phanan
Blue Crack Addict
On to Group 2 with Cute Irish Bono.
Great choice with Love And Rockets to start. Love And Rockets are a band where I never thought they quite got it right - they've had some good albums, but nothing that I would call an outright classic. But their Best Of is fantastic and pretty much has everything you need from them.
Great selections by Coldplay, Oasis, and Blur on this. You really can't go wrong with any of them, and the albums they are culled from are obviously excellent.
I do agree with others that Taxman is out of place. As predictable as it may seem on the surface, it would have been a great opener followed by Ball Of Confusion. Or even as the second song if you really wanted the opener to remain unchanged. Either way, I think those two together would have worked really well. And this would have allowed the Longwave track to go directly into Cat Stevens, which seems like a nice sequence.
I think there are several tracks on here that kind of suffer from a sameness sound, causing the playlist to meander a bit. You mixed in the aforementioned Coldplay/Oasis/Blur songs to help with that, but it probably could have used a bit more diversity.
That said, I enjoyed the Local Natives song, a band I really haven't taken the time to listen to further, and The Atlantic was intriguing enough that I listened to it twice in a row on the spot (since it was the final track anyway). I really liked that.
Great choice with Love And Rockets to start. Love And Rockets are a band where I never thought they quite got it right - they've had some good albums, but nothing that I would call an outright classic. But their Best Of is fantastic and pretty much has everything you need from them.
Great selections by Coldplay, Oasis, and Blur on this. You really can't go wrong with any of them, and the albums they are culled from are obviously excellent.
I do agree with others that Taxman is out of place. As predictable as it may seem on the surface, it would have been a great opener followed by Ball Of Confusion. Or even as the second song if you really wanted the opener to remain unchanged. Either way, I think those two together would have worked really well. And this would have allowed the Longwave track to go directly into Cat Stevens, which seems like a nice sequence.
I think there are several tracks on here that kind of suffer from a sameness sound, causing the playlist to meander a bit. You mixed in the aforementioned Coldplay/Oasis/Blur songs to help with that, but it probably could have used a bit more diversity.
That said, I enjoyed the Local Natives song, a band I really haven't taken the time to listen to further, and The Atlantic was intriguing enough that I listened to it twice in a row on the spot (since it was the final track anyway). I really liked that.