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LemonMelon

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There has been a great deal of debate over how this DI should have been carried out, but at the 11th hour we agreed on a solution and are now ready to get rolling. There will be 5 groups of 4 participants each, with Bonnie earning the honorary 20th spot. When/if I get her list, she will be included below.

Links will be supplied soon, so be patient. From now until the end of the tournament, all questions should be made here and not in the signup thread. A listening thread will be made for Group 1 later tonight into tomorrow morning.

Group 1

IWasBored

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Roots & Boots

Disc 1 - Roots:
1. Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man - [fuck if I know, it's been on my computer for forever]- 3:07
2. The Ventures - Walk, Don't Run - Walk, Don't Run - 2:11
3. Al Wilson - The Snake - single - 3:30
4. R. Dean Taylor - There's a Ghost in My House - complete recordings - 2:26
5. The Sonics - Strychnine - Here Are the Sonics - 2:14
6. Morphine - Buena - Cure for Pain - 3:20
7. Solomon Burke/Blind Boys of Alabama - None of Us are Free - - 5:29
8. Otis Redding - You Left the Water Running - best of (which if i didn't own the cd, i'd suspect was mis-labeled as i've never seen it on any other OR collection/album for some reason)
9. Dobie Gray - Out on the Floor - Dobie Gray Sings for the "In Crowd" - 2:56
10. The Four Tops - Baby I Need Your Loving - The Four Tops - 2:46
11. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears - - 2:57
12. Sam Cooke - Twisin' the Night Away - the man who invented soul box set- 2:43
13. Sam & Dave - Sweet Soul Music - single - 2:21
14. Chubby Checker - The Twist - best of - 2:34
15. The Beatles - Twise & Shout - Please Please Me - 2:33
16. The Who - Much to Much - The Who Sings My Generation - 2:48
17. Carl Perkins - Honey Don't - Mr Rock 'n Roll - 2:40
18. Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away - The Chirping Crickets - 2:23

Disc 2 - Boots:
1. Roger Miret & the Disasters - Give 'Em the Boot - (self-titled) - 2:08
2. Dropkick Murphys - The Gauntlet - Sing Loud, Sing Proud - 2:49
3. Blitz - Razors in the Night - Best of Blitz (or the Razors/Never Surrender single) - 1:55
4. Stiff Little Fingers - At the Edge - Nobody's Heroes - 2:57
5. The Beltones - Mix it Up - Cheap Trinkets - 2:13
6. Discipline - Everywhere We Go - Saints & Sinners - 3:27
7. The Pug Uglies - Street Rule - Minimum Wage - 2:53
8. Patriot - Cohesion - We the People - 2:59
9. The Oppressed - We're the Oppressed - skinhead times 1982-1998 - 3:17
10. The Bruisers - Intimidation - Singles Collection - 2:49
11. The Ducky Boys - I'll Rise Up - No Gettin' Out - 2:19
12. The Krays - Battle - A Battle for the Truth - 1:47
13. Tommy & the Terrors - Turn the Screw - Mass Hysteria - 3:20
14. The Business - Suburban Rebels - Suburban Rebels - 2:18
15. The Anti-Nowhere League - The Streets of London - We Are...The League - 3:18
16. Angelic Upstarts - I Won't Pay for Liberty - rarities album - 2:35
17. Menace - GLC - Complete Discography - 2:21
18. Oxymoron - New Age - The Worldwide Tribue to the Real Oi album- 2:45
19. Pressure Point - Never Walk Alone - Get it Right - 3:34
20. The Templars - Skinheads Rule OK - The Return of Jaques De Molay
21. Stage Bottles - Sometimes Anti-social, Always Anti-facist - SA-S,AA-F 7"- 3:41
22. Terminus City - My Castle - Justice isn't Always Fair - 2:47
23. Cocksparrer - I Got Your Number - Shock Troops - 2:48
24. Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout - Tell Us the Truth - 2:13
25. Whiskey Rebels - St. Ides - (self-titled) - 1:30
26. Criminal Class USA - Freedom's Dead (For You Not Me) - Echoes in the Street - 4:25
27. Main Street Saints - KC Belongs to Me - Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven - 2:45

Runtime: 126:31


Lazarus

BOWL OF D.I.X.

This is only my second DI, so I can only compare this to my debut entry, where I focused specifically on the 90s and mostly the late part of the decade. The first disc was more rock and the second was more dance/beat oriented.

For my sophomore effort, I didn't go in with any grand plan, mostly I just had a bunch of songs I wanted to share. What it does have in common with the previous collection is that I attempted to use as many b-sides/outtakes/deep cuts as possible. Hopefully the majority of this will sound fresh to everyone.


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On a general level, Part 1 (Get Going, Step Out) is a looser affair, more "organic" and outdoorsy, and eventually swung more retro than I realized. It's also fairly mellow, after the party dies down it's pretty smooth going forward. But I've listened to it quite a bit and enjoy it.


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Part 2 (Riff Dogs) is definitely rockier and more aggressive, but it also takes a mellow/lighter detour halfway through. I guess I enjoyed finding ways to transition through these songs after I had separated them into two groups, and while it may seem insane on paper, I think I managed to segue pretty naturally from song to song.

Some notes for the curious: Bash & Pop (one of the most obscure artists I used) is fronted by Tommy Stinson, his first band after the break-up of The Replacements. Sarah Shannon is the former singer of brief 90s indie stars Velocity Girl (they even had a Volkswagen commercial!). Thee Midniters are a Mexican-American band from East Los Angeles and an under-heard treasure from the 60s.


NOTE: Please import the .m3u or .xml files into iTunes (or whatever you're using) as it will preserve the playlist settings I gave a lot of attention to w/r/t reducing dead space between tracks and leveling some volume issues.

