\\m// Official Dealer's Choice Music Mixtape Draft (1 Viewer)

[El Floppo]

I posted round 10 over the weekend (3 movement - Bohemian Rhapsody) but need to write it up etc. Or I'll replace it. I'll get caught up this weekend.

For round 12 I'm taking Acoustic 90-14. This studio version of this one was released two weeks ago. It's a cover of an old Jesse Fuller song, with new lyrics added. This is one of those songs where it might be easier to say who hasn't covered it: Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Bob Dylan, Jim Kweskin, The Blues Band, Paul Jones, The Weavers, The Brothers Four, Paul Clayton, Richie Havens, Eric Clapton, The Flatlanders, Paul McCartney, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Mungo Jerry, Glenn Yarborough, George Ellias, Phoebe Snow, The Wave Pictures, The Halifax III and Eva Cassidy.

12.19 - The New San Francisco Bay Blues - Hurray for the Riff Raff

Now that's fresh material! I'm listening to Small Town Heroes for the first time. Enjoying it. Gracias, BL.

Alynda can bring it - that little girl has a big voice. She's a terrific songwriter, and owns the audience in concert, in small clubs or big festivals.

FOR El Floppo - Bronx Puerto Rican girl - used to hang at ABC Rio with all the other punk rockers. Pretty interesting tale.

http://www.offbeat.com/2014/02/01/radio-zeitgeist-hurray-riff-raff-alynda-lee-segarra/

For anyone else:

NPR First Listen: Small Town Heroes

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026147/first-listen-hurray-for-the-riff-raff-small-town-heroes

ABC No Rio

good stuff- thanks. never heard of her before today.

 

[timschochet]

Jackson Browne, "Song For Adam", sad song

I'll post later but it doesn't get much sadder than this...

 

[BobbyLayne]

I posted round 10 over the weekend (3 movement - Bohemian Rhapsody) but need to write it up etc. Or I'll replace it. I'll get caught up this weekend.

For round 12 I'm taking Acoustic 90-14. This studio version of this one was released two weeks ago. It's a cover of an old Jesse Fuller song, with new lyrics added. This is one of those songs where it might be easier to say who hasn't covered it: Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Bob Dylan, Jim Kweskin, The Blues Band, Paul Jones, The Weavers, The Brothers Four, Paul Clayton, Richie Havens, Eric Clapton, The Flatlanders, Paul McCartney, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Mungo Jerry, Glenn Yarborough, George Ellias, Phoebe Snow, The Wave Pictures, The Halifax III and Eva Cassidy.

12.19 - The New San Francisco Bay Blues - Hurray for the Riff Raff

Now that's fresh material! I'm listening to Small Town Heroes for the first time. Enjoying it. Gracias, BL.

Alynda can bring it - that little girl has a big voice. She's a terrific songwriter, and owns the audience in concert, in small clubs or big festivals.

FOR El Floppo - Bronx Puerto Rican girl - used to hang at ABC Rio with all the other punk rockers. Pretty interesting tale.

http://www.offbeat.com/2014/02/01/radio-zeitgeist-hurray-riff-raff-alynda-lee-segarra/

For anyone else:

NPR First Listen: Small Town Heroes

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/267026147/first-listen-hurray-for-the-riff-raff-small-town-heroes

ABC No Rio

good stuff- thanks. never heard of her before today.

In the last year I've seen them at:

Lincoln Center (free concert on the plaza - April)

Newport Folk Festival (Jul)

Music Hall of Williamsburg (Oct)

Mercury Lounge (Nov)

Highline Ballroom (Jan)

They'll be at The Knitting Factory April 2nd and back at Lincoln Center the next day.

It's a borderline religious experience at this point...

 

[JZilla]

Jackson Browne, "Song For Adam", sad song

I'll post later but it doesn't get much sadder than this...

I never thought I'd die aloneI laughed the loudest who'd have known?

I trace the cord back to the wall

No wonder it was never plugged in at all

I took my time, I hurried up

The choice was mine I didn't think enough

I'm too depressed to go on

You'll be sorry when I'm gone

 

[Time Kibitzer]

13.xx - Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye (Screammm)

Contemplated choosing a hardcore band where the singer screams throughout, but judging by the other picks in this category I'm guessing that's not what the category is going for.

 

[Time Kibitzer]

Jackson Browne, "Song For Adam", sad song

I'll post later but it doesn't get much sadder than this...

I never thought I'd die aloneI laughed the loudest who'd have known?

I trace the cord back to the wall

No wonder it was never plugged in at all

I took my time, I hurried up

The choice was mine I didn't think enough

I'm too depressed to go on

You'll be sorry when I'm gone

Blink's finest.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

The challenge for me was to choose a song that was sad but not depressing.

