Best Songs Ever (of the Day)

In which I post links to songs that I feel are the best songs ever. No offense to your best songs ever.

Nov 15th, 2011 @ 10:54 am

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A mixtape by I Come to Shanghai

NO DUGS DJ, a new mixtape by my band, I Come to Shanghai.

Tracklist:

Yellow Magic Orchestra “Behind the Mask”
Vera “Take Me to the Bridge”
Geinoh Yamashirosumi “Primordial Germination”
Gas “Untitled 2”
Tom Zé “Só (Solidão)”
Cocteau Twins “Lazy Calm”
Big K.R.I.T. “Highs and Lows”
Aphex Twin “Fingerbib”
Black Milk and Danny Brown “Zap”
White Noise “Hidden Dreams”
Robert Wyatt “At Last I Am Free”
Killer Mike “Ric Flair”
Deerhoof “Running Thoughts”
Walker Brothers “The Electrician”
James Carr “Dark End of the Street”
Led Zeppelin “Down by the Seaside”
Kraftwerk “Kometenmelodie 2”
Otis Rush “Violent Love”
Duke Ellington “Fleurette Africaine”
Broadcast “Where Youth and Laughter Go”

In preparation to see Deerhoof (one of my favorite bands) this week, I decided to make an evangelizing mixtape for a friend. I’m the kind of person who gets sucked into things like this, so I went all out. This is the result. Deerhoof are on tour right now. You should see them if they get anywhere close to your home town. This is one solid file, no individual tracks. Tracklist (with Amazon links to the albums)

1. Dummy Discards A Heart (Apple ‘O)

2. The Eyebright Bugler, edited (Reveille)

3. Running Thoughts (The Runners Four)

4. No One Asked to Dance (Deerhoof vs. Evil)

5. Sealed with a Kiss, edited (Apple ‘O)

6. Flower (Apple ‘O)

7. New Sneakers (Milk Man)

8. Milk Man (Milk Man)

9. Hark the Umpire, snippet (Reveille)

10. Chandelier Searchlight (Offend Maggie)

11. Spirit Ditties of No Tone, edited (The Runners Four)

12. Adam + Eve Connection, edited (Apple O’)