Past, Present and Future
| Past, Present and Future | |
| Created by: | johnny_luddite |
| Tracks: | 23 |
| Length: | 01:19:23 |
| Keywords |
1. Past time 2. present time 3. future time |
| Created on | 9/28/09 5:53am |
| Level | 2 |
| Points | 1459 |
| Total visitors | 24 |
| Unique visitors | 14 |
description:
This was going to be a mega deep mix featuring songs about the nature of time, but during my resaerch I realized I had enough songs in my collection with time in the title to come up with several good mixes. i left out some obvious ones, some that don't play well with others, and I boiled it down to this!
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| 1 | David Bowie : Time |
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"Time, she dances like a whore, falls wanking to the floor, her trick is you and me, boy!" Dave tells it like it is at the back end of his Zigginess phase.
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Track 1 from Aladdin Sane
Length: 00:05:09 Year: 1973 |
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"Time, she dances like a whore, falls wanking to the floor, her trick is you and me, boy!" Dave tells it like it is at the back end of his Zigginess phase. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Bjork : Big Time Sensuality |
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"I don't know my future after this weekend..." And be honest B, don't you kind of like it that way?
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Track 2 from Debut
Length: 00:03:57 Year: 1993 |
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"I don't know my future after this weekend..." And be honest B, don't you kind of like it that way? SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Portishead : Sour Times |
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"Nobody loves me it's true, not like you do" Very wonderful fake fifties UK mystery TV music on this one.
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Track 3 from Dummy
Length: 00:04:14 Year: 1994 |
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"Nobody loves me it's true, not like you do" Very wonderful fake fifties UK mystery TV music on this one. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Curtis Mayfield : Hard Times |
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"Havin' hard times in this crazy town, havin' hard times, there's no love to be found" It is almost shocking how well this follows the Portishead track, but I am getting used to this kind of thing.
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Track 4 from There's No Place Like America
Length: 00:04:00 |
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"Havin' hard times in this crazy town, havin' hard times, there's no love to be found" It is almost shocking how well this follows the Portishead track, but I am getting used to this kind of thing. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Marvin Gaye : Takin' My Time |
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""I don't want to play the part of a lover, to get my heart broken by another" 1963 vintage Marvin
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Track 5 from Stubborn Kind Of Fella
Length: 00:02:29 |
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""I don't want to play the part of a lover, to get my heart broken by another" 1963 vintage Marvin SHOW LESS
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| 6 | James Brown : There was a Time |
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"Now baby, don't worry 'bout it later" Downright dirty live funk from the hardest working dead person in show biz!
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Track 6 from Sex Machine
Length: 00:04:02 Year: 1970 |
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"Now baby, don't worry 'bout it later" Downright dirty live funk from the hardest working dead person in show biz! SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Booker T. and The MGs : Time is Tight |
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"Do do do do do do do do do do do, da da da...da da da..." Steve Cropper is THE unrecognized genius of 20th Century music. Well, one of them anyhow.
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Length: 00:03:13 |
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"Do do do do do do do do do do do, da da da...da da da..." Steve Cropper is THE unrecognized genius of 20th Century music. Well, one of them anyhow. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | The Zombies : Time of the Season |
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"What's your name, whose your Daddy?" I would be more inclined to believe The Zombies that it was time for the season of loving if they hadn't of broken up about ten seconds after they recorded this!
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Track 8 from Sony Music 100 Years: Pop Music - The Golden Era 1951-1975
Length: 00:03:31 Year: 1999 |
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"What's your name, whose your Daddy?" I would be more inclined to believe The Zombies that it was time for the season of loving if they hadn't of broken up about ten seconds after they recorded this! SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Dusty Springfield : Give Me Time |
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"If you'll only give me time, I'll forget I even knew his name..." Big hairdo, big production, big voiced wonderfulness!"
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Track 9 from The Very Best Of...
Length: 00:03:08 |
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"If you'll only give me time, I'll forget I even knew his name..." Big hairdo, big production, big voiced wonderfulness!" SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Al Green : Old Time Lovin' |
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"You're love can make me give up the right for the wrong" Al Green in semi Sam Cooke mood.
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Track 10 from Let's Stay Together
Length: 00:03:19 |
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"You're love can make me give up the right for the wrong" Al Green in semi Sam Cooke mood. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Bob Marley and The Wailers : Hallelujah Time |
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"Let them sing, never let them cry" Not his Bobness singing on this. I bet on Bunny Wailer on what is only a 2 - 1 shot after all.
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Track 11 from Catch a Fire
Length: 00:03:19 Year: 1973 |
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"Let them sing, never let them cry" Not his Bobness singing on this. I bet on Bunny Wailer on what is only a 2 - 1 shot after all. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Buddy Guy : The First Time I Met The Blues..." |
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"The First Time I met the blues, I was walking through the woods." The first time for me involved a walkie talkie toy I got as a Christmas present that scared the poop out of me when I was 3 years old.
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Track 12 from The Definitive Buddy Guy
Length: 00:02:17 |
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"The First Time I met the blues, I was walking through the woods." The first time for me involved a walkie talkie toy I got as a Christmas present that scared the poop out of me when I was 3 years old. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Aretha Franklin : Good Times |
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"It might be one O'clock, it might be three, time don't mean that much to me" This track is so good that i want to move in and live in it. Aretha did lots of bluesy and mostly ignored tracks between 67 & 70, of which this one.
