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MixTape Draft - Back to School edition. Make your picks and post your mix! (1 Viewer)

rockaction said:
Yep. Thanks for checking the link. Always nice to hear people checking out what you value. 

For me, the story about The Roots in Portland, Maine, was funny too.  
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YUP...that story is great because they are RIGHT THERE. I'm not sure if that clip or the one after it has the story about the Prince Skit where Prince actually put out a single with Dave as Prince (with a plateful of pancakes) as the jacket cover.

 
Dope said:
I'm old school music nerdy...I use Pandora,

So, as this dad tries to figure out how to make a spotify playlist...please be patient.
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I was in the same boat last draft and it was pretty easy to figure out. The free Spotify mobile app sucks ### tho- can only listen on shuffle, can't post links or search and then listen to a song. And you only get like 5 skips an hour too.

 
Dope said:
I'm old school music nerdy...I use Pandora,

So, as this dad tries to figure out how to make a spotify playlist...please be patient.
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OK...

I've gotten the playlist created but I want to move the songs around, can I do that or should I just delete and create the playlist in the order I want?

Also, 2 songs are kinda missing. The Sha-Na-Na At the Hop song is on there, but not the Woodstock version.

Also, the Moby - Verb song is KINDA there but it's ghosted out and I cant seem to add it to my playlist,

 
Raging weasel said:
I was in the same boat last draft and it was pretty easy to figure out. The free Spotify mobile app sucks ### tho- can only listen on shuffle, can't post links or search and then listen to a song. And you only get like 5 skips an hour too.
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Yeah I figured that out...downloaded it onto my laptop and was able to create a list pretty easily.

 
Dope said:
OK...

I've gotten the playlist created but I want to move the songs around, can I do that or should I just delete and create the playlist in the order I want?

Also, 2 songs are kinda missing. The Sha-Na-Na At the Hop song is on there, but not the Woodstock version.

Also, the Moby - Verb song is KINDA there but it's ghosted out and I cant seem to add it to my playlist,
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On a desktop, you can totally move it. Just drag and drop. 

 
Dope said:
OK...

I've gotten the playlist created but I want to move the songs around, can I do that or should I just delete and create the playlist in the order I want?

Also, 2 songs are kinda missing. The Sha-Na-Na At the Hop song is on there, but not the Woodstock version.

Also, the Moby - Verb song is KINDA there but it's ghosted out and I cant seem to add it to my playlist,
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To change the order just drag them around. If ghosted it's not really there or maybe pay only.

 
I also have never used Spotify  :bag:

Here are a few more from me...

High School Movie

Back to the Future

Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNUgsbKisp8

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High School Movie

American Graffiti

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GizJz6BUBkI&index=16&list=PLkLBuai1O72eCZP66-YViihGjfwcmO2ug

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Above are for yesterday.

Logical Song - Supertramp

Philosophy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVopEn_ugXI  (with Orchestra)

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily,Joyfully, playfully watching me.But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible,Logical, responsible, practical.And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,Clinical, intellectual, cynical.There are times when all the world's asleep,The questions run too deepFor such a simple man.Won't you please, please tell me what we've learnedI know it sounds absurdBut please tell me who I am.Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,Liberal, fanatical, criminal.Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you'reAcceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!At night, when all the world's asleep,The questions run so deepFor such a simple man.Won't you please, please tell me what we've learnedI know it sounds absurdBut please tell me who I am.

 

 
Moving from the Yukon Territory to the Northwest Territory. Pine Point was a mining town in the Northwest Territory that once had as many as 2000 people there. When the mine closed, the city was abandoned. PUP's lead singer was born in Pine Point. The Northwest Terriory is about twice the size of Texas but only has 44,000 permanent residents, not counting seals and polar bears. This is probably PUP's slowest song.

