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MixTape Draft - 6+ word titles. Finish your draft and listen to mixes! (2 Viewers)

JZilla said:
I got this Shiner strawberry blonde ####, NTTAWWT.  Spring time!

I do like Shiner
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I bought a few pilsner type beers this afternoon when it was 10 and sunny. Even had one on the back deck.

I just let the dogs out for their last piss of the night and there's an inch of snow and it's going to be -9 as a high tomorrow. Bull####.

No I'm not converting to farenheit..

 
Nice job @rockaction I would have maybe gone with one more rocker and one less contemplative instrumental, but the meat of it was great, and that Shangri-Las track is cool enough to fit right in.  Hadn't heard The Impossible, and I never paid much attention to Rancid beyond their hits but that's a real good tune that I'll come back to

 
JZilla said:
Nice job @rockaction I would have maybe gone with one more rocker and one less contemplative instrumental, but the meat of it was great, and that Shangri-Las track is cool enough to fit right in.  Hadn't heard The Impossible, and I never paid much attention to Rancid beyond their hits but that's a real good tune that I'll come back to
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Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Yeah, I'm a sucker for post-rock. I also think a more screamo song by Thursday might have served it better, too.

 
Northern Voice said:
I bought a few pilsner type beers this afternoon when it was 10 and sunny. Even had one on the back deck.

I just let the dogs out for their last piss of the night and there's an inch of snow and it's going to be -9 as a high tomorrow. Bull####.

No I'm not converting to farenheit..
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Multiply by 9, then divide by 5, then add 32.  :nerd:

That's some bull#### weather you have there.  Seems the same here.  We had almost 60 2 days ago and now looking like barely 30 tomorrow.  It's done this 25-30 degree swing #### a few times over the last few weeks. 

 
Northern Voice said:
Favourite two new to me songs here are actually the first two on the mix:

Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love In) is a very very good early Rolling Stones song, regardless of who Bonzai/Spotify said sang this

I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time nails the awesome psychedelic song with a ridiculously catchy chorus better than the more recent GBV/Foxygen stuff on here (which is also very good). 

All of My Friends are There isn't completely new to me but I probably haven't listened to it in 10 years and that's a bad call by me.

The best not new to me songs on this IMO are "Pints of Guinness Make You Strong" (which I spotlighted the #### out of earlier), plus Neil Young :wub: and The Beatles, who still stand out among a bunch of their contemporaries/peers on this mix. Other than that, Pavement song felt like it was building to a bigger climax than it did. Bright Eyes song is great but not new to me and 1 minute too long (which to be fair, it's 10 minutes long and 9 are great...) 
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I thought it -- Love In -- was indeed The Chocolate Watchband, and I almost took it. Isn't it from the Nuggets box set?

Eta* oh, I get it now. Heh. It's The Stones no matter what. Carry on. My apologies.

 
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@KarmaPolice is quite a flurry

Man I wish they had the Repo Man version of the #### Hits the Fan.. I have run into this frustration before

 
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Settling in now, real good mix by KP for the under 3 minute shtick he put on himself.. little taste of everything 

 
@sn0mm1s

Sometimes people exist in weirdly intersecting but paralell universes. There are just tastes that run perfectly aligned for a moment, and different the next. And then, sometimes that intersection is longer and more important than we think. Thus sn0mm1s and my taste. While never, ever would I have selected Cheap Trick's version of I Want You To Want Me off of In Color, with its slow piano gallop, over tens of thousands of Japanese schoolgirls screaming in the chorus of a sped-up version of the song live At Budokan, the song is still great enough to listen to again, all the way to the end. I've never gotten the Smiths. I love the Smiths songs on this mix. Snoop Dogg, The Worm, and West Coast rap? The death of the possibility of the '90s. The sample sped up with MC Breed? Potential's still there. Cracker? Overrated '90s work, eminently (get it?) embarrassing in retrospect. Not these songs. And on and on. Whatever, dude. I loved this mix. Crushed it late night West Coast on a deck with an overhang in the rain. This is such a good mix it's almost impossible to choose a top three. I really enjoyed all of them. Solid work. Thanks for this. That said, I will choose...my top three: 

3) Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) - The Specials

Simply, a traditional standard and one of the more enjoyable Specials songs

2) A Pain That I'm Used To - Depeche Mode

I'd never heard this before, so it goes at #2

1) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths

Cause if a double-decker bus crashes into us...

 
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Tonight we give a real review to @The Dreaded Marco (I'm feeling better, if sweating a bit).

