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\\m// Official Dealer's Choice Music Mixtape Draft (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Eephus
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nice pick, acer.
AcerFC
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Steve Tasker
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One time I played this song on a roadtrip mixtape while driving halfway across the country with my buddies. One of them said he'd rather jump out of the moving car than listen to this song again. But #### it.
12.xx - Amiina - "Seoul" (Scandinavian)
What a ####### beautiful song. I reserve the right to change this to instrumental later on.
Also I'm trying to corner the market on Icelandic chicks
12.xx - Amiina - "Seoul" (Scandinavian)
What a ####### beautiful song. I reserve the right to change this to instrumental later on.
Also I'm trying to corner the market on Icelandic chicks
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simey
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omally
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14.xx - Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) (Album that influenced musical taste)
Back in the mid-2000s I still predominantly just listened to classic/mainstream rock, but something about seeing this music video for the first time (back when music channels still played music videos) left me transfixed. Not only was the song totally different than anything I ever listened to, but the video looked like it was a crappy home video. Seeing this on national TV blew me away; it was just so unlike everything else they played on MuchMegaHits (canadian version of MTV). Arcade Fire's first album, and especially this song, was the impetus of being more adventurous in what music I exposed myself to.
Back in the mid-2000s I still predominantly just listened to classic/mainstream rock, but something about seeing this music video for the first time (back when music channels still played music videos) left me transfixed. Not only was the song totally different than anything I ever listened to, but the video looked like it was a crappy home video. Seeing this on national TV blew me away; it was just so unlike everything else they played on MuchMegaHits (canadian version of MTV). Arcade Fire's first album, and especially this song, was the impetus of being more adventurous in what music I exposed myself to.
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Steve Tasker
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It's up there for me as well.Nice. I find Kurt Vile has songs that fit in a lot of these categories, been considering something from him in a bunch of different categories anyway.
Eephus
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Perhaps it's because it only involves only one of the senses or maybe I'm just a big nerd, but I think music has a special ability to evoke a time and place for the listener. Hearing music is an interactive process. The artist is the majority contributor but the listener has to meet the song part way to complete the experience. My sad song isn't the saddest ever written but it's one that always takes me back to a time of personal sadness.
Ryan Adams has written a lot of sad songs (and a lot of songs period). I was listening to Adams' songs on shuffle last week trying to remember which ones were acoustic when this song came on and immediately brought a lump to my throat. It's his homage to The Smiths who are no strangers to over-the-top sadness themselves.
14.xx "Anybody Wanna Take Me Home?" - Ryan Adams (sad)
The song is about Adams or his proxy whining about not getting laid and the guitar line is an excellent imitation of Johnny Marr. It has some clever lyrics e.g. "I am in the twilight of my youth/Not that I'm going to remember" and "I'm still dancing in the coma/of the drinks I just had". But I can't listen to it now without being reminded of coming home from the hospital on the night before my mother died. She'd lived a long productive life and was more resigned to her fate than either my sisters or I were. I was also completely stressed after a crazy day of airplanes and hospitals. I'd been holding together pretty much but lost it when this song came on the car radio.
"It seems so tragic/but it disappears like magic"
Ryan Adams has written a lot of sad songs (and a lot of songs period). I was listening to Adams' songs on shuffle last week trying to remember which ones were acoustic when this song came on and immediately brought a lump to my throat. It's his homage to The Smiths who are no strangers to over-the-top sadness themselves.
14.xx "Anybody Wanna Take Me Home?" - Ryan Adams (sad)
The song is about Adams or his proxy whining about not getting laid and the guitar line is an excellent imitation of Johnny Marr. It has some clever lyrics e.g. "I am in the twilight of my youth/Not that I'm going to remember" and "I'm still dancing in the coma/of the drinks I just had". But I can't listen to it now without being reminded of coming home from the hospital on the night before my mother died. She'd lived a long productive life and was more resigned to her fate than either my sisters or I were. I was also completely stressed after a crazy day of airplanes and hospitals. I'd been holding together pretty much but lost it when this song came on the car radio.
