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Melancholy Mix
| Melancholy Mix | |
| Created by: | Eraserhead |
| Tracks: | 19 |
| Length: | 01:14:47 |
| Keywords |
1. this 2. is 3. awesome |
| Created on | 8/15/06 08:03pm |
| Level | 6 |
| Points | 2864 |
| Total visitors | 117 |
| Unique visitors | 47 |
description:
Although this mix is kinda sorta all over the map, it's main focus is more melancholy. Still, there are a few other vibes going on at the same time.
This is an earlier mix of mine that I recently unearthed from my computer, so I'm wondering how it holds up.
This is an earlier mix of mine that I recently unearthed from my computer, so I'm wondering how it holds up.
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| 1 | Love : Alone Again Or |
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A very beautiful song. Don't be deceived by the melody, it is pretty sad!
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Track 1 from Forever Changes
Length: 00:03:18 Year: 1967 |
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A very beautiful song. Don't be deceived by the melody, it is pretty sad! SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Nico : These Days |
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A nice, folkier piece. Nico fits in a lot better here than she did in the Velvet Underground.
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Track 0 from Chelsea Girl
Length: 00:03:33 Year: 0000 |
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A nice, folkier piece. Nico fits in a lot better here than she did in the Velvet Underground. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Leonard Cohen : Master Song |
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A slow folk song. Very haunting, and still gives me chills every time I listen to it now.
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Track 2 from The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Length: 00:05:55 Year: 0000 |
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A slow folk song. Very haunting, and still gives me chills every time I listen to it now. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Portishead : Sour Times |
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Bleak and sexy at the same time. Jazz and rock influences weave themselves in and out of this one.
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Track 2 from Dummy
Length: 00:04:14 Year: 1994 |
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Bleak and sexy at the same time. Jazz and rock influences weave themselves in and out of this one. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | The Cure : Close To Me |
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Robert Smith sounds like a melodramatic Prince on this one.
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Track 7 from Head On The Door
Length: 00:03:23 Year: 0000 |
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Robert Smith sounds like a melodramatic Prince on this one. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | The Clash : The Magnificent Seven |
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Disco by way of punk. Although not as striking as some of their earlier work, the Magnificent Seven is still [...]
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Track 1 from Sandinista! (Disc 1)
Length: 00:05:33 Year: 0000 |
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Disco by way of punk. Although not as striking as some of their earlier work, the Magnificent Seven is still very energetic. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | soft cell : tainted love |
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A dark, danceable brit-pop song.
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Track 2 from tainted love single
Length: 00:02:33 Year: 1981 |
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A dark, danceable brit-pop song. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | PJ Harvey : C'mon Billy |
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A nice, moodier gem by PJ Harvey. Very often overlooked, but still highly effective.
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Track 0 from To Bring You My Love
Length: 00:02:50 Year: 0000 |
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A nice, moodier gem by PJ Harvey. Very often overlooked, but still highly effective. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Tom Waits : Tango Till They're Sore |
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A beautiful, beautiful piece from the king of sorrow. Sounds like a man ranting with self-pity at a bar.
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Track 5 from Rain Dogs
Length: 00:02:53 Year: 1985 |
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A beautiful, beautiful piece from the king of sorrow. Sounds like a man ranting with self-pity at a bar. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds : Up Jumped the Devil |
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A slow, tongue-in-cheek ballad.
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Track 2 from Tender Prey
Length: 00:05:16 Year: 1987 |
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A slow, tongue-in-cheek ballad. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | The White Stripes : Jolene |
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A very nice tribute to the Dolly Parton song of the same name.
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Track 0 from
Length: 00:03:11 Year: |
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A very nice tribute to the Dolly Parton song of the same name. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Calexico : Black Heart |
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A very beautiful, haunting wash of strings and acoustic guitars.
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Track 4 from Feast of Wire
Length: 00:04:52 Year: 2003 |
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A very beautiful, haunting wash of strings and acoustic guitars. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Cat Power : Moonshiner |
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A scary, slow folk song. Gives me shivers.
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Track 7 from Moon Pix
Length: 00:04:50 Year: 1998 |
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A scary, slow folk song. Gives me shivers. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan : Revolver |
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A slow, haunting folk song.
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Track 0 from Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Length: 00:02:40 Year: 2006 |
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A slow, haunting folk song. SHOW LESS
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| 15 | The Decemberists : From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) |
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A sea-faring folkie about a lonely man.
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Track 6 from Picaresque
Length: 00:03:44 Year: 2005 |
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A sea-faring folkie about a lonely man. SHOW LESS
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| 16 | Beirut : Mt. Wroclai (Idle Days) |
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A very majestic Balkan folk song.
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Track 5 from Gulag Orkestar
Length: 00:03:17 Year: 2006 |
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A very majestic Balkan folk song. SHOW LESS
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| 17 | Lou Reed : Perfect Day |
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Although technically a happy song, it has always stuck with me as sad (because of the use of it in Trainspotti [...]
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Track 3 from Transformer
Length: 00:03:45 Year: 1972 |
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Although technically a happy song, it has always stuck with me as sad (because of the use of it in Trainspotting). SHOW LESS
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| 18 | Queens of the Stone Age : The Mosquito Song [Hidden Track] |
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Even these monsters of robot rock had time to make this wonderful folk song about the horrors of mosquitoes.
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Track 14 from Songs for the Deaf
Length: 00:05:38 Year: 2002 |
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Even these monsters of robot rock had time to make this wonderful folk song about the horrors of mosquitoes. SHOW LESS
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| 19 | Neutral Milk Hotel : In The Aeroplane Over The Sea |
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A happy epilogue to a mix of sorrow and pain.
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Track 3 from In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Length: 00:03:22 Year: 1998 |
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A happy epilogue to a mix of sorrow and pain. SHOW LESS
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Tag Board
Mixtape Contest XXV: 1st Place
You brutally murdered and made skin masks out of your competition! Way to go!
Congratulations on First Place!
Congratulations on First Place!
awarded on 2008-12-21
Level 28
Thanks. It really is a trip to look at this mix. I made it like... over 2 years ago. Things done changed.
9/13/08 02:19pm
The MLK Badge
Because Civil Rights rock (and roll).
awarded on 2009-03-07
Level 18
This is awesome. 8-14 is my favorite section of the mix, it's great.
9/13/08 12:23pm
Mixtape Contest XX -- First Place
After the nuclear holocaust, there will be three things left: Cockroaches, Twinkees and Keith Richards.
Keith is answer key for they test of time. And Cocaine.
Congrats on first place.
Keith is answer key for they test of time. And Cocaine.
Congrats on first place.
awarded on 2008-03-22
Level 17
damn straight
5/09/07 09:04pm
The Beta Badge II
A slightly-less exclusive reward for special people. Thanks for helping us out with our second stage of beta testing. We love you silly guinea pigs!
awarded on 2006-12-28
Level 14
YES
1/15/07 10:27am
The Bronze Badge
Wow, one of your mixes is doing swell in the ratings! But remember, Bob Dole did 'swell' in the primaries...
awarded on 2007-04-29
Level 13
Seems pretty nice, like most of the individual songs but not sure how they would sound next to each other.
12/16/06 12:00pm
