September 2008
Themed Round: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
for: derhay
1. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Bob Dylan
2. How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down - Silver Jews
3. Winter - The Dodos
4. Challengers - The New Pornographers
5. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
6. Handle With Care - Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins
7. Sweet Dandelion - Peter Salett
8. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes
9. The Boy with the Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastian
10. So Everyone - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
11. California (All The Way) - Luna
12. Citrus - The Hold Steady
13. Free - Cat Power
14. Dragonflys - Devendra Banhart
15. Explain It To Me - Liz Phair
16. Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car - Iron & Wine
17. Crosses - José González
18. Best Bit - Beth Orton
19. The Orchids - Califone
20. For Emma - Bon Iver
21. I Lost Something In The Hills - Sibylle Baier
22. Our Way To Fall - Yo La Tengo
Comments on the mix: The theme this month was to make up a soundtrack to a film that doesn't exist. This is a movie about four friends who, in their youth, pledged to take an epic trip together in the distant future. When the time comes, they are all in very different places in their lives, but agree to reunite. So this is a soundtrack for four friends on the road, with an undercurrent of melancholy. I wrote about the mix a little more extensively at Mix Tape Collective.
