120 mixes with songs by “The+Handsome+Family”

My favorite songs often tell a story or have some sort of context-embedded narrative with dialogue and the type of details found more in myth and fiction than in poetry and ballads. In these stories, characters walk, talk, fight, sail, and shoot grizzlies. Fourty-five tracks including music by Bauhaus, Billy Bragg, and Kate Bush.

A weekend-themed mix to celebrate the best part of any week. So whether you're staying in or going out, there's something here for every occassion including tracks by Jens Lekman, New Buffalo, The Apples In Stereo and much, much more. Oh, but definitely no sign of Rebecca Black’s “Friday” on here, cuz it really is crap!!

countryside, dry rains, ghosts, imagine woods and deserts, gardens and paths, vague dreams, lost love ...it's an incomplete set of themes that are present in this unusual, rather elegiacal, but at the same time philosophical collection. mainly alt-country 33 tracks including Bill Callahan, Woven Hand and Neil Young.

Now you say you're leavin' home
'Cause you want to be alone.
Ain't it funny how you feel
When you're findin' out it's real?

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.

Andrew Bird
Neil Young
Kings Of Convenience

Me.

Pure and unrefined. The love, the depression, the hopefulness -- all the things that tap into a true Midwesterner's soul. Some you know, some you may not.

Various approaches to and kinds of loss, illustrated by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Shearwater, Damien Jurado and others.

Dark, minor, haunting, fantastic.

I think I'm falling deeper into an alt country abyss. Slim Cessna's Auto Club plays "Dear Amelia" and right now it won't leave my head. Also, in here is the always perfect The Handsome Family and Whiskeytown.

you're in a forest. you have a beard. you like these songs.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather.. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

The 100 Best Tracks of the 90s. In Order.
(A small blog fell out when I did this: http://grumpymandj.wordpress.com/the-best-100-tracks-of-the-90s/)