top 20 songs of 2009

here's a holiday gift for you and yours: a best-of-2009 compilation chock full of nashville mixtapes goodness. all songs were released in 2009 and made their way onto the show at least once. there are some glaring omissions, but i wanted to make it short enough for all my fellow luddites who still put things on cd. here's the link and the playlist:

1. doves - compulsion
2. nouvelle vague - master and servant
3. the raveonettes - heart of stone
4. elvis perkins in dearland - shampoo
5. real estate - fake blues
6. here we go magic - fangela
7. cryptacize - blue tears
8. memory cassette - asleep at a party
9. the xx - islands
10. stardeath and white dwarfs - the march
11. the flaming lips - silver trembling hands
12. mos def - quiet dog bite hard
13. beak> - i know
14. ramona falls - i say fever
15. le loup - beach town
16. spiral stairs - maltese t
17. the mumlers - coffin factory
18. thee oh sees - tidal wave
19. the strange boys - poem party
20. dan deacon - paddling ghost

show #73 playlist

thanks to everybody for all the kind phone calls, emails, and twitter things. i had always assumed that the only people who heard nashville mixtapes were friends and the occasional radio surfer, but apparently a few people out there will miss the show. as you probably know by now, show #73 was my last broadcast on wrvu for the time being.

i won't be giving up on nashville mixtapes, so take heart. right now i've applied to move over to wrfn which is a low-power station in nashville that has a much better online presence than wrvu. if that move happens, you probably won't be able to hear the show on a regular terrestrial radio but you will be able to pick it up on cell phones and your computer pretty easily.

i'm also talking with a computer geek friend of mine who is willing to set up a podcast and defray all the associated costs (royalties, server space, bandwidth, etc.). it may take a few weeks, but nashville mixtapes will keep going in some form or another. for all you wrvu fans out there, i fully intend to reapply at the station for a fall 2010 time slot.

anyway, you can still listen to show #73 online until dec 19 by clicking the link on the left-hand column. here's the playlist:

the kinks - 20th century man
scott walker - 30 century man
tom waits - jockey full of bourbon
elbow - the bones of you
doves - kingdom of rust
the beach boys - sloop john b
the asteroid #4 - into the meadow
the soundtrack of our lives - keep the line movin'
the beatles - come together
bruce springsteen - backstreets
cotton jones - nicotine canaries
the velvet underground - rock and roll
the 13th floor elevators - you're gonna miss me
violent femmes - kiss off

moving on (for now)

nashville mixtapes has one more broadcast this saturday and then will go on hiatus until further notice. over the past few semesters the number of community volunteer dj's at wrvu has expanded dramatically and in fall '09 that number reached critical mass. the station has decided to reduce the number of community volunteer dj's by about half and nashville mixtapes didn't make the final cut.

there is hope for the future, however. the show will re-apply at the station in fall '10 and hopefully be invited back to the station at that time. thanks to everyone who listened and please stop by nashvillemixtapes.com from time to time for updates on good music.

also, make sure to tune in this saturday at noon for the last episode. it'll be a "greatest hits" send-off... i promise it won't go down like this:

show #72 playlist

re: the future of the show - there will definitely be one more installment of nashville mixtapes next saturday (dec 12 at noon). beyond that, i know nothing. except that you should probably buy ambivalence avenue by bibio. i've played the title track a couple times on the show, but the whole album has been on repeat at nashville mixtapes headquarters lately.

here's this week's playlist:

animal collective - graze
florence and the machine - you got the love (the xx remix)
happy mondays - wrote for luck
the stone roses - bye bye badman
jim noir - welcome cj
bibio - ambivalence avenue
blur - good song
gorillaz - november has come
dr. dog - the ark
the who - pinball wizard
say hi - november was white, december was grey
radiohead - optimistic
massive attack - small time shot away