'Cause I'm just a girl, little 'ol me, don't let me out of your sight.
I think it's been established that I don't "do" creative and thoughtful titles for my mixes. It is what it is, and I'm hopeless at subtlety.
just a girl? | grrly mix no. 1
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22 tracks | mp3 | 01:19:07 | 89.82mb
eisley | brightly wound
it's happening all the time
when i open my eyes
i'm still taken by surprise.
alanis morissette | hand in pocket
what it all comes down to
is that everything's gonna be quite alright
i've got one hand in my pocket
and the other one is flicking a cigarette.
joni mitchell | california
will you take me as i am?
will you take me as i am?
will you?
alix olson | witches
so i can't wait until the day
i make my cane my broomstick,
sweep myself off my own two feet,
pick out all my false teeth and grin-
til i'm like mother jones or harriet tubman,
like audre lorde or emma goldman,
like bessie smith or lucille clifton.
til these bones are in their crone prime,
and at that time i won't grow old with a lady's grace,
won't look in the mirror at my wrinkled face
and sigh or groan or cry
cause i'll be looking at the face of a proud old witch
who's finally ready to fly--
[full poem]
joan baez | eleanor rigby
eleanor rigby, picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
lives in a dream
waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
who is it for?
indigo girls | closer to fine
there's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
the less i seek my source for some definitive
the closer i am to fine.
diana ross & the supremes | you can't hurry love
i remember mama said
"you cant hurry love
no, you'll just have to wait."
she said, "love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take."
martha wainwright | bloody mother fucking asshole
oh, i wish i wish i wish i was born a man
so i could learn how to stand up for myself
like those guys with guitars
i've been watching in bars
who've been stamping their feet to a different beat
to a different beat
to a different beat
i will not pretend
i will not put on a smile
i will not say i'm all right for you
when all i wanted was to be good
to do everything in truth
to do everything in truth.
kt tunstall | get ur freak on (live)
i know you dig the way i sw-sw-switch my style.
nellie mckay | sari
i'm sorry for the mess
the stupid way i'm dressed
i guess i failed my test
oh, don't you know I'm sorry for my views
i musta been confused
and yet you know that really i'm
sorry for you.
ani difranco | my i.q.
my body is borrowed
yeah, i got it on loan
for the time in between my mom and some maggots
i don't need anyone to hold me
i can hold my own
i got highways for stretchmarks
see where i've grown
i sing sometimes
like my life is at stake
'cause you're only as loud
as the noises you make.
kate bush | jig of life
hello, old lady
i know your face well
i know it well.
[...]
"let me live!"
she said
"c'mon and let me live, girl!"
she said
"c'mon and let me live, girl!"
("c'mon and let me live!")
vienna teng | homecoming (walter's song)
well, we all write our own endings
and we all have our own scars
but tonight i think i see what it's all about.
suzanne vega | luka (live)
just dont ask me how i am
just dont ask me how i am
just dont ask me how i am.
alix olson | sticks
we tell our sons "only sticks and stones
will break their bones,"
then call each other bitch, knowing it sticks
more than hurled knuckles ever could.
we are ignored when our butts stick out,
admired when our chests stick out.
we chant "stick together, stick together", until
size six bitch walks by-
"sick", we whisper, menacingly, to each other,
"stick", we think, admiringly, to ourselves.
we smoke cancer sticks, chew on
spearmint sticks, chomp on
carrot sticks, celery sticks.
we crave stick-out collarbones, ribs-
when we cave in, stomachs sticking out,
we stick our fingers down our throats.
[full poem]
sarah mclachlan | elsewhere
mother, can't you see i've got
to live my life the way i feel is right for me
might not be right for you but it's right for me.
cat power | (i can't get no) satisfaction
when i'm drivin' in my car
and the man come on the radio
he's tellin' me more and more
about some useless information
tryin' mess my imagination.
antje duvekot | long way
the light of glowing embers
as sweet as i remember
among the rustling of the trees
the legend of the harvest moon
and sweet ballad of the loon
i felt as ancient as i was meant to be.
kelly clarkson | breakaway (live)
i'll take a risk
take a chance
make a change
and break away.
tracy chapman | behind the wall
and when they arrive
they say they can't interfere
with domestic affairs
between a man and his wife
and as they walk out the door
the tears well up in her eyes.
ani difranco | wishin' & hopin'
you gotta show him that you care just for him
do the things that he likes to do
wear your hair just for him, 'cause
you won't get him, thinkin' and a prayin'
wishin' and a hopin'.
nina simone | four women
whose little girl am i?
Of all my mixes this is the one (this week anyway) I wish I'd spent more time refining. I think this was one of the last ones I made, and I was just so desperate to get them all DONE and sent off that I didn't leave a couple-day gap for reflection. In essence it's a general female musician mix, and so the mellower twin to next week's "man! i feel like a woman" (painfully unoriginal, I said so, mmkay?), but now I look at it and see so many possiblities to make it more focused.
- the last three are a mix theme all on their own. Or an EP. I kinda love how Ani's sardonic cover of "Wishin' & Hopin'" is sandwiched between the two more serious songs.
- damn, I could've made a female "growing older" mix to complement the "you are old, father william" mix.
- could've done with less "pretty" songs? Vega, Sarah McLachlan, Vienna Teng, Antje Duvekot, Kelly Clarkson chosen because they were my favourite songs at that moment. maybe same artist, bolder songs? (female old age - Antje Dukvot's "Anna")
- SELF, PLZ TO BE RECCING A DIFFERENT MARTHA W. TRACK.
