Artist	Song
The Hold Steady	Stuck Between Stations
Ben Kweller	Penny on the Train Track
Lily Allen	LDN
The Blood Arm	Suspicious Character
The Killers	Who Let You Go
The Klaxons	Atlantis to Interzone
Katerine	Catfight
The Zutons	Why Won't You Give Me Your Love
Butch Walker	Bethamphetamine (Pretty Pretty)
New Found Glory	Familiar Landscapes
Jet	Kings Horses
Be Your Own PET	October, First Account
My Morning Jacket	Just Because I Do
Shut Up Stella	Forgot to Remember
Jim Noir	Eanie Meany
The Gothic Archies	Scream and Run Away
Neko Case	If You Knew (live)
Brett Dennen	Oh the Glorious
The Lovely Feathers	Lion Eats the Wildebeast
The Wrens	Hopeless
Rilo Kiley	Spectacular Views
Calexico	All Systems Red
Anathallo	Don't Kid Yourself
Evangelicals	Another Day (And Yoor Still Knocked Out)
Mates of State	Running Out
Tilly and the Wall	Coughing Colors
The Decemberists	The Island - Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drowning

Comment:

I wanted to create a dichotomy between the first and second half, hence the breezy dance rock in tracks 2-9, the bit-more-serious in-between transitions in tracks 10-17, and then the drawn-out, downright moody ambience of tracks 18-27 (most of which are at least 6 minutes long). It wasn't an exact science or anything, but since I often dwell on the happy/sad, light/dark contrasts in the mixes I make, I thought I'd just go ahead and completely separate them this time to see how it sounds. Unfortunately for the effect, I started becoming too interested in the loftier second half, so I put that Hold Steady song up front as a way of foreshadowing the later tone, or bridging the gap. Plus it made a perfect lead-off song on the actual album, so I basically just ripped off their genius. Sorry.

Anyway, I don't expect any of that to be taken very seriously. At heart I still just combined a bunch of beloved songs together that I hadn't yet mixed, so I can enjoy them in the car or when I don't feel like sorting through an entire library of music. But there is a point to its weird blend of tones, for whatever that's worth.

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