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I'll Pay But I Don't Want To
| I'll Pay But I Don't Want To | |
| Created by: | RyanTheTruck |
| Tracks: | 20 |
| Length: | 01:16:48 |
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1. The first mix that I 2. Posted about on this site 3. Was taped in the red. |
| Created on | 12/28/06 09:13pm |
| Level | 5 |
| Points | 2197 |
| Total visitors | 54 |
| Unique visitors | 22 |
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I decided to write a haiku about my mix but didn't do a very good job. It was recorded in the red, though, which is how I like my music. I'm used to making tapes, so segues are a big part of how I go about making mixes, so it's going to be interesting to see how it looks as a theoretical mix as opposed to a material mix.
Let's see. I've been on a big kick of making mixtapes for my friends and other random heads lately in a attempt to be more posi and thank them for being positive influences in my life. I made this mix for my friend Aaron but haven't given it to him yet. I think it gives a decent impression of the kind of thing I'm into. Good enough first mix. I did have to add almost every song to the database myself.
When I make a mix, I always use tapes, so it tends to be less about making some kind of statement with the content as it is about using all the space, so they can be lengthy. That isn't to say a statement doesn't get made. I'd like to think I have diverse enough tastes to let to recipient of the mix define the overall sound of it. But I do have to use all the space out of necessity.
Also, I make art for every mixtape I make, and I liked what I did for this one; definitely looks how it sounds, but I don't have a scanner or nothin', so we'll have to see what I can dig up.
Oh yeah, and this is incomplete. I made this mix on a 90 minute tape, and side one ended a couple of minutes into "Sex Bomb" by Flipper (following Sir Lord Baltimore), and side two ended a few minutes into "Amboss" by Ash Ra Tempel. If I had included both those two songs, which are lengthy, I would have gone oiver the 80 minute mark.
Anyways, there you go. Enjoy.
Let's see. I've been on a big kick of making mixtapes for my friends and other random heads lately in a attempt to be more posi and thank them for being positive influences in my life. I made this mix for my friend Aaron but haven't given it to him yet. I think it gives a decent impression of the kind of thing I'm into. Good enough first mix. I did have to add almost every song to the database myself.
When I make a mix, I always use tapes, so it tends to be less about making some kind of statement with the content as it is about using all the space, so they can be lengthy. That isn't to say a statement doesn't get made. I'd like to think I have diverse enough tastes to let to recipient of the mix define the overall sound of it. But I do have to use all the space out of necessity.
Also, I make art for every mixtape I make, and I liked what I did for this one; definitely looks how it sounds, but I don't have a scanner or nothin', so we'll have to see what I can dig up.
Oh yeah, and this is incomplete. I made this mix on a 90 minute tape, and side one ended a couple of minutes into "Sex Bomb" by Flipper (following Sir Lord Baltimore), and side two ended a few minutes into "Amboss" by Ash Ra Tempel. If I had included both those two songs, which are lengthy, I would have gone oiver the 80 minute mark.
Anyways, there you go. Enjoy.
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| 1 | Crime : Hot Wire My Heart |
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I have a rule that I never start a mix with a song that's a side one, track one on its own album, but singles, [...]
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Track 0 from Singles
Length: 00:03:11 Year: 0000 |
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I have a rule that I never start a mix with a song that's a side one, track one on its own album, but singles, even A-sides are ok. This tape is pretty damn noisy and chaotic, so what better way to kick it off than with this quintessentially indecipherable little number from San Francisco's self-proclaimed "first and only rock and roll band." Note: You may recognize Sonic Youth's cover of this song from "Sister." SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Mars : 3E |
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New York no-wave comps are a goldmine for the mixtape enthusiast. Tons of fucking rad, weird, edgy and totally [...]
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Track 1 from 78+
Length: 00:02:48 Year: 1986 |
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New York no-wave comps are a goldmine for the mixtape enthusiast. Tons of fucking rad, weird, edgy and totally obscure bands. Mars was one of the first and was featured on Brian Eno's hugely-influential "No New York" comp. 3E is totally what I look for in a song. It's really low-fi, the vocals are mixed way down, it has a repetitive bassline and a skittey guitar. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Urinals : Black Hole |
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The Urinals get written off really quickly as some kind of juvenile, fratboy joke when actually they're a hell [...]
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Track 1 from Black Hole 7"
Length: 00:01:18 Year: 1978 |
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The Urinals get written off really quickly as some kind of juvenile, fratboy joke when actually they're a hellof seminal LA punk band that couldn't have less to do with Blink 182. Really short, fast, jangly little songs that influenced the Minutemen and the Descendents in a big way (the former covered and popularized "Ack Ack Ack"). Blaaaaaacckk Hooooollllle I've seen this all befooooooooorreeee. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | The USA is a Monster : The Hobokon |
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OK, so last summer my band was on tour and we played a really bad show in Olympia, WA on the Sunday before sch [...]
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Track 2 from Wohaw
Length: 00:03:31 Year: 2005 |
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OK, so last summer my band was on tour and we played a really bad show in Olympia, WA on the Sunday before school started up there at Evergreen, so attendance was pretty sparse. But we were fucking stoked because we were playing with USA is a Monster, this two-piece I-guess-you'd-call-it-metal band from Brooklyn that's been touring forever (they don't even have cellphones). Anyways, we were smoking out Colin, who plays guitar, and I was telling him about the bloodbath of a footrot I'd acquired from wearing these cheap Rite-Aid slip-ons all summer thinking I was all road-hardened and tough and he goes "Oh, proper footwear is essential to the touring band," or something. It ruled. Here was this enormous, crusty, bearded, dreadlocked dude enlightening me about the importance of personal hygeine while on tour. He had these fresh Nikes or NewBalances or whatever on and told me he changes his socks like three times a day. They were such sweeties. USA is a Cookie Monster. Check 'em Out. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Ween : Frank |
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"The Pod" was easily my favorite Ween album from the getgo, and I always thought "Frank" was cool but nothing [...]
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Track 3 from The Pod
Length: 00:03:45 Year: 0000 |
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"The Pod" was easily my favorite Ween album from the getgo, and I always thought "Frank" was cool but nothing to write home about. Then the second time I saw them (out of three so far) they jammed on the outro for about twenty minutes or so and they kepy nailing the hook. Ripping. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | The Amboy Dukes : Baby Please Don't Go |
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Before Ted Nugent was the Nuge, he was in a psychedelic band in Detroit called the Amboy Dukes that paved the [...]
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Track 1 from The Amboy Dukes
Length: 00:05:35 Year: 1967 |
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Before Ted Nugent was the Nuge, he was in a psychedelic band in Detroit called the Amboy Dukes that paved the way for the later iconic Detroit sound (Stooges, MC5). This is their cover of an oft-passed-around old blues song (Them's version is cool also; featured in the David Lynch movie "Wild at Heart"). This song is hittin': unchanging, driving bassline, and Ted's soloing wails and howls and feeds back all over the place with irresistable wankery. Favorite memory of listening to this song: Summer 2005 when I drank a bunch of cough syrup and took a few bong rips. Thank you, Santa Cruz, California. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | The Flaming Lips : God Walks Among Us Now |
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Speaking of chaotic, indecipherable songs, here's an early one from the Flaming Lips. What I love about that b [...]
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Track 7 from In a Priest-Driven Ambulance
Length: 00:03:26 Year: 1990 |
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Speaking of chaotic, indecipherable songs, here's an early one from the Flaming Lips. What I love about that band is unlike most bands that have a really strong start and rule early in their career, instead of getting gradually suckier and more boring, they only got better. Well, I guess they kind of plateaued on "At War With the Mystics," but it's still pretty damn good. And there's something to be said for a band whose stage presence is total sensory overload. I'm sure they just got lucky, but it just seems to be another testament to how acid (and heroin too, I suppose) will only make your band better. Yeah...I'm gonna go ahead and say they definitely got lucky. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Swell Maps : H.S. Art |
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Swell Maps were a British art school post-punk band that didn't sound like a British art school post-punk band [...]
