OT- The Mix CDs Thread

[Nick W]

I make new mixes fairly regularly and always like to hear new stuff, so I thought I might see what all you other hellboarders are listening to. Anyway, here's a mix I made yesterday.

"That New Company Mix"

1. Kenny Rogers- Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
2. Kayne West- Stronger
3. Hole- Violet
4. Foo Fighters- Home
5. David Bowie- China Girl
6. Keane- With or Without You
7. Ministry- Lay Lady Lay
8. Cardigans- Iron Man
9. Coldplay- You Only Live Twice
10. Radiohead- Nobody Does It Better
11. Fiona Apple- Across the Universe
12. Sonic Youth- Superstar
13. Ben Folds- B*tches Ain't S#*t
14. Sheryl Crow- Home
15. Flaming Lips- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
16. Tori Amos- She's Leaving Home
17. Hole- Dole Parts
18. Ben Folds- She Don't Use Jelly
19. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass- Casino Royale

As you can see, it's mainly covers with a few other bits thrown in.

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[Todd H]

I generally don't make CD's anymore since (a) my cd burner burned out and (b) I mainly use my ipod these days.

But I wanted to play along so I put the ipod on shuffle and typed down the first 20 songs.

Hellboarder Shuffle Mix

1) Sugar- System of a Down
2) Stormy Weather - Frank Sinatra
3) Dreamer with a Penny- Dean Martin
4) Hot For Teacher- Van Halen
5) Let Go- Frou Frou
6) Beautiful- The Dreaming
7) Angel's Son- Sevendust
8) Gender- Orgy
9) Unsent- Alanis Morisette
10) Haunting me- Stabbing Westward
11) Stutter- Elastica
12) The Town- Korn and Biff Naked
13) It's Been Awhile- Staind
14) BBK- Korn
15) Back of B*tch- Guns N Roses
16) Molly- Sponge
17) Right Now- Korn
18) Social- Squirtgun
19) The Diary of Jane- Breaking Benjamin
20) Back in Time- Huey Lewis and the News

Woot! :D

[Mike Cross]

Nick, i love the Kenny Rogers as the opening salvo...

[Ken O]

Left my ipod at home today. Tonight I'll post the playlist I've been listening to a lot lately. It's the soundtrack to the novel I'm working on.

[SpydaWeb]

My playlists are generally all over the place. They aren't really meant to flow together. It's just an easier way of getting to the music I'm most interested in listening to at that moment.

Amiina - Ugla
Camille - Assise
Ayo - Help is Coming
Apartment - Fall Into Place
Maximo Park - Our Velocity
Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitars
Maria Jimenez - Tombola
Pastora Soler - Pa Ti, Pa Ti
Barbatuques - Baiana
ENUR ft Natasja - Calabria 2007
Royksopp - What Else Is There?

[Mikolaj]

bonobo -nighlite
The who - baba o riley
the rolling stones - sympathy for the devil
fink - pills in my pocket
coldcut - man in a garage (bonobo remix)
bonobo - flutter
the verve - bitter sweet symphony
green day - homecoming
amon tobin - always
jack johnson -banana pankeyks
blik182 - what's my name again
the cinematic orchestra - ode to the big sea
neverhood soundtrack - kleymen's theme
unkle - eye for an eye
gorillaz - tommorow comes today
hard-fi - hard to beat
amon tobin - at the end of the day
bloc party - helicopter

...that's about it.

[Mikolaj]

Ayo - Help is Coming


Oh... I just love that one. Shame that it's just one of two tracks I like from her. She has potential.

[SpydaWeb]

Oh... I just love that one. Shame that it's just one of two tracks I like from her. She has potential.

Oh, really...I love her whole album. What's the other track you like? I'm guessing Life Is Real or Down on My Knees.

[Mikolaj]

Oh, really...I love her whole album. What's the other track you like? I'm guessing Life Is Real or Down on My Knees.

yap. :) Only these three. But they're amazing non the less, especially Life is Real!

