Passion of the Weiss Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)
I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of course, music is music and it's stupid to let one's natural "hater" inclinations stop them from enjoying something good, regardless of how stupid their haircuts and/or facial hair are (save for arguably Man Man). Still, there's something deeply troubling in my nagging suspicion that these muxtapes were compiled by someone in a Fruity Loops hoodie, a pair of $2 neon green sunglasses and a mustache lustrous enough to be the toast of Echo Park. So snipe away in the comments section if you will. You can even call me that increasingly meaningless* perjorative, "hipster." All I can really say in my anti-hipster defense is that I still eat hamburgers at In-N-Out, can dunk a basketball and am hitting .368 with a .680 slugging percentage in my Saturday hardball Baseball league (Go Buzz). Now if you'll excuse me it's time to put on a headband and cut my hair in fashionable yet unflattering manner. Good day. * The word "hipster," of course, only being meaningless when used to potentially describe me. Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #5: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (Part 1) Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #6: The Best Indie Songs To Get An Asymmetrical To (Part 2) (Track listing After the Jump)
Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #5: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (Part 1)
1. Hot Chip - Hold On 2. The Hold Steady - Sequestered In Memphis 3. Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected 4. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos 5. Cloudland Canyon - Krautwerk 6. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules Theme 7. Times New Viking - Drop-Out 8. Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS HEALTH) 9. Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone 10. Black Mountain - Wucan 11. Santogold - Say Aha 12. The Black Keys - So He Won't Break Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #6: The Best Indie Songs To Get An Asymmetrical To (Part 2) 1. Erykah Badu - The Healer 2. The Kills - Tape Song 3. Muslims - Extinction 4. Mezzanine Owls-Ghost Ship 5. No Age - Ripped Knees 6. The Raconteurs - Carolina Drama 7. The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave 8. King Khan & the Shrines - Torture 9. The Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me 10. Islands - Creeper 11. Wolf Parade - Fine Young Cannibals 12. My Morning Jacket - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Part 2