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| From The Cradle... | |
| Created by: | johnny_luddite |
| Tracks: | 20 |
| Length: | 01:18:08 |
| Keywords |
1. Cradle 2. grave 3. life-music |
| Created on | 10/21/06 12:05am |
| Level | 6 |
| Points | 2652 |
| Total visitors | 78 |
| Unique visitors | 40 |
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I saw a mixtape here which mentioned funeral music. I already have the music picked out for my funeral service (morbid, but enjoyable to plan for, strangely) so I thought I would carry it one stage further and come up with a mixtape to be played at the wake/celebration afterwards. As I thought about it, I realised that what I wanted to put together was a brief glimpse of a couple of aspects of my life with accompanying soundtrack. These are some of the songs I listened to along the way. Hopefully, I will be around long enough to do a volume 2, but you never know!
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| 1 | Santo And Johnny : Sleepwalk |
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I have used this before on a mixtape, but this is the soundtrack to my life we are talking about, so be patien [...]
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Track 1 from Ebb Tide
Length: 00:02:22 Year: 0000 |
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I have used this before on a mixtape, but this is the soundtrack to my life we are talking about, so be patient with a duplication or three. This is the first non kids song music I can remember. On Sundays my family would trek to the other side of London to see relatives, and the only good thing about that was my cousin Nigel. He used to have a job replenishing jukeboxes, and he got to keep a lot of the old records and every Sunday he would give a few to my sister and I. He would put one of those vinyl inners that Alice has as her mixtape badge, and play all this stuff to us. I was only four or five years old, but hearing those records was the highlight of my week. This recording has stuck with me for it's otherworldliness. An ideal choice for the start of the mix to see me off this planet! SHOW LESS
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| 2 | The Beatles : Love Me Do |
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By the time I was five, I was obsessed with guitars. I used to watch black and white TV and marvel at Hank B. [...]
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Track 1 from 1
Length: 00:02:20 Year: 2000 |
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By the time I was five, I was obsessed with guitars. I used to watch black and white TV and marvel at Hank B. Marvin holding what turned out to be a Startocaster. I wanted one. Well, five or six, really. All the pictures of me at this point show me with a toy guitar in my hand. Then it happened. One Sunday afternoon, we were watching TV at my Gran's house. There used to be this show in England, "Thank Your Lucky Stars." They had live appearances by 'beat groups.' This would be 1962. There was this band playing, and I knew that was it for me. It was the Beatles playing this song. It only got to no.17 in the charts in England, but they came back several times on the show to play it. I used to get up afterwards and mimic my favourite Beatle (John) and his harmonica playing. My Auntie Annie never got it. "Why is that bloody boy biting his nails?" she would say! SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Buddy Holly : Not Fade Away |
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In retrospect, what happened was this. In 1963, The Rolling Stones had a hit in the UK with 'Not Fade Away', s [...]
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Track 3 from From the Original Master Tapes
Length: 00:02:25 Year: 1990 |
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In retrospect, what happened was this. In 1963, The Rolling Stones had a hit in the UK with 'Not Fade Away', so it was decided to rerelease the Buddy Holly original to cash in. Cut to the front yard of the Grant family. Father and son are stretched out on a warm summer's day listening to the radio as they sip lemonade. A transistor radio blares that new fangled pop music, as the DJ introduces the 'new' Buddy Holly single. I am confused. thought I knew all about death, my pet budgie had died a few months before after all. I ask my Dad how a dead person can make a new record and he patiently explains, as I patiently ignore his explanation, content in the knowledge that he has bothered to take me seriously and answer`me. This moment has always stayed with me, always will, till this mix is played for real. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Frank Sinatra : Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas |
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I wasn't much older when I was allowed to stay up late watching TV. My Aunt was looking after me, and she was [...]
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Track 9 from Christmas Through The Years
Length: 00:02:36 Year: 0000 |
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I wasn't much older when I was allowed to stay up late watching TV. My Aunt was looking after me, and she was not as selective about what I watched as my folks were. There was a black and white war movie on. The plot had something to do with a soldier who went awol during wartime. He was executed on Christmas day, and as the execution takes place, the Frank Sinatra version of this song is played. That was when I learnt that music can be associated with sad things as well as the good stuff. The song has remained a truly sad one for me to this day. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | The Monkees : (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone |
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By the mid sixties, I was spending my pocket money (allowance) on records as much as I could. I suppose one of [...]
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Track 4 from Then And Now: The Best Of The Monkees
Length: 00:02:24 Year: 0000 |
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By the mid sixties, I was spending my pocket money (allowance) on records as much as I could. I suppose one of the clues that I was to become a music obsessed geek was that not only did I like playing the B-sides of 45's, but often I liked the b-side better! For instance I loved the Beatles and 'I'm Down'. Another example was this one. In later life it would become a staple of great punk bands like the Clash and the Pistols, and bad ones like the ones I played in. Even though this mob were a TV company manufactured confection, this still sounds good, which is all I require a record to do! SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Fleetwood Mac : Albatross |
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Skip forward a few years, and music was the main thing in my life, even though I was only 11 or 12. Fleetwood [...]
