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Back in June of 2008 I was asked to throw together a muxtape of music by my long-time twitter friend @leftsider that was representative of my ‘taste’ in music. At the time I was going through a lot of ridiculous emo bullshit because this dumb whore up in San Jose was fucking around with my heart and I was being a dumb piece of shit who didn’t want to realize how awesome he was and dump the cunt, so I put together this really sorrowful 12-track playlist.

Back when muxtape was operating as a free-for-all playlist maker, they limited you to 12 tracks, which is why this is much shorter than any other mixtape I’ve put up. It’s been a few months since I’ve made a long running playlist, and I’ve been slowly working on a couple in my head and just need to sit down and do them (one will hopefully be a small history lesson, tracking the origin and progression of psychedelia over the last four decades that I’ve been wanting to do for about six months now, and the other will be a “get pumped up and fuck shit up” playlist) but in the meantime I figured I’d put this one up, ’cause I just stumbled on it.

I listened to it last night and with a few exceptions, the mood of it is quite consistent. Vampire Weekend’s Bryn doesn’t really belong at all. The Dresden Dolls’ The Gardener runs two minutes too long to be acceptable for a mixtape and could be successfully replaced with better album cut The Mouse and the Model. 16 Horsepower’s Outlaw Song is one of my favorite songs of all time but doesn’t fit the theme at all… It’s obvious I just threw this together before I had any inklings of taking playlist/mixtape construction “seriously” (it’s surprising even to me how seriously I take it now).

Either way, a lot of good stuff on here. Bottom of the Hudson’s Riot Act is the best song nobody has heard and once you hear it you should make it your life’s works to expose it to as many people as possible. I think most of these tracks have appeared on here over the years if you want to read about my individual thoughts on them, search for them on the map.

Listen and Download @ http://thedemise.staires.org