Ele-mentary. Lindsey's first contribution.

1. I Feel Just Like a Child by Devendra Barnhart

This is the theme of my life these days, and therefore the opening song of my debut CD.

2. Modern Mystery by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

This song will make your head bop. I liked it even before I saw the YouTube video (here), which chronicles the misadventures of a paperboy. Maybe the “Modern Mystery” is how newspapers are supposed to survive. Maybe I’m reading too much into it. Haha, get it? Reading? OK, never mind.

3. Blue Ridge Mountains by Fleet Foxes

These guys are everywhere, but I still can’t help but like them. I struggled to decide whether to put this song or “White Winter Hymnal” on this mix. I think this one won out just because of the title. My favorite line: “Let’s drive to the countryside; leave behind some green-eyed lookalikes so no one gets worried, no….”

4. Keep a Secret by The Whitest Boy Alive

German minimalist pop. What could be better? These guys started as an electronic dance project. Maybe they have an identity crisis.

5. Untrust Us by Crystal Castles

Canadian electronic music. Initially, it may sound like total jibberish. But I think I know what they are saying. And I think it has something to do with love, or candy, or the weekend.

6. Half a Person by The Welcome Wagon

Rev. Thomas Vito Aiuto and his wife, Monique, make up this band. They started in their living room and have no musical experience. But then they ran into Sufjan Stevens, who produced and helped to arrange this album, “Welcome to The Welcome Wagon.” I like how echoey and mournful the tune is. It was originally performed by Morrissey’s former band, The Smiths. And now I want to be a back scrubber.

7. A Measure of the Same by Birds of Avalon

Birds of Avalon is a Raleigh, N.C. band. I like one guitarist’s name: Cheetie Kumar. Cheetie and another guitarist in Birds, Paul Siler, used to be in a band called The Cherry Valence. Maybe that means something to one of you. It means nada to me. I just like this song a lot. It jams.

8. Music by Cornelius

And now we move from Raleigh, N.C. to Tokyo. Wheeeeeeeeeee!

9. Space City by Drive-by Truckers

This song may seem a little out of place on this mix. But then again, we've already been through Germany, North Carolina and Japan. When I first heard this song, I had to listen to it over and over and over again. I wanted to make love to the singer just because of the sound of his voice. I love every single zip of the fingers on the guitar strings. It's sad. It's just sad, sad, sad.

10. Rainbow Flows by Husky Rescue

They pass me by.

11. The Wanting Comes in Waves by The Decemberists

When I first heard this song, it reminded me of some alt rock version of Bohemian Rhapsody. But not quite as good. But still pretty good. I think The Hazards of Love is a concept album, and the concept has something to do with shape-shifting animals and forest queens. I’ve also heard “The Rake Song” off the album, and I like that one, too. But I’m not compelled to rush out and get the whole album to find out what happens to the forest queens.