Here is my advice to you

1. The Wake - Crush the Flowers

2. Action Painting! - These Things Happen

3. The Orchids - How Does That Feel?

4. Gentle Despite - Shadow of a Girl

5. The Orchids - Something for the Longing

6. Ivy - Wish You Would

7. Even As We Speak - Straight as an Arrow

8. The Orchids - Farewell, Dear Bonnie

9. The Field Mice - When Morning Comes To Town

10. Heavenly - So Little Deserve

11. Gentle Despite - Bittersweet Kiss

12. The Sweetest Ache - If I Could Shine

13. 14 Iced Bears - Sure To See

14. The Orchids - Tropical

15. Gentle Despite - Torment to Me

16. Gentle Despite - Summer in Me

17. Even As We Speak - Bizarre Love Triangle

18. Tramway - Boathouse

19. The Harvest Ministers - Six o'clock is Rosary

20. St Christopher - Say Yes To Everything

Pop Life (part II)

1. Strawberry Fair - I Can't Do Anything

2. White Shoes & The Couples Company - Tentang Cita

3. Watoo Watoo - Tuesday's Secrets

4. Eleanor Rigby - I Want To Sleep With You

5. The Blanche Hudson Weekend - Noise and Fury

6. The Tidy Ups - Dizzy Heights

7. Diana Ross & The Supremes - When The Lovelight Starts

Shining Through Your Eyes

8. Jacqueline Taieb - 7 Heures du Matin

9. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way

the real weepy and right tragic part of the story beginning

10. Friday Club - Window Shopping

11. God Help The Girl - Come Monday Night

Pop Life (part I)

1. The Ballistic Brothers - Peckings

Alex feels a bit shagged, fagged, and fashed...

2. Belle & Sebastian - Legal Man

3. Tiny Yong - Le Sauvage

4. The Shop Assistants - Train From Kansas City

5. The Pepper Pots - Take A Chance

6. Camera Obscura - French Navy (live on BBC 6)

7. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Sometimes Always

8. Blondie - The Tide is High

9. Stereolab - Margerine Melodie

10. The Cat's Miaow - I Fall To Pieces

Streets of Klezmer

1. God is my Co-Pilot - Hora

2. Yiddish Swingtette - Oriental Hora

3. Lhasa - El Parajo

4. Joseph Moskowitz - Doina

5. New Klezmer Trio - Feedback Doina

6. DNA - Not Moving

7. God is my Co-Pilot - Sex is for Making Babies

8. John Zorn's Naked City - Den of Sins

9. Abe Elenkrig & Orchestra - Nit Ba Mitin

10. FAROFF - House of Klezmer

11. God is my Co-Pilot - Little Red Moon

12. James Chance & The Distortions - I Can't Stand Myself

13. New Klezmer Trio - Distiller

14. Dave Tarras - Pas D'Espan

15. Eminem vs Dukes of Dixieland - Down by the Riverside

16. Audio Two - Top Jeebin' (Magick Moar Remix)

17. John Zorn's Naked City - A Shot in the Dark

18. God is my Co-Pilot - Tantsukolena Yid

19. Naftule Brandwein - Firn di Mekhutonim Aheym

20. David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness - The Streets of Klezmer, NY

Strange Interlude

1. The Orb - A Huge, Evergrowing, Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Center Of The Ultraworld

2. Kraftwerk - Radioaktivitaet (William Orbit Remix)

3. Orbital - Are We Here?

4. Matmos - Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan

5. New Order - Touched By The Hand of God

6. Alexander Robotnick - The Dark Side of the Spoon

7. The Glove - Like an Animal (12" Club Mix)

8. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (1995 Arthur Baker Remix)

9. Black Science Orchestra - New Jersey Deep

10. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities in Dust

11. Antena - Spiral Staircase

12. Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me

13. The Reegs - These Days

14. 808 State - Pacific State 707

15. Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven

John Mitchell's Folly, Eureka Springs, AR

Uncharacteristically, I'm going to provide a little context for this one. John Mitchell's Folly is an antique store/art gallery housed in a skinny, tall Second Empire townhouse off the proverbial beaten path, far up in the hills of the Ozarks. Mr Mitchell specializes in early Ozark Primitive painting, such as Ernest "By Golly" Schilling. Almost everything in the store is priceless, battered, and inspires in me a mixture of wonder and terror.

I hope that this mix does justice to spooky eclecticism of this national treasure of a junk store. The above picture of the storefront is borrowed, but below are some of my wife's pictures of Mr. Mitchell's stock.

