LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
It has been a week since the last thread started and I think many participants have had a chance to hear the lists, so I think it's time to move on.
If you have not PM'd me your rankings from group 1, it's no problem, but do so soon to help you keep up with everything. The listening portion is going to go quickly because the voting portion will take about 3 weeks by itself and by then half the lists will be out.
Group 2
LemonMelon
"Tinseltown in the Rain"
Inspired by icy winters and warming alcohol, this playlist hits on that awesome, classically-80s contrast between frigidity and romance. The title was taken from the list's featured Blue Nile track, which perfectly encapsulates everything I wanted to accomplish with this list. It's sexy and smooth yet still appropriate for moping in an empty bed.
1. Til Tuesday – “What About Love” – Welcome Home (3:57)
2. Kate Bush – “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” - Hounds of Love (5:00)
3. Pet Shop Boys – “West End Girls” – Please (4:00)
4. Propaganda – “The Murder of Love” – A Secret Wish (5:18)
5. New Order – “True Faith” – Substance (5:53)
6. Visage – “Fade to Grey” – Visage (4:01)
7. Duran Duran – “Save a Prayer” – Rio (5:27)
8. Madonna – “Live to Tell” – True Blue (5:50)
9. Erasure – “Ship of Fools” – The Innocents (4:01)
10. Simple Minds – “Big Sleep” – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (4:58)
11. T’Pau – “Heart and Soul” – Bridge of Spies (4:10)
12. The Cars – “Drive” – Heartbeat City (3:56)
13. Kim Carnes – “Bette Davis Eyes” – Mistaken Identity (3:42)
14. Roxy Music – “More Than This” – Avalon (4:11)
15. Pulp – “Do You Remember the First Time?” – His ‘n’ Hers (4:22)
16. Modern English- “I Melt with You” – After the Snow (3:53)
17. Joy Division – “Love Will Tear Us Apart” – Substance (3:26)
18. The dB’s – “Black and White” – Stands for Decibels (3:07)
19. Hoodoo Gurus – “I Want You Back” – Stoneage Romeos (3:11)
20. The Clean – “Draw(in)g to a (W)hole” – Vehicle (2:01)
21. Close Lobsters – “I Kiss the Flowers in Bloom” – Foxheads Stalk This Land (3:29)
22. The Bats – “Treason” – Daddy’s Highway (2:52)
23. The Soft Boys – “Queen of Eyes” – Underwater Moonlight (1:59)
24. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – “Perfect Skin” – Rattlesnakes (3:12)
25. Echo & the Bunnymen – “Silver” – Ocean Rain (3:20)
26. Felt – “All the People I Like Are Those That Are Dead” – Forever Breathes the Lonely Word (5:08)
27. R.E.M. – “Perfect Circle” – Murmur (3:29)
28. The Chills – “Tied Up in Chain” – Submarine Bells (3:16)
29. The Associates – “Party Fears Two” – Sulk (5:12)
30. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Telegraph” – Dazzle Ships (2:58)
31. Crystal Castles – “Not in Love (feat. Robert Smith)” – (II) (3:46)
32. Tears for Fears – “Pale Shelter (You Don’t Give Me Love)” – The Hurting (4:26)
33. The Sundays – “You’re Not the Only One I Know” – Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (3:50)
34. The Go-Betweens – “Streets of Your Town” – 16 Lovers Lane (3:37)
35. Destroyer – “Chinatown” – Kaputt (3:47)
36. Prefab Sprout – “Bonny” – Steve McQueen (3:43)
37. U2 – “Love Comes Tumbling” – Wide Awake in America (4:44)
38. The Blue Nile – “Tinseltown in the Rain” – A Walk Across the Rooftops (5:53)
39. Talking Heads – “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)” – Speaking in Tongues (4:56)
Total runtime: 2:37:45
gump
No Depression
Since the last DI I’ve been thinking of putting together an Alt-Country/Americana playlist. I’m using these terms pretty loosely, and the list includes some of the founders of alt-country but also indie bands/artists that explored that sound at some point in their careers. There’s no explicit thematic concept behind the playlist other than the common sound and influences, but most songs gravitate towards some of the main themes in the genre: melancholy, heartbreak, departure/travel. The (obvious) image that comes to mind when listening to it is a road trip through the south, and some areas are actually name checked in the songs. Hope you’ll enjoy even you're not normally drawn to this genre.
