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[Mr Trout]

A music blog I like has a section where people post these sorts of playlists, such as Songs that make me want to drink heavily after a day of heavy drinking and Songs to blast from the car windows on an impromptu beach roadtrip

I believe you can also post a title and request a mixtape based on that title.

As far as instrumental soundtracks go I've always been partial to Joe Hiachi's work for Miyazaki's movies, especially Spirited Away. I must have listened to that album a thousand times in a few months. As far as actual bands, I really like this Blind Idiot God album, pretty much anything by Grails, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, A Silver Mount Zion, and The fuck*ng Champs.

I haven't made a mixtape since I made one for the touamb exchange and never mailed it to anyone since that was a little too scary (yet I will enthusiastically throw myself down a mountain on any number of contraptions).

[AugustWest]

As far as actual bands, I really like this Blind Idiot God

I went to college with the bass player, Gabe something.  I remember partying with him one night, having a really cool intense conversation and agreeing that my true vocation was "Appropriate Nomenclature".  He couldn't play for shit then and had just picked up the guitar a few weeks before, I think.  I remember he was a really funny/interesting guy and I enjoyed talking to him.  Somebody told me a couple years later that he had formed a band called Blind Idiot God and moved to New York and played with John Zorn.  Good for him!

[miles]

I drove down to Vegas on Friday and happened upon a playlist with no purpose by chance, but it works pretty well as a mix. When I connect my iPod to the USB port in my car, it often defaults to an "all songs" list in alphabetical order. Instead of looking for something else I decided to let it play for a while. I skipped a couple tracks but this is what it looks like:

The Gits - A
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Grandaddy - A.M. 180
Cass McCombs - A.Y.D.
The American Analogue Set - Aaron & Maria
Robyn Hitchcock - The Abandoned Brain
The Flaming Lips - The Abandoned Hospital Ship
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Abba Zaba
The Jackson 5 - ABC
The Mekons -- Abernant 1984/5
The Magnetic Fields -- Abigail, Belle of Kilronan

So, turns out it doesn't sound as good on second listen, but it sounded fuck*ng awesome in the car. Also, I don't think I had ever listened to The Abandoned Brain before because it's on this rarities compilation I never got around to playing. It was part of a box set I bought a few years ago. It's a great song.