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elapses ([personal profile] elapses) wrote2008-03-24 12:30 am
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FINALLY.

"I think it'd be nearly impossible to make a fanmix that was purely Mulder and Scully, because their dynamic in season one is completely and totally different from the one they have in season four or six or eight."

-- me, September 4th, 2007


And such was the unwitting birth of this... project. I'd vaguely considered other ways to get around my weird aversion to making a straight-up Mulder/Scully mix while still getting a chance to explore them in that lovely way you only get to do when you're picking songs that represent your favorite fictional characters (a UST mix! a cancerarc mix! maybe a character mix?), but in the end, this massive one-EP-for-each-and-every-season project was the way I had to do it. So, ahead: a lot of songs, a lot of lyrics, and a lot of covers. Fun ahoy!

I am not nearly cool enough that I could do something like this all on my own: so, so many people have listened to me blab about this mix and everything that's gone into making it, and I want to thank all of you for not throwing a book at my head. Especially [livejournal.com profile] veils, [livejournal.com profile] an_aviary, [livejournal.com profile] leucocrystal, and [livejournal.com profile] sunspawn -- they didn't know ahead of time what a creature of mix angst I can get to be, and they handled my rambly questions with great aplomb, even though I am sure they wanted to kill me halfway through the making of this mix. Ilu all!

The season 5 covers were graciously made by the lovely [livejournal.com profile] veils which is possibly why they are, um, prettier than the others. What can I say? I am not an artist.

Anyway, blah blah blah. On to the goods:



season one - the truth is out there


1. M. Ward - End of Amnesia
instrumental

2. Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
When the revenant came down
We couldn't imagine what it was
In the spirit of three stars
The alien thing that took its form


3. Angus and Julia Stone - Just A Boy
Girl you make me want to feel
Things I never felt before
Girl you make me want to feel
Did I say I'm just a boy


4. Lisa Loeb - Underdog
Fearing, boring, wondering where I'll be on my birthday.
You kissed me in a dream last night
How could I? I wouldn't know
Cause I am the underdog, I am the last in line
Don't be the enemy, don't stand in back of me
Will you be my friend?
Now I understand that I more than like you


5. Adam Richman - Bite My Tongue
You're still here, I can't believe my life has not moved on
Out of fear or even knowing with you something will go wrong
I guess I can't replace the poetry from off your face
It speaks to me like I'm the only one


6. The Cardigans - You're The Storm
I'm an angel, bored like hell
And you're a devil, meaning well
You steal my lines and you strike me dumb
Come raise your flag upon me


7. Umbrellas - Tests on My Heart
And I don't want you to save me
'Cause what if you did, you'd succeed
And then you would get bored and leave




season two - trust no one


1. Spoon - The Ghost of You Lingers
The sleep fled from my eyes
And I, I know that I need some
Give a thought to the one that you know
Or would you calm me down
When the breath gets shallow and fast?
We put on the clinic (if you were here)
It felt good to me (would you calm me down)
Can't you see I'm losing it (or settle the score?)
Must I set up the scene?


2. Inara George - What A Number
In the basement, like in the old days
Under the covers, ah, under the covering
Like a governor, in the old days
You keep me handled, never letting on
I'm lying in a lake, alive
Living out someone else's life
I could be wrong, I could be right


3. Matt Pond PA - The Trees and the Wild
I look back to the trees and the wild
I look back to see you smile


4. Feist - I Feel It All
I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun
I know more than I knew before
I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest, I didn't stop
Did we fight, did we talk?


5. Travis - Closer
Keep waking up without you here
Another day, another year
I seek the truth, we set apart
Thinking of a second chance
And when I see you then i know it will be next to me
And when I need you I know you will be there with me
I'll never leave you
Just need to get closer, closer
Lean on me now, lean on me now


6. Tracy Bonham - Something Beautiful
You cut me up and you make me bleed
A sad stained heart hanging on my sleeve
I'll still follow you, I will follow you
But you say "Look up look up look all around you
Can't you see the love that surrounds the very soul of you?"
Something in me almost breaks




season three - deceive, inveigle, obfuscate


1. Office - Oh My
Caught in a rug, we're caught like little bugs
Stuck in a web, as we cut off our legs and heads


2. Interpol - Say Hello To The Angels
Something’s coming over me, I see you in the doorway
I cannot control the part of me that swells up when you
Move into my airspace, move into my airspace
But each night, I bury my love around you
Oh each night, I bury my love around you
You're linked to my innocence


3. Plastic Operator - Peppermind
From the outside you are sweet
But you hold my hand to fight
Sentimental times


4. Field Music - If Only The Moon Were Up
If we wouldn't be so tough
we'd probably have more to say
But lying is never enough
That's all we're used to


