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This really made me lol.God took God Gave Rock and Roll to You from you
This really made me lol.God took God Gave Rock and Roll to You from you
I'd think I'd rather have Kidzbop KISS to listen to than another Dead song.Screws that! What do you think my name is Tasker or something.
Just kidding Tasker. Much respect.
I suspect you may change your mind if you actually listen.I'd think I'd rather have Kidzbop KISS to listen to than another Dead song.![]()
You can just drag the songs up and down the list.How the heck do you change the sing order on spotify playlist? I use teh google myself.
....and be high?I suspect you may change your mind if you actually listen.
I don't think Feel Good Hit of the Summer was taken either, and that was on my list as well.my short list of almosts (didnt want to double up on any artists):
in The Coldness of a Dream -- Jedi Mind Tricks
I Come From a Long Line of Shipbuilders -- Bastro
Meet Me in the Dollar Bin -- Les Savy Fav
I got my Thang in Action -- Method Man
Thinking one thing and doing another -- miles Davis
Out of Step (with the World) -- minor threat
Yonder is Closer to the Heart -- Parquet Courts
When the World is Running Down Make the Best of what's running down -- police
Give the Mule What he Wants -- QotSA
Thought about that one, Where I End And You Begin, Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief, and Bullet Proof .....I Wish I Was.I almost took Crushed Like Sardines...
It would make my B sides.
21 Man Or Astro-Man? - Many Pieces Of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together At A Rave And Schmoozing With A Brick
22 mclusky - Why I Don't Believe In You
23 Hope Of The States - The Red The White The Black The Blue
24 Kuroma - In New York, Everything Is Tropical
25 Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - My Mysterious Death (Turn It Up)
26 Clutch - I Have The Body Of John Wilkes Booth (Live)
27 Mott The Hoople - Death May Be Your Santa Claus
28 Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
29 The Velvelettes - A Bird In The Hand (Is Worth Two In The Bush)
30 Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)
31 Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart Of Rock A&d Roll
32 The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
33 a-ha - The Sun Always Shines On T.V.
34 Silversun Pickups - It's Nice To Know You Work Alone
35 Dishwalla - It's Going To Take Some Time
36 Cracker - Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)
37 Local H - I Saw What You Did And I Know Who You Are
38 Nirvana - Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
39 Wintersleep - Miasmal Smoke & The Yellow Bellied Freaks
40 Drivin' N' Cryin' - Stand Up And Fight For It
In this case the studio is $$....and be high?
Mostly just being a jerk and giving you ####. Not a band I thought I would like at all for most of my life, but I have listened to them a little bit over the last few years and come around a bit. I tried more live than studio albums, and that probably helped.
When I threw together my first draft list I considered a theme of having every song contain the word Want, Wants, or Wanna in the title with the last two songs being The Smiths "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" and finale the Pet Shop Boys "What did I do to deserve this?" figuring if you sat through 19 songs of people wanting something that might be your thought at the end of the mix. However, with the 6 word limit I was looking at only a dozen songs or so that fit that theme *if* I didn't get sniped. I didn't feel like finding 10 songs that I wasn't that familiar with (or might not even like) just to fit a theme. However, I did throw together a section of my mix that had all the "wanting" capped by The Smiths and Pet Shop Boys - which you picked up on.@sn0mm1s <---- need an avatar. Maybe Morrissey?
Top 3 songs that I wasn't too familiar with
Cracker- Don't #### Me Up (With Peace and Love)
Violent Femmes- I Held Her in My Arms
The Specials- Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
Thoughts
Wasn't much here that I was unfamiliar with. It has a solid vibe to it (Grease and MC Breed notwithstanding). I'm not sure I had ever heard that version of "I Want You to Want Me". I guess it's a live version that normally gets all the play? You have made me rethink my somewhat negative stance on Violent Femmes. As for Primus, still don't get it.
Best 1-2 punch
Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want. Funny little interplay on the song titles there and both songs are genius.
26 Clutch - I Have The Body Of John Wilkes Booth (Live)
Almost took this a few times. probably can't tell from my mix but Clutch is one of my favs.
In a vacuum I completely agree that the live version of "I Want You To Want Me" is better (in fact, I think I linked the live YouTube vid when I drafted the song). I liked the studio version for the mix though because most people probably hadn't heard it and I thought it fit that section of my mix a little better than the live version. Glad you liked the playlist.@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...
Thanks for listening to it, Doc Oc. Glad you liked at least some of it.Just gave @rockaction mix a listen. Some of it certainly wasn't for me but generally liked it.
I loved the "oldies" and while I probably had heard those Shangra Las and Everly Bros tunes before it's been a long time since and it was cool how they fit in.
Of the songs/bands I had never really listened to the highlights were "....Falling Bomb" by Thursday, "..Breath Out..." by Modest Mouse and "...Blow Up Your School" Mogwai (very pretty).
The Who, Weezer, S&G and Rancid were all songs I know and love as well.
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I even liked the Busta Rhymes song. I like some hip hop (mostly older stuff like Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Beasties, Tim Dog) but its surely not my "go to".Thanks for listening to it, Doc Oc. Glad you liked at least some of it.![]()
Hopefully he enjoyed his visit and it's the last one for him.By the way, Cutler was in for a visit. 6-10!
Never be surprised what someone might do to save their job, I guess. Hackenberg was an awful, awful pick.Hopefully he enjoyed his visit and it's the last one for him.
