Johnnyluddite's Fiftieth Symphony
| Johnnyluddite's Fiftieth Symphony | |
| Created by: | johnny_luddite |
| Tracks: | 14 |
| Length: | 01:10:11 |
| Keywords |
1. fiftieth 2. mixtape 3. anniversary |
| Created on | 4/14/07 12:50pm |
| Level | 6 |
| Points | 2603 |
| Total visitors | 60 |
| Unique visitors | 30 |
description:
My fiftieth mixtape on the collective. Stuff I like, explanations of what it means to me, the usual stuff. Music does mean an awful lot to me, and I do enjoy the chance to mouth off about it, so please forgive me if the text runs on a bit.
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| 1 | Pink Floyd : One of These Days |
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This song has long been a staple of mine when I need some get up and go. An instrumental that really heralded in the trademark Floyd sound. I can't ever be without this.
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Track 1 from Meddle
Length: 00:05:57 Year: 1971 |
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This song has long been a staple of mine when I need some get up and go. An instrumental that really heralded in the trademark Floyd sound. I can't ever be without this. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Mogwai : I Chose Horses |
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We continue with music that has become part of me in the time I have been at MTC. This particular track seems to sum up everything I love about Mogwai, the beauty and the beast in them perhaps.
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Track 2 from Mr. Beast
Length: 00:05:13 Year: 2006 |
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We continue with music that has become part of me in the time I have been at MTC. This particular track seems to sum up everything I love about Mogwai, the beauty and the beast in them perhaps. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Talk Talk : I Believe In You |
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In my addled mind, this bands music perfectly compliments Floyd and Mogwai. It really does work for me.
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Track 3 from Spirit of Eden
Length: 00:06:16 Year: 1988 |
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In my addled mind, this bands music perfectly compliments Floyd and Mogwai. It really does work for me. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Blur : This Is a Low |
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An Atypical and actually rather beautiful Blur track, and I can understand the inspiration for the song. Back in England, just about the last thing you can hear at night on BBC Radio 4 is the Shipping Forecast, a report of strange things which are supposed to help keep ships safe in Britains choppy seas. As a kid, I used to listen to this on my ransistor radio, tucked up in bed, imagining the places the forecast would mention, such as 'Cromarty' and 'Dogger Bite'. Well, so did Damon Albarn, apparently.
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Track 4 from Parklife
Length: 00:05:07 Year: 1994 |
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An Atypical and actually rather beautiful Blur track, and I can understand the inspiration for the song. Back in England, just about the last thing you can hear at night on BBC Radio 4 is the Shipping Forecast, a report of strange things which are supposed to help keep ships safe in Britains choppy seas. As a kid, I used to listen to this on my ransistor radio, tucked up in bed, imagining the places the forecast would mention, such as 'Cromarty' and 'Dogger Bite'. Well, so did Damon Albarn, apparently. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Pulp : This Is Hardcore |
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Pulp had enjoyed a run of hit singles in the 90s. Then this came out, bemusing some people. I thought then and think now that it is one of the best things they ever did.
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Track 5 from This Is Hardcore
Length: 00:06:25 Year: 1998 |
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Pulp had enjoyed a run of hit singles in the 90s. Then this came out, bemusing some people. I thought then and think now that it is one of the best things they ever did. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Amy Winehouse : You Know I'm No Good |
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I have been away from England for three years now, and it is inevitable that I have lost touch a little with what is going on at home musically. When I was last there, there was a lot of media excitement about a new crop of young female British singers. Joss Stone was getting attention, but so was Amy Winehouse, who seemed a little more original to me. Since then, she seems to have become more famous for being out of it all over the place, but I have to say that I really like her second album, almost inspite of myself. She seems to have achieved a hard edged almost soul sound with her band, and her vocal performance has some of the self destructive qualities of Billie Holiday in there. Anyway, I have been playing this a lot lately, and in doing so, it helps me feel connected to home, even if that connection is an illusory one.
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Track 6 from Back To Black
Length: 00:04:17 Year: 2006 |
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I have been away from England for three years now, and it is inevitable that I have lost touch a little with what is going on at home musically. When I was last there, there was a lot of media excitement about a new crop of young female British singers. Joss Stone was getting attention, but so was Amy Winehouse, who seemed a little more original to me. Since then, she seems to have become more famous for being out of it all over the place, but I have to say that I really like her second album, almost inspite of myself. She seems to have achieved a hard edged almost soul sound with her band, and her vocal performance has some of the self destructive qualities of Billie Holiday in there. Anyway, I have been playing this a lot lately, and in doing so, it helps me feel connected to home, even if that connection is an illusory one. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | John Martyn : Dealer |
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Yes, an obscure old British musician who hardly anyone listens to, yet he remains one of my favorite artists. Recording for 40 years now, his music has travelled through folk, blues, reggae and trip-hop influences but has always been distinctive and original. This track features his echo-plex guitar technique and is just wonderful in my eyes. Lyrically, he sings of a drug deal from the perspective of the dealer, saying that he is "Just the spit and polish on a fat man's shiny shoes," and reflecting that "No one needs a dealer just the day before a score."
