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

[Time Kibitzer]

Can I please get a few clarifications on the categories?

• Post-1990 instrumentals – there are a ton off jazz instrumentals but I’m guessing you’re looking for rock. As long as I make a case (artist previously did mainly rock –or- the song is rock-ish) I’m guessing that would be okay, correct?

Jazz instrumentals are definitely fine. Was initially thinking basically anything where they just play instruments, but if people wanna draft computer/electronic music that's cool too.

 

[Vike Me]

1.13 "I Want To Be Loved" Cassandra Wilson - Female Blues

I'm moist.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Yeah, you love the song despite the awful lyrics.

 

[Gr00vus]

Sorry had a write-up at home but got called in a meeting.

1.11 Gigolos Get Lonely Too. Morris Day and The Time. Prince-esque

Link and write-up to follow.

I'm glad you jumped right into The Time. I was afraid people wouldn't think they are fair game, but I didn't want to spotlight by calling them out as part of the category.

I love this band. I was thinking of making my category just songs by The Time (and their solo efforts) but I figured that might be too small a pool to draw from for everyone.

 

[Eephus]

Zamboni's category.. can't find the post.. is this just a "deep cut" on any Billboard #1 album?

#1 album

non-charting song

Meaning the song didn't hit any sub-category chart in any country, but the album hit #1 on the Top 200 Billboard album chart.

Top 200 Billboard album chart = US only?

 

[Doug B]

I'm glad you jumped right into The Time. I was afraid people wouldn't think they are fair game ...

Really? How come?

 

[Eephus]

I'm glad you jumped right into The Time. I was afraid people wouldn't think they are fair game ...

Really? How come?

Because Jamie Starr's a thief

 

[Gr00vus]

I'm glad you jumped right into The Time. I was afraid people wouldn't think they are fair game ...

Really? How come?

Because they were sort of offered up as an autonomous band, rather than a Prince byproduct. I don't know how many (if any credits) he has on their stuff.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Drafters and categories

timschochet . . . . . . . 1971

simey . . . . . . . . . . Female blues 2003-2014

John Bender . . . . . . . Wu Tang solo projects

El Floppo/BobbyLayne. . . Bluish grass (Gay is OK)

VikeMe . . . . . . . . .. Religious songs/Non-religious artists

Bonzai . . . . . . . . .. Screeeeeeaaam

Binky The Doormat . . . . Chill bumps

Fennis . . . . . . . . .. Sad

zamboni . . . . . . . . . Deep track off #1 album

Time Kibitzer . . . . . . post-1990 instrumentals

Ramsay Hunt Experience .. Awful lyrics that you still love

GrOOvus . . . . . . . . . Prince songs w/out the Artist

eephus . . . . . . . . .. Beatlesesque

AcerFC . . . . . . . . .. Acoustic 1990-2014

Jzilla . . . . . . . . .. Animals

Mister CIA . . . . . . .. Babe, baby title

John Madden's Lunchbox .. Scandinavians

Chaos Commish . . . . . . Titled w/ only a person's name

Doug B . . . . . . . . .. Rock w/ 3+ movements

Steve Tasker . . . . . .. Name/nickname of athlete

higgins . . . . . . . . . Rush

Usual21 . . . . . . . . . 80s movie soundtrack

I know which 2 I'm gonna mulligan.

No Scandanavians allowed = No Pickee

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Sorry had a write-up at home but got called in a meeting.

1.11 Gigolos Get Lonely Too. Morris Day and The Time. Prince-esque

Link and write-up to follow.

I'm glad you jumped right into The Time. I was afraid people wouldn't think they are fair game, but I didn't want to spotlight by calling them out as part of the category.

I love this band. I was thinking of making my category just songs by The Time (and their solo efforts) but I figured that might be too small a pool to draw from for everyone.

OK, I finally have time to write a bit more.

Like Eeph, I had wanted to go a bit more obscure, for a Prince protege (in truth, I was looking more to a Prince mentor/influence, but he has literally one song on Spotify). Spotify also didn't have some of my other choices.

But I didn't want to just pick Jungle Love. Don't get me wrong. I love Jungle Love. At karaoke, I've been known to crush Jungle Love. But I didn't want to go that obvious.

So I asked myself, "Ramsaygang? What's the Princiest song not actually sung by Prince?"

And that's this song. If anything, this is Morris performing a Prince song as karaoke. Prince wrote it (you can tell by the whole "let's have sex with our clothes on" obsession that's also part of If I Was Your Girlfriend). Prince produces it. But it's more than that. Prince recorded it. As near as I can tell, Morris just sings over the Prince recording and brings Prince's vocals up in the mix as backup for the chorus. Anyway, here's the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwqUUk3AiC0&feature=kp

 

[Eephus]

Sorry had a write-up at home but got called in a meeting.

1.11 Gigolos Get Lonely Too. Morris Day and The Time. Prince-esque

Link and write-up to follow.

I'm glad you jumped right into The Time. I was afraid people wouldn't think they are fair game, but I didn't want to spotlight by calling them out as part of the category.

I love this band. I was thinking of making my category just songs by The Time (and their solo efforts) but I figured that might be too small a pool to draw from for everyone.

OK, I finally have time to write a bit more.

Like Eeph, I had wanted to go a bit more obscure, for a Prince protege (in truth, I was looking more to a Prince mentor/influence, but he has literally one song on Spotify). Spotify also didn't have some of my other choices.

I'm sure I searched for the same guy (AC)

 

[Doug B]

Because they were sort of offered up as an autonomous band, rather than a Prince byproduct. I don't know how many (if any credits) he has on their stuff.

Prince has production credits, under a pseudonym, on their first few hit albums.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

I'm glad you jumped right into The Time. I was afraid people wouldn't think they are fair game ...

Really? How come?

Because they were sort of offered up as an autonomous band, rather than a Prince byproduct. I don't know how many (if any credits) he has on their stuff.

Oh he wrote most of it (as Jamie Starr).

By Ice Cream Castle The Time had begun to develop something like their own sound, so Prince had them doing songs that sounded less and less like Prince songs. But they were still his. Even in Graffiti Bridge (I briefly considered Jerk Out).

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Sorry had a write-up at home but got called in a meeting.

1.11 Gigolos Get Lonely Too. Morris Day and The Time. Prince-esque

Link and write-up to follow.

I'm glad you jumped right into The Time. I was afraid people wouldn't think they are fair game, but I didn't want to spotlight by calling them out as part of the category.

I love this band. I was thinking of making my category just songs by The Time (and their solo efforts) but I figured that might be too small a pool to draw from for everyone.

OK, I finally have time to write a bit more.

Like Eeph, I had wanted to go a bit more obscure, for a Prince protege (in truth, I was looking more to a Prince mentor/influence, but he has literally one song on Spotify). Spotify also didn't have some of my other choices.

I'm sure I searched for the same guy (AC)

I was looking for that "referenced by the Hold Steady" hipster cred.

 

[Eephus]

Because they were sort of offered up as an autonomous band, rather than a Prince byproduct. I don't know how many (if any credits) he has on their stuff.

Prince has production credits, under a pseudonym, on their first few hit albums.

Jamie Starr isn't Prince, he's actually an accordian player for the Chmielewski Funtime Band

 

[Bonzai]

Not being critical of the pick, just trying to understand what we mean by 3 movements.

I conceived of it as more than just a song jumping into its bridge and then jumping back out. But in some songs, the bridge veers far enough "off course" that it does pretty stand on it's own as a movement.

Thinking of it as "songs that have 'mini-songs' within them" ... does that help?

This is what I initially thought when I saw the category, but I was trying to avoid figuring out how to work a 12 minute opus into my mix.

I got the idea for the pick from the fact that Jigsaw was reworked into a classical piece by Steve Reich and separated into three separate movements. I can hear distinct shifts in the song (the second starting around 1:45 and the third at 2:57), but I agree it's not the kind of thing that usually comes to mind when I think about movements in rock songs. I'm happy to make another pick if you feel like its not in the spirit of the category.

 

[Steve Tasker]

Skip me if I'm up in the next few hours. I'll pick tonight if I'm OTC.

 

[Gr00vus]

Sorry had a write-up at home but got called in a meeting.

1.11 Gigolos Get Lonely Too. Morris Day and The Time. Prince-esque

Link and write-up to follow.

I'm glad you jumped right into The Time. I was afraid people wouldn't think they are fair game, but I didn't want to spotlight by calling them out as part of the category.

I love this band. I was thinking of making my category just songs by The Time (and their solo efforts) but I figured that might be too small a pool to draw from for everyone.

OK, I finally have time to write a bit more.

Like Eeph, I had wanted to go a bit more obscure, for a Prince protege (in truth, I was looking more to a Prince mentor/influence, but he has literally one song on Spotify). Spotify also didn't have some of my other choices.

But I didn't want to just pick Jungle Love. Don't get me wrong. I love Jungle Love. At karaoke, I've been known to crush Jungle Love. But I didn't want to go that obvious.

So I asked myself, "Ramsaygang? What's the Princiest song not actually sung by Prince?"

