3am Mixtapes: Episode Fifty One: Year One

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 like best gang vocals. Some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Songs That Give You Frisson.

This week is a special week, because it marks the one year anniversary of 3am Mixtapes! Over 200 bands later, I figure I would take a trip back through the previous fifty episodes and take a look at some of my favourite picks, for the Top Six Top Sixes!

Looking back on:

"Revelations" by Said the Whale (from the episode Top Six Uses of a Shad)
"Cold Feet" by Chris Kelly (from the episode Top Six Songs for Being Unable to Sleep Because You’re Up Late Worrying)
"The Bride is Dead" by Jeremy Fisher (from the episode Top Six Songs For Weddings That Are Also Funerals)
"Liza" by Colour the Wild (from the episode Top Six Precision F-Strikes)
"Archie, Marry Me" by Alvvays (from the episode Top Six Songs About Comic Book Characters)
"Californyeah" by !!! (from the episode Top Six Songs to Make You Dance Like a Madman)


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3am Mixtapes: Episode Fifty: England

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 best Irish bands. Some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Songs That Sound Nothing Like Their Band Name Would Imply.

A lot of this podcast focuses on Canadian music, since that's what I listen to most. But there are other countries out there who make music almost as good as Canadians, and since I'm a nerd and this week is the return of Doctor Who, I though I would use that as a tenuous reason for the Top Six English Bands!

Hear some jams from:

"Beacons" by I Like Trains
"Hold Back the Night" by I Am Kloot
"Storm Song" by Phildel
"Blackest Eyes" by Porcupine Tree
"Inhaler" by Foals
"Get Your Way" by Jamie Cullum

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3am Mixtapes: Episode Forty Nine: Campfires

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 top six one hit wonders. Some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Sexy Saxaphone Songs.

This week it's not about the Songs of the Summer, but the Songs of the Summer Nights. Yes, those songs where you can sit under the stars, with some friends, around a roaring fire, the Top Six Campfire Songs!

Sing along with:

"Never Thought That This Would Happen" by Arkells
"Lindsay" by Elliott BROOD
"North Star" by Joel Plaskett Emergency
"Ishmael and Maggie (acoustic)" by The Trews
"Queen of Portland Street" by Matt Mays
"Good Morning Sunshine" by Portage & Main


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3am Mixtapes: Episode Forty Eight: Then & Now

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 best Winnipeg bands.  Some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Songs by Fictionals Bands from Movies and TV Shows.

This week I’m gonna throw something a little different out there, the Top Six Then and Now Songs! Let's jump on the time trampoline and we'll hear an older song from a band, and then back to the future to hear one of their newest.

Compare and contrast:

"Kasparov" & "Nightcrawlin'" by Royal Canoe
"Swing Your Heartache" & "In Fire" by Young Galaxy
"Acid Tongue" & "Slippery Slope" by Jenny Lewis


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3am Mixtapes: Episode Forty Seven: Entrance Music

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 best Scottish bands. Some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Songs To Chill Out To While Around A Campfire.

I used to be a huge wrestling fan, and one thing that I was always jealous of was their supernatural ability to have a certain piece of music play any time any wrestler entered the ring. Which is why I imagine what I'd want to play when I came in any room with the Top Six Entrance Songs!

Get it going with:

"Stormy High" by Black Mountain
"How Do You Like Me Now?" by The Heavy
"Trainwreck 1979" by Death From Above 1979
"Get Out The Way" by Mother Mother
"The War on East Coast" by The New Pornographers
"Chances" by Athlete


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