My Best Girl

I don't know what I'm doing with this whole affair anymore. I didn't get much by way of responses before. Plus I've been kinda busy lately, so I haven't done a whole lot in terms of putting anything together.

That said, I'm sure I'll keep making mixes. Whether or not I actually do anything with them aside from posting them here, I don't know. I guess we'll see.

Anyway, this is one I've had sitting around for quite a while. I kinda put the songs together a long time ago, then had this feeling that I needed to work on the sequencing. I spent a little time on it here and there, but never really sat with it long enough to feel like it was completed. Looking back, I think it's been right for a while now and I was just never really sure enough. So here goes.

This one's called My Best Girl. Like the last one, I took a song and based a mix off of it. This time, it's the Lucero song. Basically, it's the story of a boy and his guitar, so that's what I went for with the rest of the mix. There are more than a few instances of other instruments showing up here and there, but I tried to keep it to things that focused on just a singer and a guitar. I think the biggest challenge here was getting away from a bunch of acoustic, singer-songwriter type stuff. Not that it doesn't have its merits (it still seems to dominate the mix), but there's something fantastic about solo electric stuff. With that in mind, I think my favorite parts of this are the Ted Leo and John Samson tracks. At the very least, they're a great change of pace.

My Best Girl
1. Lucero - "My Best Girl"
2. Mike Midwestern - "Airplanes"
3. Hot Water Music - "Bleeder"
4. The Replacements - "All Shook Down"
5. Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer - "There's That One Person You'll Never Get Over No Matter How Long It's Been"
6. Elliott Smith - "Thirteen"
7. The Hold Steady - "Citrus"
8. Rocky Votolato - "Makers"
9. Saves the Day - "Three Miles Down"
10. Josh Joplin - "President's Son"
11. Damien Jurado - "Chevrolet"
12. The New Amsterdams - "All Ears"
13. Modest Mouse - "Bankrupt on Selling"
14. Thrice - "Stare at the Sun (Acoustic)"
15. Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"
16. The Smashing Pumpkins - "Landslide"
17. Nick Drake - "Pink Moon"
18. Motion City Soundtrack - "Back to the Beat"
19. Ted Leo - "Dirty Old Town"
20. Jeff Ott - "Song #14"
21. David Gray - "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye"
22. John K. Samson - "Utilities"
23. The Decemberists - "I Was Meant for the Stage"