The Music Banter Time Capsule

Paedantic Basterd · 06-09-2012, 03:03 PM

This year I'd like to bring to Music Banter a personal tradition I've taken part in for the last 7 years: at the approximate midpoint of every year, I sit down and compile a mix (previously a tape, now a disc) of my favourite songs at that moment in time. What has resulted is a sort of autobiography of my musical growth; an amusing time capsule to reflect on and laugh at, starting with some atrocious filth and ending with some sublime artwork, but still on a clear path from 2006 to today.

I thought it would be fun to share these (sometimes humiliating) compilations, and see if anyone else is interested in starting their own tradition while I work on my entry for 2012!

What have you progressed from over the years? Post your tracklists or compilations here, and dig 'em up in a year.

Pedestrian's MIX of 06
Pedestrian's MIX of 07
Pedestrian's MIX of 08
Pedestrian's MIX of 09
Pedestrian's MIX of 2010
Pedestrian's MIX of 2011
Pedestrian's MIX of 2012
Pedestrian's MIX of 2013

Chrysalis' MIX of 2010
Chrysalis' MIX of 2011

Janszoon'z MIX of 2011

Goofle's MIX of 2011

bob. · 06-09-2012, 03:22 PM

this could be really fun

Salami · 06-09-2012, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by bob.

this could be really fun

Quite possibly one of your best ideas yet Ped, I'm also greatly in favour of this!

Paedantic Basterd · 06-09-2012, 03:30 PM

I am definitely airing our my dirty laundry in this thread, but re-listening to my puberty has put a grin on my face anyways!

Is there any interest in putting my compilations up in Youtube videos, or uploading them to a host site? I won't go through the trouble if there isn't.

bob. · 06-09-2012, 03:39 PM

i would personally love it

Paedantic Basterd · 06-09-2012, 03:41 PM

One of the things I like about listening to these in order is that you can clearly tell which artists were the ones that took me into the next mix the next year. I will definitely compile a youtube compilation for each mix.

Some of these are so bad I can't help but laugh, but I'm so happy to share them.

There, the tracklist for my first annual mixtape is up. I remember painstakingly cutting this together on a cassette on my old stereo, which I eventually broke in the act of making 2007's mix tape. I remember spending hours examining the selection and flow of this compilation, and here it is now in all of it's teenage scene kid glory.

Paedantic Basterd · 06-09-2012, 04:31 PM

01 Jack's Mannequin - The Mix Tape
02 Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria
03 Fall Out Boy - The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes
04 Something Corporate - If U C Jordan
05 The Academy Is... - Black Mamba
06 The Audition - You've Made Us Conscious
07 Panic! At the Disco - Time to Dance
08 Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance
09 Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me
10 My Chemical Romance - Thank You For the Venom
11 Bedlight for Blue Eyes - Leaving Berkeley Heights
12 Undeoath - Reinventing Your Exit
13 Brand New - Guernica
14 The Audition - La Rivalita
15 The Academy Is... - The Phrase That Pays
16 Something Corporate - I Kissed a Drunk Girl

NOTEWORTHY EVENTS OF 2006

Saw My Chemical Romance play at the Calgary Saddledome. First concert ever. Literally wet pants after show outside venue.
Discovered Jack's Mannequin on Last Call with Carson Daily at 3 AM. Everything in Transit would later provide the soundtrack to my entire summer. I possess vivid memories of my best friend at the time setting hookers on fire in GTA: Vice City to the summery, tinkly piano of Dark Blue.
Discovered Fall Out Boy and subsequent plethora of identical bands. This would direct my life for an entire year, until I decide that Pete Wentz is a cunt, and quit listening to them.
Cut hair into mohawk after mother's failed attempt at Davey-Havok haircut.

Spoiler for THE COMPILATION (WARNING: Youtube heavy!):

Paedantic Basterd · 06-09-2012, 04:32 PM

01 Something Corporate - Me and the Moon
02 Brand New - You Won't Know
03 Gatsbys American Dream - The Giant's Drink
04 AFI - Miss Murder
05 Marianas Trench - Decided to Break It
06 The Matches - You (Don't) Know Me
07 Taking Back Sunday - Spin
08 My Chemical Romance - House of Wolves
09 Rise Against - Ready to Fall
10 The Matches - Lazier Than Furniture
11 Taking Back Sunday - Error Operator
12 Cobra Starship - The Church of Hot Addiction
13 Marianas Trench - Alive Again
14 Brand New - Millstone
15 Something Corporate - Down
16 My Chemical Romance - Sleep

NOTEWORTHY EVENTS OF 2007

Late December of 2006 in the start of my graduating year, my grandmother dies. Turn to the Brand New album The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me as a result. This would be one of the most important albums I've ever listened to, and would be responsible for the subsequent mix tapes to come.

