Did you do too many drugs? I did too many drugs.
| Did you do too many drugs? I did too many drugs. | |
| Created by: | RyanTheTruck |
| Tracks: | 18 |
| Length: | 00:52:09 |
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1. Welcome 2. Quit yer job 3. Angst |
| Created on | 6/1/07 12:28am |
| Level | 5 |
| Points | 2242 |
| Total visitors | 56 |
| Unique visitors | 30 |
description:
I originally got on this site as methadone for quitting MySpace. Then I got pretty over it after I realized no actual mixes changed hands and it was just a popularity contest, and I found this other site called the "International Mixtape Exchange." This sounded pretty dope because every month you got assigned some random member somewhere in the world to make a tape for and someone else got assigned you.
Long story short, three months went by and I made three pretty rad mixes with equally rad artwork and received nothing. At my prompting (read: incessant complaining) the founder, one "Ryan Mixtape" (haw haw haw) finally sent me a fucking CD (!) in a fucking white paper sleeve (!) with a bunch of fucking 311 songs on it (!) so I quit. Worst $10 I ever spent.
Anyways, I came back here for shits and giggles, and decided that this site is what it is and at least I digitally interacted with some reasonably intelligent people with generally good taste. In the meantime, I have a.) quit my high paying job b.) recorded a 7" with my band c.) moved to Oakland d.) spent hundreds of dollars on new records d.) saw a free, intimate Elvis Costello performance and e.) am at my mother's house in southern California drinking red wine and eating cherry pie, so it seemed like a good time to finish this mix I began during my last week of employment a little while ago.
If you wanna make me a real mix, I wanna make you one too. Your people should call my people.
Long story short, three months went by and I made three pretty rad mixes with equally rad artwork and received nothing. At my prompting (read: incessant complaining) the founder, one "Ryan Mixtape" (haw haw haw) finally sent me a fucking CD (!) in a fucking white paper sleeve (!) with a bunch of fucking 311 songs on it (!) so I quit. Worst $10 I ever spent.
Anyways, I came back here for shits and giggles, and decided that this site is what it is and at least I digitally interacted with some reasonably intelligent people with generally good taste. In the meantime, I have a.) quit my high paying job b.) recorded a 7" with my band c.) moved to Oakland d.) spent hundreds of dollars on new records d.) saw a free, intimate Elvis Costello performance and e.) am at my mother's house in southern California drinking red wine and eating cherry pie, so it seemed like a good time to finish this mix I began during my last week of employment a little while ago.
If you wanna make me a real mix, I wanna make you one too. Your people should call my people.
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| 1 | The Band : to kingdom come |
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Yeah, I like the Band.
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Track 1 from music from the big pink
Length: 00:03:22 Year: 1968 |
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| 2 | The Soft Machine : Why Are We Sleeping? |
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A favorite stony anthem from my university days...heh heh heh...Ripping bassline courtesy of Kevin Ayers.
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Track 2 from Volume 1
Length: 00:05:33 Year: 1968 |
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A favorite stony anthem from my university days...heh heh heh...Ripping bassline courtesy of Kevin Ayers. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Urinals : Why Are We Sleeping? |
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A straight ahead punk version for the rest of us. We covered it for a while. Blistering.
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Track 3 from Negative Capability...Check It Out!
Length: 00:02:06 Year: 1997 |
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A straight ahead punk version for the rest of us. We covered it for a while. Blistering. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Randy Newman : Livin' Without You |
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Remember a long time ago when I said I was pretty sure Randy Newman was going to be the next big thing for me? I had nooooo idea. Where has this guy been all my life?
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Track 4 from Live
Length: 00:02:16 Year: 1971 |
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Remember a long time ago when I said I was pretty sure Randy Newman was going to be the next big thing for me? I had nooooo idea. Where has this guy been all my life? SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Pixies : Letter to Memphis |
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This is my favorite Pixies song from my favorite Pixies album. I don't feel the need to say much more on the subject.
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Track 5 from Trompe le Monde
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This is my favorite Pixies song from my favorite Pixies album. I don't feel the need to say much more on the subject. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Dinosaur Jr. : Kracked |
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Turns our Dinosaur rules too. I saw them for free a few weeks ago. This song has an incredible screaming wah-wah solo. Another good one from this album is "Lose." When the guitar comes in it sounds like Mascis is strangling a goose.