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Track 20 from The Collection
Length: 00:03:08 Year: 0000 |
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Skip forward a few years, and music was the main thing in my life, even though I was only 11 or 12. Fleetwood Mac released this instrumental, which reached no.1 in the UK. It had a dreamlike quality which reminded me of Sleepwalk, the song I loved all those years before. I still had the now scratched to shit copy my cousin Nigel had given me. I read later that Peter Green had that tune in mind when he wrote this one. I was starting to go through things kids in their early teens go through. This song helped me. Three years ago, I chose it as the final piece of music at my mother's funeral. She had shared it with me all those years ago, as we watched it play out Top Of The Pops on TV, and then we got to share it one last time. It will be the last piece of music played at my funeral too! SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Jimi Hendrix : Voodoo Child (Slight Return) |
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This was out in the charts in the UK in the weeks after Hendrix died. That was when I discovered him, and exac [...]
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Track 15 from Experience Hendrix
Length: 00:05:13 Year: 1998 |
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This was out in the charts in the UK in the weeks after Hendrix died. That was when I discovered him, and exactly the guitar was capable of. I had an ep with this, Hey Joe and All Along the Watchtower on it. It was my instructional manual, not just for guitar, but everything. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Carole King : It's Too Late |
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Then it happened. I discovered that girls were not just for being rude to and slightly afraid of. As a young m [...]
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Track 3 from Tapestry
Length: 00:03:54 Year: 1971 |
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Then it happened. I discovered that girls were not just for being rude to and slightly afraid of. As a young man's thoughts turned to love, so did his record collection turn to this and James Taylor in amongst all the Hendrix and Who and Tull and Purple and Heep and Zeppelin! This song had it all though. It was the first time I really noticed the production and 'vibe' of a track. The keyboards, guitar, alto sax, they all combined so wonderfully well. I used to wish this track could go on forever, both for the reasons I have just mentioned, and also so I could continue to wallow in the sea of self pity that laps up on the shores of unrequited love! SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Dr Feelgood : Boom, Boom |
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By 1973, I had discovered regular gig going and beer, and every Sunday night at The torrington, North Finchley [...]
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Track 2 from Down By The Jetty
Length: 00:02:43 Year: 1973 |
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By 1973, I had discovered regular gig going and beer, and every Sunday night at The torrington, North Finchley, the two pursuits peacefully co-existed. One of my favourite acts to see in those days were 'Dr Feelgood', a tight, manic, drunk pill popping RnB band. This John Lee Hooker cover was always a highlight of their live shows. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Pink Floyd : Any Colour You Like |
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I was in the fifth form at school when 'Dark Side Of The Moon' came out. I was fifteen. Pink Floyd had toured [...]
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Track 7 from Dark Side Of the Moon
Length: 00:03:25 Year: 1973 |
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I was in the fifth form at school when 'Dark Side Of The Moon' came out. I was fifteen. Pink Floyd had toured with the material from the album a year before, and this was the most anticipated rock album I had known of. A bunch of us decided to cut out of school in order to get our copies at the earliest opportunity. As we were attempting to sneak out, a teacher noticed us. His name was Mr Coxhead, and usually a name like that allied to his job description would have ensured universal ridicule and scorn. However, Mr Coxhead looked and acted more like Frank Zappa than Frank Zappa did and was therefore the coolest man we knew! He asked us where we were going, and we told him the truth, which suprised us as much as it did him. "Hope the album is worth the detention." He didn't give us a detention, but if he had of done, it would have been worth it. Every evening of teenage debauched fun from then on started off round at my friend Torquil's house, and a few tracks from DSOTM! I always liked this instrumental section from side 2! SHOW LESS
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| 11 | The Clash : White Riot |
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Punk expoded as I found myself in college in teh North of England, playing gigs, getting drunk, and not spendi [...]
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Track 1 from The Essential Clash
Length: 00:01:59 Year: 2003 |
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Punk expoded as I found myself in college in teh North of England, playing gigs, getting drunk, and not spending too much time working. The usual student things. All the good punk bands played Middlesbrough while I was there. The Clash were the best... SHOW LESS
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| 12 | David Bowie : Heroes |
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As I lived a hedonistic kind of life, I recoiled from punk a little and started listening more and more to Dav [...]
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Track 3 from "Heroes"
Length: 00:06:10 Year: 1977 |
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As I lived a hedonistic kind of life, I recoiled from punk a little and started listening more and more to David Bowie. I had liked Bowie for years, but I saw a darkness in his music now I had never seen before. Darkness cloaked in romance. Heroes is a romantic song, a fantasy, nothing and everything. It suited my life at that time. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | The Rolling Stones : Miss You |
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My best friend died in late 1979. I would joke later that he wouldn't of liked the 80's anyway! His favourite [...]
