Mixtape

I have decided to do the theme of summer.

Tracklist;
1. Every Teardrop is a Waterfall - Coldplay

2. Alarm Clock - The Rumble Strips

3.There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths

4.Can You Give It - The Maccabees

5. Holocene - Bon Iver

6. Sweet Disposition - Temper Trap

7. Pack Up - Eliza Doolittle

8. Crazy Cool - Flamboyant Bella

9. Time To Pretend - MGMT

10.Two Doors Down - Mystery Jets

11. On a Day Like This - Elbow

12. Elephant Gun - Beirut

13. Hunger - Frankie and the Heartstrings

Total Running Time; 1 hour 22 seconds

Justification;

1. Glastonbury 2011

2. Was my alarm clock ringtone on my phone throughout summer

3.Driving in the sun

4.Sunbathing on the beach in Portugal

5. Sunbathing again

6. First song on my running playlist

7. Summer Sundae 2010

8. Being cool and hanging on the park when I was 14

9. When I went to see them and got hit in the face in a moshpit

10. Camping!

11. Glastonbury 2011

12. Easy listening

13. Getting ready

My first 20 shuffle songs

1. Miley Cyrus - 7 Things
2. Kanye West/ Jay Z - Primetime
3. David Guetta - Sexy Bitch
4. Alicia Keys - Doesn't Mean Anything
5. Brandon Flowers - Crossfire
6. Fountains of Wayne - Hackensack
7. Coldplay - Up in Flames
8. Dizzee Rascal - Flex
9. The Zutons - Valerie
10. The Cribs - Hey Scenesters
11. Katy Perry ft. Kanye West - E.T
12. Pink - Mean
13. Coldplay - Fix You
14. Scouting for Girls - Heartbeat
15. Plan B - She Said
16. Temper Trap - Drum Song
17. Klaxons - Echoes
18. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
19. Example - Kickstarts
20. At Last - Kevin Micheal

Some being slightly embarrassing, my overall music taste varies from rock, pop and r&b. My favourite artist is Beyonce, however I like listening to music from The Killers, Temper Trap, Coldplay and bands that sway to more the 'indie/alternative' genre.

Brian Eno

Brian Eno — 25th November 2009

It’s odd to think back on the time—not so long ago—when there were distinct stylistic trends, such as “this season’s colour” or “abstract expressionism” or “psychedelic music.” It seems we don’t think like that any more. There are just too many styles around, and they keep mutating too fast to assume that kind of dominance.

As an example, go into a record shop and look at the dividers used to separate music into different categories. There used to be about a dozen: rock, jazz, ethnic, and so on. Now there are almost as many dividers as there are records, and they keep proliferating. The category I had a hand in starting—ambient music—has split into a host of subcategories called things like “black ambient,” “ambient dub,” “ambient industrial,” “organic ambient” and 20 others last time I looked. A similar bifurcation has been happening in every other living musical genre (except for “classical” which remains, so far, simply “classical”), and it’s going on in painting, sculpture, cinema and dance.

We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

I think this is good news. As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources—cherry-picking whatever makes sense to them—it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas. The sharing of art is a precursor to the sharing of other human experiences, for what is pleasurable in art becomes thinkable in life.