley Of The Dying Son" -House Of Heroes
7. "Russian? We're Barely Moving!" -The Human Flight Committee

I find the juxtaposition of these two amusing, even though I know nothing of the Human Flight Committee. It would be even funnier if the House of Heroes song was "Baby's a Red".

Oh wait, you just listed the artists in alphabetical order. Never mind. I thought it was weird to start with that Anberlin song...

[NinjaRob17]

Oh wait, you just listed the artists in alphabetical order. Never mind. I thought it was weird to start with that Anberlin song...

Yeah, this isn't the final mix, I just put them in alphabetical order for now. I also need to put a couple more songs in, I just haven't decided on them yet.

[Ian]

Anybody know of a site where I can create a playlist for others to stream rather than download?  If not I'll just have to upload mine.

EDIT: Nevermind, here's one.  They didn't have Balmorhea - Barefoot Pilgrims, Helios - Glimpse or Declan de Barra - Red Forest, so I just replaced those with the best of what they did have (which in Declan's case was nothing ... check his cd out though).  Thankfully they still flow okay and are still good songs.

http://www.playlist.com/playlist/14810500363

[plvarona]

I finally burned my long-overdue "2008 Concert Favorites" CD.  Here's the track list:

1. "Filled With Your Glory" Starfield
2. "Let Your Light Shine" Bethany Dillon
3. "Open" Jason Morant
4. "To The Beat of Our Noisy Hearts" Matt Nathanson
5. "Breaking My Back" Sons of William
6. "Can't Save Your Soul (Acoustic)" Jake Smith
7. "Vision of You" Shane and Shane
8. "Broken" Lifehouse
9. "Looks Like Love" NEEDTOBREATHE
10. "The March" Robert Randolph & The Family Band
11. "American Dream" Switchfoot
12. "Love is the Protest" Jars of Clay
13. "Otherside" Third Day f/ Robert Randolph
14. "How Much Longer" Greg Talmage
15. "I Hear Goodnight" Ingram Hill

I tried to keep the track order as close to chronological as I could, but obviously I shuffled the songs a little bit to make the CD flow better.

[murlough23]

My soundtrack for January/February 2009:

DISC ONE
1. "English House", Fleet Foxes
2. "Life in Technicolor II", Coldplay
3. "To Be Happy Now", Copeland
4. "Lion in a Coma", Animal Collective
5. "Noni's Field", Anathallo
6. "In the Valley of the Dying Sun", House of Heroes
7. "Failing in Love", Cool Hand Luke
8. "People Are People", Code of Ethics
9. "When She's Near", Fiction Family
10. "Mind's Eye", Josh Ritter
11. "Joy Ride", The Killers
12. "The Heartbreak Rides", A. C. Newman
13. "Mile Away", Capital Lights
14. "Retrace", Anberlin
15. "Furr", Blitzen Trapper
16. "Love Dog", TV on the Radio

DISC TWO
1. "My Girls", Animal Collective
2. "Whatever You Like", Weird Al Yankovic
3. "Temporary People", Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts
4. "Not a Robot, But a Ghost", Andrew Bird
5. "Victor Jara's Hands", Calexico feat. Jairo Zavala
6. "White Winter Hymnal", Fleet Foxes
7. "Open Water", Thrice
8. "Polar Bears and Shark Fins", The Myriad
9. "I Want to Belong to You", Katie Herzig
10. "Beautiful Lie", Yoav
11. "Not As We", Alanis Morissette
12. "As a Child", Cindy Morgan
13. "Hosanna", Andrew Peterson
14. "I Am a Stranger", The Welcome Wagon
15. "Your Love Is Strong", Jon Foreman
16. "Empty Hearts", Josh Ritter

What, no U2? Actually, "Magnificent" almost made the cut, but since the album comes out in March and you never know what might change in the final release, I decided to save that one. It's almost certainly going to be the first track on my March/April mix.

