(last updated: 27 May 2025)

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andy’s chest mix (for lying in the gutter, looking at the stars)
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broken hearts are for assholes mix (for motivational belligerence)
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lost and lookin’ mix (for bathos and pathos)
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crying time mix (for giving down and crying in the rain)
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been caught stealing mix (for kicking ass and taking names)
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lady madonna mix (for jenseits Gut und Böse ist nicht jenseits Gut and Schlecht)

good little, bad little you mix (for indecision)

potato head blues (for hic et nunc)

my sweet lord mix (for contemplation)

rainy day dream away mix (for dreaming)

at the zoo mix (for simple joy)

lollipop tree mix (for eudaimonia)

hey bulldog mix (for exploration)

the man comes around mix (for creation and destruction)

happiness is a warm gun mix (for fomping out)

for what it’s worth mix (for bugging out)

born to run mix (for driving the West Texas desert night)

drive my car mix (for driving California wine country in the afternoon in a convertible, with the top down)

stomp some rump mix (for smooth groovin’)

be my baby mix (for hopeful expectation)

there you are — jesus song no. 7 mix (for dissociative emptiness)

solace mix (for solace, even when you know none is to be had)

crush on you mix (for having a crush—physical, intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic, drunken…)

point blank mix (for slow-burning anger and regret)

seeing other people mix (for confusion)

only the lonely mix (for naked yearning)

race for the prize mix (for stalwart determination)

peaceful easy feeling mix (for when paths that have affinity for one another converge)

nazi punks fuck off mix (for moshin’ and joshin’)

let the good times roll mix (for sybaritic excess)

can’t stop the spring mix (for exuberant, perhaps rumbustious, celebration)

black coffee in bed mix (for looking back with fondness, with weary regret, with grace and acceptance)

lola mix (for kink—emotional, cognitive, spiritual, aesthetic, sexual, physical, …)

the last time i saw richard mix (for looking back at the squalid catalogue of one’s mistakes)

truckin’ mix (for what a long strange trip it’s been)

virgil’s return mix (for fighting the good fight)

pussy cat dues mix (for lazy contentment)

thunder road mix (for breaking free)

k mix (for the fierce of urgency of now)

expecting to fly mix (for some intense shit)

west end blues ↔ basin street blues mix (for a lovely and excessive chiasmus)

in walked bud mix (for whirling, earthly and sublime, like a Tintoretto painting)

nobody but me mix (for negation)

river man mix (for coming and going)

new age mix (for wistful aimlessness and melancholic detachment)

jump in the line mix (for frolicking through life)

girls just want to have fun mix (for giddy fun. obvs)

sevilla mix (for beginnings)

when the music’s over mix (for endings)

lovecats mix (for sex on the dance floor)

sugar mountain mix (for exploration, vol. 2)

rave on mix (for moving ahead)

oye como va mix (for smooth groovin’, vol. 2)

I want you (she’s so heavy) mix (for knowing what you want)

honky cat mix (for change is gonna do me good)

it never entered my mind mix (for regaining one’s equilibrium)

hey sailor mix (for getting oneself going in the morning, à la Harmony)
[Harmony’s Morning Routine (Angel S05E09 “Harm’s Way”)]

i feel love mix (for getting oneself going in the morning, smooth but driving)

lucy in the sky with diamonds mix (for reconciling the seemingly disparate)

voodoo child (slight return) mix (for tripping balls)

got to give it up mix (for getting the wallflowers to dance)

tutti frutti mix (for enjoying the sweet fruit that is life)

i feel love mix (for feeling love. obvs.)

chase mix (for chasing the Kantian sublime)

the ballad of john and yoko mix (for trying to figure out what the fuck is going on)

heliotrope bouquet mix (for sardonic equability)

line for lyons mix (for preparing to give a talk)

revolution mix (for Newton’s subjunctive use of the Precession Theorem)

you’re nobody till someone loves you mix (for coming to be, not coming to pass)



andy’s chest mix (for lying in the gutter, looking at the stars) [2 hours, 46 minutes]
  1. Lou Reed: Andy’s Chest [from “Transformer”]
  2. Iggy Pop: Sixteen
  3. David Bowie: Oh! You Pretty Things/Eight Line Poem
  4. The Doors: Wishful Sinful
  5. The B-52s: Song for a Future Generation
  6. The Flaming Lips: Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (Fuck Led Zeppelin)
  7. The Beatles: Baby You’re a Rich Man
  8. The Rolling Stones: Sweet Virginia
  9. Tom Waits: Diamonds on My Windshield
  10. Lou Reed: Walk on the Wild Side
  11. Jacques Dutronc: Et moi, et moi, et Moi
  12. Squirrelbait: Vergil’s Return
  13. Steely Dan: Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
  14. Devo: Girl U Want
  15. The B-52s: Queen of Las Vegas
  16. The Pretenders: Back on the Chain Gang
  17. Joni Mitchell: All I Want
  18. Belle & Sebastian: Seeing Other People
  19. Beck: Tropicalia
  20. Afrique: Soul Makossa
  21. Stevie Wonder: I Wish
  22. Little Richard: The Girl Can’t Help It
  23. Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
  24. Belle & Sebastian: The State I Am In [from “Dog on Wheels”]
  25. Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil
  26. R.E.M.: So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
  27. Portishead: Glory Box
  28. Radiohead: Electioneering
  29. The Jimi Henrix Experience: Little Wing
  30. Velvet Underground: Some Kinda Love
  31. The B-52s: Love Shack
  32. Pixies: Debaser
  33. Iggy Pop: Tonight
  34. The Flaming Lips: Shine On Sweet Jesus – Jesus Song No. 5
  35. Nirvana: All Apologies
  36. João Gilberto: Corcovado
  37. Belle & Sebastian: Step into My Office, Baby
  38. The B-52s: Dance This Mess Around
  39. Steve Miller Band: The Joker
  40. The Beatles: Dig a Pony
  41. The Rolling Stones: Sweet Black Angel
  42. Velvet Underground: Cool It Down
  43. João Gilberto: Desafinado
  44. Belle & Sebastian: Piazza, New York Catcher
  45. The Softies: The Beginning of the End
  46. Elvis Presley: That’s All Right, Mama
  47. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Doris Love Club
  48. The Beatles: Dear Prudence
  49. Beck: Sing It Again
  50. Belle & Sebastian: Lazy Line Painter Jane
  51. Ella Fitzgerald: Anything Goes [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  52. Otis Day & The Knights: Shama Lama Ding Dong
  53. Isley Brothers: That Lady
  54. The Mountain Goats: The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
  55. Santana: Oye Como Va
  56. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Even the Losers
  57. Tom Waits: Gun Street Girl
  58. Françoise Hardy: Tous les garçons et les filles
  59. Van Morrison: Madame George


broken hearts are for assholes mix (for motivational belligerence) [3 hours, 5 minute]
  1. Frank Zappa: Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
  2. Handsome Boy Modeling School: Holy Calamity (Bear Witness ii)
  3. Rolling Stones: Under My Thumb
  4. Bob Marley: Get Up Stand Up
  5. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: A Martini Built for 2
  6. The Fall: Just Step S’Ways
  7. Leslie Gore: You Don’t Own Me
  8. Johnny Cash: Delia’s Gone
  9. Michigan J. Frog: The Michigan Rag
  10. Isley Brothers: It’s Your Thing
  11. The Kinks: Tired of Waiting for You
  12. Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart
  13. Velvet Underground: Femme Fatale
  14. Fishbone: Lyin’ Ass Bitch
  15. Santana: Evil Ways
  16. The Beatles: Honey Don’t
  17. Public Enemy: You’re Gonna Get Yours
  18. Surf Punks: My Wave
  19. Dead Kennedys: Rawhide
  20. The Beastie Boys: Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
  21. Harry Belafonte: Mama Look a Boo Boo
  22. Big Brother & the Holding Company: Down on Me [from “Big Brother & the Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin”]
  23. Iggy Pop: Neighborhood Threat
  24. Jump, Little Children: Come Out Clean
  25. Squirrel Bait: Choose Yr Poison
  26. Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
  27. Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love
  28. Redd Kross: Janus Jeanie and George Harrison
  29. Johnny Cash: A Boy Named Sue
  30. Fishbone: Ugly
  31. Violent Femmes: Ugly
  32. Dire Straits: Industrial Disease
  33. Rolling Stone: Paint It Black
  34. The Kinks: Set Me Free
  35. Public Enemy: Miuzi Weighs a Ton
  36. Lesley Gore: It’s My Party
  37. Johnny Cash: Rusty Cage
  38. Billy Squier: Everybody Wants You
  39. Afroman: Let’s All Get Drunk
  40. Black Velvet Flag: I Don’t Care about You
  41. Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can [from “Pearl”, with The Full Tilt Boogie Band]
  42. Johnny Cash: Understand Your Man
  43. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
  44. Surf Punks: Somebody Ripped My Stick
  45. Grupo Fantasma: We Just Don’t Want You
  46. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Refugee
  47. Santana: Jin-Go-La-Ba [from “Santana”]
  48. Lily Allen: Fuck You
  49. Blondie: Rip Her to Shreds
  50. Iggy & The Stooges: Penetration
  51. R.E.M.: Cant Get There from Here
  52. Jack Johnson: Middle Man
  53. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Crosstown Traffic
  54. Eminem: Sing for the Moment
  55. Bob Dylan: Idiot Wind


lost and lookin’ mix (for bathos and pathos)[6 hours, 30 minutes]
  1. Sam Cooke: Lost and Lookin’
  2. Elvis Costello: Party Girl
  3. Pink Floyd: Pigs on the Wing, Part 1
  4. Rolling Stones: Dead Flowers
  5. Beck: Dead Melodies
  6. The Clash: Straight to Hell
  7. Drivin’ n’ Cryin’: Straight to Hell
  8. Government Issue: For Ever
  9. Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb
  10. The Flaming Lips: Godzilla Flick
  11. Led Zeppelin: Going to California
  12. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Helpless
  13. Patsy Cline: Crazy
  14. Radiohead: Creep [’My Iron Lung’ EP, track #8.]
  15. Violent Femmes: Good Feeling
  16. Iggy Pop: Tonight
  17. Dinosaur jr.: No Bones
  18. The Pretenders: Back on the Chain Gang
  19. Sam Cooke: Chain Gang
  20. Harry Nilsson: Everybody’s Talkin’
  21. Flaming Lips: Chrome Plated Suicide
  22. Simon and Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy in New York
  23. Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can [from “Pearl”, with The Full Tilt Boogie Band]
  24. Tom Waits: Intro / Better off without a Wife
  25. Fugazi: Promises
  26. The Doors: Five to One
  27. Ma Rainey, with Fletcher Henderson: Booze and Blues
  28. Radiohead: Let Down
  29. Morphine: Cure for Pain
  30. Gerry Rafferty: Baker Street
  31. Belle & Sebastian: Piazza, New York Catcher
  32. The Left Banke: Walk away Renee
  33. Otis Redding: I’ve Been Loving You Too Long [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  34. Bruce Springsteen: 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
  35. Radiohead: Street Spirit (Fade Out)
  36. Tom Waits: Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis
  37. Violent Femmes: Please Do Not Go
  38. Nirvana: Come As You Are
  39. Charley Patton: Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues
  40. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Breaking the Girl
  41. Bob Dylan: Temporary Like Achilles
  42. Otis Redding: That’s How Strong My Love Is
  43. Flaming Lips: Begs and Achin’
  44. Rolling Stones: Sway
  45. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Tracks of My Tears
  46. Radiohead: No Surprises
  47. Lynyrd Skynyrd: That Smell
  48. Government Issue: Connecticut
  49. X: Poor Girl
  50. Dinosaur jr.: The Post
  51. Iggy Pop: Turn Blue
  52. Jane’s Addiction: Jane Says
  53. Scott H. Biram: The Long Chain Charlie
  54. Hank Williams: Cold, Cold Heart
  55. Velvet Underground: All Tomorrow’s Parties
  56. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: What Did I Do (To Be So Black and Blue) [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 4]
  57. Edith Piaf: C’est l’amour
  58. Sam Cooke: Fool’s Paradise
  59. Beck: Cold Brains
  60. Blind Lemon Jefferson: How Long How Long
  61. James Brown: Please Please Please
  62. Duke Ellington and John Coltrane: In a Sentimental Mood
  63. Bob Marley: Talkin’ Blues
  64. Bruce Springsteen: Point Blank
  65. The Replacements: Nightclub Jitters
  66. Velvet Underground: Sunday Morning
  67. Government Issue: Everybody’s Victim
  68. Bob Dylan: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door [“Biograph” version]
  69. The Softies: Beginning of the End
  70. Tom Waits: I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You
  71. Patsy Cline: I Fall to Pieces
  72. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Who the Cap Fit
  73. Velvet Underground: Candy Says
  74. Flaming Lips: Five Stop Mother Superior Rain
  75. Bob Dylan: Visions of Johanna [“Biograph” version]
  76. Beck: Canceled Check
  77. The Beatles: I’m So Tired
  78. Pink Floyd: Pigs on the Wing, Part 2
  79. The Doors: When the Music’s Over
  80. The Platters: The Great Pretender
  81. Sam Cooke: Get Yourself Another Fool
  82. Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
  83. Maria Callas: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle [Bizet, “Carmen”, Georges Prêtre & Orchestre Du Théâtre National De L’ Opéra, 1964]
  84. Afroman: Let’s All Get Drunk
  85. Al Green: Love and Happiness
  86. The Allman Brothers Band: Melissa
  87. Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Blue
  88. Portishead: Sour Times
  89. Flaming Lips: There You Are — Jesus Song No. 7
  90. Velvet Underground: Stephanie Says
  91. R.E.M.: (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
  92. Pink Floyd: Breathe
  93. Chico Buarque&Milton Nascimento: Calice
  94. Elvis Presley: That’s All Right, Mama
  95. The Spinners: Games People Play
  96. Rolling Stone: Paint It Black
  97. Liszt: Liebestraum (Rêve d’amour) No. 3 in As-dur, S.541 [Jorge Bolet, “Liszt: Piano Works”]


crying time mix (for giving down and crying in the rain) [2 hours, 58 minutes]
  1. Ray Charles: Crying Time
  2. Roy Orbison: Crying
  3. Otis Redding: Pain in My Heart
  4. Electric Light Orchestra: Telephone Line
  5. ABBA: Knowing Me, Knowing You
  6. Belle & Sebastian: The Boy Done Wrong Again
  7. Sam Cooke: I Lost Everything
  8. The Platters: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  9. The Animals: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  10. Drivin’ n’ Cryin’: Straight to Hell
  11. Tom Waits: Mockin’ Bird
  12. Van Morrison: T.B. Sheets
  13. Al Green: Tired of Being Alone
  14. Led Zeppelin: Since I’ve Been Loving You
  15. R.E.M.: (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
  16. The Eagles: Tequila Sunrise
  17. Fleetwood Mac: Never Going Back Again
  18. The Magnetic Fields: I Don’t Believe in the Sun
  19. Bob Dylan: 4th Time Around
  20. James Taylor: Fire and Rain
  21. Johnny Cash: Hurt
  22. Stone Temple Pilots: Interstate Love Song
  23. Grateful Dead: Brokedown Palace
  24. The Left Banke: Walk away Renee
  25. Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops
  26. Pink Floyd: Vera
  27. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company: Piece of My Heart
  28. Flaming Lips: There You Are — Jesus Song No. 7
  29. Roy Orbison: Only the Lonely
  30. Elvis Presley: Heartbreak Hotel
  31. Otis Redding: These Arms of Mine
  32. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Johnny Was
  33. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Lodi
  34. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Little Wing
  35. Janis Joplin: Cry Baby [from “Pearl”, with The Full Tilt Boogie Band]
  36. Bill Withers: Ain’t No Sunshine
  37. Belle & Sebastian: You Made Me Forget My Dreams
  38. Led Zeppelin: That’s the Way
  39. Pink Floyd: Nobody Home
  40. Linda Ronstadt: Long, Long Time
  41. Willie Nelson: Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
  42. Pink Floyd: Goodbye Blue Sky
  43. Sam Cooke: Mean Old World
  44. Led Zeppelin: Going to California
  45. Radiohead: Exit Music (For a Film)
  46. R.E.M.: So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
  47. Bob Dylan: It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue [“Biograph” version]
  48. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here


been caught stealing mix (for kicking ass and taking names) [4 hours, 42 minutes]
  1. Jane’s Addiction: Been Caught Stealing
  2. Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc.
  3. Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Pump It Up
  4. Iggy and The Stooges: Gimme Danger
  5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
  6. Beastie Boys: Shake Your Rump
  7. Minor Threat: Cashing In
  8. Jane’s Addiction: Mountain Song
  9. The Doors: Queen of the Highway
  10. fIREHOSE: Chemical Wire
  11. R.E.M.: Superman
  12. Squirrel Bait: Kid Dynamite
  13. David Bowie: Suffragette City
  14. G. Love and Special Sauce: I-76
  15. The Fixx: One Thing Leads to Another
  16. The Replacements: Alex Chilton
  17. NWA: Gangsta Gangsta
  18. ZZ Topp: La Grange
  19. The Clash: Rudie Can’t Fail
  20. Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star
  21. Rolling Stones: Little T&A
  22. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House [from “Speaking in Tongues”]
  23. The Pretenders: Brass in Pocket
  24. Spin Doctors: Two Princes
  25. Sly & The Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
  26. Beastie Boys: She’s Crafty
  27. Beach Boys: Do It Again
  28. Charles Mingus: Better Git It in Your Soul
  29. Starlight Mints: The Twilight Showdown
  30. Scott H. Biram: Whoa Back Buck
  31. Handsome Boy Modeling School: Rock N’ Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This)
  32. Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys: Old Time Pickin’
  33. Johnny Cash: Rusty Cage
  34. James Brown: Get on the Good Foot
  35. The Beatles: I Saw Her Standing There
  36. The Yardbirds: For Your Love
  37. Beastie Boys: Super Disco Breakin’
  38. The B-52s: Legal Tender
  39. Stray Cats: Rock This Town
  40. Public Enemy: You’re Gonna Get Yours
  41. Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man
  42. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid and Flowers Mix)
  43. Fatboy Slim: The Rockafeller Skank
  44. Frank Zappa: Stick It Out
  45. Rush: Spirit of Radio
  46. Iggy Pop: Lust for Life
  47. Professor Longhair: Go to the Mardi Gras
  48. The B-52s: 52 Girls
  49. Beastie Boys: Girls
  50. Handsome Boy Modeling School: Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)
  51. Rolling Stones: Under My Thumb
  52. Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
  53. De La Soul: Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin’s Revenge)
  54. Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire
  55. The Go-Go’s: We Got the Beat
  56. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Rock Me Baby [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  57. The Beatles: Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby
  58. Run-DMC: Walk This Way
  59. Bob Marley: Jamming
  60. Blondie: One Way or Another
  61. Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) [1937 recording with Gene Krupa, from the Carnegie Hall Concert]
  62. Led Zeppelin: Rock and Roll
  63. Electric Light Orchestra: Rockaria!
  64. Wagner: “Die Walküre” – Act 3, Szene 1: Hojotoho! Hojotoho! Heiaha! Heiaha! [Solti and the Wiener Philharmoniker, from “Der Ring des Nibelungen”]
  65. Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild
  66. Run-D.M.C.: Run’s House
  67. Sam and Dave: Soul Man
  68. The Breeders: Cannonball
  69. Little Richard: The Girl Can’t Help It
  70. Mark Ronson: Uptown Funk
  71. Iggy & The Stooges: Search and Destroy
  72. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Hit & Run Holiday
  73. Otis Day & The Knights: Shout
  74. Bob Marley: Lively Up Yourself


lady madonna mix (for jenseits Gut und Böse ist nicht jenseits Gut and Schlecht) [3 hours, 39 minutes]
  1. The Beatles: Lady Madonna
  2. Blind Willie Johnson: John the Revelator
  3. King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors)
  4. Deep Purple: Smoke on the Water
  5. The Beatles: Rain
  6. George Harrison: Give Me Love
  7. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company: Summertime
  8. Prince: Darling Nikki
  9. Sade: Smooth Operator
  10. Thelonius Monk: Bemsha Swing [from “Brilliant Corners”, with Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach, Paul Chambers, Clark Terry]
  11. King Crimson: Cat Food
  12. Bob Marley: No Woman, No Cry
  13. Oscar Peterson: I Remember Clifford [from “Something Warm”]
  14. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven: Potato Head Blues [with Johnny St. Cyr, Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, Lil Armstrong, from “Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 2]
  15. The Allman Brothers Band: Don't Want You No More
  16. The Beatles: Long Tall Sally
  17. Bobby Short: I'm in Love Again
  18. Billie Holiday: God Bless the Child
  19. Louis Armstrong: Mack the Knife
  20. Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus [from “Lionel Hampton 1950-1951 – Chronological Classics”]
  21. Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love
  22. Pedro Infante: Cielito Lindo [from the soundtrack of “Los tres García”]
  23. Bob Marley: Satisfy My Soul Babe [from “Keep On Skanking” 1967]
  24. Sarah Vaughan: I've Got a Crush on You [with the George Treadwell Orchestra]
  25. Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five: Tight Like This [from “Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  26. The Mariachis: Guantanamera
  27. Lead Belly: John Henry [recording from “Lead Belly Recordings: Salty Dog”]
  28. Flatt & Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  29. Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra: Clarinet Marmalade [1926, with Coleman Hawkins, Don Redman]
  30. Led Zeppelin: When the Levee Breaks
  31. Prince: Little Red Corvette
  32. America: Ventura Highway
  33. The Commodores: Easy
  34. Coleman Hawkins & Buck Clayton and His All-Stars: You Can Depend on Me [from “Jam Sessions Volume 9 (1956): Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 2 – Swing”]
  35. Lead Belly & Woody Guthrie: We Shall Be Free
  36. Marvin Gaye: Trouble Man
  37. Led Zeppelin: Dancing Days
  38. The Crystals: He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
  39. The Fugees: No Woman, No Cry
  40. Les Terribles: La Nuit Le Jour
  41. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Wild Thing [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  42. Jace Everett: Bad Things
  43. Pete Seeger: Guantanamera [from “We Shall Overcome”]
  44. Blossom Dearie: Tea for Two [from “Once upon a Summertime”, with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen]
  45. Vince Guaraldi: Linus and Lucy [from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”]
  46. Paolo Conte: Via con me
  47. Blossom Dearie: Like Someone in Love [from “Give Him the Ooh-La-La”]
  48. Led Zeppelin: The Rover
  49. Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 1 (“Von Fremden Ländern und Menschen”) [Vladimir Horowitz, from “Schumann - Kinderszenen, Fantaisie, Arabeske”]
  50. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You [from “The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker – The Reunion”]
  51. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company: Piece of My Heart
  52. Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G-minor [Vladimir Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, 9 May 1965][1]


good little, bad little you mix (for indecision)
  1. Earl Hines & His Orchestra: Good Little, Bad Little You
  2. Beck: Bad Engery
  3. Minor Threat: Good Guys (Don't Wear White)
  4. The Mountain Goats: Bad Priestess
  5. Lead Belly: Good, Good, Good
  6. Yaz: Bad Connection
  7. Don Redman & His Orchestra: She's Not Bad
  8. Carl Carlton: She's A Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)
  9. The Crucifucks: Democracy Spawns Bad Taste
  10. Blossom Dearie: Too Good for the Average Man
  11. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Badlife
  12. The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
  13. The Beatles: Bad Boy
  14. The White Stripes: You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)
  15. The Pretenders: Bad Boys Get Spanked
  16. Funkadelic: Baby I Owe You Something Good
  17. Big Black: Bad Penny
  18. Duke Ellington: So Far, So Good
  19. James Brown: Funky President (People It's Bad)
  20. Elvis Presley: Good Luck Charm
  21. Eminem: Bad Meets Evil
  22. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
  23. King Oliver's Jazz Band with Kid Ory: Too Bad [11 May 1926, from “The Chronological Classics: King Oliver's Jazz Band 1923-1926”]
  24. The Doors: We Could Be So Good Together
  25. The B-52s: Bad Influence
  26. The Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
  27. Fugazi: Bad Mouth
  28. Merle Haggard: It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
  29. Tammy Wynette: Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
  30. David Byrne: Good and Evil (Rumba/Llesa)
  31. Cream: Born under a Bad Sign
  32. Alison Krauss: Wouldn't Be So Bad
  33. Blind Lemon Jefferson: Bad Luck Blues
  34. Django Reinhardt: Lady Be Good [et le Quintette du Hot Club de France avec Stéphane Grappelly, 28 Dec 1928, from “The Chronological Classics: Django Reinhardt 1934-1935”]
  35. Bruce Springsteen: Badlands
  36. The Everly Brothers: Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
  37. Sam Cooke: (Ain't That) Good News
  38. Duke Ellington: I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  39. Janis Joplin: As Good As You Been to This World [with The Cosmic Blues Band]
  40. The Austin Lounge Lizards: When Drunks Go Bad
  41. Rufus with Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
  42. James Brown: Super Bad
  43. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You [from “The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker – The Reunion”]
  44. The Runaways: Born to Be Bad
  45. The Flaming Lips: Felt Good to Burn
  46. X: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
  47. Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc.
  48. B.B. King: I Want You So Bad
  49. James Brown: Get on the Good Foot
  50. Bad Company: Bad Company
  51. Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode
  52. Joan Jett & The Heartbreakers: Bad Reputation
  53. Flatt & Scruggs: What's Good for You
  54. Donna Summer: Bad Girls
  55. Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra: If It's Good (Then I Want It) [25 Apr 1939, from “Louis Armstrong (1938-39): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 3 – Big Bands”]


