First track: P.J. Harvey - The Letter [Apparently, this is actually off of 'Uh Huh Her'.]

Last Track: Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat

Possible tracks between:

The Beatles - P.S. I Love You
Dar Williams - If I Wrote You
Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

Any ideas for others?

...entitled Beware The Friendly Stranger ( Read more... )

A mix that is at least slightly noiser than my usual mixes, just made for my friend Annalee while drinking a fair bit of shitty red wine. Witness to this is the Corey Hart track. The last two tracks are repeats from previous mixes, but, well, she hasn't heard 'em ( Read more... )

That's right - fourteen tracks. I am pushing the envelope... Back ( Read more... )

Well here we have a mix I just made for a friend in Florida's upcoming birthday. It's definitely the most hipsterly mix I've ever put together. It's got something of a cityscape theme, especially in the first half where quite a few songs are about NYC, and a repeated use of strings. The Jeffrey Foucault and Stars tracks were taken from a stellar ( Read more... )

A hastily thrown together mix for the anti-Valentines Day party that never was. Three cheers for Sam Cooke. The Louis Armstrong track must be heard to be believed ( Read more... )

Toward the end of the Summer I turned at last to making a mix for the other Rachel I know, who is my best friend, who had been following the mixes from the beginning (and for whom I originally began putting them on the internet) and who had indicated early on that she'd be thrilled to receive one herself. I finally (was able to) set to work on it ( Read more... )

Oh no! I totally forgot to do this on time, this week. Sorry, guys!

Put together for one of the two people I know in America named 'Rachel', on the occasion of her birthday. It's probably actually most strongly a #2.

1. Perpetual Dream Theory - Pandora's Box ( Read more... )

The second mix I made for my friend J., with the appropriate sequel title (I do intend eventually to follow through with a "Songs for the Aftermath"). I decided that I would take this opportunity to experimentally do away with a number of the guiding rules I had previously observed - I would have more than 15 tracks! (Only 16, as it turned out, but ( Read more... )

And here's a pair of mixes I made for friend around the same era. They were trying to be #2ish, but they failed quite miserably as it turned out she didn't much like classic rock at the time. They're also spectacularily uncohesive. Part of the "learning process"... I started making mixes when I listened pretty much exclusively to celtic music, so ( Read more... )