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22 December 2006

Earworm Invasion (YSI) →[More:]

Get ready for an attack of the earworms! I made up a wee little Xmas prezzie for the Mechazens. Actually more than one, but these projects do take a bit of doing, so the uploads will be spread over a couple days.

This mix spans generations and genres, and incorporates dance tracks, slamming rock anthems, hook-laden pop tunes and crunchily groovy indie. Despite their diversity, they all have one thing in common: love 'em or hate 'em, you will NOT be able to resist bawling the refrains at the tops of your lungs. In the car. In the bath. Whenever you think no one else is listening.

Tracklist, in order:

1) Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
2) Barenaked Ladies - One Week
3) Belle & Sebastian - For The Price Of a Cup of Tea
4) Howard Jones - New Song
5) Peter Gabriel - When You're Falling
6) Annie Lennox - Little Bird
7) Fatboy Slim - Praise You
8) Beck - Loser
9) AFI - Miss Murder
10) Boney M - Felicidad
11) George Michael - Too Funky (Dance Mix)
12) Jackson Five - ABC
13) Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
14) Daniel Powter - Bad Day
15) Muse - Starlight
16) Vertical Horizon - I'm Still Here

Cheers, and enjoy!

post by: lonefrontranger at: 02:42 | 11 comments

Dammit. I thought you were talking about real worms that lived in people's ears, and the hypochondriac in me drew me in. Alas.

Your playlist looks interesting. Mostly not my cup of tea (except for the Belle and Sebastian), but I must admit I'm already singing BNL in my head. Dammit again.

posted by brina 22 December | 03:14

Ugh, I hate yousendit. I had to login via bugmenot to download this. I recommend everyone use senduit.com.

Oh yeah, thanks for this. I will enjoy it thoroughly.

posted by court siem 22 December | 04:29

Your playlist looks interesting. Mostly not my cup of tea

"ABC" is not your cup of tea? They have doctors who can help you. It's not too late.

(and if you're gonna play that song, this is the appropriate visual accompaniment)

posted by jonmc 22 December | 08:52

Ugh, I hate yousendit. I had to login via bugmenot to download this. I recommend everyone use senduit.com.

Okay. Here's 'Nightmares,' the last song on that long-delayed, much-Internet-buzzed, newish Clipse album.

posted by box 22 December | 09:11

Awesome. I look forward to being annoyed by this all week.

(annoyed by the earworminess, not the songs!)

Thanks, lfr!

posted by gaspode 22 December | 09:20

jonmc: Thanks! as a matter of fact, I was thinking of Clerks II when I added this, and of course I recall that you posted it a little while ago.

hmmm. It occurs to me that I forgot to include one of the more viral earworms of recent memory:

(hidden bonus track 17) The Killers - Somebody Told Me.

Lemme just rectify that.

posted by lonefrontranger 22 December | 09:43

listening right now...

posted by taz 22 December | 09:56

court siem: sorry about that, but for the record I hate Senduit's interface - I personally don't like downloading ANYTHING without checking it out first, therefore I never click on Senduit links because it just starts automatically downloading - and if the authour of the link isn't kind enough to tell me what's in there, I have to find out the hard way. Um, nope, not gonna do that. And, it doesn't work with Opera.

So, as with all things internet, YMMV

posted by lonefrontranger 22 December | 10:58

Nonono. I love "ABC." It's the Vertical Horizon and the Annie Lennox and the Peter Gabriel I'm not so fond of. Does that make me a bad person, jonmc?

posted by brina 22 December | 11:24

Senduit works just fine with Opera. I use it all the time.

posted by arse_hat 22 December | 15:54

arse_hat, that's a minor quibble. read all that other stuff I posted above. I hate the interface, period.

I mean, I can't get YSI to work well within Opera either, which is why I use Safari to run uploads.

posted by lonefrontranger 22 December | 17:10

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