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Track 1 from Trip to Marineville
Length: 00:02:21 Year: 1979 |
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Swell Maps were a British art school post-punk band that didn't sound like a British art school post-punk band. This song kicks off with this sample of a kid saying "Say, that's a swell map," and then the late, great Nikki Sudden's buzzsaw guitar kicks in, followed by Epic Soundtracks running his finger down the keyboard of a piano, totally tricking you into thinking it's going to be some mid '70s boogie punk shite, but then goes into this single-chord John Cale pounding, and there's also this super sloppy harmonica solo and really tuneless Northern English accents. Fucking BLOODBATH. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | The Wipers : Up Front |
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The Wipers were an early Sub-Pop punk band from Portland back when Sub-Pop and Portland didn't equal quiet sit [...]
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Track 3 from Is This Real?
Length: 00:03:09 Year: 1980 |
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The Wipers were an early Sub-Pop punk band from Portland back when Sub-Pop and Portland didn't equal quiet sitdown schmindy rock. They were one of the key bands (along with the Melvins, Flipper, and Mudhoney) that put the angsty Pacific Northwest on the map and influenced Kurt Cobain and caused him to later off himself when instead of just hanging out and playing loud music like this he spawned Soul Asylum and the Lemonheads. Anyways, anybody from about the mid-80's on who plays guitar owes Greg Sage a huge debt. And Johnny Thunders, too. But let's give more to Gred Sage because he doesn't get the love as much. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Amon Düül II : Archangels Thunderbird |
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So Amon Düül started, like most krautrock bands, as an anarchist collective who played free-jam-psychede [...]
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Track 3 from Yeti
Length: 00:03:33 Year: 1970 |
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So Amon Düül started, like most krautrock bands, as an anarchist collective who played free-jam-psychedelic rock (CAN = Communism, Anarchy, Nihilism, ja?). Well, after a while, some members wanted to quit the commune thing and make records (much like what happened to the MC5), so they split and guess what name they chose? This song definitely flirts with Rush territory, but man, is it a great, heavy guitar riff. Also, unlike a lot of their jams, they don't lose it, and it's pretty concise. It does suffer from the one big problem with the Düül, which is the song rips and then the vocals start, and they're usually pretty distractingly bad. But it's tolerable here. Plus it's called "Archangels Thunderbird." Epic. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Kung Fu USA : Stuff |
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Kung Fu USA is this husband and wife (or girlfriend and boyfriend? Just partners? It's pretty heteronormative [...]
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Track 5 from RRRML
Length: 00:02:43 Year: 2004 |
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Kung Fu USA is this husband and wife (or girlfriend and boyfriend? Just partners? It's pretty heteronormative of me to care, I guess)-led band who started in San Francisco and then moved to Brooklyn. They're super road-haggard from touring and play all these shows with hipster bands in their early 20's but they're in their mid to late 30's and everyone totally loves them. Usually, they're just a two-piece called ShellShag, and Kung Fu USA is essentially them but with a bass player. Shell plays simple but effective Sabbath-y guitar riffs and Jen Shag is the fuckoff rippingest drummer. She plays standing up and wears a belt with lots of percussion stuff on it so she can shake it while beating the shit out of the drums like Keith Moon. "Stuff" is a straight-ahead rocker, I think it's like two chords, and it asks "are you tough enough to touch my stuff?" Well, are you? SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Sir Lord Baltimore : Lady of Fire |
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Sir Lord Baltimore is generally regarded as the first American heavy metal band, and even though they're way e [...]
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Track 8 from Kingdom Come
Length: 00:02:51 Year: 1994 |
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Sir Lord Baltimore is generally regarded as the first American heavy metal band, and even though they're way explosive and shredding and sludgy, they manage to not come off as just some speed metal band without anything redemptive. They give nods to Robert Johnson and Ray Charles in both their lyrical cadence and content (albeit upped some by psychedelics and distortion), and their soloing isn't a far cry from Chuck Berry. It's still straight up headbanger music, and "Lady of Fire" is exactly the rage-a-thon you think it is. The point is, there are no inherently bad genres, just bands without a sense of history. Most pop punk and math rock bands sound just as much like they were formed in some vacuum as they suburban, southern California tract homes they started in, but Green Day managed to rise above if only because of their sense of history and how it played out in their music. Same with speed metal, evidently. All it takes is an invocation of "I Got a Woman," or "Hellhound on my Trail," and you've got a real, material band and not just something you hear coming out of a white Ford Ranger with a lift kit as it passes you. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Residual Echoes : The Continuing Saga of Julie Patchouli |
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The Residual Echoes formed in Santa Cruz in 2003 and were a house-show circuit band same as we were. They were [...]
