Themed mixes.

[Finch Platte]

It seems we're not the only ones. http://www.tinymixtapes.com/amg/2003...10584198125500

Here's an example:

Post Suicide Grief And Recovery Songs, Side 1 Being The Grief, Side Two The Recovery
compiled by: garth is emo

Side A
1. Leonard Cohen - "Sisters of Mercy" (Best of Leonard Cohen)
2. Mount Eerie - "Voice in Headphones" (What the Heck 2003 Compilation)
3. The Mountain Goats - "Onions" (The Coroner's Gambit)
4. Billy Bragg and Wilco "Way Over Yonder In the Minor Key" (Mermaid Avenue)
5. Palace Bros. - "I Am a Cinematographer" (Days in the Wake)
6. Talking Heads - "Heaven" (Sand in the Vaseline - Best of the Talking Heads)
7. Velvet Underground - "Jesus" (s/t)
8. Neil Young - "Helpless" (Decade)
9-11. All the Real Girls sountrack, tracks 3, 4, and 10
12. Cat Power - "I Do Believe" (Covers Record)
13. Cat Power - "Paths of Victory" (Covers Record)
14. Rachel's - track 6 from Handwriting LP
15. The Mountain Goats - "The Whole Wide World" (Sweden)
16. The Mountain Goats - "Tollund Man" (Sweden)

Side B

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Holland, 1945" (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
2. Smog - "Hit the Ground Running" (Knock, Knock)
3. Loudon Wainwright III - "The Swimming Song" (Attempted Mustache)
4. N-16 - "Can I Get a Yeah?" (What the Heck 2003 Compilation)
5. Lou Reed - "I'm So Free" (Transistor)
6. Gillian Welch - "I Want to Sing that Rock and Roll" (Time (The Revelator))
7. unsure, maybe "Love Train," from another mixtape, a soul song
8. New Order, I think - maybe called "Burning Flies," that's the chorus anyway
9. Neil Young - "Come on Baby Let's Go Downtown" (Tonight's the Night)
10. Wilco - "Hevy Metal Drummer" (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
11. Smog - "Teenage Spaceship" (Knock, Knock)
12. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Minor Place" (I See A Darkness)
13. Serge Gainsbourg - "Chez Les Ye-Ye" (Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin)
14. Beat Happening - "Godsend" (You Turn Me On)
15. Karl Blau - "The Big Light is Going Down" (Shell Collection)

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[mad rhetorik]

Post Suicide Grief And Recovery Songs, Side 1 Being The Grief, Side Two The Recovery

That can't be right. There's no Joy Division or Pornography-era Cure on it.

Oh wait, Post Suicide Grief And Recovery Songs. Nevermind... ; P

[MindGoneHaywire]

Garth is emo, huh? Sounds like a sensitive guy. I say lock him in a dark room & force him to listen to the entire Birthday Party catalog until he stops crying.

[skewiff]

I just looked through this site, and i think the comp names are way more inventive than the music that goes with them.
There's some funny stuff there.
Tony