Artist	Song
Be Your Own Pet	October, First Account
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes	Goodbye Earl
Todd Rundgren	Mighty Love
Bruce Springsteen	Buffalo Gals
The Chieftains	O'Sullivan's March
Thin Lizzy	Black Rose
Of Montreal	Gronlandic Edit
Ladybug Transistor	Fjords of Winter
Portastatic	Sour Shores
Oxford Collapse	Please Visit Your National Parks
The Lemonheads	The Outdoor Type
Bob Dylan	Mr. Tambourine Man
Toto	Africa
Mates of State	Punchlines
Tom Waits	Road to Peace
Chantal Kreviazuk	Time
The Format	She Doesn't Get it
The Dixie Chicks	Bitter End
Dolly Parton	Take Me Home Country Roads
Tilly and the Wall	Pictures of Houses
Jens Lekman	You are the Light

Comment:

I'm usually a silly perfectionist with my mixes, but I made this the day before my best friend and I took off for Iceland for the Airwaves music festival, so I was in kind of a rush. Hence the mismatched potpourri here, but in addition to my iPod and a few CDs I was bringing, I wanted to make a mix to commemorate (and, later, immmortalize) our unique trip. As a rather hermetic San Diego native, I've never been outside the U.S. before, so this was a big, weird undertaking, and now the songs on this mix will always be associated with the experience (although I mainly just listened to this on the several flights we took, not so much in Reyjkavic.

For the record, we had an incredible time. Our main reasons for going were Tilly and the Wall and Mates of State, two of our favorite bands, with the allure of Jens Lekman (replacing Jenny Wilson at the last minute) and The Go! Team rounding it out, plus a bunch of interesting new music. Everyone delivered with stupendous panache.

Anyway, forgive the assortment I've made here. 80% is music I had just recently discovered (new Of Montreal, new Tom Waits, new Me First, Springsteen's "Seeger" outtake, Be Your Own Pet, Oxford Collapse), or realized I liked after knowing it for a long time (i.e. Bob Dylan's cover). Others are gems from previous mixes (Lemonheads, Ladybug, Dixie Chicks) or included specifically for the occasion (Tilly, Mates, Jens). Coincidentally, all 3 of them actually played the songs I used on here - good times :)

As for Toto, well, I've been having a revival of it lately. Even after hearing it 5 million times over the past 20 years, I still can't enough of its cheesy majesty. I love it. Cheers!

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