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Down the Rabbit Hole
| Down the Rabbit Hole | |
| Created by: | osborne |
| Tracks: | 10 |
| Length: | 00:47:06 |
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1. Mix Contest 5 2. Mix Contest 5 3. Mix Contest 5 |
| Created on | 11/01/06 03:26pm |
| Level | 6 |
| Points | 2627 |
| Total visitors | 146 |
| Unique visitors | 64 |
| This mix was ranked #11 out of 18 entries for this contest | |
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Down the rabbit hole.
"Twas brillig, and th' slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; all mimsy were th' borogoves, and th' mome raths outgrabe." -Lewis Carroll
My parents continue to surprise me with their knowledge of music.
Especially my father, who approached me one day with the words,
"Bob Dylan's coming to San Francisco, do you want tickets?"
Instead of traversing the obvious route of the producer-collaborator mixtape, these songs are linked by the anecdotes of my youth.
Don't complain to me about following directions. The prompt was vague.
"Twas brillig, and th' slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; all mimsy were th' borogoves, and th' mome raths outgrabe." -Lewis Carroll
My parents continue to surprise me with their knowledge of music.
Especially my father, who approached me one day with the words,
"Bob Dylan's coming to San Francisco, do you want tickets?"
Instead of traversing the obvious route of the producer-collaborator mixtape, these songs are linked by the anecdotes of my youth.
Don't complain to me about following directions. The prompt was vague.
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| 1 | Bob Dylan : Lenny Bruce |
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"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the poet laureate of rock and roll. The voice of the promising [...] SHOW MORE
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Track 4 from Shot of Love
Length: 00:04:35 Year: 1981 |
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"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the poet laureate of rock and roll. The voice of the promising 60's counter culture..." I forget the rest. Something about substance abuse and finding Jesus. So began the night of October 16, 2006, at the Bill Graham Civic Center in San Francisco, California. Kings of Leon played for about thirty minutes, and then Dylan opened with Lenny Bruce, and sure enough, I had never heard it before; three weeks and an iTunes search later, I bought this album, and was pleasantly surprised by the sparse instrumentation. Several times during this song my father leaned over and remarked on the singing, the guitarist, etc. And he was right about everything. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Tom Waits : Please Call Me, Baby |
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During the detalied post-concert analysis of the scope and sequence of Dylan's career, my father again remarke [...]
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Track 8 from The Heart of Saturday Night
Length: 00:04:25 Year: 0000 |
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During the detalied post-concert analysis of the scope and sequence of Dylan's career, my father again remarked on his voice, adding, "Now he sounds a bit like Tom Waits." Obviously I was surprised, because I've been a fan of Tom Waits for quite some time. "Yeah, I had all of his albums, the one with the naked girl on it and, uhh, that Saturday Night one." Later that night he showed me a college yearbook, with a picture of a Tom Waits concert in the college ampitheatre. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | John Frusciante : Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World |
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The first time I ever read something written by Stephen King occured while poring through the liner notes of t [...]
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Track 17 from We're A Happy Family: A Tribute To Ramones
Length: 00:02:21 Year: 0000 |
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The first time I ever read something written by Stephen King occured while poring through the liner notes of the Ramones' tribute album. At such a underdeveloped stage in my appreciation of literature, I couldn't care less for them. The same could be said for the first Tom Waits song I heard, The Return of Jackie and Judy. Surprised by my father's renewed interest in music, I scrounged through many dresser drawers and found this CD once again; shortly afterwards, I found this song once again. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Beck : Lonesome Tears |
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John Frusciante's solo work is often aided by his friend Josh Klinghoffer. Although I didn't know who that Jo [...]
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Track 4 from Sea Change
Length: 00:05:37 Year: 2002 |
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John Frusciante's solo work is often aided by his friend Josh Klinghoffer. Although I didn't know who that Josh Jingleheimerschmit (whatever) was, I sure as hell knew who Beck was, and they toured together during the Sea Change era. Hence the track. This might be the first time I used the internet to aid the creation of a mixtape. I feel so ashamed. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | The White Stripes : The Nurse |
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Beck appeared in the White Stripes' "Hardest Button to Button" video. Working this track into the mixtape was [...]
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Track 2 from Get Behind Me Satan
Length: 00:03:45 Year: 2005 |
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Beck appeared in the White Stripes' "Hardest Button to Button" video. Working this track into the mixtape was a must, because the White Stripes were the first concert I went to - in the same venue as Bob Dylan, no less. Marimbas were at stage left, so I assumed they would play The Nurse, but Meg was drunk as a skunk. At one point in the concert, Jack sent her off stage and played several songs on solo acoustic guitar. I couldn't help but feel bad for Meg, though. It was so pitiful watching her try to keep rhythm. Though I imagine the same would happen at any White Stripes concert. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Dead Kennedys : Riot |
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On the ride home from the White Stripes concert, my father mentioned something about going to a Dead Kennedys [...]
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Track 9 from Plastic Surgery Disasters
Length: 00:06:00 Year: 1982 |
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On the ride home from the White Stripes concert, my father mentioned something about going to a Dead Kennedys concert in law school. At a much later time I was able to extract the whole story from him. At one of the "initiation" parties, a group of his friends convinced him to see the Dead Kennedys. He could really care less about it. (This was before he met my mother. Then he changed. Bless his soul.) SHOW LESS
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| 7 | The Who : We're Not Gonna Take It |
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Of course, I was enamored with these prospects of Dead Kennedys and patriarchs and law schools, so I provoked [...]
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Track 13 from Tommy
Length: 00:07:08 Year: 0000 |
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Of course, I was enamored with these prospects of Dead Kennedys and patriarchs and law schools, so I provoked him yet again. Apparently he also went to see The Who in their early stages of formation. He said they were The Guess Who back then (which I believe is a completely different band), but it just seemed futile trying to prove him wrong. This song reminds me of Woodstock. Or at least what I saw of it, on a cheap VHS rental nonetheless. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | The Animals with Sonny Boy Williamson : Pontiac Blues |
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Tommy is a great album. Unfortunately, I lost the first disc, which contained a Sonny Boy Williamson cover. [...]
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Track 2 from The Animals with Sonny Boy Williamson
Length: 00:03:56 Year: 0000 |
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Tommy is a great album. Unfortunately, I lost the first disc, which contained a Sonny Boy Williamson cover. Sonny Boy Williamson II, that is. Sonny Boy Williamson I was actually the real Sonny Boy Williamson, but Sonny Boy Williamson II referred to himself as Sonny Boy Williamson I. Confused? In his later years, Sonny Boy Williamson worked with the Animals. Chas Chandler, the bass player in said group, went on to produce the following track. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience : Third Stone From The Sun |
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Last Halloween (which happened to be yesterday), three of my friends and I got a ride from a family friend of [...]
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Track 9 from Are You Experienced?
Length: 00:06:44 Year: 1967 |
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Last Halloween (which happened to be yesterday), three of my friends and I got a ride from a family friend of a friend. How that worked out no one knew. But she was playing Hendrix in the car. The correlation between this song and the next should be fairly obvious. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Bob Dylan : All Along The Watchtower |
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The Dylan concert continued as strong as it began, with renditions of It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Hig [...]
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Track 6 from Masterpieces (disc 1)
Length: 00:02:35 Year: 1987 |
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The Dylan concert continued as strong as it began, with renditions of It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Highway 61 Revisited, and Don't Think Twice (It's Alright). But it was the encore that woke my father from his sleep. (The seats were awfully comfortable, you couldn't blame him.) Dylan closed with All Along The Watchtower, a befitting way to close the night and this mixtape. Thank you for taking the time to read these liner notes. It probably would have been faster if you had just listened to the mixtape. But no one does that anymore. SHOW LESS
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Frank Costanza:
"Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way."
Festivus For The Rest Of Us, MTC 2008
"Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way."
Festivus For The Rest Of Us, MTC 2008
awarded on 2009-03-07
Level 32
Somebody -5 you, assholes +5, jealousys a bitch.
6/29/07 03:41pm
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You're finally legal! Huzzah! We all know you've been boozing since you were 13, but don't worry, we'll keep quiet.
Now, get off the damn computer and go hit up the bars.
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awarded on 2007-06-23
Level 28
tops on the dylan, excellent mix and stellar execution. top notch.
11/01/06 07:04pm
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Wow, one of your mixes is doing swell in the ratings! But remember, Bob Dole did 'swell' in the primaries...
awarded on 2007-02-17
Level 18
interesting execution of the brief! nice songs
11/01/06 04:41pm
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Good things happen to people who are in the right place at the right time, just look at Nirvana...
awarded on 2006-08-16
Level 11
I was getting to yours, but I'm not gonna rate it now because you told me too. Probably for the better because it looks like a -5. You lucked out.
11/01/06 03:33pm
