New Year’s Resolutions Mixtape

(Music that I will be exercising to in ‘08)

In step with many of my fellow Americans, I will be attempting to exercise more this coming year. I’ve put together the following mixtape in order to aid me in this all-too-familiar endeavor. As I’m sure you’ll dually note, I am particularly motivated by three musical archetypes: The upbeat punk number, the break-up song, and the depressing-ass reminder of the one that got away (a close relative to the break-up song). Strange how just one girl can go and turn a great number of once beloved songs into sad reminders of what could have been. I guess that this is my way of reclaiming some of them. In total, the workout comes to just under an hour.

Warm-up: Coast to Coast (Elliott Smith)

Light stretching/calisthenics:
•Saturday (Built to Spill)
•In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
•Here [alternate mix] (Pavement)

Jogging:
•London Calling (The Clash)
•The KKK Took My Baby Away (Ramones)
•SOS (The Bangs)
•The Longest Time (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes)
•Rainfall (The Apples in Stereo)
•Our Retired Explorer (The Weakerthans)
•Quantum Physics (The Onion Flavored Rings)
•Live the Chaos pt. II (The Onion Flavored Rings)
•Koka Kola (The Clash)
•Middle (Rocket From The Crypt)
•Born in ‘69 (Rocket From The Crypt)
•Crackity Jones (The Pixies)
•Incoporeal (Tiger Army)

Cool-down/Stretching:
•Happy (Mazzy Star)
•No Surprises (Radiohead)
•Stay Gold (The Apples in Stereo)
•Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

Best wishes for you and yours in the coming year,

-mixtape

~ by mixtape on January 2, 2008.