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Track 2 from California
Length: 00:11:30 Year: 2006 |
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The Residual Echoes formed in Santa Cruz in 2003 and were a house-show circuit band same as we were. They were just folks we were friends with who played Comets On Fire-inspired psychedelic freakouts. Over the years, Adam Payne's vision changed (the band is more or less his high school acid use-recovering brainchild), and somewhere along the line, they became the best band in the world. Seeing them is less going to a show as it is having some sort of religious experience. They're just different then every other wah-wah heavy psych thing going on these days. Maybe it's their being equal parts CCR and Dinosaur Jr. or their constantly revolving lineup, but man, you gotta see these guys. "California" is their third album, and they've evolved into a total early '90s band, sounding not unlike the Flaming Lips, Ween, Wipers, or Dinosaur Jr., but with SST sensibilites. At any rate, I'm really proud of them. This song is probably the poppiest one on their new record, and has some great Syd Barrett-y lines. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | The Breeders : Roi |
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I probably had a similar Breeders experience as most people my age. I discovered the Pixies in high school, th [...]
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Track 5 from Last Splash
Length: 00:04:11 Year: 1993 |
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I probably had a similar Breeders experience as most people my age. I discovered the Pixies in high school, thought they ruled but had exhausted their cataloge by the time I was 20, wondered what their members went on to, and heard the Breeders, realizing it was them what did that "Cannonball" song. Then I got over them and then I saw them live and they were really, really great. As I discovered psychedelic rock as I got older, I realized the Breeders get written off as banal '90s pop a lot when they're much, much more. They're the kind of band your aunt would be in if Amon Duul were her backing band. This is some well-orchestrated, well-produced, heavy, heavy shit here. I'm sure latent sexism has a lot to do with people's not realizing how much they really rip, which is unfortunate, because I shudder to think what kind of world would we live in if it weren't for Kim Deal. And her rampant alcoholism. SHOW LESS
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| 15 | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band : The Buggy Boogie Woogie |
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What is this shit? They'll repackage and remaster and rehash the fuckin' Beatles to death (don't get me wrong, [...]
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Track 11 from Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Length: 00:02:18 Year: 1970 |
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What is this shit? They'll repackage and remaster and rehash the fuckin' Beatles to death (don't get me wrong, me love Beatles) but they won't skip it for once and use the money just to rerelease Beefheart's hands-down best album. If it weren't for filesharing, I would have had to spend like fifty bucks or some shit on getting it imported from Japan. This album picks up right where "Trout Mask Replica" leaves off, minus Frank Zappa's exploitative production. This album actually has bass and the vocals are synched up with the (albeit still hellof jagged) music. But Don Van Vliet's at his lyrical best here, and the Magic Band grooves hard. Sometimes I just don't know how that guy got all the winners. "The buggy boogie woogie sweeps me off my feet," he says before the repeated "what this world needs is a good two-dollar room and a good two-dollar broom," and "the way I must be sweeping must be with too many feet." Look at that slugger go. Also, the "Roi"-"Buggy Boogie Woogie" segue is a good one I lifted from a mix I had made about a year before. Holler. SHOW LESS
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| 16 | The Pagans : What's This Shit Called Love? |
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Kinda is-what-it-is Detroit punk. Super loud and abrasive with a rad bassline in the chorus and snarling guita [...]
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Track 1 from Everybody Hates You
Length: 00:02:38 Year: 1995 |
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Kinda is-what-it-is Detroit punk. Super loud and abrasive with a rad bassline in the chorus and snarling guitars. On its own (or buried in a mix) this song rules, but they're kind of one-trick ponies. "Saw it in books, read it on TV" as an opening line juuuuusssst misses the mark. Make no mistake though: this rips. SHOW LESS
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| 17 | James Chance and the Contortions : Contort Yourself |
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Yet another no-wave gem, this one from the guy who started it all, right down to the white suits, squeaky saxo [...]
