This Brave New World's Not Like Yesterday [a Sam Tyler fanmix]
Full album art, tracklistings, and download links under the cut.
So once again I'm doing the mini-fanmix meme over on tumblr where I've been taking requests for mixes (there is still time to pop over there if you have one!).
Number three of this round of mini-mixes is a Sam Tyler mix requested by americanmasquerades. I was so excited to get this request! I can't believe I've never actually made anything inspired by Life on Mars before. It was such a brilliant series and just a really special bit of television.
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This Brave New World's Not Like Yesterday
a Sam Tyler fanmix
1. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
When there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind?
2. Roxy Music - Street Life
Wish everybody would leave me alone, yeah
They're always calling on my telephone
When I pick it up there's no one there
So I walk outside just to take the air
Come on with me cruising down the street
Who knows what you'll see, who you might meet
This brave new world's not like yesterday
3. Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
We had survived to
Turn on the History Channel
And ask our esteemed panel
Why are we alive?
And here's how they replied
You're what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should have died
4. The Divine Comedy - Life On Mars?
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
5. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Always, no sometimes, think it's me
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a "yes" but it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
6. Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely
I'm not here
This isn't happening
I'm not here, I'm not here
7. Jeff Buckley - So Real
And I couldn't awake from the nightmare
That sucked me in and pulled me under, pulled me under
Oh, that was so real
8. Patrick Wolf - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
I keep looking for a place to fit
Where I can speak my mind
And I keep trying hard to find the people
That I won't leave behind
They say I got brains
But they ain't doing me no good
And I wish they could
Each time things start to happen again
I think I got something good going for myself
But what goes wrong?
Sometimes I feel very sad
Sometimes I feel so very sad
And I guess I just wasn't made for these times
9. Local Natives - Breakers
Stare down my nose, watching
The color drain from my eyes
Cold cereal and TV
Before I go to sleep
Breathing out
Hoping to breathe in
I know nothing's wrong but I'm not convinced
No, I know, I know how far it's gone myself
Maybe I'll believe it from somebody else
10. The National - Secret Meeting
I think this place is full of spies
I think they're onto me
Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you
Didn't anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room
I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know
And so and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
11. Brain Eno - Needle In The Camel's Eye
Why ask why
For by the by and by,
All mysteries are just more
Needles in the camel's eye
12. The Beatles - A Day In The Life [Love Version]
Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
13. Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After Coma
[Instrumental]
14. Sparklehorse (Feat. Thom Yorke) - Wish You Were Here
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain?
Can you tell a green field
From a cold still rail
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
15. David Bowie - Across The Universe
Sounds of laughter, shades of love are ringing through my open mind
Inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe
16. The National - Fake Empire [Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Remix]
We're half awake in a fake empire
BONUS TRACK:
Aynsley Lister - Hyde 2612
I'm not feelin' quite myself
Something's gone out of sync
There's a cog inside my head
Needs relocating and slotting in
It all looks a little strange
Like I've been here before
Things are not in place, somebody moved the door
Who is this man in front of me
Stained with nicotine
He claims he's my superior
And it's 1973
Whose own way of policing
Ain't doing it by the book
Settling most endeavors with a healthy right hook
For him the word compassion's not in his vocabulary
Tryin' to get me back
Don't go all Dorothy on me
Wake, wake up
To another day with the Sheriff trying to show me the way
C'mon now
Wake, wake up
Wake up and smell the cocoa, I'm still here
Guess I ain't goin' home today
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If you would like a link to any of the individual tracks, just ask!
[view the mix on tumblr]
[view the mix on 8tracks]
And while you're here, please check out some of the other fandom-y things I've worked on:
more fanmixes
This Sam Tyler fanmix was created for you with love by suchaprince.