5. Tuung - Code Breaker
Like Watson and Crick
You seem to look
Into my soul
And though my DNA
Is too small for your scope
You make it much deeper


6. Jump, Little Children - Say Goodnight
I heard you late last night
I wish I had my distance
I hear you crash around and say
That no one listens
I wish that I would hear you say goodnight
And nobody cares, especially me
But I can't help myself as I fall asleep
To turn out the lights, turn back the sheets
Say goodnight and turn me on




season four - believe to understand


1. A.C. Newman - Better than Most
Better than most at feeling your pain
Walking wounded through the stars tonight
We wander the plains
Pointing pistols at the dawn
Never looked into your eyes this long
With a dollar's worth of distance run
Courtesy of the broken and holy one


2. Tina Dico - Open Wide
Tell me why you struggle like you do
To draw the line between the world and you


3. Ian Love - The Only Night
We drive all night, until the sunrise
It shines on our face, and we notice
Well, there's an old house, Let's step inside
Now, there's no one in this world but you and I
And, there's no one in this world but you
And I stay quiet, we're so patient
As the stars jumps side to side
And this feels like the only night


4. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Come on skinny love just last the year
Pour a little salt we were never here
My my my my my my my my
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer


5. Breathe Owl Breathe - You're So Dear To Me
You don't feel the same
So how should I feel?
Your medicine and your smile
Stay awake, please


6. David Fridlund - Into My Arms
I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you


7. Andrew Bird - Sovay
I was getting ready to be a threat
I was getting set for my accidental suicide
The kind where no one dies, no one looks too surprised




season five - believe the lie


1. Bear Colony - Hymnal (A Declaration of Loss)
Your cancer is calling me back
To hospital rooms where they let you rest
The black is corrupt, they always know
But they'll never show your emergency


2. The Servant - Cells
They annoy me those who employ me
They could destroy me, they should enjoy me
We eat chinese off our knees
And look for each other in the TV screen


3. Emiliana Torrini - Baby Blue
I'm looking for some place to go, sucking out screams in stereo
Before my bare eyes I saw her drowning
Keep my daughter in a jar, she can't get out she won't go far
My heart is in my mouth but still keep pounding


4. Crystal Skulls - No Room For Change
These awkward feelings and gestures fly across your face
They illustrate what we already understand
Emotions are demanding when there's no room for change
How we are so contemplative, used to self-consultation
Our words in the car debating never worked so hard to say


6. The National - Secret Meeting
Didn't anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room
I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know
And so and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way


6. The Like - Once Things Look Up
I bottle up the pieces and repair
But every time we break I'm building still




season six - all lies lead to the truth


1. Mark Snow - Crater Hug
instrumental

2. Missy Higgins - The Wrong Girl
And I’m lonely again tonight
I can feel it like a knot in my side
They keep saying this is part of the ride
But I’m not getting stronger


3. Basia Bulat - Snakes and Ladders
You know, all this time I've been playing for your heart
But I never let it on I love to watch you play the part


4. Earlimart - Happy Alone
And five minutes in an egg timer rings
To clip off our carefree flapping wings
Show us the things we can't afford
And throw us overboard, but it's still enough
Just how much distance means we're on our own?
Until I see you off at home down the sidewalk in my head
I might be sinking like a stone, but perfectly happy, just openly happy


5. Black Kites - All Wrong
And now I'm waking up (better start running always too slow)
And the shock it's all too much (I don't think we can let it go)
Cause I've got, I've got it all wrong, I've got it all wrong


6. Dave McGraw - Bellingham
Taking some time to think space to figure it out
Going over it all in my mind, I think we're due to unwind, kick back
Make peace with all our pain just to stay sane
And take hold of what's to come with a smile, it's been quite awhile


7. Sam Phillips - Lying
If I said I believe my eyes, and science can move my soul
If I said I’m not afraid to die, and I don’t need you
I’d be lying
If I said the way he looks at me doesn’t make me want to undress
If I said I could leave you now and go where I could forget
I’d be lying




season seven - the end


1. Radiohead - A Reminder
If I get old, I will not give in
But if I do, remind me of this
Remind me that once I was free
Once I was cool, once I was me


2. Cat Power - The Greatest
Once I wanted to be the greatest
Two fists of solid rock
With brains that could explain
Any feeling


3. Beulah - You're Only King Once
It's so hard not to be crushed
When you're praying for too much,
And the stars refuse to shine for you
They do it just to spite
They know, you're trying too hard
Hoping for a little more than just another kiss goodnight


4. Club 8 - Spring Came, Rain Fell
If you want me now, you don't have to try so hard
If you want me now, you don't have to try at all