- perhaps a different Indigo Girls song?
just a girl? | grrly mix no. 1
» download «
22 tracks | mp3 | 01:19:07 | 89.82mb
eisley | brightly wound
it's happening all the time
when i open my eyes
i'm still taken by surprise.
alanis morissette | hand in pocket
what it all comes down to
is that everything's gonna be quite alright
i've got one hand in my pocket
and the other one is flicking a cigarette.
joni mitchell | california
will you take me as i am?
will you take me as i am?
will you?
alix olson | witches
so i can't wait until the day
i make my cane my broomstick,
sweep myself off my own two feet,
pick out all my false teeth and grin-
til i'm like mother jones or harriet tubman,
like audre lorde or emma goldman,
like bessie smith or lucille clifton.
til these bones are in their crone prime,
and at that time i won't grow old with a lady's grace,
won't look in the mirror at my wrinkled face
and sigh or groan or cry
cause i'll be looking at the face of a proud old witch
who's finally ready to fly--
[full poem]
joan baez | eleanor rigby
eleanor rigby, picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
lives in a dream
waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
who is it for?
indigo girls | closer to fine
there's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
the less i seek my source for some definitive
the closer i am to fine.
diana ross & the supremes | you can't hurry love
i remember mama said
"you cant hurry love
no, you'll just have to wait."
she said, "love don't come easy
it's a game of give and take."
martha wainwright | bloody mother fucking asshole
oh, i wish i wish i wish i was born a man
so i could learn how to stand up for myself
like those guys with guitars
i've been watching in bars
who've been stamping their feet to a different beat
to a different beat
to a different beat
i will not pretend
i will not put on a smile
i will not say i'm all right for you
when all i wanted was to be good
to do everything in truth
to do everything in truth.
kt tunstall | get ur freak on (live)
i know you dig the way i sw-sw-switch my style.
nellie mckay | sari
i'm sorry for the mess
the stupid way i'm dressed
i guess i failed my test
oh, don't you know I'm sorry for my views
i musta been confused
and yet you know that really i'm
sorry for you.
ani difranco | my i.q.
my body is borrowed
yeah, i got it on loan
for the time in between my mom and some maggots
i don't need anyone to hold me
i can hold my own
i got highways for stretchmarks
see where i've grown
i sing sometimes
like my life is at stake
'cause you're only as loud
as the noises you make.
kate bush | jig of life
hello, old lady
i know your face well
i know it well.
[...]
"let me live!"
she said
"c'mon and let me live, girl!"
she said
"c'mon and let me live, girl!"
("c'mon and let me live!")
vienna teng | homecoming (walter's song)
well, we all write our own endings
and we all have our own scars
but tonight i think i see what it's all about.
suzanne vega | luka (live)
just dont ask me how i am
just dont ask me how i am
just dont ask me how i am.
alix olson | sticks
we tell our sons "only sticks and stones
will break their bones,"
then call each other bitch, knowing it sticks
more than hurled knuckles ever could.
we are ignored when our butts stick out,
admired when our chests stick out.
we chant "stick together, stick together", until
size six bitch walks by-
"sick", we whisper, menacingly, to each other,
"stick", we think, admiringly, to ourselves.
we smoke cancer sticks, chew on
spearmint sticks, chomp on
carrot sticks, celery sticks.
we crave stick-out collarbones, ribs-
when we cave in, stomachs sticking out,
we stick our fingers down our throats.
[full poem]
sarah mclachlan | elsewhere
mother, can't you see i've got
to live my life the way i feel is right for me
might not be right for you but it's right for me.
cat power | (i can't get no) satisfaction
when i'm drivin' in my car
and the man come on the radio
he's tellin' me more and more
about some useless information
tryin' mess my imagination.
antje duvekot | long way
the light of glowing embers
as sweet as i remember
among the rustling of the trees
the legend of the harvest moon
and sweet ballad of the loon
i felt as ancient as i was meant to be.
kelly clarkson | breakaway (live)
i'll take a risk
take a chance
make a change
and break away.
tracy chapman | behind the wall
and when they arrive
they say they can't interfere
with domestic affairs
between a man and his wife
and as they walk out the door
the tears well up in her eyes.
ani difranco | wishin' & hopin'
you gotta show him that you care just for him
do the things that he likes to do
wear your hair just for him, 'cause
you won't get him, thinkin' and a prayin'
wishin' and a hopin'.
nina simone | four women
whose little girl am i?
Of all my mixes this is the one (this week anyway) I wish I'd spent more time refining. I think this was one of the last ones I made, and I was just so desperate to get them all DONE and sent off that I didn't leave a couple-day gap for reflection. In essence it's a general female musician mix, and so the mellower twin to next week's "man! i feel like a woman" (painfully unoriginal, I said so, mmkay?), but now I look at it and see so many possiblities to make it more focused.
- the last three are a mix theme all on their own. Or an EP. I kinda love how Ani's sardonic cover of "Wishin' & Hopin'" is sandwiched between the two more serious songs.
- damn, I could've made a female "growing older" mix to complement the "you are old, father william" mix.
- could've done with less "pretty" songs? Vega, Sarah McLachlan, Vienna Teng, Antje Duvekot, Kelly Clarkson chosen because they were my favourite songs at that moment. maybe same artist, bolder songs? (female old age - Antje Dukvot's "Anna")
- SELF, PLZ TO BE RECCING A DIFFERENT MARTHA W. TRACK.
- perhaps a different Indigo Girls song?