Hi, here’s a little background on my choices for the What’s In A Word? mix.

Luna – Slide
The first song off their first album, Lunapark. In Luna, singer Dean Wareham’s lyrics are generally less sincere and more sarcastic than his old band, Galaxie 500 (“You can never give the finger to the blind”). In this song I think Wareham also makes a clean break with his previous band, when he subtly refers to his Boston bandmates, singing, “New England has the foliage, but I’m not going back.” A nice kickoff to his new band.

Frank Black – Headache
Off the wonderful album, Teenager Of The Year. This is actually the only Frank Black album I own. I should prolly try out his other stuff, as I love this one so much. There was a lovely video made for this song:

B-52’s – Roam
Who doesn’t love this song? If you don’t, you’re probably Satan. For the video, along with a pointless observation by yours truly, click here.

Brazilian Girls – Pussy
This is quite the lovely song from their eponymous debut. What does eponymous mean, again? A snippet of this song cropped up in one of my earlier posts.

Suicide – Girl
This song mostly consists of some nice keyboard grooves by Martin Rev, with Alan Vega doing some relatively creepy vocals. Hey, it’s not like you’re sharing an elevator with him. Relax. This song — wait for it — is from their eponymous debut.

Radiohead – Optimistic
I still haven’t been entirely bit by the bug that is Radiohead, but I heard this on shuffle a while back and liked it. This song seemed to be a nice transition from the Suicide song. Off their album Kid A.

Handsome Family – Stalled
From their non-eponymous album Through The Trees. Short and sweet.

The Kinks – Brainwashed
I almost used Starstruck from The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, but I decided instead to pick this track from Arthur. There’s an interesting blog post in there somewhere. No, on second thought, there ain’t.

Volume 4 of the Green Monkey Music Project has been completed, and is available for download!

If the participants of this mix want to discuss their own selections, please feel free to do so! I’ll put a pointer on this post if you end up posting about it on your own blog (or you could always just add comments here, I suppose).

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WHAT’S IN A WORD?
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Rules And Theme Details

The Participants Discuss Their Selections:
Allen L.!
Splotchy!
Beth!

The Songs:

Get the mix in chunks!

Zipped file of Songs 01-08 (All of Anandamide’s songs!)
Zipped file of Songs 09-16 (All of Allen L.’s songs!)
Zipped file of Songs 17-24 (All of Splotchy’s songs!)
Zipped file of Songs 25-32 (All of DGuzman’s songs!)
Zipped file of Songs 33-40 (All of Beth’s songs!)

Track Listing
01 – Gary Numan – Cars [anandamide]
02 – The Housemartins – Anxious [anandamide]
03 – Television – Friction [anandamide]
04 – The Stone Roses – Waterfall [anandamide]
05 – Sly and the Family Stone – Poet [anandamide]
06 – Fairport Convention – Sloth [anandamide]
07 – Stevie Wonder – Superstition [anandamide]
08 – Gregory Isaccs – Rumors [anandamide]
09 – Against Me! – Stop! [allenl]
10 – The Pierces – Boring [allenl]
11 – Ani DiFranco – Fuel [allenl]
12 – Edwin Starr – War [allenl]
13 – Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins – Happy [allenl]
14 – The Hellacopters – Envious [allenl]
15 – Paper Sun – Oceans [allenl]
16 – The Cat Empire – Sly [allenl]
17 – Luna – Slide [splotchy]
18 – Frank Black – Headache [splotchy]
19 – B-52’s – Roam [splotchy]
20 – Brazilian Girls – Pussy [splotchy]
21 – Suicide – Girl [splotchy]
22 – Radiohead – Optimistic [splotchy]
23 – Handsome Family – Stalled [splotchy]
24 – The Kinks – Brainwashed [splotchy]
25 – Tracy Chapman – Bridges [dguzman]
26 – Indigo Girls – Ghost [dguzman]
27 – Ani DiFranco – Dilate [dguzman]
28 – The Go-Go’s – Vacation [dguzman]
29 – Alison Krauss & Union Station – Stay [dguzman]
30 – U2 – One [dguzman]
31 – Fiona Apple – Criminal [dguzman]
32 – Pretenders – Kid [dguzman]
33 – The B-52’s – Topaz [beth]
34 – David Bowie – Fashion [beth]
35 – The Clash – Clampdown [beth]
36 – Magnapop – Garden [beth]
37 – Johnny Thunders – MIA [beth]
38 – R.E.M. – Stumble [beth]
39 – Sonic Youth – Incinerate [beth]
40 – Squeeze – Tempted [beth]

Here it is, folks.

What’s In A Word, Volume 4 of the Green Monkey Music Project, will be published some time in the next few days.

01 – Gary Numan – Cars [anandamide]
02 – The Housemartins – Anxious [anandamide]
03 – Television – Friction [anandamide]
04 – The Stone Roses – Waterfall [anandamide]
05 – Sly and the Family Stone – Poet [anandamide]
06 – Fairport Convention – Sloth [anandamide]
07 – Stevie Wonder – Superstition [anandamide]
08 – Gregory Isaccs – Rumors [anandamide]
09 – Against Me! – Stop! [allenl]
10 – The Pierces – Boring [allenl]
11 – Ani DiFranco – Fuel [allenl]
12 – Edwin Starr – War [allenl]
13 – Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins – Happy [allenl]
14 – The Hellacopters – Envious [allenl]
15 – Paper Sun – Oceans [allenl]
16 – The Cat Empire – Sly [allenl]
17 – Luna – Slide [splotchy]
18 – Frank Black – Headache [splotchy]
19 – The B-52’s – Roam [splotchy]
20 – Brazilian Girls – Pussy [splotchy]
21 – Suicide – Girl [splotchy]
22 – Radiohead – Optimistic [splotchy]
23 – Handsome Family – Stalled [splotchy]
24 – The Kinks – Brainwashed [splotchy]
25 – Tracy Chapman – Bridges [dguzman]
26 – Indigo Girls – Ghost [dguzman]
27 – Ani DiFranco – Dilate [dguzman]
28 – The Go-Go’s – Vacation [dguzman]
29 – Alison Krauss & Union Station – Stay [dguzman]
30 – U2 – One [dguzman]
31 – Fiona Apple – Criminal [dguzman]
32 – Pretenders – Kid [dguzman]
33 – The B-52’s – Topaz [beth]
34 – David Bowie – Fashion [beth]
35 – The Clash – Clampdown [beth]
36 – Magnapop – Garden [beth]
37 – Johnny Thunders – MIA [beth]
38 – R.E.M. – Stumble [beth]
39 – Sonic Youth – Incinerate [beth]
40 – Squeeze – Tempted [beth]