5. Sondre Lerche & the Faces Down Quartet - Minor Detail
It's the circus I bring on whenever I reach out to touch you my dear
It's the laws of our attraction and the fact that it's all going somewhere
It's a major minor detail, like erasing that old ghost train
So one day I can be with you


6. The Decemberists - Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
A drip of the drain as your legs lifted
Brilliantly bent and fall to resting on the ottoman
So we turned off the tube and we crawled to your room
Leaving discarded clothes in our wake
And we both had some fun, though I twice bit my tongue
And it lasted too long for my taste
And there's this nagging suspicion that won't leave me alone tonight
It's just that everything I try to do, nothing seems to turn out right


7. Hotel Lights - Miles Behind Me
Things that we worried about then
When patience had run thin
Laughed when we wanted to hide
On different sides of the line
We went to the end of the night
Nobody saw you fall, nobody saw you fall
Nobody saw you fall miles behind me




season eight - deny everything


1. Nellie McKay - I Am Nothing
You, coursing through my veins, pulsing every pound

2. Rachael Yamagata - I'll Find A Way
I used to think that anything I'd do
Wouldn't matter at all anyway
But now I find that when it comes to you
I'm the winner of cards I can't play
Wait for me, wait for me, darling
I need you desperately, desperately here
And I'll find a way to see you again


3. A Fine Frenzy - Last of Days
The world carries on without you
But nothing remains the same
I'll be lost without you
Until the last of days


4. Tacks, the Boy Disaster - Forget-Me-Not
Forget me not, my dear
When you don't see me for a year cause I'm underground
You see, Death will try and snag us all
So rip the portraits off your walls, got to burn them all
Got to burn them all down


5. The Hush Sound - A Dark Congregation
Save me, I'm swallowed by the guilt of this (you're gone)
Sleeping in the dust, we will not let time erase us


6. Ester Drang - Dead Man's Point of View
Could you mend me? I am there so lifelessly
Oh, you're turning me, come nurse me
Should have told me there's a meaning
And a beauty could have freed me


7. Bell X1 - Eve, the Apple of My Eye
You left, I died, I went and you cried
You came, I think but I never really know
I've served my time I've watched you climb
The wrong incline but what do I know




season nine - nothing important happened today


1. Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon
But right now everything is turning blue
And right now the sun is trying to kill the moon
And right now I wish I could follow you
To the shores of freedom where no one lives


2. A Weather - Spiders, Snakes
I like having to run when I don't run
And it leaves me so, so tired
I want better for you and for my son
And the lives we're leading now


3. Grandaddy - Lost On Yer Merry Way
All that i'm askin tonight, is that I make it back home alive
No explosions, no crashes, no fights, I wanna get back home...


4. Air - Left Bank
Homesick
This is how I feel now
This is how you left me


5. Windsor Drive - Shine
Just take my hand and walk the path with me
You're more than I could ever be
There's so much left that you don't see
And I would give anything to see you shine
Just like you used to


6. Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You
Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
I never want to hear you say
That you'd be better off
Or you liked it that way


7. The Sleeping Years - You and Me Against the World
We've been trying for so long
To be ourselves, to be alone
If everyone is getting slow
It's you and me against the world



I feel like the .rar files are kind of hidden, so if you're confused, the link to each indivudual season is in the title above the cover. There's not going to be a ginormous file for everything, sorry. But if you want any individual songs, just ask and I'll upload them for you separately!

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-04-04 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no! Thanks for letting me know.

[identity profile] oonak.livejournal.com 2008-04-27 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
oh wow. so much new music, I have only heard like four of these songs! and the music seems just perfect. thank you so much for making these, I can't wait to listen to all of them! :)

[identity profile] gillyspeak.livejournal.com 2008-04-27 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
this is one of the most beautiful/wonderful/creative things i've ever seen. the songs are perfect, the titles and the illustrations.

you're artwork is truly inspiring.

congrats on a most wonderful of projects =D

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-04-29 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, thank you so much on all counts!

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-04-29 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! Here's to hoping you enjoy some of the new music?

[identity profile] pinkpunkkitty.livejournal.com 2008-05-09 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy Jesus, this is amazing. Seriously. AND YOU LISTEN TO AWESOME MUSIC. I'm so excited to listen to all of these. Oh man.

I'm working an a M&S mix at the moment, and I realized we had some overlaps. :x Only the Sufjan song really, which is awesome because it's a song that's made me think of M&S forever. And I have a Basia Bulat song, but not the same one.

Seriously, the amount of time and thought that you put into this blows my mind. As well as how awesome the music is. I'm adding you on last.fm, cool?

I'm sure I'll be back to rave some more after I've really listened to them!

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-05-09 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much, on all counts! I think the Sufjan song is pretty commonly applied to them? I mean, it just sounds like them, and I mean, seriously, it's about spaceships! Nobody does spaceships like Moose & Squirrel!

