Side A
Artist	Song
the Decemberists	the Shanty for Arethusa
the Flaming Lips	the Gash
the Unicorns	Tuff Ghost
Cream	Tales of Brave Ulysses
the Mountain Goats	Jenny
the White Stripes	Seven Nation Army
Neutral Milk Hotel	Ghost
British Sea Power	Remember Me
the Exploding Hearts	Throwaway Style
Creation	Making Time
the Kinks	Everybody's Gonna be Happy
the Shins	So Says I
Of Montreal	A Collection of Poems about Water
Pirates of the Caribbean Clip	the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow and fight music
Neutral Milk Hotel	Three Peaches
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Pirates Clip	beginning music to girl singing
the Decemberists	Legionnaire's Lament
Radiohead	the Trickster
the Strokes	12:51
the Smiths	This Charming Man
the Clean	Tally Ho
Hot Hot Heat	Bandages
the Faint	Posed to Death
Outkast	B.O.B.
Enon	Pleasure Privilege
Joan Jett and the Black Hearts	Bad Reputation
the Beastie Boys	Sabotage
Herbie Hancock clip	beginning of Watermelon Man
Beach Boys	Surf's Up and clip (You're under arrest!) from Heroes and Villains
Langley Schools Music Project	Band on the Run (Cover)
Pirates Clip	Some sort of high‑toned and fancy affair up at the fort...
Pavement (No More Kings) clip	Rockin', rollin', splishin', splashin', over the horizon, what could it be?
Pirates Clip	It's the black pearl... leaves no survivors...
New Pornographers clip	And this day which began as execution day...

Comment:

It's the New Year's Eve 2003 Pirate Party Mix, inspired by the incredible Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. The ultimate goal = don't alienate the audience completely! Songs about pirates, ghosts, fighting, sailing, and songs that just feel ferocious or lonely like someone who's married to the sea. Has it's fair share of the Decemberists and Neutral Milk because their gritty voices and sad tales (and Colin Meloy's pirate accordians) fit perfectly. Some songs (like Seven Nation Army, with the marching skeletons in the video) just reminded me of the movie (skeleton pirates). Halfway through each side I'd get fatigued and put in old favorites and hopefully party pleasers (because we all know pirates like dancing). The second side seems to me like a battle with tons of cannon explosions. It ends rather abrubtly, with Brian Wilson's piece for the aftermath and ultimate capture of our pirate hero. The children sing about his escape from jail, and then I got clip-happy to fill up the last few seconds of the tape. All done from mp3 to tape via some chord I found that fit the two holes. Complete with the sound of aim going offline accidently. This will be in the cool room while "Baby got Back" plays for the thousandth time for the lame-o room.

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