19.14 - PUP - Pine Point

Oh in Pine Point, where I was born
The roads are all overgrown
And no one's lived there for years
The town was never the same
The mine was closed in '88
And everyone disappeared
In Pine Point, '86
My older brother died when we were kids
His best friend was wasted at the wheel
Oh in Pine Point, nothing but memories
The abandoned cemetery
Where we buried our family

 
20.xx - Connecticut -- The Impossibles

Elementary Geography

A little personal here. I was born and raised there, and moved back as an adult. I miss it out here in CA. 

From the subject to the predicate 
you let me know 
you're leaving connecticut 
first flight tomorrow. 
I've been seperated from you 
lost track of time we've lost it's true 
dearly departed from you 
now to be split in two 

What more can I say? 
I dont have the words to make you stay 
my sentences falter, break, and fade 

From the ticket desk to the baggage check 
you felt so cold, last kisses for proper etiquette 
before you let me go

 
Northern Voice said:
Moving from the Yukon Territory to the Northwest Territory. Pine Point was a mining town in the Northwest Territory that once had as many as 2000 people there. When the mine closed, the city was abandoned. PUP's lead singer was born in Pine Point. The Northwest Terriory is about twice the size of Texas but only has 44,000 permanent residents, not counting seals and polar bears. This is probably PUP's slowest song.

19.14 - PUP - Pine Point
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And we'll finish off with this one, just as I started with the Trans Canada Highway that spans the entire country, I'm going to finish with the Canadian Shield, which connects these northern territories back to the rest of the provinces (and into the states as well). It covers much of Greenland, Labrador, most of Quebec north of the St. Lawrence River, much of Ontario including northern sections of the southern peninsula between the Great Lakes, the Adirondack Mountains[6] of New York, the northernmost part of Lower Michigan and all of Upper Michigan, northern Wisconsin, northeastern Minnesota, the central/northern portions of Manitoba away from Hudson Bay, northern Saskatchewan, a small portion of northeastern Alberta,[7] and the mainland northern Canadian territories to the east of a line extended north from the Saskatchewan/Alberta border (Northwest Territories and Nunavut).[2] In total, the exposed area of the Shield covers approximately 8,000,000 km2 (3,088,817 sq mi).

It also ties in the last couple songs about the north, the weather, the gold rush, and calls back to the Sam Roberts song I drafted amonth others. Plus this band is incredible and O saw them last week.

20.05 - Said the Whale - Out on the Shield

We never meant to stay here
We were here for the gold

We got stuck here for the winter
Blinded by golden dollar signs
We built some simple structures
Temporary, not permanent
But each year we dug much deeper
And each year things got more serious
Each year our hearts grew weaker
Blinded by golden dollar signs

We never meant to stay here
We were here for the gold

Put a lump of coal in my hand
Squeeze just as tight as I can
Hope for a brand new diamond
I know it's slight but it's all I can
I promise honey that when we get paid
We'll pack our things and we'll move away
A thousand miles from this frozen lake
We'll find a place where we both can stay

We'll find a city with a million people
Find an apartment where the rent is real low
We'll disappear and no one will notice
How about it Darling?
We could both live downtown

We never meant to stay here
We were here for the gold
We never meant to stay here
But we're just dumb animals with our paws in the hole, grasping gold

Now we're stuck in a small town
Out on the shield
But it lost its appeal long ago
We wake up at dawn and kiss our wives on the forehead
And we slowly make our way into the caves
Where we will forget the faces of our children and our small regrets
Like, I should have kept that lucky penny while I had the chance

 
Here's my Spotify Mix

Here are your accompanying study notes:

Constantines – Trans-Canada

The Trans Canada Highway is just as it sounds – a highway that spans the country from East to West, Atlantic to Pacific Ocean, over 8000 KM long.

 

Joel Plaskett Emergency – Harbour Boys

Canada’s maritime provinces are dotted with a number of large and small harbor towns – This song is about the harbour towns on the East Coast of Canada - mostly fishing villages with small populations. This song references "the sun going down upon the bay" with references to autumn leaves, summer nights, devastating skies - very fitting for the East Coast climate

 

Sloan – The N.S.

Nova Scotia is the largest of the maritime provinces and features the largest city of them, Halifax.