Yeah, I was just talking about weird intersections, not really judging your choice. I did indeed enjoy the mix. I never throw on the Smiths or Morrissey and was pleasantly surprised by the memories of all three tracks.In a vacuum I completely agree that the live version of "I Want You To Want Me" is better (in fact, I think I linked the live YouTube vid when I drafted the song). I liked the studio version for the mix though because most people probably hadn't heard it and I thought it fit that section of my mix a little better than the live version. Glad you liked the playlist.
I did enjoy. I realized what a good draft you had when I sat and looked at the list on the page. I don't know: your list was pretty rangy, it's just your strength was classic rock. I was sort of thinking that we can get kind of lockstep in here and you got all these great songs. Anyway, it was cool.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.
Wow. Thanks for the formal review. I agree re the BTS song. When I was sequencing the mix I realized it was too long and didn't fit great anywhere but I love that song so decided to leave it in. Glad you found something new you liked with the ASDIG tune.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?
Gordon Lightfoot is legendary in my neck of the woods. He came to my city a few years ago for a free concert series and it was the biggest turn out they've ever had (they still reference that 2001 concert every time a big crowd comes out).I didn't think anyone had The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on their radar. That said, I enjoyed the mix. I ended up adding a few songs from it to my library:
Kiss is on Spotify. We made a late night stop for fast food over the weekend after visiting the in-laws and Kiss seemed like a suitable soundtrack for noshing on Jack in the Box tacos.No Kiss on Spotify? Denied!
I'm gonna have to add another tune.
I'm about 3/4 of the way through yours but I thought the transition between Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me" to the "You're the One That I Want" off the Grease soundtrack really worked well. Besides the "want" connection, the tempo and vibe of the two songs were remarkably similar. I never would have listened to those songs back to back in a million years.When I threw together my first draft list I considered a theme of having every song contain the word Want, Wants, or Wanna in the title with the last two songs being The Smiths "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" and finale the Depeche Mode "What did I do to deserve this?" figuring if you sat through 19 songs of people wanting something that might be your thought at the end of the mix. However, with the 6 word limit I was looking at only a dozen songs or so that fit that theme *if* I didn't get sniped. I didn't feel like finding 10 songs that I wasn't that familiar with (or might not even like) just to fit a theme. However, I did throw together a section of my mix that had all the "wanting" capped by The Smiths and Depeche Mode - which you picked up on.
No sweat. Not sure I know what I'm talking about, but that's how it seems to me. I've thought a lot about what appeals to me more about punk than college or indie rock, and I think it's the amount of misses that are the answer. Yours didn't. I love that aspect of college and indie rock -- when it gets subtle yet noticeable. I love that. The Eels sounded spacey and cool, BTW.Wow. Thanks for the formal review. I agree re the BTS song. When I was sequencing the mix I realized it was too long and didn't fit great anywhere but I love that song so decided to leave it in. Glad you found something new you liked with the ASDIG tune.
Again, thanks for the review. I should be able to get through a lot of the mixes starting this weekend. Looking forward to it
Right now he's hanging out with Low Rider in one arm and Clyde in the other.I'm sorry for your loss, Waingro. GB Baby Bean Cake
I love the Ed Fitz, and Sundown too. No accounting for taste!Gordon Lightfoot is legendary in my neck of the woods. He came to my city a few years ago for a free concert series and it was the biggest turn out they've ever had (they still reference that 2001 concert every time a big crowd comes out).
I think PIK's pick might be the only KISS track NOT on there, and I'm not mad at thatKiss is on Spotify. We made a late night stop for fast food over the weekend after visiting the in-laws and Kiss seemed like a suitable soundtrack for noshing on Jack in the Box tacos.
Kidzbop? Ewww. I just draft ####ty pop music, not ####ty pop music sung by children.Screws that! What do you think my name is Tasker or something.
Just kidding Tasker. Much respect.
I wanted Juelz Santana so bad I almost took "There It Go (The Whistle Song)." One of my favorite rappers of the aughts (I'd call him rap more than hip hop).
I have doctor's appts. today but I hope to get through KP and Eephus today. Probably no corny reviews today (I had time last night for fun), but I'll give thoughts, top threes, etc.
Heh... I figured Grease songs weren't high on anyone's draft list. This would've been my mix if I could guarantee no snipes and the "Want" theme. I *think* only 3-4 were sniped... but that would've been enough to force me to start taking multiple Ramones songs or some random kid/Xmas songs.I'm about 3/4 of the way through yours but I thought the transition between Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me" to the "You're the One That I Want" off the Grease soundtrack really worked well. Besides the "want" connection, the tempo and vibe of the two songs were remarkably similar. I never would have listened to those songs back to back in a million years.
Juelz was the master of the a-a-a-a rhyme schemeJuelz Santana. I used to play the #### out of From Me to U in high school.
We had a really progressive hippie PhD "definitely did a few too many drugs in college" teacher my senior year, and as part of the class we had to do a little public speaking. We had to put on a presentation to the class on something we were personally interested in that would surprise people. I gave a presentation on rap music and played some unedited songs off of Diplomatic Immunity. One of the first songs that came to mind when I was first thinking about this draft was "Bout It, Bout It, Part 3" feat Master P, but that doesn't have enough words with "Part 3" only counting as 1 word.