1. Boyd Rice & Frank Tovey - Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (Extraction 4)

2. Scott Joplin - A Real Slow Drag

3. The Bassies - River Jordan

4. Zez Confrey - Kinda Careless

5. Björk - Öll Birtan

6. JS Bach - Viola de Gamba Sonata #1, BWV 1027, III. Andante

7. Philip Glass - Women in White

8. Wagner - Tannhäuser, Dich, teure Halle

9. Aphex Twin - Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchestration)

10. Duke Ellington - Shout 'em, Aunt Tillie

11. Javier Navarrete - A Book of Blood

12. The Tiger Lillies - The Struwwelpeter Overture

13. Salut de la veille des O let les 7 O suivant le romain

14. Edith Piaf - Correqu' et Reguyer

15. WC Handy - Farewell Blues

16. Marlene Dietrich - Assez

17. Frank Sinatra - You Forgot All the Words

Paul Bowles' 100th Birthday Party

1. Paul Bowles - Points in Time XI

(nighttime recording of Tangiers streets)

2. Paul Bowles - Night Waltz

3. Hafiz Kani Karaca - Holy Qur'an, Baqara Surah II, 1-5

4. Cheikh Ayyad ou Haddou - Oukha Dial Kheir

5. Claude Debussy - Pour L'Egyptienne

6. Charles Trenet - Je Chante

7. Perihan Altındag-Sözeri - Haydar Haydar

8. Youbati

9. Youssou N'Dour - Tijaniyya

10. Lucienne Boyer - Parlez-moi D'Amour

11. Ryuchi Sakamoto - The Sheltering Sky (piano version)

12. Paul Bowles - Points in Time IV

So Much For Innocence

1. The Bad Plus - Flim

2. Stereolab - Need To Be

3. Aphex Twin - from Selected Ambient Works II

4. Kitchens of Distinction - Innocence

5. Red House Painters - Katy Song

6. The Zombies - Beechwood Park

7. Lucinda Williams - Lonely Girls

8. Mercury Rev - Silver Street

9. Pavement - Greenlander

10. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Charlotte

11. The Orb - Spanish Castles in Space (Orb Live '93)

12. Stereolab - Brigitte (part II)

Portmanteau

1. Flash Hawk Parlour Ensemble - Amnesiac/Morning Bell (Radiohead)

2. Watoo Watoo - Chinatown (Luna)

3. Cilla Black - Step Inside Love (The Beatles)

4. Dean & Britta - I'll Keep it with Mine (Bob Dylan/Nico)

5. Karen O - Worried Shoes (Daniel Johnston)

6. Elvis Costello - Days (The Kinks)

7. Susanna & The Magical Orchestra - Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)

8. The Shop Assistants - Ace of Spades (Mötörhead)

9. Electrelane - The Partisan (Leonard Cohen)

10. The Clash - Police on my Back (The Equals)

11. The Fall - Victoria (The Kinks)

It Is Happening Again

1. Beach House - Silver Soul

2. Philip Glass - Orphée's Bedroom

3. Air - Remember (Orchestral Version)

4. Wang Chung - Wake Up, Stop Dreaming

5. Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows

6. DJ Schmolli - Crazy Baby It's You (Gnarls vs. The Shirelles)

7. Stereolab - Jaunty Monty and the Bubbles of Silence

8. The Sea and Cake - There You Are

9. Atlas Sound - Shelia

10. Camera Obscura - Modern Girl

11. Beirut - No Dice

12. John Murphy - St Francis of Assisi (from Millions)

13. Air - Ce Matin-Là

Gold Pants Dance Party!

Teenage High

side one:

1. The Pooh Sticks - On Tape

2. Orange Juice - Blue Boy

3. Josef K - Sorry For Laughing

4. Ail Symudiad - Edrych Trwy Y Camerau

5. Daniel Johnston - Broken Dream (MTV Cutting Edge)

6. Television Personalities - Salvador Dali's Garden Party

7. Dream Syndicate - Tell Me When It's Over

8. Yo La Tengo - Speeding Motorcycle

9. The Shop Assistants - Before I Wake

10. Jacobites - Son of a French Nobleman

side two:

11. Jane - It's a Fine Day

12. David Bowie - A New Career in a New Town

13. Françoise Hardy - Je N'attends Plus Personne

14. The Shangri-Las - Right Now, Not Later

15. Marianne Faithfull - Black Girl

16. Orange Juice - Guess I'm Just a Little Too Sensitive

17. Luna - La Poupee Qui Fait Non

18. Beat Happening - Knick Knack

19. The Pooh Sticks - Teenage High

20. Pastel Vespa - Livin' on a Prayer

Is That the Devil?