My alternate choice was probably "sadder", and a great piece of songwriting. But I don't really enjoy wanting to open up a vein after listening to a song.

 

[Eephus]

13.xx "Less Than Zero" - Elvis Costello (song from the album that most influenced your musical tastes)

There was a FFA thread about this in 2011 where I said Lou Reed's Rock 'n Roll Animal was the most important album in my life. I stand by my post but this category is slightly different. Musically speaking, Rock 'n Roll Animal is pretty standard 70s arena rock. Reed hired Alice Cooper's guitar players for his band. The album didn't really shape my musical tastes or for that matter, it didn't even influence Reed's music over the remainder of his career.

Elvis Costello came along a few years later in 1977. I was a college freshman and listening to stuff like Springsteen, Steely Dan, fusion and prog. Punk had broken in London, Manchester and the East Village, but not in Madison, Wisconsin. Costello's debut My Aim Is True isn't very punk. If you listen to it with modern ears, it sounds almost conventional. But at the time, it was about the edgiest thing that got radio airplay. I gravitated toward Costello's lyrical hooks, his attitude and anti-rockstar persona. It started me on a expedition that pointed backwards to Van Morrison, The Kinks and Randy Newman, laterally to Graham Parker and Warren Zevon and forwards to hundreds of other bands.

 

[Steve Tasker]

Not that anyone really cares, but:
It would've been sometime around 2002. I was 15, a junior in high school.

15 is young for a junior in high school. Did you start school early? I was in my mid-thirties in 2002. I'm old enough to be your mother, young man.

My daughter is a young freshman at 14 for a few more months. Tasker was ahead of the game.

I skipped 3rd grade. Born late April 87, I would've been a junior as of Sept 02. I graduated about a week and a half after my 17th birthday.

/lifestory

 

[Chaos Commish]

13.xx "Less Than Zero" - Elvis Costello (song from the album that most influenced your musical tastes)

There was a FFA thread about this in 2011 where I said Lou Reed's Rock 'n Roll Animal was the most important album in my life. I stand by my post but this category is slightly different. Musically speaking, Rock 'n Roll Animal is pretty standard 70s arena rock. Reed hired Alice Cooper's guitar players for his band. The album didn't really shape my musical tastes or for that matter, it didn't even influence Reed's music over the remainder of his career.

Elvis Costello came along a few years later in 1977. I was a college freshman and listening to stuff like Springsteen, Steely Dan, fusion and prog. Punk had broken in London, Manchester and the East Village, but not in Madison, Wisconsin. Costello's debut My Aim Is True isn't very punk. If you listen to it with modern ears, it sounds almost conventional. But at the time, it was about the edgiest thing that got radio airplay. I gravitated toward Costello's lyrical hooks, his attitude and anti-rockstar persona. It started me on a expedition that pointed backwards to Van Morrison, The Kinks and Randy Newman, laterally to Graham Parker and Warren Zevon and forwards to hundreds of other bands.

Excellent choice. One of my favorite lines for over 30 years: "Oh, I used to be disgusted. Now I try to be amused."

 

[Gr00vus]

13.xx Get It On - T Rex (1971)

This is a really tough category. So many great choices possible. I narrowed it down to two, and I really struggled with which to go with. Today I'm looking for more of the white guy gritty groove than the impeccably (some would say greatly over) produced and arranged, hyper dramatic insanity of Madman Across The Water, so I went with T Rex though I love both songs equally. Yes, I've spotlighted again - I'm sure you'll find something equally fantastic in this category if you get sniped, which I really doubt.

 

[Fennis]

13.08 - Nirvana - Tourette's - Scream

Happy belated screaming Birthday, Kurt.

ETA: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Staying with Finland

Rock w/ 3+ movements

12.06 - Apocalyptica - One - 5.45

I've had them dialed up for a category all along. Do you agree the going away from the emphasis on cello has been a huge mistake? I think that sound is unique and their talent phenomenal, and it feels like they had to sell out to sell. Great pick though.

Cheers.

As for Apocalyptica, they have been going for quite awhile, almost 20 years and they could just as easily disappear than "change direction".

If the absence of the Cello is a big sticking point, so be it. If I don't like the music, I'll stop listening, Cello or not. They are what they are.

There are only so many Metallica tunes they can cover without having to try something new. At least they have left a body of work for both the Cello and non Cello fans to listen to.

 

[KarmaPolice]

so I take it we aren't caring too much about the length of the mixes?

 

[KarmaPolice]

also, somebody jokingly brought up judging. always thought a fun idea at the end of these is to randomly assign another drafter's mix to each of us to listen to and comment on...