potato head blues (for hic et nunc) [2 hours, 56 minutes]
  1. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven: Potato Head Blues [with Johnny St. Cyr, Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, Lil Armstrong, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 2]
  2. Beck: Milk & Honey
  3. Belle & Sebastian: String Bean Jean
  4. David Bowie: Let’s Dance
  5. Fatboy Slim: Right Here, Right Now
  6. Billy Squier: The Stroke
  7. Joe Jackson: Steppin’ Out
  8. Simon and Garfunkel: The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
  9. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company: Piece of My Heart
  10. Lou Reed: Walk on the Wild Side
  11. The Beatles: Money (That’s What I Want)
  12. Pink Floyd: Breathe
  13. Louis Armstrong: My Heart [Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, with Lil Hardin Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory and Johnny St.\@ Cyr, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 1]
  14. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company: I Need a Man to Love
  15. Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra: Oh Babe! [from “Lionel Hampton 1950-1951 – Chronological Classics”]
  16. Led Zeppelin: D’yer Mak’er
  17. The Beatles: I Saw Her Standing There
  18. Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: I’ve Got a Crush on You
  19. Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five: Tight Like This [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  20. Django Reinhardt et Son Quintette: Impromptu [1951 recording]
  21. The Mariachis: Guantanamera
  22. The Beatles: I’m Happy Just to Dance with You
  23. Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra: Clarinet Marmalade [1926, with Coleman Hawkins, Don Redman]
  24. Prince: Darling Nikki
  25. The Police: Synchronicity I
  26. The Commodores: Easy
  27. Dinosaur jr.: Little Fury Things
  28. The Beatles: Komm, gib mir deine Hand
  29. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Up from the Skies
  30. Jimmy Buffett: Margaritaville
  31. Jace Everett: Bad Things
  32. Blossom Dearie: The Surrey with a Fringe on Top [from “Once upon a Summertime”, with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen]
  33. Vince Guaraldi: Red Baron [from “Oh, Good Grief!”]
  34. The Beatles: Long Tall Sally
  35. Sarah Vaughan: Black Coffee [with Joe Lipman & His Orchestra]
  36. Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 1 (“Von Fremden Ländern und Menschen”) [Vladimir Horowitz, from “Schumann – Kinderszenen, Fantaisie, Arabeske”]
  37. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company: Summertime
  38. The Police: Synchronicity II
  39. Red Garland: Old Stinky Butt [from “Auf Wiedersehen”]
  40. Pixies: Dead
  41. Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
  42. Bessie Smith: Trombone Cholly
  43. The Beatles: Twist and Shout
  44. Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five: Kid Ory’s Creole Trombone [with Johnny St. Cyr, Johnny Dodds, Lil Armstrong, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 2]
  45. The Allman Brothers Band: Mountain Jam [from “Eat a Peach”]


my sweet lord mix (for contemplation) [4 hours, 50 minutes]
  1. George Harrison: My Sweet Lord
  2. The Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky
  3. Radiohead: Everything in Its Right Place
  4. Dire Straits: Lions
  5. The Beatles: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
  6. Van Morrison: And It Stoned Me
  7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Third Stone from the Sun
  8. Edith Piaf: La Vie en Rose
  9. Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane over the Sea
  10. Flaming Lips: Race for the Prize
  11. Beck: Jack-Ass
  12. Simon and Garfunkel: So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
  13. Radiohead: Karma Police
  14. Apples in Stereo: She Looks through Empty Windows / Questions and Answers
  15. Rolling Stones: Waiting on a Friend
  16. The Doors: Hyacinth House
  17. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Positive Vibration
  18. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: Basin Street Blues [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  19. Otis Redding: Let Me Come on Home
  20. The Allman Brothers Band: Ain’t Wasting Time No More
  21. Marvin Gaye: Sexual Healing
  22. Flaming Lips: Do You Realize??
  23. Belle & Sebastian: The State I Am In [from “Dog on Wheels”]
  24. The Grateful Dead: Uncle John’s Band
  25. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
  26. Ray Charles: Let’s Go Get Stoned
  27. The Beatles: Dig a Pony
  28. The Rolling Stones: Coming Down Again
  29. Charles Mingus: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
  30. Nirvana: All Apologies
  31. Bob Dylan: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
  32. Apples in Stereo: The Shiney Sea
  33. Pink Floyd: Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
  34. Radiohead: Airbag
  35. Thelonius Monk: Abide with Me
  36. Rolling Stones: Tumbling Dice
  37. The Pretenders: Talk of the Town
  38. Caetano Veloso: O Leãozinho
  39. The Beach Boys: I Know There’s an Answer
  40. The Cure: A Forest
  41. Miles Davis: Freddie Freeloader
  42. Tommy James and the Shondells: Crimson and Clover
  43. Handsome Boy Modeling School: The Truth
  44. The Beatles: You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
  45. The Rolling Stones: Sweet Virginia
  46. Bob Dylan: Desolation Row
  47. Led Zeppelin: Bron-Yr-Aur
  48. The Fugees: Killing Me Softly
  49. The Beatles: Rain
  50. The Flamingos: I Only Have Eyes for You
  51. Edith Piaf: Milord
  52. The Rolling Stones: I Just Want to See His Face
  53. The Flaming Lips: A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
  54. Beck: Pay No Mind (Snoozer)
  55. Radiohead: Fake Plastic Trees
  56. The Beatles: I’m Only Sleeping
  57. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Who’ll Stop the Rain
  58. The Pastels: Thru’ Your Heart
  59. De La Soul: Buddy
  60. Steely Dan: Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
  61. Miles Davis Quintet: It Never Entered My Mind [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  62. Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach: Fleurette Africaine
  63. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: West End Blues [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  64. Thelonius Monk: Thelonius [from “Underground”]
  65. Rolling Stones: Sweet Black Angel
  66. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge
  67. The Allman Brothers Band: Melissa
  68. Boston: Peace of Mind
  69. George Harrison: Give Me Love


rainy day dream away mix (for dreaming) [3 hours, 9 minutes]
  1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Rainy Day, Dream Away
  2. Bill Monroe: Come Back to Me in My Dreams
  3. Belle & Sebastian: Dirty Dream Number Two [from “Boy with the Arab Strap”]
  4. Gene Vincent: Be-Bop-A-Lula [from “Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock ’n Roll Heroes (BBC Radio Live)”]
  5. The Hollies: The Air That I Breathe
  6. The Replacements: Skyway
  7. R.E.M.: Green Grow the Rushes
  8. Michael Jackson: The Girl Is Mine
  9. The Go-Go’s: Vacation
  10. Joni Mitchell: My Old Man
  11. Beck: We Live Again
  12. Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Death Is Only a Dream
  13. Hot Club of Cow Town: Devil’s Dream
  14. Tom Waits: In between Love
  15. Rush: Tom Sawyer
  16. Bad Company: Feel Like Makin’ Love
  17. Led Zeppelin: The Rain Song
  18. Sam Cooke: Only Sixteen
  19. Otis Redding: Chained and Bound
  20. Buffalo Springfield: Expecting to Fly
  21. Roy Orbison: In Dreams
  22. Scott Joplin: Weeping Willow — A Ragtime Two-Step [played by Cory Hall, version 1]
  23. The Fugees: Killing Me Softly
  24. Bob Marley: No Woman, No Cry
  25. Beck: Canceled Check
  26. Sam Cooke: Bring It On Home to Me
  27. ABBA: Fernando
  28. Fats Domino: Blue Monday
  29. The Allman Brothers Band: Little Martha
  30. Tom Waits: Blue Skies
  31. Blondie: Dreaming
  32. Aerosmith: Dream On
  33. Roy Orbison: Dream Baby
  34. Everly Brothers: All I Have to Do Is Dream
  35. Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids: She’s So Fine
  36. Beck: Beautiful Way
  37. Buffalo Springfield: Hung Upside Down
  38. Johnny Cash: Unchained
  39. Otis Redding: Come to Me
  40. Sam Cooke: Cupid
  41. The Beatles: I’ll Follow the Sun
  42. Oscar Peterson: I Remember Clifford [from “Something Warm”]
  43. Caetano Veloso: Um Canto de Afoxé Para o Bloco Do Ilê (Ilê Ayê)
  44. Led Zeppelin: Kashmir
  45. Portishead: Glory Box
  46. The Fleetwoods: Come Softly to Me
  47. Percy Faith: Theme from “A Summer Place”
  48. The Temptations: Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
  49. Stevie Wonder: I Wish
  50. Scott Joplin: Solace -- A Mexican Serenade [Joshua Rifkin, from “Scott Joplin Piano Rags”]
  51. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Still Raining, Still Dreaming


at the zoo mix (for simple joy) [6 hours, 25 minutes]
  1. Simon and Garfunkel: At the Zoo
  2. The Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
  3. The Cars: Let’s Go
  4. Flaming Lips: Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (Fuck Led Zeppelin)
  5. Stevie Wonder: Boogie on Reggae Woman
  6. Bob Marley: Three Little Birds
  7. The Beatles: Twist and Shout
  8. Hot Club of Cowtown: Dev’lish Mary
  9. Scott Biram: We Shall Be Free [from ”Preachin’ & Hollerin’”]
  10. Bob Dylan: I Shall Be Free
  11. The Starlight Mints: Sugar Blaster
  12. Simon and Garfunkel: Feelin’ Groovy
  13. Sam Cooke: Twistin’ the Night Away
  14. The White Stripes: Fell in Love with a Girl
  15. Ray Charles: Baby Don’t You Cry
  16. Scott Biram: Whoa Back Buck
  17. Rolling Stones: Little T&A
  18. The Cars: Magic
  19. The Starlight Mints: The Twilight Showdown
  20. Flaming Lips: Can’t Stop the Spring
  21. Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) [1937 recording with Gene Krupa, from the Carnegie Hall Concert]
  22. Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue
  23. The Mgababa Queens: Sidl’imali Zethu (Our Own Money)
  24. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Universal Luxury
  25. Mongo Santamaria: Jamaicuba
  26. The Cars: Just What I Needed
  27. Apples in Stereo: Benefits of Lying (With Your Friend)
  28. Bob Marley: Stir It Up
  29. B. J. Thomas: Hooked on a Feeling
  30. The Doors: I Looked at You
  31. The Cat Heads: Upside Down
  32. The Cure: Lovecats
  33. Vince Guaraldi: Linus and Lucy [from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”]
  34. Squirrel Bait: Sun God
  35. The B-52s: Love Shack
  36. Thelonius Monk: In Walked Bud [from “Underground”]
  37. Rufus with Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
  38. Handsome Boy Modeling School: Rock n’ Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This)
  39. Love: She Comes in Colours
  40. The Cure: Close to Me
  41. Benny Goodman: Let’s Dance
  42. Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Shout, Little Lulie [from “Bound to Ride”]
  43. The Rolling Stones: Let’s Spend the Night Together
  44. James Brown: I Got You (I Feel Good)
  45. The B-52s: Song for a Future Generation
  46. Modern English: I Melt with You
  47. The Pretenders: Brass in Pocket
  48. Stevie Wonder: Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing
  49. Sly & The Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
  50. Alvin ‘Red’ Tyler: Peanut Vendor
  51. Stop, Inc.: Second Line, Pt. 1
  52. Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough
  53. Gene Vincent: Be-Bop-A-Lula
  54. The Allman Brothers Band: Blue Sky
  55. Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Want to Have Fun
  56. Carl Perkins: Glad All Over
  57. Mongo Santamaria: He Guapacha
  58. The Beatles: I Saw Her Standing There
  59. The Modern Lovers: Roadrunner
  60. Ray Charles: Smack Dab in the Middle
  61. Buddy Holly: Oh, Boy!
  62. The Doors: Touch Me
  63. Thelonius Monk: Bemsha Swing [from “Brilliant Corners”, with Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach, Paul Chambers, Clark Terry]
  64. The Allman Brothers Band: Jessica
  65. The Crests: Sixteen Candles
  66. Johnny Burnette: You’re Sixteen
  67. Hawketts: Mardi Gras Mambo
  68. Beastie Boys: Body Movin’
  69. The Big Bopper: Chantilly Lace
  70. The B-52s: Roam
  71. Bruce Springsteen: Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
  72. Al Johnson: Carnival Time
  73. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Lookin’ Out My Back Door
  74. Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night
  75. Sam Cooke: Shake Rattle and Roll
  76. Elvis Presley: All Shook Up
  77. Redbone: Come and Get Your Love
  78. ABBA: Dancing Queen
  79. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Naked in the Rain
  80. The Chordettes: Lollipop
  81. Hot Chocolate: You Sexy Thing
  82. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys: Old Time Pickin’ [from “Bound to Ride”]
  83. Professor Longhair: Go to the Mardi Gras
  84. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris
  85. Sam Cooke: You Send Me
  86. Elvis Presley: (Let Me Be) Your Teddy Bear
  87. Pixies: La La Love You
  88. Cornershop: Good Shit
  89. Arthur Conley: Sweet Soul Music
  90. Led Zeppelin: Over the Hills and Far Away
  91. T. Rex: Get It On
  92. Cameo: Word Up
  93. Jackie Wilson: Reet Petite
  94. Frank Sinatra and Count Basie: Fly Me to the Moon [from “Best of the Best”]
  95. The Horace Silver Quintet: Psychedelic Sally
  96. Cat Stevens: Morning Has Broken
  97. Wilson Pickett: Land of a 1000 Dances
  98. Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day
  99. Kool & the Gang: Celebration
  100. The Allman Brothers Band: Little Martha
  101. Andrés Segovia: Sevilla, Suite Española #3 (Albéniz) [from “Andrés Segovia: 1927-1939 Recordings, Volume 2”]
  102. The Go-Go’s: We Got the Beat
  103. Bob Marley Wailers & The Wailers: Three Birds
  104. R.E.M.: Shaking Through
  105. Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
  106. Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc.
  107. The Beatles: All Together Now
  108. Otis Day & The Knights: Shout
  109. Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte Op. 62 – No. 6 A-dur ‘Frühlingslied’ [Daniel Barenboim, from “Lieder ohne Worte”]
  110. The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
  111. The Pastels: Firebell Ringing
  112. Jimmy Cliff: I Can See Clearly Now


lollipop tree mix (for eudaimonia) [4 hours, 5 minutes]
  1. Burl Ives: The Lollipop Tree
  2. The Replacements: I Will Dare
  3. Steely Dan: Peg
  4. The Doobie Brothers: Black Water
  5. The Pastels: Firebell Ringing
  6. The Pretenders: Message of Love
  7. The Beatles: Here Comes the Sun
  8. Charles Mingus: Better Git It in Your Soul
  9. Bob Marley: Satisfy My Soul
  10. Led Zeppelin: Over the Hills and Far Away
  11. Sheryl Crow: Soak Up the Sun
  12. Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode
  13. The Steve Miller Band: The Joker
  14. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company: Summertime
  15. Flaming Lips: It’s Summertime
  16. Mungo Jerry: In the Summertime
  17. Bruce Springsteen: Incident on 57th Street
  18. The Doors: Break on Through
  19. Grateful Dead: Ripple
  20. Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
  21. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
  22. The Modern Lovers: Government Center
  23. Velvet Underground: Sweet Jane
  24. Led Zeppelin: Friends
  25. Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell: Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing
  26. Joe Walsh: Life’s Been Good [Live]
  27. The Eagles: Peaceful Easy Feeling
  28. The Beach Boys: Wouldn’t It Be Nice
  29. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Teach Your Children
  30. America: Ventura Highway
  31. Loggins and Messina: Danny’s Song
  32. James Taylor: Sweet Baby James
  33. White Stripes: Hotel Yorba
  34. The Pastels: Nothing to Be Done
  35. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven: Potato Head Blues [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 2]
  36. The Allman Brothers Band: Blue Sky
  37. Electric Light Orchestra: Mr. Blue Sky
  38. Brian Wilson: Heroes and Villains
  39. The Monkees: Daydream Believer
  40. Ray Charles: One Mint Julep
  41. Fats Domino: Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  42. Velvet Underground: Rock & Roll
  43. Apples in Stereo: Strawberryfire
  44. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Our House
  45. Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul
  46. The Softies: The Best Days
  47. The Pastels: Comin’ Through
  48. Stevie Wonder: Sir Duke
  49. De La Soul: Eye Know
  50. Buddy Holly: Everyday
  51. Edith Piaf: Le vieux piano
  52. The Beach Boys: All Summer Long
  53. Professor Longhair: Big Chief, Pt.1
  54. Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag [performed by Joshua Rifkin]
  55. The Beatles: Octopus’s Garden
  56. Oscar Peterson: Swingin’ till the Girls Come Home [from “Une Anthologie 1952/1956 (Plays Basie and Others / Live!)”]
  57. Led Zeppelin: Bron-Yr-Aur
  58. White Stripes: We’re Going to Be Friends
  59. Donna Summer: I Feel Love
  60. Queen: You’re My Best Friend
  61. Boston: More Than a Feeling
  62. Hank Williams: Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  63. Miles Davis Quintet: In Your Own Sweet Way [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]


hey bulldog mix (for exploration) [7 hours, 25 minutes]
  1. The Beatles: Hey Bulldog
  2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Woodstock
  3. Radiohead: Electioneering
  4. Led Zeppelin: Dancing Days
  5. Simon and Garfunkel: America
  6. Crosby, Stills and Nash: Southern Cross
  7. Buffalo Springfield: Mr. Soul
  8. Joni Mitchell: Carey
  9. Dire Straits: Down to the Waterline
  10. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Free Bird
  11. Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime [from “Stop Making Sense”]
  12. Dinosaur jr.: Freak Scene
  13. The Flaming Lips: Trains, brains & rain
  14. Fugazi: Waiting Room
  15. The Doors: WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
  16. Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale
  17. The Beatles: She Said She Said
  18. Apples in Stereo: Y2K
  19. The Beach Boys: God Only Knows
  20. The Clash: Car Jamming
  21. Rolling Stones: Dancing with Mr. D.
  22. Cream: Dance the Night Away
  23. The Eagles: Seven Bridges Road [live version]
  24. Velvet Underground: Some Kinda Love
  25. David Byrne: Independence Day (Cumbia)
  26. The Starlight Mints: The Bandit
  27. Morphine: Mary Won’t You Call My Name
  28. Jane’s Addiction: Standing in the Shower… Thinking
  29. Led Zeppelin: Down by the Seaside
  30. Belle & Sebastian: String Bean Jean
  31. The Beach Boys: Sloop John B
  32. Johnny Cash: Rowboat
  33. The Allman Brothers Band: Ramblin’ Man
  34. Fats Domino: I’m Walking
  35. Otis Redding: Tramp
  36. Rush: YYZ
  37. Elvis Costello: Watching the Detectives
  38. The Replacements: Nightclub Jitters
  39. The Animals: House of the Rising Sun
  40. The Beastie Boys: The Sounds of Science
  41. The Pastels: Over My Shoulder
  42. Pink Floyd: Hey You
  43. Beck: Sexx Laws
  44. Berlin: Sex (I’m A)
  45. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Apollo 69
  46. The Rolling Stones: Tumbling Dice
  47. The Doors: Cars Hiss by My Window
  48. Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Accidents Will Happen
  49. The Beach Boys: I Know There’s an Answer
  50. De La Soul: A Little Bit of Soap
  51. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Doris Love Club
  52. The Pastels: Speeding Motorcycle
  53. Bob Dylan: You’re a Big Girl Now
  54. Edith Piaf: La vie, l’amour
  55. Guadalcanal Diary: Trail of Tears
  56. The Flaming Lips: God Walks among Us Now – Jesus Song No. 6
  57. Red Hot Chili Peppers: My Lovely Man
  58. The Fall: Just Step S’ways
  59. Squirrel Bait: Thursday
  60. X: Drunk in My Past
  61. The Doobie Brothers: Long Train Runnin’
  62. James Brown: Night Train
  63. The Rolling Stones: Rocks Off
  64. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced?
  65. The Beatles: Baby You’re a Rich Man
  66. Beck: Beautiful Way
  67. Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Little Birdie
  68. James Taylor: Mexico
  69. The Steve Miller Band: Fly Like an Eagle
  70. The Cars: Good Times Roll
  71. fIREHOSE: Locked-In
  72. Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Bound to Ride
  73. Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood
  74. Vince Guaraldi: Oh, Good Grief [from “Oh, Good Grief!”]
  75. R.E.M.: 7 Chinese Brothers
  76. A Flock of Seagulls: I Ran (So Far Away)
  77. Berlin: Metro
  78. ZZ Top: Tush
  79. The Doors: Take It As It Comes
  80. The Beatles: The Ballad of John and Yoko
  81. The Pastels: Kitted Out
  82. The Flaming Lips: The Spiderbite Song
  83. Simon and Garfunkel: El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
  84. X: Hot House
  85. Bruce Springsteen: Wild Billy’s Circus Story
  86. Pink Floyd: Pigs on the Wing Pt. 1
  87. Iggy Pop: Some Weird Sin
  88. David Bowie: Life on Mars?
  89. Rush: Subdivisions
  90. Steely Dan: Do It Again
  91. Frank Zappa: A Token of My Extreme
  92. Cream: Swlabr
  93. The B-52s: There’s a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)
  94. The Beatles: Why Don’t We Do It in the Road
  95. The Flaming Lips: Man from Pakistan
  96. Big Country: In a Big Country
  97. Missing Persons: Destination Unknown
  98. Roger Miller: King of the Road
  99. Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians: What I Am
  100. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally
  101. Afroman: Crazy Rap
  102. Cream: Tales of Brave Ulysses
  103. Portishead: Sour Times
  104. Massive Attack: Paradise Circus
  105. Government Issue: Visions and ?
  106. Government Issue: Strange Wine
  107. Missing Persons: Words
  108. OMD: The Native Daughters of the Golden West
  109. Detroit Cobras: Hey Sailor
  110. T. Rex: Mambo Sun
  111. The Doors: Roadhouse Blues
  112. Screaming Trees: Where the Twain Shall Meet
  113. Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere
  114. Willie Nelson: On the Road Again
  115. Talking Heads: Swamp [from “Stop Making Sense”]
  116. The Kinks: Lola
  117. Daft Punk: Lose Yourself to Dance
  118. The Beatles: You Never Give Me Your Money […] The End


the man comes around mix (for creation and destruction) [5 hours, 9 minutes]
  1. Johnny Cash: The Man Comes Around
  2. Ray Charles: What’d I Say
  3. ABBA: Waterloo
  4. The Animals: The Girl Can’t Help It
  5. The Clash: Spanish Bombs
  6. Bruce Springsteen: Thunder Road
  7. Velvet Underground: Stephanie Says
  8. The Flaming Lips: In the Morning of the Magicians
  9. Scott Biram: God Don’t Work
  10. The Cure: Caterpillar
  11. The Rolling Stones: Shattered
  12. Bob Marley: War
  13. Dinosaur jr.: Little Fury Things
  14. The Beatles: Lady Madonna
  15. Cream: White Room
  16. Iggy Pop: Success
  17. Johnny Cash: Cocaine Blues
  18. The Flaming Lips: Everything’s Exploding
  19. Radiohead: Knives Out
  20. David Bowie: This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll/Diamond Dogs
  21. Guadalcanal Diary: Sleepers Awake
  22. The Rolling Stones: Prodigal Son
  23. fIREHOSE: Choose Any Memory
  24. Flaming Lips: Fryin’ Up
  25. Squirrel Bait: The Final Chapter
  26. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: House Burning Down
  27. The Zombies: Time of the Season
  28. The Animals: We Gotta Get Out of This Place
  29. Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
  30. Radiohead: Dollars and Cents
  31. Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
  32. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House [from “Speaking in Tongues”]
  33. Bruce Springsteen: Sherry Darling
  34. Cream: Swlabr
  35. Radiohead: Just
  36. Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: Jackson [from “Live at Folsom Prison”]
  37. Tom Waits: Intro / Emotional Weather Report
  38. Oliver Morgan: Who Shot the La La
  39. The Doors: You’re Lost Little Girl
  40. Handsome Boy Modeling School: Metaphysical
  41. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: 1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
  42. Run-D.M.C.: It’s Like That
  43. Rush: The Analog Kid
  44. Bad Company: Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy
  45. Michael Jackson: Workin’ Day and Night
  46. Elvis Presley: Viva Las Vegas
  47. Dead Kennedys: Viva Las Vegas
  48. Stormtroopers of Death: Anti-Procrastination Song
  49. White Stripes: Now Mary
  50. Joni Mitchell: All I Want
  51. Belle & Sebastian: Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
  52. Otis Redding: Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
  53. Squeeze: Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
  54. Blondie: Call Me
  55. Electric Light Orchestra: Sweet Talkin’ Woman
  56. Toots and the Maytals: Pressure Drop
  57. Sam and Dave: Soul Man
  58. Booker T. and the M.G.s: Green Onions
  59. Wagner: “Die Walküre” – Act 3, Szene 1: Hojotoho! Hojotoho! Heiaha! Heiaha! [Solti and the Wiener Philharmoniker, from “Der Ring des Nibelungen”]
  60. Led Zeppelin: Trampled under Foot
  61. The Doors: The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
  62. Barenaked Ladies: Call and Answer
  63. Frank Sinatra: My Way [from “Best of the Best”]
  64. Portishead: Glory Box
  65. Cream: Take It Back
  66. Khachaturian: Sabre Dance [performed by Aram Khachaturian and London Symphony Orchestra]
  67. Eric Clapton: Cocaine
  68. Pixies: Debaser
  69. Siouxsie And The Banshees: Cities in Dust
  70. OMD: 88 Seconds in Greensboro
  71. Belle & Sebastian: Lazy Line Painter
  72. The Breeders: Cannonball
  73. Cannonball Adderley: Cannonball [from “Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley”, with John Williamns, Max Roach, Paul Chambers, Quincy Jones]
  74. T. Rex: Get It On
  75. Detroit Cobras: Hey Sailor
  76. The Doors: Roadhouse Blues
  77. Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
  78. Michael Jackson: Wanna Be Startin’ Something
  79. Little Richard: The Girl Can’t Help It
  80. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra: I. Einleitung [von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, 1974]
  81. Screaming Trees: Lines and Circles
  82. Pixies: Gouge Away
  83. Iggy & The Stooges: Search and Destroy
  84. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Blue Buddha
  85. Otis Day & The Knights: Shout
  86. Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
  87. The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night
  88. The Doors: The Soft Parade


happiness is a warm gun mix (for fomping out) [7 hours, 53 minutes]

“fompy”: strange, outré, out of place, unexpected, downright weird, yet all in a way that, once digested and absorbed, seems one step away from making perfect sense, although one will never be able to articulate how, much less take that step; “to fomp”: to behave in a fompy manner, hence “to fomp out”, which means really to go to town on that shit; sometimes to bug is to fomp

  1. The Beatles: Happiness Is a Warm Gun
  2. Van Morrison: Madame George
  3. Velvet Underground: Train ’Round the Bend
  4. Jane’s Addiction: Of Course
  5. Government Issue: Strange Wine
  6. Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
  7. The B-52s: Private Idaho
  8. The Flaming Lips: Shaved Gorilla
  9. Dr. Octagonacologyst: General Hospital/Blue Flowers
  10. Morphine: Head with Wings
  11. The B-52s: Planet Claire
  12. Handsome Boy Modeling School: Look At This Face (Oh My God They’re Gorgeous)
  13. The Fall: The Classical
  14. Louis Armstrong: Tight Like This [Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens”, Volume 3]
  15. The Flaming Lips: The Ceiling Is Bendin’
  16. Tom Waits: Jocky Full of Bourbon
  17. Afrique: Soul Makossa
  18. Radiohead: Everything in Its Right Place
  19. The Rolling Stones: Ruby Tuesday
  20. The Apples in Stereo: Drifting Patterns
  21. Bob Dylan: Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
  22. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid and Flowers Mix)
  23. James Brown: Get on the Good Foot
  24. Violent Femmes: Blister in the Sun
  25. Iggy Pop: The Passenger
  26. Government Issue: Last Forever
  27. Blind Lemon Jefferson: Match Box Blues
  28. Jerry Lee lewis: Matchbox
  29. Carl Perkins: Matchbox
  30. The Beatles: Matchbox [from “Live at the BBC”]
  31. Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan: Matchbox [from “The Johnny Cash Show”, 1969]
  32. Velvet Underground: European Son
  33. Buffalo Springfield: Broken Arrow
  34. Tom Waits: Diamonds on My Windshield
  35. The Fall: Hip Priest
  36. The Zombies: She’s Not There
  37. The Flaming Lips: Trains, brains & rain
  38. James Brown: Do the Mashed Potatoes, Pt. 1
  39. The Beatles: I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
  40. The Doors: Do It
  41. The Austin Lounge Lizards: Brain Damage
  42. Tom Waits: Intro / Eggs and Sausage
  43. The Beastie Boys: Egg Man
  44. The Beatles: I Am the Walrus
  45. Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Don’t You Just Know It
  46. Bill Monroe: New Mule Skinner Blues
  47. Bruce Springsteen: Kitty’s Back
  48. Beck: Get Real Paid
  49. Radiohead: The National Anthem
  50. Dr. Octagonacologyst: I Got to Tell You
  51. Dr. Octagonacologyst: Earth People
  52. Blind Lemon Jefferson: Black Snake Moan
  53. Cream: As You Said
  54. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Run through the Jungle
  55. The Beatles: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
  56. The Doors: Yes, the River Knows
  57. Manu Chao: Bongo Bong/Je ne t’aime plus
  58. Les Negresses Vertes: Zobi la Mouche
  59. James Brown: Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1
  60. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Love or Confusion
  61. De La Soul: Transmitting Live from Mars
  62. The Monkees: The Monkees
  63. The Beatles: Rocky Raccoon
  64. Radiohead: Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
  65. Tom Waits: Gun Street Girl
  66. James Brown: Mother Popcorn
  67. Beck: Lord Only Knows
  68. Bruce Springsteen: Spirit in the Night
  69. fIREHOSE: Me & You, Remembering
  70. The Beatles: The Continuing Story of Bungalo Bill
  71. David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
  72. Nirvana: About a Girl [from “Unplugged”]
  73. Dinosaur jr.: Show Me the Way
  74. R.E.M.: Underneath the Bunker
  75. fIREHOSE: For the Singer of R.E.M.
  76. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: If 6 Was 9
  77. The Flaming Lips: She is death
  78. The Starlight Mints: Valerie Flames
  79. Dinosaur jr.: Yeah We Know
  80. Government Issue: When I’m Alone
  81. R.E.M.: Swan Swan H
  82. fIREHOSE: Making the Freeway
  83. X: True Love, Pt.2
  84. Squirrel Bait: Disguise
  85. The Fugees: Chinese Restaurant
  86. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris
  87. Cyndi Lauper: She Bop
  88. The Doors: Peace Frog
  89. Joni Mitchell: California
  90. Belle & Sebastian: A Century of Elvis
  91. Elvis Presley: Too Much
  92. The Beatles: It’s All Too Much
  93. Roy Orbison: Candy Man
  94. Blondie: Rapture
  95. Burl Ives: Old Witch Old Witch
  96. The Replacements: I’m in Trouble
  97. XTC: Senses Working Overtime
  98. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Mickey’s Monkey
  99. The Mahotella Queens: Wozani Mahipi (Hippies Come To Soweto)
  100. Howlin’ Wolf: Wang Dang Doodle
  101. Ted Nugent: Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
  102. Harry Belafonte: Mama Look a Boo Boo
  103. Khachaturian: Sabre Dance [performed by Aram Khachaturian and London Symphony Orchestra]
  104. Afroman: Because I Got High
  105. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra: I. Einleitung [von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, 1974]
  106. Portishead: Mysterons
  107. Government Issue: Memories Past
  108. Pixies: Monkey Gone to Heaven
  109. T. Rex: Mambo Sun
  110. Romeo Void: Never Say Never
  111. Velvet Underground: Lady Godiva’s Operation
  112. Little Richard: Tutti Frutti
  113. Screaming Trees: Grey Diamond Desert
  114. Cibo Matto: Sugar Water
  115. Hank Williams: Ramblin’ Man
  116. Nick Drake: Pink Moon
  117. Ella Fitzgerald: Anything Goes [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  118. Michigan J. Frog: The Michigan Rag (Hello, My Baby)
  119. Gorillaz: 5/4
  120. The Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird
  121. Scott Biram: Real Life Yodel
  122. Henry Mancini: Baby Elephant Walk
  123. The Beasties: Intergalactic
  124. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Voodoo Chile


for what it’s worth mix (for bugging out) [6 hours, 34 minutes]

“to bug”: to behave in a nonsensical or asinine manner, to err, to miss the target, often frenetically or frenziedly (early 80s hiphop slang); hence ‘to bug out’, which means really to go to town on that shit; sometimes to fomp is to bug

  1. Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth
  2. Dead Kennedys: Holiday in Cambodia
  3. Sex Pistols: Holidays in the Sun
  4. Cream: Pressed Rat & Warthog
  5. Velvet Underground: Lady Godiva’s Operation
  6. The Doors: When the Music’s Over
  7. Pink Floyd: Brain Damage/Eclipse
  8. The Austin Lounge Lizards: Brain Damage
  9. Squirrel Bait: Virgil’s Return
  10. Government Issue: Hear the Scream
  11. The Monkees: Goin’ Down
  12. Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere
  13. Dire Straits: Industrial Disease
  14. The Pretenders: My City Was Gone
  15. Pylon: Crazy
  16. Patsy Cline: Crazy
  17. Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Don’t You Just Know It
  18. Simon and Garfunkel: Hazy Shade of Winter
  19. The Fleetwoods: The Great Imposter
  20. Ralph Stanley and the Clint Mountain Boys: A Man of Constant Sorrow [from “Bound to Ride”]
  21. Iggy & The Stooges: Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
  22. Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
  23. Radiohead: Subterranean Homesick Alien
  24. The Softies: As Skittish As Me
  25. The White Stripes: Offend in Every Way
  26. Pink Floyd: One of My Turns
  27. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Blonde with Lobotomy Eyes
  28. Bob Marley: Crazy Baldhead
  29. Beck: Loser
  30. The Beatles: I’m a Loser
  31. The Doors: Ship of Fools
  32. The Rolling Stones: Turd on the Run
  33. The Pretenders: Bad Boys Get Spanked
  34. Dead Kennedys: Viva Las Vegas
  35. Talking Heads: Psycho Killer [from “Stop Making Sense”]
  36. Simon and Garfunkel: Keep the Customer Satisfied
  37. Bob Dylan: Ballad of a Thin Man
  38. The Beatles: Yer Blues
  39. Frank Zappa: Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
  40. Nirvana: Lithium
  41. Dinosaur jr.: The Lung
  42. Radiohead: My Iron Lung [from “The Bends”]
  43. David Bowie: Young Americans
  44. Michael Jackson: Billie Jean
  45. Public Enemy: Sophisticated Bitch
  46. Government Issue: Locked Inside
  47. X: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
  48. Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
  49. Squirrel Bait: Perfect
  50. Sex Pistols: Bodies
  51. Fugazi: Give Me the Cure
  52. Led Zeppelin: The Crunge
  53. David Bowie: John, I’m Only Dancing
  54. The Beatles: Come Together
  55. Nirvana: Dumb [from “Unplugged”]
  56. Michael Jackson: Beat It
  57. The Psychedelic Furs: President Gas
  58. Beck: Tropicalia
  59. The Surfaris: Wipeout
  60. Surf Punks: Somebody Ripped My Stick
  61. Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks: Mary Lou
  62. Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me Not to Come
  63. The Guess Who: American Woman
  64. Government Issue: The Fear
  65. Shaggy: It Wasn’t Me
  66. Belle & Sebastian: Like Dylan in the Movies
  67. Bob Dylan: Temporary Like Achilles
  68. Nirvana: Rape Me
  69. The Beatles: Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
  70. Afroman: She Won’t Let Me Fuck
  71. Pixies: No. 13 Baby
  72. The Kinks: Apeman
  73. Talking Heads: Memories Can’t Wait
  74. The Smiths: How Soon Is Now?
  75. Velvet Underground: I’m Waiting for the Man
  76. The Kinks: Destroyer
  77. Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train
  78. The Magnetic Fields: Absolutely Cuckoo
  79. Eric Clapton: Cocaine
  80. Johnny Cash: Cocaine Blues
  81. Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel: White Lines (Don’t Do It)
  82. The Guess Who: Undun
  83. The Zombies: She’s Not There
  84. Hank Williams: Long Gone Lonesome Blues
  85. Velvet Underground: The Black Angel’s Death Song
  86. Pixies: Debaser
  87. Government Issue: Crash
  88. Beck: Beautiful Way
  89. Belle & Sebastian: String Bean Jean
  90. The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed
  91. Velvet Underground: European Son
  92. The Flaming Lips: Buggin’
  93. Screaming Trees: End of the Universe
  94. Little Richard: Lucille
  95. Nancy Sinatra (with Lee Hazlewood): Some Velvet Morning
  96. Johnny Cash: Delia’s Gone
  97. Gillian Hills: Tut Tut Tut Tut
  98. Lesley Gore: It’s My Party
  99. Iggy Pop: Tonight
  100. Screaming Trees: Black Sun Morning
  101. Velvet Underground: Train Round the Bend
  102. Cream: Outside Woman Blues
  103. The Replacements: I’m in Trouble
  104. Frank Zappa: Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
  105. Run-D.M.C.: You Talk Too Much
  106. Living Colour: Memories Can’t Wait
  107. Michigan J. Frog: Hello, My Baby
  108. Isley Brothers: It’s Your Thing
  109. The Beatles: Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby
  110. Belle & Sebastian: Beautiful
  111. Pixies: Wave of Mutilation
  112. The Magnetic Fields: A Pretty Girl Is Like…
  113. Velvet Underground: The Gift
  114. The Doors: The End


born to run mix (for driving the West Texas desert night) [6 hours, 48 minutes]
  1. Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
  2. Grateful Dead: Truckin’
  3. Fats Domino: I’m Walking
  4. Frankie Ford, with Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Sea Cruise
  5. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Hit & Run Holiday
  6. The Monkees: (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
  7. G. Love and Special Sauce: Stepping Stones
  8. Minor Threat: (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
  9. Flaming Lips: Prescription: Love
  10. Boston: Rock & Roll Band
  11. The Rolling Stones: Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
  12. Iggy Pop: Neighborhood Threat
  13. Buddy Holly: Rave On
  14. Carl Perkins: Blue Suede Shoes
  15. Squirrel Bait: Tape from California
  16. Talking Heads: Swamp [from “Stop Making Sense”]
  17. Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel: White Lines (Don’t Do It)
  18. The Doors: Love Her Madly
  19. Fatboy Slim: Praise You
  20. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Higher Ground
  21. Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild
  22. Donnie Iris: Love Is Like a Rock
  23. The Beatles: I Wanna Be Your Man [from “Live at the BBC“]
  24. Rush: Limelight
  25. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Fire
  26. Tommy James and the Shondells: Mony Mony
  27. The B-52s: Dance This Mess Around
  28. The Strokes: Someday
  29. Chuck Berry: Almost Grown
  30. The Animals: We Gotta Get Out of This Place
  31. Belle & Sebastian: Dog on Wheels
  32. Beck: Beercan
  33. Bruce Springsteen: Night
  34. Del Shannon: Runaway
  35. Frank Zappa: Catholic Girls
  36. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River
  37. David Bowie: Rebel Rebel
  38. Beastie Boys: Hey Ladies
  39. Led Zeppelin: Custard Pie
  40. The Beatles: Money
  41. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Gimme Three Steps
  42. The B-52s: Rock Lobster
  43. Ray Charles: Unchain My Heart
  44. Earth, Wind & Fire: Boogie Wonderland
  45. David Bowie: Modern Love
  46. Steely Dan: My Old School
  47. Dire Straits: Romeo and Juliet
  48. De La Soul: Me Myself and I
  49. Linda Ronstadt: You’re No Good
  50. Eagles: Hotel California
  51. The Steve Miller Band: Take the Money and Run
  52. R.E.M.: Driver 8
  53. Bay City Rollers: Bye Bye Baby
  54. The Doobie Brothers: China Grove
  55. Edith Piaf: Non, je ne regrette rien
  56. The Doobie Brothers: Rockin’ Down the Highway
  57. Government Issue: Melancholy Miss
  58. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away
  59. Elvis Costello: Oliver’s Army
  60. X: New World
  61. The Steve Miller Band: Jet Airliner
  62. The Beatles: Please Please Me
  63. Bruce Springsteen: Badlands
  64. The Cars: Shake It Up
  65. fIREHOSE: Sometimes
  66. R.E.M.: Harborcoat
  67. Bruce Springsteen: I’m Goin’ Down
  68. Ray Charles: Hide nor Hair
  69. David Bowie: The Jean Genie
  70. The B-52s: Butterbean
  71. Run-D.M.C.: It’s Tricky
  72. Rush: Red Barchetta
  73. Aerosmith: Same Old Song and Dance
  74. Eddie Cochran: What’d I Say [from “Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock ’n Roll Heroes (BBC Radio Live)”]
  75. Bad Company: Shooting Star
  76. The Cars: Drive
  77. Eagles: Life in the Fast Lane
  78. Bob Dylan: From a Buick 6
  79. The Beatles: You Can’t Do That
  80. X: Breathless
  81. Jerry Lee Lewis: Breathless
  82. Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Li’l Liza Jane
  83. The Steve Miller Band: Jungle Love
  84. Donnie Iris: Ah! Leah!
  85. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Shop Around
  86. Linda Ronstadt: (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
  87. Led Zeppelin: Friends
  88. David Bowie: Suffragette City
  89. Brian Wilson: Heroes and Villains
  90. Buffalo Springfield: Mr. Soul
  91. Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind
  92. Earth, Wind & Fire: September
  93. Beck: Lord Only Knows
  94. Apples in Stereo: Strawberryfire
  95. Donna Summer: I Feel Love
  96. Cream: Strange Brew
  97. Doors: Queen of the Highway
  98. The Fixx: One Thing Leads to Another
  99. Modern English: I Melt with You
  100. ABBA: Fernando
  101. The Go-Gos: Vacation
  102. Blondie: Atomic
  103. Buffalo Springfield: Broken Arrow
  104. Bruce Springsteen: Kitty’s Back
  105. Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
  106. Iggy Pop: The Passenger
  107. Jane’s Addiction: Been Caught Stealing
  108. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
  109. The Clash: Rudie Can’t Fail
  110. James Brown: Get on the Good Foot
  111. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Positive Vibration
  112. Beck: Nicotine & Gravity
  113. The Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night
  114. Bruce Springsteen: Incident on 57th Street
  115. Elvis Presley: Blue Moon of Kentucky [from “The Complete Louisiana Hayride Archive”, first version]
  116. Moody Blues: I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)
  117. Duran Duran: Hungry Like the Wolf
  118. Carl Perkins: Honey Don’t
  119. Buffalo Springfield: Good Time Boy
  120. Mongo Santamaria: Manila
  121. Sam Cooke: You Gotta Move
  122. Scott Biram: Ella Speed
  123. Elvis Presley: Mystery Train
  124. Roy Orbison: Oh, Pretty Woman
  125. Squeeze: Take Me I’m Yours
  126. Bob Marley: Is This Love
  127. The Replacements: I’m in Trouble
  128. Buffalo Springfield: Mr. Soul
  129. Blondie: In the Flesh
  130. Electric Light Orchestra: Turn to Stone
  131. Jackson Browne: Running on Empty
  132. Roger Miller: King of the Road
  133. Johnny Cash: Personal Jesus
  134. Robert Palmer: Bad Case of Loving You
  135. Deep Purple: Smoke on the Water
  136. Booker T. and the M.G.s: Green Onions
  137. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra: I. Einleitung [von Karajan, Berlin Philharmoniker, 1974]
  138. Al Green: Love and Happiness
  139. The Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky
  140. Led Zeppelin: That’s the Way
  141. Tom Waits: Gun Street Girl
  142. Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train
  143. Eric Clapton: Cocaine
  144. Siouxsie And The Banshees: Cities in Dust
  145. Lou Reed: Walk on the Wild Side
  146. R.E.M.: (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
  147. Pixies: Gouge Away
  148. T. Rex: Mambo Sun
  149. The Doors: Roadhouse Blues
  150. Stevie Wonder: I Wish
  151. Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
  152. Chico Buarque & Milton Nascimento: Calice
  153. Elvis Presley: That’s All Right, Mama
  154. Sugarloaf: Green-Eyed Lady
  155. Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back in Town
  156. Nick Drake: River Man
  157. Depeche Mode: Personal Jesus
  158. Talking Heads: Life during Wartime
  159. Iggy & The Stooges: Search and Destroy
  160. Frank Zappa: Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
  161. Willie Nelson: On the Road Again
  162. Velvet Underground: Booker T. [from “Live at the Gymnasium, NYC, 30 April 1967”]
  163. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band: Night Moves
  164. Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson: Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)
  165. Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can [from “Pearl”, with The Full Tilt Boogie Band]
  166. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Crosstown Traffic


drive my car mix (for driving California wine country in the afternoon in a convertible, with the top down)
  1. The Beatles: Drive My Car
  2. The Cleftones: Heart and Soul
  3. Rufus Wainwright: Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
  4. Arthur Conley: Sweet Soul Music
  5. Wilson Pickett: Land of a 1000 Dances
  6. Cameo: Word Up
  7. Stevie Wonder: Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing
  8. Pixies: Here Comes Your Man
  9. The Breeders: Cannonball
  10. Detroit Cobras: Hey Sailor
  11. Shocking Blue: Venus
  12. Santana: Smooth
  13. Smash Mouth: All Star
  14. Toots and the Maytals: Pressure Drop
  15. Belle & Sebastian: Judy and the Dream of Horses
  16. Eric Clapton: Lay Down Sally
  17. Daft Punk: Get Lucky
  18. Sam and Dave: Soul Man
  19. Salt-n-Pepa: Shoop
  20. The Horace Silver Quintet: Psychedelic Sally
  21. Boz Scaggs: Lido Shuffle
  22. T. Rex: Bang a Gong (Get It On)
  23. Little Richard: The Girl Can’t Help It
  24. Yumi Matsutoya: Rūju No Dengon
  25. Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  26. The Spinners: I’ll Be Around
  27. Ray Charles: What’d I Say
  28. Queen: Killer Queen
  29. Otis Day & The Knights: Shama Lama Ding Dong
  30. R.E.M.: Shaking Through
  31. Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
  32. Mark Ronson: Uptown Funk
  33. Lipps Inc: Funkytown
  34. Alvin ‘Red’ Tyler: Peanut Vendor
  35. Stevie Wonder: Smile Please
  36. Santana: Evil Ways
  37. Boz Scaggs: Lowdown
  38. Wang Chung: Dance Hall Days
  39. Eric Burdon and War: Spill the Wine
  40. Led Zeppelin: Black Dog
  41. Santo and Johnny: Sleep Walk
  42. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Line for Lyons [from “The Original Gerry Mulligan—Chet Baker Quartet: Complete Recordings”]
  43. Ella Fitzgerald: Let’s Do It [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  44. Sugar Hill Gang: Rapper’s Delight
  45. Otis Day & The Knights: Shout
  46. Isley Brothers: That Lady
  47. Rufus with Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good


stomp some rump mix (for smooth groovin’)

This is named after a phrase from the first song, not after the title of the song—let’s face it, consistency is over-rated (except, I reckon, for the first-order predicate calculus, but, c’mon, who really gives a crap about that?)—the wonderfully evocative claim “The Wild Tchoupitoulas gonna stomp some rump” captures the thing perfectly.