1. Bright Eyes - “Another Travelin’ Song” - I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning (4:17)
2. Lucinda Williams - “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (4:45)
3. Wilco - “Passenger Side” - A.M. (3:34)
4. Whiskeytown - “Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight” - Strangers Almanac (3:15)
5. Son Volt - “Windfall” - Trace (2:58)
6. Neko Case - “Maybe Sparrow” - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (2:38)
7. Billy Bragg & Wilco - “Hesitating Beauty” - Mermaid Avenue Vol. I (3:06)
8. Calexico - “Slowness” - Carried To Dust (3:35)
9. Golden Smog - “Radio King” - Down By The Old Mainstream (3:09)
10. My Morning Jacket - “Golden” - It Still Moves (4:39)
11. Ryan Adams - “Come Pick Me Up” - Heartbreaker (5:18)
12. Okkervil River - “Kansas City” - Don’t Fall In Love With Everyone You See (5:46)
13. The Bottle Rockets - “1000 Dollar Car” - The Brooklyn Side (4:50)
14. Old 97’s - “Jagged” - Fight Songs (3:28)
15. Drive-By Truckers - “Tornadoes” - The Dirty South (4:16)
16. Uncle Tupelo - “Anodyne” - Anodyne (4:51)
Total runtime: 64:18
nielsgov
Dream Sequence #1 (AKA The Party & The After Party)
I don't think I need to give a big explanation here. I started off with the second half of the playlist as I wanted to make some sort of weird dream. So that half has dub music, ambient techno, IDM... Making a 90-minute playlist like that would probably bore a lot of people here and maybe even myself so I added the first part, which consists mainly of hiphop but also some other dancy things. So now the loose concept of this album is a guy partying and then falling asleep. And a more accurate concept is that this is a bunch of songs I love. I hope you enjoy it.
1. Arsenal - "Lotuk" - Lotuk (05:05)
2. Magnus - "French Movies" - The Body Gave You Everything (03:57)
3. Bloc Party - "Flux" - A Weekend In the City (03:37)
4. Gorillaz - "Stylo" - Plastic Beach (04:31)
5. The Streets - "Same Old Thing" - Original Pirate Material (03:22)
6. Stromae - "Te Quiero" - Cheese (03:23)
7. Run The Jewels (feat. Big Boi) - "Banana Clipper" - Run The Jewels (02:52)
8. Kanye West - "Can't Tell Me Nothing" - Graduation (04:32)
9. Outkast - "ATLiens" - ATLiens (03:50)
10. Massive Attack - "Risingson" - Mezzanine (04:59)
11. Laurel Halo - "Still/Dromos" - Chance of Rain (03:51)
12. Autechre - "Piezo" - Amber (07:59)
13. Nautilis - "Epatre" - Sketches (04:51)
14. Boards of Canada - "Nothing Is Real" - Tomorrow's Harvest (03:53)
15. Fennesz - "Endless Summer" - Endless Summer (08:33)
16. Huerco S. - "Struck With Deer Lungs" - Colonial Patterns (02:16)
17. Miktek - "False Dawn" - Elsewhere (06:29)
18. Recondite - "Rise" - Hinterland (02:41)
19. Trentemöller - "Miss You" - The Last Resort (04:03)
Total runtime: 84:44
bono_212
With my DI lists, I like to focus on the genres of music I'm currently interested in. Since I've been listening to so much music from the the 90s lately, that's made it a prominent factor in my recent playlist. Unfortunately, this time around, I had a lot of different ideas, a lot of struggles to get those ideas to make sense. At the end, I went with two major musical sections, that includes a nice little break of a bridge in the middle to connect them. While most of the music on this list isn't from the 90s that inspired me, its influences and influence are felt throughout the two pieces of the whole.
Hopefully you have as much fun listening to it as I had headaches in making it work.
