My best friend Mike is forty today. A milestone, a celebration, a reminder that I'm hitting forty before the year is out....
Although I decided a while ago I wanted to make a CD to commemorate/celebrate the event, I had a really hard time deciding which direction to go with it. I've made several discs for him over the years from several different genres, and I really wanted to do something without resorting to sentimentality. My first thought was to pick one song from every year, 1970-2010, but that was going to be too herculean a task, especially in light of my end of summer getting extraordinarily chaotic. After a lot of rummaging through my hard drive and my CD collection (as well as some assistance from the public library), I decided on this humble approach: a back and forth between the years 1970 and 2010. An underrated, perhaps, year in music, and one that, through the first half, has been extraordinary.... NW013.
01. Junk/PAUL McCARTNEY
02. Dragon's Song/BLITZEN TRAPPER
03. The Man Who Sold The World/DAVID BOWIE
04. Bloodbuzz Ohio/THE NATIONAL
05. Tobacco Road/ERIC BURDON & WAR
06. Horchata/VAMPIRE WEEKEND
07. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp/LED ZEPPELIN
08. Your Hands (together)/THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
09. Diamond Day/VASHTI BUNYAN
10. Horses Warriors/RADAR BROS
11. One Of These Things First/NICK DRAKE
12. I Hate The 80's/THE VASELINES
13. One After 909/THE BEATLES
14. What Did My Lover Say? (it always had to go this way)/WOLF PARADE
15. I Had A Talk With My Woman/TIM BUCKLEY
16. Remember Last Time/AVI BUFFALO
17. Ride A White Swan/T. REX
18. Fool's Day/BLUR
19. Cool It Down/THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
20. Some Kind Of Nature/GORILLAZ