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Track 7 from One World
Length: 00:04:58 Year: 1977 |
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Yes, an obscure old British musician who hardly anyone listens to, yet he remains one of my favorite artists. Recording for 40 years now, his music has travelled through folk, blues, reggae and trip-hop influences but has always been distinctive and original. This track features his echo-plex guitar technique and is just wonderful in my eyes. Lyrically, he sings of a drug deal from the perspective of the dealer, saying that he is "Just the spit and polish on a fat man's shiny shoes," and reflecting that "No one needs a dealer just the day before a score." SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Buddy Guy : Feels Like Rain |
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I only really listened to this in the last week. Someone at one of my 'help pay teh rent' bottom feeding blues gigs asked if my band knew this. We didn't so I went away and learned it. Buddy Guy is one of the great blues guitarists, but on this song, he delivers a really touching vocal. The whole thing seems to have extra resonance in the light of teh Katrina disaster. (In the song he talks about not being able to make it over Lake Pontchatrain.)He doesn't even play the solo here, I think Bonnie Raitt does, but I wanted to include it here as the latest example of music that sends shivers down my spine.
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Track 8 from Buddy's Baddest: The Best Of Buddy Guy
Length: 00:04:37 |
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I only really listened to this in the last week. Someone at one of my 'help pay teh rent' bottom feeding blues gigs asked if my band knew this. We didn't so I went away and learned it. Buddy Guy is one of the great blues guitarists, but on this song, he delivers a really touching vocal. The whole thing seems to have extra resonance in the light of teh Katrina disaster. (In the song he talks about not being able to make it over Lake Pontchatrain.)He doesn't even play the solo here, I think Bonnie Raitt does, but I wanted to include it here as the latest example of music that sends shivers down my spine. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Bob Dylan : Rollin' and Tumblin' |
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This rootsy bluesy Amaricana steeped Mr Zimmerman of the last three albums is very appealing to me. I have read in some quarters that he has come in for some criticism for messing too much with this particular blues classic, but I really like what he has done with it.
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Track 9 from Modern Times
Length: 00:06:01 Year: 2006 |
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This rootsy bluesy Amaricana steeped Mr Zimmerman of the last three albums is very appealing to me. I have read in some quarters that he has come in for some criticism for messing too much with this particular blues classic, but I really like what he has done with it. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Kelly Joe Phelps : Tight To The Jar |
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For the past ten years or so, Kelly Joe Phelps has been making extraordinary music. From a starting point of a guitar technique which starts off with Robert Johnson and goes further, and a voice to die for, he makes sounds which need to be in my life.
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Track 10 from Tunesmith Retrofit
Length: 00:05:43 Year: 2006 |
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For the past ten years or so, Kelly Joe Phelps has been making extraordinary music. From a starting point of a guitar technique which starts off with Robert Johnson and goes further, and a voice to die for, he makes sounds which need to be in my life. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Richard Thompson : The Reckless Kind |
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Another of my hobby horse artists. This man writes great songs, plays great guitar, has a cult following, and that should be enough for me. This is a song about unrequited love, and when I first heard it, I cried as it described pretty much the situation I was in at the time.
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Track 11 from Amnesia
Length: 00:04:12 Year: 1988 |
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Another of my hobby horse artists. This man writes great songs, plays great guitar, has a cult following, and that should be enough for me. This is a song about unrequited love, and when I first heard it, I cried as it described pretty much the situation I was in at the time. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Nick Drake : Things Behind the Sun |
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I feel a bit melancholy today for no particular reason. This sad song picks me up and enfolds me at times like these.
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Track 12 from Pink Moon
Length: 00:03:57 Year: 1972 |
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I feel a bit melancholy today for no particular reason. This sad song picks me up and enfolds me at times like these. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | The Beach Boys : Surf's Up |
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Brian Wilson's last great masterpiece for The Beach Boys. I make no excuses for listening to old music still. One way something stands the test of time in my book is if I can still find something new in a recording I have heard countless times. This passes the test.
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Track 13 from Surf's Up
Length: 00:04:12 Year: 1971 |
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Brian Wilson's last great masterpiece for The Beach Boys. I make no excuses for listening to old music still. One way something stands the test of time in my book is if I can still find something new in a recording I have heard countless times. This passes the test. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : The Carnival Is Over |
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The carnival is never quite over, even when we are told so by Mr misery himself. I will be back!
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Track 14 from Kicking Against The Pricks
Length: 00:03:16 Year: 1986 |
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The carnival is never quite over, even when we are told so by Mr misery himself. I will be back! SHOW LESS
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TEAM 97 -- Third Place
from start to finish, solid as a bloody rock. amy winehouse - love her. although i did feel sad for her when she was about 3 million sheets to the wind on charlotte church's talk show, who allowed her to sing! the mean cow...
4/19/07 12:00am
The Level 21 Badge
possibly my favorite song from that dylan album, and likely in my top 3 from the past 3 albums.. nice choice. mogwai and pink floyd songs are awesome too.. and definitely props on the beach boys. nice mix!
4/15/07 10:30am
