Turn up the radio ...

I'd like to think my music taste is rather diverse, but I guess there's like a small field of musical genre (what?) that I'm dancing around in really. I'm not quite sure if you get the picture with how I've described this, but I do and I felt I had to do an arty farty introduction into this mixtape:

http://ollieyaya.muxtape.com/

And yeah, basically here's a track-by-track analysis type thing of why I chose them:

1. Black Eyed Peas - Pump It

This isn't a pisstake, this is actually one of my favourite songs. With Pulp Fiction being one of my favourite films and with The Black Eyed Peas probably being the best kinda r'n'b supergroup out there this song's perfect, whether it be for starting a party or, in this case, a mixtape.

It just went so wrong after My Humps ...

2. Be Your Own Pet - Zombie Graveyard Party

For about a week this was actually the first song on the mixtape before I changed it pretty last-minute. It's probably one of the best songs on Get Awkward, and is pretty much a riot. I love it.

3. Sonic Youth - Sleepin' Around

When it comes to Sonic Youth I tend to like their later stuff such as the Rather Ripped album as opposed to a lot of their earlier stuff. I like the guitar stuff at 1:57 - 2:24 which leads into the rest of it.

Hello, I am obviously not a writer.

4. The Unicorns - Sea Ghost

I love the introduction to this with the pan flute (or at least that's what I interpret it to be) which doesn't really seem to be linked to the rest of the song. On Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?, it pretty much just seperates this song from Ghost Mountain preceding it. I like the lyrics, and I also think it kinda gets you ready for the slower portion of the mixtape.

5. Blur - Country Sad Ballad Man

Blur's self-titled album is their best in my opinion and I wanted to include a track from it onto this mixtape but I was at a loss on what to pick uploading about eight different songs until I settled on this one. I think it's a good lead-in to track six too ...

6. Florence and the Machine - Hospital Beds

Florence Welch is the future, and it's pretty much a given that she'll be massive. All of her demos are pretty damn good, but this Cold War Kids cover is especially beautiful. She has such a good voice, and when the original version is such a monster of a song it's hard to make a good job of it - she does it flawlessly.

8. Death From Above 1979 - Go Home, Get Down

I love the rhythm of this track and yeah ... that's about it really? I wish these two would reform.

9. Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn

When it comes to Les Savy Fav, I can take them or leave them really. Some of their stuff is brilliant, and some of their other stuff doesn't even compare. This is one of their best, the opening chords of it are brilliant. It did however take me a while to realise that the lyric in the chorus is not "the late Dave Beckham".

7. 1990s - You're Supposed To Be My Friend

Bad teeth aside, 1990s are a pretty swell band. I pretty much listened to this non-stop when it was released, so it makes sense that I'd put it on here really. It pretty much gets the tempo back a bit faster

[The reason why this is under here is because it wasn't until I was writing this blog and listening at the same time that I switched them, and then Blogger wouldn't let me copy and paste. Bitches.]

10. Elle Milano - The Great Gulf (Live and Acoustic)

This was on an Elle Milano mixtape I randomly downloaded off another blog, and was just an enchanting discovery. Adam Crisp's voice is impeccable, as is everything by this band - but it's certainly one of Elle's rare reserved songs. It's beautiful.

11. Tubelord - Propeller

One of my most exciting and very recent finds, I think Tubelord are brilliant. This is my favourite song of theirs, and I await more. This is brilliant.

12. White Lies - Death

When it came to choosing the final song, I was pretty much going with at first Hit The Road Jack by Ray Charles until I realised that I'd already used Black Eyed Peas in my mixtape and I kinda wanted to stay as rocky as possible, and be taken seriously. Not that there's anything wrong with Ray Charles, he's a very talented musician. After going with No Doubt's cover of Come On Eileen for a while, I decided I wanted to end on a really kind of epic high - and that's certainly what pretty much everything White Lies are doing is, epic. Especially with this, I eagerly await everything this band do. I think it leaves the mixtape at an ending really. Well yes, cos there aren't any more songs obviously but yeah, ok whatever ...