Track listing:

PT 1: Get Going, Step Out
1. Warwick - “Let’s Get The Party Going” - Velvet Tinmine (comp.) (3:28)
2. The Meters - “Live Wire” - The Meters (2:27)
3. Rolling Stones - “Undercover Of The Night” - Undercover (4:34)
4. Luscious Jackson - “Here” - Natural Ingredients (3:27)
5. Christina Aguilera - “Monday Morning” - Bionic (3:55)
6. Nelly Furtado - “Parking Lot (radio edit)” - Parking Lot (3:51)
7. Phoenix - “On Fire” - United (2:49)
8. Steely Dan - “FM” - Gold (4:41)
9. Thin Lizzy - “She Knows” - Night Life (5:10)
10. Prince - “The Truth” - The Truth (3:30)
11. Funkadelic - “Can You Get To That” - Maggot Brain (2:53)
12. Ween - “Freedom of ’76” - Chocolate And Cheese (2:46)
13. The Lemonheads - “The Outdoor Type” - (2:35)
14. Blue Öyster Cult - “In Thee” - Mirrors (3:50)
15. Rilo Kiley - “With Arms Outstretched” - The Execution Of All Things (3:43)
16. The Faces - “Glad And Sorry” - Ooh La La (3:07)
17. Bash & Pop - “Tiny Pieces” - Friday Night Is Killing Me (4:36)
18. The Beach Boys - “Sail On Sailor” - Holland (3:17)
19. Cotton Jones - “Sail Of The Silver Morning” - Tall Hours In The Glowstream (3:20)
20. Van Morrison - “Stepping Out Queen Part II” - The Philosopher Stone (4:27)

PT 2: Riff Dogs
1. Johnny Foreigner - “Riff Glitchard” - You Can Do Better (4:59)
2. M83 - “Don’t Save Us From The Flames” - Before The Dawn Heals Us (4:10)
3. New Order - “Weirdo” - Brotherhood (3:53)
4. Los Campesinos! - “This Is A Flag. There Is No Wind” - Romance Is Boring (3:23)
5. PJ Harvey - “This Wicked Tongue” - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (3:43)
6. Deap Vally - “Woman Of Intention” - Sistrionix (3:41)
7. Au Pairs - “We’re So Cool” - Playing With A Different Sex - (3:30)
8. Stricken City - “Animal Festival” - Losing Color (4:53)
9. Brian Eno & John Cale - “One Word” - Wrong Way Up (4:30)
10. Saint Etienne - “Zipcode” - Fairfax High (3:02)
11. Sarah Shannon - “City Morning Song” - City Morning Song (2:59)
12. Amy Winehouse - “Addicted” - Back To Black (2:45)
13. Nina Simone - “Revolution (Parts 1 & 2)” - To Love Somebody (5:00)
14. Thee Midniters - “Love Special Delivery” - Thee Midniters Bring You… (2:13)
15. Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - “Polly Put The Kettle On” - Kitty, Daisy & Lewis (2:56)
16. The Twilight Singers - “Papillon” - Blackberry Belle (4:24)
17. Bettie Serveert - “White Dogs” - Log 22 (8:20)

Total runtime: 2:21:38

Padj

A Slice of Sky


(Artwork By Eugenia Loli)

Tracklist:

1. Total Control- "Flesh War" - Typical System (4:41)
2. Sad Lovers & Giants - "Close to the Sea" - Feeding The Flame (4:47)
3. Wire - "The 15th" - 154 (3:05)
4. Caribou - "Silver" - Our Love (5:17)
5. Cults - "Keep Your Head Up" - Static (3:39)
6. Sparks - "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us" - Kimono My House (3:07)
7. Roxy Music- "Virgina Plain" - Roxy Music (2:58)
8. Cate Le Bon- "I Can't Help You" - Mug Museum (4:01)
9. The B-52's - "52 Girls - B-52's (3:41)
10. Stereolab- "L'enfer Des Formes" - Mars Audiac Quintet (3:53)
11. Husker Du - "Up In The Air" - Warehouse (3:08)
12. Throwing Muses - "Devil's Roof" - Hunkpapa (3:42)
13. Speedy Ortiz - "No Below" - Major Arcana (3:49)
14. Liz Phair - "Supernova" - Whip-Smart (2:49)
15. Juliana Hatfield - "What A Life" - Only Everything (3:22)
16. Lush - "Etheriel" - Gala (3:26)
17. Cocteau Twins - "Cherry-Coloured Funk" - Heaven Or Las Vegas (3:12)
18. GEMS - "Medusa" - Medusa - EP (4:10)
19. Bat For Lashes - "Oh Yeah" - The Haunted Man (4:57)
20. PJ Harvey - "The Words That Maketh Murder" - Let England Shake (3:46)
21. Magnetic Fields - "The Trouble I've Been Looking" - Holiday (2:23)
22. Metronomy - "The Bay" - The English Riviera (4:56)
23. Tom Waits - "16 Shells From A 30 6" - Swordfishtrombones (4:34)
24. Paolo Conte - "Via Con Me" - Paris Milonga (2:47)
25. Chico Buarque - "Deus Lhe Pague" - Construção (3:19)
26. Radio Futura - "Luna De Agosto" - La Cancion De Juan Perro (3:39)
27. Belle & Sebastian - "Act Of The Apostle" - The Life Pursuit (2:56)
28. Caravan - "In The Land Of Grey And Pink" - In The Land Of Grey And Pink (4:59)
29. Jethro Tull - "Life Is A Long Song" - Living In The Past (3:21)

Total Runtime: 109 minutes


Joey788


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This playlist explores what happens when an individual is pushed to extremes. I wanted to create a tense atmosphere for my list, but with different moods and genres as well. It is all about walking on the edge of sanity, with some barely retaining control and other slipping off. These are songs for the moments when your emotions escape you, when you shake or snap, when the pressure reaches a boiling point.