1. Vangelis – “Tears in Rain” – Blade Runner (3:00)
2. Blue Sky Black Death – “Sleeping Children Are Still Flying” – Noir (5:59)
3. CunninLynguists – “In the City” – Strange Journey Volume Three (3:40)
4. Air – “All I Need” – Moon Safari (4:27)
5. Outkast – “Aquemini” – Big Boi and Dre Present…Outkast (4:43)
6. Massive Attack – “Protection” – Protection (7:51)
7. Sade – “The Sweetest Taboo” – Promise (4:35)
8. Simply Red – “Fairground” – Life (5:33)
9. Katy Perry – “Walking on Air” – Prism (3:41)
10. Cut Copy – “Hearts on Fire” – In Ghost Colours (4:49)
11. Tycho – “L” – Awake (4:37)
12. Memory Tapes – “Bicycle” – Seek Magic (5:17)
13. RAC – “Let Go (feat. Kele & MNDR)” – Strangers (4:39)
14. Chairlift – “I Belong in Your Arms” – Something (3:27)
15. Stars – “Hold on When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It” – The North (4:37)
16. Tina Turner – “Better Be Good to Me” – Private Dancer (5:10)
17. Big Country – “In a Big Country (Single Edit)” – The Best of Big Country (3:53)
18. The House of Love – “I Don’t Know Why I Love You” – The House of Love (3:28)
19. The Mighty Lemon Drops – “Into the Heart of Love” – Laughter (2:57)
20. The Replacements – “Alex Chilton” – Pleased to Meet Me (3:12)
21. The Undertones – “Teenage Kicks” – The Undertones (2:25)
22. Buzzcocks – “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” – Love Bites (2:42)
23. Dramarama – “Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)” - Cinéma Vérité (3:23)
24. AFI – “Days of the Phoenix” – The Art of Drowning (3:27)
25. Japandroids – “The House That Heaven Built” – Celebration Rock (4:49)
26. Against Me! – “I Was a Teenage Anarchist” – White Crosses (3:13)
27. The Pillows – “Blues Drive Monster” – FLCL Original Sound Track NO. 3 (3:25)
28. The Dismemberment Plan – “Following Through” – Change (4:39)
29. Disco Inferno – “Next Year” – D.I. Go Pop (4:03)
30. Butthole Surfers – “Pepper” – Electriclarryland (4:55)
31. Moby – “Southside” – Play (3:48)
32. Primitive Radio Gods – “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand” – Rocket (5:36)
33. Eels – My Descent into Madness (3:53)
34. Pavement – “Grounded” – Wowee Zowee (4:15)
35. Yo La Tengo – “Damage” – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (4:38)
36. Big Star – “Kangaroo” – Third (3:44)
Total runtime: 2:32:30
If you have not PM'd me your rankings from group 1, it's no problem, but do so soon to help you keep up with everything. The listening portion is going to go quickly because the voting portion will take about 3 weeks by itself and by then half the lists will be out.
Group 2
LemonMelon
"Tinseltown in the Rain"
Inspired by icy winters and warming alcohol, this playlist hits on that awesome, classically-80s contrast between frigidity and romance. The title was taken from the list's featured Blue Nile track, which perfectly encapsulates everything I wanted to accomplish with this list. It's sexy and smooth yet still appropriate for moping in an empty bed.
1. Til Tuesday – “What About Love” – Welcome Home (3:57)
2. Kate Bush – “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” - Hounds of Love (5:00)
3. Pet Shop Boys – “West End Girls” – Please (4:00)
4. Propaganda – “The Murder of Love” – A Secret Wish (5:18)
5. New Order – “True Faith” – Substance (5:53)
6. Visage – “Fade to Grey” – Visage (4:01)
7. Duran Duran – “Save a Prayer” – Rio (5:27)
8. Madonna – “Live to Tell” – True Blue (5:50)
9. Erasure – “Ship of Fools” – The Innocents (4:01)
10. Simple Minds – “Big Sleep” – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (4:58)
11. T’Pau – “Heart and Soul” – Bridge of Spies (4:10)
12. The Cars – “Drive” – Heartbeat City (3:56)
13. Kim Carnes – “Bette Davis Eyes” – Mistaken Identity (3:42)
14. Roxy Music – “More Than This” – Avalon (4:11)
15. Pulp – “Do You Remember the First Time?” – His ‘n’ Hers (4:22)
16. Modern English- “I Melt with You” – After the Snow (3:53)
17. Joy Division – “Love Will Tear Us Apart” – Substance (3:26)
18. The dB’s – “Black and White” – Stands for Decibels (3:07)
