It seems apparent that this blog has become a receptacle of compilations and playlists, and not much else. This is fitting, as my mood is highly influenced by my musical tastes, or is it the other way, that my music tastes are influenced by the moods I am in, probably both. Anyway, this next compilation is one for summer, as solstice is upon us, of which I will be celebrating as I usually do by watching naked people ride bikes through Fremont followed by cold beers into the evening.
I hope you enjoy this one as I feel it really captures the soundtrack to our summer months of hanging out and enjoying each others laid back company. Yes, it begins with weirdness, Animal Collective, however, don’t we all feel a little awkward in Seattle as the grey blanket is pulled from the sky, to be replaced by a burning orb of light, once our eyes adjust to this new found light, we want to get out and frolic in the grass, which is portrayed with Fleet Foxes. The rest of the summers attributes are whimsically laced here within, including the song by Extra Golden, Obama, of which we will all hear plenty about this summer and into the Autumn months. Enjoy.
1. Animal Collective - Water Curses
2. Fleet Foxes - English House
3. Foals - Balloons
4. Crystal Castles - Vanished
5. Black Lips - Veni Vidi Vici
6. French Kicks - Abandon
7. Hazelwood Motel - Break Myself In Two
9. Ladytron - Black Cat
10. Health - Glitter Pills
11. Tokyo Police Club - In A Cave
12. No Age - Eraser
13. Extra Golden - Obama
14. Thao Nguyen - Bag of Hammers
15. Bishop Allen - Click, Click, Click, Click
I have so many memories driving around, listening to all the great music that was actually on major labels while I was in high school. With my birthday coming up next week, turning 26, it has been 10 years since I was liberated with the concept of an automobile. This accelerated my ability to do illegal and mischievous things around town, it also provided me with a faster means of high tailing it out of bad situations. Anyway, during all of this I was most likely in either Mike’s or Alex’s car, and occasionally in Matt’s lil’ Festiva (the go cart) as I myself did not have my own car until college.
There was always a soundtrack to rollin’ around, usually hip-hop in Alex’s Accord, while in Mike’s GMC pickup it was usually a mix of rock and anything else, with ample amounts of Sublime.
So enjoy this mix, preferably while driving around, remembering what it was like to finally be free to go where you wanted, when you wanted, and then realize that it costs you about a dollar a mile now, and rollin’ around isn’t fun anymore.
Cheers!
High Schoolers Driving Cars
1. 2Pac - Amitionz As A Ridah
2. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
3. Aaliyah - Back and Forth
4. Beastie Boys - Body Movin’
5. Beck - Devil’s Haircut
6. Daft Punk - Da Funk
7. The Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
8. Nada Surf - Popular
9. Nirvana - Serve the Servants
10. Outkast - Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)
11. Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
12. Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
14. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Ain’t No Fun
15. Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
16. Stone Temple Pilots - Pretty Penny
17. Sublime - Smoke Two Joints
18. Sublime - Pawn Shop
19. Weezer - Buddy Holly
20. Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
21. Pixies - Debaser
Oh greenpece, you are always there to point things out in such clever ways, however, you could have done a better job bastardizing the song LA Breeze by Simian.
I posted this on my work blog (not public), thought it was worth reproducing here:
Upon my random perusing of wikipedia.org, I found an interesting path of correlation. It was when looking at the entry for DOOM (video game) that I found this path: DOOM was built on the DOOMengine which was based on the NeXT platform, the first port of NeXT to MSDOS was for DOOM, ironically, the NeXT engine was developed by the company NeXT Software Co., the company that Steve Jobs formed after leaving Apple back in 1985. Furthermore, NeXT evolved into OPENSTEP, and elements of OPENSTEP made their way into OSX. So in a way, DOOM and OSX are long lost cousins.
