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Mix Tape Draft for your Wake or End of Life - now underway (1 Viewer)

wikkidpissah said:
I'm gonna get the love songs in before the favorites & existential ones:

3.xx - Love Reign O'er Me The Who

Don't worry, i'm not going to give a the whole account again but, 25 yrs ago, my Mary got breast cancer, beat it, got bone cancer, declined treatment, resigned to their prognosis of 6-8 wks and lived for almost two and a half years of shrill, shrieking pain. Already in their records as a drug addict, medicos underprescribed her as a result and her monthly painkiller allotment lasted 8-10 days max. Beyond tending her, i spent six figs and put myself in a lot of jackpots procuring illegal morphine & such to connect the dots. When it all got too much, i'd go to my office and put this song on @ 11 (even at her sickest, volume never bothered my gal) to drown out my screams of "LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVE" along to it. nufced
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yes!

 
Going with a trio from Canada (no, not THEM :headbang: although I may sneak one in :scared: ).

3.xx - Magic Power - Triumph

I'm young, I'm wild, and I'm free
I've got the power of the music in me.

 
Round 3:

I wanted a Prince song in here somewhere, and decided on Nothing Compares 2 U.   It's a song that's always meant a lot to me, and I've listened to it in remembrance of people I've lost.  Prince's studio version with The Family is great, and I like it better than the Sinead O'Connor version that made this song popular.   But I think the best version is this:

Chris Cornell - Nothing Compares 2 U

 
Mr. Ected said:
Going with a trio from Canada (no, not THEM :headbang: although I may sneak one in :scared: ).

3.xx - Magic Power - Triumph

I'm young, I'm wild, and I'm free
I've got the power of the music in me.
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Wow - I had forgotten all about this song.  Wasn't in my wheelhouse, but it's certainly a part of the soundtrack of my life from those days.  Car radio, man.  

 
Binky The Doormat said:
Mr. Ected said:
Going with a trio from Canada (no, not THEM :headbang: although I may sneak one in :scared: ).

3.xx - Magic Power - Triumph

I'm young, I'm wild, and I'm free
I've got the power of the music in me.
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Wow - I had forgotten all about this song.  Wasn't in my wheelhouse, but it's certainly a part of the soundtrack of my life from those days.  Car radio, man.  
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Never understood why they never got as big as they should have. They had everything that an 80s power band needed. Rik Emmett could sing, he was great on guitar, and they had a decent second vocalist in the drummer. They also had the hair and the looks for the 80s too!! C'mon!

 
Rd. 3

Going to get this one here now, since I'm sure I won't be the only one. Hard to find a better, more soulful vocal than this. The tragedy of his death adds to the depth of this song, for me. In the order of my songs, this will probably be 9th, with only one last song beating it out for the last one I want to hear on this Earth.

Jeff Buckley- Hallelujiah

 
Tecumseh said:
Rd. 3

Going to get this one here now, since I'm sure I won't be the only one. Hard to find a better, more soulful vocal than this. The tragedy of his death adds to the depth of this song, for me. In the order of my songs, this will probably be 9th, with only one last song beating it out for the last one I want to hear on this Earth.

Jeff Buckley- Hallelujiah
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I believe you can go up to 15 if you want - just staying within the 75 minute limit.  

 
nirad3 said:
Appreciate the offer but those two songs would be the only ones I could think of, and I'm not around here at all on the weekends.  Would hate to hold things up.
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If you want to, you can post at the end. We aren't really doing it in a specific draft order.

 
Mister CIA said:
Round 3: El Paso

or Big Iron?
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Cannot express how much i love this song and it gave me one of my most triumphal music moments. My best friend is a decent bass player who received an acoustic guitar as a birthday present from his wife in 2000 and wholeheartedly threw himself into becoming good at playing it. That fall, i came to Boston for my annual visit to friend & family and ended up  at my pal's house for the week of the presidential election. He is very much an active Kennedy Democrat and that turbulent night tore him apart. Yelling at his family, throwing furniture, all that.

From the beginning of my visit, he had me singing along to the ballads & such he had taught himself on his new guitar. Among them was one of the few country songs i loved, El Paso, which also happened to be almost perfect for my bass/baritone voice. I had taught myself a gear for pulling what had been falsetto notes down into my vocal range, but i had to choose between that & my natural voice and could yet hop between the two. So, while Robbins' mellifluous melody was perfect for my normal range, i couldn't ramp from it into that glorious bi-level hi note except in falsetto and, try after try, it ruined the whole damned thing.

Except for once. I had to do something to cheer my pal up from Dubya's tainted & inevitable victory. A terrible drunk in his time, he'd been sober for over a decade and i even feared he might lose that over this. I nudged him out to his carriage house (where i would live for over a year later in the decade) for a sesh to cheer him up. After a couple of indifferent selections, i suggested we give El Paso one more shot. This take suggested that the Greek gods are Democrats, for Apollo got me thru "west Texas wi-IIII-i--i-ind" and the three other Gs and we had done a proper cover of a great song. It took his edge off for the rest of my visit. I don't think me simultaneously singing every part of the Choral Movement of the 9th could get him over Trump tho....

