Radio 2 ≠ Middleage
10 02 2010Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Music, Radio, Turning 30
Categories : Music, Nostalgia
End of the Deacde
22 09 2009As we get to the end of the decade, people are starting on their countdown lists, and Music seems to be the one thats getting the most already.
I started with the Telegraph list, which annoyed me.
Then I found a guy on here who is doing his own list where he is counting down every day until Christmas Day.
This then led me to Pitchfork, who have done a top 500, and I have to say that its one that I can see the sense in which is good.
The thing is, nobody will get it right, its too subjective, and anyway, who else would pick Pack of Wolves by Nightbreed.
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Categories : Music
Alternatives
9 12 2008Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Music, Vitriol
Categories : Music, Vitriol
Summer Burn CDs
30 08 2008I am going to start with a quote from Nick Hornby, courtesy of the brilliant book High Fidelity:
Rob: “To me, making a tape is like writing a letter. There’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with “Got to Get You Off My Mind,” but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and…oh, there are loads of rules.”
So here we are, earlier in the year Mack had asked via the power of Facebook for people to make up a CD full of Songs that they like to hear in Summer. Then to send 2 copies to him where he would distribute them amongst the people that were doing it and you would get 2 different CDs back. I did mine and thought it was quite good. One of the others that I got back was excellent, it had Bands like Dashboard Confessional and Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly! on it.
Rob: Now, the making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art. Many do’s and don’ts. First of all you’re using someone else’s poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing.
The second that I got back was a nightmare in terms of a mix CD. Firstly there was 2 songs by The Beautiful South as track 1 and 2, then there was a whole section from the Now Thats what I call Music! CDs from the mid nineties.
The Outhere Brothers- Boom Boom Boom
B*Witched-
Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince – Boom Shake The Room
and
Jimmy Nail- Shes Lying
There was some good stuff on there too, like The La’s and The Wonderstuff, but all in all not great. Maybe however these are that persons favourite songs for summer, but my guess would be that they found a Now CD from when they were young and remembered a care free summer. To he honest it should have had PJ and Duncan on there…Mind you, mine did have 99 Red Balloons.
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Tags: Album, Music
Categories : Album, Music, Vitriol