I finally have mixes on 8tracks.com

Many months ago, friend, college media colleage and All That Howler Adam Perly linked me to 8tracks.com, a website for sharing mixes. I never got around to actually taking advantage of it until recently. Usually, I'd try and make a mix CD out of my favorite songs from the year, but the three of the four mixes I've posted pretty much sum up most of my favorites of 2008, old and new. If you click on the 8tracks link on the right, you can give them a listen.

Abby's High School Graduation Gift

1. "Rise Above" - Dirty Projectors
2. "Jodi" - The Dodos
3. "Freaked Flight (Alternate Version)" - High Places
4. "Badonka Donkey" - Born Ruffians
5. "This is Love" - PJ Harvey
6. "Melody Day" - Caribou
7. "Welfare Bread" - King Khan and His Shrines
8. "My First Lover" - Gillian Welch
9. "We Carry On" - Portishead
10. "I'm a Cuckoo (Avalanches Remix)" - Belle and Sebastian
11. "Shadow" - The Patience
12. "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
13. "It's Enough" - Sleater Kinney
14. "Skinny Love" - Bon Iver
15. "Cold Days from the Birdhouse" - The Twilight Sad
16. "So Much for the Afternoon" - Headlights
17. "Devastation" - The Besnard Lakes
18. "Old World" - The Modern Lovers

"Elyse, there's more to life than the Beatles"

1. "Fools" - The Dodos
2. "Second to None" - Phoenix
3. "Working to Work" - Field Music
4. "What Goes On" - Sufjan Stevens
5. "House of Cards" - Radiohead
6. "Graveyard Girl" - M83
7. "Oxford Comma" - Vampire Weekend
8. "Don't Make Me a Target" - Spoon
9. "Blind" - Hercules and Love Affair
10. "Marry Me" - St. Vincent
11. "We Tigers" - Animal Collective
12. "The Rat" - The Walkmen
13. "A Postcard to Nina" - Jens Lekman
14. "Gila" - Beach House
15. "All My Friends" - LCD Soundsystem
16. "Fake Empire" - The National

Elyse #2: More new songs. Some old songs too.

1. "Ole Rinka" - The Ruby Suns
2. "Nothing Ever Happened" - Deerhunter
3. "Saltwater" - Beach House
4. "Tell the World" - Vivian Girls
5. "No Excuses" - Air France
6. "Palmitos Park" - El Guincho
7. "Paranoid" - Kanye West
8. "For Reverend Green" - Animal Collective
9. "Androgynous" - The Replacements
10. "Teenagers" - Department of Eagles
11. "Helicopter" - XTC
12. "Sequestered in Memphis" - The Hold Steady
13. "The Tears and Music of Love" - Deerhoof
14. "You! Me! Dancing!" - Los Campesinos!
15. "Family Tree" - TV on the Radio
16. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Antony and the Johnsons
17. "In the New Year" - The Walkmen
18. "Titus Andronicus" - Titus Andronicus

Gretchen's not a teenager anymore

1. "Teen Age Riot" - Sonic Youth
2. "Teenage Kicks" - The Undertones
3. "Teenagers" - Department of Eagles
4. "Teen Angst" - M83
5. "Teenage Lobotomy" - The Ramones
6. "Ballad of the Teenage Queen" - Johnny Cash
7. "Teen Creeps" - No Age
8. "That Teenage Feeling" - Neko Case
9. "A Perfect Teenhood" - ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead