THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Best Friend’s Funeral Guilty Cocker Spaniels – Modest Mouse Nobody on the planet knows what this song is about, but there is a strange and euphoric comfort that I receive from this song. When my best friend dies, I will be upset. I will need a comfortable pile of gibberish to [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Anger Bang Poison and Wine – The Civil Wars The go-to reaction to ‘what song to pick for a hate fuck’ is something loud, aggresive and punk rock. However, nothing says I hate you like a song that realitically depicts a passive aggressive relationship going even more sour. The music is [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Exercising Hungover Lua – Bright Eyes For me, exercising is not an activity that exists but, unfortunately hangovers do. Now I understand that exercising requires strenuous movements of the body, which is the last thing I would ever want to do, and certainly not something I would do hungover. That said, [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE THE BITCH/BASTARD LIED TO YOU! Tiny Vessels – Death Cab for Cutie This song is tricky. If that bitch lied (presumably about not fucking someone else), I would like her to know that I haven’t loved her for a really long time. Listening to this song, I think she would get [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE FOR WALLOWING IN SELF-LOATHING I Better Be Quiet Now – Elliott Smith There has never been a song that is more perfect for hating yourself than this song. It is full of a sentiment of things left unsaid, unfortunate things that were said and having to deal with the consequences of [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE STRANDED ON A LIFEBOAT Goodbye Sky Harbor – Jimmy Eat World This song was chosen for one reason and one reason only: it is 16 minutes long. I have never actually had the patience to sit through the whole thing but with a 16 minute song, something new and interesting will [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE AMERICA- FUCK YEAH! 99 Problems – Danger Mouse This song is AMERICA! A DJ (Danger Mouse) took some of the best work of people that are more talented than he is (The Beatles and Jay-Z) and made something artistic out of it. This song encapsulates the American spirit of making pre-existing [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE LAZY SUNDAY The Shankill Butchers – The Decemberists Yes, this song is creepy and yes this song is mellow. This mellow creepiness, however is what makes it perfect for a lazy Sunday. I have a hard time sitting around and not doing anything all day, so this song would relax [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE LAST PARTY WITH A GROUP OF FRIENDS YOU’LL NEVER SEE AGAIN ABC – The Jackson 5 If I’m really never going to see these people again and I’m partying with them, I’m probably really good friends with them. The last thing I’m going to want to do is be reminded about [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE SNOWBOARDING WITH A BUZZ ON I’m Gonna Die Tonight – Gabriel Rios This song is fucking garbage. It’s a slow jam that sounds like a piece of dog shit fucked a pretencious badger that crapped out the world’s stupidest, piece of shit idiot. However, if I am about to snowboard with [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE DRIVING AWAY FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD HOME Ride Home – Rex Driving away from your childhood home is bittersweet. And while the bitter is a sad nostalgia for a family that will no longer be together, there is also the sweet of starting a new chapter in your life. Listening to the [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE SASQUATCH HUNTING Gobbledigook – Sigur Ros In addition to being a beautiful song with a strangely driving beat, you get that creepy little ‘la la la’ piercing your brain every now and again. This will serve as a reminder that you are crazy and that all of your friends are crazy. [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE TOXIC WASTE POOL PARTY Main Theme – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Now I have forgotten exactly why we are having a toxic waste pool party, but the fact remains that we are here and splashing around in some shit that we shouldn’t. If we don’t end up with lymphoma or some [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE PEELING OUT IN A GETAWAY CAR A mixtape sequel to psyching up for a heist http://www.yourpopfilter.com/2012/02/pop-filter-mixtape-6/ Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites – Skrillex I have never been in a getaway car, but I have seen many people drive them in motion pictures. Typically you need a getaway car because you just [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE FOR SITTING COMPLETELY ALONE Little Smoke – This Will Destroy You Sometimes, you want to be sitting completely alone: you get frustrated with the world around you and all of the idiots that you have to take on and you just need some fucking alone time. Other times, however, you find [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE PSYCHING UP TO PULL A MAJOR HEIST The Rake’s Song – The Decemberists This song is incredible, and I know what you’re thinking; The Decemberists couldn’t pump me up to get out of bed, let alone pull some sort of major heist. Well, that’s why it’s very important that this song [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE FOR A MONTAGE OF LIGHTING FIREWORKS The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows – Brand New Okay, did you watch that video? If you didn’t I will give you time now…go ahead, I can wait. Okay, now that you’ve seen the cheesiest fucking video ever made (move over MC Scatcat!), [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE BEST SONGS OF 2011 That’s My Bitch – Jay-Z and Kanye West feat. Justin Vernon This fuckin’ song…I don’t even know how to describe how terrific this shit is. Kanye is spitting fucking fire on this track and then, out of goddamned nowhere, the best hip hop, rap or r&b hook [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE YOUR MORTAL ENEMY’S FUNERAL WILLY MOTHERFUCKIN WONKA – PURE IMAGINATION I don’t know about you, but my mortal enemy is a total dickhead. When that motherfucker finally does die, it will be like my wildest dreams have finally come true. And this song will be playing on a loop in my [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE BLOCK OUT THAT YOU’RE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING LP – Into the Wild It’s Christmas time, and you know what that means – ten new commercials that are just reworking the lyrics to Carol of the Bells. But in between all that God awfulness you might catch a bit of this song in a Citibank [...]
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