[murlough23]

March/April mix:

DISC ONE
1. "Magnificent", U2
2. "Spotlight", Mute Math
3. "When", The Listening
4. "Lotus and the Languorous", Falling Up
5. "Great Blue Sea", The Reign of Kindo
6. "The Grey Man", Copeland
7. "Out of Order", Fiction Family
8. "This Tornado Loves You", Neko Case
9. "The Palace at 4 AM", A. C. Newman
10. "Compulsion", Doves
11. "Crying", TV on the Radio
12. "Radio", Vienna Teng
13. "Headphones", Jars of Clay feat. Katie Herzig
14. "Two Silver Trees", Calexico
15. "Bells", Anathallo
16. "Mykonos", Fleet Foxes

DISC TWO
1. "Spaceman", The Killers
2. "Work It Out", Capital Lights
3. "Breaking", Anberlin
4. "When Love Comes to Town (live)", Third Day feat. Jars of Clay, Robert Randolph & Switchfoot
5. "Stare the Monster Down", Delirious?
6. "Summertime Clothes", Animal Collective
7. "Long Hot Summer Days", Sara Watkins
8. "Anonanimal", Andrew Bird
9. "Rocket", Andrew Peterson
10. "Look into the Sky", Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts
11. "Antebellum", Vienna Teng
12. "The Temptation of Adam", Josh Ritter
13. "Cemeteries of London", Coldplay
14. "Eye of the Storm", Cool Hand Luke
15. "Field of Daggers", House of Heroes
16. "Lion and the Lamb", Cindy Morgan

I officially owe The Phorum a debt of gratitude for roughly 43% of this mix.

[murlough23]

May/June mix:

DISC ONE
1. "Scenic Route", Jars of Clay
2. "Funny the Way It Is", Dave Matthews Band
3. "Are There Giants Too, in the Dance?", Meg & Dia
4. "Right Moves", Josh Ritter
5. "Boomerang/Two Birds", Mae
6. "Southern Point", Grizzly Bear
7. "No Gringo", Vienna Teng
8. "El Gatillo (Trigger Revisited)", Calexico
9. "Breathe", U2
10. "Submarines of Stockholm", A. C. Newman
11. "Glass of Water", Coldplay
12. "Lady on the Water", Blitzen Trapper
13. "Drops in the River", Fleet Foxes
14. "Spellbound", Doves
15. "Bluish", Animal Collective
16. "Colors in Array", Future of Forestry

DISC TWO
1. "Hold Out", The Reign of Kindo
2. "The End", The Listening
3. "Code Name: Raven", House of Heroes
4. "Hero", Jars of Clay
5. "Magician Reversed", Falling Up
6. "Clockwork", Mute Math
7. "Arms of a Thief", Iron & Wine
8. "Vengeance Is Sleeping", Neko Case
9. "The Angel of Death Came to David's Room", mewithoutYou
10. "Last Night on Earth", Green Day
11. "The Last Snowfall", Vienna Teng
12. "Northern Lights", Anathallo
13. "Closer to Me", Future of Forestry
14. "Night/Day", Mae
15. "Chinese Sleep Chant", Coldplay
16. "Breathe", Anberlin

[murlough23]

July/August mix. You guys are dumping so many good music recommendations on me that I wasn't able to stick to my usual limit of 16 songs per disc.

DISC ONE
1. "The Spirit Vs. the Kick Drum", Derek Webb
2. "Get on Your Boots", U2
3. "Zero", Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. "Heaven", Jars of Clay
5. "A Colour Eoptian", Falling Up
6. "All the World Is Mad", Thrice
7. "Jetstream", Doves
8. "Clipping", Mute Math
9. "Peacemaker", Green Day
10. "Myriad Harbour", The New Pornographers
11. "The Moments in Between", The Reign of Kindo
12. "Two Weeks", Grizzly Bear
13. "Hawaii", Mew
14. "Porcelain", Sleeping at Last
15. "Close Your Eyes", Future of Forestry
16. "Morning", Iron & Wine
17. "A Melody, the Memory", Mae

DISC TWO
1. "Stacked Crooked", The New Pornographers
2. "Hey Na Na", Katie Herzig
3. "Hug Me", Meg & Dia
4. "Leave You Now", House of Heroes
5. "Saturday Nite", Blitzen Trapper
6. "Lying in the Hands of God", Dave Matthews Band
7. "One Wing", Wilco
8. "Fire on the Mountain", Rob Thomas
9. "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song", Fleet Foxes
10. "Elements Combined", Fiction Family
11. "On the Safest Ledge", Copeland
12. "Slowness", Calexico feat. Pieta Brown
13. "Twilight Galaxy", Metric
14. "In Another Life", Vienna Teng
15. "Skeletons", Yeah Yeah Yeahs
16. "Something in the Way that You Are", The Reign of Kindo
17. "Lucky", Jason Mraz feat. Colbie Caillat

[murlough23]

September/October mix. This one was a pain to put together for several reasons - see the starred tracks for details.