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Great pick and great discussion here

 

[Eephus]

also, somebody jokingly brought up judging. always thought a fun idea at the end of these is to randomly assign another drafter's mix to each of us to listen to and comment on...

I'll listen to any mix that's posted as a Spotify playlist but reserve the right to skip the middle parts of long songs I don't like.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Yeah, I'm actually holding off on listening to lots of this until the mixes are posted. I won't judge, but I might mention what I liked.

 

[Bonzai]

Waiting Room - Fugazi (influential song)

I was a metalhead in middle school, but after this tune a new world opened up for me. Also got me into playing the bass.

I'll get the others caught up soon.

 

[AcerFC]

lol. I thought of moving release to chill bumps and taking this. But used the instrumental instead

 

[Chaos Commish]

also, somebody jokingly brought up judging. always thought a fun idea at the end of these is to randomly assign another drafter's mix to each of us to listen to and comment on...

I'll listen to any mix that's posted as a Spotify playlist but reserve the right to skip the middle parts of long songs I don't like.

Same here but I'm only listening to the middles. So together we got this.

 

[Eephus]

also, somebody jokingly brought up judging. always thought a fun idea at the end of these is to randomly assign another drafter's mix to each of us to listen to and comment on...

I'll listen to any mix that's posted as a Spotify playlist but reserve the right to skip the middle parts of long songs I don't like.

Same here but I'm only listening to the middles. So together we got this.

 

[El Floppo]

soooo good, that album.

 

[mad sweeney]

It's perfect from start to finish. Upper elite 0.01% tier.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

I suspect this song is not what the category intended, but that is my interpretation.

I'd given up on hearing early 80s quality synth pop ever again and then comes along this unknown band from Finland.

Every review I read of the album mentioned OMD as an influence, as well as Human League, Early SImple Minds, Ultravox and the Thompson Twins.

I was officially intrigued being the big OMD fan I am.

OMD were impressed too, asking them on support them on their History of Modern tour in 2010

To say I was blown away was an understatement. This one track in particular would end up being my most played song from 2009 to 2014 by a margin of 20 to 1.

Yes I got Chill bumps

13.17 - Villa Nah - Envelope - 4.55

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

1.17 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Natalie --- Ola --- Person's Name - 3.08
2.06 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Crucified --- Army of Lovers --- Religous/Non-religous - 3.32
3.17 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Hey Brother --- Avicii --- Bluegrass/folk/country(Not Gay)- 4.14
4.06 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Jack U Off --- Robyn --- Prince related - 2.15
5:17 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Poor Leno (Istanbul Forever Take) --- Röyksopp- Post-1990 instrumentals - 5:24
6.06 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Titanic --- Sultana --- 1971 - 4.02
7.17 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. The arrival of Satan's Empire --- Dark Funeral - Screeeeam - 3.46

8.06 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Crying in the Rain --- A-Ha --- Sad Songs - 4.25

9.17 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Birthday --- Sugarcubes --- Awful lyrics that you still love - 3.58

10.06 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Baby Boy --- Whigfield --- Babe, baby title - 3.39

11.17 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Wings of a Butterfly --- HIM --- Animal - 3.29

12.06 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. One --- Apocalyptica --- Rock w/ 3+ movements - 5.45

13.17 --- John Maddens Lunchbox .. Envelope --- Villa Nah --- Chill Bumps - 4.55

Total Time so far = 52:32

Country Totals

Sweden = 5

Finland = 3

Norway = 3

Denmark = 1

Iceland = 1

 

[simey]

also, somebody jokingly brought up judging. always thought a fun idea at the end of these is to randomly assign another drafter's mix to each of us to listen to and comment on...

I'll listen to any mix that's posted as a Spotify playlist but reserve the right to skip the middle parts of long songs I don't like.

I know how to make a playlist on spotify, but how do you post it in here once you are done?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Category: 1971

13.XX Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

Hymn 43 has already been plucked from this album but I had this and a couple of others named off of this album early on (tough to pick among them). What an album. 99%+ of rock music isn't fit to spit shine this album's pubes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KR2H16Mr5g

 

[BobbyLayne]

also, somebody jokingly brought up judging. always thought a fun idea at the end of these is to randomly assign another drafter's mix to each of us to listen to and comment on...

I'll listen to any mix that's posted as a Spotify playlist but reserve the right to skip the middle parts of long songs I don't like.

I know how to make a playlist on spotify, but how do you post it in here once you are done?

Right click on playlist select "copy HTTP link"

Post CTRL+V:

Hurray For The Riff Raff

 

[simey]

Right click on playlist select "copy HTTP link"

Post CTRL+V:

Hurray For The Riff Raff

Thanks, Bobby. I like that Riff Raff tune.

