Hey All,
I was locked inside a bathroom. I finally got out. Here's my mix.
(Note: I did write a much longer, wittier and, ultimately, emotional description, but it was erased...multiple times. I think it was Burnmix telling me to just keep it pithy and post a damn mix already. Thank you, Noah, for helping me.)
-Kristin
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LP / Lost on You
I find her totally haunting and cool. It's like Patti Smith meets a wonderfully weird warbling lark.
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There are three artists named LP. 1. Los Angeles-based indie rocker, "LP" (born Laura Pergolizzi), whose artist page can be seen at http://www.last.fm/music/L.P. and www.iamlp.com. 2. Synthpop band from Kaliningrad, Russia. 3. Electronic artist hailing from Phoenix, Arizona. LP was pushing the envelope of forward-thinking electronic dance music since rave culture was barely beyond its infancy. LP represents a unique and refreshing blend of energetic progressive house, trance, and break beat. Read more on Last.fm more...
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First Aid Kit / Wolf
This is a "call to my women" kind of song. All my year-weary, yet still fierce and wild women.
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There are three bands called First Aid Kit: 1. Swedish indie/folk duo which consists of sisters Johanna (b. 31 October 1990) and Klara Söderberg (b. 8 January 1993) both from Enskede, Sweden. The sisters began composing songs in 2007, taking their name at random from an English dictionary. They began uploading their music to their My Space page and sending their songs to Swedish radio station, this led to live performances and offers from Record Companies. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Beck / Up All Night
He's still got it, I think.
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Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Beck's music is known for its pop-junk culture collage of musical styles, ironic lyrics, samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and heady sound effects. Beck was born in Los Angeles, California, to David Campbell (a musician and son of a Presbyterian minister) and Bibbe Hansen (a former dancer for The Velvet Underground, founding member of the satirical band Black Fag, and visual artist). Read more on Last.fm more...
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Rising Appalachia and the Human Experience / Downtown
I get lost in this song.
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Rising Appalachia and The Human Experience met many years ago on the shores of southern India. After spearheading each of their own unique musical paths, they have joined forces to birth a soulful new electro/acoustic collaboration, merging sounds from around the world in an elaborate artistic love-child of beats, voice, banjo and bass. "Soul Visions" is their first step in the long journey of bringing together electronic music and soul, folk and ballads, bass rhythms and swamp-womp in an effort to bridge worlds through aural exploration. Read more on Last.fm more...
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St. Vincent / New York
Brydie says this is the saddest break up song ever. I don't know if I agree, but I can imagine walking down 1st Avenue, especially at :55 in the song, I can feel the heartbreak in it. So it's a contender, for the year, at least.
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A pseudonym of Annie Clark (b. 28 Sept 1982), a USA multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter. She was a member of The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens' touring band. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she began playing the guitar at the age of 12 and as a teenager worked as the tour manager for her uncle's band Tuck & Patti. She grew up in Dallas and attended Lake Highlands High School, graduating in 2001. Following this, she went on to attend Berklee College of Music, dropping out 3 years later. Read more on Last.fm more...
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SYML / Where's My Love-Alternate Version
...but this one might win. The piano sounds like it's crying. Or raining. Or walking in the rain, crying. It's a pretty cryer.
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Translated as “simple” in Welsh, SYML is the creation of Brian Fennell, Seattle-native and founding member of the band Barcelona. With a keen grasp on textural and emotive songwriting, Fennell combines bare piano, minimalist synth and string-scapes, and etherial vocals to create the sounds of SYML. Accumulating many previous placements in TV and film with Barcelona, Fennell is no stranger to crafting songs that evoke movement and image when you close your eyes. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires / Mutineer
Nothing like a pirate love song! JK introduced this to me. I just love that a song that starts with "yo ho ho and a bottle of rum" can manage to be taken seriously. Great duet...and they are married. Ah, pirate babies "R" the cutest.
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Dan Reeder / Food and Pussy
I had to. (Feels right following a pirate ditty). Heard this song on the pilot of SMILF (highly recommend it), and it stuck. Like I couldn't get it out of my head for days. You're welcome...
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Dan Reeder (born in Louisiana in 1954 and raised in California) is an American musician and artist. He relocated to Germany in 1979. Reeder’s second album Sweetheart comprises 15 original songs, plus a cover of Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” that sounds like the demo version Gary Brooker probably dreamed of singing before all that baroque production-work got in the way. It isn’t so much a sequel to his wonderful out-of-nowhere Read more on Last.fm more...
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Kevin Morby / Beautiful Stranger
Makes me think of Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen...and giants and beanstalks. A lot of nice details in such a simple song.
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Kevin Morby is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly the bass guitarist of the folk rock band Woods, and the frontman of The Babies, Morby began a solo career in 2013. Harlem River marked the solo debut. Known for his work as the singer/guitarist for the Brooklyn band The Babies and bassist for Woods, the Kansas City native and new Los Angeles resident, calls the record “an homage to New York City,” his adopted home for the past five years. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Noah and The Whale / Waiting For My Chance To Come
I keep discovering new good songs by this band, thanks in part to other burnmixes. It has a definite nod to Tom Petty, so I thought it appropriate to be the penultimate song.
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Noah and the Whale were an English alternative/folk group formed in Twickenham, London in 2006. Their final line-up consisted of Charlie Fink (vocals, guitar), Tom Hobden (fiddle, keyboards), Matt "Urby Whale" Owens (bass), Fred Abbott (keyboards, guitar) and Matthew Petulla (drums). Former members of the band include Doug Fink (drums), Laura Marling (vocals, guitar) and Jack Hamson (drums). According to Songfacts, the band's name is a combination of the title of one of their favorite films Read more on Last.fm more...
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Tom Petty / Free Fallin'
Had to do it. The late, the great (at least 5 songs). And this song was definitely playing in the soundtrack of my life when, after two hours, I finally discovered that the doorstop makes a good makeshift doorknob when you're locked in your own bathroom.
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Thomas Earl Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American musician, singer, composer and songwriter best known for fronting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Apart from the band, he released three solo albums: "Full Moon Fever" (1989), "Wildflowers" (1994) and "Highway Companion" (2006). After working with his early bands The Sundowners, The Epics, and Mudcrutch (which also included future Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont Read more on Last.fm more...