[Ken O]

As promised, the soundtrack to "Dying For Fun and Profit"

Crooked Cigarette - Rev Horton Heat
Banana Split For My Baby - Louis Prima
Ace in the Hole - Bobby Darin
You're the Devil in Disguise - Elvis
Born to Lose - Johnny Cash
Standing on the Corner - Dean Martin
Lonesome Town - The Cramps
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
Cheating At Solitaire - Mike Ness
You and Me and the Bottle Make 3 Tonight -Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) - Frank Sinatra
I'm a Bad, Bad Girl - Little Esther
Fell In Love With a Girl - Richard Cheese
I'm Gonna Love You Too - Swing Cats with Christi Ellen Harris
Pack Your Clothes - Louis Prima and Keely Smith
Why Don't You Do Right? - Rasputina
It Hurts Me Too - Eric Clapton
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash

[hellboyone]

Here's a Songs From MySpace Mix (songs that have appeared on my MySpace page over the past few months):

1. Yeah Yeah (remix) by Flosstradamus. Electro-type song with a heavy Fischerspooner vibe. Also, robot voices.

2. Push It to the Limit by Paul Engemann. Awesome montage song from 80s gangster favorite, Scarface.

3. Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It by Ice Cube. Cube's new single, chock full of political irony.

4. Dirty Girl by Felt. A "like" song about literally dirty girls (a waitress, an auto mechanic...)

5. I'm Your Pimp by The Skull Snaps. Soul and funk 60s/70s classic, one of the most sampled songs in rap music. Also, one of the greatest band names, ever.

6. D.A.N.C.E. by Justice. One of my favorite songs of 2007. Also had the best music video of '07: http://www.vicerecords.com/video/justice/justice-dance.mov

7. Recycled Air by The Postal Service. Put this song on while your plane taxis and watch your fears disappear.

8. Hits From the Bong by Cypress Hill. It's about...well, you know. Makes great use of a sample from Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man.

9. Lesson 3: History of Hip Hop by Steinski. Old school classic, a megamix of the roots of hip hop music.

10. As Long As I've Got You by The Charmels. Another soul classic, sampled by the Wu-Tang Clan.

11. Dumb It Down by Lupe Fiasco. Lead single from one of the top albums of '07, The Cool.

12. Requiem by Nitro Microphone Undergound. Japanese rap song by the group considered to be the Japanese equivalent of the Wu-Tang Clan.

[mattmanw54301]

Songs on my playlist:

1. Snow (hey yo)- Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Moscau-Rammstein
3. Steady as she goes- The Raconteurs
4. Ooh La La La La (extended original mix)-goldfrapp
5. I would Do Anything For Love (extended version)-Meatloaf
6.Boten Anna- Bass Hunter
7. Informer-Snow
8. LET'S FIGHTING LOVE-from South Park
9. Mein Teil-Rammstein
10. Mein Herz Brennt-Rammstein

[THE REAL kirk]

My playlists are generally all over the place. They aren't really meant to flow together. It's just an easier way of getting to the music I'm most interested in listening to at that moment.

Amiina - Ugla
Camille - Assise
Ayo - Help is Coming
Apartment - Fall Into Place
Maximo Park - Our Velocity
Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitars
Maria Jimenez - Tombola
Pastora Soler - Pa Ti, Pa Ti
Barbatuques - Baiana
ENUR ft Natasja - Calabria 2007
Royksopp - What Else Is There?


Amiina and no Sigur Ros?! C'mon, that ain't right.

[SpydaWeb]

Amiina and no Sigur Ros?! C'mon, that ain't right.

I'm actually listening to Royksopp and Sigur Ros right now :)

[Mike Cross]

I'm glad there's Meatloaf and Kenny Rogers and Johnny Cash listed in this thread..otherwise, I don't know anyone.

[hellboyone]

I'm glad there's Meatloaf and Kenny Rogers and Johnny Cash listed in this thread..otherwise, I don't know anyone.

In other words, get off your lawn? ;)

[SpydaWeb]

I'm glad there's Meatloaf and Kenny Rogers and Johnny Cash listed in this thread..otherwise, I don't know anyone.

Never understood the interest in artists like Bob Dylan, Jonny Cash, or the Beastie Boys. I'm missing something, I suppose.

Can't go wrong with the Rogers though. He's the Gambler baby!

[hellboyone]

Never understood the interest in artists like Bob Dylan, Jonny Cash, or the Beastie Boys. I'm missing something, I suppose.



Yes, you are. Dylan and Cash are great songwriters. And the Beastie Boys are just fun fun fun.

I'm not a big Sigur Ros fan. Takes all kinds.

[SpydaWeb]

Yes, you are. Dylan and Cash are great songwriters. And the Beastie Boys are just fun fun fun.

I'm not a big Sigur Ros fan. Takes all kinds.

Beastie Boys was actually thrown in as a specific jab at you, Rick :p

Cash and Dylan may be good songwriters (debatable), but they lack a little on the singer end of things.

