liamcool
Blue Crack Addict
I aim to please.
I believe I am guilty of using one track used by someone in the last DI as well.
Those aren't the Japandroids you're looking for.
Well thank you, that's awesome to hearBONERZ 2112:
I'll start out with some bold praise in that this may be my frontrunner right now. Not that I enjoyed every track, but it had a great mixture of new material and some impressive transitioning, as well as a diverse palette.
That's actually what I was going for, so I'm glad it worked, somewhat.I liked how this slowly asserted itself, instead of storming out of the gate, and this is mirrored by the drawn-out conclusion in place of a big showstopper. The symmetry is nice.
I have no idea where I got that Mighty Lemon Drops song from, but it's fantastic fun, though maybe not essential. I'll listen to more, now, though, because I'm super curious.I give extra credit for the inclusion of The Mighty Lemon Drops, and in the 20 years i've known about this band, you may be the first person I know who's ever heard of/mentioned them. Laughter was one of the first CDs I bought from the short-lived MTV Music Club, but I wound up getting everything by this also-ran British band. They're not "important" but were consistently good and evolved considerably over 6 albums/8 years. BTW, I highly recommend their swan song album Ricochet.
The emo section was a mixed bag, as your selection was unable to overcome my contempt for AFI, though I did enjoy the Against Me song (the first of theirs I've heard, so can't speak to whether this is typical material from the band).
- I never thought I'd say this, but Sade really brought my mood up.
- Oh Simply Red you're so dorky. And you sound weirdly like Sade banging on a drumkit made of coffee cans.I think enough people have heard the list, now, to remind everyone why Simply Red is just my favorite thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRyiVgWj6g
- I'm bummed about how having different mixes irritates me. Big Country are dorky as hell, but I love them so. Cutting off that track is a damned disservice.
I really hated using the radio edit, but the ridiculous transition between it and Tina Turner didn't work with the (ridiculously great) intro.
I love that song and that album so much. I still haven't heard anything beyond it, though, so I'll have to get going further. Especially, of course, the EPs.- Disco Inferno = excellent palate cleanser. This is strangely the most conventional song on that album.
- The biggest problem with this list is that it sets up several moods and feels quite nicely, but lingers on them too long. At 36 songs and 2 1/2 hours, there's some real exertion involved with sitting down and hearing this.
As LeMel addresses later, I realized too late that I needed to cut about four songs from the list, in order to really make it a more manageable deal. I would've ended the list after Primitive Radio Gods and deleted the Air track, if I had made those cuts, and I think that cohesive circle I wanted would've still been present, ending there instead. Ah well, that's what I get for taking so long on this. I'm glad I got it out of my system, though, because now I'm already working on a DI 11 and having a good time with it.
Just, in general, I've been having a little bit of a down mood, and I just couldn't even enjoy listening to music, anymore. Unfortunately, that started, right as I started working on DI. I'm feeling a little better now, but, it's, obviously, too late to go back.
- A good Pavement song that isn't Gold Soundz or In The Mouth A Desert? Well, I'll be damned.
You can thank LeMel for introducing me to that one. I, generally, don't care much for Pavement, but that song's a treasure.
As LeMel addresses later, I realized too late that I needed to cut about four songs from the list, in order to really make it a more manageable deal. I would've ended the list after Primitive Radio Gods and deleted the Air track, if I had made those cuts, and I think that cohesive circle I wanted would've still been present, ending there instead. Ah well, that's what I get for taking so long on this. I'm glad I got it out of my system, though, because now I'm already working on a DI 11 and having a good time with it.
well well. well well well well well. wellity wellity well. we might just have a new favourite for this competition, bonoruinyoucunt. first of all, im continuing with my policy of honesty in these lists. i have underestimated your music tastes. this is quite offensive im sure but i think i had your tastes pegged a little more narrow, which is obviously insane given you post on this forum, listen to a shitload of music old and new, blah blah blah blah, so i apologise for having silent misgivings ahead of your list. your tastes are likely wider than mine. this is the most ive ever enjoyed a list of yours (not that i ever didnt enjoy them in the past tho) and ALSO this is the first time ive enjoyed a list of yours more than your significant other’s, and i must say i enjoyed this quite a bit more.
now, away from the gratuitious iwb-style ravings and onto the list itself. in melbourne at the mo it is currently quite spring-y, in that we’ve just had some pretty fucking great hot days, but today it’s raining and overcast but not cold and windy like what accompanies shitful rain here in winter. so the start of the list was just perfect. tears in rain wasnt the strongest of openers but it was nice, and the blue sky black death song was pretty cool. i feel like the cunninlynguists song is type of hip-hop song you REALLY like, in that it’s quite a bit different from the typical hip-hop song. air was great. as i aleady mentioned aquemini into protection was boner-inducing. the sade song was quite cool. the Simply Red song was very cool, very cool indeed, quite like it. the Katy Perry song was very un-Katy Perry in that I didnt feel her in screaming “HERES MY LATEST UPBEAT POP SONG” into my ears. it was good. Hearts on Cut Copy, Tycho, Memory Tapes was great.
From RAC on you began to lose me a little bit, I wasn’t big on anything from there through to The Pillows (aside from Japandroids), but once Dismemberment Plan came on it was absolutely terrific from then on out. I especially loved it from Moby onwards. The drumming in Southside reminded me A LOT of Larry’s drumming from a U2 song from any of the 90s albums... can’t remember which one and not looking it up right now. All this stuff worked very well, I actually thought you probably could have slipped in a song from Pop seamlessly around Primitive/Moby/Eels. My only slight criticism is that the music in the Eels song didn’t quiiiiiite match with the songs around it, but that’s really pretty minor, and the lyrics were great. And now I know 3000 and Mark Oliver have something in common - they both have a song where they say “I’m the shit” over and over. Grounded is obviously sensational, and Damage and Kangaroo, both songs by bands I haven’t check out, was an astonishing closing duo. So! great job, and I think I might even listen to it again before sending in my rankings, pay a bit more attention to the start and the middle.
tl;dr -
Laughing so hard.
This was like a drunk GAF post minus the bitterness.
I have to say that you have the most eclectic musical taste of anyone that I have known. I mean that as a compliment. : )