My show this week was all about interesting transitions: how some songs can almost entirely remake themselves midway through. Take Princeton's "Leonard Woolf," which starts out as a kicky pop song - almost an homage to the light-hearted sounds of Belle and Sebastian - but then, after two minutes, acoustic guitar and takes over and dances to the sound of a flute. Suddenly I feel as if I've been transported from a trendy urban venue to an Appalachian Stage. And yet, the thread of the song remains intact.
Many of these songs (but not all!) possess this Janus-like quality. See below for the track list, and visit the WTJU Muxtape for a selection of highlights from my show.
Tori Amos / Programmable Soda
Black Mountain / Queens Will Play
Tapes 'n' Tapes / Hang them all
Wolf Parade / The Grey Estates
Princeton / Leonard Woolf
The Raveonettes / Dead Sound
Peggy Sue and the Pirates / Television
Jamie Liddell / Little Bit of Feel Good
Lily Allen / Friend of Mine
The Ruby Suns / Kenya Dig It?
Straight Punch to the Crotch / Take Off All Your Clothes
Hefner / When the Angels Play Their Drum Machines
I'll Keep It With Mine (Pocketknife's Odd Beauty Remix)
The Bird and the Bee / Man
The Submarines / Fern Beard
Vetiver / To Baby
Midlake / Roscoe
Devotchka / The Clockwise Witness
Chicha Libre / Indian Summer
Wax Taylor / Que Sera
Solomon Burke / Don't Give Up on Me
The Fabulettes / Try The Worryin' Way
Ladytron / Deep Blue
Camille / Kfir
Kings of Convenience / Misread
Dr. Dog / My Friend
Akron/Family / There's So Many Colors
Bruce Springsteen / Born in the U.S.A
2 comments:
No MP3?
i settled for the muxtape while sorting out my mp3 woes. besides, my microphone levels were miniscule, a gaffe i'm not altogether eager to document for posterity.
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