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Mixtape 107 • Dedication

Born Ruffians hail from the Great White North, and they have an innate ability to craft razor-sharp hooks out of the simplest of riffs.

Born Ruffians hail from the Great White North, and they have an innate ability to craft razor-sharp hooks out of the simplest of riffs.
Born Ruffians
SongArtistNotes
Dedication
Born Ruffians
Especially for you
Ivanka
Imperial Teen
Who knows
Shadow Boy
Scruffy The Cat
Charlie Chesterman was an American treasure
Tender as a Tomb
Tennis
Gentle mutterings
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Sadie
Joanna Newsom
Spooky voice and a harp
Big Fat Cigar
Sleepyhead
Juxtapop
My Own Sake
Holly Golightly
Like Marcellus Hall but not
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Computer (Featuring Princess Superstar)
Arling + Cameron
Featuring Princess Superstar
Lipstick Vogue
Elvis Costello
Hail the Thomas brothers
Capitol City
The Handsome Family
Originally by Wilco
My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars
Mitski
Collapsing neutrons
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Konichiwa Internet
Disq
Changing pace
Victoria
The Fall
Via the Kinks
Misunderstood
Habibi
Quite Cub-like
All I Need
The Frights
Fuzz attaqq
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Busy Mama
The Obscuritones
Newfangled oldfashioned
Lo Que Digan De Mi
Mutagénicos
More skating through time
Juicy (On a Cadillac)
Brainiac
Gimme the frantic squeegee
Uphill Spectre
Animal
Very motoric
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Mary Magazine
Jade Hairpins
Disjointed itinerary
The Way You Look Tonight
The Future Kings of Nowhere
A somewhat manic take
The Good Old Summer Time
Noonday Underground
On the swing set
Become a Mountain
Dan Deacon
Sequential diffraction
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Fluorescent
Double Date with Death
Off to a wild start
Fire
Mikal Cronin
The Western approach
One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
Ben Folds Five
A tale of epic proportions
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Make Love A Star
The Poison Control Center
Phonetically similar to “Mike Love Not War”
Make My Way
The Mooney Suzuki
Loud and sweaty
Proofs
Mates Of State
From the SImple Mental Math compilation
The Wind Cries Mary
The Bobs
One of my fave Jimi songs
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I Said (Michael Woods Remix) (feat. Chris Lake)
Deadmau5
Heavy on the beat
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