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Track 6 from You're Living All Over Me
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Turns our Dinosaur rules too. I saw them for free a few weeks ago. This song has an incredible screaming wah-wah solo. Another good one from this album is "Lose." When the guitar comes in it sounds like Mascis is strangling a goose. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Lloyd Cole and the Commotions : Charlotte Street |
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Further proof that there are no bad genres, just bad artists. This is some new romantic John Hughes shit but it's fucking awesome. What a songwriter. He mopes with the best of 'em.
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Track 7 from Rattlesnakes
Length: 00:03:55 Year: 1984 |
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Further proof that there are no bad genres, just bad artists. This is some new romantic John Hughes shit but it's fucking awesome. What a songwriter. He mopes with the best of 'em. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Ween : The Stallion (pt.5) |
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The best movement in the Stallion saga, from their unreleased album that was meant to precede "Chocolate and Cheese."
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Track 8 from Craters of the Sac
Year: 1999 |
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The best movement in the Stallion saga, from their unreleased album that was meant to precede "Chocolate and Cheese." SHOW LESS
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| 9 | The Amps : Tipp City |
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KIM DEAL.
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Track 9 from Pacer
Length: 00:02:08 Year: 1995 |
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KIM DEAL. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | X : Real Child of Hell |
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LA bands just have this authenticity about them. X is textbook.
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Track 10 from Under the Big Black Sun
Length: 00:02:59 Year: 1982 |
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LA bands just have this authenticity about them. X is textbook. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Wreckless Eric : Veronica |
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"I'm a soldier, bang bang, I really wanna hold ya." Love songs, people.
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Track 11 from The Wonderful World of Wreckless Eric
Year: 1978 |
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"I'm a soldier, bang bang, I really wanna hold ya." Love songs, people. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Kevin Ayers : Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought Of You |
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Okay. So it turns out the bassist from the Soft Machine had this incredibly prolific career as a solo artist. He sings like a vampire, has a recurring theme of bananas ("Guru Banana," "Yes, We Have no Mananas") and you can't get his goddamn motherfucking records anywhere. But all the songs LimeWire has managed to cough up for me are OUT OF CONTROL. Seriously, check this guy out, I beg you. Sample lyric: "Woke up this morning, went down on the street, sniffed a few flowers and I went back to sleep." Oh yeah, and there's this other song called "Be Aware of the Dog" that's all instrumental and the only lyric is "YOU'RE NOT HAPPY, YOU'RE JUST STOOOOOOOONNNNEEEDDDDDDDDD."
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Track 12 from Confessions Of Dr Dream
Length: 00:03:05 Year: 1974 |
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Okay. So it turns out the bassist from the Soft Machine had this incredibly prolific career as a solo artist. He sings like a vampire, has a recurring theme of bananas ("Guru Banana," "Yes, We Have no Mananas") and you can't get his goddamn motherfucking records anywhere. But all the songs LimeWire has managed to cough up for me are OUT OF CONTROL. Seriously, check this guy out, I beg you. Sample lyric: "Woke up this morning, went down on the street, sniffed a few flowers and I went back to sleep." Oh yeah, and there's this other song called "Be Aware of the Dog" that's all instrumental and the only lyric is "YOU'RE NOT HAPPY, YOU'RE JUST STOOOOOOOONNNNEEEDDDDDDDDD." SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Bob Dylan : Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat |
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Sometime recently I determined that if I must have a favorite artist, Bob Dylan, in spite of all his shortcomings and his place in history, is probably it for me. And yes, although this song is from a really popular album from one of my least favorite Dylan eras, I listened to it a few days ago and was immensely impressed by how sloppy and and funny and dark "blonde on blone" is; something that earnest little 16 year old me could never have understood. Greil Marcus once wrote that (to paraphrase) "Blonde on Blonde" sounds like someone trying to stand up on a drunken boat and for a moment, succeeding.