Fractures

1. Chelsea Wolfe - "Feral Love" - Pain Is Beauty (3:22)
2. The Horrors - "I Can't Control Myself" - Primary Colours (3:27)
3. David Bowie - "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (5:13)
4. Savages - "Husbands" - Silence Yourself (2:50)
5. Liars - "Brats" - WIXIW (3:02)
6. The Prodigy - "Firestarter" - Their Law (The Singles 1990-2005) (4:43)
7. Bjork - "Army of Me" - Army of Me (3:55)
8. Beck - "Minus" - Odelay (2:34)
9. Radiohead - "Climbing Up The Walls" - OK Computer (4:45)
10. Steven Wilson - "Index" - Grace for Drowning (4:49)
11. EMA - "Cthulu" - The Future's Void (5:27)
12. Blur - "I'm Just A Killer For Your Love" - Blur (4:12)
13. Bat for Lashes - "Siren Song" - Two Suns (5:00)
14. Fiona Apple - "Every Single Night" - The Idler Wheel... (3:34)
15. St. Vincent - "Huey Newton" - St. Vincent (4:38)
16. The Smashing Pumpkins - "Zero" - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (2:41)
17. PJ Harvey - "Down By The Water" - To Bring You My Love (3:15)
18. The Decemberists - "The Rake's Song" - The Hazards of Love (3:16)
19. Astronautalis - "Holy Water" - This Is Our Science (2:57)
20. Arcade Fire - "Intervention" - Neon Bible (4:21)
21. The National - "Afraid of Everyone" - High Violet (4:19)
22. U2 - "Exit" - The Joshua Tree (4:13)
23. Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral" - The Downward Spiral (3:57)
24. Porcupine Tree - "Strip The Soul" - In Absentia (7:22)

Total runtime: 97:52



Group 2

LemonMelon

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"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)
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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

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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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liamcool


Playlist: Trumped Hearts

This is a playlist of songs. I hope you find them quite good. There is a structure to this playlist - I hope you can figure it out.

1. Dinosaur Jr. - "Little Fury Things" - You're Living All Over Me (3:08)
2. Wire - "Two People In A Room" - 154 (2:11)
3. Hüsker Dü - "Celebrated Summer" - New Day Rising (4:03)
4. Hum - "Ms. Lazarus" - Downward is Heavenward (3:39)
5. Neko Case - "People Gotta Lotta Nerve" - Middle Cyclone (2:34)
6. Daryl Hall - "Something In 4/4 Time" - Sacred Songs (4:27)
7. St. Vincent - "Now, Now" - Marry Me (4:25)
8. Nick Drake - "Hazey Jane I" - Bryter Layter (4:29)
9. Big Black - "Kerosene" - Atomizer (6:05)
10. Bottomless Pit - "Null Set" - Shade Perennial (4:09)
11. Talking Heads - "(Nothing But) Flowers" - Naked (5:36)

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12. The Replacements - "Seen Your Video" - Let It Be (3:09)
13. Progress - "Mission Of Burma" - Vs. (3:06)
14. The Jesus Lizard - "Lady Shoes" - Goat (2:42)
15. Elvis Costello and The Attractions - "Living In Paradise" - This Years Model (3:46)
16. Sonic Youth - "Kissability" - Daydream Nation (3:09)
17. New Order - "Face Up" - Lowlife (5:07)
18. Owen Pallett - "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" - Heartland (5:08)
19. Codeine - "Ides" - The White Birch (5:07)
20. Red House Painters - "New Jersey" - Red House Painters (3:59)
21. Mr. Bungle - "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" - Disco Volante (6:07)
22. Silkworm - "Wild In My Day" - Libertine (5:33)

Total runtime: 1:31:39


namkcuR

Fairer

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This time around, my theme was simple: It's 100% songs sung by women. That's it. No other limitations. It's by no means supposed to be definitive, it's just two hours and thirty-eight minutes of songs that I either like or love, covering an assortment of genres, from various time periods and decades, sung by women. I've named it "Fairer", as in the "fairer sex".

I spent way too much time putting this together, but I'm pretty proud of the flow, the transitions, and the diversity. I hope you enjoy it.

1. Robyn - "Bionic Woman" - Robyn (0:16)
2. Saint Preux & Danielle Licari - "Concerto Pour Une Voix" - Concerto Pour Une Voix (4:03)
3. Loreena McKennitt - "The Mummers Dance(edit)" - A Mediterranean Odyssey (3:31)
4. Kate Bush - "Moving(7" Single Version)" - The Kick Inside (3:11)
5. Imogen Heap - "Headlock" - Speak For Yourself (3:36)
6. Madonna - "Sky Fits Heaven" - Ray Of Light (4:48)
7. Sarah McLachlan - "Sweet Surrender" - Surfacing (4:01)
8. Tori Amos - "lieee" - From The Choirgirl Hotel (4:08)
9. The Cranberries - "Dreams" - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (4:32)
10. Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U" - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (5:10)
11. Bjork - "Aurora" - Vespertine (4:39)
12. Beach House - "Troublemaker" - Bloom (4:55)
13. Lykke Li - "Love Me Like I'm Not Made Of Stone" - I Never Learn (3:47)
14. Fleetwood Mac - "Landslide" - Fleetwood Mac (3:19)
15. Joan Baez - "Farewell, Angelina" - Farewell, Angelina (3:16)
16. Katie Melua - "Where Does The Ocean Go" - Ketevan (3:37)
17. Adele - "Lovesong" - 21 (5:17)
18. Natalie Merchant - "Kind And Generous" - Orpheus (4:08)
19. Ingrid Michaelson - "The Way I Am" - Girls and Boys (2:13)
20. Brenda Lee - "Always On My Mind" - Brenda (2:50)
21. Patsy Cline - "Crazy" - Patsy Cline Showcase (2:41)
22. Bonnie Raitt - "Something To Talk About" - Luck Of The Draw (3:49)
23. Patti Scialfa - "23rd Street Lullaby" - 23rd Street Lullaby (4:22)
24. Patti Smith - "Revenge" - Wave (5:07)
25. Blondie - "Hanging On The Telephone" - Parallel Lines (2:21)
26. Garbage - "I Think I'm Paranoid" - Version 2.0 (3:38)
27. Sleater-Kinney - "Dig Me Out" - Dig Me Out (2:40)
28. HAIM - "The Wire" - Days Are Gone (4:08)
29. The Pretenders - "The Adultress" - Pretenders II (3:57)
30. PJ Harvey - "Big Exit" - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (3:51)
31. Alanis Morissette - "Uninvited" - City Of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture (4:36)
32. Janelle Monae - "Look Into My Eyes" - The Electric Lady (2:22)
33. The Supremes - "I Hear A Symphony" - I Hear A Symphony (2:44)
34. Alicia Keys - "Fallin'" - Songs In A Minor (3:29)
35. Lauryn Hill - "Doo Wop(That Thing)" - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (5:20)
36. Etta James - "At Last" - At Last! (3:01)
37. Jennifer Hudson - "Feeling Good" - I Remember Me (2:16)
38. Ella Fitzgerald - "One For My Baby(One More For The Road)" - Intimate Ella (4:20)
39. Tony Bennet & Lady Gaga - "Lush Life(Gaga Solo)" - Cheek To Cheek (4:15)
40. Melody Gardot - "My Heart Won't Have It Any Other Way" - The Absence (2:35)
41. Fiona Apple - "Pure Imagination" - Pure Imagination Single (3:20)
42. Audrey Hepburn - "Moon River" - Breakfast At Tiffany's(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2:04)
43. Judy Garland - "Over The Rainbow" - Over The Rainbow Single (2:50)
44. Julie Delpy - "A Waltz For A Night" - Julie Delpy (3:30)

