Here, for your hearing delectation, is an AMAZING ANIMAL MIX.

This is a mix in which all the songs are either A) About and animal or B) Sung to an animal. No metaphors or euphamisms. I tried to be pretty strict, but there are a couple on there that, honestly, are only tangentially about animals, but are mostly just good songs.

If anybody has any good songs to add to it let me know, and I’ll make a part two!

Here’s the tracklist:

1. The 6ths - San Diego Zoo
2. Nina Nastasia - A Dog’s Life
3. El Perro Del Mar - Dog
4. Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog
5. Bayless Rose - Black Dog Blues
6. Tommy Settlers And His Blues Moaner - Big Bed Bug (Bed Bug Blues)
7. Peggy Honeywell - bower bird
8. The Mountain Goats - Snow Owl
9. Nick Drake - Strange Meeting I / Bird Flew By
10. Iron & Wine - Bird Stealing Bread
11. Keren Ann - Spanish song bird
12. Gothic Archies - Crows
13. Tommy McCook - Ride Me Donkey
14. Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
15. Belle & Sebastian - The Fox In The Snow
16. The Kinks - Phenomenal Cat
17. Devendra Banhart - Little Yellow Spider
18. London Sinfonietta; Charles Dutoit - Aquarium
19. Lilys - The Hermit Crab
20. Bricks - The Sturgeon

And, of course, if anybody objects to me posting a song my them or somebody they represent, let me know and I’ll remove it.

Enjoy!

Download after the jump.

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I never understood why is it that people hate mice. I always liked mice, even if they were biting through the bottom of my box of Honey Smacks. The whole standing-on-a-chair-screaming thing is odd to me; why not for a roach, who’s so much more inhuman and alien, and disgusting? Comparing a mouse running across the floor with the slow crawly throb of a millipede on a white wall there’s no contest. And mice can’t help squirming around all the time. Bugs stand way too still. When I turn on the lights and what I think is a smear of old tomato sauce on the wall right above the lip of the stove, a second later, starts moving, that’s unnerving. At first the roach thinks it can just wait me out, that I’m not going to notice him hanging out there, and then it’s like Fuck it, and makes a break for it, and I’m like Yow. Mice don’t do that. Being warm blooded prevents the creepy stasis that afflicts lizards and bugs. Also mice have fur, and fur isn’t scary.

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