Mix ~ Start Your Day With These Great Lead Off Tracks
A dedicated Late Greats reader wondered if I had a wake up mix to go with my day ending mix. As luck with have it, I do. I like to put parameters on my mixes; otherwise it’s just too difficult compiling a CD’s worth of music. Like the mix of album ending tracks, these are all songs that start albums, track number one (see the parallel?). This mix starts are slow and builds (rather quickly) in order to get you up, dressed, out the door, and headed to Starbucks so you can make it to work on time. [...]
- Andrew Bird - Two Way Action
- Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle
- Bilal - Intro
- Black Eyed Peas - Hands Up
- Detroit - Escape Pod
- Iron & Wine - Woman King
- Jem - They
- Jeremy Fisher - Scar That Never Heals
- John Butler Trio - Treat Yo Mama
- Marah - The Closer
- Regina Spektor - Fidelity
- Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
- The Bad Plus - 1979 Semi-Finalist
- The Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
- The Broken West - On the Bubble
- The Cat Empire - Sly
- The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
- The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
- The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
- United State Of Electronica - It Is On!




















Listen to Daft Punk’s “Horizon”, the Japanese bonus track for Random Access Memories
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Daft Punk – “Horizon” (Japan-Only Bonus Track)