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

MAC_32 said:
#1 Stop! - Jane's Addiction

#2 F.O.D. - Green Day

#3 Can't Change Me - Chris Cornell

So I was a punk. I knew I was a punk. I didnt want to be a punk (sorta). So I spent a few years trying to be something that I wasn't because I felt like I was supposed to. At some point I started to realize that I shouldn't be trying to do something or be someone that I wasn't. And then I heard this song. Then it all made sense. #### you I wont do what you tell me may have been pre teen Mac, but the next phase came with more introspection. And that was Can't Change Me. 
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Another artist who makes me seethe, and did before his passing,  that greed & flash soooo overtook the A&R profession that they lost the courage to shape the careers of talent like this. I know he had reasonable success but, If this was a Beatles hit, @krista4 would have it in her top 20 and Cornell actually does it better of any of them could. Yet he faded back into genrehood. Stunning voice, appearance, songwriting skills. Why did this poor, beautiful sap have to die in ignominy to get noticed outside the grunge world?!

 
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10.xx (pretty sure I'm at 10)

Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light .    Because, well, actually the back story breaks the rules here.  But it's.... good.

11.xx (since I was pretty sure I was at 10 a few lines up)

Elton John - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me   It can even be the version with George Michael.  Don't care.  Great song and one I play a lot.

 
#4 Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror

I had a good child hood. I had a great child hood, actually. For all of my family's faults, all things considered - they aren't bad. But that environment didn't bring out the best in me. A lot of it was self inflicted, but it also wasn't going to change as long as I stayed put. And the only way to see things clearer was to put it all in my rear view mirror. 

As much as I was into rock music for reasons that i still cant explain today I didnt get into Pearl Jam when I was young. Part of it was MTV but we had a good local radio station, so it wasnt like it never entered listening range. It just didnt stick.

This song changed that - I just hadn't heard it until the mid 2000's. Somehow. As I worked myself into better shape it was an end of workout playlist staple- and still is today. The way it builds...and builds...and keeps building. Needing to attain max energy to give you the strength to go into the unknown and leave it all behind. Many emotional connections aren't permanent, but the best ones are. Like this one.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
RD 15: Stormy - Classics IV

This song goes with my early childhood days, listening to WING 1410 on my red Sears transistor radio.  Summer nights, Little League baseball, A&W root beer floats, and teenburgers. 
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Wanna dance, cutey?

Dunno why, but thinking back to transistor radio days gives my memory a chub anymore. I recounted in @Gr00vus's  thread about having a radio under my pillow to listen to Jean Shepherd and soul music on WUFO well into the night thru my entire childhood. And bicycling to Beverly Airport to do my Civil Air Patrol (til Nam, all i wanted in life was to be an Air Force Pilot) traffic counts, with my Sylvania (me Da worked for em) box dangling from the handlebars and i remember hopping the dial in order to listen Light My Fire or Dock o' the Bay over&over&over while i logged airport activity. Me & my best pal would bike out to this wildlife sanctuary that had a perfect place to play nuclear attack on and, for some reason, when Secret Agent Man came on, we'd go nutz & break cover & get mowed down by Russkies. Nostalgia just aint what it used to be.... 

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Wanna dance, cutey?

Dunno why, but thinking back to transistor radio days gives my memory a chub anymore. I recounted in @Gr00vus's  thread about having a radio under my pillow to listen to Jean Shepherd and soul music on WUFO well into the night thru my entire childhood. And bicycling to Beverly Airport to do my Civil Air Patrol (til Nam, all i wanted in life was to be an Air Force Pilot) traffic counts, with my Sylvania (me Da worked for em) box dangling from the handlebars and i remember hopping the dial in order to listen Light My Fire or Dock o' the Bay over&over&over while i logged airport activity. Me & my best pal would bike out to this wildlife sanctuary that had a perfect place to play nuclear attack on and, for some reason, when Secret Agent Man came on, we'd go nutz & break cover & get mowed down by Russkies. Nostalgia just aint what it used to be.... 
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givin' you a numba and takin' away your name.

 
Mister CIA said:
Bonus track

I've linked to this cover song so many times because I love it so.  The original Johnny Nash is equally great, if not better.  This is my ultimate walk-off funeral song.

I Can See Clearly Now
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Now that the precedent has been set, I want this one played if I go before my parents, especially my father.

My earliest memories of my dad are of him spending extended (3 months or so) time away from home, due to work (he was a telephone switch installer for AT&T from the mid-60's until the late 70's, was then one of the 'can you hear me now' guys testing wireless connectivity when they began installing cell towers, then when the company got into PCs, he was one of their first PC techs, so he frequently had to go to learn new equipment and/or was transferred to other areas when more manpower was needed), but had no vices or outside 'hobbies' that kept him from being available to us when he was home. In fact, his only 'interest' seemed to be music.  He didn't have a personal record collection to speak of, but he always had country music on the radio, and by country I mean old-school. As that type of music became harder to find on the dial, his tastes drifted more into bluegrass, and being inside the DC beltway, there was actually a healthy selection of local acts, plus the local NPR station had a regular bluegrass program, so he got his fix that way.  He even dragged us to a few local festivals and whatnot in the early 70' as he got more into it.  It kind of culminated with his taking a liking to one particular local group, The Seldom Scene. He became a big fan of this group and rarely missed the opportunity to go see them, and I'll never forget how geeked up he got (in his own understated way) when they were invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry in '79. They were based in northern Virginia and developed a kind of standing gig at a small but happening place called The Birchmere (I'm sure a few of you MD/VA guys have heard of this place, as this venue attracts a broad spectrum of musical artists), and every now and then, we would go there and watch them play. I honestly can't remember how many times he and I went there over the years, from my early teens all the way until after I had kids. I'm not a huge bluegrass guy, but thanks to my dad, I know enough about its origins and the early movers and shakers of the genre to sound knowledgeable. 

