mix: LMTFA

[ans99]

nine inch nails- echoplex
i'm safe in here, irrelevant
just like they said
my voice just echoes off these walls

and i just slowly fade away

you will never ever get to me in here

amanda palmer- creep
you're so fucking special.
i wish i was special.
but i'm a creep. i'm a weirdo. what the hell am i doing here?
i don't belong here.

amanda palmer- straight (with strings)
and I'm waiting for someone to shake me and say

hey bitch, don't quit
you're almost dead
don't give up now
make friends instead

kat flint- shadowboxing
Are we dancing or kicking at one another's heels?
Am I leading or reading you wrong?
The gloves are off and my nails are bitten down to the quick
I'm knocked out, my dear
And it's making me sick

tori amos- little amsterdam
but momma-- it wasn't my bullet

don't take me back to the range
i'm just coming out of a cell in my brain
girl, you got to know these days
which side you're on

aimee mann- i cannot get my head around it
I cannot get my head around it, baby
'Cause that's just not the way
You make me feel

leonard cohen- avalanche
When I am on a pedestal,
You did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
To kneel grotesque and bare.
I myself am the pedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare.

the dresden dolls- dirty business
to all the ones who hated me the most, a toast-
you really had me going for a second,
i was nervous
boy, am i the poster girl
for some suburban sickness!
better keep a healthy distance
now it's up to you, know what to do
it's pretty dirty business

gwen stefani- hollaback girl
let me hear you say this shit is bananas.

nine inch nails- piggy
hey pig, nothing's turning out the way i planned

nothing can stop me now, cause i don't care anymore.

damien rice- rootless tree
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
There's nothing in you
And did you hate me, hate me, hate me, hate me so good
That you just let me out, let me out, let me out
Of this hell when you're around

bjork- declare independence
declare independence!
don't let them do that to you!

the arctic monkeys- perhaps vampires is a bit strong but...
cause all you people are vampires,
and all your stories are stale.

george michael- freedom '90
But today the way I play the game has got to change
Oh yeah
Now I'm gonna get myself happy

I think there's something you should know
I think it's time I stopped the show
There's something deep inside of me
There's someone I forgot to be
Take back your picture in a frame
Don't think that I'll be back again
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man

cake- sheep go to heaven
as soon as you're born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time.
sheep go to heaven. goats go to hell.

go to hell.

Comments

[crushinator.livejournal.com]

The gravedigger puts on the forceps.
The stonemason does all the work.
The barber can give you a hair cut.
The carpenter can take you out to lunch.

CARPENTER WIN!

[freyja.livejournal.com]

yeah except i always end up being the stonemason. :P

No one does an angry song like the Irish

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

The English Beat, "Mirror in the Bathroom"
Mirror in the bathroom, please talk free
The door is locked, just you and me
Can I take you to a restaurant that's got glass tables?
You can watch yourself while you are eating

Andy Prieboy, "Tomorrow Wendy"
I told the priest, "Don't plan on any second coming,
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming."

Corky and the Juice Pigs, "Psycho"
Psychopathic, psychopathic, psychopathic HEY!

Shantalla, "P Stands for Paddy"
"No I won't sit beside you love, now or at any other time,
For I hear you love another pretty girl, and your heart's no longer mine."

Warren Zevon, "Splendid Isolation"
I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don't want to see their faces
I don't want to hear them scream

Re: No one does an angry song like the Irish

[freyja.livejournal.com]

sweet, a mix response!

Re: No one does an angry song like the Irish

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

Tell me what you think! I may have strayed from the LMTFA theme a bit, but these are certainly all songs about people who will have trouble making friends even if they would like to, which they probably don't. "P Stands for Paddy" (or, occasionally, "T Stands for Thomas") is particularly odd because it appears to be two traditional songs mashed together, so that the chorus has nothing to do with the rest of the song but is still sung with the fury of betrayed love. If there's one thing I like it's that traditional Irish rage accompanied by fiddle.

Re: No one does an angry song like the Irish

[freyja.livejournal.com]

lol. i love these. i especially like that corky and the juice pigs song. perfect. i listened to it three times in a row before realizing. :P and the shantalla is beautiful. i'm kind of a sucker for a european fiddle rant myself.

i'm going to label this mix an alternate branch of where the mood COULD have gone in my mix. you know, if the person had not recovered from the insult and injury, and instead decided to fantasize about murdering the offenders in question. or actually did murder them. :D and there are definitely days like that, aren't there, so i'm keeping these in rotation for sure. thanks!