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HIGHLY REC’D – THE MONTHLY MIXTAPE
Because good music is a right, not a privilege.
by: Jon Wolf
Welcome to our latest quarterly collection of covers, obscurities, obtusities, obstetrics, and onamonapiadic excellence (go ahead, say it out loud, you know you want to). I cannot promise that any of those words were used correctly. I can’t even promise that they are all actual words, but I can promise that all the music below is a lot of fun, enjoy!
Highly Rec’d – Covered & Smothered ’10!
1. Andre 3000 – All Together Now (The Beatles)
2. Mates of State – Long Way Home (Tom Waits)
3. Tegan & Sara – When You Were Mine (Prince)
4. Nena – Starman (David Bowie)
5. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists – Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears)
6. The Shins – Goodbye Girl (Squeeze)
7. Sam Amidon – Walking On Sunshine (Katrina and The Waves)
8. The 23 String Band – Girls (Beastie Boys)
9. Weezer – (If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To (live, Letterman 10/29/09)
10. Jay-Z feat. The Dap Kings – 99 Problems (Prince Ballard’s Royal Edit)
11. Rebecca Loebe – Stronger (Kanye West)
12. Emily Zisman & Ryan Avery – Send Me An Angel (Real Life)
13. Cats On Fire – Your Woman (White Town)
14. Robert Smith – Very Good Advice (Disney’s Alice in Wonderland)
15. Clare & The Reasons – That’s All (Genesis)
16. Telerama – Game of Pricks (Guided By Voices)
17. Port O’Brien – My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg) (The Ramones)
18. Holly Miranda – Aenema (Tool)
19. The National feat. Sufjan Stevens – Afraid of Everyone (live, Letterman 5/13/10)
20. Wolf Gang – Back to Back (acoustic)
Special thanks to these ambassadors of awesomeness: Cover Me, Cover Freak, Cover Lay Down, Berkeley Place, Culture Bully, and many, many more!
DeadJournalist 4th Anniversary Mix!
And if that was not enough music for you, Highly Rec’d has put together a custom mix in honor of DeadJournalist.com’s 4th anniversary, it’s an all new mix consisting of the incredibly diverse interview subjects DJdc has covered over the past four years, so check out the music and then follow up on the artists in their outstanding DJdc interviews:
