MixTape Draft - 6+ word titles. Finish your draft and listen to mixes! (1 Viewer)

[Eephus]

I drafted almost entirely for flow this time around with no self imposed requirements to represent all of the continents or Black lesbians.  I ended up with a very conventional rock list ranging from 1971 to 2017.  It's predominantly English with a handful of American and one Canadian group.  It's also overwhelmingly Caucasian--I think the only exceptions are Phil Lynott, Barry Adamson (from Magazine) and Bowie's backing musicians. 

With one pick to go, I'm pretty happy with the outcome of the mix.  It takes kind of an arc from the cute matching Lloyd Cole/Camera Obscura cuts at the beginning building toward some louder punkish stuff in the middle before descending back through more pop material at the end.  The song I'll pick this afternoon will close the mix on a suitably optimistic note if anyone listens that far.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I drafted almost entirely for flow this time around with no self imposed requirements to represent all of the continents or Black lesbians.  I ended up with a very conventional rock list ranging from 1971 to 2017.  It's predominantly English with a handful of American and one Canadian group.  It's also overwhelmingly Caucasian--I think the only exceptions are Phil Lynott, Barry Adamson (from Magazine) and Bowie's backing musicians. 

With one pick to go, I'm pretty happy with the outcome of the mix.  It takes kind of an arc from the cute matching Lloyd Cole/Camera Obscura cuts at the beginning building toward some louder punkish stuff in the middle before descending back through more pop material at the end.  The song I'll pick this afternoon will close the mix on a suitably optimistic note if anyone listens that far.

Interesting, mine is the opposite - put the punk-ish stuff at the start, country and Aretha in the middle, and tried to pick up the pace again with alt rock/newer stuff at the end. 

 

[Eephus]

Interesting, mine is the opposite - put the punk-ish stuff at the start, country and Aretha in the middle, and tried to pick up the pace again with alt rock/newer stuff at the end. 

With 20 songs, you can make a few long sweeping turns.  It's certainly possible to have 20 songs with a similar vibe but that's a long time to keep pogo-ing.

 

[El Floppo]

oh... other logic behind my picks- all stuff that was on my existing spotify catch-all list, or on my ipod (pre 2007)

 

[El Floppo]

who's doing the spreadsheet? still has magnetic fields there instead of gil scot-heron.


LCD Soundsystem


Daft Punk is Playing at My House


The Minutemen


Little Man With a Gun In His Hand


The Hives


Hate to Say I Told You So


Yo La Tengo


Pass the Hatchet I think I'm Goodkind


Of Montreal


The Past is a Grotesque Animal


Pavement


Unseen Power of the Picket Fence


Funkadelic


I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing


The Magnetic Fields


Have You Seen It In the Snow


Boogie Down Productions


The Style You Haven't Done Yet


Gang of Four


I Love a Man in a Uniform


So Cow


Second Last Line of the National Anthem


The Intelligence


Like Like Like Like Like Like Like


Japanther


Um, Like Your Smile is Totally Ruling Me


Sebadoh


It's So Hard to Fall In Love


Rotary Connection


I am the Black Gold of the Sun


Francis Poulenc


Valse Improvisation sur le nom de Bach


Death Grips


 You Might Think He Loves You for Your Money but I Know What He Really Loves You for It’s Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat


A Place to Bury Strangers


I Live My Life to Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart


Felt


I Will Die With My Head in Flames

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Sorry, I forgot---when can we post round 20? Is it 4pm or 2pm EDT?

 

[rockaction]

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Sorry, I forgot---when can we post round 20? Is it 4pm or 2pm EDT?

It's 4 PM, Marco. 

 

[rockaction]

20 - Underground Railroad To Candyland - Livin' In The Straw (In The Summer Of Fraud)

Link

Todd Congelliere's side project features members from Toys That Kill. It's a surf rock/punk hybrid, and is as good a place as any for me to end this draft. Critically acclaimed by punk and alternative music writers, this band is definitely catchy, with shout-along lyrics and infectious choruses. Congelliere is head of Recess Records, which now hosts a diverse punk roster and maybe the country's best punk mail order. He has been in bands such as the aforementioned Toys That Kill, FYP, and his own solo output. 

An impressive guy, and a perfect band for me.  

This particular song is from Oct. 2007, and is presumably about the insurance/banking/other financial crises that swept the globe. 

Mix TK. 

 

[Waingro]

Round 19

Not a theme (as the song suggests), just a tune that I enjoy.

Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Round 20

It Only Hurts When I Cry - Dwight Yoakam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSGzgA8KFmM

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

20.xx  The Feelies - The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness

Hey @KarmaPolice, let me know when I can take a mulligan selection.  Thanks.