Total runtime: 158:14

phanan





An ode to the music styles of synthpop from yesterday and today, with a focus on both "synth" and "pop".

Kraftwerk may not necessarily be pop, but there's no doubting their impact on the formation of the genre; therefore, they were the only logical choice to lead this off.

From there, the progression to Tubeway Army is fairly obvious, as we get our first movement into the pop arena.

After that, anything goes...

A WHISPER IN HEAVEN

1. Kraftwerk - "The Man Machine" - The Man Machine (5:32)
2. Tubeway Army - "Are 'Friends' Electric" - Replicas (5:25)
3. SPC ECO - "Push" - The Art Of Pop (4:16)
4. Little Dragon - "Feather" - Machine Dreams (4:54)
5. M83 - "Teen Angst" - Before The Dawn Heals Us (5:03)
6. Pet Shop Boys - "Home And Dry" - Release (3:58)
7. Haerts - "Hemiplegia" - Haerts (3:49)
8. Little Boots - "Stuck On Repeat" - Hands (3:21)
9. Cut Copy - "We Are Explorers" - Free Your Mind (4:18)
10. Chromatics - "Kill For Love" - Kill For Love (3:58)
11. New Order – “Your Silent Face’ – Power, Corruption & Lies (5:58)
12. Tears For Fears – “Suffer The Children” – The Hurting (3:53)
13. Roxy Music – “Over You” – Flesh + Blood (3:27)*
14. Devo – “Beautiful World” – New Traditionalists (3:34)
15. Erasure – “Blue Savannah” – Wild! (4:19)
16. Duran Duran – “The Man Who Stole A Leopard” – All You Need Is Now (6:14)
17. Information Society – “Where Were You?” - _Hello World (3:51)
18. Neon Neon – “Raquel” – Stainless Style (5:01)
19. Simian Mobile Disco – “I Believe” – Attack Decay Sustain Release (3:18)
20. Yazoo – “Situation” – Upstairs At Eric’s (5:45)**
21. Metric – “The Void” – Synthetica (3:17)
22. Goldfrapp – “Ooh La La” – Supernature (3:24)
23. Chvrches – “Gun” – The Bones Of What You Believe (3:54)
24. Purity Ring – “Obedear” – Shrines (3:29)
25. St. Lucia – “September” – When The Night (5:46)
26. Paperwhite – “Pieces” – Pieces (Single) (3:58)
27. Visage – “Fade To Grey” – Visage (4:04)
28. Depeche Mode – “Never Let Me Down Again” – Music For The Masses (4:22)*
29. Monogem – “Follow You” – Follow You (Single) (3:45)
30. OMD – “Metroland” – English Electric (7:32)

Total Time: 133:25


Notes:

*Whereas the original album is noted, the specific versions of these tracks were taken from compilations for transitional purposes only.

**This is the US 12" Mix that was included on the North American version of Upstairs At Eric's.

Cute Irish Bono

Tune Your Mind








This playlist features a lot of melodies that tune my mind and heart in the right key. I hope it tunes yours as well. From classic rock (Bowie, Fleetwood Mac) to indie rock (The National, Local Natives) to 90’s rock (Radiohead, Mojave 3) As I always say, I hope you enjoy it. :)



1. The Velvet Underground – “Candy Says” – The Velvet Underground (4:04)
2. The Beatles – “Something” – Abbey Road (3:55)
3. The Kinks – “Big Sky” – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (2:55)
4. The Talking Heads – “I’m Not In Love” – More Songs About Buildings And Food (4:37)
5. Television – “See No Evil” – Marquee Moon (3:50)
6. David Bowie – “Heroes” – Heroes (6:12)
7. Fleetwood Mac – “Dreams” – Rumours (4:20)
8. Jeff Buckley – “Last Goodbye” – Grace (4:37)
9. Radiohead – “Black Star” – The Bends (4:09)
10. The National – “Afraid of Everyone” – High Violet (2:54)
11. Local Natives – “Ceilings” – Hummingbird (2:58)
12. Eels – “Railroad Man” – Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (4:19)
13. Funeral Suits – “Stars Are Spaceships” – Lily of the Valley (4:35)
14. The Megaphonic Thrift – “Tune Your Mind” – The Megaphonic Thrift (3:01)
15. Longwave - “Exit” – The Strangest Things (3:54)
16. Spoon – “Inside Out” – They Want My Soul (5:04)
17. Leonard Cohen – “Blessed is the Memory” – Songs of Leonard Cohen (3:05)
18. Mojave 3 – “Keep It All Hid” – Out of Tune (4:00)
19. Peter Gabriel – “Mercy Street” – Shaking the Tree: 16 Golden Greats (4:43)
20. R.E.M. – “Everybody Hurts” – Automatic For the People (5:20)

Total Time: 83:21

Group 4


PhilsFan

"It Was Me"

In medias res.