  1. The Wild Tchoupitoulas: Meet de Boys on de Battlefront
  2. Eric Burdon and War: Spill the Wine
  3. The Allman Brothers Band: Les Brers in A Minor
  4. The Diamonds: The Stroll
  5. Hank Williams: Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  6. Fats Domino: Blueberry Hill
  7. Miles Davis Quintet: Ahmad’s Blues [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  8. Booker T. and the M.G.s: Green Onions
  9. Beastie Boys: Jimmy James
  10. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Mickey’s Monkey
  11. Bob Dylan: I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
  12. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Roots, Rock, Reggae
  13. Boston: More Than a Feelin’
  14. The Beatles: Flying
  15. Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
  16. Gilberto Gil: So Quero Um Xodó
  17. Caetano Veloso: Um Canto de Afoxé Para o Bloco Do Ilê (Ilê Ayê)
  18. The Mahotella Queens: Umculo Kawupheli (No End to Music)
  19. Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell: You’re All I Need to Get By
  20. Elvis Presley: Blue Moon of Kentucky [from “The Complete Lousiana Hay Ride Archive”, first version]
  21. Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line
  22. Beck: Nicotine & Gravy
  23. fIREHOSE: Backroads
  24. Earth, Wind & Fire: September
  25. Cream: Strange Brew
  26. George Benson: White Rabbit
  27. Sly & The Family Stone: Everybody Is a Star
  28. De La Soul: The Magic Number
  29. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Ooh Baby, Baby
  30. Beck: Hollywood Freaks
  31. The Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music
  32. The Beatles: Two of Us
  33. Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing
  34. Stevie Wonder: Master Blaster
  35. Huey ‘Piano’ Smith and His Clowns: Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
  36. The Steve Miller Band: Swingtown
  37. Beck: Where It’s At
  38. fIREHOSE: Honey, Please
  39. The Beatles: Day Tripper
  40. Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop
  41. Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids: She’s So Fine
  42. Dire Straits: Lions
  43. Led Zeppelin: D’yer Mak’er
  44. Rufus with Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good


be my baby mix (for hopeful expectation) [3 hours, 27 minutes]
  1. The Ronettes: Be My Baby
  2. Belle & Sebastian: If She Wants Me
  3. The Psychedelic Furs: Love My Way
  4. Gilberto Gil: So Quero Um Xodó
  5. Hot Chocolate: You Sexy Thing
  6. Rufus Wainwright: Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
  7. Arthur Conley: Sweet Soul Music
  8. Wilson Pickett: In the Midnight Hour
  9. Sam and Dave: Soul Man
  10. Bizet: Les Toreadors («Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre»)
  11. Andrés Segovia: Granada from Suite Española #1 (Albéniz) [from “Andrés Segovia: 1927-1939 Recordings, Volume 2”]
  12. Belle & Sebastian: Get Me away from Here, I’m Dying
  13. The Fleetwoods: Come Softly to Me
  14. The Platters: With This Ring
  15. Led Zeppelin: Over the Hills and Far Away
  16. Velvet Underground: Rock & Roll
  17. Donna Summer: I Feel Love
  18. Jackie Wilson: Reet Petite
  19. Frank Sinatra and Count Basie: Fly Me to the Moon [from “Best of the Best”]
  20. Ray Charles: If You Were Mine
  21. Verdi: Marcia Trionfale [“Aida”, Act 2, Scene 2; recording by Herbert von Karajan and the Wiener Philharmoniker, 1959]
  22. Eric Clapton: Lay Down Sally
  23. Percy Faith: Theme from “A Summer Place”
  24. The Beatles: If I Fell
  25. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Love Is All Around
  26. T. Rex: Bang a Gong (Get It On)
  27. Stevie Wonder: Smile Please
  28. Velvet Underground: Sweet Jane
  29. The Mgababa Queens: Sidl’imali Zethu (Our Own Money)
  30. Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: Crazy He Calls Me
  31. Belle & Sebastian: Mayfly
  32. Led Zeppelin: Fool in the Rain
  33. Count Basie: All of Me [from “Sinatra at the Sands with Count Basie & Orchestra”]
  34. The Pretenders: Brass in Pocket
  35. R.E.M.: Catapault
  36. Daft Punk: Get Lucky
  37. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Line for Lyons [from “The Original Gerry Mulligan—Chet Baker Quartet: Complete Recordings”]
  38. The Beatles: Two of Us
  39. Willie Nelson: On the Road Again
  40. Rufus with Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
  41. Aerosmith: Sweet Emotion
  42. Squeeze: Take Me, I’m Yours
  43. Bob Dylan: Lay Lady Lay
  44. Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell: If I Could Build My Whole World around You
  45. Elvis Presley: I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
  46. Ella Fitzgerald: Let’s Do It [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  47. Led Zeppelin: The Rain Song
  48. Stevie Wonder: Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing
  49. T. Rex: Mambo Sun
  50. R.E.M.: Shaking Through
  51. The Beatles: This Boy
  52. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Being with You
  53. De La Soul: Eye Know
  54. Ella Fitzgerald: You’re the Top [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  55. Led Zeppelin: The Ocean
  56. Isley Brothers: This Old Heart of Mine
  57. The Chordettes: Mr. Sandman


there you are — jesus song no. 7 mix (for dissociative emptiness) [2 hours, 33 minutes]
  1. The Flaming Lips: There You Are – Jesus Song No. 7
  2. Bob Dylan: It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue [from “Biograph”]
  3. The Beatles: I’m So Tired
  4. Beck: Cold Brains
  5. The Clash: Straight to Hell
  6. Nirvana: All Apologies [from “Unplugged”]
  7. Tom Waits: Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
  8. Bob Dylan: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door [“Biograph” version]
  9. Van Morrison: T.B. Sheets
  10. Velvet Underground: Candy Says
  11. Grateful Dead: Box of Rain
  12. Jane’s Addiction: Jane Says
  13. Sam Cooke: Lost and Lookin’
  14. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Helpless
  15. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
  16. The Softies: The Beginning of the End
  17. Dinosaur Jr: Yeah We Know
  18. Harry Nilsson: Everybody’s Talkin’
  19. Simon and Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy in New York
  20. Tom Waits: Mockin’ Bird
  21. Radiohead: Creep [from “My Iron Lung”]
  22. Flaming Lips: Five Stop Mother Superior Rain
  23. Grateful Dead: Brokedown Palace
  24. Hooverphonic: Electro Shock Faders
  25. Pixies: Hey
  26. Nirvana: Dumb
  27. The Flaming Lips: Godzilla Flick
  28. Pink Floyd: Brain Damage
  29. Otis Redding: (Sittin’ on the) Dock of the Bay
  30. Radiohead: Let Down
  31. The Rolling Stones: Coming Down Again
  32. The Replacements: Skyway
  33. Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Party Girl
  34. Bob Dylan: Visions of Johanna [from “Biograph”]
  35. Pink Floyd: Pigs on the Wing, Part 1
  36. Radiohead: How to Disappear Completely


solace mix (for solace, even when you know none is to be had) [2 hours, 33 minutes]
  1. Scott Joplin: Solace – A Mexican Serenade [from Joshua Rifkin, “Piano Rags”]
  2. Bill Monroe: Blue Moon of Kentucky [from “Anthology (1950-1981)”]
  3. The Beatles: Flying
  4. Bill Withers: Lean on Me
  5. Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed
  6. Jackson Browne: Doctor My Eyes
  7. Van Morrison: It’s All Right
  8. Belle & Sebastian: The Fox in the Snow
  9. Velvet Underground & Nico: I’ll Be Your Mirror
  10. Khachaturian: Adagio of Phrygia and Spartacus [performed by Aram Khachaturian and London Symphony Orchestra]
  11. The Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky
  12. The Allman Brothers Band: Melissa
  13. Andrés Segovia: Granada from Suite Española #1 (Albéniz) [from “Andrés Segovia: 1927-1939 Recordings, Volume 2”]
  14. Led Zeppelin: Tangerine
  15. Tammy Wynette: Stand by Your Man
  16. Taj Mahal: Ain’t Gwine Whistle Dixie (Anymo’)
  17. Santo and Johnny: Sleep Walk
  18. Everly Brothers: All I Have to Do Is Dream
  19. The Allman Brothers Band: Jessica
  20. Stevie Wonder: Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing
  21. Caetano Veloso: O Leãozinho
  22. Taj Mahal: Take a Giant Step
  23. Neil Young: Sugar Mountain
  24. Daft Punk: Lose Yourself to Dance
  25. Willie Nelson: Blue Skies
  26. The Miles Davis Quintet: It Never Entered My Mind [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  27. Dire Straits: Why Worry
  28. Bob Dylan: Buckets of Rain
  29. Led Zeppelin: Bron-Yr-Aur
  30. Johnny Cash: Unchained
  31. Liszt: Liebestraum (Rêve d’amour) No. 3 in As-dur, S.541 [Jorge Bolet, “Liszt: Piano Works”]
  32. The Shadows: Sleepwalk
  33. The Rolling Stones: Waiting on a Friend
  34. Bob Dylan: Watching the River Flow
  35. The Spaniels: Goodnight, Well It’s Time to Go
  36. Schubert: Ellens Gesang iii. Ave Maria [sung by Maria Callas]
  37. [read Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”]


crush on you mix (for having a crush—physical, intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic, drunken…)
  1. Bruce Springsteen: Crush on You
  2. Doris Troy: Just One Look
  3. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris
  4. Bay City Rollers: I Only Want to Be With You
  5. Taj Mahal: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
  6. The White Stripes: Apple Blossom
  7. The Beatles: Girl
  8. OMD: Crush
  9. The Del-Vikings: Come Go with Me
  10. The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
  11. Caetano Veloso: Um Canto De Afoxé Para O Bloco Do Ilê (Ilê Ayê)
  12. Vince Guaraldi: You’re in Love, Charlie Brown [from “Oh, Good Grief!”]
  13. Hot Chocolate: You Sexy Thing
  14. B. J. Thomas: Hooked on a Feeling
  15. The Cat Heads: Upside Down
  16. The Beatles: You Really Got a Hold on Me
  17. Bruce Channel: Hey! Baby
  18. The Platters: Only You
  19. Pixies: La La Love You
  20. Redd Kross: Love Is You
  21. Belle & Sebastian: Step into My Office, Baby
  22. The Beatles: I Should Have Known Better
  23. Benny Goodman: Let’s Dance
  24. Al Green: Let’s Stay Together
  25. Led Zeppelin: Over the Hills and Far Away
  26. The Softies: The Best Days
  27. Jackie Wilson: Reet Petite
  28. Frank Sinatra and Count Basie: Fly Me to the Moon [from “Best of the Best”]
  29. Government Issue: Melancholy Miss
  30. Otis Day and the Knights: Shama Lama Ding Dong
  31. Pixies: Here Comes Your Man
  32. Shocking Blue: Venus
  33. Santana: Smooth
  34. Devo: Girl U Want
  35. The Dead Milkmen: Punk Rock Girl
  36. Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: I’ve Got a Crush on You
  37. The Beatles: You Really Got a Hold on Me
  38. Stevie Wonder: Boogie on Reggae Woman
  39. Bow Wow Wow: I Want Candy
  40. Bananarama: Venus
  41. The Hollies: Just One Look
  42. The Pretenders: Brass in Pocket
  43. Hank Williams: Hey, Good Lookin’
  44. Talking Heads: Girlfriend Is Better [from “Stop Making Sense”]
  45. Björk: Like Someone in Love
  46. Squeeze: Goodbye Girl
  47. Otis Day & The Knights: Shout
  48. Isley Brothers: That Lady
  49. The Kinks: You Really Got Me
  50. Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
  51. The Beatles: I’m Happy Just to Dance with You


point blank mix (slow-burning anger and regret) [4 hours, 7 minutes]
  1. Bruce Springsteen: Point Blank
  2. The Psychedelic Furs: Only You and I
  3. Belle & Sebastian: A Century of Fakers
  4. Afroman: Palmdale
  5. Led Zeppelin: No Quarter
  6. Johnny Cash: Rusty Cage
  7. Violent Femmes: Kiss Off
  8. The Pretenders: Time the Avenger
  9. Government Issue: Even When You’re Here
  10. The Magnetic Fields: Reno Dakota
  11. Pink Floyd: Vera
  12. Vera Lynn: We’ll Meet Again
  13. Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman: Why Don’t You Do Right [“Ken Burns’ Jazz: Benny Goodman”]
  14. OMD: 88 Seconds in Greensboro
  15. Hank Williams: Long Gone Lonesome Blues
  16. Jesus Christ Superstar: The Last Supper [from the 1973 motion picture soundtrack]
  17. Phil Collins: In the Air Tonight
  18. Link Wray: Rumble
  19. R.E.M.: (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
  20. Pixies: Wave of Mutilation
  21. Bill Withers: Ain’t No Sunshine
  22. Stevie Wonder: You Haven’t Done Nothin’
  23. Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
  24. Question Mark & The Mysterians: 96 Tears
  25. Little Richard: Lucille
  26. Janis Ian: At Seventeen
  27. Screaming Trees: Ivy
  28. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
  29. Talking Heads: Psycho Killer [from “Stop Making Sense”]
  30. Gillian Hills: Tut Tut Tut Tut
  31. X: True Love, Pt.2
  32. Iggy Pop: Turn Blue
  33. Bob Dylan: Masters of War
  34. Radiohead: My Iron Lung
  35. The Pastels: Crawl Babies
  36. Leslie Gore: You Don’t Own Me
  37. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: A Martini Built for 2
  38. Afroman: Let’s All Get Drunk
  39. Velvet Underground: The Black Angel’s Death Song
  40. The Kinks: Destroyer
  41. The Pretenders: The Adultress
  42. Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
  43. Violent Femmes: Add It Up
  44. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on You
  45. Johnny Cash: Hurt
  46. Government Issue: Sheer Terror
  47. Pixies: Gouge Away
  48. The Fall: Who Makes the Nazis
  49. Aerosmith: Same Old Song and Dance
  50. Rolling Stone: Paint It Black
  51. Willie Nelson: Always on My Mind
  52. The Pretenders: Watching the Clothes
  53. Government Issue: Another Day
  54. Fleetwood Mac: Dreams
  55. Bruce Springsteen: Streets of Fire
  56. Tracy Chapman: Fast Car
  57. The Smiths: You’ve Got Everything Now
  58. Velvet Underground: Candy Says
  59. Nancy Sinatra (with Lee Hazlewood): Some Velvet Morning
  60. Pixies: There Goes My Gun
  61. Johnny Cash: Personal Jesus
  62. Squeeze: Up the Junction
  63. The Kinks: Tired of Waiting for You
  64. Santana: Evil Ways
  65. Led Zeppelin: When the Levee Breaks


seeing other people mix (for confusion)
  1. Belle & Sebastian: Seeing Other People
  2. Jimi Hendrix: Love or Confusion
  3. Jungle Book: I Wanna Be Like You
  4. Afroman: Because I Got High
  5. Led Zeppelin: The Crunge
  6. The Pretenders: Birds of Paradise
  7. The Softies: As Skittish As Me
  8. Velvet Underground: Train Round the Bend
  9. Khachaturian: Sabre Dance [performed by Aram Khachaturian and London Symphony Orchestra]
  10. The Magnetic Fields: Reno Dakota
  11. Frank Sinatra: That’s Life [from “Best of the Best”]
  12. Scott H. Biram: Wreck My Car
  13. Government Issue: When I’m Alone
  14. Missing Persons: Destination Unknown
  15. Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman: Why Don’t You Do Right
  16. OMD: Women iii
  17. The Zombies: She’s Not There
  18. Pixies: There Goes My Gun
  19. Romeo Void: Never Say Never
  20. Iggy Pop: Fall in Love with Me
  21. The Doors: Not to Touch the Earth
  22. The Flaming Lips: Prescription: Love
  23. Velvet Underground: Some Kinda Love
  24. Question Mark & The Mysterians: 96 Tears
  25. 10cc: I’m Not in Love
  26. Margo Guryan: Timothy Gone
  27. Chico Buarque & Milton Nascimento: Cálice
  28. Living Colour: Memories Can’t Wait
  29. Screaming Trees: Lines & Circles
  30. Nancy Sinatra (with Lee Hazlewood): Some Velvet Morning
  31. Cibo Matto: Sugar Water
  32. Yumi Matsutoya: Rūju No Dengon
  33. The Spinners: Games People Play
  34. Climax Blues Band: Couldn’t Get It Right
  35. X: True Love, Pt.2
  36. Nick Lowe: Cruel to Be Kind
  37. Radiohead: My Iron Lung
  38. The Pastels: Crawl Babies
  39. The Fall: Hip Priest
  40. The Beatles: Don’t Pass Me By
  41. XTC: Senses Working Overtime
  42. Belle & Sebastian: Dog on Wheels
  43. Led Zeppelin: Fool in the Rain
  44. The Magnetic Fields: I Think I Need a New Heart
  45. Portishead: Mysterons
  46. Government Issue: Last Forever
  47. OMD: The Native Daughters of the Golden West
  48. Pixies: Hey
  49. The Doors: Runnin’ Blue
  50. Velvet Underground: All Tomorrow’s Parties
  51. Al Green: Love and Happiness
  52. Squeeze: Is That Love
  53. Bob Dylan: Temporary Like Achilles
  54. David Bowie: Five Years
  55. Ella Fitzgerald: Anything Goes [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  56. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: The Tears of a Clown
  57. Isley Brothers: It’s Your Thing
  58. Fine Young Cannibals: Johnny Come Home
  59. Gorillaz: 5/4
  60. The Animals: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  61. Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me Not to Come
  62. The Replacements: I’m in Trouble
  63. Jane’s Addiction: Of Course
  64. Talking Heads: Swamp [from “Stop Making Sense”
  65. The Grateful Dead: Casey Jones
  66. Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
  67. Paul Simon: Kodachrome
  68. Bruce Springsteen: Spirit in the Night
  69. Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
  70. Redd Kross: Neurotica
  71. Chicago: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
  72. Afroman: Hush
  73. Beck: Rowboat
  74. Johnny Cash: Rowboat
  75. Hooverphonic: Electro Shock Faders
  76. Grupo Fantasma: Fresitas (de Laredo)
  77. Scott H. Biram: Lost Case of Bein’ Found
  78. Velvet Underground: Run Run Run
  79. Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere
  80. Bob Dylan: Ballad of a Thin Man
  81. Squeeze: If I Didn’t Love You
  82. Led Zeppelin: Custard Pie
  83. Starlight Mints: Submarine #3
  84. Belle & Sebastian: Sleep the Clock Around
  85. New Orleans Rhythm Kings: That’s a Plenty [from “Friars Society Orchestra: The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 1—Classic Jazz”, track 11]


only the lonely mix (for naked yearning)
  1. Roy Orbison: Only the Lonely
  2. Righteous Brothers: Unchained Melody
  3. The Left Banke: Walk away Renee
  4. Kyu Sakamoto: Ue o Muite Arukō
  5. Massive Attack: Paradise Circus
  6. The Ink Spots: If I Didn’t Care
  7. James Brown: Please Please Please
  8. Linda Ronstadt: Long, Long Time
  9. Government Issue: Wishing
  10. Janis Joplin: Cry Baby [from “Pearl”, with The Full Tilt Boogie Band]
  11. Everly Brothers: Love Hurts
  12. Vera Lynn: We’ll Meet Again
  13. Cat Stevens: Wild World
  14. Portishead: Glory Box
  15. Jesus Christ Superstar: Could We Start Again, Please?
  16. Bill Withers: Ain’t No Sunshine
  17. Harry Belafonte: Jamaica Farewell
  18. The Rolling Stones: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
  19. Simon and Garfunkel: El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
  20. Iggy & The Stooges: I Need Somebody
  21. The Beatles: I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
  22. Françoise Hardy: La Fille avec Toi
  23. Question Mark & The Mysterians: 96 Tears
  24. Little Richard: Lucille
  25. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
  26. Chico Buarque and Milton Nascimento: Cálice
  27. Sugarloaf: Green-Eyed Lady
  28. Naked Eyes: Always Something There to Remind Me
  29. James Brown: I’ll Go Crazy
  30. Jackson Browne: Running on Empty
  31. The Cars: Drive
  32. ABBA: Lay All Your Love On Me
  33. Del Shannon: Runaway
  34. Susan Sarandon: Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me [from the soundtrack of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”]
  35. David Bowie: Five Years
  36. Government Issue: Connecticut
  37. The Rolling Stones: Wild Horses
  38. Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops
  39. The Kinks: You Really Got Me
  40. The Smiths: This Charming Man
  41. Velvet Underground: All Tomorrow’s Parties
  42. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company: Piece of My Heart
  43. Government Issue: For Ever
  44. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Being with You
  45. Françoise Hardy: Tous les Garçons et les Filles
  46. Grateful Dead: Brokedown Palace
  47. Iggy and the Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog
  48. Don Henley: The Boys of Summer
  49. Bruce Springsteen: 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
  50. Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love
  51. Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
  52. Roy Orbison: In Dreams
  53. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
  54. Liszt: Liebestraum (Rêve d’amour) No. 3 in As-dur, S.541 [Jorge Bolet, “Liszt: Piano Works”]


race for the prize mix (for stalwart determination) [3 hours, 12 minutes]
  1. The Flaming Lips: Race For The Prize (Mokran Mix)
  2. Velvet Underground: Rock & Roll
  3. The Rolling Stones: Little T&A
  4. Stevie Wonder: Smile Please
  5. Yumi Matsutoya: Rūju No Dengon
  6. Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
  7. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Blue Buddha
  8. Wang Chung: Dance Hall Days
  9. The Go-Go’s: We Got the Beat
  10. Bananarama: Venus
  11. The Bangles: Walk Like an Egyptian
  12. R.E.M.: Shaking Through
  13. Talking Heads: And She Was
  14. Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back in Town
  15. Frank Sinatra: That’s Life [from “Best of the Best”]
  16. Led Zeppelin: Black Dog
  17. Lipps Inc: Funkytown
  18. The Spinners: I’ll Be Around
  19. Jacques Dutronc: Et Moi, et Moi, et Moi
  20. The Kinks: Stop Your Sobbing
  21. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Hit & Run Holiday
  22. The Pretenders: Stop Your Sobbing
  23. Björk: Human Behavior
  24. T. Rex: Bang a Gong (Get It On)
  25. Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  26. Santana: Everybody’s Everything
  27. Talking Heads: Life during Wartime [from “Fear of Music”]
  28. Stevie Wonder: Higher Ground
  29. Scott H. Biram: Whoa Back Buck
  30. Stormtroopers of Death: Anti-Procrastination Song
  31. Screaming Trees: The Second I Awake
  32. Velvet Underground: European Son
  33. Siouxsie And The Banshees: Cities in Dust
  34. Isley Brothers: This Old Heart of Mine
  35. R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe
  36. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Universal Luxury
  37. Johnny Cash: Rusty Cage
  38. The Mountain Goats: The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
  39. The Beatles: This Boy
  40. Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop
  41. Foghat: Slow Ride
  42. Beastie Boys: Slow Ride
  43. Rufus with Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
  44. The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night
  45. Squeeze: Is That Love
  46. Shocking Blue: Venus
  47. Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
  48. Velvet Underground: Booker T. [from “Live at the Gymnasium, NYC, 30 April 1967”]
  49. ABBA: Lay All Your Love On Me
  50. John Coltrane: Syeeda’s Song Flute
  51. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Being with You
  52. Marvin Gaye: I’ll Be Doggone
  53. Bud Powell: Tempus Fugue-It [with Max Roach and Ray Brown, from “Jazz Giant”]
  54. Rush: New World Man
  55. Grateful Dead: Truckin’
  56. Isley Brothers: It’s Your Thing


peaceful easy feeling mix (for when paths that have affinity for one another converge) [2 hours, 23 minutes]
  1. The Eagles: Peaceful Easy Feeling
  2. The Flaming Lips: It’s Summertime
  3. The Beatles: I’m Only Sleeping
  4. Stevie Wonder: Smile Please
  5. Caetano Veloso: O Leãozinho
  6. Boston: More Than a Feeling
  7. Santo and Johnny: Sleep Walk
  8. Led Zeppelin: Bron-Yr-Aur
  9. James Taylor: Carolina in My Mind
  10. The Allman Brothers Band: Little Martha
  11. America: Ventura Highway
  12. The Beatles: Across the Universe
  13. Bob Marley: Easy Skanking
  14. Thelonious Monk: Crepuscule with Nellie [from “Monk’s Music”, Thelonious Monk Septet w/ John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Art Blakey]
  15. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Our House
  16. De La Soul: Eye Know
  17. The Rolling Stones: Waiting on a Friend
  18. Van Morrison: And It Stoned Me
  19. The Spinners: I’ll Be Around
  20. Miles Davis Quintet: Ahmad’s Blues [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  21. The Flaming Lips: Do You Realize??
  22. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Line for Lyons [from “The Original Gerry Mulligan—Chet Baker Quartet: Complete Recordings”]
  23. Bob Dylan: Shelter from the Storm
  24. Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson: Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)
  25. Otis Day & The Knights: Shama Lama Ding Dong
  26. The Kinks: Sunny Afternoon
  27. The Beatles: Two of Us
  28. Gorillaz: Re-Hash
  29. Billy Paul: Me and Mrs. Jones
  30. Sam Cooke: (What a) Wonderful World
  31. Fats Domino: Blueberry Hill
  32. Bob Dylan: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
  33. Gilberto Gil: So Quero Um Xodó
  34. Santana: Samba Pa Ti
  35. Bob Dylan: I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
  36. The Flaming Lips: In the Morning of the Magicians
  37. Nick Drake: The Thoughts of Mary Jane
  38. Jimmy Cliff: I Can See Clearly Now
  39. The Beatles: Flying