 

Malajube – Montreal -40

Montreal is the capital of Quebec City and is the second largest city in Canada.

 

The Tragically Hip – Bobcaygeon

Bobcaygeon is located in the heart of Ontario’s “cottage country”, the song references seeing the constellations – people leave the big cities to get to this land of lakes, rivers and forest for the weekend. Bobcaygeon is less than half an hour from where I live.

The song also references “that night in Toronto, with it’s checker board floors”, again this is talking about the driving distance from the busy city to the calm country – the checker board floors specifically reference The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern.

 

The Wooden Sky – Oak Ridges

The Oak Ridges Morraine is bordered by the Trent River to the East (not far from Bobycaygeon) and the Niagara Escarpment to the West. It’s is a large area of protected land. Compared to the cottage country area, which is more lakes and farmland, this area is more of a wetland with lots of swamps, springs and ponds.

 

Sarah Harmer – Escarpment Blues

The Niagara Escarpment itself is most well known for Niagara Falls but is actually a much larger area. The Niagara Falls are near the junction of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.

 

The Strumbellas - Lakes

In addition to Ontario and Erie, The Great Lakes include Huron, Michigan and Huron. The great lakes are so important for drinking water and transportation for Southern Ontario cities. 20% of the world’s fresh water is found in the Great Lakes.

 

Jason Collett – Lake Superior

Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes and it exists not in Southern Ontario but to the north of Ontario. As you move north in Ontario, there is much less population (90% of Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the US Border).

 

City and Colour – Northern Wind

The reason so few people live farther up in Northern Ontario, of course, is because it’s just so damn cold up there. Northern Ontario isn’t even really that far north relative to where we eventually get to, but it’s a cold, rough climate.

 

Sam Roberts – An American Draft Dodger in Thunder Bay

The things about it being so remote and desolate up North is that it’s a very good place to hideout. It’s common for criminals to head up there and it was also a popular place for draft dodgers. Thunder Bay is the most populous city in Northern Ontario, with just over 100 000 people.

 

The Weakerthans – One Great City!

Finally out of Ontario, One Great City is about the fine city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, or as it’s known here “Winterpeg”, is the unofficial gateway to the Canadian prairie provinces and the largest city in Manitoba

 

Rah Rah – Prairie Girl

The prairies include the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The are flat as hell, marked my lots of wheat and not all that much to do, at least until you get to Alberta.

 

Elliott Brood – Oh, Alberta

Alberta represents the Westernmost prairie province and the climate starts to change here, as we have more than just wheat – specifically mountains, we’re also getting closer to the Ocean again now. This song had to be on my mix as it calls out a number of Canadian cities.

 

The Rural Alberta Advantage – Frank, AB

We are now officially beyond the prairies! Frank is an Alberta town on the Rocky Mountains. Frank was a once prosperous mining town in the early 1900’s. Much of the city was destroyed by a rock slide in 1903, which is the subject of this song.

 

Great Lake Swimmers – Your Rocky Spine

Much like the Great Lakes in Ontario and the prairies in Central Canada, the Rocky Mountains are the defining georgraphical feature of Western Canada.  There are a number of large resort towns and provincial parks along the Canadian Rockies.

                          

Blue Rodeo – Western Skies

Beyond the Rockies to the West, we have beautiful British Columbia. With the Pacific Oceans, the Rocky Mountains, the Coastal Islands and a number of large islands along it’s shore, B.C. gets the most pictaresque skies and back drops in Canada.

 

Basia Bulat – Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush brought 100 000 people to Canada’s Northern Yukon territory in the late 1890s. Before then there were only native Inuit people living in this area. This is the land of days without sun, polar bears. This is the coldest area in North America

 

PUP – Pine Point

Pine Point was a mining town in the Northwest Territory that once had as many as 2000 people there. When the mine closed, the city was abandoned. PUP's lead singer was born in Pine Point. The Northwest Terriory is about twice the size of Texas but only has 44,000 permanent residents, not counting seals and polar bears.