Length Apparently Matters

I had previously had this great paragraph about the problems with indie and college rock at times. The bands of this genre, when rocking, tend to build around a central riff with subtle flourishes and deviations. Songs flesh out into longish, interestingly, and increasingly subtle (that word again) differentiations on a central theme. Sometimes that is a very interesting concept, resulting in an enjoyable, ten-minute-long sound journey around a riff. Other times it sounds like it lacks editing. This mix is dominated by the former. 

The mix begins with Spiritualized's "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space," a bit of dreamy dirge, a wonderful introductory song. Next up is the funereal "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible One," by the Twilight Sad. There are burning children, a la Manchester By The Sea. Is it a metaphor? I dunno. Not a bad song. The Walkmen's furious "Thinking Of A Dream I Had" follows, and then an indie punk twist with Mission Of Burma's classic "That's When I Reach For My Revolver." These all set the tone for the mix. Almost all of the songs on here are great. The only quibbles are that Built To Spills' "Untreatable..." and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's "The Skin Of My Yellow Teeth" fall victim to a redundancy that doesn't justify their runtime.

Other than the premise of the longer indie rock song being dominant here, songs like "Burning Airlines..." by Brian Eno, "Trigger Cut/Wounded Kitee At:17" by Pavement, and "Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl" by Broken Social Scene all clock in briskly and wonderfully. The Feelies inspire Weezer's debut cover. They're borderline redundant, but the riff is monstrous and they close in just enough time to make it great. Modest Mouse makes an appearance, Isaac Brock talking #### about sunsets. Galaxie 500 covers Johnathan Richman, another stomping riff in the works. This mix brings everything. 

And #1 is the heavenliness of a band I've never heard: A Sunny Day In Glasgow performs "In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry In The Tradition of Passing)" a song that combines elements of electronica, vocal ascendancy and melody and harmony, and some damn understatedly and then aggressively distorted, cool guitars. It sounds like Velvet Underground's "European Son" met electronica and the Beach Boys's "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)"*. This is the song of the draft to my ears so far.  

A well-deserved nod towards college and indie rock, there are really some standout tracks in the mix as a whole. 

Way to go, The Dreaded Marco. 

* Speaking of which, how did we miss that one?

 
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rockaction said:
@Raging weasel

For someone who grew up hating -- and I mean hating -- the limited radio selections and record stores in his small town, classic rock was king. And this is a classic rock mix, for the most part. Completing the syllogism, one would draw the easy conclusion that I wouldn't like it. But on balance, it's very strong and well-done. Classics like "Got To Get You Into My Life" by the Beatles and "Another Brick in The Wall, Pt. 2" are stone cold great songs, no matter the genre. "Don't Come Around Here No More" is a long-time, I-grew-up-on-the '83-'84-version-of-MTV personal favorite of mine. But there are other highlights on this mix. Discoveries like P.J. Harvey "The Whores Hustle and the Hustler's Whore" (my favorite song on the mix) give it diversity, "The Sniper At The Gates Of Heaven" by the Black Angels give it a serpentine feel, much like an FF draft. Monster Magnet is also in fine form, blending -- as they are wont to do -- right in with the classic rock feel of the mix. Ozzy's trademarked tracked vocals dominate "You Can't Kill Rock N' Roll;" a wait-for-it-you-know it's coming guitar solo illuminates "I'd Love To Change The World" by Ten Years After at the 2:15 mark. Nirvana's classic cover of Leadbelly is here, as is Soundgarden. It's a strong, strong mix with very few blips (I'm supposed to like Traffic, but I can't). This really is a sublime draft of the radio-friendly, classic rock genre. Very impressive. I enjoyed it. 

My top three:

1) PJ Harvey - The Whore's Hustle and The Hustler's Whore

2) Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night

3) The Beatles - Got To Get You Into My Life 
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Thanks for listening and glad you enjoyed it. I don't have a wide range of musical taste like the rest of you-mostly classic/hard rock,metal,blues and some pop so my draft pool is much smaller.

 
Northern Voice said:
Favourite two new to me songs here are actually the first two on the mix:

Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love In) is a very very good early Rolling Stones song, regardless of who Bonzai/Spotify said sang this

I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time nails the awesome psychedelic song with a ridiculously catchy chorus better than the more recent GBV/Foxygen stuff on here (which is also very good). 

All of My Friends are There isn't completely new to me but I probably haven't listened to it in 10 years and that's a bad call by me.