19. Hoodoo Gurus – “I Want You Back” – Stoneage Romeos (3:11)
20. The Clean – “Draw(in)g to a (W)hole” – Vehicle (2:01)
21. Close Lobsters – “I Kiss the Flowers in Bloom” – Foxheads Stalk This Land (3:29)
22. The Bats – “Treason” – Daddy’s Highway (2:52)
23. The Soft Boys – “Queen of Eyes” – Underwater Moonlight (1:59)
24. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – “Perfect Skin” – Rattlesnakes (3:12)
25. Echo & the Bunnymen – “Silver” – Ocean Rain (3:20)
26. Felt – “All the People I Like Are Those That Are Dead” – Forever Breathes the Lonely Word (5:08)
27. R.E.M. – “Perfect Circle” – Murmur (3:29)
28. The Chills – “Tied Up in Chain” – Submarine Bells (3:16)
29. The Associates – “Party Fears Two” – Sulk (5:12)
30. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “Telegraph” – Dazzle Ships (2:58)
31. Crystal Castles – “Not in Love (feat. Robert Smith)” – (II) (3:46)
32. Tears for Fears – “Pale Shelter (You Don’t Give Me Love)” – The Hurting (4:26)
33. The Sundays – “You’re Not the Only One I Know” – Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (3:50)
34. The Go-Betweens – “Streets of Your Town” – 16 Lovers Lane (3:37)
35. Destroyer – “Chinatown” – Kaputt (3:47)
36. Prefab Sprout – “Bonny” – Steve McQueen (3:43)
37. U2 – “Love Comes Tumbling” – Wide Awake in America (4:44)
38. The Blue Nile – “Tinseltown in the Rain” – A Walk Across the Rooftops (5:53)
39. Talking Heads – “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)” – Speaking in Tongues (4:56)
Total runtime: 2:37:45
gump
No Depression
Since the last DI I’ve been thinking of putting together an Alt-Country/Americana playlist. I’m using these terms pretty loosely, and the list includes some of the founders of alt-country but also indie bands/artists that explored that sound at some point in their careers. There’s no explicit thematic concept behind the playlist other than the common sound and influences, but most songs gravitate towards some of the main themes in the genre: melancholy, heartbreak, departure/travel. The (obvious) image that comes to mind when listening to it is a road trip through the south, and some areas are actually name checked in the songs. Hope you’ll enjoy even you're not normally drawn to this genre.
1. Bright Eyes - “Another Travelin’ Song” - I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning (4:17)
2. Lucinda Williams - “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (4:45)
3. Wilco - “Passenger Side” - A.M. (3:34)
4. Whiskeytown - “Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight” - Strangers Almanac (3:15)
5. Son Volt - “Windfall” - Trace (2:58)
6. Neko Case - “Maybe Sparrow” - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (2:38)
7. Billy Bragg & Wilco - “Hesitating Beauty” - Mermaid Avenue Vol. I (3:06)
8. Calexico - “Slowness” - Carried To Dust (3:35)
9. Golden Smog - “Radio King” - Down By The Old Mainstream (3:09)
10. My Morning Jacket - “Golden” - It Still Moves (4:39)
11. Ryan Adams - “Come Pick Me Up” - Heartbreaker (5:18)
12. Okkervil River - “Kansas City” - Don’t Fall In Love With Everyone You See (5:46)
13. The Bottle Rockets - “1000 Dollar Car” - The Brooklyn Side (4:50)
14. Old 97’s - “Jagged” - Fight Songs (3:28)
15. Drive-By Truckers - “Tornadoes” - The Dirty South (4:16)
16. Uncle Tupelo - “Anodyne” - Anodyne (4:51)
Total runtime: 64:18
nielsgov
Dream Sequence #1 (AKA The Party & The After Party)
I don't think I need to give a big explanation here. I started off with the second half of the playlist as I wanted to make some sort of weird dream. So that half has dub music, ambient techno, IDM... Making a 90-minute playlist like that would probably bore a lot of people here and maybe even myself so I added the first part, which consists mainly of hiphop but also some other dancy things. So now the loose concept of this album is a guy partying and then falling asleep. And a more accurate concept is that this is a bunch of songs I love. I hope you enjoy it.