 

Said the Whale – Out on the Shield

It covers much of Greenland, Labrador, most of Quebec north of the St. Lawrence River, much of Ontario including northern sections of the southern peninsula between the Great Lakes, the Adirondack Mountains[6] of New York, the northernmost part of Lower Michigan and all of Upper Michigan, northern Wisconsin, northeastern Minnesota, the central/northern portions of Manitoba away from Hudson Bay, northern Saskatchewan, a small portion of northeastern Alberta,[7] and the mainland northern Canadian territories to the east of a line extended north from the Saskatchewan/Alberta border (Northwest Territories and Nunavut).[2] In total, the exposed area of the Shield covers approximately 8,000,000 km2 (3,088,817 sq mi).
 
The final Theology class will conclude with Willie singing us an old great gospel song.

20.xx - Uncloudy Day - Willie Nelson

Thanks to all that have attended Theology 101. I hope you enjoy the spiritual gospel hour below. This music is good for the soul.

Professor Simey - Theology 101 - Gospel Hour

When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder - Johnny Cash

How Great Thou Art - Martina McBride

Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson

Ride Me Down Easy - Bobby Bare

Amazing Grace - Elvis Presley

In The Sweet By and By - Loretta Lynn

Why Me - Kris Kristofferson

Old Time Religion - Charlie Rich

Precious Memories - Tammy Wynette

What A Wonderful World - Willie Nelson

Just A Little Talk With Jesus - George Jones

I Do Believe - The Highwaymen (Waylon Jennings on vocals)

Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Joan Baez

In The Garden - Glen Campbell

I'll Fly Away - Charlie Pride

Sing Me Back Home - Merle Haggard and The Strangers

Uncloudy Day - Willie Nelson

Farther Along - Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris

I Saw The Light - The Lower Lights

(Encore)* One Day At A Time - Ivan Parker/Joy Gardner

 
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Ilov80s High School Curriculum Playlist

Freshman Year

1st hour: A More Perfect Union

2nd hour: Carry the Zero

3rd hour: Jogigng

4th hour: Celluloid Heroes

5th hour: The Ghost of Tom Joad 

Sophomore Year

1st hour: Black Math

2nd hour: Revolution

3rd hour: Hemingway's Whiskey

4th hour: Atomic Number

5th hour: Making Breakfast

Junior Year

1st hour: Tesselate

2nd hour: Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

3rd hour: Me Gustas Tu

4th hour: Macbeth

5th hour: The Scientist

Senior Year 

1st hour: Psychic Trauma

2nd hour: Jesus Christ

3rd hour: Painting by Chagall

4th hour: Oh Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

5th hour: Rave on John Donne 
 
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Yo Mama University

Course:  African American Studies 110

Course Title:  Pride (In the Name of Love)

Instructor:  U2

Course Description:  We delve into the life, teachings, assassination, and legacy of one of the most important figures of the 20th century.  One man - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Instructor Commentary:  "Early morning, April four.  Shot rings out in the Memphis sky.  Free at last, they took your life - they could not take your pride"

 
KarmaPolice said:
I don't know why (ok, it's the gin), but the last couple drafts I pushed it a little too much with the way I made myself do my draft.  So this mix of the elements will be in order of groups of elements as you go left to right across the periodic table, and within the groups, the songs are in order of the atomic mass of the element I drafted it for.  :nerd:

So far we have:

ALKALI METALS:

Nirvana - Lithium

The The - Sodium Light Baby

Manic Street Preachers - Virginia State Epileptic Colony

ALKALINE EARTH METALS:

Jedi Mind Tricks - Neva Antiquated

Canibus - Master Thesis

Dr. Octagon - No Awareness

Blackalicious - Chemical Calisthenics

LL Cool J - Milky Cereal

TRANSITION METALS:

Lou Reed - Set the Twilight Reeling

Buffalo Tom - Rules

REM - Welcome to the Occupation

BASIC METALS:

MMJ - Aluminum Park

Radiohead - Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box

NONMETAL:

Cake - Carbon Monoxide

Catfish and the Bottlemen - Oxygen

Presidents of the United States of America - Volcano

HALOGENS:

B-52's - Private Idaho

Liz Phair - X-ray Man

NOBLE GASES:

The Jim Carroll Band - Nothing is True

Radon - Science Fiction
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I updated this post to give the playlist and the reason it's in that order. 