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1. The Go! Team - "Bust Out Brigade" - Rolling Blackouts (2:43)
2. Kanye West - "Through the Wire" - The College Dropout (3:41)
3. Autre Ne Veut - "Play by Play" - Anxiety (5:14)
4. Phantogram - "Black Out Days" - Voices (3:47)
5. Flying Lotus - "The Protest" - You're Dead! (1:58)
6. The Roots feat. John Legend - "The Fire" - How I Got Over (3:41)
7. Gorillaz feat. Bobby Womack and Mos Def - "Stylo" - Plastic Beach (4:31)
8. Mutemath - "Peculiar People" - Reset EP (4:36)
9. The Antlers - "Director" - Familiars (6:13)
10. God Is an Astronaut - "All Is Violent, All Is Bright" - All Is Violent, All Is Bright (4:14)
11. We Were Promised Jetpacks - "Quiet Little Voices" - These Four Walls (4:21)
12. Cults - "So Far" - Static (3:29)
13. Dum Dum Girls - "In the Wake of You" - Too True (2:40)
14 Sky Ferreira - "Nobody Asked Me (If I Was Okay)" - Night Time, My Time (4:07)
15. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Hysterial" - Hysterical (3:53)
16. The New Pornographers - "Brill Bruisers" - Brill Bruisers (2:56)
17. Wilco - "Heavy Metal Drummer" - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (3:09)
18. St. Vincent - "Psychopath" - St. Vincent (3:33)
19. Radiohead - "Jigsaw Falling into Place" - In Rainbows (4:09)
20. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Jubilee Street" - Push the Sky Away (6:36)
21. Lana Del Rey - "Ultraviolence" - Ultraviolence (4:12)
22. Beach House - "New Year" - Bloom (5:26)
23. Tim Hecker - "Analog Paralysis, 1978" - Ravedeath, 1972 (3:52)
24. Warpaint - "Love Is to Die" - Warpaint (4:52)
25. Washed Out - "All Over Now" - Paracosm (3:53)
26. Haunted Hearts - "Love Incognito" - Initiation (3:00)
27. Broken Bells - "Perfect World" - After the Disco (6:24)
28. Destroyer - "Suicide Demo for Kara Walker" - Kaputt (8:26)
29. Phoenix - "Honeymoon" - United (5:01)
30. Bat for Lashes - "Daniel" - Two Suns (4:11)
31. HAIM feat. Twin Shadow - "Edge" - Days Are Gone [Deluxe Edition] (3:39)
32. The War on Drugs - "Eyes to the Wind" - Lost in the Dream (5:56)
33. The National - "You Were a Kindness" - High Violet [Expanded Version] (4:26)
34. U2 feat. Lykke Li - "The Troubles" - Songs of Innocence (4:46)

Total Runtime - 2:27:35


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Can you dance to my beat?

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As we dance to a beat that seems out of time
To the one you feel in the metronome of your mind
Does it offend you that our rhythm is strange
Or causes your thinking to be re-arranged
Could it be that you would understand this beat to which we dance
More cleary had you been given the chance
So as you struggle to catch the rhythm with your feet
Ask yourself...
...can you dance to my beat?

Rainbow Serpent Festival 2013 was one of the most crucial weekends of my life. Encouraged by this girl I had fallen in love with, I jumped into a car with a bunch of couchsurfers and drove to the festival, knowing only one person and having never been to a four-day bush doof. I met several great people who I am still very good friends with. I had a ridiculous amount of fun for most of the time, dancing in a donkey onesie and socks to a huge range of electronic music. Drinking. Taking drugs. Talking shit. I discovered that I probably wouldn’t ever get with this girl. She got with another of our crew. I walked off to explore, commiserate, drink and dance by myself. I finally lost my virginity. I also took acid, and had a negative experience with it, becoming extremely anxious, leading to several very scary hours where I thought I’d be trapped forever.

I heard Audiojack’s “Chemical Rewind” version of Homework’s “Ask Yourself” that weekend. It, like so many other things that happened at Rainbow, was a turning point in my life. Some things were great - I now no longer walked around day-in, day-out, with a label reading “virgin” hanging over my head. I discovered more and more electronic dance music that spoke to me in ways dance music had not really spoken to me before. I found that “having fun” was now truly a massive part of my life. I learnt that the mind is incredibly powerful, and that there is nothing scarier than losing control of it.

For months after Rainbow I was, ostensibly, fine. But later in the year, after a bummer of a night, I had some negative thoughts race around my mind. This would have been okay, if they had disappeared like they always had in the past. But something about it took me back to the moments of great anxiety when on acid, and I got stuck for a few days. I told my parents, started seeing a doctor, got medicated and started to get control back. I am still medicated and I still see a doctor. I haven’t been diagnosed with anything but generalised anxiety disorder seems most likely. As it turns out I’ve been living with it my entire life, I just never recognised it in the past. If I told you some of the ridiculous shit that has swum around my mind over the past two years…

This is a playlist that tells you a bit about how I live life. From the high points, having fun, partying, dancing to great music with friends, sometimes you’re in a cool, dank nightclub drinking and taking drugs and talking about how fucked you are, sometimes you’re on you’re own, just digging great music sober at work in the middle of the day, just enjoying life as it is.

Leaving the club, or the bar, or your friend’s house, or walking home from the pub, or the shops, the music slows down as you get reflective, and start thinking about shit. And then, just when you’ve made a life-changing to decision to be neither vacant nor waiting anymore, anxiety hits, like a cloud appearing over your shoulder. Now you’re in trouble, and you can’t get these thoughts out of you. There is something wrong with me. Take your pills, go to sleep.

You can’t say for certain that everything is going to be okay, but there are things you can do to make it seem alright. There are times, plenty of them, where you feel fine. There are crap times, too, but they don’t last forever. For the time being, you just gotta step with care and great tact, remembering life’s a great balancing act.