 

[rockaction]

rockaction's incredibly hopeful and diverse foray into music critic respectability

SPOTIFY MIX

https://open.spotify.com/user/rockaction8/playlist/6avhKtYneBcHrehpufOAmy

(Includes Yuppie Hip-Hop Ad by URTC and a live version of The Impossibles, as those are the only things available close to the original selections)

*Please leet me know if link doesn't work. Changed the title and the address. 

 

[Eephus]

20.12 Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

 

[JZilla]

Another girl group for balance.. there were an inordinate amt great of qualifiers in 60s R&B..

20.fin The Crystals - He's Sure The Boy I Love 
 

They had a much bigger hit that would work but I like this tune better, sounds kinda the same but not as goofy

 

[Yo Mama]

20.03 - Sublime, We're Only Going to Die for Our Arrogance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsX3Ybe062A

I finally get a Sublime song in a draft. This is an older song of theirs from their first album and is a cover from a Bad Religion song. 

This will be a nice transition song on my playlist from my funkier stuff to my harder stuff due to how the song progresses. 

Full playlist to be posted soon. 

 

[rockaction]

Thanks to everyone, especially @KarmaPolicefor the great idea and flawless commissioning. Hope we do another one soon. 

 

[sn0mm1s]

Double dipping into artists I took earlier in the draft since I have a feeling neither song would be picked otherwise - and they should be picked!

Round 19

Don't #### Me Up (With Peace And Love) - Cracker

Round 20

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

 

[KarmaPolice]

I have taken them a couple times in drafts, but it seemed like a good song to put after Sonic Youth...

20.xx:  SLEATER-KINNEY - I WANNA BE YOUR JOEY RAMONE

LINK

 

[KarmaPolice]

20.xx  The Feelies - The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness

Hey @KarmaPolice, let me know when I can take a mulligan selection.  Thanks.

@The Dreaded Marco

How about we give people a few hours to come in and finish up their drafts.  I know we have some stragglers and somebody said they would catch up tomorrow, but we don't seem to be too worried about snipes over the last few rounds, so tonight should be fine.  How about we give people 5 hours (just a random #) to come in and finish their drafts and people can start taking mulligans at 9pm est.  That way we can still start getting mixes up and posted tonight. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

Gonna run around with the kids outside (finally a day in the 50s!) and make supper.  I will post the link to my mix and also start linking people's mixes in the OP for easy access in the future.  Thanks again to Mr. Ected and Northern Voice for basically running the show with the spreadsheet and draft mixes. 

Also thanks to all of you drafting - this was a fun draft as usual.  Lots of music taken I am not familiar with so it should be fun listening to these mixes, and I will post reviews as I go of stuff that I loved that was new to me. 

 

[Yo Mama]

Yo Mama Likes It Six or Bigger

Playlist

1 - Nirvana, The Man Who Sold the World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8

2 - Led Zeppelin, What is and What Should Never Be - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrqMdja4eYs

3 - AC/DC, It's a Long Way to the Top, (If You Want to Rock and Roll) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUXMzkh-jI

4 - Stone Temple Pilots, Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVD0JVnsXXw

5 - U2, Where the Streets Have No Name - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsrPEUt2Dg

6 - Pearl Jam, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF-5vW4GbsQ

7 - The Killers, All These Things That I've Done - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTpLvsYYHw

8 - Incubus, Summer Romance (Anti Gravity Love Song) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7aDgdPDYQ

9 - Nas (feat. Lauryn Hill), If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW55FRXlPEs

10 - KRS One, Step Into a World (Rapture's Delight) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC-i7XeXqg0

11 - A Tribe Called Quest, Rhythm (Devoted to the Art of Moving Butts) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OadUNx9uow

12 - Busta Rhymes, Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxhigzl35sw

13 - Cypress Hill, How I Could Just Kill a Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg-RIOATCbU

14 - Public Enemy, By the Time I Get to Arizona - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRW6K5CvLFs

15 - Beastie Boys, The Skills to Pay the Bills - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJgCfP98TVQ

16 - Run the Jewels (feat. Zach de la Rocha), Close Your Eyes (And Count to F**k) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGwI7nGehA

17 - The Offspring, Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTR-_Klcq8

18 - Sublime, We're Only Going to Die for Our Arrogance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsX3Ybe062A

19 - Queens of the Stone Age, You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8LvHT_zcQ

20 - System of a Down, This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm High on This Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQOSfnV4hM

I'll get my last few picks into Spotify tonight and will get everything in the above order - stupid work blocks Spotify. 

