beautiful, snowy day!

*small request: hey friends. if you like what you hear, please leave comments. it's nice to know who's been stopping by, and what you guys like. and it helps me stay motivated to keep doing this.



i actually had this mix ready on time for once, but i'm glad i waited because i made some additions that were a better fit for the mix. above is the view from my window this fine day, along with some environmental commentary from mr. andrew bird.

1. nina simone - black is the color of my true love's hair
2. emilliana torrini - sunny road
3. jens lekman - rocky dennis' farewell song
4. hooverphonic - renaissance affair
5. architecture in helsinki - theme to motorhome
6. natalie merchant - san andreas fault
7. deerhoof - desapareceré
8. my morning jacket - knot comes loose
9. antony & the johnsons - for today i am a boy
10. my morning jacket - lay low
11. broken social scene - 7/4 (shoreline)
12. (smog) - the well
13. bob dylan - man in the long black coat
14. broken social scene - windsurfind nation
15. dangerdoom/zero7/sia - somersault
16. joe strummer - coma girl
17. the mavericks - dance the night away
18. radiohead - gagging order
19. stereolab - miss modular
20. the minus five/wilco - with a gun
21. broken social scene - fire eye'd boy

download here:
http://bazoomercom.com/ari/February%20'06.zip

nina simone: jazz goddess, and excellent remix by jaffa. i can't remember where i found out about emiliana torrini, but i love the ripoff of the opening of rod stewart's maggie may. i actually didn't like this cd all that much when i first bought it, but jens lekman's oh you're so silent, jens is really growing on me. i've loved hooverphonic for a long time, even before they were ripped off so blatently by frou frou and imogen heap, in my opinion. renaissance affair was in a VW ad a while back. architecture in helsinki makes it back on with an ode to the trailer park. natalie merchant, if you're reading this, i love you. desapareceré is such a great, creepy-ass song, with beautiful chord progressions and samples from deerhoof. z by my morning jacket has been on my ipod pretty solidly for a few months now, and is one of the most rockin' albums around right now. plus i'm a sucker for a lap steel guitar. antony got a lot of acclaim last year, and i am quite late to the party, but that soulful, diva voice is irresistable. lots
of broken social scene this month too, after missing both their shows and feist's show within the last two weeks. i am an idiot. dangerdoom's remix of zero7's somersault is pretty excellent, featuring sia on vocals (sia's colour the small one is another album everyone should check out, right, maia?). joe strummer's mescaleros rocked out on clash-themed tracks right up until his death a few years ago. this is my favorite post-clash strummer track. dance the night away is my favorite pick-me-up song ever, and an even better break-up song by the mavs. gagging order is a b-side from 2003's hail to the thief, and it looks like there'll be new radiohead soon enough! if i were a 60's superhero, i would be miss modular, the best 60's superhero theme song ever, by stereolab (of, "is this... stereolab?" fame in high fidelity). the minus five recently completed another album with wilco, spawning this great, ol' school-style wilco track.