See Brand New perform aforementioned album live at Calgary's MacEwan Hall with then best friend. This remains one of the best shows I've ever seen and possibly the most vivid concert experience I've ever had.

See Marianas Trench perform in Kelowna. Years later I will feel nothing but the deepest shame when reflecting upon this experience.

Somehow manage to graduate from high school during one of the most difficult years of my young adult life, in which I lost many friends to the dramas of highschool, and loved ones to illness and age.

Spoiler for THE COMPILATION:

Trollheart · 06-09-2012, 06:29 PM

Great idea, Pedestrian.
I would gladly participate, but my memory is not what it used to be. I have a hard time remembering what I did last week, never mind last year, and as for what I listened to, well. Also, my memory is not what it used to be. Besides, in general my music tastes only really changed over the last year or so, due to participation here, so any mixtape I tried to do would be quite uninteresting and the same music each year mostly. Maybe.

Also, my memory is not what it used to be. What did I just say? Who am I? Oh yeah. And my memory is not what it used to be.

But your compilations seem very interesting; as ever, bands I've either never heard, or never heard of. A varied musical life, indeed.

But my memory, as I may or may not have mentioned, is not what it used to be.

And now I forget what it was I was going to say...

Chrysalis · 06-09-2012, 07:00 PM

Chrysalis' Mix of 2009
1. Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance
2. Weezer - El Scorcho
3. Pearl Jam - Black
4. Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become
5. Pink Floyd - The Trial
6. Muse - Knights of Cydonia
7. Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee
8. System of a Down - B.Y.O.B.
9. Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic
10. Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
11. blink-182 - What's My Age Again?
12. Aerosmith - Last Child
13. Boston - More Than a Feeling
14. Linkin Park - In the End

Spoiler for YOUTUBE HEAVY:

06-09-2012, 03:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	The Music Banter Time Capsule This year I'd like to bring to Music Banter a personal tradition I've taken part in for the last 7 years: at the approximate midpoint of every year, I sit down and compile a mix (previously a tape, now a disc) of my favourite songs at that moment in time. What has resulted is a sort of autobiography of my musical growth; an amusing time capsule to reflect on and laugh at, starting with some atrocious filth and ending with some sublime artwork, but still on a clear path from 2006 to today. I thought it would be fun to share these (sometimes humiliating) compilations, and see if anyone else is interested in starting their own tradition while I work on my entry for 2012! What have you progressed from over the years? Post your tracklists or compilations here, and dig 'em up in a year. Pedestrian's MIX of 06 Pedestrian's MIX of 07 Pedestrian's MIX of 08 Pedestrian's MIX of 09 Pedestrian's MIX of 2010 Pedestrian's MIX of 2011 Pedestrian's MIX of 2012 Pedestrian's MIX of 2013 Chrysalis' MIX of 2010 Chrysalis' MIX of 2011 Janszoon'z MIX of 2011 Goofle's MIX of 2011 Last edited by Paedantic Basterd; 12-26-2013 at 12:24 PM.

06-09-2012, 03:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	this could be really fun __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

06-09-2012, 03:39 PM	#5 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	i would personally love it __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

06-09-2012, 04:31 PM	#7 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	01 Jack's Mannequin - The Mix Tape 02 Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria 03 Fall Out Boy - The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes 04 Something Corporate - If U C Jordan 05 The Academy Is... - Black Mamba 06 The Audition - You've Made Us Conscious 07 Panic! At the Disco - Time to Dance 08 Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance 09 Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me 10 My Chemical Romance - Thank You For the Venom 11 Bedlight for Blue Eyes - Leaving Berkeley Heights 12 Undeoath - Reinventing Your Exit 13 Brand New - Guernica 14 The Audition - La Rivalita 15 The Academy Is... - The Phrase That Pays 16 Something Corporate - I Kissed a Drunk Girl NOTEWORTHY EVENTS OF 2006 Saw My Chemical Romance play at the Calgary Saddledome. First concert ever. Literally wet pants after show outside venue. Discovered Jack's Mannequin on Last Call with Carson Daily at 3 AM. Everything in Transit would later provide the soundtrack to my entire summer. I possess vivid memories of my best friend at the time setting hookers on fire in GTA: Vice City to the summery, tinkly piano of Dark Blue. Discovered Fall Out Boy and subsequent plethora of identical bands. This would direct my life for an entire year, until I decide that Pete Wentz is a cunt, and quit listening to them. Cut hair into mohawk after mother's failed attempt at Davey-Havok haircut. Spoiler for THE COMPILATION (WARNING: Youtube heavy!):

