Everyday is Like Sunday, Except for Blue Monday and Ruby Tuesday, and...Well, Friday I'm in Love: Weekly Mix #26

My very first weekly mix was one entitled When the Humans Are Away, The Robots Play, and the time has come, my friends, for another robot-inflected mix. It was very fun the first time round, and I know at least one reader out there highly enjoyed it. Oddly enough, the only actual link to robots in that mix was the fact Robots in Disguise featured - this time, I made a more concerted effort to include songs with robots in the titles without compromising the sound and flow of the mix (this rule ultimately made me discard using the song Sister Robot by The Trons, a band that is actually composed of robots - the song just didn't really fit with the feel of the rest of the songs).

In the midst of the ridiculous fun, I included robot classic Mr. Roboto from the notorious Styx and another track from Flight of the Conchords, which, like last week's track, is quite a ribtickler ("The humans are dead/We used poisonous gases/And we poisoned their asses"). Don't worry, I'll resist the urge to include an appropriate track from Flight of the Conchords in every mix. This mix is called More Than Meets the Ear.

Arcade Robot - Boys Noize

Kicking and Screaming - The Presets

The Lake - Muscles

Robot Love - Ganymed

Robot High School - My Robot Friend

The Anthem - Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya

Mr. Roboto - Styx

Robots - Flight of the Conchords

Too Many People (iamchemist Plus One Remix) - The Retrosexuals

Disko Eskimo - Salon Music

Professional Suicide - Ladyhawke

Bunny - Zeigeist

Wow (MSTRKRFT Remix) - Kylie Minogue

Neue Strassen - Metropakt

Heartbeats - The Knife

Someone Like You - Revl9n

Girl - Robots in Disguise

We Are Rebels - Alice in Videoland featuring Maja

The Negative Sex (US version) - IAMX

Everyday is Like Sunday, Except for Blue Monday and Ruby Tuesday, and Well...Friday I'm in Love: Weekly Mix #1

I've decided it might be fun to post a new music mix every Sunday. Frankly, it's probably more fun for me creating them than it is for anyone listening to them, but it's my blog and I can be as self-indulgent as I like. Although, this does put pressure on me to actually remember to do this every Sunday - I will probably remember to do this rather than real homework, mind.

This first mix is a purely fun one (no music snobbery in this one). It's upbeat and largely electronic. While I have a serious side that loves political and dark music, I also have a side that wants to be an androgynous robot pulling shapes in a New Romantic club. In fact, I shall call this mix When the Humans Are Away, The Robots Play.

You can download each track separately (in case you disagree with any of the selections), or you can download the whole mix as a zip file.

Pull Shapes - The Pipettes

Beggin' - Frankie Valli (Pilooski Edit)

We Are Your Friends - Justice Vs. Simian Mobile Disco

D.A.N.C.E. - Justice

Digitalism in Cairo - Digitalism

Atlantis to Interzone - Klaxons

The DJ's Got a Gun - Robots in Disguise

Reality TV - Infadels

I Get Around - Dragonette

Gunshot Wedding Symptoms - Closethuman

Even If It Takes All Night - Paradise Boys

Ice Cream - New Young Pony Club

Standing in the Way of Control - The Gossip

Crime Does Pay (Renaissance Remix) - The Hourly Radio

We Don't Play Guitars - Chicks on Speed featuring Peaches

Gonna Wanna - Chris Corner and Sue Denim

Girls in the Back - White Rose Movement

The Sound of the Crowd - Human League

Destroy Everything You Touch - Ladytron

Blue Monday 88 - New Order


Weekly Mix #1 (Megaupload)