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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"
click here to listen (to most)

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
click here to listen (to some)

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)

via: yahoo image search for "queen anne's lace flower drawing"

::haiku::

c h r y s a n t h e m u m t e a

i like to drink tea
made from flowers not for taste
but the idea

via: fuck yeah french cinema

via: sparkle & fade