Without further ado, I present my tribute to my dad, if I precede him: From their appearance at the Opry, their live rendition of my favorite song of theirs: Rider.

 
Saw the Seldom Scene (wait...what?) a bunch of times. The were THE hot BG band around DC back in the day, and that was - as you say - a pretty crowded field. Nice pick.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Saw the Seldom Scene (wait...what?) a bunch of times. The were THE hot BG band around DC back in the day, and that was - as you say - a pretty crowded field. Nice pick.
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My dad and I went to the Birchmere to see Ralph Stanley play and most of the guys in the Seldom Scene came out to see him as well, and they ended up on stage with him and his band for a couple of songs.  That was also the first time I got drunk in front of one of my parents.  :headbang: :suds:

 
#1 Jane's Addiction - Stop!

#2 Green Day - F.O.D.

#3 Chris Cornell - Can't Change Me

#4 Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror

#5 Dropkick Murphy's- Flannigan's Ball

I moved to Cleveland after college in 2007. It wasnt blind as I had a job lined up and a few close friends that made their way to this city too. But I was here to in part reinvent myself, or at least not repeat the mistakes I made in my first 23 years of life. 

This song probably best represents that transition as my personality was a fit with the irish community, of which there are a lot of in Cleveland. Including my now wife. I had some familiarity with irish music, but i quickly learned that it was very green. And it became my primary music outlet as I made Cleveland my home.

But the transition was a bit sloppy, and given my past looking back it isnt a big surprise. There were friendships developing but it was also amidst drunken debauchery, sleeping around, and consistently bad decision making. Unlike old me I was confident I'd make it through this stage relatively unscathed, but I suppose old me just wanted one last hurrah. And those 18 months or so were the most fun that I never want to have again. 

 
13?.x Rust Wier / Aqua Dulce

Song really reminds me of five years of my early 20's I don't remember. 

Face down in Agua Dulce on a sultry Friday morning..
Wakin' up in a roadside park with a table for my bed.
Well the sun keeps gettin' higher, and my stomach's catching fire.
I better hitch me up a pickup truck and get as far as I can thumb.
Well, I drove my van to Mexico some seven days and nights ago.
The drinks and the brown-eyed ladies were the best I can recall.
Stayed stoned and drunk and shootin' dice. Every ten I won, Lord, I lost it twice.
And how I got to Agua Dulce, Lord, I'll never know.
South Texas gets hotter than a body really ought to bother.
The white hot heat, it'll scorch your very soul.
I'm headed up the country where the shade ain't quite a hundred.
Lord, I'm down, I'm broke, I'm weary, and I'm a long way from home. A long way from home.
Well, Lord, you know I'm wasted.
But I'm glad for what I tasted.
The time I had was mine to give.
And give is what I done.
I took me one more fling now.
Made a song that I can sing now.
But how I got to Agua Dulce, Lord, I'll never know.
 

 
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#6 Bruce Springsteen- Thunder Road

I was aware of the boss growing up, but mainstream Bruce went one ear and out the other. Born to Rum was okay, but the rest? Nah. And I still feel the same today. But having not grown up in that era and never going beyond his mainstream material I never realized the gems th at lies beneath.

My now wife corrected that problem. It took time, I'm a stubborn ####### after all. But he's now one of the most heavily played artists. This is a great song, but it isnt in my top 5. I'm adding it here because of length and content. His best songs are long and we have a time limit here. They're also more bleak songs whereas this one most closely describes the beginning of my wife and i's relationship. 

 
I know I have better, but this is striking me at the moment, so if I'm going I'm going out to what keeps me in the moment. 

Round 15.xx - We Were Promised Jetpacks - It's Thunder And It's Lightning

By the way, I do not want these actual songs played at my funeral or wake. This is a trial.  

eta* Unless it happens. Then, by all means.  

 
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I don't visit fbg much anymore. Sorry I missed this though. I made my playlist and will post when you finish. My daughter saw me doing it and said, "Dad if you die soon, it will be from an overdose so you have to use Comfortably Numb." 

 
Chaos Commish said:
I don't visit fbg much anymore. Sorry I missed this though. I made my playlist and will post when you finish. My daughter saw me doing it and said, "Dad if you die soon, it will be from an overdose so you have to use Comfortably Numb." 
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really needs to be in the "things my kid says" thread.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
RD 18: Squonk - Genesis

Love Peter Gabriel, but this album, the first one without him - is my favorite Genesis album by far.  The entire thing is beautiful ...I could have almost any song off it - but I picked this one.  Freshman/sophomore year of college ...sweeping, great memories.  
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I drafted A Trick of the Tail before, said the same as you, and I think we've had this conversation before. I don't recall you mentioning freshman/sophomore year of college though that's xactly when I "really" discovered it, almost a decade after release. Road trip music. Now I listen.

 
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