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Track 13 from I Never Loved A Man The Way I loved You
Length: 00:02:10 Year: 1967 |
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"It might be one O'clock, it might be three, time don't mean that much to me" This track is so good that i want to move in and live in it. Aretha did lots of bluesy and mostly ignored tracks between 67 & 70, of which this one. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Ray Charles : Night Time is The Best Time |
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"Night time is the best time to be with the one you love" So much recorded sax playing is ruined for me by an excess of reverb which takes away from the raw sensuality of the instrument. No problem like that here, PLUS Ray and the Raylettes sing up a storm!
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Track 14 from The Very Best of Ray Charles
Length: 00:03:23 Year: 2000 |
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"Night time is the best time to be with the one you love" So much recorded sax playing is ruined for me by an excess of reverb which takes away from the raw sensuality of the instrument. No problem like that here, PLUS Ray and the Raylettes sing up a storm! SHOW LESS
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| 15 | The Kinks : Where Have All The Good Times Gone |
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"Wonderin' have I done wrong, will this impression last too long" I was suprized to see that this gem was not in the MTC library. Basic brilliance from Ray and Dave as ever!
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Track 15 from Greatest Hits
Length: 00:02:50 |
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"Wonderin' have I done wrong, will this impression last too long" I was suprized to see that this gem was not in the MTC library. Basic brilliance from Ray and Dave as ever! SHOW LESS
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| 16 | Led Zeppelin : Good Times Bad Times |
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"In the days of my youth I was told what it means to be a man" One of those early tracks that showed off the abilities of all four of those crazy hipsters.
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Track 16 from Led Zeppelin
Length: 00:02:46 Year: 1969 |
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"In the days of my youth I was told what it means to be a man" One of those early tracks that showed off the abilities of all four of those crazy hipsters. SHOW LESS
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| 17 | The Black Keys : Strange Times |
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"Evil comes from far and near" or indeed near and far when not needed for the rhyme system. Led Zep's bastard sons having their time!
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Track 17 from Attack & Release
Length: 00:03:10 Year: 2008 |
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"Evil comes from far and near" or indeed near and far when not needed for the rhyme system. Led Zep's bastard sons having their time! SHOW LESS
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| 18 | Johnny Cash : One Piece at a Time |
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"I thought GM wouldn't miss one little piece, especially if I strung it out over a couple of years" Johnny Cash makes me happy. There, I've said it.
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Track 18 from The Many Sides of Johnny Cash
Length: 00:04:04 |
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"I thought GM wouldn't miss one little piece, especially if I strung it out over a couple of years" Johnny Cash makes me happy. There, I've said it. SHOW LESS
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| 19 | Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds : By The Time I Get To Phoenix |
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"By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be waiting..." You wait all mix for a man in black, then 2 come along at once! SHOW MORE
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Track 19 from Kicking Against The Pricks
Length: 00:03:39 Year: 1986 |
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"By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be waiting..." You wait all mix for a man in black, then 2 come along at once! SHOW LESS
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| 20 | Elvis Costello : You're My All Time Doll |
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"You're my all time doll, you're all I adore, I'd swear to it now, but I already swore" Elvis thirty four years on and still with the cool and only slightly annoying word play.
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Track 20 from Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Length: 00:04:04 |
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"You're my all time doll, you're all I adore, I'd swear to it now, but I already swore" Elvis thirty four years on and still with the cool and only slightly annoying word play. SHOW LESS
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| 21 | The Byrds : She Don't Care About Time (single version) |
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"She walks with these and all she sees is never wrong or right..." Jangly guitar heaven.
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Track 21 from Turn! Turn! Turn!
Length: 00:02:33 Year: 1965 |
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"She walks with these and all she sees is never wrong or right..." Jangly guitar heaven. SHOW LESS
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| 22 | Fairport Convention : Tale in Hard Time |
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"Take the sun from my heart, let me learn to despise..." This sounds like a Byrds outtake till we get to the solo which is full of Richard Thompsony goodness.
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Track 22 from What We Did On Our Holidays
Length: 00:03:39 |
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"Take the sun from my heart, let me learn to despise..." This sounds like a Byrds outtake till we get to the solo which is full of Richard Thompsony goodness. SHOW LESS
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| 23 | Nick Drake : Time Has Told Me |
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"A troubled cure for a troubled mind" I tried not to use this again, honest, but I love it. Anyway, time has told me lots of stuff, I just refuse to listen. RT on guitar again by the way.
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Track 23 from Five Leaves Left
Length: 00:04:27 |
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"A troubled cure for a troubled mind" I tried not to use this again, honest, but I love it. Anyway, time has told me lots of stuff, I just refuse to listen. RT on guitar again by the way. SHOW LESS
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The Yay! Badge VII
What I know of the mix is gold. Another great mix. Glad to "see" you around the MTC halls.
9/29/09 8:45am
The One Year Anniversary Badge
This is like the Heinz 57 of all songs 'time'. I think this is a great little compilation, and it make me quite happy that Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" wasn't on here. lol.
9/28/09 11:02am
The 250th Album Badge
Solid flush with all-time classics. Funk, post-punk, soul, trip-hop, blues, heavy blues, reggae, and folk. Rock on.
9/28/09 9:51am