1. Arsenal - "Lotuk" - Lotuk (05:05)
2. Magnus - "French Movies" - The Body Gave You Everything (03:57)
3. Bloc Party - "Flux" - A Weekend In the City (03:37)
4. Gorillaz - "Stylo" - Plastic Beach (04:31)
5. The Streets - "Same Old Thing" - Original Pirate Material (03:22)
6. Stromae - "Te Quiero" - Cheese (03:23)
7. Run The Jewels (feat. Big Boi) - "Banana Clipper" - Run The Jewels (02:52)
8. Kanye West - "Can't Tell Me Nothing" - Graduation (04:32)
9. Outkast - "ATLiens" - ATLiens (03:50)
10. Massive Attack - "Risingson" - Mezzanine (04:59)
11. Laurel Halo - "Still/Dromos" - Chance of Rain (03:51)
12. Autechre - "Piezo" - Amber (07:59)
13. Nautilis - "Epatre" - Sketches (04:51)
14. Boards of Canada - "Nothing Is Real" - Tomorrow's Harvest (03:53)
15. Fennesz - "Endless Summer" - Endless Summer (08:33)
16. Huerco S. - "Struck With Deer Lungs" - Colonial Patterns (02:16)
17. Miktek - "False Dawn" - Elsewhere (06:29)
18. Recondite - "Rise" - Hinterland (02:41)
19. Trentemöller - "Miss You" - The Last Resort (04:03)
Total runtime: 84:44
bono_212
With my DI lists, I like to focus on the genres of music I'm currently interested in. Since I've been listening to so much music from the the 90s lately, that's made it a prominent factor in my recent playlist. Unfortunately, this time around, I had a lot of different ideas, a lot of struggles to get those ideas to make sense. At the end, I went with two major musical sections, that includes a nice little break of a bridge in the middle to connect them. While most of the music on this list isn't from the 90s that inspired me, its influences and influence are felt throughout the two pieces of the whole.
Hopefully you have as much fun listening to it as I had headaches in making it work.
1. Vangelis – “Tears in Rain” – Blade Runner (3:00)
2. Blue Sky Black Death – “Sleeping Children Are Still Flying” – Noir (5:59)
3. CunninLynguists – “In the City” – Strange Journey Volume Three (3:40)
4. Air – “All I Need” – Moon Safari (4:27)
5. Outkast – “Aquemini” – Big Boi and Dre Present…Outkast (4:43)
6. Massive Attack – “Protection” – Protection (7:51)
7. Sade – “The Sweetest Taboo” – Promise (4:35)
8. Simply Red – “Fairground” – Life (5:33)
9. Katy Perry – “Walking on Air” – Prism (3:41)
10. Cut Copy – “Hearts on Fire” – In Ghost Colours (4:49)
11. Tycho – “L” – Awake (4:37)
12. Memory Tapes – “Bicycle” – Seek Magic (5:17)
13. RAC – “Let Go (feat. Kele & MNDR)” – Strangers (4:39)
14. Chairlift – “I Belong in Your Arms” – Something (3:27)
15. Stars – “Hold on When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It” – The North (4:37)
16. Tina Turner – “Better Be Good to Me” – Private Dancer (5:10)
17. Big Country – “In a Big Country (Single Edit)” – The Best of Big Country (3:53)
18. The House of Love – “I Don’t Know Why I Love You” – The House of Love (3:28)
19. The Mighty Lemon Drops – “Into the Heart of Love” – Laughter (2:57)
20. The Replacements – “Alex Chilton” – Pleased to Meet Me (3:12)
21. The Undertones – “Teenage Kicks” – The Undertones (2:25)
22. Buzzcocks – “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” – Love Bites (2:42)
23. Dramarama – “Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)” - Cinéma Vérité (3:23)
24. AFI – “Days of the Phoenix” – The Art of Drowning (3:27)
25. Japandroids – “The House That Heaven Built” – Celebration Rock (4:49)
26. Against Me! – “I Was a Teenage Anarchist” – White Crosses (3:13)
27. The Pillows – “Blues Drive Monster” – FLCL Original Sound Track NO. 3 (3:25)
28. The Dismemberment Plan – “Following Through” – Change (4:39)
29. Disco Inferno – “Next Year” – D.I. Go Pop (4:03)
30. Butthole Surfers – “Pepper” – Electriclarryland (4:55)
31. Moby – “Southside” – Play (3:48)
32. Primitive Radio Gods – “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand” – Rocket (5:36)
33. Eels – My Descent into Madness (3:53)
34. Pavement – “Grounded” – Wowee Zowee (4:15)
35. Yo La Tengo – “Damage” – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (4:38)
36. Big Star – “Kangaroo” – Third (3:44)
Total runtime: 2:32:30
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