 

[rockaction]

Yeah, thanks to @Mr. Ected and @Northern Voice

 

[Raging weasel]

Pretty sure no one is waiting on this so I'll make my last selection.

monster magnet- look to your orb for warning

https://open.spotify.com/track/0hXpC8CI25VOT8qNV1nr8l

 

[Eephus]

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Six Word Song Titles


Lloyd Cole and the Commotions     …..     Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?
Camera Obscura     …..     Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
Thin Lizzy     …..     Dancing In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In It's Spotlight)
The Hollies     …..     Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)
The Veils     …..     The Tide That Left And Never Came Back
Manic Street Preachers     …..     If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
David Bowie     …..     It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
Morrissey     …..     You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side
Ramones     …..     My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club     …..     Whatever Happened To My Rock 'N' Roll (Punk Song)
The Orwells     …..     They Put A Body In The Bayou
Magazine     …..     The Light Pours Out Of Me
Elvis Costello & The Attractions     …..     (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
Ballboy     …..     I Don't Have Time To Stand Here With You Fighting About The Size Of my ####
The House Of Love     …..     I Don't Know Why I Love You
Stars     …..     Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It
The Bangles     …..     If She Knew What She Wants
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians     …..     So You Think You're In Love
Sugar     …..     If I Can't Change Your Mind
Billy Bragg     …..     Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

 

[-OZ-]

for the final pick, something completely different

 

[rockaction]

for the final pick, something completely different

Love it. 

 

[JZilla]

Here mine is

Pretty much a mishmash

But now that I've been on the wagon for like 6 weeks, I tried to make something I would enjoy listening to high

I have twenty more extras to add once everybody's finished, so all you zillaheads stay tuned, for now here's the front side

Spoiler

01 Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)
02 Hawkwind - The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)
03 Beastie Boys - Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
04 Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson - Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
05 Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
06 Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us
07 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
08 The First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
09 Mudhoney - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More
10 Pink Floyd - Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict
11 Super Furry Animals - The Man Don't Give A ####
12 Chuck Berry - The Things I Used To Do
13 The Crystals - He's Sure The Boy I Love
14 The Marvelettes - The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
15 Percy Sledge - True Love Travels On A Gravel Road
16 Prince - How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
17 Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
18 Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles
19 The Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy)
20 The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bring Me The Head Of Paul McCartney On Heather Mills' Wooden Peg (Dropping Bombs On The White House)

 

[sn0mm1s]

sn0mm1s's spotify mix

SPOTIFY

If one cares about completeness - Spotify doesn't have:

Why Can't I Fall In Love - Ivan Neville

 

[PIK95]

for the final pick, something completely different

I was gonna grab "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" but wussed out.

 

[JZilla]

I was gonna grab "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" but wussed out.

Melvins covered that last year 

 

[PIK95]

20 - Dead or Alive - "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"

I will put my official mix order together tonight.

 

[El Floppo]

20.xx  The Feelies - The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness

Hey @KarmaPolice, let me know when I can take a mulligan selection.  Thanks.

holy smokes... I love this album but completely forgot about this song. nice one!

 

[El Floppo]

20.12 Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

bragg's another artist with lots and lots of 6+ word song titles... have a couple on my draft list. hadn't heard this one before.

 

[El Floppo]

Double dipping into artists I took earlier in the draft since I have a feeling neither song would be picked otherwise - and they should be picked!

Round 20

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

been really hard not taking this one each round- love this song.

 

[Eephus]

20.xx  The Feelies - The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness

Songs like this with long fade-in intros are tough to work into mix tapes.

 

[sn0mm1s]

Double dipping into artists I took earlier in the draft since I have a feeling neither song would be picked otherwise - and they should be picked!

Round 20

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

been really hard not taking this one each round- love this song.

Honestly, could've been my Round 1 but I am positive I took it in a previous draft. I was leaving it for someone else. 

 

[Eephus]

Honestly, could've been my Round 1 but I am positive I took it in a previous draft. I was leaving it for someone else. 

Lord knows, it would be the first time

 

[-OZ-]

I was gonna grab "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" but wussed out.

Bill? or Harry? 

 

[-OZ-]

20 - Dead or Alive - "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"

I will put my official mix order together tonight.