DISC ONE
1. "The Outsiders", Doves
2. "The Nerve", Mute Math
3. "Sick Muse", Metric
4. "Uprising", Muse
5. "Lose Control", House of Heroes
6. "Hills of Indigo Blue", Future of Forestry
7. "What Matters More", Derek Webb
8. "Black Wedding", Meg & Dia
9. "White Light", Vienna Teng
10. "Shine", Pillar
11. "Church Music - Dance (!)", David Crowder Band (*1)
12. "Tricks of the Trade", Mew (*1)
13. "The Long Fall/Weapons", Jars of Clay
14. "The City Prevails", Cool Hand Luke
15. "Till We Make Our Ascent", The Reign of Kindo
16. "Ready, Able", Grizzly Bear
17. "Moment of Surrender", U2 (*2)

DISC TWO
1. "John J. Audubon", Anathallo
2. "Vaccine", Mew
3. "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I", Falling Up (*3)
4. "Jena & Jimmy", Derek Webb
5. "The Weight", Thrice
6. "The Fisherman Song (We All Need Love)", Mae
7. "This Is How the World Will End", The Elms
8. "Grandmother Song", Vienna Teng (*4)
9. "So Close So Far", Future of Forestry
10. "Savannah", Relient K (*5)
11. "Solitaire", Wilco
12. "Adventures in Solitude", The New Pornographers
13. "I Hurt Too (acoustic)", Katie Herzig
14. "Slow & Steady", Sleeping at Last (*2)
15. "Pure Bride", Leeland
16. "God Almighty, None Compares", David Crowder Band  (*6)
17. "The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate", mewithoutYou

(*1) The David Crowder Band and Mew songs I picked just happened to have programmed beats that lined up almost perfectly in terms of their sound and tempo, except that the DCB song slows down gradually at the end to match up with the song that follows it on the CD. So I had to use my hack producer skills to timewarp it, a few measures at a time, to make the end part keep pace with the rest of it, and then figure out the least awkward point to cut it off and bring in the Mew song to make it sound somewhat continuous. This was a pain in the ASS, but I'm glad that I sort of made it work.

(*2) Really wanted the U2 song on the second disc, leading up to the finale, but I had too many long songs on that one and I was over my 80-minute limit for the disc, so I exchanged it with the Sleeping at Last song that was originally meant to be at the end of the first disc.

(*3) The Falling Up song ends with a really bizarre outro on the CD, and I couldn't decide whether to cut off all of the outro or just fade it at the part where things got weird. I eventually decided to dump the whole outro due to time constraints.

(*4) There's a brief pause at the end of the Vienna Teng song, then they all applaud their work; I decided to cut that off and go immediately into the Future of Forestry song, which opens with stomping and clapping.

(*5) Wanted to use the "Oasis" intro from the Relient K CD, then realized it flowed better with the track "Savannah" by itself. (I don't like the "Baby" outro, so I was never gonna use that.)

(*6) The other DCB song sounded awkward when you jump right to the start of it on the CD, so I grabbed part of the segue from the end of "Oh, Happiness" (the song preceding it on the album) and used that as a fade-in.

Phew! That was perhaps my most difficult mix CD project ever.

[plvarona]

I just burned my "Best of 2009" mix.  This year I dropped the "Christian artist" requirement, but I kept the same format everywhere else.  (2 CDs, 17 songs per CD.)  Here it is:

Phil's Best of 2009 Compilation

Disc 1: Triple A/Hot AC
1. "Lovers in Japan" Coldplay
2. "Heaven" Jars of Clay
3. "If You Dance" Monarch
4. "When She's Near" Fiction Family
5. "The Fox, The Crow, and the Cookie" mewithoutYou
6. "Turnaround" Joy Williams
7. "Green Screens" Sleeping at Last
8. "What Matters More" Derek Webb
9. "Something Beautiful" NEEDTOBREATHE
10. "Common Sense" Justin McRoberts
11. "Confident" John Reuben
12. "Different Kinds of Happy" Sara Groves
13. "The Good Confession (I Believe)" Andrew Peterson
14. "The Motions" Matthew West
15. "Five More Hours" Gabe Dixon Band
16. (Bonus Track): "All The Pretty Girls" fun.
17. (Bonus Track): "Until You" Dave Barnes