nazi punks fuck off mix (for moshin’ and joshin’) [5 hours, 13 minutes]
  1. Dead Kennedys: Nazi Punks Fuck Off
  2. The Beatles: Helter Skelter
  3. Circle Jerks: World Up My Ass
  4. Public Enemy: Miuzi Weighs a Ton
  5. NWA: Fuck tha Police
  6. Bob Marley: Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
  7. Beastie Boys: Shadrach
  8. Nirvana: Breed
  9. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Naked in the Rain
  10. Dinosaur jr.: Kracked
  11. The Crucifucks: Hinkley Had a Vision
  12. X: I See Red
  13. fIREHOSE: Brave Captain
  14. The Clash: Brand New Cadillac
  15. Public Enemy: You’re Gonna Get Yours
  16. Squirrel Bait: Hammering So Hard
  17. Bikini Kill: Demirep
  18. Flaming Lips: Charles Manson Blues
  19. Government Issue: Another Day
  20. Fugazi: Waiting Room
  21. Government Issue: Crash
  22. Violent Femmes: Blister in the Sun
  23. Iggy & The Stooges: Search and Destroy
  24. The Runaways: Cherry Bomb
  25. Minor Threat: Filler
  26. Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
  27. Nirvana: Territorial Pissings
  28. Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train
  29. Pixies: Crackity Jones
  30. Led Zeppelin: Black Dog
  31. Eminem: White America
  32. Fishbone: Slow Bus Movin’ (Howard Beach Party)
  33. Velvet Underground: European Son
  34. Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Bound to Ride [from “Bound to Ride”]
  35. Screaming Trees: Where the Twain Shall Meet
  36. The Doors: Easy Ride
  37. The Beatles: Why Don’t We Do It in the Road
  38. The Replacements: IOU
  39. The Clash: Wrong’em Boyo
  40. Violent Femmes: Add It Up
  41. Dead Kennedys: Too Drunk to Fuck
  42. Squirrel Bait: When I Fall
  43. The Fall: The Classical
  44. Big Black: Tiny, King of the Jews
  45. The Fugees: The Score
  46. Iggy and the Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog
  47. Bikini Kill: I Like Fucking
  48. Blondie: Rip Her to Shreds
  49. Surf Punks: My Wave
  50. Morphine: Buena
  51. Redd Kross: Frosted Flake
  52. Fishbone: Party at Ground Zero
  53. The Kinks: Destroyer
  54. Dead Kennedys: California über Alles
  55. The Fall: Who Makes the Nazis
  56. Dinosaur jr.: Lose
  57. Flaming Lips: Man from Pakistan
  58. Government Issue: Sheer Terror
  59. Slayer: Angel of Death
  60. Surf Punks: Somebody Ripped My Stick
  61. X: Painting the Town Blue
  62. The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night
  63. Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat
  64. The Police: It’s Alright for You
  65. The Replacements: I’m in Trouble
  66. Fishbone: Lyin’ Ass Bitch
  67. Black Velvet Flag: Institutionalized
  68. Suicidal Tendencies: Institutionalized
  69. Black Flag: Wasted
  70. Black Velvet Flag: Wasted
  71. Ramones: I Don’t Care about You
  72. Minor Threat: Cashing In
  73. Fugazi: Give Me the Cure
  74. Squirrel Bait: Choose Yr Poison
  75. Government Issue: Crash
  76. Living Colour: Memories Can’t Wait
  77. Stormtroopers of Death: Anti-Procrastination Song
  78. The Circle Jerks: I Just Want Some Skank
  79. The Dead Milkmen: Punk Rock Girl
  80. Stray Cats: Runaway Boys
  81. Dead Kennedys: Holiday in Cambodia
  82. Sex Pistols: Holidays in the Sun
  83. Suicidal Tendencies: I Saw Your Mommy
  84. Iggy & The Stooges: Penetration
  85. The Fall: Just Step S’Ways
  86. Big Black: The Power of Independent Trucking
  87. Eminem: Without Me
  88. The Doors: Maggie M’Gill
  89. The Clash: Car Jamming
  90. Jane’s Addiction: Ocean Size
  91. Fishbone: Subliminal Fascism
  92. Beastie Boys: Just a Test
  93. Led Zeppelin: When the Levee Breaks
  94. Iggy Pop: The Passenger


let the good times roll mix (for sybaritic excess) [4 hours, 43 minutes]
  1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
  2. Ray Charles: Smack Dab in the Middle
  3. Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
  4. The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night
  5. Susan Sarandon: Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me [from the soundtrack of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”]
  6. Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel: White Lines (Don’t Do It)
  7. Shocking Blue: Venus
  8. Velvet Underground: Venus in Furs
  9. Ray Charles: One Mint Julep
  10. The Doors: Wishful Sinful
  11. Romeo Void: Never Say Never
  12. Eric Burdon and War: Spill the Wine
  13. Santana: Black Magic Woman
  14. Led Zeppelin: Black Dog
  15. Queen: Killer Queen
  16. Iggy Pop: Some Weird Sin
  17. Flaming Lips: Can’t Stop the Spring
  18. Jane’s Addiction: Been Caught Stealing
  19. Squirrel Bait: Sun God
  20. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House [from “Speaking in Tongues]”
  21. Françoise Hardy: J’ Suis D’ Accord
  22. ZZ Topp: La Grange
  23. King Harvest: Dancing in the Moonlight
  24. Steppenwolf: Magic Carpet Ride
  25. Bad Company: Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy
  26. Aerosmith: Sweet Emotion
  27. The Grateful Dead: Casey Jones
  28. Outkast: So Fresh, So Clean
  29. Bruce Springsteen: Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
  30. Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
  31. George Benson: White Rabbit
  32. Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
  33. Cream: I Feel Free
  34. Redd Kross: Peach Kelli Pop
  35. Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) [1937 recording with Gene Krupa, from the Carnegie Hall Concert]
  36. Fishbone: Cholly
  37. Tom Waits: Jockey Full of Bourbon
  38. Afroman: Crazy Rap
  39. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally
  40. Stevie Wonder: Master Blaster
  41. Gene Vincent: Say Mama [from “Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock ’n Roll Heroes (BBC Radio Live)”]
  42. Beck: Peaches and Cream
  43. Thelonius Monk: Bemsha Swing [from “Brilliant Corners”, with Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach, Paul Chambers, Clark Terry]
  44. The Kinks: Lola
  45. Ray Charles: What’d I Say
  46. T. Rex: Bang a Gong (Get It On)
  47. Grupo Fantasma: Caña Brava
  48. Gene Vincent: Be-Bop-A-Lula [from “Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock ’n Roll Heroes (BBC Radio Live)”]
  49. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid and Flowers Mix)
  50. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Apollo 69
  51. Bill Monroe: New Mule Skinner Blues
  52. The Doors: Queen of the Highway
  53. Scott H. Biram: Spoonful
  54. Led Zeppelin: Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
  55. Louis Armstrong: Sugar Foot Strut [Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens”, Volume 3]
  56. Stray Cats: Stray Cat Strut
  57. Tim Curry: Sweet Transvestite
  58. Iggy Pop: Frenzy
  59. Randy Newman: I Love LA
  60. War: Low Rider
  61. Beck: Hollywood Freaks
  62. Blondie: Rapture
  63. The Gourds: Gin and Juice
  64. Stevie Wonder: Sir Duke
  65. Billy Idol: Dancing with Myself
  66. The Doors: Moonlight Drive
  67. Velvet Underground: Some Kinda Love
  68. Flaming Lips: Everything’s Exploding
  69. Squirrel Bait: Kid Dynamite
  70. ZZ Topp: Tush
  71. Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild
  72. B.B. King: Let the Good Times Roll [from “King of the Blues”, with Bobby Bland]
  73. The Grateful Dead: Truckin’
  74. Gene Vincent: Race with the Devil
  75. Grupo Fantasma: Nuevo Laredo
  76. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Universal Luxury
  77. The Doors: The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
  78. New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Sweet Lovin’ Man [from “Friars Society Orchestra: The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 1—Classic Jazz”, track 9]


can’t stop the spring mix (for exuberant, perhaps rumbustious, celebration) [2 hours, 33 minutes]
  1. The Flaming Lips: Can’t Stop the Spring
  2. Parliament: Flash Light
  3. Van Halen: Dance the Night Away
  4. Bow Wow Wow: I Want Candy
  5. Mark Ronson: Uptown Funk
  6. Sugar Hill Gang: Rapper’s Delight
  7. Three Dog Night: Joy to the World
  8. OutKast: Hey Ya
  9. Chicago: Saturday in the Park
  10. Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio: Ad Lib Blues
  11. Buena Vista Social Club: De Camino a la Vereda
  12. Ray Charles: Smack Dab in the Middle
  13. The Doors: Light My Fire
  14. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama
  15. Neil Young: Cinnamon Girl
  16. The Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia
  17. De La Soul: Eye Know
  18. Flaming Lips: Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (Fuck Led Zeppelin)
  19. The Modern Lovers: Government Center
  20. The Cars: Let’s Go
  21. Stevie Wonder: Boogie on Reggae Woman
  22. The Beatles: Twist and Shout
  23. Sam Cooke: Twistin’ the Night Away
  24. Vince Guaraldi: It’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown [from “Oh, Good Grief!”]
  25. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Naked in the Rain
  26. The Beatles: Rock and Roll Music
  27. Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode
  28. The Go-Go’s: We Got the Beat
  29. The Modern Lovers: Roadrunner
  30. The Beatles: Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby
  31. Bob Marley: Jamming
  32. Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) [1937 recording with Gene Krupa, from the Carnegie Hall Concert]
  33. Bob Dylan: You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
  34. Blue Oyster Cult: Burnin’ for You
  35. The Breeders: Cannonball
  36. Bruce Springsteen: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
  37. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Higher Ground
  38. Redbone: Come and Get Your Love
  39. Squirrel Bait: Sun God
  40. Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day


black coffee in bed mix (for looking back with fondness, with weary regret, with grace and acceptance) [3 hours, 24 minutes]
— fondness
  1. Squeeze: Black Coffee in Bed
  2. Paul Simon: Kodachrome
  3. The Kinks: Come Dancing
  4. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Even the Losers
  5. Squeeze: Goodbye Girl
  6. Françoise Hardy: Je pense à lui
  7. Hefner: Hymn to the Cigarettes
  8. Linda Ronstadt: Blue Bayou
  9. Al Green: I’m Still in Love with You
  10. Thelonious Monk: Crepuscule with Nellie [from “Monk’s Music”, Thelonious Monk Septet w/ John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Art Blakey]
— weary regret
  1. Jacques Dutronc: Et Moi, et Moi, et Moi
  2. Beck: Lord Only Knows
  3. Yaz: Only You
  4. Bill Monroe: Come Back to Me in My Dreams
  5. Don Henley: The Boys of Summer
  6. The Police: The Bed’s Too Big without You
  7. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band: Night Moves
  8. The Fleetwoods: The Great Imposter
  9. Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Little Birdie [from “Bound to Ride”]
  10. Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Blue
  11. Flaming Lips: Chrome Plated Suicide
  12. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company: Bye Bye Baby
  13. Nirvana: All Apologies [from “Unplugged”]
  14. Nancy Sinatra (with Lee Hazlewood): Some Velvet Morning
  15. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge
  16. Grateful Dead: Box of Rain
  17. R.E.M.: Time after Time (Annelise)
  18. Kyu Sakamoto: Ue o Muite Arukō
  19. Beatles: Long, Long, Long
  20. The Softies: Beginning of the End
  21. Bob Dylan: You’re a Big Girl Now
  22. The Left Banke: Walk away Renee
  23. Willie Nelson: Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
  24. Bob Dylan: To Ramona [from “Biograph”]
  25. Buffalo Springfield: Burned
  26. Pylon: M-Train
  27. Fine Young Cannibals: Good Thing
  28. Sam Cooke: Bring It On Home to Me
  29. Cream: Dance the Night Away
  30. Led Zeppelin: Ten Years Gone
  31. Françoise Hardy: Le Temps de l’Amour
  32. The Shadows: Sleepwalk
  33. Led Zeppelin: That’s the Way
— grace and acceptance
  1. Bob Dylan: If You See Her, Say Hello
  2. Nick Drake: Day Is Done
  3. Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: What’s New
  4. Vera Lynn: We’ll Meet Again
  5. Oscar Peterson: I Remember Clifford [from “Something Warm”]
  6. Squirrel Bait: Tape from California
  7. Velvet Underground: Sunday Morning
  8. Cat Stevens: Wild World
  9. Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
  10. The Pastels: Over My Shoulder
  11. Glen Campbell: Gentle on My Mind
  12. The Spinners: I’ll Be Around
  13. The Commodores: Easy
  14. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Ooh Baby Baby
  15. Buffalo Springfield: Sad Memory
  16. Santo and Johnny: Sleep Walk
  17. Mama Cass: Dream a Little Dream of Me
  18. Johnny Cash: I Don’t Hurt Anymore


lola mix (for kink—emotional, intellectual, sexual, spiritual, aesthetic, physical, …) [5 hours, 5 minutes]
  1. The Kinks: Lola
  2. Beck: Peaches and Cream
  3. Blondie: Rapture
  4. Billy Idol: White Wedding
  5. Sex Pistols: Submission
  6. Iggy and the Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog
  7. Bikini Kill: I Like Fucking
  8. The Doors: Wild Child
  9. Velvet Underground: Venus in Furs
  10. The Beatles: She Said She Said
  11. The Doors: Wishful Sinful
  12. Afrique: Soul Makossa
  13. Big Bopper: Chantilly Lace
  14. The Modern Lovers: Pablo Picasso
  15. The B-52s: Private Idaho
  16. Tom Waits: Jockey Full of Bourbon
  17. Belle & Sebastian: Step into My Office, Baby
  18. Berlin: Sex (I’m A)
  19. Bikini Kill: Anti-Pleasure Dissertation
  20. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company: I Need a Man to Love
  21. Bill Monroe: Wicked Path of Sin
  22. Billie Holiday: Ain’t Misbehavin’
  23. The Beatles: Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
  24. Björk: Human Behavior
  25. Billy Idol: Dancing with Myself
  26. Beck: Hollywood Freaks
  27. Nirvana: About a Girl [from “Unplugged”]
  28. Led Zeppelin: Lemon Song
  29. Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Burkin/Brigitte Bardot: Je T’Aime… Moi non plus
  30. Velvet Underground: Some Kinda Love
  31. The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night
  32. Bruce Springsteen: Spirit in the Night
  33. Buddy Holly: Rave On
  34. The Doors: Back Door Man
  35. The B-52s: Lava
  36. Tom Waits: Gun Street Girl
  37. Blind Lemon Jefferson: Black Snake Moan
  38. Blondie: In the Flesh
  39. Pink Floyd: In the Flesh [second version on “The Wall” (Disc 2, #8)]
  40. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Kinky Reggae
  41. The Breeders: Roi
  42. Iggy and the Stooges: Penetration
  43. Beck: Nicotine & Gravy
  44. The B-52s: Butterbean
  45. Sam Cooke: Ain’t Misbehavin’
  46. The Beatles: Baby You’re a Rich Man
  47. Belle & Sebastian: The Stars of Track and Field
  48. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company: Ball and Chain
  49. Bill Monroe: Along about Daybreak
  50. The Blues Brothers: Theme from Rawhide
  51. Björk: Venus as a Boy
  52. Bob Dylan: Quinn the Eskimo [from “Biograph”]
  53. Blind Lemon Jefferson: Low Down Mojo Blues
  54. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Easy Skanking
  55. Brian Wilson: Heroes and Villains
  56. Bruce Springsteen: Kitty’s Back
  57. Circle Jerks: I Just Want Some Skank
  58. Cream: World of Pain
  59. The Cure: A Forest
  60. David Bowie: John, I’m Only Dancing
  61. The Detroit Cobras: Hey Sailor
  62. Devo: Whip It
  63. The Rolling Stones: I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
  64. Duran Duran: Girls on Film
  65. Louis Armstrong: Ain’t Misbehavin’ [Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, Volume 4]
  66. The Fall: Just Step S’ways
  67. Fatboy: Fucking in Heaven
  68. Fishbone: Cholly
  69. The Fixx: One Thing Leads to Another
  70. The Flaming Lips: Shaved Gorilla
  71. Françoise Hardy: J’Suis d’Accord
  72. Frank Zappa: Catholic Girls
  73. Funkadelic: Red Hot Mama
  74. Gene Vincent: Be-Bop-A-Lula [from “Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock ’n Roll Heroes (BBC Radio Live)”]
  75. Tim Curry: Sweet Transvestite
  76. Grateful Dead: Candyman
  77. Grupo Fantasma: Ritmo del Tambo
  78. Violent Femmes: Add It Up
  79. The Guess Who: American Woman
  80. Flaming Lips: Begs and Achin’
  81. The Dead Kennedys: Kinky Sex Makes the World Go ’Round
  82. Edith Piaf: Le vieux piano
  83. Joel Grey: Willkommen [from “Cabaret”, the movie soundtrack]
  84. The Doors: Maggie M’Gill
  85. Ella Fitzgerald: You’re the Top [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”]
  86. Elvis Presley: (Let Me Be) Your Teddy Bear
  87. Manu Chao: Bongo Bong/Je ne t’aime plus
  88. The Pretenders: Bad Boys Get Spanked
  89. Beck: Sexx Laws
  90. Nirvana: Rape Me
  91. Simon and Garfunkel: Cecilia
  92. Sly & The Family Stone: Everyday People
  93. Les Negresses Vertes: Zobi la Mouche
  94. Pixies: Debaser


the last time i saw richard mix (for looking back at the squalid catalogue of one’s mistakes) [2 hours, 37 minutes]
  1. Joni Mitchell: The Last Time I Saw Richard
  2. Herbie Hancock, Bobbie McFerrin, Ron Carter: Round Midnight [from the soundtrack “Round Midnight”]
  3. Tom Waits: Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
  4. Bruce Springsteen: The River
  5. Barenaked Ladies: Call and Answer
  6. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Someday Never Comes
  7. The Left Banke: Walk away Renee
  8. Van Morrison: T.B. Sheets
  9. Flaming Lips: Chrome Plated Suicide
  10. The Eagles: Take It to the Limit
  11. Nirvana: All Apologies [from “Unplugged”]
  12. Kyu Sakamoto: Ue o Muite Arukou
  13. The Softies: Beginning of the End
  14. Pink Floyd: Nobody Home
  15. Pink Floyd: Vera
  16. Vera Lynn: We’ll Meet Again
  17. R.E.M.: (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville
  18. Nirvana: Heart Shaped Box
  19. Government Issue: For Ever
  20. Al Green: Tired of Being Alone
  21. Simon and Garfunkel: Bleecker Street
  22. The Stanley Brothers: The Lonesome River
  23. Tracy Chapman: Fast Car
  24. Otis Redding: (Sittin’ on the) Dock of the Bay
  25. Bessie Smith: Down Hearted Blues
  26. Phil Collins: In the Air Tonight
  27. Bruce Springsteen: I’m Goin’ Down
  28. The Eagles: Tequila Sunrise
  29. R.E.M.: Wendell Gee
  30. Grateful Dead: Brokedown Palace
  31. Roy Orbison: In Dreams
  32. Fine Young Cannibals: Johnny Come Home
  33. Simon and Garfunkel: The Boxer
  34. Nirvana: Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
  35. Bruce Springsteen: Point Blank
  36. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber: Could We Start Again, Please? [from “Jesus Christ Superstar”, the movie soundtrack]
  37. Rolling Stones: Coming Down Again
  38. Johnny Cash: Sunday Morning Coming Down


truckin’ mix (for what a long strange trip it’s been) [5 hours, 2 minutes]
  1. Grateful Dead: Truckin’
  2. Grupo Fantasma: Laredo
  3. Bob Dylan: Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
  4. Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
  5. The Beatles: She Said She Said
  6. Buffalo Springfield: A Child’s Claim to Fame
  7. Santana: Jin-Go-La-Ba [from “Santana”]
  8. War: Low Rider
  9. Beastie Boys: Slow Ride
  10. Foghat: Slow Ride
  11. Beck: Devils Haircut
  12. The Flaming Lips: U.F.O. Story
  13. The B-52s: There’s a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)
  14. The Beatles: Yellow Submarine
  15. Billy Idol: Eyes without a Face
  16. The Doors: The Soft Parade
  17. The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
  18. Radiohead: Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
  19. Elton John: Honky Cat
  20. Sly & The Family Stone: Life
  21. The Police: Walking on the Moon
  22. Toots and the Maytals: Broadway Jungle
  23. R.E.M.: Feeling Gravity’s Pull
  24. Iggy Pop: Tonight
  25. Screaming Trees: Black Sun Morning
  26. Velvet Underground: Train Round the Bend
  27. Cream: Outside Woman Blues
  28. The Replacements: I’m in Trouble
  29. Frank Zappa: Broken Hearts Are for Assholes
  30. Redd Kross: Neurotica
  31. Chicago: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
  32. Fishbone: V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.
  33. Johnny Cash: Five Feet High and Rising
  34. Black Velvet Flag: Wasted
  35. Grupo Fantasma: Caña Brava
  36. The Beatles: Tomorrow Never Knows
  37. The Flaming Lips: Buggin’
  38. Santana: Soul Sacrifice
  39. The Doors: Not to Touch the Earth
  40. Sly & The Family Stone: M’Lady
  41. R.E.M.: Underneath the Bunker
  42. Chicago: 25 or 6 to 4
  43. Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love
  44. The Grateful Dead: Casey Jones
  45. Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues
  46. Black Velvet Flag: Institutionalized
  47. Suicidal Tendencies: Institutionalized
  48. Morphine: Cure for Pain
  49. Jack Johnson: Posters
  50. The Pastels: Different Drum
  51. Hank Williams: Move It On Over
  52. Jane’s Addiction: Ted, Just Admit it…
  53. The Doors: Horse Latitudes
  54. Neil Young: Down to the Wire
  55. Led Zeppelin: Kashmir
  56. Nirvana: Come As You Are [from “Unplugged”]
  57. Peter Gabriel: Shock the Monkey
  58. Simon and Garfunkel: A Simple Desultory Phillipic (Or How I Was Robert McNamra’d into Submission)
  59. The Police: Message in a Bottle
  60. Modern English: Life in the Gladhouse
  61. Dinosaur jr.: Show Me the Way
  62. R.E.M.: Old Man Kensey
  63. The Beatles: Because
  64. Sly & The Family Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
  65. Jack Johnson: Sexy Plexi
  66. Simon and Garfunkel: Why Don’t You Write Me
  67. George Benson: On Broadway
  68. The Police: Contact
  69. The Fall: Hip Priest
  70. The Beatles: Get Back
  71. R.E.M.: Voice of Harold
  72. Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: Jackson [from “Live at Folsom Prison”]
  73. The Doors: Runnin’ Blue
  74. Jane’s Addiction: Of Course
  75. David Bowie: Changes
  76. R.E.M.: Cant Get There from Here
  77. Grupo Fantasma: Nuevo Laredo
  78. Pylon: K
  79. Dinosaur jr.: Freak Scene
  80. Al Green: I Can’t Get Next to You
  81. The Grateful Dead: New Speedway Boogie
  82. Simon and Garfunkel: Old Friends
  83. Elton John: Bennie and the Jets
  84. The Beatles: Baby You’re a Rich Man


virgil’s return mix (for fighting the good fight)
  1. Squirrel Bait: Virgil’s Return
  2. Screaming Trees: Shadow Song
  3. The Monkees: (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
  4. Led Zeppelin: Good Times Bad Times
  5. Allen Touissant: Whirlaway
  6. Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi
  7. The Doors: The Changeling
  8. Harry Belafonte: Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) [from “Harry Belafonte in Concert (Japan, 1960)”. Recorded live at Sankei Hall, Tokyo, 18 July 1960]
  9. Bruce Springsteen: Prove It All Night
  10. Rolling Stones: Under My Thumb
  11. Guadalcanal Diary: Sleepers Awake
  12. Peter Gabriel: Games without Frontiers
  13. Shirley Ellis: The Nitty Gritty
  14. Eddie Cochran: What’d I Say [from “Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock ’n Roll Heroes (BBC Radio Live)”]
  15. Government Issue: Connecticut
  16. Simple Minds: Don’t You (Forget about Me)
  17. Sly & The Family Stone: Stand!
  18. Bud Powell: Tempus Fugue-It [with Max Roach and Ray Brown, from “Jazz Giant”]
  19. Blondie: Atomic
  20. João Gilberto: Pra Que Discutir Com Madame [from “Live in Montreux”]
  21. The Rolling Stones: Shattered
  22. Bob Marley: War
  23. Led Zeppelin: Trampled under Foot
  24. fIREHOSE: Choose Any Memory
  25. The Doors: Take It As It Comes
  26. Bruce Springsteen: Sherry Darling
  27. Jimmy Cliff: The Harder They Come
  28. Jocelyn: Nitty Gritty
  29. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: Israelites
  30. Fine Young Cannibals: Suspicious Minds
  31. Falco: Der Kommissar
  32. The White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
  33. Government Issue: Melancholy Miss
  34. Pat Benatar: Love Is a Battlefield
  35. Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind
  36. Johnny Cash: Unchained
  37. R.E.M.: Begin the Begin
  38. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Bad Reputation
  39. Ramones: Blitzkrieg Bop
  40. Toots and the Maytals: Pressure Drop
  41. Eminem: Without Me
  42. R.E.M.: Life and How to Live It
  43. The White Stripes: Jimmy the Exploder
  44. The Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man


