Scripted Failures

MoS released the video for “Get Better” today!  Check it out below.  I love the song.  Lovely string arrangement.  And no organ to be found?  Hath hell frozen over?

Mood Mix

1. Mew, “Am I Wry? No”
2. Radiohead, “Lucky”
3. The Junior Varsity, “Get Comfortable”
4. The Cure, “Homesick”
5. Jeremy Enigk, “Been Here Before”
6. Circa Survive, “Act Appalled”
7. Foo Fighters, “Up in Arms”
8. Armor for Sleep, “Remember to Feel Real”

Friday Mixes is a weekly feature that showcases a mix of songs from various genres that usually share some common theme.  If you have an idea for a theme, email us at feedback@scriptedfailures.com and maybe we’ll use it.

Coming Home to Me(You)

Disc One: Finding One’s Heart a Home

Prelude: Hearts With No Homes
1. Yoko Kanno, “Stella By Moor”

Chapter One: A Love Found in Distance
2. Starflyer 59, “I Fell in Love at 22″

Interlude One: The Soldiers of Love
3. Yoko Kanno, “Cosmos”

Chapter Two: The Gnawing Ache of Distances
4. Mae, “We’re So Far Away”
5. Mae, “Someone Else’s Arms”
6. Bon Voyage, “I Just Wanna (Be With You)”

Interlude Two: Sometimes It’s Hard to Know Where Home Is
7. Yoko Kanno, “Road to the West”

Chapter Three: Letters from the Home Front
8. Bruce Springsteen, “Dancing in the Dark”
9. Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run”
10. Death Cab for Cutie, “Transatlanticism”

Interlude Three: There Could Be Grace and Beauty in this Life
11. Yoko Kanno, “Blue”

Chapter Four: Calling the Soldiers of Love Home
12. Joy Electric, “Buttercup Fairy Jamboree”
13. Joy Electric, “Birds Will Sing Forever”
14. Starflyer 59, “Your Company”

Postlude: Leaving the War for Home
15. Yoko Kanno, “Flying Teapot”
16. Yoko Kanno, “I Do”

Disc Two: Yr(My) Home is With Me(You)

Prelude: The Birds That Sing, They Sing for Us
1. Yoko Kanno, “Cyberbird”
2. Yoko Kanno, “Green Bird”

Chapter One: A Homecoming
3. Death Cab for Cutie, “Passenger Seat”
4. Dance House Children, “Once Upon Your Lips”
5. Goat Explosion, “Night Cranes”
6. Interpol, “Public Pervert”

Interlude One: There is Grace and Beauty in this Life
7. Yoko Kanno, “Space Lion”

Chapter Two: Walking in the Sun
8. Yo La Tengo, “Our Way to Fall”
9. Mae, “The Everglow”
10. Mae, “Ready and Waiting to Fall”
11. Starflyer 59, “For Us”

Interlude Two: One Day We Will Look Back and Find…
12. Yoko Kanno, “Waltz for Zizi”

Chapter Three: Our Memories, Forever Treasured
13. Bon Voyage, “On Your Side”
14. Dance House Children, “There Will Never Be”
15. Dance House Children, “Wisteria Time”

Postlude: …That Life Has Been Good to Us
16. Yoko Kanno, “Ave Maria”
17. Yoko Kanno, “Memory”