The best not new to me songs on this IMO are "Pints of Guinness Make You Strong" (which I spotlighted the #### out of earlier), plus Neil Young :wub: and The Beatles, who still stand out among a bunch of their contemporaries/peers on this mix. Other than that, Pavement song felt like it was building to a bigger climax than it did. Bright Eyes song is great but not new to me and 1 minute too long (which to be fair, it's 10 minutes long and 9 are great...) 
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Glad you dug it. As rockaction mentioned, the first two tracks are off the Nuggets box set.  Definitely worth checking out if you dug those first two tunes.  It's not on Spotify but someone cobbled together a playlist that has many/most of the tunes: Nuggets

I'm off today and plan to get around to listening to some mixes myself. 

 
Listened to @Bonzai's mix last night/this morning.

Really like the idea of the psych/protest songs.  He even said it, but it does lose that vibe a bit about 2/3 the way through, but that doesn't mean there aren't good songs all the way through the mix.  The Jon Spenser Blues Explosion song really brought a smile to my face.  I used to listen him a ton, not sure why it's not in my rotation still - I need to fix that.  Also love the Animals and Neil Young too.  Ilov80s hinted at the sacrilege of not liking The Clash?  Well for me The Beatles and Bob Dylan are those artists.  I like a few songs here and there, but for the most part I can't do it, so those songs missed the mark for me, but I realize that is just a me thing.  As far as my tops, they kicked off the mix..

1.  The Chocolate Watchband -

2.  The Third Bardo

3.  Foxygen

Such a great opening trio for the mix!  I have heard Foxygen before, and I am sure I have listened to this album, but it seemed new so evidently I didn't listen close enough.  The other two where completely new, and something I will be looking into more for sure.  I ended up listening to this trio of songs a few times, actually.   The first time through the Foxygen song confused me because it starts with that same 60s vibe, but then there was a sample or change in tone around the 3min mark that took me by surprise since it sounded too modern.  Made sense when I looked at the group name.  Good mix. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
Even so, I think that one would have technically been too long for my mix.  I thought it was closer to 4 mins.
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You're right, well 3:14.. anyhoo, good work.  I liked the Kenny and Muddy songs.  Much of your mix I already know since we're pretty closely matched on taste.  I should listen to more Kenny Rogers I guess, we both took tracks by him

 
Will get a few more in today but then I'm mostly ghostly for four days.  Vegas!

I intend to listen to every mix and am even picking out my fave 4-5 tracks and putting them in yet another playlist.  I figure this thread might be ancient history by Monday, but I'll be back with that list at the very least

Now playing: @Eephus

 
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KarmaPolice said:
Listened to @Bonzai's mix last night/this morning.

Really like the idea of the psych/protest songs.  He even said it, but it does lose that vibe a bit about 2/3 the way through, but that doesn't mean there aren't good songs all the way through the mix.  The Jon Spenser Blues Explosion song really brought a smile to my face.  I used to listen him a ton, not sure why it's not in my rotation still - I need to fix that.  Also love the Animals and Neil Young too.  Ilov80s hinted at the sacrilege of not liking The Clash?  Well for me The Beatles and Bob Dylan are those artists.  I like a few songs here and there, but for the most part I can't do it, so those songs missed the mark for me, but I realize that is just a me thing.  As far as my tops, they kicked off the mix..

1.  The Chocolate Watchband -

2.  The Third Bardo

3.  Foxygen

Such a great opening trio for the mix!  I have heard Foxygen before, and I am sure I have listened to this album, but it seemed new so evidently I didn't listen close enough.  The other two where completely new, and something I will be looking into more for sure.  I ended up listening to this trio of songs a few times, actually.   The first time through the Foxygen song confused me because it starts with that same 60s vibe, but then there was a sample or change in tone around the 3min mark that took me by surprise since it sounded too modern.  Made sense when I looked at the group name.  Good mix. 
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Nice!  Glad you dug it.  Seems like the consensus is I picked the right openers.

I haven't listened to JSBE in a while either, but will be working them in more often myself.

 
Replacing God Gave Rock and Roll to You with...

Grateful Dead - Weather Report Suite "Prelude", "Part I" , and "Part II (Let it Grow)" as it is on the record Wake of the Flood.

 
Songs I was surprised weren't picked

Sly - Thank you falettin

Police - Every Little Thing

Cracker - Teen Angst

Nirvana - Frances Farmer

still a few stragglers out there
 
Are we supposed to wait before adding B sides into the mix?

I got some serious George Michael (Orange Mocha Frappuccino!) I want to add.

Also, his duet with Aretha!

 
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