My friends man…they’re breaking up, they’re getting back together, they’re moving in together and adopting kitties. My girl is even heading to Buenos Aires to be with her man. So yeah. Just spent a weekend chillin with my best friends from college in a hot tub talking about love over vodka-soaked watermelon (baller status), and the entire time we were backed up by the perfect mixtape from my friend James: YOUNG, DUMB, IN LOVE.
James hits it all with rad 60s girl groups as the melodic glue holding this heartbreaker of a love mix together (in five acts to be exact). The mix had me (completely) at track four: Then He Kissed Me by The Crystals. Hot. Damn.
I can remember rocking out with Elisabeth Shue to Then He Kissed Me during the opening credits of Adventures in Babysitting, and being totally stoked about the MAKING OUT to come in my future. At the time I could not have predicted that some of my hotter high school moments would be initiated over Major League — Rick “Wild Thing” Vaughn…I guess anything can happen.
4 Comments
June 13, 2008 at 10:36 am
i wholeheartedly love this mix.
do you have the tracklisting?
June 13, 2008 at 3:18 pm
we’ll see if thesook can wrangle up that tracklisting for you.
thanks for the love!!!
June 15, 2008 at 11:24 pm
yo. sorry for delay. just got out of the wilderness (s’mores, campfire, and whiskey–life is good). i’m stoked that you’re into this mix too! i dig it more each time i listen…
tracks:
1. Jens Lekman – “I Saw her in the Anti-War Demonstration”
2. The Replacements – “I will Dare”
3. The Juliana Hatfield Three – “Spin the Bottle”
4. The Crystals – “Then He Kissed Me”
5. The Ronettes – “Be My Baby”
6. Francois Hardy – “Je Suis D’Accord”
7. The Shirelles – “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”
8. The Velvet Underground – “I’ll be Your Mirror”
9. Sly and the Family Stone – “Hot Fun in the Summer”
10. The Blow – “Parentheses”
11. My Morning Jacket – “The Way That He Sings”
12. The 6ths – “Falling out of Love with You”
13. The Supremes – “Where Did Our Love Go?”
14. The French Kicks – “One More Time”
15. The Raveonettes – “Blush”
16. Grizzly Bear – “He Hit Me (and it Felt Like a Kiss)”
17. The Jam – “Town Called Malice”
18. Bruce Springsteen – “Hungry Heart”
19. Rogue Wave – “Chicago X 12″
20. The Shangri-Las – “(Remember) Walkin’ in the Sand”
21. Blondie – “Sunday Girl”
22. Rilo Kelly- “The Frug”
23. The Pipettes- “It Hurts to See You Dance So Well”
24. Lucky Soul – “Lips are Unhappy”
25. Jesus and Mary Chain- Sometimes Always
December 15, 2008 at 11:38 pm
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