Mix for a Dusk Bus Ride into the City - DMcT

I know, I know... it's sort of a specific, sappy name, right? I'd like to think of it as conveying a very specific emotion. Anyone who grew up a drive from New York and has spent any considerable amount of time on a bus going back and forth knows what I'm referring to.

Daytime bus rides are one thing, but when it just starts to get dark and the lights just start to come on in the buildings, everything appears quite differently than it did earlier. All of the songs on this mix fit this aesthetic: there's something that's both sprawling and intimate about each. They are personal, perhaps abstract at times... some are fast, others slow. In short, they don't necessarily all sound alike. But what they DO sound like is that you should be listening to them looking at the window at an approaching city.

So, here they are:

1.) Carolina - Ben Gibbard

2.) Signal Flare - The Northern

3.) So Far Around the Bend - The National

4.) Where the Streets Have No Name - U2

5.) Someday My Prince Will Come - Miles Davis

6.) Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, & Nash

7.) As Far As I Can See - Phantogram

8.) (When We Are Dancin') I Get Ideas - Louis Armstrong

9.) Stay in the Shade - Jose Gonzalez

10.) Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim - Fountains of Wayne

11.) Adventures in Solitude - The New Pornographers

12.) Gravity - Sara Bareilles