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Track 5 from Buy
Length: 00:04:23 Year: 1979 |
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Yet another no-wave gem, this one from the guy who started it all, right down to the white suits, squeaky saxophones, and absolutely manic screaming. I'll be honest, the main reason I put this song on was to annoy the recipient of this mix's girlfriend, who has very good taste, don't get me wrong, but airs on the orchestral, produced side of things. The breakdown in this song is amazing. James Chance yelps "Contort yourself one time!" and the band bleats back at him in unison and then "Contort yourself two times!" all the way up to five times, and on the sixth he just lets loose this blood-curdling scream at the top of his lungs. Blood. Bath. SHOW LESS
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| 18 | Minutemen : The Product |
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And then it comes time for your favorite band of all time ever to go on the mix. Whatever song do you choose? [...]
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Track 7 from Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat
Length: 00:02:43 Year: 1983 |
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And then it comes time for your favorite band of all time ever to go on the mix. Whatever song do you choose? Well, I followed up "Contort Yourself" with one of their rougher, more angular tunes. Watt's bassline rules (as always) and d. boon's shouting is incomprehensible (is he drunk? Is he singing like that on purpose?). The trumpet solo in the middle is hellof triumphant and complements the song in the best way possible, and at the end, d. boon explodes with "theproducttheproducttheproducttheproduct theproducttheproducttheproducttheproductOF CAPITALISM!!!!!!!!" with such posi-ass conviction. He doesn't even specify what the product of capitalism is and he doesn't have to. Just the heart with which he screams "Capitalism" is revolutionary enough. SHOW LESS
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| 19 | Spacemen 3 : Revolution |
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What was it they said about themselves again? They took drugs to make music for people listen to music to take [...]
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Track 5 from Playing With Fire
Length: 00:05:57 Year: 1989 |
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What was it they said about themselves again? They took drugs to make music for people listen to music to take drugs to or something? You get the gist of it. And thats' what Spacemen 3 sounds like. It's usually just their two guitars, fuzzed the fuck over the top, playing one or two chords as repetitively as they can, occasionally stopping to murmur a lyric. All I know is when my roommate gets stoned and plays guitar, it's the kind of shit he records. This track has drums on it, kind of a rarity, and they're mixed down pretty far. Imagine just sticking your head in an amplifier so loud that you can't even dicsern the sound of the guitar from anything else. All you head is a buzzing freqency. Oh do it Frankie, do it, oh how. SHOW LESS
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| 20 | 13th Floor Elevators : Street Song |
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This is the last album by the 13th Floor Elevators to feature Roky Erikson before he went totally fucking nuts [...]
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Track 8 from Bull of the Woods
Length: 00:04:57 Year: 1968 |
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This is the last album by the 13th Floor Elevators to feature Roky Erikson before he went totally fucking nuts. Actually, it's their last album. Not rated very highly usually, but it's one of my all-time favorites. Psychedelic rock par exemplar. No freakouts, nothing too long, no lyrics about cotton candy, just wintry, somber songs with lightly distorted but very loud guitars and spaced-out solos. A lot of the tracks even have horn arrangements, which complement them in a pretty rad way. I really like this album. One time I was listening to it at work and my boss came in the warehouse and said "What is that stony shit you're listening to now?" "Street Song" is for all intents and purposes their closing jam. After it comes a great pop tune called "Dear Dr. Doom," then just some really spacy sounds over the course of two more or less indistinct but quite good tracks. SHOW LESS
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one of the best i've seen so far on this site.
that's saying alot.
that's saying alot.
10/28/08 07:11am
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The true sign of a fresh mixtaper. This badge is awarded to everyone. Don't feel special.
awarded on 2008-06-07
Level 3
Absolute classics from Crime and The Pagans. Gotta say I don't know 'bout Ween, but the company you put them in here is gonna make me check 'em out right now. Glad to hear someone else follows self-imposed mixing rules.
8/13/08 08:24am
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...and the mixtaping gods did smile upon thee, rewarding your amazing luck with this glorious badge. Honestly, what are the chances?
awarded on 2007-03-21
Level 7
captain beefheart!!!
3/23/07 04:20pm
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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 2007-06-29
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THEUSAISAMONSTER +++++
12/29/06 12:12pm
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Driving Lamborghini's and sipping on martinis. This badge is for those who express their love of Mike Patton through mixtape.
awarded on 2008-08-07
Level 27
spacemen 3, ween, and 13th floor elevators all in a first mix? absolutely lovely. +++
12/28/06 11:05pm
