Artist	Song
Spiritualized	Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Mew	The Zookeeper's Boy
Snow Patrol	I Am an Astronaut
The Tragically Hip	My Music at Work
Her Space Holiday	Japanese Gum
Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!	2nd Gun
Apples in Stereo	Skyway
Suburban Kids with Biblical Names	Trumpets and Violins
The Magnetic Fields	Irma
Joshua Radin	Star Mile
Azure Ray	Beautiful Things Can Come from the Dark
The New Amsterdams	From California
The Warmth	Motown Stars
The Wedding Present	Spangle
My Latest Novel	Boredom Killed Another
The Polyphonic Spree	Move Away and Shine
White Whale	The Admiral
The Flaming Lips	Free Radicals
Belle and Sebastian	The Monkeys are Breaking Out the Zoo
Asobi Seksu	Red Sea
The Boredoms	Seadrum

Comment:

I know how it looks, but I swear I didn't crib the title from any nebulous Flaming Lips motif. They weren't the first ones to consider space and animals together, so they needn't be the last. Although I do love them. The name of the mix just came to me earlier today while I was putting this together - I had about half of these songs, which vaguely reference one element or the other, so I started to run with a certain mood - mildly wacky, occasionally celebratory, but largely moody and pensive. In other words, indie pop ahoy! There really is no definite connection between the title and songs, other than that I love fantasizing about a space odyssey with me and a punch of cute/friendly animals. That's how lame I am. Oh, and forgive the use of Spiritualized - it's about as clever as using KC and the Sunshine Band for a party tape, but it fit the vibe I was going for, and I never get tired of putting the song on mixes, so why not. Finally, the last 2 songs are both quite long (Asobi is 7 minutes, Boredoms is 23), but I felt I needed a trippy atmospheric flare up and fade out. And "Seadrum" serves as both jungle music and space pop in a way, so it matched both my subjects! Good times. I imagine the hypnotic cacophony of both songs suggesting either re-entry into the earth's atmosphere or some kind of mind-blowing end-of-voyage transcendence, where we all ascend to some higher cosmic/spiritual plain...where we continue having adorable adventures, of course. Mopey adorable adventures. :)

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