HERE <-------- is the link to my playlist.

 
Yo Mama University

Course:  Abnormal Psychology 310

Course Title:  Mind Playin Tricks on Me

Instructor:  Geto Boys

Course Description:  At night, can you sleep or do you toss and turn?  Do you keep looking over your shoulder and peeping around corners?  Even if you make big money and drive big cars, you too can have your mind play tricks on you.

Instructor Commentary:  "It's f*cked up when your mind is playing tricks on you."

 
Dope said:
I'm old school music nerdy...I use Pandora,

So, as this dad tries to figure out how to make a spotify playlist...please be patient.
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:lol:

I'm in the same boat. And I never did put together my last mix. :bag:

Speaking of boats, I'll take my last pick. Military 101

Where can you find pleasure, search the world for treasureLearn science technology?Where can you begin to make your dreams all come trueOn the land or on the sea?Where can you learn to fly, play in sports and skin diveStudy oceanography?Sign off for the big band or sit in the grandstandWhen your team and others meet

In the Navy - village people

 

 

 
Dope said:
I'm far from stressed, my brotha. :D

Luckily my job has been slow lately and my boss is out so I have ALLLLLL afternoon to figure it out. It cant be rocket science.
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One thing that took me a bit to figure out on Spotify:

When people post links to their mixes, right click and click "Copy URL" or whatever they say that is similar.  Go to a search box in Spotify and paste, then hit enter.  Takes you right to that playlist.

 
I'm going to make 1 more pick tomorrow so I can have 20 classes and 1 fight song.  I also need to figure out my song order and get my playlist set up. 

 
dal_boys_phan said:
One thing that took me a bit to figure out on Spotify:

When people post links to their mixes, right click and click "Copy URL" or whatever they say that is similar.  Go to a search box in Spotify and paste, then hit enter.  Takes you right to that playlist.
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How do you right click on your phone? 

 
Northern Voice said:
Here's my Spotify Mix

Here are your accompanying study notes:

Constantines – Trans-Canada

The Trans Canada Highway is just as it sounds – a highway that spans the country from East to West, Atlantic to Pacific Ocean, over 8000 KM long.

 

Joel Plaskett Emergency – Harbour Boys

Canada’s maritime provinces are dotted with a number of large and small harbor towns – This song is about the harbour towns on the East Coast of Canada - mostly fishing villages with small populations. This song references "the sun going down upon the bay" with references to autumn leaves, summer nights, devastating skies - very fitting for the East Coast climate

 

Sloan – The N.S.

Nova Scotia is the largest of the maritime provinces and features the largest city of them, Halifax.

 

Malajube – Montreal -40

Montreal is the capital of Quebec City and is the second largest city in Canada.

 

The Tragically Hip – Bobcaygeon

Bobcaygeon is located in the heart of Ontario’s “cottage country”, the song references seeing the constellations – people leave the big cities to get to this land of lakes, rivers and forest for the weekend. Bobcaygeon is less than half an hour from where I live.

The song also references “that night in Toronto, with it’s checker board floors”, again this is talking about the driving distance from the busy city to the calm country – the checker board floors specifically reference The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern.

 

The Wooden Sky – Oak Ridges

The Oak Ridges Morraine is bordered by the Trent River to the East (not far from Bobycaygeon) and the Niagara Escarpment to the West. It’s is a large area of protected land. Compared to the cottage country area, which is more lakes and farmland, this area is more of a wetland with lots of swamps, springs and ponds.

 

Sarah Harmer – Escarpment Blues

The Niagara Escarpment itself is most well known for Niagara Falls but is actually a much larger area. The Niagara Falls are near the junction of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.