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Track 1 from Some Girls
Length: 00:04:48 Year: 1978 |
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My best friend died in late 1979. I would joke later that he wouldn't of liked the 80's anyway! His favourite bands included early Chicago, Santana, Mahavishnu Orchestra, but this song sticks in my mind. The day we found out he died, another friend came and picked me up and we headed to the pub. He kept singing this song to himself all night and I just wanted to crash his skull in. I didn't want to join in any mutual grieving, it was deeply personal to me. Now I can't seperate this song from the event. It will be in my final mix. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Bob Marley & The Wailers : Concrete Jungle |
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After my friend died, I fell apart and pulled myself together at the same time. I lost a lot of weight, got do [...]
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Track 6 from Babylon By Bus
Length: 00:05:39 Year: 1978 |
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After my friend died, I fell apart and pulled myself together at the same time. I lost a lot of weight, got down to what I was planning to do for a living, but also started smoking to herbal distraction. Reggae accompanied much of the action for a year or two. I saw one of Marley's last shows. This song was one of the concert highlights, with Junior Murvin's great lead guitar at the beginning. SHOW LESS
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| 15 | UB40 : Tyler |
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In the 80's I worked in the theater and mainly had a good time. Old habits die hard though. I was living in Bi [...]
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Track 1 from Signing Off
Length: 00:05:51 Year: 1980 |
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In the 80's I worked in the theater and mainly had a good time. Old habits die hard though. I was living in Birmingham in the British West Midlands, so a reggae band from that neck of the woods seems in order. They actually owned a bar in Birmingham that I hung out in a fair bit. SHOW LESS
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| 16 | Talk Talk : I Believe In You |
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I got married, we spent our time between Indianapolis and North London. Things didn't last, with much pain on [...]
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Track 3 from Spirit of Eden
Length: 00:06:16 Year: 1988 |
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I got married, we spent our time between Indianapolis and North London. Things didn't last, with much pain on both sides, but I remember nights in our bunk bed in a business district loft, sampling as many flavours of schnaps as possible then making love while Talk Talk played. Not all bad memories. SHOW LESS
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| 17 | Portishead : Glory Box |
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Things didn't work out, I got divorced, and then I got sick. I couldn;t work for several months. One night, I [...]
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Track 11 from Dummy
Length: 00:05:07 Year: 1994 |
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Things didn't work out, I got divorced, and then I got sick. I couldn;t work for several months. One night, I saw Portishead playing live on TV. First time I heard them. I was blown away by the possibilities I thought they offered. The next day, my bowel exploded, and I would spend the next month or so in a coma in ITU. This was so very nearly the last music I ever heard. It has to be here! SHOW LESS
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| 18 | The Cramps : The Strangeness In Me |
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So I had lots of surgery, I had to learn to breathe, walk, talk again. There were therapists for that. No one [...]
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Track 12 from Look Ma, No Head!
Length: 00:03:14 Year: 1991 |
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So I had lots of surgery, I had to learn to breathe, walk, talk again. There were therapists for that. No one was helping me understand why I was still alive. It would have been so much easier, so much less painful not to survive. For the first time in my life, the only time, I rejected music. I just didn't want to hear anything. People bought me in walkmens and Cd players, but they went unused. Then, one Sunday morning, when I was in an isolation room because of a virus I picked up while in the ITU I finally picked up a walkman with a radio in it. I couldn't find anything I wanted to hear until by cyhance I found a pirate AM station who were playing psychobilly, the Cramps to be precise, and there, in the absurdity of this band, and the complete magnificence of the bassline, I smiled, and enjoyed three minutes of ridiculous perfection. I still felt like poo, but music had begun to pull me back from the brink. Well, it helped anyway! SHOW LESS
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| 19 | Morcheeba : The Sea |
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Several years later, and I was playing music again, loving life most of the time. This song played in the back [...]
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Track 1 from Big Calm
Length: 00:05:50 Year: 1998 |
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Several years later, and I was playing music again, loving life most of the time. This song played in the background on a night when it felt that I really had come alive again. I forgot that if you get back in the ring, you might just get hurt, but....for that night, fate was smiling down on me as this lovely trip-hop track did it's magic. SHOW LESS
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| 20 | The Temptations : My Girl |
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Life went on, I almost died again, then I met Karmen. A new life, a new country and the same old blues. I sang [...]
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Track 1 from My Girl
Length: 00:02:44 Year: 0000 |
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Life went on, I almost died again, then I met Karmen. A new life, a new country and the same old blues. I sang this song to her the day we got married in Ventura in 2004. Life goes on. I ghope I can fill up most of a part 2 mixtape in a year or three. This isn't supposed to be profound. Life mostly isn't. WHat it is are a few riffs from the life of a music infatuated kid who still plays with his toy guitars. SHOW LESS
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Mixtape Contest XX -- First Place
After the nuclear holocaust, there will be three things left: Cockroaches, Twinkees and Keith Richards.
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also, the stories are wonderful.
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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
has there been a funeral tape contest yet? because there should be. ++++
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I think of this kind of thing all the time! The music is very cool. Thumbs up.
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Level 28
as morbid as it is... portishead would be some incredible music to be the last thing you ever heard..
i love audiobiographical mixes. you rule.
i love audiobiographical mixes. you rule.
10/25/06 11:21am