Takes all kinds, as you say. Besides...life would be boring if we all agreed, all the time.

[Myron L]

My listening (and guitar-playing) pleasures come from from a lot of eclectic roots...but I LOVE anything with a metal guitar...my iPod right now has loads of Dokken, Ozzy Osbourne,Black Sabbath,Judas Priest,Iron Maiden and yes...a little Rick Springfield...he's my guilty pop pleasure...

[King_Vold]

This is a mix CD I recently made for my sister at Christmas. It's not exactly Christmas-themed, but oh well.

The Dresden Dolls - Good Day
Regina Spektor - Lady
Cab Calloway - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
C.W. Stoneking - Dodo Blues
Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Rather Lovely Thing (Assassination of Jesse James soundtrack)
Louis Armstrong - St. James Infirmary
Nick Cave - Fire Down Below
Samuel L. Jackson - Bird Without A Feather (Black Snake Moan soundtrack)
FourPlay String Quartet - Reptilia
Javier Navarrete - Long, Long Time Ago (Pan's Labyrinth soundtrack)

[hellboyone]

Beastie Boys was actually thrown in as a specific jab at you, Rick :p

Funny...I don't feel jabbed.



Cash and Dylan may be good songwriters (debatable), but they lack a little on the singer end of things.



Beg to differ. They don't always have to be American Idol warblers to be great vocalists. Oh...and the songwriting part? Not debatable. :)

[Kelly Tindall]

Cash has an amazing singing voice.

What am I listening to these days? Guess I'll pick twelve.

1. California Girls - The Magnetic Fields, Distortion
2. Down is Up - Hans Zimmer, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
3. Clap Hands - Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
4. Intervention - Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
5. Arrival to Earth - Steve Jablonsky, Transformers
6. Qué Onda Guero- Beck, Guero
7. High-Minded Castle - Susumu Hirasawa
8. The Mob Rules - Black Sabbath, The Mob Rules
9. The Good Times are Killing Me - Modest Mouse, Good News for People Who Love Bad News
10. Across the Universe - Jim Sturgess, Across the Universe
11. Welcome to Rapture - Garry Schyman, Bioshock
12. Malmo Night Beach Party - Slagsmalsklubben

Upon reflection, this playlist makes no damned sense at all.

[Ken O]

My normal random mix of music is much broader but my "soundtrack" is helping me keep the mood my writing is shooting for.

[SpydaWeb]

Funny...I don't feel jabbed.

I'll try harder next time.



Beg to differ. They don't always have to be American Idol warblers to be great vocalists. Oh...and the songwriting part? Not debatable. :)

and at the risk of enduring the wrath of half the site. Tom Waits is another non-singer who everyone seems to like. Quite inexplicably. I do like his lyrics though so, I guess I half like him.

[hellboyone]

Why do you feel the need to jab your friend? :(

:)

I downloaded some of the music from your list and gave 'em a spin this morning. Here's a quick review:

Camille - Pretty, but I don't normally listen to foreign language songs I have no connection to. For example, I love listening to Seu Jorge's Portuguese versions of David Bowie songs from The Life Aquatic. I even picked up the whole album of other songs he recorded for the movie but were left out.

Apartment - They sound like a million other bands (new wave smooshed with emo), but the song you put up's not bad. I may give some more a listen.

Maximo Park - Same feeling as Apartment. Like music from non-existent John Hughes movies.

Ayo - Okay. Makes me want to listen to older, better stuff.

Post more! I'll give it all a shot. I'll go through some of the other lists as well, although Spyda's had the most stuff I'd never heard of.
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Tom Waits is the voice of absolute heartbreak. The singing doesn't have to be perfect to be effective or emotional. Waits, Cash, and Dylan can bring me to tears if I'm in a certain mood.

[SpydaWeb]

You know, foreign language songs make up the majority of my new music purchases now.

I fully blame my music appreciation teacher in highschool for my current tastes. He taught me to listen for things that I think many people take for granted or ignore outright.

Anyway, I'm enjoying this thread. Lots of good music picks, and very varied. Good stuff.

[hellboyone]

17. Hole- Dole Parts


I don't remember any pineapple-related Hole songs. ;)

[Hellbaby]

7. Ministry- Lay Lady Lay

They covered that song???

I've got to see what that sounds like. It doesn't seem like a Ministry-Type Song.

[Jankenstein]

Black Sabbath,Judas Priest,Iron Maiden and yes...a little Rick Springfield...he's my guilty pop pleasure...

I was right with you until you said Rick Springfield. :p