1. Homework - “Ask Yourself (Audiojack’s Chemical Rewind)” - Conversation Piece Remixes (8:48)
2. Les Sins - “Grind” - Grind / Prelims 12” (5:18)
3. Todd Terje - “Strandbar” - It’s Album Time (4:28)
4. Thundercat - “Oh Sheit It’s X” - Apocalypse (3:47)
5. The Juan Maclean - “You Are My Destiny (ft. Nancy Whang)” - You Are My Destiny 12” (8:30)
6. Julio Bashmore - “Au Seve” - Au Seve 12” (6:26)
7. Kele Okereke - “Heartbreak” - Heartbreaker EP (6:04)
7. Ben Pearce - “What I Might Do (Club Mix)” - What I Might Do Remixes (6:30)
8. DJ Koze - “Nices Wölkchen (ft. Apparat)” - Amygdala (5:31)
9. DJ Shadow - “What Does Your Soul Look Like (pt. 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)” - Endtroducing..... (6:17)
10. Outkast - “Elevators (Me & You)” - ATLiens (4:25)
11. Chance the Rapper - “Acid Rain” - Acid Rap (3:36)
12. Nightlands - “So Far So Long” - Oak Island (4:18)
13. St Vincent - “Strange Mercy” - Strange Mercy (4:29)
14. Something for Kate - “Star-Crossed Citizens” - Leave Your Soul to Science (3:41)
15. The National - “This is the Last Time” - Trouble Will Find Me (4:45)
16. Los Campesinos! - “Cemetery Gaits” - No Blues (4:53)
17. Broken Social Scene - “KC Accidental” - You Forgot it in People (3:51)
17. Wilco - “Radio Cure” - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (5:09)
18. Courtney Barnett - “Anonymous Club” - How to Carve a Carrot into a Rose EP (5:51)
19. Passion Pit - “Swimming in the Flood” - Manners (4:58)
20. Flying Lotus - “Galaxy in Janaki” - Cosmogramma (2:28)
21. The Avalanches - “Extra Kings” - Since I Left You (3:47)
22. Jon Hopkins - “Immunity” - Immunity (9:57)
23. Brian Eno - “Becalmed” - Another Green World (3:57)

Total runtime - 2:11:31


Afliktor

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Of Spiritual Machines

1. Paper Tiger - “2nd Day Back” - Made Like Us (3:43)
2. Bonobo - “Kiara” - Black Sands (3:50)
3. Keys N Krates - “Let It Rain” - Blackout (3:55)
4. DJ Shadow - “Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt” - Endtroducing… (6:41)
5. Mr. FijiWiji - “Gina” - Keeping It Surreal (4:17)
6. Clams Casino - “All I Need” - Instrumentals (3:37)
7. Canoo - “Neon Ghosts” - Neon Ghosts (4:19)
8. Hebona - “Oracle” - Oracle (5:34)
9. Afliktor - “While missing summers…” - Strangers (3:30)

Of Guitar Ghosts

10. Working For A Nuclear Free City - “Kingdom” - Businessmen & Ghosts (4:07)
11. Hunting Grounds - “Star Shards” - In Hindsight (4:41)
12. Interpol - “Untitled” - Turn On The Bright Lights (3:57)
13. U2 - “The Crystal Ballroom” - Songs of Innocence (4:40)
14. Bloc Party - “Uniform” - A Weekend In The City (5:31)
15. The Big Sleep - “Ace” - Nature Experiments
16. Mogwai - “Remurdered” - Rave Tapes (6:25)

For The Broken

17. Amon Tobin - “Proper Hoodidge” - Out From Out Where (5:26)
18. WIK▲N - “Bosozoku Highway” - アキラ (7:12)
19. Cloudkicker - “Seattle” - Fade (10:18)
20. Jez Dior - “Love Me To Death” - Love Me To Death (3:39)
21. Balmorhea - “Masollan” - Stranger (5:14)
22. El Ten Eleven - “My Only Swerving” - El Ten Eleven (5:15)
23. Bring Me The Horizon - “Can You Feel My Heart (Afliktor Remix)” - Can You Feel My Heart (4:00)
24. B.M. Sharp - “The Naif” - Music Is Tight (3:42)

Total runtime: 1:57:53


iron yuppie

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BLUES & ROOTS

This playlist is an expansion and refinement of a theme I used in a mini-DI a few years ago. My familiarity with the Blues, that most American of genres, has grown exponentially in that time. The Blues takes many forms, but underlying all of them is a distinctive mournfulness, often bolstered with swinging rhythms and a sense of defiant humor in the face of hardship.

01. The Stooges - "Dirt" - Fun House (7:04)
02. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Stagger Lee" - Murder Ballads (5:15)
03. The Dead Weather - "New Pony" - Horehound (3:58)
04. The White Stripes - "Stop Breaking Down" - The White Stripes (2:20)
05. Led Zeppelin - "The Girl I Love (She Got Long Black Wavy Hair)" - BBC Sessions (3:03)
06. The Rolling Stones - "Country Honk" - Let It Bleed (3:10)
07. Muddy Waters - "Long Distance Call" - His Best: 1947 to 1955 (2:41)
08. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Red House" - Are You Experienced? (3:53)
09. Neil Young - "Vampire Blues" - On the Beach (4:11)
10. Bob Dylan - "Meet Me in the Morning" - Blood on the Tracks (4:21)
11. Dirty Three - "Sue's Last Ride" - Horse Stories (7:23)
12. Robert Johnson - "Me and the Devil Blues" - The Centennial Collection (2:38)
13. Lightnin' Hopkins - "One Kind Favor (See That My Grave Is Kept Clean)" - The Very Best Of (3:01)
14. Son House - "Death Letter Blues" - The Original Delta Blues (4:22)
15. John Fahey - "St. Louis Blues" - The Best of John Fahey 1959-1977 (3:17)
16. Kenny Burrell - "Saturday Night Blues" - Midnight Blue (6:16)
17. Nina Simone - "I Put a Spell on You" - I Put a Spell on You (2:38)
18. Glenn Miller Orchestra - "In the Mood" - In the Mood Remasters (3:32)
19. Billie Holiday - "If You Were Mine" - Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday (3:12)
20. Miles Davis - "Summertime" - Porgy & Bess (3:21)
21. Etta James - "Don't Cry Baby" - Her Best: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection (2:25)
22. Charles Mingus - "Hog Callin' Blues" - Oh Yeah (7:27)
23. Bruce Springsteen - "Pay Me My Money Down" - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (4:32)
24. Tom Waits - "Lord I've Been Changed" - Orphans (2:28)
25. Leadbelly - "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" - Absolutely the Best (3:02)

