I’ve Got Your Voice On Tape
This mix is about oh my god I love Jenny Owen Youngs.
Why It’s Pretentious: I have three idols in life: Morrissey, David Bowie, and Jenny Owen Youngs. If you don’t like Jenny Owen Youngs, then I have better taste in music than you. This is a fact. In high school, I used this mix to get people into her because people are easily convinced by “OMG REGINA SPEKTOR NELLY COVER LOLZ.” If you didn’t buy tickets to her digital concert tomorrow night, then you missed out. Dontcha wish your girlfriend was pretentious like me.
Tracklisting and downloads after the jump.
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Quote Love Unquote Me
This post is about how I love you ironically.
Why It’s Pretentious: I always wanted to start a Valentine’s Day mix with the Magnetic Field’s “I Don’t Believe You,” which is my favorite not-love-love-song, but it was never the right time. So now I’m going to 1up my teenage dreams via Katy Perry and post my tape comprising of ONLY MAGNETIC FIELDS SONGS. Most common phrase of 2008: “You don’t know The Magnetic Fields? Oh. Um. Awkward…” For you. Because you had bad taste in music. Get it?
Tracklisting, downloads, Nickelodeon-themed music videos, and other Valentine’s Day gifts after the jump. I “love” you, Internet.
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1. I Am The Heart That You Call Home
This mix is about the first day of school, freshmen year of college.
Why It’s Pretentious: Remember when I kept up this blog and it was awesome because you got new music from 2-4 years ago but then I moved into my own house and started a milkshake truck and sort of dropped off the face of the world? DON’T EVEN WORRY ABOUT IT CAUSE I’M BACK.
This is one of my favorite mixes from the past few years. If I play you one of my tapes, it’ll probably be this one because it’s overtly cheerful yet also raises deep questions: Remember when music critics started treating “Ivy League” like a musical genre? Remember when you thought it was okay to put 3 Miles Fisher songs on one mix because you his EP had 4 songs, so you were being selective? Remember when you thought taking the midnight Greyhound to Cincinnati by yourself was a good idea? PROTIP: it’s not.
Spotify link.
Tracklisting and downloads after the jump.
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