 
Tecumseh said:
Rd. 3

Going to get this one here now, since I'm sure I won't be the only one. Hard to find a better, more soulful vocal than this. The tragedy of his death adds to the depth of this song, for me. In the order of my songs, this will probably be 9th, with only one last song beating it out for the last one I want to hear on this Earth.

Jeff Buckley- Hallelujiah
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Tremendous rendition of a great song, but i can barely listen to it anymore for remembrance of all the Idol-izations of it as an "inspirational" number.

 
wikkidpissah said:
Tremendous rendition of a great song, but i can barely listen to it anymore for remembrance of all the Idol-izations of it as an "inspirational" number.
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I'm with you. I was on this song way before it was "cool," and had to start deliberately avoiding the pseudo-soulful angst peddlers who picked up on it.

 
Round 4

The next of my three song tribute to my S.O. - we are very different in many ways (something I'm constantly reminded of by her) but it works.

You and I - Wilco

You and I, we might be strangers
However close we get sometimes
It's like we never met

But you and I, I think we can take it
All the good with the bad
Make something that no one else has but

You and I, you and I

Me and you, what can we do
When the words we use sometimes
Are misconstrued

Well, I won't guess, what's coming next
I can't ever tell you
The deepest well I've ever fallen into

 
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My next choice to continue the narrative I'm setting up is Jesus Loves Me - Jennifer Knapp.

When I left off, I was up to '96 and when I was 'born again'.  I'm not a very good Christian in most ways, but I still believe and hold on to the part the gospel that says Jesus' sacrifice was for everyone. Anyway, I'm not here to preach, but rather to highlight songs that I want other people to associate with me when I'm gone and why.  I chose this particular version because of Ms. Knapp's voice.  This version came out when I first started listening to 'Christian' radio, and it seemed to come on at times when I was feeling I wasn't doing well in my 'spiritual walk' or just feeling inadequate in general, and it's her voice as much as the message that touches my emotions. It's still difficult for me to not get misty when I hear it. 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
Round 4

The next of my three song tribute to my S.O. - we are very different in many ways (something I'm constantly reminded of by her) but it works.

You and I - Wilco

You and I, we might be strangers
However close we get sometimes
It's like we never met

But you and I, I think we can take it
All the good with the bad
Make something that no one else has but

You and I, you and I

Me and you, what can we do
When the words we use sometimes
Are misconstrued

Well, I won't guess, what's coming next
I can't ever tell you
The deepest well I've ever fallen into
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best song i never heard

 
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Rd. 4

Objectively, this song is pretty terrible. However, my mom sang it to me when I was very small. Whenever I was sick, she would stroke my hair and sing this song. I never forgot the lyrics, and when I had a child of my own, there were many late, sleepless nights when I would sing this to her.

Coven- One Tin Soldier

 
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Tecumseh said:
Rd. 4

Objectively, this song is pretty terrible. However, my mom sang it to me when I was very small. Whenever I was sick, she would stroke my hair and sing this song. I never forgot the lyrics, and when I had a child of my own, there were many late, sleepless nights when I would sing this to her.

Coven- One Tin Soldier
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The church my family went to when I was little hired a young music/choir director who was able to slip this into the service once or twice. Surprisingly progressive for a Lutheran church in the mid 70's.

 
Mr. Ected said:
If you want to, you can post at the end. We aren't really doing it in a specific draft order.
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Seems morbid.   :oldunsure:

ETA:   :lol:  feel free to tag me at the end and I'll just bump my original post with those two songs.  I think I'll have those two on repeat at my service.

 
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My 4.xx is an emotional song for me because of the story it tells.  As much as I am a huge fan of the group, I never really looked into what they meant by the song, but I know what it means to me.  It's a song of a father telling his son that he is the most special thing in the world to him, that he has a world to show him and tell him about, but he will never get the chance to.  But at some point, long after the father is dead and gone, the son will remember the words that he says, use them with his own child, and understand what his father was trying to tell him.

The best part of me is my son and always will be.  I have to have something there for him specifically - one final wink and nod for him that only he will know and understand.

Queen - Father to Son  Runtime is 6:19.

One of the most passionate songs that Brian May ever wrote.  The guitar is pure spiritual emotion, the bridge is rock power that few bands can achieve with such depth of meaning and purpose.  ".... the air you breathe I long to give you," is one of the more gut wrenching visions in music for me.  Because I strive for that every day with him as best I can.  I hope my last day is not his worst, but his final launching pad to a greatness I will never achieve.

