Summer music for the uncool.

I know, Bloc Party is a trendoid magnet, and maybe My Morning Jacket too. Yes, putting together Spaniards Ana D* and Paco de Lucía, Brazilian Caetano Veloso, and the Colombian group Aterciopelados in the same playlist sounds pretentiously pa-eclectic. And so on. But damnit, this is really the stuff that I’ve been listening to, and I’d be fucked if I were making it up.** So whatever.***

In short, I just finished the summer 2007 mix CD. (I talked about the 2006 mix here.) The reason I did the 2007 summer mix was for S. to have something to listen to on the bus on the way to Baguio later this month, when she attends the U.P. workshop. (Yay!) Now that I’ve given her a copy of the mix, I could post the track list here.

If you want a copy of the CD, you know which sidewalk or street corner or train station you could have me waylaid and beat up.

1. ‘Getaway,’ N’Dea Davenport and Rebirth Brass Band.
2. ‘Rock Steady,’ Aretha Franklin.
3. ‘Los amantes.’ Ana D.
4. ‘Multiply,’ Jamie Lidell.
5. ‘Entre dos aguas,’ Paco de Lucía.
6. ‘Alexandre,’ Caetano Veloso.
7. ‘Blue Light,’ Bloc Party.
8. ‘To The Floor,’ Shrift.
9. ‘Wordless Chorus,’ My Morning Jacket.
10. ‘Panal,’ Aterciopelados.
11. ‘The Loved Ones,’ Elvis Costello and the Attractions.
12. ‘Spirit On The Water,’ Bob Dylan.
13. ‘Edge Of The Ocean,’ Ivy.

* To youse non-hispanohablantes: ‘D’ = ‘Deh.’
** Besides, I have absolutely no hipster-cred to speak of: Until this morning I didn’t know there was such a thing as math-rock, or nu prog, or post-rock; that the Pixies were labeled by some guys as ‘paisley underground,’ and I have no clue what it means; at least I’ve known for the longest time that the label ‘alternative’ is totally bunk. I’m so uncool I might as well be listening to Avril Lavigne. But I do listen to Ms Lavigne, or at least I like her new song, ‘Girlfriend,’ enough to not be embarrassed. (It doesn’t hurt that over the past year or so Avril has actually started looking sort of attractive.) In fact this morning I was listening to it with such songs as Toni Basil’s ‘Mickey,’ Le Tigre’s ‘Deceptacon,’ and Imago’s ‘Taralets,’ and they sounded surprisingly the same, or maybe they sounded as if they’d been scouted from the same cheerleading competition.
*** Ah, the disclaim-then-dismiss tactic! I seem to be doing that a lot in this space.