 

[Vike Me]

13.xx - Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye (Screammm)

Contemplated choosing a hardcore band where the singer screams throughout, but judging by the other picks in this category I'm guessing that's not what the category is going for.

Love Love Love this song. Don't care what kind of hipster dufus that makes me.

 

[Vike Me]

also, somebody jokingly brought up judging. always thought a fun idea at the end of these is to randomly assign another drafter's mix to each of us to listen to and comment on...

I'll listen to any mix that's posted as a Spotify playlist but reserve the right to skip the middle parts of long songs I don't like.

Not acceptable.

 

[El Floppo]

also, somebody jokingly brought up judging. always thought a fun idea at the end of these is to randomly assign another drafter's mix to each of us to listen to and comment on...

I'll listen to any mix that's posted as a Spotify playlist but reserve the right to skip the middle parts of long songs I don't like.

Not acceptable.

I object to your objection. strenuously.

 

[Vike Me]

also, somebody jokingly brought up judging. always thought a fun idea at the end of these is to randomly assign another drafter's mix to each of us to listen to and comment on...

I'll listen to any mix that's posted as a Spotify playlist but reserve the right to skip the middle parts of long songs I don't like.

Not acceptable.

I object to your objection. strenuously.

What if the screeeeeem is in the middle, huh? What then huh????

 

[timschochet]

Here's a link to "Song For Adam" by Jackson Browne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb75Jwil0Zg

 

[Time Kibitzer]

13.xx - Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye (Screammm)

Contemplated choosing a hardcore band where the singer screams throughout, but judging by the other picks in this category I'm guessing that's not what the category is going for.

Love Love Love this song. Don't care what kind of hipster dufus that makes me.

Why would liking the song make one a hipster doofus...

ETA: The new : unsure : emoticon sucks.

 

[Fennis]

 

[Time Kibitzer]

the hell, what's the 'code' for that old guy? Or do you have to go through the emoticon menu?

 

[BobbyLayne]

It's 'oldunsure' GB.

 

[JZilla]

I think I owe three

Here's a fun little cover

Lake Street Dive - I Want You Back (female blues 2003-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPwRdVg5Ug

This cat hasn't turned out real exciting, and I don't have much to bring for it either. Here's a snotty punk rock lady though.

The Distillers - Dismantle Me (acoustic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_CDRAKZ84

And last but not least, it's the king of trying too hard

Megadeth - Hook In Mouth (awful lyrics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF7wQZGnKnA

A cockroach in the concrete, courthouse tan and beady eyes

A slouch with fallen arches, purging truths into great lies

A little man with a big eraser, changing history
Procedures that he's programmed to, all he hears and sees
Altering the facts and figures, events and every issue
Make a person disappear, and no one will ever miss you

Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was
Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools

You said you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway?
Ever think may be it was meant to be this way ?
Don't try to fool us, we know the worst is yet to come
And I believe my kingdom will come

F, is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D, for your dying, O, your overture
M, they will cover your grave with manure
This spells out FREEDOM, it means nothing to me
As long as there's a P.M.R.C!

 

[AcerFC]

13- Season in Hell, Eddie and The Cruisers, 1980s soundtrack song

 

[timschochet]

The Corrs "Toss The Feathers"- post 90s instrumental

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEJa_VgpIAc

3 incredibly hot Irish girls playing great Celtic music- what could be better?

 

[AcerFC]

14- Maggies Farm, Flatt and Scruggs- Bluegrass (not gay)

 

[AcerFC]

Anyone know how to move songs in a spotify playlist up or down

 

[Eephus]

Anyone know how to move songs in a spotify playlist up or down

Drag & drop

 

[AcerFC]

Anyone know how to move songs in a spotify playlist up or down

Drag & drop

cant. interseting

 

[Eephus]

Anyone know how to move songs in a spotify playlist up or down

Drag & drop

cant. interseting

are you using the desktop client, the web client or the phone app?

 

[AcerFC]

Anyone know how to move songs in a spotify playlist up or down

Drag & drop

cant. interseting

are you using the desktop client, the web client or the phone app?

web

 

[simey]

Lake Street Dive - I Want You Back (female blues 2003-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPwRdVg5Ug

That's a really cool cover song.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Bad 'N' Ruin -- Faces (1971)

Going for something from the lesser appreciated Faces album from 71, Long Player. I love Stay With Me as much as the next guy (and off this album, I'm blown away by the Maybe I'm Amazed Cover), but I think this is a great example of why I like the very best Faces songs even better than the Stones. I picked Stewart as my vocalist in one of the old band drafts, and it wasn't to sing Maggie May. It pains me to think of the Motown/American Songbook shlock covers crap that Stewart does now. In the 70's, he was one of the coolest guys on Earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqWX-E7nOM&feature=kp