Total Runtime: 99:30


Group 5


LJT

I've come to realise that my usual playlists meander quite a bit and well at nearly 2 hours of music they can be a bit tricky to listen to, especially since I eschew more well known artists. This probably makes my lists a bit harder to digest especially if you have limited listening time, it definitely doesn't make it easy to give it repeat listens. For the 10th Desert Island i've just went for a single hour of music that I feel blasts through at a fair clip. There is little in the way of electronica this time which my previous lists have tended to feature quite a bit of. I think at the beginning I set out with the aim of, if IWasBored liked something from my list I would consider it a success! Anyway I would just like to say that i've enjoyed doing these competitions over the years we have been doing them, and it is thanks to them that i've been introduced to some really good music and they continue to do so.

01. Cursive- "Sierra"- The Ugly Organ (3:25)
02. Black Mountain- "Let Spirits Ride"- Wilderness Heart (5:15)
03. Ty Segall- "Feel"- Manipulator (4:15)
04. Manic Street Preachers- "Love's Sweet Exile"- Generation Terrorists (3:29)
05. Afghan Whigs- "John the Baptist"- 1965 (5:35)
06. Cunninlynguists- "Hard as They Come (Act 1)"- Oneirology (4:17)
07. Saul Williams- "Control Freak"- Saul Williams (4:15)
08. PJ Harvey- "A Perfect Day Elise"- Is This Desire? (3:06)
09. Arrows of Love- "The Knife"- Everything's Fucked (4:21)
10. Dinosaur Jr- "It's Me"- Beyond (5.15)
11. Sons and Daughters- "Rebel With a Ghost"- This Gift (3:01)
12. Surfer Blood- "Neighbour Riffs"- Astro Coast (2:08)
13. Ezra Furman- "My Zero"- Dog Days (3:55)
14. Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld- "A Quiet Life"- Still Smiling (6:05)

Total 58:22

LemonMacPhisto

THE NAZIS HAVE DISCOVERED TANIS

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This music should be played loud!

1. Richard Wagner - “Vorspiel” - Das Rheingold (4:13)
2. Thee Oh Sees - “Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster” - Floating Coffin (3:32)
3. Shannon and the Clams - “The Cult Song” - Sleep Talk (2:52)
4. Tony Molina - “Change My Ways” - Dissed and Dismissed (1:12)
5. Prince - “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man” - Sign o’ the Times (6:29)
6. HAIM - “Falling” - Days Are Gone (4:19)
7. Talking Heads - “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)” - Remain in Light (5:49)
8. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - “Beverly Kills” - Before Today (3:57)
9. Mac DeMarco - “Passing Out Pieces” - Salad Days (2:47)
10. Gil Scott-Heron - “Johannesburg” - From South Africa to South Carolina (4:42)
11. The Shangri-Las - “Remember (Walking in the Sand) - Remember (Walking in the Sand) [Single] (2:43)
12. Angelo Badalamenti - “Dance of the Dream Man” - Music from Twin Peaks: Original Soundtrack (3:42)
13. The Replacements - “Androgynous” - Let It Be (3:12)
14. Ike & Tina Turner - “River Deep, Mountain High” - River Deep Mountain High (3:36)
15. Blood Orange - “Champagne Coast” - Coastal Grooves (4:52)
16. Kanye West - “I Am a God (ft. God)” - Yeezus (3:52)
17. Wu-Tang Clan - “Can It Be All So Simple (Radio Edit)” - Can It Be All So Simple [Single] (4:12)
18. The Flamingos - “I Only Have Eyes for You” - I Only Have Eyes for You [Single] (3:15)
19. Nina Simone - “Sinnerman” - Pastel Blues (10:22)

Total Time: 1:19:33, or 79:33


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Songs That I Gone and Liked

1. Underworld - "Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love" - Second Toughest In the Infants (16:37)
2. Stereolab - "Jenny Ondioline" - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcemenys (18:08)
3. Curve - "Coming Up Roses" - Come Clean (4:32)
4. Smyslovyie Gallyutsinatsii - "Vse izmenietsya" - Sdelano v tiemnotie (4:36)
5. Splean - "Slomano vse" - Noviye lyudi (4:17)
6. Midnight Oil - "Outside World" - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 (4:22)
7. Kent - "Palace & Main" - Du och jag doden (4:05)
8. Something For Kate - "Easy" - Beautiful Sharks (4:26)
9. Mumiy Troll - "Kosmichieskii desant" - SOS matrosu! (5:22)
10. Myslovitz - "Chlopcy" - Milosc w czasach popkultury (3:58)
11. Mansun - "You Who Do You Hate" - Attack of the Grey Lantern (3:10)
12. Manic Street Preachers - "Misguided Missile" - Futurology (4:20)
13. Lush - "Nothing Natural" - Spooky (5:55)
14. Leftfield - "Storm 3000" - Leftism (5:44)
15. Del'fin - "Vse" - Suschestvo (6:01)

Total runtime: 96:00

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The Sad Punk

WE CAN ONLY REMEMBER
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The original idea was that this was a conceptual list about two lost loves trying to reconnect after years of being apart, whether in tiny country town or post-industrial urban mass, through sticky dance floors, mysterious tragedy and exile on the lonely highway fueled by am radio, all in the realm of flashing memories interpreted through contemporary artists and their influences, but in the end I am basically just gonna say that Snap is an underrated font.

