Themed Mix Saturday: What Are You On?
I make a lot of themed playlists; I like the challenge, and it’s about the only thing left that the “Genius” button can’t do by itself. The rules I give myself are fairly simple:
- Every song has to fit the theme.
- The mix shouldn’t exceed what you can fit onto a CD (i.e. roughly 80 minutes max).
- Most importantly, but perhaps most esoterically, the mix should work as a musical mix. Don’t just throw a song in there that fits the theme if there’s no place for it amongst the others, musically speaking.
So here’s the first one, a perhaps somewhat prevalent theme in music but surprisingly difficult to find songs with appropriate titles.
| 1. What Are You On? | East River Pipe | What Are You On? | 2:02 |
| 2. Opium Typhoon | Vampire Hands | Virgin Dust American Lips | 3:37 |
| 3. Amitriptyline | John Vanderslice | Life and Death of an American Fourtracker | 3:44 |
| 4. Medicine | Starfucker | Jupiter | 4:17 |
| 5. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds | The Beatles | Anthology 2 [Disc 2] | 3:06 |
| 6. Alcohol | Beck | Loser | 3:51 |
| 7. Miracle Drug | A.C. Newman | The Slow Wonder | 2:20 |
| 8. Nicotine Canaries | Cotton Jones | Rio Ranger EP | 3:58 |
| 9. Interlude with Ludes | Them Crooked Vultures | Them Crooked Vultures | 3:44 |
| 10. Ecstasy | PJ Harvey | Rid of Me | 4:26 |
| 11. 2 Much Cocaine | Mean Jeans | Are You Serious? | 1:56 |
| 12. Old Fashioned Morphine | Jolie Holland | Escondida | 4:35 |
| 13. Candy | Morphine | Cure For Pain | 3:15 |
| 14. Heroin | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground and Nico | 7:13 |
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