"It seems so tragic/but it disappears like magic"
Steve Tasker
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13.xx - Braids - "Same Mum" (Animals)
Kinda stretching with this one, but I think the song is about dropping acid and hallucinating with your dog while sitting near a waterfall. Considering pretty much all of her songs are about either sex or drugs or both, I'm gonna go with it. She doesn't actually reference the dog, but describes the dog (four legs, wet mouth etc).
Kinda stretching with this one, but I think the song is about dropping acid and hallucinating with your dog while sitting near a waterfall. Considering pretty much all of her songs are about either sex or drugs or both, I'm gonna go with it. She doesn't actually reference the dog, but describes the dog (four legs, wet mouth etc).
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simey
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They are more different than they are alike. They are both great bands, but my favorite is CCL.
Vike Me
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I know this group was taken early on for same category - hope this is Beatlesque enough. It reminds me of Revolver/Pepper's Lennon.
14.xx Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss (Beatlesque)
14.xx Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss (Beatlesque)
JZilla
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Certainly not the least animal-y song we've seen!13.xx - Braids - "Same Mum" (Animals)
Kinda stretching with this one, but I think the song is about dropping acid and hallucinating with your dog while sitting near a waterfall. Considering pretty much all of her songs are about either sex or drugs or both, I'm gonna go with it. She doesn't actually reference the dog, but describes the dog (four legs, wet mouth etc).
Steve Tasker
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I had a lot of trouble picking which song I wanted off of this album for this category. The best fake-emo indie pop you will ever hear. Nearly every song has awesomely terrible yet totally catchy lyrics. This song gets the pick because (1) even the title is ridiculous, and (2) it has a spoken-word soliloquy in the middle of the song that references LiveJournal.
14.xx - Los Campesinos! - "This is How You Spell 'HAHAHA I've Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics'" (awful lyrics)
The official offending passage (mid-song soliloquy):
You walk in from your mother's balcony
Panda-eyed and freezing cold
You bury yourself in my chest to warm
I notice the goosebumps on your arms, millions
And whether it's because of the numbers of hours spent laid facedown on my bed listening to white noise, or, well, obviously it's not, I somehow manage to translate them from braille
The trails on your skin spoke more to me than the reams and reams of half finished novels you'd left lying all over the place
And every quotation that'd dribbled from your mouth like a final, fatal LiveJournal entry
I know
I am wrong
I am sorry
Full lyrics in spoiler:
14.xx - Los Campesinos! - "This is How You Spell 'HAHAHA I've Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics'" (awful lyrics)
The official offending passage (mid-song soliloquy):
You walk in from your mother's balcony
Panda-eyed and freezing cold
You bury yourself in my chest to warm
I notice the goosebumps on your arms, millions
And whether it's because of the numbers of hours spent laid facedown on my bed listening to white noise, or, well, obviously it's not, I somehow manage to translate them from braille
The trails on your skin spoke more to me than the reams and reams of half finished novels you'd left lying all over the place
And every quotation that'd dribbled from your mouth like a final, fatal LiveJournal entry
I know
I am wrong
I am sorry
Full lyrics in spoiler:
I hate the stench of coffee on your breath
And I hate to feel it's warmth against my neck
And what right do you have to have nightmares about me
When all I wanted was to sleep?
We have to take the car 'cause the bike's on fire
We cannot trust your friends 'cause they were born liars
And ifyou don't exist with hearts the size of a house brick
Cease, and desist!
I left your shallow skin and a note on your kitchen sideboard
It read "I have left you, please never try to find me"
This is no existential crisis, just turn your pain into piety
And then set your alarm clock for 4am the next morning
We have to take the car 'cause the bike's on fire
We cannot trust your friends 'cause they were born liars
And if you you don't exist with hearts the size of a house brick
Cease, and desist!
This is how you spell 'HAHAHA, I've destroyed the hopes and the dreams of a generation of faux-romantics". And I'm pleased, I'm pleased.
