3am Mixtapes: Episode Thirty: Tearjerkers

Each week on the 3am Mixtapes podcast, I will share with you the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general like most joyful songs. Some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Opposite Songs.

This week I decided to go a little weepy. A wise man once said "Sad songs say so much" so this week it is the Top Six Songs To Make You Curl Up Into The Fetal Position and Bawl! Yes, tearjerkers and heartwrenchers (but not necessarily breakup songs, those are coming later) for a collection of songs that will just reach inside you, grab your heart, and punt it across the room.

Get your tissues out for:

"Margaret Downe" by Aidan Knight
"Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens
"Basket" by Dan Mangan
"Breathe Me" by Sia
"You and Jake" by Evening Hymns
"Left and Leaving" by The Weakerthans

Any questions or comments or waffles or criticisms or suggestions for future themes are welcome!

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3am Mixtapes: Episode Seventeen: Christmas Songs

Each week on the 3am Mixtapes podcast, I will share with you the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general like favourite songs of the year. Or some might be a little more... esoteric. Top Six Songs With The Number Six In The Title.

It's about that time of the year where music everywhere is infiltrated with Christmas carols and songs. And there's not much you can do if, like me, you don't really care for Christmas Music. Which is why I bring you this week's Top Six Christmas Songs for People That Hate Christmas Songs.

Featuring the musical stylings of:

"Puddleglum" by Said the Whale
"Snow" by The Zolas
"A Cup of Kindness Yet" by Hey Rosetta!
"Get Behind Me, Santa!" by Sufjan Stevens
"Fairytale in New York" by The Pogues
"The Night Santa Went Crazy" by Weird Al Yankovic

Any questions or comments or waffles or criticisms or suggestions for future themes are welcome!



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3am Mixtapes: Episode Ten: Spooky Songs

Hey look, it's another episode of 3am Revelations' very own podcast!

Each week on 3am Mixtapes, I will present to you, in my dulcet tones, the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general like Best Dancing Songs, or they can be as obscure and specific as Top Six Songs With A Kazoo Solo.

Since it's just about Hallowe'en, I figure what better way to celebrate than with the Top Six Spooky Songs! By which I don't mean Monster Mash on repeat, but songs that are about spooky & supernatural things. Or at least have titles implying such.

Featured on this week's podcast is:

"Wolf Like Me" by TV On The Radio
"Vampire" by Pink Mountaintops
"Colt Stands Up, Grows Horns" by Sunset Rubdown
"They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbours!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!" by Sufjan Stevens
"Eek, It's Hallowe'en" by Ryan Dahle
"Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" by North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative

Any questions or comments or waffles or criticisms or suggestions for future themes are welcome!


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random top six - hallowe'en edition

Time for another Random Top 6 list! Here's the deal: every week whenever I feel like it, I will choose a random category and select the top 6 songs fitting that criteria. In the spirit of today, here is are the top six hallowe'en-ish songs (or at the very least, hallowe'en sounding song titles). Some songs are actually about what they're about, others less so. But all good songs. So I give you

Top Six Hallowe'en Songs
in no particularorder


Download Ghost Story by Memphis

Download They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh! by Sufjan Stevens

Download Vampire by Pink Mountaintops

Download Wolf Like Me by TV On The Radio

Download Hunting for Witches by Bloc Party

Download Ghouls by We Are Scientists

And as a bonus song, I present to you the North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative.
Comprised of such awesomeness as: Win Butler & Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, Buck 65, David Cross, Feist, Jenny Lewis & Blake Sennett of Rilo Kiley, Chris Murphy of Sloan, Dan Boeckner & Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many, many more, they released Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? in '05 as a satire of Do They Know It's Christmas?, with all proceeds going to UNICEF