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Modern Romance 2012 / The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

a year romanticized and criticized, in songs

01.  heartless bastards - marathon
02.  the black keys - all you ever wanted
03.  the treasures - hold me tight
04.  the crystals - he's a rebel
05.  joanie sommers - johnny get angry
06.  ike & tina turner - river deep mountain high
07.  the ronettes - be my baby
08.  the turtles - it ain't me babe
09.  neutral milk hotel - song against sex
10.  the exciters - he's got the power
11.  aretha franklin - chain of fools
12.  the black keys - brooklyn bound
13.  the kinks - nothing in this world can stop me worryin' 'bout that girl
14.  feist - when i was a young girl
15.  the national - bloodbuzz ohio
16.  tilly & the wall - falling without knowing
17.  belle & sebastian - i'm waking up to us
18.  the crystals - he hit me (it felt like a kiss)
19.  metric - love is a place
20.  fiona apple - love ridden
21.  the hold steady - citrus
22.  feist - strangers
23.  the shirelles - baby it's you
24.  the beach boys - i know there's an answer
25.  the arcade fire - keep the car running
26.  the detroit cobras - heartbeat

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the sub-title of this year's mix is a translated line from wagner's ring cycle. the story goes as such: siegmund and sieglinde have always felt odd, as if part of their self is missing. when they find each other, they instantly fall in love, and siegmund utters, "you are the image i have hidden in myself." turns out, though, they are TWINS. so, tragedy.

happy new year everyone.

modern romance 2011: "you are the image i have hidden in myself"
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01. beginners soundtrack - beginners theme suite

02. jens lekman - and i remember every kiss

03. martha reeves and the vandellas - (love is like a) heatwave

04. the beach boys - you're so good to me

05. belle & sebastian - lazy line painter jane

06. cat power - good woman

07. feist - lonely lonely (live)

08. neko case - things that scare me

09. andrew bird - how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm

10. okkervil river - get big

11. modest mouse - little motel

12. the national - fake empire

13. bishop allen - flight 180

14. the long winters - commander thinks aloud (live)

15. ellie greenwich - you don't know

16. feist - secret heart (live)

17. yeah yeah yeahs - maps

18. yo la tengo - take care

19. the smiths - asleep

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modern romance 2010
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01. of montreal - bunny ain't no kind of rider

02. neutral milk hotel - song against sex

03. dawn landes - honey bee

04. the shins - those to come

05. the shirelles - will you still love me tomorrow

06. spoon - goodnight laura

07. vampire weekend - i stand corrected

08. bishop allen - dirt on your new shoes

09. broken social scene - anthems for a seventeen year-old girl

10. sufjan stevens - the perpetual self...

11. the beatles - she said she said

12. okkervil river - okkervil river song

13. belle and sebastian - the fox in the snow

14. the national - gospel

15. the duchess and the duke - hands

16. fleet foxes - tiger mountain peasant song

17. the decemberists - red right ankle

18. elliott smith - thirteen

19. the mamas and the papas - dream a little dream of me

20. belle and sebastian - dialogue: mandingo cliche

21. the rolling stones - she's a rainbow

22. the beatles - goodnight

23. emitt rhodes - lullabye

24. neko case - outro with bees (reprise)

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summer of freedom 2009: a mix of 25 songs in 7 movements
*note* all links in purple are direct to .mp3

first movement: declaration (00:36)

second movement: freedom (18:04)
+ yeah yeah yeahs - date with the night
+ sleater kinney - one beat
+ the fiery furnaces - tropical iceland
+ caviar - tangerine speedo
+ math the band - tour de friends
+ rivers cuomo - blast off!

third movement: transition (07:40)
+ modest mouse - novocain stain
+ brian eno - deep blue day

fourth movement: heartbreak (10:27)
+ better than ezra - desperately wanting
+ of montreal - feminine effects
+ broken social scene - pitter patter goes my heart
+ the hold steady - first night

fifth movement: redemption (15:19)
+ the zombies - work 'n' play
+ april march - chick habit
+ the eames era - talk talk
+ bishop allen - tiger, tiger

sixth movement: freedom reprise (14:01)
+ pixies - dig for fire
+ nana grizol - circles 'round the moon
+ a drum and an open window - just do it
+ port o'brien - i woke up today
+ the wave pictures - one line at a time

seventh movement: goodbye (13:33)
+ the billionaires - the end of summer song
+ the boggs - holiday
+ ozma - gameover
+ regina spektor - ne me quitte pas

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t o t e x a s !

01 animal collective - college
02 the avalanches - since i left you
03 chugga chugga - ADHD
04 the eames era - both hands full
05 love like fire - i will
06 paul baribeau - ten things
07 page france - hat and rabbit
08 the new pornographers - challengers
09 j. spaceman - micheal's opening
10 joan as police woman - real life
11 of montreal - tim i wish you were born a girl
12 peggy seeger - i'm gonna be an engineer
13 the morning benders - damnit anna
14 rosa - milk crates
15 sealove - things i can't see
16 ghost mice - free pizza for life
17 luke from kenyon - fanny pack
18 lol hammond - cloud watch
19 pedro the lion - when they really get to know you they will run
20 the long winters - ultimatum
21 regina spektor - consequence of sounds
22 defiance, oh - tanks! tanks! tanks!
23 machine go boom! - build me a ladder
24 captain chaos - building new bridges
25 david dondero - ode to a 1973 chevy open road
26 cat power - freebird

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i a m a l w a y s s o b e r

01 ... and you will know us by the trail of dead - so divided
02 architecture in helsinki - vanishing
03 belle & sebastian- put the book back on the shelf
04 of montreal - oslo in the summertime
05 the libertines - arbeit macht frei
06 louis xiv - paper doll
07 be your own pet - ouch
08 ted leo & the pharmacists - biomusicology
09 belle & sebastian - get me away from here, i'm dying
10 troubled hubble - to be alive and alone
11 the fiery furnaces - tropical ice-land
12 the beatles - a day in the life
13 peaches - kick it
14 illinois - bad day
15 the long winters - honest
16 the blow - "come on petunia"
17 the strokes - ask me anything
18 of montreal - lysergic bliss
19 tokyo police club - citizens of tomorrow
20 the faint - sealed human
21 belle & sebastian - she's losing it

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y o u t h o l o g y

01 up up down down left right left right ba start - please come to me
02 andrew bird - fake palindromes
03 feist - sea lion woman
04 the orion experience - adrianne
05 charles trénet - boum!
06 nightbeast - jungle first date
07 mgmt - handshake
08 metric - dr. blind
09 belle & sebastian - winter wooskie
10 the long winters - the commander thinks aloud
11 sealove - the sea ballad
12 kevin drew - tbtf
13 tullycraft - the girl who's above us
14 rilo kiley - with arms outstretched
15 camera obscura - i need all the friends i can get
16 casey shea - chop suey
17 mobius band - friends like these
18 georgie james - cake parade
19 soko - i'll kill her
20 kimya dawson - loose lips
21 of montreal - tim i wish you were born a girl
22 jens lekman - postcard to nina
23 the national - murder me rachael
24 freezepop - he says she says