Desert Island X: Rules and Signup Thread

[Afliktor]

As does mine, sadly more than a little electronica doesn't seem to go over much better than metal, but we'll see how we go.

i could make a playlist that's entirely just metal and dubstep. interference would LOVE it

 

[IWasBored]

i could make a playlist that's entirely just metal and dubstep. interference would LOVE it

Whose alt are you?


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[cobl04]

good dubstep?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJZ13SyRXhU

or bad dubstep?

 

[IWasBored]

There is not such thing as "good dubstep." It's not a real thing.


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[LemonMelon]

What if "good dubstep" (UK) and "bad dubstep" (US) are fundamentally nothing alike?

 

[cobl04]

When I saw that you* had the latest post, I literally predicted the first sentence of your exact post.

*IWB

 

[cobl04]

What if "good dubstep" (UK) and "bad dubstep" (US) are fundamentally nothing alike?

I know that, but they've both been, for the most part, categorised under the label of dubstep, a term that has been rendered relatively meaningless.

Overgrown was a completely different record to his self-titled anyway.

 

[liamcool]

Lemel, asking a purely theoretical question. Obviously, the spirit of Desert Island is to use officially released tracks because conversations about "THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE BESTEST VERSION OF CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA, PERFORMED IN BRUGES IN 1996 YOU FUCKING SCRUB" are kind of asinine.

But a number of bands have begun the process of releasing all of their live concerts in a sort of official bootleg series. (such as the Live Phish series.) Does that mean that any of the tracks officially released in this manner could be used within DI?

 

[liamcool]

Also, wub wub wub.

 

[cobl04]

Pretty sure live tracks have always been allowed if they've appeared on an official release.

 

[liamcool]

Yuss, but the question is whether that would be a specifically constructed official release (a la a live album) that is released in stores, promoted, or whether it can also be part of an official bootleg series that is only available to that niche fan.

 

[LemonMelon]

Lemel, asking a purely theoretical question. Obviously, the spirit of Desert Island is to use officially released tracks because conversations about "THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE BESTEST VERSION OF CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA, PERFORMED IN BRUGES IN 1996 YOU FUCKING SCRUB" are kind of asinine.

But a number of bands have begun the process of releasing all of their live concerts in a sort of official bootleg series. (such as the Live Phish series.) Does that mean that any of the tracks officially released in this manner could be used within DI?

As those releases are officially recognized by the band itself, I see nothing wrong with using them. Hell, they're not free. It's a bitch to make a live track fit, but it's totally within the rules to use them. Same deal with fanclub releases.

 

[Afliktor]

Whose alt are you?

i like dubstep, both the original UK variety and the americanized "brostep." my playlist will have some chillstep, which is basically just the same 140bpm half time tempo as dubstep but not so much with the wubs. atmospheric, melodic stuff. you wouldn't know it was actually a sub-genre of dubstep if i didn't tell ya

 

[liamcool]

I just had the sadistic and brief idea of taking the longest Phish song and making everyone listen to an hour of improv. As interesting as it is to hear, not suitable for this competition...

 

[cobl04]

why don't you take the longest U2 song and make everyone listen to an hour of imprHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

 

[liamcool]

 

[phanan]

Whose alt are you?


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I'm guessing this is the return of AtomicBono.

 

[Afliktor]

I'm guessing this is the return of AtomicBono.

¿

 

[PhilsFan]

Returning from where? A far off moon, perhaps?

 

[gump]

LM, just to make sure: are collaborations counted as having a different artist? In other words, can one use, for example, a Wilco track and a Billy Bragg + Wilco track?

 

[phanan]

¿

No big deal really. It's ok to admit it.

Returning from where? A far off moon, perhaps?

In space.

 

[lazarus]

Remember when Zoots resurfaced under an alter for DI IX and then flamed out again shortly thereafter?


That was fun.

Spoiler

 

[No spoken words]

Returning from where? A far off moon, perhaps?

A moon in space, is that what you mean?

 

[LMP]

A moon in space, is that what you mean?

Uh-oh, someone's getting Uni-crunk.

 

[LemonMelon]

LM, just to make sure: are collaborations counted as having a different artist? In other words, can one use, for example, a Wilco track and a Billy Bragg + Wilco track?

Yep, they're counted as separate artists. I remember one year when Irishteen had Morrissey on his list 3-4 times because of that rule.

 

[gump]

Yep, they're counted as separate artists. I remember one year when Irishteen had Morrissey on his list 3-4 times because of that rule.

Wait until you see Wilco, Billy Bragg + Wilco, Jeff Tweedy solo, Golden Smog, Loose Fur and Uncle Tupelo show up in my list.

 

[LMP]

And you could even add the father/son outfit Tweedy to that, too!

 

[lazarus]

It's Desert Island X, not Desert Island VW.

 

[Axver]

As those releases are officially recognized by the band itself, I see nothing wrong with using them. Hell, they're not free. It's a bitch to make a live track fit, but it's totally within the rules to use them. Same deal with fanclub releases.

Honestly we could probably even remove the rule entirely. Is there really a big deal if somebody wants to use a great quality soundboard recording of their favourite live performance (or shoot themselves in the foot by using shit audience audio)? I think the main reasons for that rule were 1. in the first DI to avoid people just using shit-tonnes of U2 bootlegs, 2. because bootlegs may not have official runtimes, and 3. to add a bit of a challenge. The first reason is irrelevant now, do we really care about the second, and now I feel that allowing people to use what they like to create the best list trumps the third.

I mean, I'd love to use One Tree Hill, 26 December 1989. It's not officially released, not even in the sense of some previous tenuous inclusions (unreleased mixes of songs a band uploaded to an official social media account), but it would probably fit more seamlessly in a list than many official live releases because it's such a pristine soundboard recording.

 

[cobl04]

I wouldn't care in the slightest.