Artist	Song	Buy
The Simpsons	"Happy Birthday Lisa" [TV clip]
The Beatles	Birthday [The White Album]
Pixies	Hey! [Doolittle]
The White Stripes	We're Going to be Friends [White Blood Cells]
Violent Femmes	Kiss Off [The Violent Femmes]
The Unicorns	Tuff Ghost [Who Will Cut Our Hair When We Are Gone?]
Pavement	Nothing Ever Happens [Slanted & Enchanted Reissue]
Spoon	All the Pretty Girls Go to the City [Kill the Moonlight]
Yo La Tengo	Autumn Sweater [I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One]
Aphex Twin	Lornaderek [Drukgs]
The Flaming Lips	Do You Realize?? [Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots]
RJD2	The Horror [Deadringer]
Modest Mouse	3rd Planet [The Moon & Antarctica]
The Postal Service	The District Sleeps Alone Tonight [Give Up]
They Might Be Giants	It's Not My Birthday [??]

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This is a mix I made a girl named Sarah for her birthday this year. Her birthday is actually Oct. 30, so I kind of put a few vaguely Halloween-themed songs in, along with some birthday-themed ones... But essentially, I was trying for something catchy that she'd probably like, without knowing anything at all about her music tastes. I started out with songs I think fit into a specific style of poppy, twangish, almost-giddy energy, then at around the half-way mark of Aphex Twin's parents singing him happy birthday, I went for stuff with a more universal appeal. Great single cuts, in other words. The only things I knew about her musical tastes were that she liked They Might Be Giants, liked Death Cab For Cutie, and had never heard of The Pixies but liked what brief snippets of songs I played for her.

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