1. JS Bach - Christ lag in toden banden #2

2. Almeda Riddle - Sons of Sorrow

3. Hans Zimmer - This is Going to Hurt

4. Spiritualized - Soul on Fire (live 12 Dec 2007)

5. Rachel Grimes - Every Morning

6. The Rolling Stones - The Last Time

7. Jacobites - Silken Sheets

8. Patti Smith Group - Elegie

9. PJ Harvey & John Parish - April

10. Johan Soderqvist - Spotting a Victim

11. JS Bach - Meine Seele Erhebet Den Herren, BWV 648

12. Electrelane - Gone Darker

13. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - On the Low

14. Tindersticks - My Sister (live 6 March 2009)

15. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Blue Bird

Love Builds Up!

1. Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters - Tonight You Belong to Me

2. Electrelane - Love Builds Up!

3. Beck - Some Things Last a Long Time

4. Dizzy Gillespe - Dizzier and Dizzier

5. Beat Happening - Our Secret

6. Seu Jorge - Rebel Rebel

7. Björk - Sonnets/Unrealities XI

8. Erik Satie - Gymnopodies

9. Saint Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us

10. Les Sultans - She's Not There (Zombies Cover)

11. Balinese Gamelan

12. The Supremes - I Hear a Symphony

13. Coco Rosie - Tekno Love Song

14. Julie Andrews - Say a Prayer for Me Tonight

Dance Party!

We Have All the Time in the World

1. Li-Young Lee - Persimmons

2. My Bloody Valentine - We Have All the Time in the World

3. Isobel Campbell - There is No Greater Gold

4. Françoise Hardy - Suzanne

5. Dusty Springfield - Ne Me Quitte Pas

6. Basia Bulat - The Pilgriming Vine

7. Imitation Electric Piano - What We Do We Do

8. NEU! - Lila Engel (Lilac Angel)

9. Young Marble Giants - Final Day

10. Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger

11. Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning

Tracey Thorn Alert!

1. Marine Girls - Honey

2. Everything But the Girl - Five Fathoms

3. Tracey Thorn - King's Cross (Hot Chip Remix)

4. Everything But the Girl - English Rose (The Jam cover)

5. Everything But the Girl - Spice of Life

6. Massive Attack - Protection

7. Everything But the Girl - Anytown

8. Marine Girls - Lazy Ways

9. Tracey Thorn - Plain Sailing

10. Tracey Thorn & Jens Lekman - Yeah! Oh Yeah! (Magnetic Fields cover)

11. Style Council - The Paris Match

12. Everything But the Girl - Before Today

13. Everything But the Girl - Don't Leave Me Behind

Silver Factory

1. Dean & Britta - Silver Factory

2. Galaxie 500 - Listen, the Snow is Falling

3. Spacemen 3 - Ode to Street Hassle

4. The Auteurs - Unsolved Child Murder

5. Spectrum - Help Me, Please

6. Pale Saints - Blue Flower

7. Moose - Little Bird

8. David Bowie - Andy Warhol

9. The Monkees - A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You

10. Saint Etienne - Channelsea

11. Lush - Hey Hey Helen

Ukulele Me

You-kelele

Me-kelele

How happy we could be-kelele

-

Seriously

1. Bongo Hermann & the L.E.'s - Dr. Who

2. The Orb - Perpetual Dawn (Ultrabass II)

3. Prefuse 73 - Nun0

4. Barack Obama - "Shit is getting way too complicated for me..."

5. Jay-Z - Change Clothes (Studio One Ska mash-up)

6. Althea & Donny - Uptown Top Ranking

7. Gavin Bryars - Sinking of the Titanic (Aphex Twin Remix)

8. Colatron - Sycamore Cowboys

9. Panda Riot - Paper Planes

10. Imitation Electric Piano - I Mean Wow

11. Little Audrey - Sea Puss and Bammy

She's in Parties

1. Zhao Jiping – Summer (from ‘Raise the Red Lantern’)
2. The Cat’s Miaow – Revant de Toi
3. Air – Kelly Watch the Stars (Moog Cookbook Remix)
4. The Cure – I Want to Be Old
5. Michael Nyman – Caliban’s Pit (from ‘Prospero’s Books’)
...
8. The Glove – Looking Glass Girl
9. Sister Nancy – Bam Bam
10. Zhao Jiping – The Seasons (from ‘Raise the Red Lantern’)
11. The Horrors – New Ice Age
12. California Snow Story – My Life is only a Daydream
13. Crystal Stilts – Through the Floor
14. Marianne Faithfull – Truth Bitter Truth