Mix Tape of the Day: July 2, 2015 - Halfway There

1. Stuck in the Middle with You - Stealers Wheel (1972)

2. Stuck in the Middle - Boys Like Girls (2012)

3. Halfway Gone - Lifehouse (2009)

4. Half the World Away - Oasis (1994)

5. Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul & Mary (1967)

6. Coming Home - Kaiser Chiefs (2014)

7. Coming Home, Pt. II - Skylar Grey (2012)

8. Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (2009)

9. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel (1977)

10. Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy (1985)

11. Let My Love Open the Door - Pete Townshend (1980)

12. Let Love In - The Goo Goo Dolls (2006)

13. The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning - The Smashing Pumpkins (1997)

Mix Tape of the Day: May 25, 2015 - Towel Day!

It's time to celebrate the greatest of human achievement and technology (the towel) by listening to song inspired by, referenced in, or thematically associated with Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

1. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Joby Talbot and Hilary Summers (2005)

2. Journey of the Sorcerer - The Eagles (1975)

3. Four Minute Warning - Mark Owen (2003)

4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Booze - All Time Low (2012)

5. It's the End of the World as We Know It - R.E.M. (1987)

6. Insignificant - Counting Crows (2008)

7. Paranoid Android - Radiohead (1997)

8. 42 - Coldplay (2008)

9. Don't Panic - Logo ft. Dawn Johnson (2001)

10. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd (1975)

11. Grand Hotel - Procol Harum (1973)

12. The End Is the Beginning Is the End - Smashing Pumpkins (1997)

13. What a Wonderful World - Joey Ramone (2002)

Mix Tape of the Day: May 15, 2015 - The Best of 1996

1996! Many exciting things happened that year!  Musically, it gave us a standard set of songs to play on our acoustic guitar at parties, much to everyone's chagrin.

1. If It Makes You Happy - Sheryl Crow (1996) Thanks for being so reliable, Ms. Crow.

2. Wonderwall - Oasis (1995) Everyone is born knowing how to play this song, right?

3. Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel (1995) The song that introduced us to Jewel and, by default, Jewel's voice.

4. Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla (1995) Yeah, you know this song.  You probably forgot why, but you know it.

5. One of Us - Joan Osborne (1995) Speaking of meeting God, what if he were Alanis Morissette?

6. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins (1995) This takes me back to my teenage life in the '70s, you know, if I were born 25 years earlier.

7. Follow You Down - Gin Blossoms (1996) Thanks Pandora's '90s Alt. Rock Station for reminding me of this one!

8. Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion (1996) I can't make it through the '90s without including at least one Celine Dion song.

9. Children - Robert Miles (1995) Clubbin' and ravin'.

10. I Love You Always Forever - Donna Lewis (1995) I like this, most of the time.

11. Beautiful Life - Ace of Base (1995) Ace of Base?  At means that that song is going to be coming soon.

12. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something (1994) Oh, this is my favorite.  Well, until...

13. Hook - Blues Traveler (1994) ...the hook brings me back.