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This One's On Me

This One's On Me
Created by: johnny_luddite
Tracks: 19
Length: 01:18:55
Keywords 1. Aggro
2. johnny_luddite
3. Peter Robert Grant
Created on 4/02/09 03:25am
Level 2
Points 1498
Total visitors 29
Unique visitors 14
description:
Life is finite. Everyone knows it but you only really believe it when you are personally affected. It has been a rough year thus far, one that has had me thinking long and hard about my own mortality, and that of those I love. Even without immediate worries I have hit that time of life when the percentage of people you know who are alive versus the number you knew who are dead is changing, often on a weekly basis. This is hard to take when you are still full of hopes, dreams, solid ambitions and a basic love of love that makes you ache not to have to quit. Maybe this is the classic mid life crisis made more urgent by current concerns about health and well-being. All I know is that earlier today I needed something to pick me up so I did something I rarely do anymore, I made a mixtape just for me, one to listen to when I am on my own, when I need to be reassured by comfortable things I love, when I need to be challenged by the harsher realities of my current situation. here it is then, a mishmash of colors and shades. This one's on me.

tracklist

1 The Black Keys : Keep Your Hands Off Her
The first part of this mix finds me in my comfort zone. I think The Black Keys could have happened at any poin [...]
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Track 1 from Chulahoma
Length: 00:03:06
Year: 2006
Track Description:
The first part of this mix finds me in my comfort zone. I think The Black Keys could have happened at any point along my almost fifty years of listening to music. It is a glorious piece of luck that they are here and now. I almost drown in the blues of this track and like it.
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2 Son House : Death Letter
First generation blues this time. Son House receives bad news in a letter and tells us how he feels. This song [...]
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Track 1 from Father Of The Delta Blues
Length: 00:04:21
Year: 0000
Track Description:
First generation blues this time. Son House receives bad news in a letter and tells us how he feels. This song usually makes me cry. It is good to cry.
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3 Bob Dylan : You're a Big Girl Now
I must like tears, as this is another song that has forever had the power to turn me into a blubbering blob. T [...]
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Track 3 from Blood on the Tracks
Length: 00:04:38
Year: 0000
Track Description:
I must like tears, as this is another song that has forever had the power to turn me into a blubbering blob. The lyrics, the voice, the sloppy yet insanely beautiful guitars...
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4 Traffic : 40,000 Headmen
This came into my life at that weird time in between being a fourteen year old with vague now unspoken dreams [...]
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Track 8 from Nice Enough To Eat (Various Artists)
Length: 00:03:15
Year: 1969
Track Description:
This came into my life at that weird time in between being a fourteen year old with vague now unspoken dreams of being an explorer or astronaut and a fifteen year old in denim, cheesecloth and Chuck Taylors trying to hitch a ride to an Amon Duul gig. 40,000 headmen really couldn't make me change my mind.
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5 King Crimson : The Night Watch
Another track that allows me to escape to a time when time was what I had so much of. It retains the magic and [...]
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Track 4 from Starless And Bible Black
Length: 00:04:41
Year: 1974
Track Description:
Another track that allows me to escape to a time when time was what I had so much of. It retains the magic and charm for me now that it had when I first heard.
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6 The Decemberists : The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid
And so we crash headlong into the train wreck that is 2009. This new Decemberists album has got a hold of me t [...]
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Track 8 from The Hazards of Love
Length: 00:06:26
Year: 2009
Track Description:
And so we crash headlong into the train wreck that is 2009. This new Decemberists album has got a hold of me the way albums did back in the day. This excerpt starts off sounding like the Decemberists before going wonderfully prog rock, sounding like a face off between Jethro Tull and Jefferson Airship. I have a theory that old farts who despise ALL new music are not only pissed off that they are not young anymore (I am of course) but they also don't want to admit that anything done by anyone who is still young could be anything but shite. What a drag it is growing old.
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7 The Rolling Stones : She's A Rainbow
Listen to the first four notes of this and then the first four notes of the track before... Meanwhile, a tempo [...]
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Track 6 from Their Satanic Majesties Request
Length: 00:05:19
Year: 1967
Track Description:
Listen to the first four notes of this and then the first four notes of the track before... Meanwhile, a temporary retreat for me in Lord Jagged's fake hippyness.
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8 Pink Floyd : Green Is The Colour
Pre- Dark Side Floyd is a treasure chest of melancholy and whimsy.
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Track 5 from More