1. Okkervil River – “Down Down the Deep River” – The Silver Gymnasium – 6:33
2. Saint Etienne – “Hug My Soul” – Tiger Bay – 4:15
3. Michael Jackson – “Remember the Time” (New Jack Jazz Mix) – Visionary – 5:08
4. Dornik – “Something About You” – Something About You – 3:47
5. The Internet – “You Don’t Even Know (Ft. Tay Wa)” – Feel Good – 4:58
6. Wave Racer – “Streamers” – Streamers – 3:31
7. Miami Horror ft. Alan Palomo – “Holidays” – Illumination – 4:27
8. Anamanaguchi – “Prom Night” – Endless Fantasy – 3:48
9. Yellow Magic Orchestra – “Behind The Mask” – Multiplies – 3:3
10. Tkay Maidza – “Switch Lanes” – Switch Tape – 3:16
11. Cut Copy – “Free Your Mind” – Free Your Mind -5:18
12. Vic Mensa – “Down On My Luck”- - 3:30
13. Le1f – “Go In (produced by Morri$) – Dark York -3:30
14. TNGHT – “Higher Ground” - - 3:19
15. Bear in Heaven – “The Reflection of You” – I Love You, It’s Cool – 4:19
16. Twisted Wires – “Half Lives” – After Dark 2 – 4:39
17. Janet Jackson – “Empty” – The Velvet Rope – 4:32
18. A Gap Between – “Neon Signs” – Summer Night-Runner – 3:32
19. Blood Orange – “High Street” – Cupid Deluxe – 2:58
20. Prince - “When Doves Cry (Single Mix)” - The Hits/Purple Rain – 3:48
21. How to Dress Well – “Words I Don’t Remember” – What Is This Heart? – 6:18
22. Kanye West ft. Mr. Hudson – “Paranoid – Video Version” – 808s and Heartbreak/Paranoid – 4:46
23. Autre Ne Veut – “Ego Free Sex Free” – Anxiety – 4:03
24. Danny Brown – “Clean Up” – Old – 3:02
25. The War On Drugs – “Red Eyes” – Lost In The Dream – 4:58
26. America – “Ventura Highway” – Homecoming – 3:33
27. The Isley Brothers – “Voyage to Atlantis” – The Essential Isley Brothers – 4:30
28. Aretha Franklin – “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing” – Let Me In Your Life – 3:51
29. Sarah Vaughan – “Midnight Sun” – Ballads – 5:36
30. Glen Campbell – “Galveston” – Galveston – 2:42
31. Bruce Springsteen – “Born to Run” – Born to Run – 4:31
 
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Really excited to hear these, folks. Looking good.

LM, forgot to give you a total running time, but my two parts are 72:51 and 68:47, respectively. DO THE MATH.
 
I need to make an ammendment to my paragraph, as I was writing it in a text to Travis and left out a very important sentence:

I've been listening to a lot of 90s music, and while most of the music on this list isn't from that decade, it's influences and influence are felt throughout the two pieces of the whole :doh:.
 
Oh man, Travis, that's one hell of a list. Tracks 20-28 is a sequence after my own heart.

Joey788's list looks like a real standout too.
 
I can't have more than 12 images per post, so I edited post #4 to include the rest of the lists. We're ready to go.
 
Really excited to hear these, folks. Looking good.

LM, forgot to give you a total running time, but my two parts are 72:51 and 68:47, respectively. DO THE MATH.

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Corrected.

I need to make an ammendment to my paragraph, as I was writing it in a text to Travis and left out a very important sentence:

I've been listening to a lot of 90s music, and while most of the music on this list isn't from that decade, it's influences and influence are felt throughout the two pieces of the whole :doh:.

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Oh man, Travis, that's one hell of a list. Tracks 20-28 is a sequence after my own heart.

Joey788's list looks like a real standout too.

I figured you would like it. :up:
 
Fucking excited, these all look great. Loving the amount of Outkast and Destroyer. Joey, yours in particular stands out at first. Peef, I can see You Were a Kindness seguing perfectly into The Troubles. And hell yeah for x2 Something for Kate.

Sorry for my tl;dr, folks, but I had to get it down with the playlist.
 
I have been criticized in the last few DI's for not having a theme for my list, and I'd just like to clear up a point here (as if using a photo of myself wasn't indicative of this already): the concept of my list is essentially an autobiographical look at the last six months or so of my life. I had written a number of long-winded explanations, but none of them felt right, which is why it's left underexplained here, but there is a theme at play here.

I'm ready for listening, let's get to it.
 
My apologies once again for how long it took to get this started. I know you've all been itching to start listening, but I think it will all work out for the best.

Once we've determined how long we're going to need for each group, I'll make up a schedule.
 
Links for all groups have been sent out.

Group 1's listening thread will be up early morning EST so you can have the playlists for work tomorrow, if that's something you're into. For now, I have to make my commute home.
 
I'm fucking feeling the energy. I think this is gonna be a good competition.

Also namckur great idea with your list. When I was making my list I was a bit disappointed at the lack of women on it. I'd think about doing something similar for future DIs but I'm a misogynist who has a problem with female artists expressing themselves and don't have that much female-led music on my itunes :reject:
 
Hey Travis, can you swing me the links too? I'll try to listen to at least some.
 
Cheers.

Not sure if I'll be able to listen to them all, so I may not submit rankings for the group stage, but I'm aiming to listen to everything that qualifies for the finals and vote.
 
Cobbler, you need to upload a full .zip file. Mediafire not only flags tracks that may be purchased elsewhere, but it also doesn't allow you to download more than one song at once.
 
Cool beans.

Why isn't my cover art showing up? Also, shout out to the two Disney folks and two selfies.
 
Excited that we can finally get started. Lots of great stuff in there at first glance.

It seems like I'm the only one who went stream only. I hope that doesn't put too many people off of listening to it.
 
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