DECEMBER 2008
TRACKS:
1) The White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
2) Loch Lomond - Elephants & Little Girls
3) Tokyo Police Club - Tessellate
4) The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
5) Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
6) Ted Leo + Pharmacists - Heart Problems
7) String Quartet Tribute to Nirvana - Come As You Are
8) School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
9) Chemistry - Life Goes On ~side K~
10) Deerhoof - Matchbook Seeks Maniac
11) The Morning Benders - Grain of Salt
12) The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
13) Deerhoof - Spirit Ditties of No Tone
LISTEN?
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Facts: I actually started this mix way back in November, but I am never sure about the tracks until much later when I am almost sick of these songs. I like to make the mixes based on the general mood I feel during the specific month (I'd like to think of it like a 365 but of music and only every other month). It's kind of nice to listen to it when you have time to yourself, in the midst of all the holiday hullabaloo and all of that--hence the title.
The first couple songs are really old, but my personal favorites are Fleet Foxes's White Winter Hymnal, and Deerhoof's Spirit Ditties of No Tone. Though I used to be really obsessed with Matchbook Seeks Maniac and Half Asleep by the School of Seven Bells, I just played it so much in my head it kind of hurts listening to it now. Everyone needs to listen to the String Quartet's Tribute to Nirvana. GLORIOUS.