Disc 2: Rock/Alternative
1. "Code Name: Raven" House of Heroes
2. "Forget and Not Slow Down" Relient K
3. "Excuses" Deas Vail
4. "Carousel" Paper Route
5. "Spotlight" Mute Math
6. "Mess of Me" Switchfoot
7. "All The World is Mad" Thrice
8. "Holiday" Future of Forestry
9. "God Almighty, None Compares" David Crowder Band
10. "Magnificent" U2
11. "This is How The World Will End" The Elms
12. "The End" The Listening
13. "The Lightning Storm" Flogging Molly
14. "Ignorance" Paramore
15. "Love is a Battlefield" This Fires Embrace
16. (Bonus Track): "The Bright Side" We Shot The Moon
17. (Bonus Track): "Kingdom of Rust" Doves

If anybody would like to hear this mix, please let me know and I'll upload it somewhere.

[Ian]

I would like to hear it.

[murlough23]

I would like to hear it.

As would I. You could probably just Pub the handful of tracks I don't have, but I guess Ian doesn't have others.

[murlough23]

My November/December soundtrack:

DISC ONE
1. "Resistance", Muse
2. "Help, I'm Alive", Metric
3. "Backfire", Mute Math
4. "Mess of Me", Switchfoot
5. "What If", Meg & Dia
6. "Sahara", Relient K
7. "Augustine", Vienna Teng
8. "Holiday", Future of Forestry
9. "Beach", Mew
10. "Amongst the Waves", Pearl Jam
11. "All the Pretty Girls", fun.
12. "Cages", Deas Vail
13. "In Pieces", Mae
14. "Timelapse", Sleeping at Last
15. "Cafetorium", Anathallo
16. "Movement 3: Linear Tableau with Intersecting Surprise/Movement 4: Traffic Shock/Movement 5: Self Organizing Emergent Patterns", Sufjan Stevens

DISC TWO
1. "Dull Life", Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. "Goodbye", Mute Math
3. "Wonderful", Rob Thomas
4. "Undisclosed Desires", Muse
5. "I Love/Hate You", Derek Webb
6. "The Greatest Denier", Doves
7. "Seven", Dave Matthews Band
8. "Circles", Thrice
9. "Restless Heart Syndrome", Green Day
10. "Let It Go", The Reign of Kindo
11. "Eastern Hymn", David Crowder Band
12. "Heart", Jars of Clay
13. "Fine For Now", Grizzly Bear
14. "Little Drummer Boy", Future of Forestry
15. "Valley of Vision", Out of the Grey
16. "Sometimes Life Isn't Easy", Mew
17. "Falling into You", Mae

I'll probably create my "2009 in a Nutshell Soundtrack" to share my favorites of the year with others when I return from vacation in early 2010.

[plvarona]

I know I'm late with this, but I'm pretty close to getting a zip file of my "Best of 2009" CDs available.  So Ian, murlough, and anyone else who is interested, I'll send a link to the file when it is available.

Here's a compilation I made of my some of my concert highlights from this past year.  This is actually first time in several years that I had a full CD of concert favorites.

Phil's 2009 Concert Favorites
1. "Face Down" The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
2. "Letdown" This Providence
3. "Wish" Paper Route
4. "On The Safest Ledge" Copeland
5. "Come Love, See My Hands" Brooke Waggoner
6. "Dark Hotel" K.S. Rhoads
7. "Wish You Well" Katie Herzig
8. "Love, Save The Empty" Erin McCarley
9. "Save You" Matthew Perryman Jones
10. "The Problem" BeauSoleil
11. "Women Be Wise" Bonnie Raitt
12. "Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)" Patty Griffin
13. "Why Should She Wait" Marc Broussard f/ Sara Bareilles
14. "Dreaming" Sons of William
15. "Runaway Car" Mat Kearney
16. "Jealous" Marc Scibilia
17. "A World Apart" Vedera
18. "The Sound (John M. Perkins' Blues)" Switchfoot
19. "What You Give Up To Get It" Derek Webb

I think it would be safe to assume this is my most eclectic "Concert Favorites" CD.