 
Ilov80s said:
Rd 4

Los Caminos De La Vida by La Tropa Vallenata

My wife's family is Mexican and Mexican culture has been a part of my life for awhile now. I want something to remember them by. This is a great song and perfect for the end. For those that can't speak Spanish, it is "The Paths of Life" 
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One of my best friends got married back in either '87 or '88. I know they celebrated their 30th anniversary in the past two years. Anyway, her mom is from Ecuador and her dad was from Spain.My friend had a band that played at their reception (their wedding song was The Waiting from TP and the Heartbreakers), and when the band would take breaks, Spanish music was put on. Her family would go out on the dance floor singing, dancing, and just so jubilant. It was the funnest wedding reception I have ever been to.

 
Pick 4...

Last one was about my daughter and so is this....   

I got really lucky. She's always been a great kid and a great person.

When she got married, she chose In My Life for our dance.  How cool is that?

We have have a tremendous amount of amazing memories together.  And now she has two beautiful daughters (almost 4 and 1.5) that are my world right now.

Without all of the above, I would have chosen this song. With all the above, it's incredibly special.

 
I loved growing up in the 70s, and have always loved disco. Donna Summer is much more than just disco, but that is what she was crowned the Queen of, and she wore that crown with pride saying, "It's good to be the queen of something." She is going to boogie me into the promised land.  So...

come on baby, dance that dance

4. Last Dance - Donna Summer

 
4.xx - Heaven Knows, Donna Summer

My Mary was my greatest love, but not my best. I had an affair that lasted over 40 years with the first girl i ever kissed. Betsy moved to Salem about the time i did (12 yo). Immediately smitten, i passed all her tests, impressed with my quests, gave her my very bests until she'd have me. I was never what she was looking for but became what she had to have every now & then and counted delicious moments with her as a result for the half-century hence.

My little Bardot grew from the prettiest girl in school to the sexiest woman i've ever known. To this day, she absorbs all the light & musk in any room and, like a Star Trek creature, the sex of life just makes her stronger. She found her Hemsworthy swain in college and he swept her away to the mountains of New Mexico. Seeking to cure my li'l Bardot of her princessness, this cad took off to Old Mexico with another chick in the commune. Her reaction was to call & invite me out as his replacement. I was thiiiis close to breaking out big in comedy (had to fly back to NY, in fact, to audition for the 2nd cast of SNL is how big) though the pressure was giving me ulcers, but it didn't take much more than my Bardot's call to get me to drop it all.

Cad came back, she forgave him and i was left to console myself with the other 28 playmate-quality commune chicks. Woe was me! Lil Bardot & Cad Hemsworthy eventually moved to Santa Fe & married and i moved to Albq (yes, you know why - close enough for trouble). Sure enough, after each indignity she'd suffer @ Cad's hands, she'd call her eunuch and offer to show him a good time. First it was rendezvoux at a secret hot spring in the mts then, when we both got disco fever, twas nights of electric floors, atomic powders and orgasmic stops at the local soak & poke. For much of the 15 years after i moved to NYC, then Reno, any call from NM would find me at the airport within hours, salivating at tryst's promise.

Our infamies continued until she got divorced not long after my Mary died. Kismetical as that might seem, i knew that Cavalier Servente was not a vice-presidential kind of office and i would not be re-installed as her pudding until my li'l Bardot had wrangled a new steady meal. By then, quitting all my addictions had got me too fat and i only received a few pity indulgences after that.

Sorry, but that all is as succinctly as i can put it (a paragraph per decade aint really that bad). Of all those moments, my favorite is sitting together on the rocks of our secret spring or the slimy edge of a hired hottub, singng either Peaches & Herb's Reunited or the above before/after diving into the essence of the other. Heaven knows, it feels so good. mmmm

 
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wikkidpissah said:
4.xx - Heaven Knows, Donna Summer

My Mary was my greatest love, but not my best. I had an affair that lasted over 40 years with the first girl i ever kissed. Betsy moved to Salem about the time i did (12 yo). Immediately smitten, i passed all her tests, impressed with my quests, gave her my very bests until she'd have me. I was never what she was looking for but became what she had to have every now & then and counted delicious moments with her as a result for the half-century hence.
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Did Mary ever know (or suspect) about you and your little Bardot?

 
4. "Stand By Me" - Ben E King

There have been a lot of great songs about friendship, about support, about being there. Some of them have already been chosen in this draft.

To me, this is as good as any of them. It's one of King's finest vocals (which is saying something). The music's in no hurry to get anywhere, but it ain't slowing down from getting there either.

It's a thank you to all those who were there for me, even when I didn't deserve it.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
4. "Stand By Me" - Ben E King

There have been a lot of great songs about friendship, about support, about being there. Some of them have already been chosen in this draft.

To me, this is as good as any of them. It's one of King's finest vocals (which is saying something). The music's in no hurry to get anywhere, but it ain't slowing down from getting there either.

It's a thank you to all those who were there for me, even when I didn't deserve it.
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This came up in my algorithm the other night for a reason, and I thought about taking it. What a lovely sentiment. Great choice. Like I said, you're killing this draft.  

 
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