 

The Strumbellas - Lakes

In addition to Ontario and Erie, The Great Lakes include Huron, Michigan and Huron. The great lakes are so important for drinking water and transportation for Southern Ontario cities. 20% of the world’s fresh water is found in the Great Lakes.

 

Jason Collett – Lake Superior

Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes and it exists not in Southern Ontario but to the north of Ontario. As you move north in Ontario, there is much less population (90% of Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the US Border).

 

City and Colour – Northern Wind

The reason so few people live farther up in Northern Ontario, of course, is because it’s just so damn cold up there. Northern Ontario isn’t even really that far north relative to where we eventually get to, but it’s a cold, rough climate.

 

Sam Roberts – An American Draft Dodger in Thunder Bay

The things about it being so remote and desolate up North is that it’s a very good place to hideout. It’s common for criminals to head up there and it was also a popular place for draft dodgers. Thunder Bay is the most populous city in Northern Ontario, with just over 100 000 people.

 

The Weakerthans – One Great City!

Finally out of Ontario, One Great City is about the fine city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, or as it’s known here “Winterpeg”, is the unofficial gateway to the Canadian prairie provinces and the largest city in Manitoba

 

Rah Rah – Prairie Girl

The prairies include the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The are flat as hell, marked my lots of wheat and not all that much to do, at least until you get to Alberta.

 

Elliott Brood – Oh, Alberta

Alberta represents the Westernmost prairie province and the climate starts to change here, as we have more than just wheat – specifically mountains, we’re also getting closer to the Ocean again now. This song had to be on my mix as it calls out a number of Canadian cities.

 

The Rural Alberta Advantage – Frank, AB

We are now officially beyond the prairies! Frank is an Alberta town on the Rocky Mountains. Frank was a once prosperous mining town in the early 1900’s. Much of the city was destroyed by a rock slide in 1903, which is the subject of this song.

 

Great Lake Swimmers – Your Rocky Spine

Much like the Great Lakes in Ontario and the prairies in Central Canada, the Rocky Mountains are the defining georgraphical feature of Western Canada.  There are a number of large resort towns and provincial parks along the Canadian Rockies.

                          

Blue Rodeo – Western Skies

Beyond the Rockies to the West, we have beautiful British Columbia. With the Pacific Oceans, the Rocky Mountains, the Coastal Islands and a number of large islands along it’s shore, B.C. gets the most pictaresque skies and back drops in Canada.

 

Basia Bulat – Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush brought 100 000 people to Canada’s Northern Yukon territory in the late 1890s. Before then there were only native Inuit people living in this area. This is the land of days without sun, polar bears. This is the coldest area in North America

 

PUP – Pine Point

Pine Point was a mining town in the Northwest Territory that once had as many as 2000 people there. When the mine closed, the city was abandoned. PUP's lead singer was born in Pine Point. The Northwest Terriory is about twice the size of Texas but only has 44,000 permanent residents, not counting seals and polar bears.

 

Said the Whale – Out on the Shield

It covers much of Greenland, Labrador, most of Quebec north of the St. Lawrence River, much of Ontario including northern sections of the southern peninsula between the Great Lakes, the Adirondack Mountains[6] of New York, the northernmost part of Lower Michigan and all of Upper Michigan, northern Wisconsin, northeastern Minnesota, the central/northern portions of Manitoba away from Hudson Bay, northern Saskatchewan, a small portion of northeastern Alberta,[7] and the mainland northern Canadian territories to the east of a line extended north from the Saskatchewan/Alberta border (Northwest Territories and Nunavut).[2] In total, the exposed area of the Shield covers approximately 8,000,000 km2 (3,088,817 sq mi).
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nice but damn I didn't know some of these drafts included a quiz-lol

 
Strong first playlist grade for @KarmaPolice 

Rubric

Originality: 25/25   Almost evert song was new to me and plenty  that I will definitely listen to again. 

Quality:   20/25 I am a rap fan, but I didn't like some of the rap songs all that much. Sorry, but most of the Radiohead catalog  also doesn't do it for me. On the other hand, you might have changed my mind on The B-52s. Loved The The, Manic Street Preachers, Catfish and the Bottleman, and Lithium is a grand slam given the theme.  