06-09-2012, 04:32 PM	#8 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	01 Something Corporate - Me and the Moon 02 Brand New - You Won't Know 03 Gatsbys American Dream - The Giant's Drink 04 AFI - Miss Murder 05 Marianas Trench - Decided to Break It 06 The Matches - You (Don't) Know Me 07 Taking Back Sunday - Spin 08 My Chemical Romance - House of Wolves 09 Rise Against - Ready to Fall 10 The Matches - Lazier Than Furniture 11 Taking Back Sunday - Error Operator 12 Cobra Starship - The Church of Hot Addiction 13 Marianas Trench - Alive Again 14 Brand New - Millstone 15 Something Corporate - Down 16 My Chemical Romance - Sleep NOTEWORTHY EVENTS OF 2007 Late December of 2006 in the start of my graduating year, my grandmother dies. Turn to the Brand New album The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me as a result. This would be one of the most important albums I've ever listened to, and would be responsible for the subsequent mix tapes to come. See Brand New perform aforementioned album live at Calgary's MacEwan Hall with then best friend. This remains one of the best shows I've ever seen and possibly the most vivid concert experience I've ever had. See Marianas Trench perform in Kelowna. Years later I will feel nothing but the deepest shame when reflecting upon this experience. Somehow manage to graduate from high school during one of the most difficult years of my young adult life, in which I lost many friends to the dramas of highschool, and loved ones to illness and age. Spoiler for THE COMPILATION:

06-09-2012, 03:30 PM	#4 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	I am definitely airing our my dirty laundry in this thread, but re-listening to my puberty has put a grin on my face anyways! Is there any interest in putting my compilations up in Youtube videos, or uploading them to a host site? I won't go through the trouble if there isn't.

06-09-2012, 03:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	One of the things I like about listening to these in order is that you can clearly tell which artists were the ones that took me into the next mix the next year. I will definitely compile a youtube compilation for each mix. Some of these are so bad I can't help but laugh, but I'm so happy to share them. There, the tracklist for my first annual mixtape is up. I remember painstakingly cutting this together on a cassette on my old stereo, which I eventually broke in the act of making 2007's mix tape. I remember spending hours examining the selection and flow of this compilation, and here it is now in all of it's teenage scene kid glory.

06-09-2012, 06:29 PM	#9 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	Great idea, Pedestrian. I would gladly participate, but my memory is not what it used to be. I have a hard time remembering what I did last week, never mind last year, and as for what I listened to, well. Also, my memory is not what it used to be. Besides, in general my music tastes only really changed over the last year or so, due to participation here, so any mixtape I tried to do would be quite uninteresting and the same music each year mostly. Maybe. Also, my memory is not what it used to be. What did I just say? Who am I? Oh yeah. And my memory is not what it used to be. But your compilations seem very interesting; as ever, bands I've either never heard, or never heard of. A varied musical life, indeed. But my memory, as I may or may not have mentioned, is not what it used to be. And now I forget what it was I was going to say... __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

06-09-2012, 07:00 PM	#10 (permalink)
Chrysalis ~de geso Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 495	Chrysalis' Mix of 2009 1. Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance 2. Weezer - El Scorcho 3. Pearl Jam - Black 4. Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become 5. Pink Floyd - The Trial 6. Muse - Knights of Cydonia 7. Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee 8. System of a Down - B.Y.O.B. 9. Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic 10. Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country 11. blink-182 - What's My Age Again? 12. Aerosmith - Last Child 13. Boston - More Than a Feeling 14. Linkin Park - In the End Spoiler for YOUTUBE HEAVY: __________________ RateYourMusic A dead Last.fm account