You walk in from your mother's balcony
Panda-eyed and freezing cold
You bury yourself in my chest to warm
I notice the goosebumps on your arms, millions
And whether it's because of the numbers of hours spent laid facedown on my bed listening to white noise, or, well, obviously it's not, I somehow manage to translate them from braille
The trails on your skin spoke more to me than the reams and reams of half finished novels you'd left lying all over the place
And every quotation that'd dribbled from your mouth like a final, fatal livejournal entry
I know
I am wrong
I am sorry
We have to take the car 'cause the bike's on fire
We cannot trust your friends 'cause they were born liars
And if you you don't exist with hearts the size of a house brick
Cease, and desist!
This is how you spell "HAHAHA I've destroyed the hopes and dreams of a generation of faux-romantics". And I'm pleased, I'm pleased.
And I hate to feel it's warmth against my neck
And what right do you have to have nightmares about me
When all I wanted was to sleep?
We have to take the car 'cause the bike's on fire
We cannot trust your friends 'cause they were born liars
And ifyou don't exist with hearts the size of a house brick
Cease, and desist!
I left your shallow skin and a note on your kitchen sideboard
It read "I have left you, please never try to find me"
This is no existential crisis, just turn your pain into piety
And then set your alarm clock for 4am the next morning
We have to take the car 'cause the bike's on fire
We cannot trust your friends 'cause they were born liars
And if you you don't exist with hearts the size of a house brick
Cease, and desist!
This is how you spell 'HAHAHA, I've destroyed the hopes and the dreams of a generation of faux-romantics". And I'm pleased, I'm pleased.
You walk in from your mother's balcony
Panda-eyed and freezing cold
You bury yourself in my chest to warm
I notice the goosebumps on your arms, millions
And whether it's because of the numbers of hours spent laid facedown on my bed listening to white noise, or, well, obviously it's not, I somehow manage to translate them from braille
The trails on your skin spoke more to me than the reams and reams of half finished novels you'd left lying all over the place
And every quotation that'd dribbled from your mouth like a final, fatal livejournal entry
I know
I am wrong
I am sorry
We have to take the car 'cause the bike's on fire
We cannot trust your friends 'cause they were born liars
And if you you don't exist with hearts the size of a house brick
Cease, and desist!
This is how you spell "HAHAHA I've destroyed the hopes and dreams of a generation of faux-romantics". And I'm pleased, I'm pleased.
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Eephus
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14.xx Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) - M.A.C.C. (Baby Title)
Normally I really hate covers. But this one is a good one. I know it's probably sacrilege but I like it better than the studio recorded original Jimi Hendrix version. M.A.C.C. = Mike McCready - guitar, Jeff Ament - bass, Chris Cornell - vocals, Matt Cameron - drums. I'm a big Matt Cameron fan. I really wanted to pull the trigger on Baby Doll by Devo here (which also could have been used in the 80's soundtrack and/or scandinavian categories if applying the Tapeheads treatment), but this song is just better.
Normally I really hate covers. But this one is a good one. I know it's probably sacrilege but I like it better than the studio recorded original Jimi Hendrix version. M.A.C.C. = Mike McCready - guitar, Jeff Ament - bass, Chris Cornell - vocals, Matt Cameron - drums. I'm a big Matt Cameron fan. I really wanted to pull the trigger on Baby Doll by Devo here (which also could have been used in the 80's soundtrack and/or scandinavian categories if applying the Tapeheads treatment), but this song is just better.
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El Floppo
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drfeelgood
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Awesome cover. I guess you are assuming the other drafters weren't going to draft the other songs you spotlighted.
Gr00vus
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I'm not thinking there was much of a market for Devo's (or Cube-Squared's) Baby Doll, no. Sorry if that was someone's sleeper pick. I always approach these as more of an opportunity to kibbitz about music moreso than some kind of competition. If my spotlighting of obscure stuff that I figure isn't going to get brought up by others is bothering anyone, let me know and I'll cut it out. For reals.
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drfeelgood
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What if everyone else decided to post their alternate songs during the draft? These people are music lovers, and they know the obscure stuff. Just saying you might not want to post your alternates until after the draft.
Ramsay Hunt Experience
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drfeelgood
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I'm sure it would. I just know the feelings of past drafts that I've followed, but I can see that is not the feelings in this one. Sorry I brought it up.
