Okay, guys. Here's the final tracklisting. I'm still working on the order, but this is what I'm looking at right now:

Radiohead- Airbag
The Clientele- Since K Got Over Me
Wilco- Kamera
Yo La Tengo- Stockholm Syndrome
Beck- Peaches and Cream
The New Pornographers- Use It
Wolf Parade- Shine a Light
Bloc Party- Banquet
Modest Mouse- The View
The Clientele- Since K Got Over Me
Spoon- The Way We Get By
Radiohead- Subterranean Homesick Alien
Yo La Tengo- Autumn Sweater
Sufjan Stevens- Upper Peninsula
The Arcade Fire- Keep the Car Running


I might add or drop a few songs, but that seems like that's about that. Your suggestions really helped guys. Even if I didn't use your suggestion directly, I probably thought about it, and used it to make the decision I finally did. I never would have considered using "Keep the Car Running," but when Dutch mentioned it it made since, seeing as how my father is a huge Springsteen fan, and he'll really relate.

Thanks again, guys.

Also, I finally gave into the hype and visited the Black Kids myspace page to listen to their music. I really like the song "Hit the Heartbrakes." I like all of it, really, but that song seems to have bit me.

Anybody else listened?

yeah, i've listened. sounds like the typical unmemorable, overhyped, bad-vocals-equals-'artsy' rock pitchfork ejaculates over.

i was also unimpressed

I really liked the hooks on Hit the Heartbrakes. The vocals are pretty wretched and the recording is pretty lo-fi, but I still think it's catchy.

Rhymefest is pretty much the sickness, my children.

Just picked up YoYoYoYoYo (I think that's enough yo's) by Spank Rock. I think I like it, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

Anybody a fan of John Vanderslice? I really like Emerald City, his latest album, and he puts on a hell of an enjoyable live show.

Yeah, when I last mentioned it I had the same concern. Five is correct, I recall. And I love that album.

I'll check out Emerald City, as the title reminds me of one of my favorite shows ever (points for the reference, people).

Also:

God: if you see fit, please grant me a name as cool as "Vanderslice," and I promise I'll stop touching myself that way you don't like.

Anyone like an M.C. going by the name "Nas?"

Second best Nas album: God's Son. Yes? No? Anyone have an opinion on how the rest of his work rates? I'm starting to think some of his nonIllmatic stuff is A LOT better than I used to, and I used to think it was pretty dope.

He's often referred to as The Slicer... I wish I had an awesome built-in nickname like that. I go by The Log sometimes. Not quite as awesome.

I think God's Son is probably my 3rd favorite Nas album, behind Illmatic and Stillmatic. The new one is good too. I really like all of them except Street's Disciple. That album sucked.

Stillmatic has higher highs, with the sweet dis track an' all, I think, but I find myself skipping around whenever I listen to it. God's Son seems to carry me all the way through, which I tend to prefer.



I think this one'll be a little tougher than my usual requests, but anyone wanna' fire some much older stuff at me? Something bluesy or soulful, '60s-70sish, maybe.

laura nyro - timer

Not only can't I find that on bittorrent, but I can't even find record of it in her wiki discography. Is there a second best album?

Edit: Ah, it seems to be a song. I'm an idiot.

I'm really not digging her. I'll try it again, tomorrow.

Takagi Masakatsu - Girls
Handsome Furs - Sing! Captain

eh i figured it was a long shot but its the only blues/soul type stuff ive got

I listened to the Black Keys earlier.

Now I am listening to the DadRock Mix I made for my father. I actually like what I've done there.

I think I maybe should've found a way to put "Planet Telex" on the CD somehow, since it's the Radiohead song that seems to get the least love ever.

Love Nas - It Was Written is my favorite, that puts me in the minority but whatever. I got every track on that cd memorized. I love God's Son too, it's in my top 3 from him. I'm actually listening to Just a Moment off Streets Diciple right now, one of my favorite songs he has ever done even though it's a collaboration.

Lately because of the previews for American Gangster I've been back listening to Jay's Blueprint, Ain't no Love is such a sick track.

Blue Oyster Cult - Black Blade

That whole album blew my tits hard. the first time I played it, I think it took me 3 hours, because I just kept repeating tracks. Top ten hip-hop albums, AINEC.

I'm stealing that.

lol when i went to see michael clayton two weekends ago, i saw that trailer, went home and listened to the blueprint immed.

Social Distortion.

Tom.

So...

Mos Def...

Talib...

So sweet.

Actually, as much as I love Black on Both Sides and Black Star, I don't think I've heard much else of Mos's stuff. I'm aware that some of it's pretty weak, which is probably why I still haven't looked into. What's good and what's not?

I don't like his solo stuff as much, but onThe New Danger album I like the tracks Rape Over and Ghetto Rock

I listened to Summerteeth late last year, in the background while playing poker, and I didn't really care for it, and never played it again, until the other day when Wang mentioned it along side his mixtape thing. It's so twat-rocking that my ovaries are now sore. I seriously got a little emotional during several songs.

May I ask what songs got you particularly misty? "She's a Jar," "I'm always in Love," "How to Fight Loniliness" and "Via Chicago" would be my guesses, based on personal experience.

