The 10 Track Mixtape Thread (Song Lists Without Links Will Be Deleted)

[TheBig3]

Originally Posted by right-track

I'd liked to have seen Urbans/adidasss's/Big3's/Merk's/MJ's/swims/mikey's ...all the regulars.
This has the chance to run and run, with an unlimited collection of 10 choices, uploaded and complete with a written background as to the reason for choosing them.
I've saved the previous 10's to separate playlists on my media player and read what the others have written while listening and it gave me more of an idea to that persons tastes than any post ever could.
There's been a few pleasant surprises among some of those tracks I've heard, enough to make me want to follow up and hear more from that artist.

Get to work you lazy bastards!

I've been working on mine for roughly a week now, I've actually left my computer on so Word could stay open.

This is highly ego centric but I feel as a regular of almost 3 years now and a Mod, people don't dismiss my choices and I also love the idea of this thread so I don't want to half ass it. I'm working my friend, I really am. Also I owe you thanks for the White Stripes link which ****ed up on me and didn't complete. I appreciate the dual effort though.

[MURDER JUNKIE]

Originally Posted by right-track

I'd liked to have seen Urbans/adidasss's/Big3's/Merk's/MJ's/swims/mikey's ...all the regulars.
This has the chance to run and run, with an unlimited collection of 10 choices, uploaded and complete with a written background as to the reason for choosing them.
I've saved the previous 10's to separate playlists on my media player and read what the others have written while listening and it gave me more of an idea to that persons tastes than any post ever could.
There's been a few pleasant surprises among some of those tracks I've heard, enough to make me want to follow up and hear more from that artist.

Get to work you lazy bastards!

All right, I'll try to put something together

[sleepy jack]

Once i'm done with Clarity i'll bust out Harrison's and Matious's.

[Sparky]

harrison?

[sleepy jack]

Originally Posted by matious

harrison?

enemyat_thesix, ill try and download everyones and do what I did to right-track for them.

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

I didn't see this one

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

Mine .......
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1. Hawkwind - You Shouldn't Do That
This song for me sums up everything psychadelia should be, It's 15 minutes long , It has one hell of a killer riff ,pulsating bass & drums , space age bloops & bleeps , wierd random jazzy sax and is one of those songs you just stick on really really loud and just immerse yourself into. They used this song on the TV show Life On Mars during a car chase and it just sounded so perfect I almost came in my pants. I wish people would realise just how much this band piss over Led Zeppelin from a great height.

2. The Fall - Reformation
There was ALWAYS going to be a song by The Fall on this , but which one of many hundreds of Fall songs should it be?
Easy , the title track off the new album thats been stuck in the head ever since I bought it. I dare you to find me one band making music as uncompromising as this after their 30th year in existence.

3. Stereolab - Ping Pong
If this song is not the most catchiest pop song ever written about economic theory you've heard , i'll eat my hat and change my name to Valerie.

4. Frank Zappa - Willie The Pimp
Another longish song (9 minutes) but as i'm only allowed 10 songs, so with this one I can have Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart in one choice. This was pretty much my introduction to both mens work and I still love it.

5. Nation Of Ulysses - Spectra Sonic Sound
Wow, Turns out I was emo before the lot of you. Funny how these things work out

6. Sister Vanilla - Jamcolas
Sister Vanilla is the band put together by Linda Reid , sister of Jim & William from the Jesus & Mary Chain. This song features them together and is my favourite from her album which is getting lots of plays by me lately. This song is pure Mary Chain at their peak goodness , and all the better for it.

7. Los Campesinos - You Throw Parties, We Throw Knives
This lots brand of pure summery Welsh indie pop were my tip for 2007 and by God i'm sticking with them. Now hurry up and get a bloody album out.

8. Graham Coxon - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
While he was with Blur Graham Coxon used to knock out with some regularity a load of lo-fi solo albums on his own Transcopic label. They were pretty patchy & experimental but there were a few gems buried away in them somewhere.This is my favourite song from his 2nd solo album 'The Golden D'

9. The Birthday Party - Mr Clarinet
I was never the biggest Nick Cave fan in the world. Then I heard this and was blown away.

10. Sly & The Family Stone - Stand
I think this is possibly the most uplifting song ever written , so I think i'll sign off with it.

[Mr Sensitive]

Just finished listening to Urbans list, working on mine now.

[sleepy jack]

k, im about to put everyones on.

and Ben your folder doesn't work.

[cardboard adolescent]

Probably not as good as my original version, but whatever:

Playlist

1. Polvo - Thermal Treasure

This song is unlike anything I have ever heard. The first time I listened to it, I remember being completely blown away. It's a song that generates very divided opinions, about half my friends love it, the other half hate it. Personally, I have listened to it and the rest of the album so many times since I got it that it's nothing short of a miracle that I'm not bored of it yet. Why is it that some songs after listening to you get bored from after a week and others you can listen to for the rest of your life and never stop being captivated by? I'd say it has something to do with predictability. Thermal Treasure sounds unlike anything I've ever heard before. The chords and notes being played have never before been heard by human ears. Even when you know every single one by heart, each is still unique and surprising. And it sounds great--weird, but great.