pussy cat dues mix (for lazy contentment)
  1. Charles Mingus: Pussy Cat Dues
  2. Scott Joplin: Weeping Willow — A Ragtime Two-Step [Joshua Rifkin, from “Scott Joplin Piano Rags”]
  3. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Line for Lyons [from “The Original Gerry Mulligan—Chet Baker Quartet: Complete Recordings”]
  4. Chet Baker and Herbie Hancock: Fair Weather [from soundtrack “Round Midnight”]
  5. Donna Summer: I Feel Love
  6. Ella Fitzgerald: I Get a Kick out of You [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  7. Solomon Linda and The Evening: Mbube
  8. The Pretenders: Message of Love
  9. De La Soul: Buddy
  10. Pedro Infante: Cielito Lindo
  11. Simon and Garfunkel: Cloudy
  12. Artie Shaw and His Orchestra: The Last Two Weeks in July [with Helen Forrest, from “Artie Shaw (1939-40): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 3—Big Bands”]
  13. Ella Fitzgerald: Let’s Do It [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  14. Simon and Garfunkel: Feelin’ Groovy [from “Concert in Central Park”]
  15. Sly & The Family Stone: Everybody Is a Star
  16. James Taylor: Sweet Baby James
  17. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Rock [from “Flatt & Scruggs – 1959-1963”]
  18. Marcus Roberts: Angel
  19. Doc Watson: Whistlin’ Rufus/Ragtime Annie [from “The Definitive Doc Watson”]
  20. Duke Ellington: I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire [from “Take the ‘A’ Train: The Legendary Blanton-Webster Transcriptions, 1941”, with Johnny Hodges]
  21. G. Love and Special Sauce: Take You There
  22. Sade: Your Love Is King
  23. Ella Fitzgerald: It’s DeLovely [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  24. De La Soul: The Magic Number
  25. Everly Brothers: All I Have to Do Is Dream
  26. Lester Young: Indiana [from “The Complete Aladdin Recordings”, with Nat King Cole]
  27. G. Love & Special Sauce: Willow Tree
  28. R.E.M.: The Flowers of Guatemala
  29. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Lullaby of the Leaves
  30. Ahmad Jamal Trio: It Could Happen to You [from “The Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958”, with Israel Crosby and Vernel Fourier]
  31. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: I’m Beginning to See the Light
  32. The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five
  33. Sly & The Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
  34. The Kinks: Sunny Afternoon
  35. White Stripes: Hotel Yorba
  36. Glenn Miller: String of Pearls


thunder road mix (for breaking free) [4 hours, 10 minutes]
  1. Bruce Springsteen: Thunder Road
  2. Squirrel Bait: Kid Dynamite
  3. David Bowie: Suffragette City
  4. Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come
  5. Bob Dylan: I Shall Be Free
  6. The Animals: We Gotta Get Out of This Place
  7. Led Zeppelin: Ramble On
  8. The Doors: Break on Through
  9. Li’l Bob & The Lollipops: I Got Loaded
  10. Joni Mitchell: All I Want
  11. Clifford Brown and Max Roach: Sweet Clifford
  12. Glen Cambell: Gentle on My Mind
  13. a-ha: Take on Me
  14. The Beatles: Blackbird
  15. Lily Allen: Fuck You
  16. Bruce Springsteen: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
  17. Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
  18. Rod Stewart: Maggie May
  19. Eddie Cochran: What’d I Say [from “Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock ’n Roll Heroes (BBC Radio Live)”]
  20. Simon and Garfunkel: Baby Driver
  21. Sly & The Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
  22. Marcus Roberts: Cherokee
  23. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  24. The Runaways: Cherry Bomb
  25. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Bad Reputation
  26. Bruce Springsteen: Hungry Heart
  27. Squirrel Bait: Tape from California
  28. Led Zeppelin: Night Flight
  29. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hey, Joe
  30. Bruce Springsteen: Independence Day
  31. David Byrne: Independence Day (Cumbia)
  32. Roy Orbison: Oh, Pretty Woman
  33. AC/DC: Back in Black
  34. Beck: Beercan
  35. The Zombies: Time of the Season
  36. Modern English: After the Snow
  37. Blondie: Atomic
  38. Dire Straits: Walk of Life
  39. Duran Duran: The Wild Boys
  40. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock n’ Roll
  41. OMD: So in Love
  42. The Isley Brothers: Nobody but Me
  43. R.E.M.: White Tornado
  44. Bob Dylan: Mr. Tambourine Man
  45. Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated
  46. Jimmy Cliff and Roots Radics: Sitting in Limbo
  47. Screaming Trees: End of the Universe
  48. Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia
  49. Elton John: Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
  50. The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil
  51. David Bowie: Changes
  52. Chet Baker and Herbie Hancock: Fair Weather [from soundtrack to “Round Midnight”]
  53. Yaz: Bad Connection
  54. Modern English: Carry Me Down
  55. Willie Nelson: On the Road Again
  56. Weezer: Buddy Holly
  57. The Human League: Don’t You Want Me
  58. Duran Duran: Rio
  59. Bruce Springsteen: Badlands
  60. Fats Domino: Ain’t That a Shame
  61. Linda Ronstadt: You’re No Good
  62. Arethra Franklin: (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman
  63. Steely Dan: My Old School
  64. G. Love and Special Sauce: Take You There
  65. Ramones: California Sun
  66. R.E.M.: Swan Swan H
  67. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: Once in a While [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 2]


k mix (for the fierce of urgency of now) [2 hours, 52 minutes]
  1. Pylon: K
  2. Otis Redding: Respect [from “Live at Monterey Pop”]
  3. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Ohio
  4. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: 007 (Shanty Town)
  5. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Commotion
  6. Grupo Fantasma: Laredo
  7. Beyoncé: Blackbird
  8. Bob Dylan: The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
  9. Tears for Fears: Mad World
  10. Al Green: Tired of Being Alone
  11. Squirrel Bait: Thursday
  12. Buffalo Springfield: Mr. Soul
  13. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Run through the Jungle
  14. War: Why Can’t We Be Friends
  15. R.E.M.: Driver 8
  16. Bjork: Army of Me
  17. The White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
  18. Eminem: White America
  19. The B-52s: Lava
  20. The Rolling Stones: Paint It Black
  21. ZZ Topp: Tush
  22. Jr. Walker and the All Stars: Shotgun
  23. Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come
  24. Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
  25. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: Basin Street Blues [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  26. The Beatles: Blackbird
  27. George Benson: On Broadway
  28. Pink Floyd: Hey You
  29. Bill Withers: Lean on Me
  30. Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
  31. Arethra Franklin: Respect
  32. Ramones: Blitzkrieg Bop
  33. Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach: Money Jungle
  34. Run-DMC: It’s Lke That
  35. Fishbone: Slow Bus Movin’ (Howard Beach Party)
  36. The Beatles: The Ballad of John and Yoko
  37. Charles Mingus: Fables of Faubus
  38. Bill Monroe: Get Down on Your Knees and Pray
  39. Sam Cooke: Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
  40. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: What Did I Do (To Be So Black and Blue) [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 4]
  41. Martin Luther King Jr.: “I Have a Dream Speech” [28 August 1963; find it at http://strangebeautiful.com/index.html]


expecting to fly mix (for some intense shit) [2 hours, 25 minutes]
  1. Buffalo Springfield: Expecting to Fly
  2. Belle & Sebastian: Piazza, New York Catcher
  3. The Left Banke: Walk away Renee
  4. Elton John: Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road
  5. Quarterflash: Harden My Heart
  6. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
  7. R.E.M.: Old Man Kensey
  8. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Can You See Me [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  9. The White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
  10. Massive Attack: Paradise Circus
  11. Stone Temple Pilots: Interstate Love Song
  12. Otis Redding: I’ve Been Loving You Too Long [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  13. Aerosmith: Dream On
  14. Yaz: Only You
  15. Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five: Tight Like This [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  16. Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb
  17. Guadalcanal Diary: Sleepers Awake
  18. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House [from “Speaking in Tongues”]
  19. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: House Burning Down
  20. Buffalo Springfield: Broken Arrow
  21. Run-DMC: It’s Like That
  22. Tracy Chapman: Fast Car
  23. Johnny Cash: In My Life
  24. Jane’s Addiction: Three Days
  25. Heart: Crazy on You
  26. Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart
  27. Pink Floyd: Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
  28. Otis Redding: Pain in My Heart
  29. Barenaked Ladies: Call and Answer
  30. Kyu Sakamoto: Ue o Muite Arukou
  31. Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G-minor [Vladimir Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, 9 May 1965][1]


west end blues ↔ basin street blues mix (for a lovely and excessive chiasmus) [2 hours, 13 minutes]
  1. Louis Armstrong: West End Blues [Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  2. Bach: Prelude No. 1, BWV 846 [played by Glenn Gould, “The Well Tempered Clavier, Book i, Vol. 1”, 1963]
  3. The Beatles: Revolution [single version, B-side of “Hey Jude”]
  4. Buffalo Springfield: Mr. Soul
  5. R.E.M.: We Walk
  6. Pylon: Italian Movie Theme
  7. Tommy James and the Shondells: Crimson and Clover
  8. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Lullaby of the Leaves
  9. Al Green: Love and Happiness
  10. Grupo Fantasma: Laredo
  11. Elton John: Crocodile Rock
  12. Ella Fitzgerald: It’s DeLovely [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  13. Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
  14. Pink Floyd: In the Flesh [first version on “The Wall” (Disc 1, #1)]
  15. George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue [Gershwin on piano with Leonard Bernstein & Columbia Orchestra]
  16. Bach: Goldberg Variations “Variatio 3. Canone all’Unisono. a 1 Clav.”, BWV 988 [played by Glenn Gould, “Goldberg Variations”, 1956]
  17. Bach: Goldberg Variations “Variatio 3. Canone all’Unisono. a 1 Clav.”, BWV 988 [played by Glenn Gould, “Goldberg Variations”, 1982]
  18. George Gershwin: An America in Paris [Gershwin on piano with Leonard Bernstein & Columbia Orchestra]
  19. Pink Floyd: Outside the Wall
  20. Bill Withers: Lean on Me
  21. Ella Fitzgerald: Night and Day [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  22. Elton John: Honky Cat
  23. Grupo Fantasma: Nuevo Laredo
  24. Al Green: Let’s Stay Together
  25. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Moonlight in Vermont
  26. Tommy James and the Shondells: Mony Mony
  27. Pylon: Yo-Yo
  28. R.E.M.: Fall on Me
  29. Buffalo Springfield: Broken Arrow
  30. The Beatles: Revolution #1 [from the “White Album”]
  31. Bach: Fugue No. 1 (C major), BWV 846 [played by Glenn Gould, “The Well Tempered Clavier, Book i, Vol. 1”, 1963]
  32. Louis Armstrong: Basin Street Blues [Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]


in walked bud mix (for whirling, earthly and sublime, like a Tintoretto painting) [2 hours, 42 minutes]
  1. Thelonius Monk: In Walked Bud [from “Underground”]
  2. R.E.M.: 7 Chinese Brothers
  3. Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
  4. Bach: Prelude No. 2 (C minor), BWV 847 [played by Glenn Gould, “The Well Tempered Clavier, Book i, Vol. 1”, 1963]
  5. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: Israelites
  6. Buffalo Springfield: Broken Arrow
  7. Pylon: Yo-Yo
  8. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Rock [from “Flatt & Scruggs – 1959-1963”]
  9. Miles Davis Quintet: Ahmad’s Blues [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  10. Bach: Fugue No. 2 (C minor), BWV 847 [played by Glenn Gould, “The Well Tempered Clavier, Book i, Vol. 1”, 1963]
  11. Lily Allen: Fuck You
  12. Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia
  13. Allen Toussaint: Whirlaway
  14. Elton John: Crocodile Rock
  15. Jack Johnson: Inaudible Melodies
  16. R.E.M.: Old Man Kensey
  17. The Animals: House of the Rising Sun
  18. The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil
  19. The White Stripes: Jimmy the Exploder
  20. Pylon: Italian Movie Theme
  21. Al Green: Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
  22. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Lullaby of the Leaves
  23. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River
  24. Parliament: Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
  25. R.E.M.: White Tornado
  26. The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Blue Rondo à la Turk [from “Time Out”]
  27. Bill Withers: Lean on Me
  28. Andrés Segovia: Sevilla, Suite Española #3 (Albéniz) [from “Andrés Segovia: 1927-1939 Recordings, Volume 2”]
  29. Pink Floyd: Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
  30. Glenn Miller: Moonlight Serenade
  31. The Beatles: Across the Universe
  32. Bach: Cantata “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben” (AKA “Wohl mir, dass ich Jesum habe (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring)”, BWV 147 [transcribed by Myra Hess, played by Myra Hess, “Great Pianists of the 20th Century”, vol. 45]
  33. Jack Johnson: Mudfootball (for Moe Lerner)
  34. Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) [1937 recording with Gene Krupa, from the Carnegie Hall Concert]
  35. Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc.
  36. George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue [Gershwin on piano with Leonard Bernstein & Columbia Orchestra]


nobody but me mix (for negation)
  1. The Human Beinz: Nobody but Me
  2. Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell: Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
  3. X: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
  4. 10cc: I’m Not in Love
  5. Talking Heads: I’m Not in Love
  6. The Cars: I’m Not the One
  7. The Monkees: (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
  8. G. Love and Special Sauce: Stepping Stones
  9. Minor Threat: (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
  10. Belle and Sebastian: Is It Wicked Not to Care?
  11. The Allman Brothers Band: It’s Not My Cross to Bear
  12. Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
  13. The Beatles: Not a Second Time
  14. Three Dog Night: Mama Told Me Not to Come
  15. Buddy Holly: Not Fade Away
  16. The Doors: Not to Touch the Earth
  17. The Pastels: Not Unloved
  18. The Beatles: Nothin’ Shakin’ (But the Leaves on the Trees) [from “Live at the BBC”]
  19. Otis Redding: Nothing Can Change This Love
  20. Prince: Nothing Compares 2 U
  21. The Magnetic Fields: Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing
  22. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with Doc Watson: Nothing to It
  23. Johnny Cash: Oh Bury Me Not
  24. Violent Femmes: Please Do Not Go
  25. The Fugees: Ready or Not
  26. The Zombies: She’s Not There
  27. Elvis Presley: She’s Not You
  28. The Beach Boys: That’s Not Me
  29. The Pretenders: Waste Not Want Not
  30. The Smiths: William, It Was Really Nothing
  31. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me)
  32. Bachman-Turner Overdrive: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
  33. Stevie Wonder: You Haven’t Done Nothin’
  34. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Helpless
  35. Van Morrison: He Ain’t Give You None
  36. Otis Redding: Give Away None of My Love
  37. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with Doc Watson: Nothing to It
  38. Hank Williams: I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
  39. The Miles Davis Quintet: It Never Entered My Mind [with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  40. The Stanley Brothers: It’s Never Too Late to Start Over
  41. Fleetwood Mac: Never Going Back Again
  42. The Replacements: Never Mind
  43. Scott H. Biram: Never on Sunday
  44. Toots and the Maytals: Never You Change
  45. Handsome Boy Modeling School: Rock n’ Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This)
  46. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Someday Never Comes
  47. The Beatles: Tomorrow Never Knows
  48. The White Stripes: Sugar Never Tasted So Sweet
  49. Hank Williams: They’ll Never Take Her Love from Me
  50. Led Zeppelin: What Is and Should Never Be
  51. Muddy Waters: You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had
  52. Chuck Berry: You Never Can Tell
  53. Radiohead: You Never Wash Up after Yourself
  54. Tom Waits: Nobody
  55. The Doobie Brothers: Nobody
  56. Billie Holiday: Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
  57. Bessie Smith: I Ain’t Got Nobody
  58. James Brown: I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I’ll Get It Myself)
  59. Etta James: (I Don’t Need Nobody To Tell Me) How To Treat My Baby
  60. Pink Floyd: Nobody Home
  61. Sam Cooke: Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
  62. Otis Redding: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  63. Bill Monroe: Nobody Loves Me
  64. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Nobody Weird Like Me
  65. Nina Simone: Nobody’s Fault But Mine
  66. Beck: Nobody’s Fault But My Own
  67. Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Nobody’s Love Is Like Mine
  68. Bessie Smith: ’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness (If I Do)
  69. Sam Cooke: You’re Nobody Till Someone Loves You
  70. Dinosaur jr: Don’t
  71. Louis Armstrong: I Ain’t Got Nobody
  72. Janis Joplin: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  73. Sam Cooke: Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
  74. Ray Charles: Baby Don’t You Cry
  75. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: Big Girls Don’t Cry
  76. The Cure: Boys Don’t Cry
  77. The Beatles: Honey Don’t
  78. Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Don’t Ask Me Why
  79. Elvis Presley: Don’t Be Cruel
  80. The Beatles: Don’t Bother Me
  81. Electric Light Orchestra: Don’t Bring Me Down
  82. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Don’t Do Me Like That
  83. The Beatles: Don’t Ever Change
  84. Blue Oyster Cult: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
  85. Ma Rainey: Don’t Fish in My Sea
  86. Simple Minds: Don’t You (Forget About Me)
  87. Yaz: Don’t Go
  88. Bessie Smith: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  89. R.E.M.: (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
  90. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: Don’t Jive Me [with Earl Hines, Zutty Singletong and Fred Robinson]
  91. Pink Floyd: Don’t Leave Now
  92. The Animals: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
  93. The Beatles: Don’t Let Me Down
  94. Elton John: Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  95. Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
  96. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Don’t Come Around Here No More
  97. The Beatles: Don’t Pass Me By
  98. The Police: Don’t Stand So Close to Me
  99. Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough
  100. Johnny Cash: Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  101. Sam Cooke: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  102. The Beach Boys: Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
  103. Bob Dylan: Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
  104. David Byrne: Don’t Want to Be Part of Your World (Samba)
  105. Steve Wonder: Don’t Worry ’bout a Thing
  106. Talking Heads: Don’t Worry About the Government
  107. The Human League: Don’t You Want Me
  108. Scott H. Biram: God Don’t Work
  109. Minor Threat: Good Guys Don’t Wear White
  110. Tom Waits: Hope I Don’t Fall In Love With You
  111. The Magnetic Fields: I Don’t Believe in the Sun
  112. Black Velvet Flag: I Don’t Care About You
  113. The Beastie Boys: I Don’t Know
  114. The Replacements: I Don’t Know
  115. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber: I Don’t Know How to Love Him [from “Jesus Christ Superstar”, the movie soundtrack]
  116. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: I Don’t Live Today
  117. Ray Charles: I Don’t Need No Doctor
  118. Minor Threat: I Don’t Wanna Hear It
  119. Duke Ellington: I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire [from “Take the ‘A’ Train: The Legendary Blanton-Webster Transcriptions”]
  120. George Jones: I Just Don’t Give a Damn
  121. Ringo Starr: It Don’t Come Easy
  122. The Modern Jazz Quartet: It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
  123. Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson: Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
  124. James Brown: Papa Don’t Take No Mess (Part 1)
  125. Steely Dan: Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
  126. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber: Everything’s All Right [from “Jesus Christ Superstar”, the movie soundtrack]
  127. The Skyliners: Since I Don’t Have You
  128. Loretta Lynn: Somebody Somewhere Don’t Know What He’s Missing Tonight
  129. Grupo Fantasma: We Just Don’t Want You
  130. Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel: White Lines (Don’t Do It)
  131. Peggy Lee: Why Don’t You Do Right
  132. Simon & Garfunkel: Why Don’t You Write Me
  133. Dusty Springfield: You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
  134. Lesley Gore: You Don’t Own Me
  135. Loggins & Messina: You’re Mama Don’t Dance
  136. Johnny Cash: I Won’t Back Down
  137. The Beatles: It Won’t Be Long
  138. Morphine: Mary Won’t You Call My Name
  139. Little Richard: Lucille
  140. The Beatles: You Won’t See Me
  141. The Flaming Lips: Can’t Exist
  142. Elvis Presley: Can’t Help Falling In Love
  143. Earth, Wind & Fire: Can’t Hide Love
  144. The Flaming Lips: Can’t Stop the Spring
  145. The Police: Can’t Stand Losing You
  146. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
  147. Little Richard: The Girl Can’t Help It
  148. The Beatles: Can’t Buy Me Love
  149. Radiohead: I Can’t
  150. The Rolling Stones: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
  151. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
  152. Led Zeppelin: I Can’t Quit You
  153. The Doors: I Can’t See Your Face in My Mind
  154. The Eagles: I Can’t Tell You Why
  155. Amy Winehouse: Rehab
  156. The White Stripes: I Can’t Wait
  157. Living Colour: Memories Can’t Wait
  158. The Clash: Rudie Can’t Fail
  159. The Dead Kennedys: Holiday in Cambodia
  160. Patsy Cline: Why Can’t He Be You
  161. Ray Charles: You Don’t Know Me
  162. War: Why Can’t We Be Friends
  163. The Beatles: You Can’t Do That
  164. Diana Ross & The Supremes: You Can’t Hurry Love
  165. Arethra Franklin: I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
  166. The Replacements: Never Mind
  167. The Beatles: Nowhere Man
  168. Martha and the Vandellas: Nowhere to Run
  169. Bob Dylan: You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
  170. The Rolling Stones: You Can’t Always Get What You Want


river man mix (for coming and going) [2 hours, 16 minutes]
  1. Nick Drake: The River Man
  2. R.E.M.: We Walk
  3. Pylon: Italian Movie Theme
  4. Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Relax
  5. fIREHOSE: Making the Freeway
  6. David Byrne: The Dream Police (Cha Cha Cha)
  7. OMD: Women iii
  8. R.E.M.: 7 Chinese Brothers
  9. Elvis Presley: Mystery Train
  10. Fine Young Cannibals: Good Thing
  11. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Walking Shoes
  12. R.E.M.: Maps and Legends
  13. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River
  14. The Zombies: She’s Not There
  15. John Coltrane: Blue Train [from “Blue Train”]
  16. Toots and the Maytals: Sweet and Dandy
  17. The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five
  18. Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil
  19. R.E.M.: Green Grow the Rushes
  20. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Long as I Can See the Light
  21. Jack Johnson: Flake
  22. Sam Cooke: Bring It On Home to Me
  23. Fletcher Henderson and The Baltimore Bell Hops: Comin’ and Going [from “Fletcher Henderson (1931): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 1—Classic Jazz”]
  24. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: Basin Street Blues [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  25. R.E.M.: Good Advices
  26. Billy Idol: Eyes without a Face
  27. Françoise Hardy: Ton Meilleur Ami
  28. Jack Johnson: Posters
  29. Dire Straits: Your Latest Trick
  30. Velvet Underground: Cool It Down
  31. Chopin: Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 (D Flat) [Claudio Arrau, “Complete Chopin”, Disc 1]
  32. The Magnetic Fields: Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing
  33. Bob Dylan: Meet Me in the Morning
  34. Radiohead: Everything in Its Right Place
  35. Scott Joplin: Weeping Willow — A Ragtime Two-Step [Joshua Rifkin, from “Scott Joplin Piano Rags”]
  36. Buffalo Springfield: Everydays


new age mix (for wistful aimlessness and melancholic detachment)
  1. Velvet Underground: New Age
  2. João Gilberto: Corcovado
  3. Hooverphonic: Electro Shock Faders
  4. The Magnetic Fields: Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing
  5. Bessie Smith: ’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness (If I Do)
  6. Otis Redding: (Sittin’ on the) Dock of the Bay
  7. Glenn Miller: Moonlight Serenade
  8. The Police: Bring on the Night
  9. Beck: Loser
  10. Radiohead: Dollars and Cents
  11. Velvet Underground: Stephanie Says
  12. George Michael: Careless Whisper
  13. Jimmy Buffett: Margaritaville
  14. The Softies: Stranger
  15. David Byrne: Dirty Old Town (Mapeyé)
  16. UB40: Red, Red Wine
  17. Willie Nelson: Always on My Mind
  18. Jackson Browne: Doctor My Eyes
  19. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: It Mek
  20. R.E.M.: There She Goes Again
  21. Bessie Smith: Down Hearted Blues
  22. Astrud Gilberto: Corcovado
  23. Velvet Underground: Lisa Says
  24. Thelonius Monk: ’Round Midnight [from “Thelonius Himself”]
  25. The Police: Walking on the Moon
  26. Beck: Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997
  27. Jack Johnson: Posters
  28. Tom Waits: I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You
  29. Patsy Cline: Crazy
  30. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Have You Ever Seen the Rain
  31. The Four Tops: It’s the Same Old Song
  32. Tears for Fears: Mad World
  33. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Moonlight in Vermont
  34. R.E.M.: Camera
  35. Willie Nelson: Blue Skies
  36. Elvis Presley: Heartbreak Hotel
  37. The Stanley Brothers: A Vision of Mother
  38. Françoise Hardy: La fille avec toi
  39. Pink Floyd: Mother
  40. Dire Straits: So Far Away
  41. Ray Charles: Georgia on My Mind
  42. Doc Watson: Weary Blues
  43. R.E.M.: Wendell Gee
  44. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Long as I Can See the Light
  45. Beck: Rowboat
  46. Jack Johnson: Fortunate Fool
  47. Velvet Underground: Sunday Morning


