Dan Deacon - Crystal Cat

Oren Lavie-Her Morning Elegance

Tender Forever - My Love

(Behind) Closed Doors: Super Furry Animals

Fujiya & Miyagi- Ankle Injuries

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Morning Mix

The Dandy Warhols-Good Morning


Van Morrison-Astral Weeks



Six Organs Of Admittance-Awaken


The Velvet Underground-Sunday Morning



Andrew Bird-Plasticities

Paper Towns Soundtrack

Soundtrack to Paper Towns
for some reason to me Lo-fi music seem to fit. The real sound track will probably contain lots of new folk music and indie pop bands and a lot of really popular, recognized bands. The soundtrack for the producers last movie, Juno, was number one on the billboard charts for a long time. Im sure that this one will be just as good if not better. I didn't use a lot of the songs that I thought would be on the soundtrack, though I could probably predict a few, I used songs I listened to as I read the book and songs that I really like. all of these songs have very fitting lyrics but are very bad quality songs and are not exactly fitting for a movie soundtrack. I was thinking that if they were to be covered by some new upcoming folk artist they would fit a lot better but I think John Green would love some Lo-Fi in the movie since it is one of his favorite types of music.

The Mountain Goats- [anything by the mountain goats would work because every single one of their songs is amazing, also they should respect the fact that the book refers to the mountain goats multiple times]
*Im not going to take time to list every song on Ghana but any song from that album would work
Distant Stations
Color in Your Cheeks
The Mess Inside
Distant Stations
Cotton
Letter From Belgium

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone-
Young Shields
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Joins the Foreign Legion
You Never CallI
Should Have Kissed You When I Had the Chance
It's Winter and You Don't Love Me Anymore
Seattle, Washington [this song is especially appropriate
lyrics: "i'm sick of all my stuff and halfway broke
to tired to pretend that i'm not sick of my friends
some days i'm sorry that i ever moved here
some days i think about moving back in with my folks"]

The Radio Dept.-
The City Limit [for the driving scenes]
Where The Damage isn't Already Done
Bus [this song also fits with the plot]
Against The Tide

Ryland Bouchard- [Im thinking there should be a lot of Ryland Bouchard songs, he just made an amazing solo album that I was listening to as I read Paper Towns. the music is very fitting. Maybe even add some songs by his band The Robot Ate Me. I have just selected a few but a lot of them would work. Getting his name out to the world would be great. He deserves it. Juno got Kimya Dawson out to the world so whoever compiles this soundtrack has the opportunity to expose a lot of great independent musicians]
Puke Pig
Woke Up Alone
Bye Bye Love No. 3
Henry The Devil

Moldy Peaches- [a lot of Moldy Peaches songs would work as well and you know they will be in there]
New York City Is Like A Graveyard [This song might work because some of the book takes place in New York]
The ballad of Helen Keller Rip van Winkle

Black Moth Super Rainbow- [maybe?]
Rollerdisco
Jump Into My Mouth and Breathe
Sun Lips

Daniel Johnston-[this is pretty far out there, I dont think that a commercial movie could have Daniel Johnston songs in it. He writes such pure lyrics though. it would be a brave move that might go well with the movie or might not depending on the directors interpretation of the book]
I Live For Love
Museum of Love
Love Defined

Beck-
Totally Confused [very early beck song from when he was making very creepy Lo-Fi music and was very influenced by Daniel Johnston, later Beck would work too, but in my opinion the Lo-fi stuff is Becks greatest work]

Guided By Voices- [a lot of the songs on Bee Thousand]
The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
Yours To Keep
Gold Star For Robot Boy
Awful Bliss
Kicker Of Elves
Esther's Day
I Am A Scientist
You're Not An Airplane

Eels-
Beautiful Freak
Elisabeth On The Bathroom Floor
Flower

Jeffrey Lewis-
[Jeffrey Lewis did folk covers of a lot of Crass songs, im thinking any one of these would work. Crass wrote great lyrics and the Crass lyrics are appropriate for the movie. I think Margo is the type of girl who would listen to Crass. her anarchistic ways make the songs fit perfectly. The one problem with putting the Crass songs in the movie is that they are very rough and raw. the would isn't ready for Crass so Jeffrey Lewis did nice sweet little folk covers that are perfect for the mood and that go along with the rest of the music I have selected.]
End Result
Do They Owe Us A Living?
Big A, Little A
Punk Is Dead