Length: 00:02:58
Year: 0000
Track Description:
Pre- Dark Side Floyd is a treasure chest of melancholy and whimsy.
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9 John Frusciante : Ah Yom
Frusciante like Gilmour helps me get into the mood for sad reflection...
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Track 12 from The Empyrean
Length: 00:03:13
Year: 2009
Track Description:
Frusciante like Gilmour helps me get into the mood for sad reflection...
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10 John Lee Hooker : The Waterfront
All melancholy, hold the whimsy as John Lee covers the Waterfront seeking his lost baby.
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Track 7 from The Essential
Length: 00:05:22
Year: 0000
Track Description:
All melancholy, hold the whimsy as John Lee covers the Waterfront seeking his lost baby.
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11 The Beatles : Julia
So I let the fabs ease my way into thinking about what's on my mind. John sang about dead people. The word 'ha [...]
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Track 17 from The Beatles (White Album)
Length: 00:02:52
Year: 1968
Track Description:
So I let the fabs ease my way into thinking about what's on my mind. John sang about dead people. The word 'haunting' has never been more apt.
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12 John Martyn : For The Love Of You
And I listen to dead people. I was a fan for 35 years, I met the man a few times, but when John Martyn died in [...]
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Track 16 from Ain't No Saint (disc 1)
Length: 00:05:05
Year: 0000
Track Description:
And I listen to dead people. I was a fan for 35 years, I met the man a few times, but when John Martyn died in January, it was a devastating shock. Coming on the day after the first anniversary of my Dad's passing
it felt like the whole world had ended for a while. John Martyn was a Father, husband, lover...many things that all trump my music based idolatry, yet my first thought was for myself, then John and his family. This song, an unreleased cast out from his glory days cuts through my heart.
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13 Portishead : Roads
"...From this moment, how can it feel so wrong?"
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Track 8 from Dummy
Length: 00:05:09
Year: 1994
Track Description:
"...From this moment, how can it feel so wrong?"
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14 Van Morrison : The Way Young Lovers Do
When you find the person you want to be with the rest of your life when that life is three parts done, you fee [...]
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Track 5 from Astral Weeks
Length: 00:03:18
Year: 1968
Track Description:
When you find the person you want to be with the rest of your life when that life is three parts done, you feel the way young lovers do, but deep inside you know the timing is all wrong.
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15 Dusty Springfield : If You Go Away
I am scared of losing her, I am scared of her losing me. I'm scared of the night
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Track 24 from Love Songs
Length: 00:03:50
Year: 0000
Track Description:
I am scared of losing her, I am scared of her losing me. I'm scared of the night
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16 Lucinda Williams : Heaven Blues
"I'm gonna make it right when I get to heaven" Hope there bloody is one and that they let a sucker like me in. [...]
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Track 10 from Little Honey
Length: 00:05:22
Year: 2008
Track Description:
"I'm gonna make it right when I get to heaven" Hope there bloody is one and that they let a sucker like me in.
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17 Nat King Cole : September Song
"The days grow short once you reach September..." "...and these precious days I'll spend with you."
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Track 1 from Nat King Cole Sings
Length: 00:02:29
Year: 0000
Track Description:
"The days grow short once you reach September..." "...and these precious days I'll spend with you."
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18 Fleet Foxes : Meadowlarks
This would be such a lovely song to fade away to.
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Track 9 from Fleet Foxes
Length: 00:03:11
Year: 2008
Track Description:
This would be such a lovely song to fade away to.
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19 Tom Waits : Closing Time
All I am really doing is thinking about closing time so that I try and make the most of the time leading up to [...]
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Track 12 from Closing Time
Length: 00:04:20
Year: 1973
Track Description:
All I am really doing is thinking about closing time so that I try and make the most of the time leading up to it. I know, too much information, but like I said, this one's on me. Cheers!
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Great mix. Love the sentiment of this mix. Love tracks 7 (obviously), 14, 15, 17-19.
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Wow. This might be my favorite mix I have seen on this site yet. Great job.
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John Martyn rules. This is a heavy mix and I nod from across the bar to acknowledge your existence in the universe. Cheers.
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yeah! i love that fleet foxes track :) great mix
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Nice selections, here's hoping it has the desired effect...
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