I love my friends. But I love my music even more.

Whenever someone close to me has a birthday, I make them a specific mixtape tailored to their interests. Sometimes I combine them if two friends have close birthdays. Depends on how many blank CDs I have or how lazy I feel.

And since all these compilations are different and fun and awesome, I figured I should share them with you.

NOTE HUNGRY
(made for Connor. His taste in music is a lot like mine, but with more house/ambient/trance stuff. I think this is a result of dating for seven months. Anyways, he's the only kid I know who likes Joy Division as much as I do.)

1. Gillian Nothing - Six
2. Suicide - Cheree
3. No Age - Teen Creeps
4. Hüsker Dü - Broken Home, Broken Heart
5. Liars - Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack
6. HEALTH - Crimewave
7. Sonic Youth - Kill Yr. Idols
8. Lydia Lunch - Run Through The Jungle
9. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
10. Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
11. James Chance and the Contortions - Roving Eye
12. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach for My Revolver
13. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
14. Mars - Hairwaves
15. Massive Attack - Exchange
16. Luomo - Lonely Music Co.
17. M83 - Up!
18. Ride - Kaleidoscope
19. Vitalic - Poney Pt. 1

Some shoegaze, some trip hop, a little no wave. Funfunfun.



TRIPPIN' BALLZ
(Made for Claire, who does not have a last.fm. She read my TOP ALBUMS OF 2008 post, which I copied onto facebook, and went to Slumdog Millionaire and then decided to trust me and downloaded the Portishead record. Loved it. Asked for "trippy" stuff like that.)

1. Wendy Carlos - Title Music from A Clockwork Orange
2. Röyksopp - Someone Like Me
3. Flying Lotus - Melt!
4. Luomo - Nothing Goes Away
5. Ride - Vapour Trail
6. Télépopmusik - Breathe
7. Portishead - Only You
8. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
9. Slowdive - Alison
10. M83 - Kim & Jessie
11. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Inside Me
12. Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth
13. Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Carrier
14. Caribou - Pelican Narrows
15. HEALTH - Crimewave
16. Massive Attack - Teardrop
17. DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt





MUSICAL VOMIT
(made for Grace Ann, who also doesn't have a last.fm. She's not the most knowledgeable when it comes to music. I have taken it upon myself to educate her. So far, her favorite song is Yoshimi. Not surprised.)

1. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
2. HEALTH - triceratops (acid girls remix a)
3. Girl Talk - Shut the Club Down
4. Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
5. Foals - Red Socks Pugie
6. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
7. The Cure - In Between Days
8. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
9. New Order - Age of Consent
10. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
11. Devo - Jocko Homo
12. Talking Heads - I Zimbra
13. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt. 1
14. Lou Reed - Walk On the Wild Side
15. Pixies - Gigantic
16. Modern Hoax - deadened nerves
17. Radiohead - The National Anthem
18. Max Green - Yeah, Grace




BELEXA BELATED BIRTHDAY MIX
(Not creative, I know. Made for Ben and Alexa. Their birthdays are two days apart, so I combined them)

1. Steve Wright - Home Of Rock
2. Public Image Ltd. - Religion I
3. Public Image Ltd. - Religion II
4. Big Black - Tiny, King of the Jews
5. Butthole Surfers - TV Star
6. The Human League - Being Boiled (Fast version)
7. Liars - Grown Men Don't Fall in the River, Just Like That
8. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
9. The Replacements - Bastards of Young
10. Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
11. New Order - Confusion
12. Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - I Woke Up Dreaming
13. Suicide - Cheree
14. Arthur Brown - Fire (Mono Version)
15. Lou Reed - Hangin' Around
16. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach for My Revolver
17. X-Ray Spex - Art-i-ficial
18. Ramones - Have You Ever Seen the Rain

ALEX/LUCIA
(Made for, duh, Alex, and Lucia, who doesn't have a last.fm. Their birthdays are also two days apart.)
1. Modern Hoax - bent fist
2. Orange Juice - Rip It Up
3. Santogold - Lights Out
4. Mission of Burma - This is Not A Photograph
5. Pixies - Vamos
6. New Order - Ultraviolence
7. Suicide - Shadazz
8. Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit
9. Lou Reed - Vicious
10. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't it be Nice?
11. Talking Heads - Girls Want to Be With the Girls
12. James Chance and the Contortions - Roving Eye
13. Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
14. Addressing Adeline - Umbrella Man
15. The Cure - Close To Me
16. The Rapture - Don Gon Do It
17. Joey Ramone - What a Wonderful World

EVAN!/TAXMAN!
(Made for Evan. No last.fm. Is an opera singer. No joke.)

1. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
2. of Montreal - For Our Elegant Caste
3. N*E*R*D - Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom)
4. Patti Smith - Ask the Angels
5. Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
6. The Stooges - Search and Destroy
7. The Velvet Underground - Run Run Run
8. Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
9. The Clash - Police and Thieves
10. Television - Friction
11. The Smiths - This Charming Man
12. De La Soul - Me Myself and I
13. Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
14. T. Rex - Jeepster
15. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
16. Radiohead - 15 Steps
17. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?


Everyone so far has LOVED their tapes. It's important to me to make these personal, that's why there are so few ovelaps.

More to come.