- Finding One’s Heart a Home - i fell in love at 22 with a girl that’s close to you find a job and find a life no more long days longer nights remembering everything about my world and when you came wondering if the change you’d bring means nothing else would be the same did you know what you were doing did you know did you know how you would move me well i don’t really think so but the night came down and swept us away and the stars they seemed to paint the most elaborate scene to date when the lights first came upon us and we saw the everglow and the moment’s magic swept us away and a young man’s dream was almost seen so plain when was the night that showed us the sign revealed in the ksy to leave all behind but where to begin throwing caution to the wind we reached for the stars everything was now ours it’s so close but we’re so far away i just want to wake up in someone else’s arms i just wanna be with you if you don’t mind i get up in the evening and i ain’t got nothing to say i come home in the morning feeling the same way i ain’t nothing but tired man i’m just tired and bored with myself hey there baby i could use a little help you can’t start a fire you can’t start a fire without a spark baby this gun’s for hire even if we’re just dancing in the dark they say you gotta stay hungry hey baby i’m just about starving tonite i’m dying for some action i’m sick of sitting around here trying to write this book i need a little reaction hey pretty baby give me just one look you can’t start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart this gun’s for hire even if we’re just dancing in the dark baby this town rips the bones from your back it’sa death trap it’s a suicide rap we gotta get out while we’re young cause tramps like us baby we were born to run amanda let me in i wanna be your friend i wanna guard your dreams and visions just wrap your legsround these velvet rims and starap your hands cross my engines together we could break this trap we’ll run till we drop baby we’ll never go back you walk with me out on the wire cause baby i’m just a scared and lonely rider but i gotta know how it feels i wanna know if love is wild baby wanna know if love is real together amanda we can live with  the sadness i’ll love you with all the madness in my soul someday girl i don’t know when we’re gonna get to that place where we really wanna go and we’ll walk in the sun but till then tramps like us baby we were born to run the distance is quite simply much too far for me to row it seems farther than ever before oh no i need you so much closer so come on you are loving i am faithful i’ll do everything i’m able be in love with me here forever king and country live forever birds will sing forever when we’re together so come on and be with me i want your company - Yr(My) Home is With Me(You) - with my feet on the dash the world doesn’t matter when you feel embarassed then i’ll be your pride when you need directions then i’ll be the guide for all time happy daisy sunshine berry bugs dandelion wreath rose verse and prose phlox sweet sap tinglings strawberry jam bloom holly hocks and once upon your lips holly jolly sweet tart harpsichord melodeon songs virginia riddles dwindles penny porcelain chimes so tell me that this is a time for our day dreams i wanna tell you how i feel i wanna hold you close again i want to look around the room and i want to see you in my life hold me in your arms like you do i wanna feel your warmth at night i want you in my arms again there is love to be made so just stay here for this while i remember the song you sang i remember the way you looked at night and i remember the way it made me feel so we’ll try and try even if it lasts an hour with all our might we’ll try to make it ours cause we’re on our way we’re on our way to falling in love here’s the night and it shines and it calls us on and on so be here by my side and watch the stars they’re ours so take it all the way oh and our hearts are on the everglow so just let go and fall into it it’s never been more perfect being alive i’ve never been so satisfied misery’s not company for us not for us you’d never say life’s just all bad when you think of times we’ve had there will never be another day like today where we can sit and smell the roses there will never be another time another place where we can dance in all the flowers kiss the flower that i gave to you to hold and love kiss the days that you gave to me to hold and love remember for me remember for me remember for me…

Friday Mixes is a weekly feature that showcases a mix of songs from various genres that usually share some common theme.  If you have an idea for a theme, email us at feedback@scriptedfailures.com and maybe we’ll use it.

The Color Mix

Prologue:

1. Red House Painters, “All Mixed Up”
2. Coldplay, “Yellow”
3. New Order, “Blue Monday”

Exposition:

4. Green Day, “Give Me Novacaine”
5. Tori Amos, “The Power of Orange Knickers”
6. U2, “Ultraviolet (Light my Way)”

Climax:

7. Azure Ray, “We Are Mice”
8. Umbrellas, “June, Summer, Rose”
9. Joy Electric, “The Burgundy Years”

Resolution:

10. The Goo Goo Dolls, “Black Balloon”
11. White Town, “Your Woman”
12. Felt, “Grey Streets”

Epilogue:

13. Death Cab for Cutie, “A Lack of Color”

Friday Mixes is a weekly feature that showcases a mix of songs from various genres that usually share some common theme.  If you have an idea for a theme, email us at feedback@scriptedfailures.com and maybe we’ll use it.