jump in the line mix (for frolicking through life) [2 hours, 15 minutes]
  1. Harry Belafonte: Jump in the Line (Shake Senora)
  2. Jr. Walker and the All Stars: Shotgun
  3. a-ha: Take on Me
  4. The Pretenders: Message of Love
  5. Joni Mitchell: Carey
  6. Simon and Garfunkel: Cloudy
  7. Doc Watson: Whistlin’ Rufus/Ragtime Annie
  8. Sly & The Family Stone: Sing a Simple Song
  9. Professor Longhair: Big Chief, Pt.1
  10. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  11. Kool & the Gang: Celebration
  12. Charles Mingus: Better Git It in Your Soul
  13. Modern English: I Melt with You
  14. Kenny Clarke: Bohemia after Dark
  15. Jackie Wilson: Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet)
  16. Depeche Mode: Just Can’t Get Enough
  17. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: Struttin’ with Some Barbecue [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 2]
  18. The Beatles: Dig It
  19. Elton John: Honky Cat
  20. Ella Fitzgerald: It’s DeLovely [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  21. Jack Johnson: Mudfootball (for Moe Lerner)
  22. Randy Newman: I Love LA
  23. G. Love and Special Sauce: I-76
  24. Mongo Santamaria: Manila
  25. Professor Longhair: Go to the Mardi Gras
  26. Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  27. Earth, Wind & Fire: Sing a Song
  28. Artie Shaw and His Orchestra: The Last Two Weeks in July [with Helen Forrest, from “Artie Shaw (1939-40): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 3—Big Bands”]
  29. Judy Garland and Gene Kelly: For Me and My Gal
  30. Fishbone: Cholly
  31. The Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar
  32. Donald O’Connor: Make ’em Laugh [“Singin’ in the Rain” Soundtrack]
  33. The Replacements: I Will Dare
  34. The Beatles: Here Comes the Sun
  35. Lily Allen: Mr. Blue Sky [from “It’s Not Me, It’s You (Special Edition)”]
  36. Modern Jazz Quartet: Jack the Bear [from “For Ellington”]
  37. Labi Siffre: It Must Be Love
  38. Scott Joplin: A Breeze from Alabama [played by Cory Hall]


girls just want to have fun mix (for giddy fun. obvs.) [2 hours, 34 minutes]
  1. Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Want to Have Fun
  2. Depeche Mode: Just Can’t Get Enough
  3. Elton John: Honky Cat
  4. The Bangles: Walk Like an Egyptian
  5. Dire Straits: Walk of Life
  6. The Big Bopper: Chantilly Lace
  7. Donnie Iris: Love Is Like a Rock
  8. Missy Elliott: Work It
  9. Dexy’s Midnight Runners: Come On Eileen
  10. De La Soul: The Magic Number
  11. Jean Knight: Mr. Big Stuff
  12. Carl Carlton: She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)
  13. The Human Beinz: Nobody but Me
  14. The Isley Brothers: Nobody but Me
  15. Astrud Gilberto: Bossa Na Praia (Beach Samba)
  16. Elvis Presley: Mystery Train
  17. The B-52s: 52 Girls
  18. Blondie: The Tide Is High
  19. Duran Duran: Rio
  20. Bruce Channel: Hey! Baby
  21. Billie Holiday: Ain’t Misbehavin’
  22. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Down on the Corner
  23. The Dead Milkmen: Punk Rock Girl
  24. Thelonius Monk: In Walked Bud [from “Underground”]
  25. Labi Siffre: It Must Be Love
  26. Earth, Wind & Fire: Sing a Song
  27. Ella Fitzgerald: It’s DeLovely [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  28. Jack Johnson: Bubble Toes
  29. The Oscar Peterson Trio: Swingin’ till the Girls Come Home [from “Une Anthologie 1952/1956 (Plays Basie and Others / Live!)”]
  30. Stevie Wonder: Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing
  31. João Gilberto: O Pato
  32. Donna Summer: I Feel Love
  33. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Hit & Run Holiday
  34. The Go-Go’s: Vacation
  35. Bob Dylan: Million Dollar Bash [from “Biograph”]
  36. De La Soul: Buddy
  37. Jack Johnson: Mudfootball (for Moe Lerner)
  38. Randy Newman: I Love LA
  39. G. Love and Special Sauce: I-76
  40. Françoise Hardy: J’ Suis D’ Accord
  41. Ramones: Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
  42. Buddy Holly: Oh, Boy!
  43. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: Fireworks [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]


sevilla mix (for beginnings) [2 hours, 12 minutes]
  1. Andrés Segovia: Sevilla, Suite Española #3 (Albéniz) [from “Andrés Segovia: 1927-1939 Recordings, Volume 2”]
  2. Blondie: In the Flesh
  3. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: A Monday Date [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  4. The B-52s: 52 Girls
  5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Rock Me Baby [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  6. Run-DMC: Walk This Way
  7. Screaming Trees: Walk Through to This Side
  8. Modern English: After the Snow
  9. fIREHOSE: Chemical Wire
  10. Dexy’s Midnight Runners: Come On Eileen
  11. David Byrne: Independence Day (Cumbia)
  12. Grupo Fantasma: Cumbia del Coyote
  13. The Drifters: This Magic Moment
  14. R.E.M.: Begin the Begin
  15. Buffalo Springfield: Bluebird
  16. The Beatles: Blackbird
  17. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Lookin’ Out My Back Door
  18. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)
  19. Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated
  20. Jimmy Cliff and Roots Radics: Sitting in Limbo
  21. Chet Baker and Herbie Hancock: Fair Weather [from soundtrack “Round Midnight”]
  22. The Fleetwoods: Come Softly to Me
  23. Ahmad Jamal Trio: It Could Happen to You [from “The Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958”, with Israel Crosby and Vernel Fourier]
  24. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: I’m Beginning to See the Light
  25. Velvet Underground: Beginning to See the Light
  26. Buffalo Springfield: Expecting to Fly
  27. Quarterflash: Harden My Heart
  28. Ella Fitzgerald: Night and Day [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  29. White Stripes: Hotel Yorba
  30. Jump, Little Children: Come Out Clean
  31. Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line
  32. Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  33. Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  34. Led Zeppelin: Misty Mountain Hop
  35. Buffalo Springfield: Sad Memory
  36. Ray Charles: If You Were Mine
  37. Blondie: Dreaming
  38. Lee Konitz: Kary’s Trance


when the music’s over mix (for endings) [3 hours, 44 minutes]
  1. The Doors: When the Music’s Over
  2. Willie Nelson: Blue Skies
  3. Tom Waits: Blue Skies
  4. Phil Collins: In the Air Tonight
  5. Nick Drake: Day Is Done
  6. Fugazi: Waiting Room
  7. The Rolling Stones: Bitch
  8. Dire Straits: Romeo and Juliet
  9. OMD: So in Love
  10. Velvet Underground: Sunday Morning
  11. The Spaniels: Goodnight, Well It’s Time to Go
  12. R.E.M.: So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
  13. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Who’ll Stop the Rain
  14. Willie Nelson: Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
  15. Juice Newton: Angel of the Morning
  16. Screaming Trees: Grey Diamond Desert
  17. Grateful Dead: Box of Rain
  18. Johnny Cash: Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  19. Beck: Ramshackle
  20. Buffalo Springfield: Bluebird
  21. R.E.M.: Cant Get There from Here
  22. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Lodi
  23. Elton John: Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going To Be A Long, Long Time)
  24. The Animals: House of the Rising Sun
  25. Jack Johnson: The News
  26. Stone Temple Pilots: Interstate Love Song
  27. Jump, Little Children: Close Your Eyes
  28. Elvis Presley: Lawdy Miss Clawdy
  29. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: Two Deuces [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  30. Françoise Hardy: La fille avec toi
  31. Golden Earring: Twilight Zone
  32. Pink Floyd: Mother
  33. Dire Straits: Why Worry
  34. R.E.M.: Wendell Gee
  35. Chopin: Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 (E Minor) [Claudio Arrau, “Complete Chopin”, Disc 1]
  36. Doc Watson: Weary Blues
  37. B.B. King: The Thrill Is Gone
  38. The Supremes: Reflections
  39. The Detroit Cobras: He Did It
  40. Billy Joel: Vienna
  41. Frank Sinatra: Send in the Clowns
  42. Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl
  43. The Platters: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  44. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 – ii. Air [performed by Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin]
  45. Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale
  46. Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 7 (“Träumerei”) [performed by Ingrid Haebler]
  47. The Pastels: Over My Shoulder
  48. Judy Collins: Send in the Clowns
  49. Liszt: Consolations S.172, No. 3 – Lento placido [performed by Vladimir Horowitz, 1985, on “The Last Romantic”]
  50. The Flaming Lips: Trains, brains & rain
  51. Dion: Runaround Sue
  52. Isabella Rossellini: Blue Velvet / Blue Star / Blue Velvet (reprise) [from the “Blue Velvet” soundtrack]
  53. Beck: Sing It Again
  54. Led Zeppelin: That’s the Way
  55. Bob Dylan: Forever Young [from “Biograph”]
  56. The Rolling Stones: Sister Morphine
  57. Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five: Tight Like This [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  58. The Doors: The End


lovecats mix (for sex on the dance floor) [3 hours, 15 minutes]
  1. The Cure: Lovecats
  2. Berlin: Sex (I’m A)
  3. Donna Summer: I Feel Love
  4. Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
  5. Santana: Smooth
  6. Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough
  7. Little Richard: Good Golly, Miss Molly
  8. Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
  9. Parliament: Up for the Down Stroke
  10. Salt-n-Pepa: Push It
  11. T. Rex: Bang a Gong (Get It On)
  12. Daft Punk: Get Lucky
  13. Lipps Inc.: Funkytown
  14. My Life in the Thrill Kill Kult: Disko Fleshpot
  15. Rufus with Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
  16. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally
  17. INXS: What You Need
  18. Kool and the Gang: Jungle Boogie
  19. James Brown: Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
  20. Beck: Sexx Laws
  21. Sam and Dave: Soul Man
  22. Missy Elliott: Work It
  23. The Black Eyed Peas: My Humps
  24. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House [from “Stop Making Sense”]
  25. Afrique: Soul Makossa
  26. James Brown: I Got You (I Feel Good)
  27. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Apollo 69
  28. Gene Vincent: Be-Bop-A-Lula [from “Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock ’n Roll Heroes (BBC Radio Live)]”
  29. Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire
  30. Little Richard: The Girl Can’t Help It
  31. James Brown: Licking Stick–Licking Stick
  32. Daft Punk: Lose Yourself to Dance
  33. The Doors: Roadhouse Blues
  34. The B-52s: Lava
  35. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Universal Luxury
  36. Cibo Matto: Sugar Water
  37. Otis Day & The Knights: Shama Lama Ding Dong
  38. Earth, Wind and Fire: Boogie Wonderland
  39. Sly & The Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
  40. Blondie: Rapture
  41. Madonna: Into the Groove
  42. Michael Jackson: Rock with You
  43. Fine Young Cannibals: She Drives Me Crazy
  44. X: Breathless
  45. Sam Cooke: Shake, Rattle and Roll
  46. The B-52s: Love Shack


sugar mountain mix (for exploration, vol. 2) [3 hours, 8 minutes]
  1. Neil Young: Sugar Mountain
  2. Led Zeppelin: Kashmir
  3. The Doors: The Changeling
  4. R.E.M.: Feeling Gravity’s Pull
  5. Buena Vista Social Club: Chan Chan
  6. Pylon: Crazy
  7. Velvet Underground: All Tomorrow’s Parties
  8. Bob Dylan: Mr. Tambourine Man
  9. Buddy Holly: Maybe Baby
  10. Belle & Sebastian: Judy and the Dream of Horses
  11. Eric Clapton: Cocaine
  12. The Zombies: Time of the Season
  13. The Beatles: If I Fell
  14. Santo and Johnny: Sleep Walk
  15. Elvis Presley: That’s All Right [from “The Complete Louisiana Hayride Archive 1954-1956”, second version, 22 January 1955]
  16. Sugarloaf: Green-Eyed Lady
  17. Cibo Matto: Sugar Water
  18. Yumi Matsutoya: Ryuuju No Dengon
  19. The Spinners: Games People Play
  20. Nick Drake: River Man
  21. Nick Lowe: Cruel to Be Kind
  22. Led Zeppelin: In the Light
  23. R.E.M.: Swan Swan H
  24. Belle & Sebastian: Stars of Track and Field
  25. Billy Paul: Me and Mrs. Jones
  26. Beck: Rowboat
  27. Blue Oyster Cult: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
  28. The Flaming Lips: Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)
  29. Screaming Trees: Revelation Revolution
  30. The Beatles: Tomorrow Never Knows
  31. Santana: Black Magic Woman
  32. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Stone Free
  33. Beck: Derelict
  34. Joni Mitchell: Both Sides, Now
  35. The B-52s: Roam
  36. Billy Idol: Eyes without a Face
  37. Screaming Trees: Lines & Circles
  38. R.E.M.: Maps and Legends
  39. The Beatles: Across the Universe
  40. Screaming Trees: End of the Universe
  41. Joni Mitchell: California
  42. Beck: Intro to Where It’s At/Where It’s At
  43. R.E.M.: Fall on Me
  44. Buffalo Springfield: Everydays


rave on mix (for moving ahead) [2 hours, 2 minutes]
  1. Buddy Holly: Rave On
  2. Velvet Underground: Cool It Down
  3. Lee Konitz: Kary’s Trance
  4. Ray Charles: If You Were Mine
  5. Blondie: Call Me
  6. Tina Turner: Proud Mary
  7. James Brown: Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1
  8. Kate Bush: Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
  9. Juice Newton: Queen of Hearts
  10. The Beatles: Let It Be
  11. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
  12. The Detroit Cobras: Hey Sailor
  13. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: Israelites
  14. Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Pump It Up
  15. Mongo Santamaria: Cha Cha Rock
  16. Blondie: Rip Her to Shreds
  17. Fishbone: Lyin’ Ass Bitch
  18. Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) [1937 recording with Gene Krupa, from the Carnegie Hall Concert]
  19. Elvis Presley: That’s All Right [from “The Complete Louisiana Hayride Archive 1954-1956”, second version, 22 January 1955]
  20. The Fall: The Classical
  21. James Brown: I Got You (I Feel Good)
  22. Starlight Mints: The Twilight Showdown
  23. Johnny Cash: Rusty Cage
  24. Simon and Garfunkel: Cloudy
  25. The B-52s: Roam
  26. The Beatles: Across the Universe
  27. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Stone Free
  28. Fishbone: V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.
  29. Mongo Santamaria: He Guapacha
  30. Johnny Cash: I Won’t Back Down
  31. Yumi Matsutoya: Ryuuju No Dengon
  32. The Beatles: Get Back


oye como va mix (for smooth groovin’, vol. 2) [4 hours, 53 minutes]
  1. Santana: Oye Como Va
  2. The Rolling Stones: Shake Your Hips
  3. Scott Joplin: The Entertainer — A Ragtime Two-Step [Joshua Rifkin, from “Scott Joplin Piano Rags”]
  4. Dr. John: Right Place Wrong Time
  5. Aerosmith: Sweet Emotion
  6. Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia
  7. Michael Jackson: Rock with You
  8. Beck: Tropicalia
  9. Mongo Santamaria: Cha Cha Rock
  10. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: I Second That Emotion
  11. Sam Cooke: Please Don’t Drive Me Away
  12. Elvis Presley: Don’t Be Cruel
  13. Bob Marley: Duppy Conqueror
  14. Squeeze: Tempted
  15. Sade: Your Love Is King
  16. The Flamingos: I Only Have Eyes for You
  17. The Fugees: Zealots
  18. Electric Light Orchestra: Livin’ Thing
  19. ABBA: Take a Chance on Me
  20. The Hollies: Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)
  21. Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs: Stay
  22. The Spinners: Could It Be I’m Falling in Love?
  23. Arthur Conley: Sweet Soul Music
  24. Beck: Beautiful Way
  25. Sam Cooke: Little Red Rooster
  26. Sam and Dave: Soul Man
  27. Henry Mancini: The Pink Panther Theme Song (Original Version)
  28. Percy Faith: Theme from a Summer Place
  29. Bobby Caldwell: What You Won’t Do for Love
  30. Grover Washington Jr: Just the Two of Us [with Bill Withers]
  31. George Benson: Give Me the Night
  32. King Harvest: Dancing in the Moonlight
  33. T. Rex: Mambo Sun
  34. Françoise Hardy: Je pense à lui
  35. Stevie Wonder: Smile Please
  36. Santo and Johnny: Sleep Walk
  37. Afrique: Soul Makossa
  38. Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
  39. Parliament: Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
  40. Salt-n-Pepa: Shoop
  41. Lipps Inc: Funkytown
  42. The Spinners: Games People Play
  43. Boz Scaggs: Lido Shuffle
  44. Manu Dibango: Lily
  45. T. Rex: Bang a Gong (Get It On)
  46. Alvin ‘Red’ Tyler: Peanut Vendor
  47. Otis Redding: Let Me Come On Home
  48. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Doris Love Club
  49. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Line for Lyons [from “The Original Gerry Mulligan—Chet Baker Quartet: Complete Recordings”]
  50. Velvet Underground: Booker T. [Live at the Gymnasium, NYC, 30 April 1967]
  51. Otis Day & The Knights: Shama Lama Ding Dong
  52. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Being with You
  53. Steely Dan: Peg
  54. De La Soul: Eye Know
  55. Isley Brothers: That Lady
  56. Stevie Wonder: Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing
  57. Wang Chung: Dance Hall Days
  58. Gorillaz: Re-Hash
  59. Billy Paul: Me and Mrs. Jones
  60. Boz Scaggs: Low Down
  61. The Commodores: Easy
  62. Santana: Smooth
  63. The Temptations: Papa Was a Rolling Stone
  64. The Spinners: I’ll Be Around
  65. Chicago: Saturday in the Park
  66. Beastie Boys: Jimmy James
  67. Grupo Fantasma: Cumbia del Coyote
  68. The Stan Getz Quintet with Jimmy Raney: Thou Swell
  69. Stevie Wonder: I Wish
  70. Santana: Samba Pa Ti
  71. Beck: Where It’s At
  72. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Mindcage
  73. Elton John: Bennie and the Jets
  74. Sade: Smooth Operator
  75. Manu Dibango: Soul Makossa
  76. Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio: (It Takes) Two to Tango


I want you (she’s so heavy) mix (for knowing what you want) [1 hour, 49 minutes]
  1. The Beatles: I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
  2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Fire
  3. B.B. King: Let the Good Times Roll [live, with Bobby Bland]
  4. Labi Siffre: I Got the…
  5. Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: Crazy He Calls Me
  6. Ray Charles: Hallelujah I love Her So
  7. Michael Jackson: The Girl Is Mine
  8. Queen: You’re My Best Friend
  9. Lou Reed: Andy’s Chest [from “Transformer”]
  10. Blondie: One Way or Another
  11. Abba: Knowing Me, Knowing You
  12. Juice Newton: Angel of the Morning
  13. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
  14. Susan Sarandon: Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me [from the soundtrack of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”]
  15. Jane’s Addiction: Been Caught Stealing
  16. Earth, Wind & Fire: Boogie Wonderland
  17. Eddie Cochran: Hallelujah I Love Her So
  18. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: You Can Get It If You Really Want
  19. Blondie: The Tide Is High
  20. Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs: Stay
  21. Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Pump It Up
  22. James Brown: Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
  23. Michael Jackson: Rock with You
  24. The Rolling Stones: Brown Sugar
  25. James Brown: I Got You (I Feel Good)
  26. Van Morrison: Moondance
  27. The Beatles: I’m Happy Just to Dance with You
  28. Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul


honky cat mix (for change is gonna do me good) [2 hours, 9 minutes]
  1. Elton John: Honky Cat
  2. Fishbone: V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.
  3. Ozark Mountain Daredevils: Chicken Train
  4. The Flaming Lips: Suddenly Everything Has Changed
  5. Mickey Lee Lane: Hey Sah Lo Ney
  6. Blondie: Sunday Girl
  7. Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
  8. Bachman Turner Overdrive: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
  9. The Flaming Lips: Fight Test
  10. Neil Young: Cinnamon Girl
  11. Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
  12. Joni Mitchell: California
  13. Squirrel Bait: Tape from California
  14. The Rolling Stones: Shake Your Hips
  15. Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra: Shake Your Hips [from “Jack Teagarden, Benny Goodman (1931-33): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 1—Classic Jazz”]
  16. Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs: What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul?
  17. Ozark Mountain Daredevils: If you Wanna Get to Heaven
  18. The Flaming Lips: It’s Summertime
  19. Big Black: Tiny, King of the Jews
  20. Sidney Bechet: Wild Cat Blues [with Clarence Williams’ Blue Five, from “Sidney Bechet with Clarence Williams (1923): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 1—Classic Jazz”]
  21. Led Zeppelin: Misty Mountain Hop
  22. Cameo: Word Up
  23. OMD: Women iii
  24. Stormtroopers of Death: Anti-Procrastination Song
  25. The Flaming Lips: Can’t Stop the Spring
  26. Paul Simon: Kodachrome
  27. Blondie: Rip Her to Shreds
  28. Kate Bush: Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
  29. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: You Can Get It If You Really Want
  30. Bruce Channel: Hey! Baby
  31. Elvis Presley: That’s All Right [from “The Complete Louisiana Hayride Archive 1954-1956”, second version, 22 January 1955]
  32. Michael Jackson: Wanna Be Startin’ Something
  33. The Beatles: Get Back
  34. ABBA: Take a Chance on Me
  35. The Flaming Lips: Getting Better (featuring Dr. Dog, Chuck Inglish & Morgan Delt)
  36. The Beatles: Here Comes the Sun


it never entered my mind mix (for regaining one’s equilibrium) [1 hour, 40 minutes]
  1. Miles Davis Quintet: It Never Entered My Mind [with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  2. The Rolling Stones: Waiting on a Friend
  3. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Line for Lyons [from “The Original Gerry Mulligan—Chet Baker Quartet: Complete Recordings”]
  4. The Beach Boys: I Know There’s an Answer
  5. Bob Dylan: Watching the River Flow
  6. Bill Withers: Lean on Me
  7. Liszt: Consolations S.172, No. 3—Lento placido [performed by Vladimir Horowitz, 1985, on “The Last Romantic”]
  8. The Allman Brothers Band: Melissa
  9. Led Zeppelin: Bron-Yr-Aur
  10. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: Basin Street Blues [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  11. Caetano Veloso: O Leãozinho
  12. Velvet Underground: After Hours
  13. Neil Young: Sugar Mountain
  14. George Harrison: My Sweet Lord
  15. The Beatles: Flying
  16. Daft Punk: Lose Yourself to Dance
  17. Thelonius Monk: Abide with Me
  18. Willie Nelson: Blue Skies
  19. Miles Davis Quintet: Ahmad’s Blues [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  20. Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  21. Van Morrison: And It Stoned Me
  22. Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 7 (“Träumerei”) [performed by Ingrid Haebler]
  23. George Harrison: Give Me Love
  24. João Gilberto: Corcovado
  25. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Little Wing
  26. Schubert: Impromptu, op. 90, D899: No. 3 in G flat major—Andante [performed by Ingrid Haebler]


hey sailor mix (for getting oneself going in the morning, à la Harmony) [57 minutes]
[Harmony’s Morning Routine (Angel S05E09 “Harm’s Way”)]
  1. The Detroit Cobras: Hey Sailor
  2. Little Richard: The Girl Can’t Help It
  3. Les Terribles: La Nuit Le Jour
  4. Devo: Girl U Want
  5. Gene Vincent: Race with the Devil
  6. The Go-Go’s: We Got the Beat
  7. Madonna: Into the Groove
  8. Duran Duran: Hungry Like the Wolf
  9. Eddie Cochran: Hallelujah I Love Her So
  10. The Champs: Tequila
  11. Beastie Boys: Hey Ladies
  12. Stray Cats: Rock This Town
  13. The Breeders: Cannonball
  14. Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
  15. Michael Jackson: Wanna Be Startin’ Something
  16. R.E.M.: Begin the Begin
  17. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House [from "Speaking in Tongues"]
  18. Mickey Lee Lane: Hey Sah-Lo-Ney


i feel love mix (for getting oneself going in the morning, smooth but driving) [48 minutes]
  1. Donna Summer: I Feel Love
  2. Earth, Wind & Fire: Boogie Wonderland
  3. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: You Can Get It If You Really Want
  4. Santana: Smooth
  5. The Pastels: Comin⁏ Through
  6. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: 007 (Shanty Town)
  7. Jane’s Addiction: Of Course
  8. Desmond Dekker and the Aces: Israelites
  9. Kool & the Gang: Fresh
  10. The Beatles: I’ve Got a Feeling
  11. Van Morrison: Domino
  12. The Pastels: Firebell Ringing


