Artist	Song
lou reed	dirty blvd
thee headcoatees	dirty old man
belle & sebastian	dirty dream no. 2
modest mouse	dirty fingernails
team dresch	my dirty hands are mined
piebald	dirty harry and the thunderbolts
zoinks!	dirty underwear
failure	dirty blue balloons
white stripes	dead leaves and the dirty ground
johnny hammond smith	dirty apple
beck	dirty dirty
dump	dirty mind
kristin hersh	your dirty answer
mummy the peepshow	dirty snowy red coat
captain beefheart	dirty blue gene
woody guthrie	dirty overalls
the pogues	dirty old town (live)
giant sand	dirty from the rain
smog	dirty pants
sonic youth	dirty boots
dirty three	dirty equation

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possibly the goofiest mix i've come up with thus far(and my first ever stab at thematically-driven stuff as well). got the idea while listening to smog's "dirty pants" and thinking it would sound great as a lead into "dirty boots" hey, wait a sec...(lightbulb emits faint glow)! etc etc anyway, wanted to avoid the obvious ones (not enough room) and will leave the metal version (ac/dc, poison, buckcherry, w.a.s.p., ratt, motorhead), the punk version (the clash's "dirty punk" was hard to pass up, not to mention sham 69, uk subs, gbh, replacements, ann beretta, rye coalition etc), the electronica/beats version (roni size, aphex twin, fsol "dirty shadows" nearly made this one on name alone), and the hip-hop version (where do we even begin?) to abler hands. had to make some tuff cuts at the last minute (the drags' "dirty little bird" and royal trux "dirty headlines" being two big ones). no comments about don henley ("dirty laundry") or michael jackson ("dirty diana") please, because i wanted songs i might actually want to hear. only had two of the songs on cd and spent an evening taking everything else off of audiogalaxy.com, which was more fun than it should've been. yay filesharing! i'm sure i missed a ton of stuff and somebody's prolly done this already and much better. but still, i'm lovin the outcome. the real heart of the mix is that giant sand/ smog/ sonic youth grouping, which means that the overall feel is much more somber and mellow than you might expect. pretty mellow, for the most part.

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