And that's this song. If anything, this is Morris performing a Prince song as karaoke. Prince wrote it (you can tell by the whole "let's have sex with our clothes on" obsession that's also part of If I Was Your Girlfriend). Prince produces it. But it's more than that. Prince recorded it. As near as I can tell, Morris just sings over the Prince recording and brings Prince's vocals up in the mix as backup for the chorus. Anyway, here's the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwqUUk3AiC0&feature=kp

I hope you let loose with some of your other considered picks when we get to the end of this.

On another note, I'm not taking spotifyability into account when I make my picks. I guess my mix tape might end up shorter than others as a result.

 

[Fiddles]

OK, not sure if this flies. Just let me know and I'll re-pick.

Category is screaming for some prog

 

[Gr00vus]

Because they were sort of offered up as an autonomous band, rather than a Prince byproduct. I don't know how many (if any credits) he has on their stuff.

Prince has production credits, under a pseudonym, on their first few hit albums.

Right, but if you're not that into it, you didn't know about the pseudonym thing - just some guy named Jamie Starr, if you looked at the credits at all. I guess I should have given everyone here more credit. Regardless, glad to see The Time show up.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

OK, without further ado, let's kick this draft off:

1.01 The Tallest Man On Earth "Burden of Tomorrow" (Scandinavian)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOlm4OIpx4s

Rumor has it that I wasn't born, I just walked in one frosty morn into the vision of some vacant mind.

One of the comments on Youtube was that this guy is the love child of Bob Dylan and Nick Drake. That seems as apt a description as anything. He's certainly a throwback to the days when the folkies haunted Bleecker Street. But it wouldn't work unless he didn't have his own vision, and great songwriting and performance to go with it. If you've never heard of this dude, enjoy.

This artist was born after 1965

Of course the music is 60s style, so there you go

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

1.02 Chatham County Line - "Crop Comes In" (Bluish Grass)

This is a bluish grass band from North Carolina, and I love them. Catch them live if you get a chance.

This is great stuff. We made it to Seattle late a few weeks ago so weren't able to take up your recommendation to see them.

Bummed that tim punted the mandolin category. I love mandolins.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

I got a feeling these mulligans are gonna result in 2 particular categories having very few selections.

Do tell. Is it the 2 that I am mulliganing?

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

1.12: Crosses - Jose Gonzalez (Acoustic post 1990)

This guy has a ton of good stuff, but this is my favorite. I wish I could find a higher fidelity recording to post.

Also qualifies for Scandinavian

 

[zamboni]

Eeph - yes, the Billboard 200 albums is U.S.

 

[Eephus]

Eeph - yes, the Billboard 200 albums is U.S.

Researching...

I hate it when I come across a year where a crap record dominated the chart for 4-5 months.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Eeph - yes, the Billboard 200 albums is U.S.

Researching...

I hate it when I come across a year where a crap record dominated the chart for 4-5 months.

Yep me too.

These days though with digital downloads it is almost impossible to find a song off a number 1 album that hasn't charted somewhere eg

Lykke Li - Possibility

off the New Moon soundtrack.

It reached 59 on the Swedish singles chart, 133 on the UK chart and 20 on the US Bubbling under Hot 100 singles

All purely off downloads

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

I was hoping this would make it down to my pick...not to be.

Nevermind. I can be skipped at anytime

 

[Eephus]

1 hour clock on Friday

If you're not going to be around, feel free to leave lists or request autoskips. You're probably not going to get sniped.

 

[AcerFC]

If I come up today, skip me. I didn't have one second to research thanks to the snow

 

[Gr00vus]

Songs involving weather would have been a good category.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Songs involving weather would have been a good category.

yes - would become a mental floss tycoon and avoid a certain colored snow

 

[JZilla]

well I hate to be the guy to take a SECOND Radiohead song in the first round but this has now been spotlit and I can't think of much else to do with this category. You'd think I'd know more of these. I guess I'm just too blah to research today. I had one other song by someone else in mind, very long but arguable whether it's 3 distinct parts.. for now it will be my plan B for best scream. Can anyone guess what it is?

Radiohead - Paranoid Android (rock song w/3+ movements)

http://bit.ly/1hhqmJ8

 

[JZilla]

Acer skipped by req. Mister CIA is up

 

[KarmaPolice]

well I hate to be the guy to take a SECOND Radiohead song in the first round but this has now been spotlit and I can't think of much else to do with this category. You'd think I'd know more of these. I guess I'm just too blah to research today. I had one other song by someone else in mind, very long but arguable whether it's 3 distinct parts.. for now it will be my plan B for best scream. Can anyone guess what it is?

Radiohead - Paranoid Android (rock song w/3+ movements)

0 surprise, but this is the only one I could think of right away.