Steve Tasker
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THAT'S IT I QUIT
BobbyLayne
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I rather like the spirit of this draft. It's collaborative in nature and as far away from the "Great/greatest" type drafts as possible. No judging after and very little judgement during.
Nice work, Eephus.
BobbyLayne
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Mister CIA
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I've been slammed at work. I'll catch up in the next day or two. Pretty sure I won't be sniped.
drfeelgood
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That is fine, but I know I'm not wrong in that people have always not allowed spotlighting in past music drafts. I wasn't trying to be some jerk.
BobbyLayne
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All good.
I don't speak for all. Just sayin' I like the laid back style of this draft, refreshing compared to a lot of drafts the last 5 years.
Some of the silly ### drafts from 8-10 years ago are hilarious. Judging/ranking was an after thought or skipped entirely. The commentary was whip smart snark and actually makes your sides sore from convulsive laughter.
I wasn't even here then so I'm not bring nostalgic. This board and especially drafts (cereal, dead animal, etc) were more fun and a helluva a lot funnier. It's worthwhile to search for draft in the title and dig some of them up.
Eephus
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Category - 3 or More Movements
14.XX Roundabout - Yes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M
These guys get a lot of #### as many prog rock bands do these days, but they were awesome. Spent many a night with whatever hallucinogen was available and play this stuff the entire evening. Stick to their stuff through the early-mid 70s, the band changed quite a bit after that.
14.XX Roundabout - Yes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M
These guys get a lot of #### as many prog rock bands do these days, but they were awesome. Spent many a night with whatever hallucinogen was available and play this stuff the entire evening. Stick to their stuff through the early-mid 70s, the band changed quite a bit after that.
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KarmaPolice
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Certainly not the least animal-y song we've seen!13.xx - Braids - "Same Mum" (Animals)
Kinda stretching with this one, but I think the song is about dropping acid and hallucinating with your dog while sitting near a waterfall. Considering pretty much all of her songs are about either sex or drugs or both, I'm gonna go with it. She doesn't actually reference the dog, but describes the dog (four legs, wet mouth etc).
KarmaPolice
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I know I am behind - I think we are posting our 15th rounders today??
KarmaPolice
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12.xx: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pagan Baby (song with babe or baby in it)
It's hard to take a song off such a popular album and consider it a "deep" cut. On my limited research I didn't see it charted anywhere, but if so I will choose something else.
13.xx: Guns 'N' Roses - My Michelle (deep cut on #1 album)
It's hard to take a song off such a popular album and consider it a "deep" cut. On my limited research I didn't see it charted anywhere, but if so I will choose something else.
13.xx: Guns 'N' Roses - My Michelle (deep cut on #1 album)
zamboni
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KarmaPolice
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JML's category for me means Swedish metal. Late 90s - early 00s I had all but gotten away from metal. Exploring new things, didn't like the nu-metal stuff, etc.. Then I heard a couple bands that have ended up turning back onto the genre. The main one is Opeth - I was never a huge fan of the guttoral vocals, but the musicianship in the band really got me listening more and more. They don't use that vocal style all the time, so I guess that helped as well. I know the are probably as few metal fans as hip hop fans in these drafts, so I will at least take something that represents the softer side of Opeth:
14.xx: Opeth - Burden (Scandinavian)
14.xx: Opeth - Burden (Scandinavian)
Chaos Commish
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Yep. I owe 2. I was disappointed to find Jump in to the Fire on a 1990 Soundtrack.
KarmaPolice
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Might as well take some back to back metal. Sadly, I might have taken this on in other draft too, but can't remember. RIP Chuck...
15.xx: Death - Voice of the Soul (post-1990 instrumental)
15.xx: Death - Voice of the Soul (post-1990 instrumental)
Chaos Commish
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I love this category and didn't know that before the draft started. I figured it was Opeth or Apocalyptica for me. Ton of talent in those bands.
timschochet
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Fleet Foxes- "Helplessness Blues"- Song with 3 movements
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npZeVT4Puy4
If we had a "Simon & Garfunkel"-esque, category, this would be a great pick for that. Tremendous song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npZeVT4Puy4
If we had a "Simon & Garfunkel"-esque, category, this would be a great pick for that. Tremendous song.
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