Theme:  25/25  The theme came through clearly IMO. I was kind of enjoying listening for the element references, added a cool dimension. I caught most of them. Nice theme well executed. 

Fluency: 20/25 The rap section definitely stood out musically as being different. I never really know how to blend different genres either, super tough. Everything else flowed real smooth.

Extra Credit for being a great commish: +5

Overall: 95/100    

Grade: A

 
Ilov80s said:
Strong first playlist grade for @KarmaPolice 

Rubric

Originality: 25/25   Almost evert song was new to me and plenty  that I will definitely listen to again. 

Quality:   20/25 I am a rap fan, but I didn't like some of the rap songs all that much. Sorry, but most of the Radiohead catalog  also doesn't do it for me. On the other hand, you might have changed my mind on The B-52s. Loved The The, Manic Street Preachers, Catfish and the Bottleman, and Lithium is a grand slam given the theme.  

Theme:  25/25  The theme came through clearly IMO. I was kind of enjoying listening for the element references, added a cool dimension. I caught most of them. Nice theme well executed. 

Fluency: 20/25 The rap section definitely stood out musically as being different. I never really know how to blend different genres either, super tough. Everything else flowed real smooth.

Extra Credit for being a great commish: +5

Overall: 95/100    

Grade: A
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@Ilov80s - thanks for the listen and the great writeup!

However, you might be getting a call from my parents about why I lost those 5 points.  It's not fair!!!

 
Looks like we have a new kid in class @Dope

Rubric

Originality: 20/25   A solid mix of songs that I was really familiar with and songs that were brand new. Even some of the more familiar songs were less popular versions which was cool. The new song that actually got my attention the most was Je t'amie. Never heard of the song or artist before, that song with the crowd was awesome. I wish it was on my draft. 

Quality:   20/25 This was kind of all over the map for me. The classics like Smoking in the Boys Room, Jeremy and Be True to Your School balance out some bands that I don't care for (Manson, Kiss for example). 

Theme:  20/25  The theme seemed to be songs that had any kind of relation to school and school years. Summer vacation, cliques, school pride, Catholic school girls and making out, basic arithmetic and a fun anatomy song. Nothing fancy here, but all the songs made sense for the draft. 

Fluency: 18/25 It was really unpredictable. At first it was bad but once I settled into the portion starting with Double Dutch, it was more unpredictable in a good way. Still plays pretty random. 

Extra Credit +5  for putting Dry Bones on there. The rare song that's incredibly obvious and yet there's probably not another song taken in the whole drafted that's quite like it. 

Overall: 83/100    

Grade: B  

 
Posting my final two picks here tonight plus a replacement pick.

I'm going to throw back "A Long December" into the draft pool and replace with George Michael's "Faith" - this was a killer song during my senior year of HS and after listening to my first 18 choices in an attempt to work out a mix, "A Long December" just does not fit.

Another senior year song (for me) that I'll select for pick #19 is "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung.

For my last pick, I'll go with a "can't believe this one is still in the draft pool" for Round 20 - Chuck Berry - School Days

Will have my mix up tomorrow, but here is the final tally of song selections (not in pick order):

dal_boys_phan's Back to School Mix

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School Daze - W.A.S.P.

The Boys of Fall - Kenny Chesney

Homecoming Queen - Hinder

Rock and Roll High School - The Ramones

Yearbook - Mistah F.A.B.

Principal’s Office - Young M.C.

High School Never Ends - Bowling For Soup

School’s Out - Alice Cooper

Counting Crows - A Long December changed to George Michael - Faith

Spring Breakdown - Luke Bryan

Graduate - Third Eye Blind

Centerfield - John Fogerty

Vacation - The Go-Go’s

Teachers - Daft Punk

Summer Nights - Van Halen

Detention - School Gyrls

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince

Summertime - Kenny Chesney

Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung

School Days - Chuck Berry

 
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