 

[JZilla]

well I hate to be the guy to take a SECOND Radiohead song in the first round but this has now been spotlit and I can't think of much else to do with this category. You'd think I'd know more of these. I guess I'm just too blah to research today. I had one other song by someone else in mind, very long but arguable whether it's 3 distinct parts.. for now it will be my plan B for best scream. Can anyone guess what it is?

Radiohead - Paranoid Android (rock song w/3+ movements)

0 surprise, but this is the only one I could think of right away.

Well the one I thought of first is poo. Might be the inspiration for this category tho

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

I'll be in court for a bit tomorrow, so you can autoskip me anytime. I'll make picks when I can. The odd of me getting sniped are small, and the odds of me caring are smaller.

 

[zamboni]

I'll be in court for a bit tomorrow, so you can autoskip me anytime. I'll make picks when I can. The odd of me getting sniped are small, and the odds of me caring are smaller.

Songs about being arrested would have been a good category, too.

 

[Bonzai]

well I hate to be the guy to take a SECOND Radiohead song in the first round but this has now been spotlit and I can't think of much else to do with this category. You'd think I'd know more of these. I guess I'm just too blah to research today. I had one other song by someone else in mind, very long but arguable whether it's 3 distinct parts.. for now it will be my plan B for best scream. Can anyone guess what it is?

Radiohead - Paranoid Android (rock song w/3+ movements)

0 surprise, but this is the only one I could think of right away.

Well the one I thought of first is poo. Might be the inspiration for this category tho

One of the first ones I thought of too, which ended up leading to my pick.

 

[higgins]

FYI: I can be on autoskip.

 

[krista4]

1.12: Crosses - Jose Gonzalez (Acoustic post 1990)

This guy has a ton of good stuff, but this is my favorite. I wish I could find a higher fidelity recording to post.

Damn, I love his stuff.

 

[Mister CIA]

I'll pick shortly. Skip me in the meantime. In fact, consider me on autoskip throughout the draft.

 

[Time Kibitzer]

1 . 17 --- John Madden's Lunchbox .. 1.17 --- ---
1 . 18 --- Chaos Commish . . . . . . 1.18 --- ---
1 . 19 --- Doug B . . . . . . . . .. 1.19 --- ---
1 . 20 --- Steve Tasker . . . . . .. 1.20 --- ---
1 . 21 --- higgins . . . . . . . . . 1.21 autoskip
1 . 22 --- Usual21 . . . . . . . . . 1.22 --- ---

So that's where I think we're at, with AcerFC and Mister CIA owing picks.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

I can pick?

Just a sec....

 

[Steve Tasker]

Heading to bed early....I'll draft from work in the morning if I'm OTC. Consider me on auto-skip til like 9 AM ET.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Topped the Swedish chart for 6 weeks in 2007

Titled with only a person's name

Could also be selected under Scandanavian, Screeeeeaaaam (maybe) or Awful Lyrics that you still love,

1.17 - Ola - Natalie - 3:08

Ola Svensson released a hugely successful cover version under the name Ola. The song served as the lead single off his second album Good Enough and became a big summer hit in 2007, topping the Swedish Singles Chart for 6 weeks, namely charts dated 28 June and 5 July 2007 (first run), 26 July and 5 August 2007 (second run) and 16 and 23 August 2007 (third run). The single was certified Platinum in Sweden, in recognition of 20,000 copies sold.

 

[Mister CIA]

I'll open with a pick in my own category - songs with Babe or Baby in the title. There are many dozens to choose from but I have to go with what I consider the greatest of them all.

Round 1: Rock Your Baby by George McRae.

Probably the third or fourth time I've selected this song in a draft. Perfection cannot be ignored.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

I'll open with a pick in my own category - songs with Babe or Baby in the title. There are many dozens to choose from but I have to go with what I consider the greatest of them all.

Round 1: Rock Your Baby by George McRae.

Probably the third or fourth time I've selected this song in a draft. Perfection cannot be ignored.

I think you have to leave your own category until last.

 

[Mister CIA]

I'll open with a pick in my own category - songs with Babe or Baby in the title. There are many dozens to choose from but I have to go with what I consider the greatest of them all.

Round 1: Rock Your Baby by George McRae.

Probably the third or fourth time I've selected this song in a draft. Perfection cannot be ignored.

I think you have to leave your own category until last.

Well ####. Back to the salt mines.

 

[Eephus]

I'll open with a pick in my own category - songs with Babe or Baby in the title. There are many dozens to choose from but I have to go with what I consider the greatest of them all.

Round 1:

We don't have many rules but that's one of them.