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Weekly Mixtape: Mid-semester slump

So we all know that at least one of us is going to start finding white hairs this midterm exam season. May as well find a way to rock those stressed tresses with a mixtape made to unwind, focus and get to work!

 

SIDE A: Pumped up kids

1. Biggie Smalls – “Hypnotize” – Life After Death

2. Third Wave (Work Drugs Cover) – “ Summer Heart” – Work Drugs

3. JJ – “Still” – Kills

4.  XXXY – “ I Know This (Can’t Be Love)” – Single

5. K-OS – “Sunday Morning” – Atlantis: Hymns for Disco

6. Darius – “Maliblue” – Velour

7. Ween – “The Fucked Jam” – Quebec

8. Daft Punk – “Robot Rock” – Human After All

9. Ben Browning – “I Can’t Stay” – I Can’t Stay

10. The Cat Empire – “Two Shoes” – Two Shoes

 

SIDE B: Take a break, have a Kit-Kat

11. Charles Aznavour – “La Boheme” – Monsieur Carnaval

12. Alex Clare – “Damn Your Eyes” – Single

13. Chet Faker – “I’m Into You” – Thinking In Textures

14. Andrew Bird – “Desperation Breeds” – Break It Yourself

15. Blood Orange – “Sutphin Boulevard” – Single

16. Brother Ali – “Tight Rope” – Us

17. Radiohead – “Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene Remix) – Single

18. Clams Casino – “I’m God” – Single

19. Left Boy – “I Want To” – Single

20. Trentemøller – “Shades Of Marble” – Into the Great Wide Yonder

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Mixtape: Post-reading week rhapsody

The first days back to school after any sort of break are always an interesting time. From getting back into getting up at a respectable hour, to reacquainting yourself with that girl who is always correcting the professor under her breath (you know who you are), it can be a trying time. Not to mention the fact that with mid-terms now behind you, it’s pretty much full on exam time when you get back from reading week.
While one could get into hard drug use or religion to cope, there are better, and arguably healthier methods. Since the dawn of rock and roll in the late 1940s and early 1950s, there have been countless songs composed on the subject of school: getting back to school, fraternity life  and hot-rod dissertations. This mixtape pretty much covers all aspects of the school experience. Enjoy.

SIDE A: Hot for teacher
1. “Hot Rod Dissertation” – The Royal Pendletons – Oh Yeah, Baby
2. “No Class” – Motörhead – Overkill
3. “Fraternity, U.S.A.” – The Lady Bugs – Fraternity, U.S.A.
4. “School’s Out” – The Spits – The Spits IV (School’s Out)
5. “Be True to Your School” – The Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe
6. “Schools are Prisons” – The Ex Pistols – Deny
7. “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” – The Yardbirds – For Your Love
8. “Barbara” – The Modernettes – Teen City E.P.
9. “School Jerks” – The Veins – School Jerks
10. “Low Grades and High Fever” – Linda Laine & The Sinners – Freddie and the Dreamers and Other Great English Stars

SIDE B: Be cool, stay in school
11. “Scholastic Aptitude” – The Urinals – Negative Capability
12. “Charlie Brown” – The Coasters – Charlie Brown
13. “High School Yum Yum” – The Donnas – The Donnas
14. “School Days” – The Runaways – Waitin’ for the Night
15. “Hot Rod High” – The Hondells – Go Little Honda
16. “High School Nervous Breakdown” – Forgotten Rebels – Boys Will be Boys
17. “Die Schule ist Aus” – Die Sweetles – Die Schule ist Aus
18. “High School Confidential” – Hasil Adkins – Out to Hunch
19. “Teach Your Children” – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu
20. “Rock and Roll High School” – The Ramones – End of the Century

Listen to this week’s mixtape here on 8tracks.com

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Time Is On Our Side

Twenty-seven issues and 26 weeks, and we’re at the end of another school year. I’d wax-poetic about the past year and all its up and downs, but mostly I just feel like tuning out from school with a pair of headphones around my skull. Here’s our eclectic list of top, time-themed songs, when it seems like all you need is a few more hours to finish that essay or project, or wrap up your studying. (We’ve spared you all the cloying pop classics like “TiK ToK” and “Time Goes By So Slowly”). Peace out, ConU.

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10 Albums to start an alternative rock collection

Now that we’ve listed the 10 albums to start an epic alternative rock collection, we present you with a mixtape composed of songs from these records. Side A features “The Basics” – tracks that best represent each album. Side B are the “Deep Cuts” – the underrated-but-no-less-deserving-of-your-attention songs. Listening to this mixtape will be an excellent way to get a taste of each album.

Side A: The Basics

1. “Heroin” – The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico – 1967
2. “Suffragette City” – David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – 1972
3. “She’s Lost Control” – Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures – 1979
4. “London Calling” – The Clash – London Calling – 1979
5. “Bigmouth Strikes Again” – The Smiths – The Queen is Dead – 1986
6. “Personal Jesus” – Depeche Mode – Violator -1990
7. “There She Goes” – The La’s – The La’s – 1990
8. “Lithium” – Nirvana – Nevermind -1991
9. “Paranoid Android” – Radiohead – OK Computer – 1997
10. “Holland, 1945” – Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea – 1998

Side B: Deep Cuts

1. “All Tomorrow’s Parties” – The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico – 1967
2. “Ziggy Stardust” – David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – 1972
3. “Interzone” – Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures – 1979
4. “Train in Vain (Stand By Me)” – The Clash – London Calling – 1979
5. “Cemetery Gates” – The Smiths – The Queen is Dead – 1986
6. “World In My Eyes” – Depeche Mode – Violator – 1990
7. “Liberty Ship” – The La’s – The La’s – 1990
8. “In Bloom” – Nirvana – Nevermind – 1991
9. “Electioneering” – Radiohead – OK Computer -1997
10. “King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1” – Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea – 1998

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