Anyway, I'll add you back on last.fm in a sec, and I hope you end up genuinely enjoying them! This project was my baaaaaby, so thanks again for all the kind words :)

[identity profile] emmbright.livejournal.com 2008-08-14 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
I just finished downloading all the fanmixes and wow, they are brilliant! I don't know how you found so many great songs that are perfectly spot on for Mulder and Scully's relationship in each season, but you did a great job. The cover art is gorgeous, too.

I know this had to have been a massive amount of work, so thanks so much for sharing it with us! :)

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-08-14 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank you so much! It was truly a labor of love. I'm glad you thought it worked so well.

[identity profile] outintherain.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I've done nothing but spam you about this fanmix since you posted it... but I'm back again to say that I got a new laptop and am downloading it again.. not sure I can live without it!!!!

[identity profile] colebaltblue.livejournal.com 2008-08-30 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
I know that you posted this a forever and a day ago, but I got a few songs from my sister, fell in love, spent AGES tracking down the original post and just finished updating my library. you have created the BEST FANMIX EVER! I mean that in all seriousness. This goes down as THE fanmixes of ALL fanmixes as far as I am concerned. I play it constantly in my car. THANK YOU! (I cannot thank you enough)

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow, thank you so so so much, I'm so flattered that you think so!

[identity profile] colebaltblue.livejournal.com 2008-08-31 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
wow, that was a lot of caps in that thank you note. sorry. but perhaps you could sense a bit of my enthusiasm? again, thanks for putting that together. i know it must've been a chore and it really is fantastic.

Awesome Mixes!!

[identity profile] omerus-banning.livejournal.com 2008-10-16 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! These are just amazing mixes!! I have them playing in the car all the time and I just love 'em to bits! And they DO put me in the "X-Files" state of mind!!

Thanks a million! These are great!

[identity profile] forthesky.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
I know this is ridiculously late, Alex, and I already commented on this entry just after it was posted, but I just wanted to let you know that this is my faaaaavourite LJ post of all time. I couldn't even begin to explain how much it meant to me, for a variety of reasons. Mostly because it actually made me watch the show (!!!) but because I downloaded it right before I went to Europe, it was pretty much the soundtrack to that trip for me, as well. These are the most perfect Mulder and Scully songs ever. Every time I hear a song from it I am constantly astounded at how perfect it is - and that's every single one from the mix. I have no idea how you found all these songs that capture them so well, but I am so glad you did. ♥♥

[identity profile] elapses.livejournal.com 2008-11-12 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
EMMA, can I say, I am so, uh, I guess moved is the word? by this comment that I almost called you Emzee. EMZEE. Feel free to hit me, that is the weirdest thing I have come up with in months.

Anyway I cannot fully express how glad I am that you love this as much after you've seen the show as you did before-- I don't reaaaally worry about my music taste but I do worry about the ability of (some of) these songs to match Mulder and Scully outside my own twisted imagination.

p.s. I WISH YOU WATCHED THE WEST WING, because I'm trying to finagle a Josh/Donna fanmix lately, and it's not going so hot. My life is difficult.

[identity profile] forthesky.livejournal.com 2008-11-14 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I am glad you were moved and not creeped out by my old entry-stalking. (I do that?) AHAHAHA EMZEE. I am pretty sure one of my parents/grandparents has called me that before because it even seems sort of familiar, which is ... slightly unsettling.

I honestly love it just as much. I still find new things in the songs all the time, or something will just strike me differently after a few listens. And my favourites change all the time. STILL. After all these months. So it must be special.

I WISH I WATCHED IT TOO, because it seems amazing? But it's now show #76578423 or so on my to-watch list. I fail so hard at television watching. But I'm sorry your mix isn't going so well. I'm sure it will be amazing in the end, though.
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[identity profile] piecesfalling.livejournal.com 2009-02-18 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I realized I haven't commented here, stumbled across this post a couple of weeks ago and downloaded all the mixes - and by now can't stop listening to them. Right now I pretty much have the S 8 & 9 songs on repeat and the songs are so perfect. I'm incredibly impressed with that mix and the effort you put into it.

Also, it makes me get to know new artists, I didn't know 90% of them and it is so great to get enchanted with the songs, it makes me want to listen to other works of the singers as well.

Anyway, thank you so much for putting this together, it is love. ♥

[identity profile] monkeyz-pant.livejournal.com 2009-06-15 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
This is by far one of the most amasing set of fanmix I have in my library. I love every song you put in them, you did an amazing job at picking them up.

I was wondering if you had the rest of the Forget-me-not song lyrics... I can't find them anywhere ;____;

still my favourite of all album is season 5 one, after it's season 8 :D Thanks for this great work you did :)

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