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Hotel Room Blues
| Hotel Room Blues | |
| Created by: | Calaveth |
| Tracks: | 16 |
| Length: | 01:03:26 |
| Keywords |
1. Business Trip 2. Hotel 3. Bored |
| Created on | 9/03/08 04:56pm |
| Level | 3 |
| Points | 1743 |
| Total visitors | 28 |
| Unique visitors | 16 |
description:
Part of my job includes a bunch of business trips. Sometimes it's fun, an opportunity to see new places, meet new people, all that. But most of the time it's just rather dreary, trying to make time pass in hotel rooms that all look much the same.
This mix is put together only using the music that is on either my iPod or my laptop. I have to be able to listen to it *now*, after all.
This mix is put together only using the music that is on either my iPod or my laptop. I have to be able to listen to it *now*, after all.
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| 1 | Bjork : Hunter |
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If there's a future potpourri mix contest, this might be my opener. For a long while, I completely overlooked [...]
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Track 1 from Homogenic
Length: 00:04:15 Year: 1997 |
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If there's a future potpourri mix contest, this might be my opener. For a long while, I completely overlooked Homogenic. Silly me. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Venetian Snares : Felbomlasztott mentőkocsi (Bong-Ra remix) |
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Candidate for Least Marketable Song Title. Fantastic dramatic music though. Not sure what this is supposed to [...]
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Track 1 from 4 Adaptations of Rossz csillag alatt született
Length: 00:03:56 Year: 2006 |
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Candidate for Least Marketable Song Title. Fantastic dramatic music though. Not sure what this is supposed to be called - breakcore? SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Apparat : Arcadia |
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Soaring electronic harmonies from one of 2007's best albums.
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Track 9 from Walls
Length: 00:05:10 Year: 2007 |
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Soaring electronic harmonies from one of 2007's best albums. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Little Dragon : After the Rain |
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Jazzy trip-hop from Sweden with Yukimi Nagano, one of the finest new voices I've heard in recent years. [...] SHOW MORE
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Track 7 from Little Dragon
Length: 00:04:04 Year: 2007 |
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Jazzy trip-hop from Sweden with Yukimi Nagano, one of the finest new voices I've heard in recent years. Oh, and have I mentioned recently how much it tend to rain in Sweden during summer? No? SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Battles : Leyendecker |
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I love Battles, but one song at a time is quite enough of their spaced out math rock.
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Track 5 from Mirrored
Length: 00:02:48 Year: 2007 |
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I love Battles, but one song at a time is quite enough of their spaced out math rock. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | PJ Harvey : Angelene |
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These days, there seem to be a PJ Harvey track on more or less every mixtape I make. I guess that's alright.
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Track 1 from Is This Desire?
Length: 00:03:34 Year: 0000 |
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These days, there seem to be a PJ Harvey track on more or less every mixtape I make. I guess that's alright. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Bardo Pond : Wank |
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A nice transition from PJ Harvey to Boris.
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Track 4 from Amanita
Length: 00:05:29 Year: 1996 |
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A nice transition from PJ Harvey to Boris. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Boris : Afterburner |
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Screeching guitars melt faces. And they're not even trying very hard.
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Track 8 from Pink
Length: 00:04:22 Year: 2005 |
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Screeching guitars melt faces. And they're not even trying very hard. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Eagles of Death Metal : Already Died |
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Rocking out. It doesn't have to be complicated.
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Track 10 from Peace Love Death Metal
Length: 00:03:00 Year: 2004 |
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Rocking out. It doesn't have to be complicated. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Electrelane : Take the Bit Between Your Teeth |
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I think there are few retired bands that I so consistently think of their retirement with such disappointment. [...]
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Track 5 from The Power Out
Length: 00:04:59 Year: 2004 |
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I think there are few retired bands that I so consistently think of their retirement with such disappointment. I had just seen them live last summer at a festival, had never heard them before and thought they were great, certain to make great stuff in the future, then just a few months later the announcement that they're disbanding. :( SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Okkervil River : John Allyn Smyth Sails |
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A new discovery to me. A pretty dark story: " From a bridge on Washington Avenue, the year of 1972 B [...] SHOW MORE
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Track 9 from The Stage Names
Length: 00:04:33 Year: 2007 |
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A new discovery to me. A pretty dark story: " From a bridge on Washington Avenue, the year of 1972 Broke my bones and skull and it was memorable It was half a second and I was halfway down" SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Bob Dylan : Subterranean Homesick Blues |
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I'm homesick not because home is *that* great, but because here sucks.
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Track 1 from Bringing It All Back Home
Length: 00:02:24 Year: 1965 |
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I'm homesick not because home is *that* great, but because here sucks. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Iron and Wine : White Tooth Man |
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Said the plain clothes cop to the holy ghost “I’ve heard nothing yet that wasn’t the [...] SHOW MORE
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Track 2 from The Shepherd's Dog
Length: 00:03:57 Year: 2007 |
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Said the plain clothes cop to the holy ghost “I’ve heard nothing yet that wasn’t the wind†And we all got sick on a strip club meal While the statehouse pardoned all the witches again So the white tooth man with his kids in the car And a wad of money that was already spent Said “I love my dog but she just ran away, She’ll keep running like the world never ends†SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Neko Case : Things That Scare Me |
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"Fluorescent lights engage Blackbirds frying on a wire Same birds that followed me to school When I [...] SHOW MORE
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Track 1 from Blacklisted
Length: 00:02:30 Year: 2002 |
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"Fluorescent lights engage Blackbirds frying on a wire Same birds that followed me to school When I was young Were they trying to tell me something Were they telling me to run" SHOW LESS
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| 15 | Band of Horses : No One's Gonna Love you |
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I suppose it's only really the title that fits the melancholy I'm after, but it's such a great song I couldn't [...]
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Track 7 from Cease to Begin
Length: 00:03:39 Year: 2007 |
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I suppose it's only really the title that fits the melancholy I'm after, but it's such a great song I couldn't help but include it. SHOW LESS
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| 16 | Telefon Tel Aviv : Life Is All About Taking Things in and Putting Things Out |
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I can't quite decide if the title of this instrumental track is just nonsense or a koan to contemplate until I [...]
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Track 5 from Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Length: 00:04:46 Year: 2001 |
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I can't quite decide if the title of this instrumental track is just nonsense or a koan to contemplate until I find enlightenment. Either way, it's a nice closing track. SHOW LESS
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The Serendipity Badge
You're just too good. In looking for one thing, you found another. Way to go, champ.
awarded on 2009-12-19
Level 14
agreed about battles. good mix
12/04/09 10:46am
The One Year Anniversary Badge
Issued to those who have stuck it out for a year here on MTC. What a long, strange trip, huh?
awarded on 2010-06-09
Level 11
This makes me homesick. I am looking forward to making this mix for myself.
12/03/09 08:41pm
The MLK Badge
Because Civil Rights rock (and roll).
awarded on 2009-03-07
Level 18
YES! 1337 points! Freeze this moment in time, when my mix is utterly and completely leet. :D
9/05/08 08:29am
Mixtape Contest XVII -- Third Place
The age-old tradition of Three Kings Day is to fill the shoes of good children with candy, while they sleep. Bad children get shoes filled with scorpions and other venomous creatures.
Congrats on third place!
awarded on 2008-01-10
Level 12
Yes, I was so sad about Electrelane. I just sort of imagined them doing their thing forever.
9/04/08 08:45pm
Level 6
But isn't biz travel a lot nicer when you can take your iPod?
Nice collection here. I too miss Electrelane.
Nice collection here. I too miss Electrelane.
9/04/08 04:45pm