lucy in the sky with diamonds mix (for reconciling the seemingly disparate) [2 hours, 16 minutes]
  1. The Flaming Lips: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (featuring Miley Cyrus & Moby)
  2. Blondie: Sunday Girl
  3. Tommy James & the Shondells: Crimson and Clover
  4. Nerf Herder: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Theme [the original, from Seasons 1 and 2]
  5. Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul
  6. Van Morrison: Who Drove the Red Sports Car?
  7. The Mahotella Queens: Wozani Mahipi [Hippies Come To Soweto]
  8. The Flaming Lips: Plastic Jesus
  9. Modern Jazz Quartet: Vendome [from “Pyramid”]
  10. Ella Fitzgerald: Anything Goes [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  11. Maria Callas: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle [Bizet, “Carmen”, Georges Prêtre & Orchestre du Théâtre National de L’ Opéra, 1964]
  12. Miles Davis Quintet: In Your Own Sweet Way [with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  13. Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc.
  14. Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
  15. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Even the Losers
  16. Chopin: Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 (D Flat) [Claudio Arrau, “Complete Chopin”, Disc 1]
  17. Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery: S.K.J [with Wynton Kelly, Philly Joe Jones, Sam Jones]
  18. The Pastels: Nothing to Be Done
  19. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven: Potato Head Blues [with Johnny St. Cyr, Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, Lil Armstrong, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 2]
  20. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, x. Jesus bleibet meine Freude [performed by Myra Hess]
  21. Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel: White Lines (Don’t Do It)
  22. Schubert: Ellens Gesang iii. Ave Maria [performed by Jascha Heifetz, from “The Heifetz Collection: The Accoustic Recordings 1917–1924”]
  23. Tiny Grimes Quintette: Tiny’s Tempo [with Charlie Parker]
  24. Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10 – No. 3 in E Major ‘Tristesse’ [performed by Vladimir Horowitz, “The Chopin Collection”]
  25. The Beastie Boys: The Sounds of Science
  26. Eagles: Hotel California
  27. Schubert: Impromptu, op. 90, D899: No. 3 in G flat major – Andante [performed by Ingrid Haebler]
  28. Bud Powell: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [from “Complete Bud Powell on Verve”]
  29. fIREHOSE: Honey, Please
  30. The Flaming Lips: The Ceiling Is Bendin’
  31. Bach: Prelude No. 1, BWV 846 [played by Glenn Gould, “The Well Tempered Clavier, Book i, Vol. 1”, 1963]
  32. Doris Troy: Just One Look
  33. Tom Waits: Tango till They’re Sore
  34. Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock: Body and Soul [“Round Midnight” soundtrack]
  35. Schubert: Ellens Gesang iii. Ave Maria [sung by Maria Callas]
  36. The Beatles: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  37. Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G-minor [Vladimir Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, 9 May 1965][1]


voodoo child (slight return) mix (for tripping balls) [4 hours, 42 minutes]
  1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
  2. The Flaming Lips: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (featuring Miley Cyrus & Moby)
  3. The Beatles: Octopus’s Garden
  4. The Mahotella Queens: Wozani Mahipi [Hippies Come To Soweto]
  5. The Doors: Roadhouse Blues
  6. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Louisiana Rain
  7. Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
  8. Emmylou Harris, Allison Krauss & Gillian Welch: Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby [“O Brother Where Art Thou?” soundtrack]
  9. The Beatles: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  10. The Flaming Lips: The Ceiling Is Bending
  11. Maria Callas: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle [Bizet, “Carmen”, Georges Prêtre & Orchestre Du Théâtre National De L’ Opéra, 1964]
  12. Radiohead: Everything in Its Right Place
  13. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Third Stone from the Sun
  14. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 [performed by Karl Richter]
  15. Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime [from “Stop Making Sense”]
  16. The Beatles: Flying
  17. The Beatles: Baby You’re a Rich Man
  18. The B-52s: Private Idaho
  19. Cibo Matto: Spoon
  20. The Doors: The Soft Parade
  21. Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G-minor [Vladimir Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, 9 May 1965][1]
  22. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Like a Rolling Stone [from “Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  23. The Modern Jazz Quartet: Bachianas Brasileiras
  24. The Flaming Lips: Be My Head
  25. The Pastels: Thank You for Being You
  26. Schubert: Ellens Gesang iii. Ave Maria [sung by Maria Callas]
  27. The Beastie Boys: The Sounds of Science
  28. Led Zeppelin: Black Country Woman
  29. Cream: Swlabr
  30. The Zombies: She’s Not There
  31. Saint-Asëns: Danse macabre, op. 40 [performed by Arturo Toscanini and The NBC Symphony Orchestra]
  32. Doc Watson: Whistlin’ Rufus/Ragtime Annie
  33. Beck: Sexx Laws
  34. Orff: Carmina Burana – No. 1 “O Fortuna” [performed by Jochum or Kegel]
  35. Redd Kross: Neurotica
  36. The Flaming Lips: Can’t Exist
  37. Government Issue: Visions and ?
  38. Kraftwerk: The Robots
  39. Led Zeppelin: Kashmir
  40. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 [performed by Van Cliburn and Kiril Kondrashin & The Symphony of the Air, 1958]
  41. Jelly Roll Morton: Billy Goat Stomp [Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers w/ Baby Dodds & Johnny Dodds, from “Jelly Roll Morton (1926-27): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 1—Classic Jazz”]
  42. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  43. Lou Reed: Andy’s Chest [from “Transformer”]
  44. Bjork: Pleasure Is All Mine
  45. Thelonius Monk: Bemsha Swing [from “Brilliant Corners”, with Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach, Paul Chambers, Clark Terry]
  46. The Flaming Lips: Everything’s Exploding
  47. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: EXP
  48. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: If 6 Was 9
  49. Schubert: Ellens Gesang iii. Ave Maria [transcribed and performed by Jascha Heifetz, from “The Heifetz Collection: The Accoustic Recordings 1917-1924”]
  50. The B-52s: Rock Lobster
  51. Big Black: The Model
  52. The Flaming Lips: The Ceiling Is Bendin’
  53. Schubert: Impromptu, op. 90, D899: No. 2 in E flat major – Allegro, moto perpetuo [performed by Ingrid Haebler]
  54. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Voodoo Chile


got to give it up mix (for getting the wallflowers to dance) [1 hour, 41 minutes]
  1. Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up
  2. The B-52s: Love Shack
  3. The Cure: Lovecats
  4. Little Richard: Good Golly, Miss Molly
  5. Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
  6. Otis Day & The Knights: Shama Lama Ding Dong
  7. T. Rex: Bang a Gong (Get It On)
  8. Daft Punk: Get Lucky
  9. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House [from “Speaking in Tongues”]
  10. My Life in the Thrill Kill Kult: Disko Fleshpot
  11. Rufus with Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good
  12. Sam Cooke: Shake, Rattle and Roll
  13. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Universal Luxury
  14. Daft Punk: Lose Yourself to Dance
  15. Cibo Matto: Spoon
  16. The Mahotella Queens: Umculo Kawupheli [No End to Music]
  17. The B-52s: Private Idaho
  18. Harry Belafonte: Jump in the Line (Shake Senora)
  19. Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel: White Lines (Don’t Do It)
  20. The Beastie Boys: Hey Ladies
  21. The B-52s: Rock Lobster
  22. Tommy James & the Shondells: Mony Mony
  23. Vince Guaraldi: Linus and Lucy [from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”]


tutti frutti mix (for enjoying the sweet fruit that is life) [2 hours, 50 minutes]
  1. Little Richard: Tutti Frutti
  2. Roy Brown: Good Rockin’ Tonight
  3. The Beatles: For You Blue
  4. Cibo Matto: Sugar Water
  5. The Replacements: I Will Dare
  6. Mongo Santamaria: Jamaicuba
  7. Ray Charles: I Got a Woman
  8. Tommy James & the Shondells: I Think We’re Alone Now
  9. Dario Moreno: Mambo Italiano
  10. The Clash: Rudie Can’t Fail
  11. The Beatles: Across the Universe
  12. Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl
  13. The Allman Brothers Band: Jessica
  14. The Mgababa Queens: Sidl’imali Zethu [Our Own Money]
  15. Benny Goodman and His Orchestra: Caprice xxiv Paganini [from “Benny Goodman (1941): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 3 – Big Bands”]
  16. Nat “King” Cole: Unforgettable
  17. The Champs: Tequila
  18. Mongo Santamaria: Manila
  19. The Pastels: Firebell Ringing
  20. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, X. Jesus bleibet meine Freude [performed by Dame Myra Hess]
  21. The Beastie Boys: Egg Man
  22. The Beatles: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  23. The Replacements: Alex Chilton
  24. Van Morrison: Ro Ro Rosey
  25. Verdi: Marcia Trionfale [“Aida”, Act 2, Scene 2; Herbert von Karajan and the Wiener Philharmoniker, 1959]
  26. The Mahotella Queens: Umculo Kawupheli [No End to Music]
  27. Vince Guaraldi: Linus and Lucy [from “Oh, Good Grief!”]
  28. The Cars: Shake It Up
  29. Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Li’l Liza Jane
  30. Buena Vista Social Club: De Camino a la Vereda
  31. Dion: The Wanderer
  32. Van Morrison: And It Stoned Me
  33. Handel: Suite No. 1 in F major “Water Music”, V. Allegro (Da Capo) [Christopher Hogwood & The Academy of Ancient Music]
  34. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra: The Jumpin’ Jive
  35. OMD: Women iii
  36. Van Morrison: Wild Night
  37. Ella Fitzgerald: I Get a Kick Out of You [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  38. Haydn: Piano Trio No. 1, H. XV No. 37 — i. Adagio [performed by the Beaux Arts Trio]
  39. James Brown: I Got You (I Feel Good)
  40. Nat “King” Cole: I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me [with The Keynoters, from “Nat ‘King’ Cole 1946 – The Chronological Classics”]
  41. Van Morrison: I Want to Roo You
  42. Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery: S. K. J. [with Wynton Kelly, Philly Joe Jones , Sam Jones]
  43. Fats Domino: Blueberry Hill
  44. Handel: Suite No. 1 in F major “Water Music”, ix. Bourrée (Da Capo) [performed by Christopher Hogwood & The Academy of Ancient Music]
  45. The Grateful Dead: Uncle John’s Band
  46. White Stripes: We’re Going to Be Friends
  47. Led Zeppelin: The Ocean
  48. The Beatles: I’ve Got a Feeling
  49. Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul


i feel love mix (for feeling love. obvs.) [1 hour, 55 minutes]
  1. Donna Summer: I Feel Love
  2. Beach Boys: Do It Again
  3. Dire Straits: Romeo and Juliet
  4. Fishbone: Cholly
  5. Dead Milkmen: Punk Rock Girl
  6. Frank Zappa: Stick It Out
  7. The Beatles: All You Need Is Love
  8. The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
  9. Van Morrison: Into the Mystic
  10. Mongo Santamaria: Manila
  11. The Replacements: I Will Dare
  12. The Supremes: I Hear a Symphony
  13. Schubert: Ellens Gesang iii. Ave Maria [sung by Maria Callas]
  14. The Pastels: Thru’ Your Heart
  15. The Beatles: For You Blue
  16. Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  17. Billy Paul: Me and Mrs. Jones
  18. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, x. Jesus bleibet meine Freude [performed by Dame Myra Hess]
  19. Pixies: La La Love You
  20. The Psychedelic Furs: Love My Way
  21. Redd Kross: Love Is You
  22. The Flaming Lips: Thanks to You
  23. Nat “King” Cole: Unforgettable
  24. The Beatles: I’ve Got a Feeling
  25. Bay City Rollers: Bye Bye Baby
  26. Dion: The Wanderer
  27. Van Morrison: I Want to Roo You
  28. Ella Fitzgerald: I Get a Kick Out of You [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  29. Henry ‘Red’ Allen and His Orchestra: I Wish I Were Twins [from “Henry ‘Red’ Allen (1933-35): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 2 – Swing Time”]
  30. Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Li’l Liza Jane
  31. Doris Troy: Just One Look
  32. Arethra Franklin: (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman
  33. The Pastels: Thank You for Being You


chase mix (for chasing the Kantian sublime) [2 hours]
  1. Giorgio Moroder: Chase [from “Midnight Express” soundtrack]
  2. Bill Monroe: New Mule Skinner Blues
  3. Henry Purcell: Sonnata No.8 in G major, trio for two violins and continuo, (Z. 797)
  4. Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto: Corcovado
  5. Buena Vista Social Club: Chan Chan
  6. Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company: Piece of My Heart
  7. Pixies: Monkey Gone to Heaven
  8. The Breeders: Cannonball
  9. Velvet Underground: Stephanie Says
  10. Belle & Sebastian: Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying
  11. The Beatles: Sun King
  12. R.E.M.: The Flowers of Guatemala
  13. Francoise Hardy: Je pense à lui
  14. Hank Williams: Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  15. Bill Monroe: Walking in Jerusalem (Just Like John)
  16. Andrés Segovia: Sevilla From Suite Española #3 (Albéniz) [version from “Andrés Segovia, 1927-1939 Recordings, Volume 2”]
  17. João Gilberto: Chega de Saudade [from “João Voz e Violão”]
  18. Don McLean: Vincent
  19. Scott H. Biram: Real Life Yodel [from “Preachin’ & Hollerin’”]
  20. Elvis Presley: Blue Moon of Kentucky [from “The Complete Louisiana Hayride Archive 1954-1956”, first version]
  21. Belle & Sebastian: Judy and the Dream of Horses
  22. Booker T. and the M.G.s: Green Onions
  23. Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train
  24. Lou Reed: Walk on the Wild Side
  25. Apples in Stereo: Strawberryfire
  26. Simon and Garfunkel: The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
  27. Duke Ellington: Prelude to a Kiss [with Johnny Hodges, from “Ellington Indigos”]
  28. Alison Krauss: Down to the River to Pray [from the soundtrack “O Brother Where Art Thou?”]
  29. Bob Marley: Talkin’ Blues
  30. Lead Belly: Midnight Special
  31. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, x. Jesus bleibet meine Freude [performed by Dame Myra Hess]
  32. Nick Drake: River Man
  33. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata” — 2. Andante con moto [performed by Rudolf Serkin, December 1962]


the ballad of john and yoko mix (for trying to figure out what the fuck is going on) [2 hours, 45 minutes]
  1. The Beatles: The Ballad of John and Yoko
  2. Led Zeppelin: Black Country Woman
  3. Iggy Pop: Turn Blue
  4. Bob Marley: Kaya
  5. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book i, Vol. 1, Prelude #2 BWV 847 (BC L81) [performed by Glenn Gould]
  6. Rolling Stones: Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
  7. The Clash: Brand New Cadillac
  8. Bill Monroe: New Mule Skinner Blues
  9. The Beatles: Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
  10. Thelonius Monk: Brilliant Corners [from “Brilliant Corners”with Paul Chambers, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins and Clark Terry]
  11. The Beatles: I Me Mine
  12. Bob Marley: Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
  13. The Psychedelic Furs: President Gas
  14. Bob Dylan: Simple Twist of Fate
  15. Scott H. Biram: Red River/Trouble in Mind
  16. The Beatles: I Am the Walrus
  17. The Fall: Winter
  18. Government Issue: They Know
  19. Jane’s Addiction: Up the Beach
  20. The Flaming Lips: Just Like Before
  21. Led Zeppelin: Night Flight
  22. The Doors: You’re Lost Little Girl
  23. Simon and Garfunkel: El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
  24. The Beatles: Because
  25. Hooverphonic: Electro Shock Faders
  26. fIREHOSE: For the Singer of R.E.M.
  27. Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood
  28. David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
  29. Belle & Sebastian: A Century of Elvis
  30. Velvet Underground: Ocean [from “Loaded”]
  31. The Fall: Jawbone and the Air-Rifle
  32. Elvis Costello: Miracle Man
  33. The Flaming Lips: Unconsciously Screaming
  34. The Beatles: Revolution #1 [from the “White Album”]
  35. Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee [performed by Jascha Heifetz, from “The Heifetz Collection Vol. 6: 1946-1947”]
  36. Bob Marley: Crazy Baldhead
  37. Led Zeppelin: Boogie with Stu
  38. Bob Marley: Talkin’ Blues
  39. Edith Piaf: Polichinelle
  40. The Quintet: Salt Peanuts [with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Mingus, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Max Roach, from “The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall”]
  41. Dr. Octagonacologyst: General Hospital/Blue Flowers
  42. Dario Moreno: Mambo Italiano
  43. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: All Along the Watchtower
  44. Scott H. Biram: God Don’t Work
  45. Dinosaur jr.: Show Me the Way
  46. Led Zeppelin: Down by the Seaside
  47. The Beatles: Yer Blues
  48. Bob Dylan: Ballad of a Thin Man


heliotrope bouquet mix (for sardonic equability) [2 hours, 42 minutes]
  1. Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin: Heliotrope Bouquet [performed by Cory Hall]
  2. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Duppy Conqueror
  3. The Doors: Hyacinth House
  4. Charles Mingus: Jelly Roll
  5. Ella Fitzgerald: Anything Goes [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
  6. Lou Reed: Baby Face
  7. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: West End Blues [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  8. Sidney Bechet: ’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness (If I Do) [with Clarence Williams’ Blue Five, from “Sidney Bechet with Clarence Williams (1923): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 1”]
  9. The Commodores: Easy
  10. Rod Stewart: You Wear It Well
  11. Nirvana: Dumb
  12. Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte Op. 62, No. 6 A-dur “Frühlingslied” [performed by Vladimir Horowitz, from “Mendelssohn: The Complete Masterpieces – Piano Music”]
  13. Gene Vincent: Be-Bop-A-Lula [from “Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock ’n Roll Heroes (BBC Radio Live)”]
  14. Clifford Brown and Max Roach: Delilah
  15. Simon and Garfunkel: Punky’s Dilemma
  16. R.E.M.: Rotary Ten
  17. Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio: (It Takes) Two to Tango
  18. Doc Watson: Watson’s Blues
  19. Bessie Smith: T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness (If I Do)
  20. Frank Trumbauer & His Orchestra, with Bix Beiderbecke: Blue River
  21. Bud Powell: Sometimes I’m Happy
  22. João Gilberto: Hó Bá Lá Lá Lá
  23. Duke Ellington: Frenesi [from “Take the “A” Train: The Legendary Blanton-Webster Transcriptions, 1941”]
  24. The Police: Reggatta de Blanc
  25. Ella Fitzgerald: Puttin’ on the Ritz [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book”, with Paul Weston and His Orchestra]
  26. Sade: Smooth Operator
  27. Kenny Clarke: Bohemia after Dark [from “Bohemia after Dark”, with Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver, Paul Chambers and Donald Byrd]
  28. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Walking Shoes
  29. Simon and Garfunkel: Fakin’ It
  30. Depeche Mode: Personal Jesus
  31. Government Issue: When I’m Alone
  32. Duke Ellington: Take the ’A’ Train [from “Take the “A” Train: The Legendary Blanton-Webster Transcriptions, 1941”]
  33. The Go-Go’s: Our Lips Are Sealed
  34. Dexter Gordon: Daddy Plays the Horn
  35. Grateful Dead: Till the Morning Comes
  36. R.E.M.: Good Advices
  37. G. Love & Special Sauce: Lay Down the Law
  38. Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio: On the Sunny Side of the Street
  39. Ray Charles: I Chose to Sing the Blues
  40. Beck: O Maria
  41. Nat “King” Cole: Black Market Stuff [with The Herbie Heymer Quintet, from “Nat ”King” Cole 1946 – The Chronological Classics”]
  42. Sam Cooke: ’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness (If I Do)
  43. Tiny Grimes Quintette: I’ll Always Love You Just the Same
  44. Bud Powell: So Sorry, Please [from “Piano Solos #2”, with Max Roach and Curly Russell]


line for lyons mix (for preparing to give a talk) [43 minutes]
  1. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Line for Lyons [from “The Original Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet: Complete Recordings”]
  2. Miles Davis Quintet: Ahmad’s Blues [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  3. Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: Basin Street Blues [from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 3]
  4. Thelonious Monk: In Walked Bud [from “Underground”]
  5. Miles Davis Quintet: It Never Entered My Mind [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  6. Miles Davis Quintet: In Your Own Sweet Way [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers]
  7. Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 20 (1825) – i. Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco [performed by the Janáček Quartet & Smetana Quartet]


revolution mix (for Newton’s subjunctive use of the Precession Theorem) [1 hour, 32 minutes]
  1. The Beatles: Revolution [single version, B-side of “Hey Jude”]
  2. Oscar Peterson: Swingin’ till the Girls Come Home [from “Une Anthologie 1952/1956 (Plays Basie and Others / Live!)”]
  3. Billie Holiday: Crazy He Calls Me
  4. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro – Overture [performed by Karl Böhm & Deutscher Oper Berlin, 1968]
  5. Bob Marley: Keep On Skanking [from “Keep On Skanking” 1967]
  6. Louis Armstrong: Georgia Grind [Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, with Lil Hardin Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory and Johnny St. Cyr, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 1]
  7. Bill Monroe: I Saw the Light [from “I Saw the Light”]
  8. Led Zeppelin: Dancing Days
  9. King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors)
  10. Art Tatum: Tiger Rag
  11. The Beatles: Slow Down
  12. Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker: Almost Like Being in Love [1957, from “The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker”]
  13. Thelonius Monk: Thelonius [from “Underground”]
  14. Pete Seeger: Guantanamera [from “We Shall Overcome”]
  15. Lester Young: Lester’s Be Bop Boogie
  16. Duke Ellington: I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire [from “Take the ”A“ Train: The Legendary Blanton-Webster Transcriptions, 1941”]
  17. Marvin Gaye: Trouble Man
  18. Coleman Hawkins: On the Sunny Side of the Street [with Stanley Black, Albert Harris & Tiny Winters]
  19. Dinosaur jr.: Little Fury Things
  20. Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: Crazy He Calls Me
  21. Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
  22. Coleman Hawkins & Buck Clayton and His All-Stars: You Can Depend on Me [from “Jam Sessions Volume 9 (1956): Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 2 – Swing”]
  23. Leonard Feather’s All-Star Jam Band: Twelve Bar Stampede [1939, from “All-Star Groups Volume 3 (1939-44): Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 2 – Swing”]
  24. The Beatles: Revolution #1 [from the “White Album”]


you’re nobody till someone loves you mix (for coming to be, not coming to pass) [2 hours, 36 minutes]
  1. Sam Cooke: You’re Nobody Till Someone Loves You
  2. Scott H. Biram: We Shall Be Free [from “Preachin’ & Hollerin’”]
  3. The Doors: I Looked at You
  4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: All Along the Watchtower
  5. Bob Marley: One Love — People Get Ready
  6. Flatt & Scruggs: Down in the Flood
  7. Les Terribles: La Nuit Le Jour
  8. Joe Jackson: You Can’t Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)
  9. Tom Waits: Nobody
  10. The Mountain Goats: The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
  11. Jimmy Cliff and Roots Radics: Sitting in Limbo
  12. Coleman Hawkins: Some of These Days [with The Ramblers, 1935, from “Coleman Hawkins (1933-35): Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 2 – Swing”]
  13. Apples in Stereo: Benefits of Lying (With Your Friend)
  14. Bachman Turner Overdrive: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
  15. David Bowie: Let’s Dance
  16. Billy Squier: The Stroke
  17. Simon and Garfunkel: The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
  18. The Beatles: Boys
  19. Fela Kuti: My Lady’s Frustrations [with Africa ’70 and Tony Allen]
  20. Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag [performed by Joshua Rifkin]
  21. King Crimson: Pictures of a City
  22. The Beatles: Rain
  23. The Doors: Queen of the Highway
  24. Bud Powell: Celia [with Max Roach and Ray Brown, from “Jazz Giant”]
  25. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Could You Be Loved
  26. Louis Armstrong: Georgia Grind [Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, with Lil Hardin Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Kid Ory and Johnny St. Cyr, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens”, volume 1]
  27. Billie Holiday: Crazy He Calls Me
  28. Jim & Jesse: Rose City Chimes
  29. Led Zeppelin: The Ocean
  30. Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: I’ve Got a Crush on You
  31. Otis Redding: I’ve Been Loving You Too Long [from “Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival”]
  32. The Beatles: Komm, gib mir deine Hand
  33. Pete Seeger: Guantanamera [from “We Shall Overcome”
  34. Lead Belly: Salty Dog [recording from “Lead Belly Recordings: Salty Dog”, get date]
  35. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra: I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
  36. Coleman Hawkins: Avalon [1935, from “Coleman Hawkins (1933-35): Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 2 – Swing”]
  37. Prince: Delirious
  38. Bob Dylan: Down in the Flood [from “Greatest Hits Volume II”]
  39. Lead Belly & Woody Guthrie: We Shall Be Free
  40. Michael Jackson: Wanna Be Startin’ Something
  41. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: The Waiting
  42. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 in A major, op. 90, ’Italian’: i. Allegro vivace [Arturo Toscanini & NBC Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, February 1954, “Arturo Toscanini: The Complete RCA Collection Vol. 17”]





Notes
  1. Available on “Horowitz at Carnegie Hall (An Historic Return)”, “Vladimir Horowitz Complete Masterworks Recordings Vol. 3: The Historic Return Carnegie Hall 1965, The 1966 Concerts”, and “Horowitz live at Carnegie Hall - The Historic Concerts of 1965, 1966 and 1968” (disc 16)