I talked to my dad this morning, and I asked him if he liked the CD. He seemed relatively enthusiastic, but I had to run real quick, so I told him to send me an email and let me know what songs he liked. I'll let you guys know (if you care) when I read it.

Renegades of Funk - Rage Against The Machine (It's a cover, if you didn't already know)

We should start a Tiny Mix Tapes type thing. Maybe here or in a new thread.

One person suggests a mix he wants. Somebody volunteers, makes the mix, and hosts it somewhere (<--- I do not know how to do this).

Example:

Tactical Bear: "I want a mix to cry to."

Wang: "Okay. I'll do it."

24 hours later he puts together a 14 song mix and either posts the songs here, or -- even better -- finds some kind of way to share the collection of songs with the entire "What Music Are Guys Listening To" community.



Anybody think this is not a terrible idea?

Interesting idea, could use Imeem to do it... make a playlist on there and link it.

I love this idea.

Interestingly, in the last week, I've been on the TMT Mixtape Machine forum a little, and it seems like fun. For sharing, though, AIM is a bad idea; that way only one person can grab it. Use http://www.mediafire.com/ or one of the million other sites like it. There's usually like a 100mg file size max (usually plenty, if you don't use FLAC or something [MK is the only one here who seems like he might be a FLAC guy], and even if you make a long "tape" you can do two separate uploads), and like a 5gb download cap (which given that only like 5 people read this thread -- it should be at least 5 times what we need.)

Plus, there's no schedule conflict like with direct transfers. It takes slightly longer (actually, a lot of times, AIM takes hours, because someone has a firewall issue), but overall this is just a better way to go.



Wang: Yeah, those were basically the tracks. "I'm Always in Love" is currently my favorite, though it takes turns with "Shot in the Arm." The weirdest part is I'm not depressed, I'm not going through anything close to a breakup, and I don't really have any emotional baggage. The record just kinda' strikes me, somehow.

buckethead- i like it raw (odb tribute)
haha

Rick Spingfield - Jesses Girl

I'm putting together an ultra crappy 12 song mix, just to test out my command of this File-Sharing hosting pooping thing. I'll let you know when it's up and make you all test it.

Post a play list, too, with the names of the albums the songs are from. I'm pretty anal about stuff like that.

If there's no objection, I'll do that here. I was rushing too fast to attach a document to the upload.

Here's what I did, so tell me if there's an easier/more efficient/faster/whatever way:

Copied 13 songs to a new folder. Turned that folder into a .rar file. And now I am uploading said .rar.

Goot?

Sounds about right to me.

This is a test. This is ONLY a test.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4pgew099epj


No judging on the quality/content of the mix. It's just mashed together, and I didn't want to just upload "Being There (disc 2)" or something.

Just so you guys know, I was THIS close to making a mix that had the same 13 song titles, except every song was actually just "40 bars" by Jewelz, a.k.a., Allen Iverson. I used to do that to my friend all the time.

He would get very angry when I replaced 10% of the songs on his computer with "40 Bars." He was still discovering them a year after I did it.

Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin

-Tom.

That's the drill.

Download took about 1 1/2 - 2 minutes. Everything looks good.

In HS, my friend made a girl he liked a CD of Crash by DMB, over and over, and he wasn't kidding.

Som eoverproduced crappy 80's shit. I'm over it now, though.

And the girl? What was her reaction...or her later actions haha?

I never really properly met her, so she couldn't have been blown away.

I'm uploading a hip-hop mix I made for a South African dude I talk to (over the tubes), that I figure I'll threw on here, due to the Wang-induced mixtape craze (i.e. one mixtape).


01. Earth People - Dr. Octagon

02. Bear Witness - Dr. Octagon

03. Crosshairs - Dangerdoom

04. Casting Agents and Cowgirls - Busdiriver

05. Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II) - Handsome Boy Modeling School

06. Final Frontier - RJD2

07. Outkast - ATLien

08. Rock and Roll - Edan

09. Preservation - Wu-Tang

10. Free - Pharaoh Monch

11. Gold - GZA

12. Rick Rubin - Spank Rock

13. World of Vibration - Blackalicious


It's really more a sampler than it is a mix, so the second half is really choppy, particularly "Free," which has no real bid-ness being where it is, and "World of Vibration" is not a good closer, but I'm lazy.

The point of this mix is to try to win a hip-hop-ignorant hipster over to the bumpin' side. I've made him a few "tapes" in the last few months, and mostly all he's like is weirder stuff, like mostly Dan the Automator, and an Edan track, etc. I wanted to throw stuff he'll like on there, but I also wanted to pepper it with other stuff, in an attempt to force him to share my taste and opinions.

I think it's an OK mix, albeit poorly order, especially in the second half. Any ideas for feature mixes for 'im?

(Share ready, if you're interested: http://www.mediafire.com/?5c1xdguncdu )

Haha, this would look very similar to a rap mix I'd make. Very, very similar.

If any of you are into great guitar playing you gotta watch the vid for Dragonforce - Through Fire and Flames,

here's the link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3M2X4ZAH_w