Jeffrey Lewis-Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror

"Will Bonnie Prince, Palace or whatever 'What do you think about it?
Is it worth being an artist or an indie-rock star, or are you better off without it?'
Cause I mean maybe the world would be better if we were all just uncreative drones,
No dead child, hood dreams to haunt us, a decent job, a decent home,
And if we have some extra time we could do real things to promote peace,
Become scientists or history teachers or un-corrupt police at least,
'Come on Will, you gotta tell me!!' I grabbed and shook him by the arm,
The L train was leaning Bedford with 10,000 white 20 somethings crowed on
He opened his mouth to speak but it was lost in the rumbling of the wheels
We were thrown together in a corner and I yelled 'Tell me, man, for real!'
You're living comfortably, I assume, even if you're not quite a household name
You've reached a pretty high level of success & critical acclaim
The L train got to first avenue and a bunch of people piled out
I was starring into his sunglasses and I was really freakin' out i was like,
Steamboat Willie Bonnie Prince of all this shit, you're like the king of a certain genre
But even you must want to quit like if you hear a record by Bob Dylan or Neil Young or whatever
You must start thinkin' 'People like me, but i won't be that good ever'
And I'm sure the thing is probably Dylan himself too stayed up some nights
Wishing he was as good as Ginsberg or Camus
And he was like 'Dude, I'm such a faker, I'm just a clown who entertains
and these fools who pay for my crap, they just have pathetic punny brains
and Camus probably wished he was Milton too or whatever, you know what i'm sayin' ?!"

it's spooky - daniel johnston

Big Black-Songs About Fucking

This is the classic album Songs About Fucking by Big Black. Steve Albini who is one of the greatest audio engineers to have ever recorded anyone is the brains behind Big Black. before he was recording amazing albums by bands such as Nirvana, The Pixies, and Low he was the Singer Songwriter and Guitarist of the band. Big Black were a Noise Rock band that were extremely underrated when they were together but now are highly regarded as one of the greatest noise rock bands of all time. This is their most popular and greatest album.

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Peanut Butter Wolf-My Vinyl Weighs A Ton

I have had this album in constant rotation for the past few days. this is some of the best underground hip hop i have ever heard. there are a multitude of great rappers that appear on this album and every song is done perfectly.

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Syd Barrett-Magnesium Proverbs

In honor of Syd Barrett's birthday I have posted an album. I wanted to post one of his bootlegs called Magnesium Proverbs. I dont know much about this album but I know it has plenty of great Syd songs and some very rare hard to find tracks. defiantly something for a real fan. here is a review i found on line:

"It is a collection of lots of Syd stuff. Some of which is of good quality, some bad. There are a few common tracks which I believe are the standard released versions (Emily, Candy and a Currant Bun etc.) but some other rarer tracks of very good quality - Scream Thy Last Scream, Vegetable Man, Lucy Leave, King Bee. It also contains radio recordings of Reaction in G and Stoned Alone. These are not of such good quality. Also there is a few tracks of Syd supposedly during his only live solo performance (1st June 1970 I think) where he plays Baby Lemonade, Evervescing Elephant etc. but I'm not sure about these. The quality is poor but it is definately Syd, and it's definately live. The CD finnishes with a recording of the backwards message from the Wall."

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C'mon Miracle - Mirah

C'mon Miracle is Mirah's fifth album and, in my opinion, the most notable.

It is truely an amazing album in many ways. It's very different from most of Mirah's albums. This may be because it was said Mirah was inspired to do this album when she visited South America. She said she was struck by their unique music and she wanted to improvise their music with music similar to hers. This album definitely reflects her very creative mind.

Here's a live performance of one of my favorite songs on the whole album, just to give you a good idea of what it's like:



So, if you're looking for a very good, unique, album, I definitely suggest C'mon Miracle.