Other Mixes By nickhalz
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Optimism: The Mixtape
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| XTC | Life Begins at the Hop | |
| Superchunk | Slack Motherfucker | |
| Violent Femmes | Prove My Love | |
| Fastbacks | Apologies | |
| Afghan Whigs | Gentlemen | |
| Death Cab for Cutie | 405 | |
| Wilco | Say You Miss Me | |
| Pixies | Letter to Memphis | |
| Tullycraft | Heroes and Villains | |
| The Jam | But I'm Different Now | |
| Buzzcocks | Everybody's Happy Nowadays | |
| The Breeders | Divine Hammer | |
| David Bowie | Moonage Daydream | |
| Billy Brag & Wilco | Secret of the Sea | |
| The Minus 5 | A Thousand Years Away | |
| Richard Hell&the Voidoids | Love Comes in Spurts | |
| Squirrel Bait | Sun God | |
| Pavement | Summer Babe | |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket | Nightengale Song | |
| The Dream Syndicate | Tell Me When its Over | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| X-Ray Spex | Let's Submerge | |
| Husker Du | Something I Learned Today | |
| XTC | Making Plans for Nigel | |
| Throwing Muses | America (She Can't Say No) | |
| Minutemen | Themselves | |
| X-Ray Spex | I Live off You | |
| The Clash | Somebody Got Murdered | |
| The Jam | Dream Time | |
| PIL | Lowlife | |
| Dinosaur | Repulsion | |
| Black Flag | Rise Above | |
| The Who | Won't Get Fooled Again | |
| Replacements | Seen Your Video | |
| Billy Bragg | A New England | |
| Astrid | High in the Morning | |
| Superchunk | Brand New Love | |
| Robyn Hitchcock | Beautiful Girl | |
| Marshall Crenshaw | Cynical Girl | |
| Dead Milkmen | Punk Rock Girl | |
Comment:
120 min. Musically, its somewhat similar to previous mixes I've made this summmer, but at 2 hours length it covers pretty much every corner of my record collection. I tried not to use any songs I had used on any previous mixes (A New England is the only exception, one of my all-time favorites so I couldn't deny I). As far as the title goes, I kinda felt like this mix was telling a story with a happy, positive ending. Some side 1 songs are about relationship problems and such, but then I threw in a couple of happier songs to assure that everything was resolved. Side 2 is more concerned with political/social ills. The love songs prevail in the end, though. I'm especially proud of the "girl" hat trick. I guess I was having a good week when I made this mix too. It pretty much took shape as I was making it.Feedback:
I think we have matching record collections.
Fuck. So do I. I almost used "Sun God" just last week. "A New England" is one of my personal theme songs. "Prove My Love" is far and away my favorite Femmes song... I could go on and on. But the point of all of this is: why the hell haven't you gotten back to me about trading?! :-)
Actually, good sir, I may want a copy of this, as well as whatever it was that I mentioned to you about a month ago...