[murlough23]

7. "Wish You Well" Katie Herzig

I got to see her perform that one with Vienna Teng, which made me all starstruck and stuff, but for me it was "Forevermore" and "Hey Na Na" that stole the show.

[ewok20t3]

Just made this mix of random stuff I feel like listening to in my car.

1. The Moon Is Down - Further Seems Forever
2. Scornful Of The Motives And Virtue Of Others - Shai Hulud
3. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire
4. Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
5. The '59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem
6. Echo - Incubus
7. Black Lungs - The New Frontiers
8. In Pieces - Mae
9. Colony Of Birchmen - Mastodon
10. Take My Breath Away - Copeland
11. Shoreline - Deas Vail
12. Failure On My Lips - Beloved
13. Summer Skin - Death Cab For Cutie
14. Long Walk Home - This Day & Age
15. Flowers And Fireworks - All The Day Holiday
16. More Than Efforts - Life In Your Way
17. Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
18. Hands Down (Unplugged) - Dashboard Confessional
19. The Lakes of Canada (Live) - Sufjan Stevens   

[murlough23]

My January/February 2010 mix:

DISC ONE
1. "Sympathetic Vibrations", The Paper Raincoat
2. "Circles", As Tall as Lions
3. "Map of the Problematique", Muse
4. "The Nearness", David Crowder Band feat. Lacy Mosley
5. "Sunlight", Deas Vail
6. "The Fight Song (Crash and Burn)", Mae
7. "The Sound (John M. Perkins' Blues)", Switchfoot
8. "The Moonn and Sixpence", Falling Up
9. "Shake Me Like a Monkey", Dave Matthews Band
10. "Run", Vampire Weekend
11. "Walking the Dog", fun.
12. "Cartoons and Macramé Wounds", Mew
13. "10:03", Doves
14. "Freddie, Please", Derek Webb
15. "The Great Exchange", Thrice
16. "Slow Your Breath Down", Future of Forestry
17. "Hysteric", Yeah Yeah Yeahs

DISC TWO
1. "Bread of Shame", Creed
2. "Last of the American Girls", Green Day
3. "Gold Guns Girls", Metric
4. "Got Some", Pearl Jam
5. "The Zookeeper's Boy", Mew
6. "Candlelight/Flare", Relient K
7. "Light a Roman Candle with Me", fun.
8. "It All Depends", The Paper Raincoat
9. "Guiding Light", Muse
10. "Burden", Mute Math
11. "Birds", Deas Vail
12. "Sleeping Torpor", Anathallo
13. "Little Shadow", Yeah Yeah Yeahs
14. "Voyage", Out of the Grey
15. "How He Loves", David Crowder Band
16. "Beauty Will Rise", Steven Curtis Chapman
17. "Green Screens", Sleeping at Last

[plvarona]

6. "Candlelight/Flare", Relient K
7. "Light a Roman Candle with Me", fun.

Did you put those songs back-to-back on purpose?

As a side note, I really liked ending that particular disc with "Green Screens."  Now that I think about the lyrics, that song works pretty well as a closer.

Now for the original reason I'm posting here.  I just burned my "2009 in Song" CD, which are basically songs representing different events in my life this past year.  It seems like these CDs always take longer to finish than I want.

My 2009:
1. "This Town" O.A.R.
2. "Stir" downhere
3. "I Remember (It's Happening Again)" Griffin House
4. "I Win" Starflyer 59
5. "Stare The Monster Down" delirious?
6. "Safe to Land" Jars of Clay
7. "Dance in Perfect Time" Deas Vail
8. "My Feet Can't Fail Me Now" The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
9. "These Hard Times" NEEDTOBREATHE
10. "Confident" John Reuben
11. "Dear Future" The Fold
12. "Armistice" Mute Math
13. "Sunny Days" Joy Williams
14. "Crashing Down" Mat Kearney
15. "Love is Different" Caedmon's Call
16. "Emmanuel" Silers Bald
17. "Holiday" Future of Forestry
18. "Clocks" Coldplay
19. "Southbound Train" Jon Foreman

[murlough23]

Did you put those songs back-to-back on purpose?

Absolutely!

As a side note, I really liked ending that particular disc with "Green Screens."  Now that I think about the lyrics, that song works pretty well as a closer.

I struggled to figure out what to close with, since I didn't have a really obvious "wrap things up" sort of song. Musically, it followed the Steven Curtis Chapman song well.