Nice.  It's amazing how many songs I love but completely forgot about.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Alright, here is the link for my playlist:

Overcompensating

I hinted at it at the start, but it sounded like a good idea so I ran with it.  I drafted all songs with long titles, but short run times.  Thought I would keep it under an hour (looks like the mix is only 53 mins long!) and take all songs that were less than 3 mins.  It was a little bit of a challenge b/c there were a lot of songs that I wanted that were just barely over 3min, but a man's got to have principles.  I was also tricky trying to find different styles so that it wasn't just 20 songs of punk and songs that still felt complete in less than 3mins.  Maybe not flow-wise, but the length of the mix should be something that Eephus can appreciate

Here is the final list of my draft songs in order:

Talking Heads - Thank You for Sending Me An Angel

Buzzcocks - Even Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

The Clash - I'm So Bored with the USA

Black Flag - Beat My Head Against the Wall

Circle Jerks - When the #### Hits the Fan

The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night

CCR - It Came Out of the Sky

Neil Young - What Did You Do To My Life?

Kenny Rogers - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)

Muddy Waters - You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had

Chuck Berry - School Day (Ring Ring Goes the Bell)

The White Stripes - I'm Finding it Harder to Be a Gentlemen

The Dead Milkmen - The Thing That Only Eats Hippies

Sonic Youth - In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader

Sleater-Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone

DEVO - The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise

The Cars - Got A Lot On My Head

The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You

Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

Thanks to anybody who listens, and I hope you enjoy the mix!

 

[KarmaPolice]

I updated the OP and have the 1st 5 mixes linked at the top of the 1st post.  I will edit and add as more are posted. 

 

[Mr. Ected]

19:22 - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - Karn Evil 9, First Impression, Part2. (1973 (6 Words)

Interesting for this song, the length of the portions of the entire song are longer than the whole song; which is Karn Evil 9, which obviously doesn't have a long enough title! This is my favorite part of this song!

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Songs like this with long fade-in intros are tough to work into mix tapes.

Tell me about it.

I guess I'll never be confused for Rob Gordon but I'll do my best.  I tried to segue it with something that sort of works---I  don't think it'll be too jarring.  

 

[Eephus]

19:22 - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - Karn Evil 9, First Impression, Part2. (1973 (6 Words)

Interesting for this song, the length of the portions of the entire song are longer than the whole song; which is Karn Evil 9, which obviously doesn't have a long enough title! This is my favorite part of this song!

Teenage Eephus was bothered by how the First Impression was split between side 1 & 2 of the record.

I probably just needed to get laid.

 

[Mr. Ected]

19:22 - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - Karn Evil 9, First Impression, Part2. (1973 (6 Words)

Interesting for this song, the length of the portions of the entire song are longer than the whole song; which is Karn Evil 9, which obviously doesn't have a long enough title! This is my favorite part of this song!

Teenage Eephus was bothered by how the First Impression was split between side 1 & 2 of the record.

I probably just needed to get laid.

Amazing how kids now-a-days have no idea what a hassle that was!!

ETA: The part about records (tapes too!), playing one side at a time, not the getting laid part!

 

[dal_boys_phan]

Continuing my dominoes style link to my previous two picks, taking this one for the song title alone (not the best track on what is not even a good album).  I'll probably use this as my mix title.

20.xx - Sadler Vaden - Nobody Gives A Damn About Songs Anymore

Sadler (formerly of Drivin' and Cryin') is currently the lead guitarist in Jason Isbell's The 400 Unit, hence the link.  

 

[dal_boys_phan]

My Draft from the 14 hole...
1. Otis Redding - (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay (1968)
2. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (1963)
3. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I’m Looking For (1987)
4. The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (1969)
5. Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It (1984)
6. James Brown - Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (1966)
7. Bill Haley and His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock (1955)
8. George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (1977)
9. Lucero - Went Looking For Warren Zevon’s Los Angeles (2015)
10. Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)(1983)
11. The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine (2004)
12. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1983)
13. Grace Potter and The Nocturnals - The Lion The Beast The Beat (2012)
14. Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman (1966)
15. The Mavericks - As Long as There's Loving Tonight (2013)
16. Cinderella - Don't Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone) (1988)
17. The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1969)
18. John Prine - That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round (1978)
19. Jason Isbell - Songs That She Sang In the Shower (2013)
20. Sadler Vaden - Nobody Gives A Damn About Songs Anymore (2016)

Will post a Spotify mix in a day or two.

 

[dal_boys_phan]

Quick post - will add link later

7.14 Billy Haley and His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock

@Hov34 OTC 

@El Floppo on deck

Heard a few nuggets about this one last night on Little Steven's Underground Garage

(1) Was the "B" side to a single that went nowhere

(2) Lead guitarist got $21 to play the solo

(3) Recorded in two takes and spliced together - they only had 30 minutes left of studio time after the "A" side took six takes and 2.5 hours

 

[Mr. Ected]

20.04 - Toad the Wet Sprocket - I Will Not Take These Things For Granted (1991) - 8 Words

 

[Northern Voice]

20.19 - I Can't Figure Out What's Going On - Half Moon Run