2. My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said

Possibly the greatest pop song ever written--except it's not really a pop song, seeing as how it's covered in sheets of distortion and feedback. From the delicate beauty of the melody to the dreamy, hypnotic vocals, this song comes as close to perfect as anything I've ever heard. It might not hit you the first time you listen to it. However, in the context of the album (Loveless), it probably will stand out. By the third listen or so, however, this had grown on me so much to the point where I consider it to be nothing short of angelic.

3. The Doors - Hyacinth House

I don't really see how anyone could not love this song. Put simply, it's beautiful.

4. Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 - Flames Up / Cup of Dreams

Flames Up is the sort of song that you might listen to once and not really notice, and then when you're being a bit more attentative the second listen will completely blow your mind. It's an instrumental, and it showcases everything that is great about the Thinking Fellers. From the very onset you're a bit confused as to what it is you're listening to. Violin, drums and bass. No musical genre quite describes what the hell this is. Then, when the guitar really kicks in you're left reeling as it suddenly turns into a surf song, of all things. But it is still unlike anything else resembling surf music. Seriously, they make Agent Orange seem derivative. Fierce eclecticism? Check. Mindblowlingly original? Check. Awesome? You ****ing know it.

And then there's Cup of Dreams, which presents beauty in juxtaposition, an eerie sort of beauty that perhaps appeals only to the few.

Let's soak our toes in champagne,
let's dance on a lonely street
Let's kick up a cloud of dust and
shake our heads to a fancy beat
Let's squish the life out of everything
and cheer through a swanky ghost
Let's bathe in a cup of dreams
and share in a saucy toast

Is that nonsense? Forboding? Amusing? Or simply pretty words to go with a pretty melody?
Who knows, who cares, it works.

5. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Frownland

I don't think anything can prepare you for Trout Mask Replica. When you listen to it for the first time, this is the first song you'll hear, and you won't know what the hell to think. The drums and guitar play in sync for about twelve seconds, albeit in different time signatures, and then they're completely detached. The guitarist is just furiously plucking strings and the drummer starts banging everything he can find in front of him. And the Captain? His singing is all over the place. Apparently they recorded the whole thing with him singing to the studio reverbations instead of using headphones, which caused everything to be off. As far as I'm concerned, it would have been more or less impossible to sing to the music because it was all over the place. You might not appreciate this song right away. But listen to it again. Be open-minded. If you're like me, it will grow on you. Some say that this is free jazz played by rock instruments. I think not even Coltrane would know what the hell to do with it.

6. Big Black - Kerosene

This song, to put it bluntly, is ****ing awesome. The music is a clear demonstration of what you can do with just a guitar, bass, and drum machine. Like PiL, it focuses only on the extremes, get the bass doing the low frequencies and have the guitar tearing up the high screeching frequencies. If I had been around in 1980, this would have sounded pretty goddamn revolutionary, the closest thing probably being Throbbing Gristle. The music, with the lyrics, builds up throughout the song and finally climaxes at the end. So that's half of it. Then there's the lyrics themselves. They tell the dark tale of small-town life, and the frustration and bleak despair that go with it. As the frustration with existence builds up and up, it finally culminates to a fiery finish. Self-immolation. Cold, mechanical, disturbing, noisy, abrasive--these are all adjectives that can be applied. Wonderful.

7. Slint - Good Morning Captain

It's pretty easy to see why someone would love this song. The whole thing builds up like "Kerosene" for seven minutes until coming to perhaps the most powerful closing I have ever heard.

8. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing

This song always reminded me of Poe, for some reason. I'm not sure where the connection came from, but I always imagined that the house being referenced was the same as in the House of Usher. And as far as this album goes, it is very reminescent of Poe. It's just as dark and troubling, and just as challenging. Like Poe's short stories, the entire album works to generate a singularity of tone, and this song is the centerpiece. It's eerie and somewhat frightening; it sounds like a low-key Bauhaus song that's been chewed up and regurgitated. This is true gothic music, this isn't creeps wearing bondage, this is the soundtrack to Poe's nightmares.

9. Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman

When I was trying to get into jazz, the second album I downloaded was Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz To Come. The first was Ascension by Coltrane, and I didn't like it too much. When I put on Shape of Jazz To Come, on the other hand, this was the first song I heard and I had already fallen in love. The melody is beautiful and the rhythm section is absolutely great, and even when it goes into free improv it stays captivating and non-abrasive. To put it simply, this is the song that got me into jazz. And it's probably still my favorite jazz song.

10. Husker Du - Chartered Trips

Last time I did this, I wrote up a whole diatribe about emo and how this was more emotional than any emo song I had ever heard and reasons supporting it, but I'm too lazy and apathetic to do that again, so just imagine I told you all about why this is one of the most emotionally powerful songs you'll ever hear and go listen to it.