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About a million years ago (give or take) a super cool friend of mine and filmmaking buddy, Chloè Huber, gave me and a few other filmy friends a mix CD as a wrap gift for our "285" project (which is, in the simplest terms, a class-made short film. Here's ours. Don't judge too harshly. 10 people directed this baby.). It's a great little mix, arranged in order from shortest song to longest, and featuring a ton of music I've never heard of before, and a few that I had.

The only problem was this: she never provided a track list. On purpose. It was a Mystery Mix, as she put it. This frustrated me as I'm a pretty anal person about my iTunes organization and having "Track 1" listed instead of an actual title bothered me to no end.

For years I'd listen to this mix or it'd pop up when I'd shuffle and I'd really, really want to know what the freak I was listening to, but I always assumed I never would. I'd just hang my head low, put my eyes back on the road, and enjoy the rest of the song.

But, like almost everything, I was wrong.

Enter Shazam. The little app that could [do what I never thought was possible]. I've had my phone for over  a year now, and I never actually downloaded the Shazam app until tonight, and my first order of business was to figure out that mix. So I did. My friend Steve asked me to blog it, so I will, complete with as many YouTube links as I can.

1. Untutored Youth - The Hives

2. Piece of Crap - Futureheads

3. White Riot - The Clash

4. Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones - The Hives

5. Retreat, The Most Familiar, Extensive, I Bet! - Erase Errata 

6. Killing An Arab - The Cure

7. I'm Blue - The 5.6.7.8's

8. Thief Detests the Criminal - Erase Errata

9. Money - The Flying Lizards

10. I Want To Be Old (Sav Studio Demo 10/77) - The Cure

11. Oh Bondage! Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex

12. Eaten By The Monster of Love - Sparks

13. +81 - Deerhoof

14. Deceptacon - Le Tigre

15. Wonderful People - Q And Not U

16. On My Radio - The Selecter

17. I Found The Rare Essence (Remastered Album Version) - Gang of Four

18. Oslo in the Summertime - Of Montreal

19. The Walk - The Cure

20. Anonymous Face - Quix*o*tic

21. Sunday You Need Love Monday Be Alone - Trio

22. Planet Claire - The B-52's