Je vois la vie en rose bonbon

Artist Song
The Elements  Ordinary Day (Shake Yer Popboomerang 1 [compilation], 2003) 
Maritime  Sleep Around (Glass Floor, 2004) 
Saturday Looks Good To Me  Meet Me By The Water (All Your Summer Songs, 2003) 
The Heavy Blinkers  Rise And Glide (The Heavy Blinkers, 2000) 
His Name Is Alive  Get Your Curse On (Summer Left Your Heart Behind) (Detrola, 2006) 
The Young Tradition  Sheila Take A Bow (Romantic And Square Is Hip And Aware: A Matinee Tribute To The Smiths [compilation], 2004) 
The Field Mice  Star Of David (For Keeps, 1991) 
Modest Mouse  Gravity Rides Everything (The Moon And Antarctica, 2000) 
Sondre Lerche  Dead Passengers (Faces Down, 2002) 
Momus  Girlish Boy (The Philosophy Of Momus, 1995) 
The Shins  Mine's Not A High Horse (Chutes Too Narrow, 2003) 
The Nines  Melanie (Properties Of Sound, 2001) 
Erin McKeown  Slung-Lo (Grand, 2003) 
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah  Over And Over Again (Lost & Found) (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, 2005) 
Snow Machine  Camellights (Snow Machine, 2004) 
The Pastels  Million Tears (Suck On The Pastels, 1988) 
Ludus  Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go (The Damage, 2004) 
Bow Wow Wow  Fools Rush In (Girl Bites Dog, 1999) 
France Gall  PoupTe De Cire, PoupTe De Son (PoupTe De Cire, PoupTe De Son, 1965) 
The Magic Numbers  Love Me Like You (The Magic Numbers, 2005) 
Bettie Serveert  Hell = Other People (Bare Stripped Naked, 2006) 
Architecture In Helsinki  City Calm Down (Fingers Crossed, 2004) 
Broken Social Scene  Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl (You Forgot It In People, 2003) 

Comment:

Some sweet mostly-indie-pop with a few other treats thrown in. Warning: this mix exceeds your RDA of sugar. Only to be taken as part of a balanced diet. Title by France Gall, and a big thank you to mademoiselle Laura for the Architecture in Helsinki pick.
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Feedback:

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Rob Conroy
Date: 10/28/2006
Looks very cool. I love 10, 11 and 14.
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tornadoZ
Date: 10/28/2006
Whoopie! your His Name Is Alive and Sondre Lerche picks are very nice, and I just added Bow Wow Wow to my next mix blueprint after watching Marie Antoinette today, where "Fools Rush In" was well-featured. weren't you toying with download options a while back? love to hear this, it looks fantastic.
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sammyg123
Date: 10/28/2006
Yum. Momus, Ludus, Field Mice. I could go on.. What I will say though is tornadoZ, you are right, we want more links Siobhan!!
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Nomates
Date: 10/28/2006
Essential! Yet--unavailable. Gnash, gnash etc.
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Mixxer
Date: 10/28/2006
Erin McKeown is always sweet. Like a bonbon.
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Barrydali
Date: 10/28/2006
Well now, Let me say put this on top of the pile for next time we do business lady. From what I know 7-11 and 19 to the wonderful wonderful closer gives me big fat halloween goose pimples. I was listening to a hilarious live cover of that France Gall pick today by Belle & Seb followed by their equally sincere yet equally funny version of Mutantes - A Minha Menina. Great stuff Siobhan.
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Moe
Date: 10/28/2006
Wow! One of the coolest mixes I've seen from you -- but perhaps because I'm familiar with many of the songs (pastels, SLGTM, Heavy Blinkers, HNIA , France Gall, etc). Lovely cover too. It reminds me of some of the El/Cherry Red covers.
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locovinagre
Date: 10/28/2006
Looks sweet, would like to give it a listen.
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French Connection
Date: 10/29/2006
Oh what a perfect mTlange. Quite a lot I'm not familiar with so that's me intrigued now!
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hemizen
Date: 10/29/2006
Fools Rush In is one of my all time favorite songs and the Magic Numbers track is very fine also. Nothing ordinary about this mix.
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ofthaltned
Date: 10/29/2006
This looks tremendous! Also, there's a new Bettie Serveert album and I didn't know it - how the hell could that happen? So thanks for the heads-up.
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musicgnome
Date: 10/29/2006
Your best yet (and that is quite the achievement). This is, quite simply put, fantastic. I, too, would like to open my bag, put on a big ole grin and say "trick or treat" in hopes of nabbing this sweet treat.
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bufo alvarius
Date: 10/29/2006
This looks like it's full of lovely, indie-pop goodness. You're definitely at the top of the heap when it comes to putting together these kinds of mixes. Bee-yoo-tee-full cover, too. A must-hear, for sure.
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sport !
Date: 10/29/2006
Love the songs, love the cover...love the mix!!
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Dom1
Date: 10/29/2006
anything with france gall & annabelle from bow wow wow gets my approval...great cover 2!
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Orchid
Date: 10/29/2006
Oooh, I love Bow Wow Wow's cover too, as well as the Sondre Lerche song and the rat-related double-header. Excellent all around, comme toujours.
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valis
Date: 10/30/2006
Full of confections! Causes earaches..?
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 10/30/2006
Tasty Treats indeed. Love the Erin McKeown and Modest Mouse esp.
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p the swede
Date: 10/30/2006
great stuff all around
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GambleOn
Date: 10/30/2006
Wow, really good. 3, 7, 11, 14, 22, 23 are all excellent! Looks like a great blend overall.
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Jenergy
Date: 10/30/2006
Oh Siobhan, c'est magnifique. And I thank Laura too, because that is a fantastic AiH cut.
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Bear
Date: 10/31/2006
What a bag of delights this is. Big love for the Pastels.
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FoolThemAll
Date: 10/31/2006
8-11 and those last two tracks... magnificient. This looks like it'd be right up my alley. Guess I'm a sugar junkie.
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deja_vu_all_over_again
Date: 11/2/2006
I do like the look of this. Dude, sweet.
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SMoss
Date: 11/4/2006
THis looks so nice! Great cover too!
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 11/5/2006
Beautiful cover and mix Siobhan.
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Salman1
Date: 11/6/2006
The whole indie pop genre can get way too saccharine for my tastes, but I can never get away from it. It's too addictive! Loving all that I hard of her especailly 3, 11 and 22. Will have to check out some of these other artists. . . .
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tornadoZ
Date: 11/22/2006
and finally.... thank you, Siobhan! listened to this in a sleep-deprived haze on a long flight from Atlanta to Seattle yesterday and then again at work today since I knew it was sure to be a hit with my colleagues. especially love tracks 3,10,17 (in addition to those I mentioned below) and you're forcing me to re-evaluate my hasty judgement of Modest Mouse so long ago. that "Gravity Rides Everything" track is great. thanks again for sharing this.
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DJ Karen Adams
Date: 4/17/2007
Nice lineup and I love the closer.