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Track 13 from Blonde on Blonde
Length: 00:03:54 Year: 1966 |
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Sometime recently I determined that if I must have a favorite artist, Bob Dylan, in spite of all his shortcomings and his place in history, is probably it for me. And yes, although this song is from a really popular album from one of my least favorite Dylan eras, I listened to it a few days ago and was immensely impressed by how sloppy and and funny and dark "blonde on blone" is; something that earnest little 16 year old me could never have understood. Greil Marcus once wrote that (to paraphrase) "Blonde on Blonde" sounds like someone trying to stand up on a drunken boat and for a moment, succeeding. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Simply Saucer : Here Come the Cyborgs (pt. 2) |
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I just got back into this Canadian psych-punk band I first heard a few years ago. I'm way more into it this time. This song is a sweet jam that sounds like the bridge to one of our songs.
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Track 14 from Cyborgs Revisited
Year: 1977 |
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I just got back into this Canadian psych-punk band I first heard a few years ago. I'm way more into it this time. This song is a sweet jam that sounds like the bridge to one of our songs. SHOW LESS
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| 15 | Steely Dan : Dirty Work |
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THUG LIFE
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Track 15 from Can't Buy a Thrill
Length: 00:03:08 Year: 1972 |
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| 16 | Violent Femmes : American Music |
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My housemate Dusty got it in his head a few weeks ago that he wanted to perform this song at his birthday party. He practiced nonstop and drove everybody crazy. It would be an oversight not to include this song.
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Track 16 from Why Do Birds Sing?
Length: 00:03:50 Year: 1991 |
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My housemate Dusty got it in his head a few weeks ago that he wanted to perform this song at his birthday party. He practiced nonstop and drove everybody crazy. It would be an oversight not to include this song. SHOW LESS
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| 17 | Bob Seger System : River Deep, Mountain High |
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My girlfriend Jennie bought this Bob Seger System album half ironically and half seriously. She's really into Tina Turner and loves this song in all its Phil Spectored glory, but also "The Bob Seger System" is a term all our friends and we use to denote the practice of smoking weed in order to alleviate a hangover. Coincidentally (totally coincidentally, I swear to god) we realized that Bob Seger's post-System band was the Silver Bullet Band, and "Catching the silver bullet" is the term we use to denote getting drunk/relaxing generally. I guess you had to be there.
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Track 17 from Mongrel
Length: 00:07:24 Year: 1970 |
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My girlfriend Jennie bought this Bob Seger System album half ironically and half seriously. She's really into Tina Turner and loves this song in all its Phil Spectored glory, but also "The Bob Seger System" is a term all our friends and we use to denote the practice of smoking weed in order to alleviate a hangover. Coincidentally (totally coincidentally, I swear to god) we realized that Bob Seger's post-System band was the Silver Bullet Band, and "Catching the silver bullet" is the term we use to denote getting drunk/relaxing generally. I guess you had to be there. SHOW LESS
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| 18 | Scott McKenzie : If You're Going to San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) |
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I got into this song right about the time I moved from San Francisco to Oakland. Also, I'm really into wearing flowers in my hair right now because I want to try to kick off the Summer of Love 2007 (it's not about peace and love, it's about love and peace.) I dunno. Seemed like an appropriate place to end this mix.
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Track 18 from The Voice of Scott McKenzie
Length: 00:02:59 Year: 1967 |
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I got into this song right about the time I moved from San Francisco to Oakland. Also, I'm really into wearing flowers in my hair right now because I want to try to kick off the Summer of Love 2007 (it's not about peace and love, it's about love and peace.) I dunno. Seemed like an appropriate place to end this mix. SHOW LESS
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The 250th Album Badge
IMP is pretty cool. The only time I didn't get a mix, someone else was assigned to cover for the deadbeat and they came through with a great cocteau twins mix. Maybe the club improved since 2007?
Anyhow, I dig this mix.
Anyhow, I dig this mix.
6/27/10 5:44pm
The Halloween 2007 Badge
get your people to call my people. or e-mail them.
6/1/07 6:41pm
Team Robot Member
Trading goes on here. I have sendspaced a couple and received a few as well. I have most of Kevin Ayers Island albums back home in England, but a friend is digitizing a lot of that old shit for me so I can let you know when I have it. He is still recording. Nice to see a Wreckless Eric song other than "Whole Wide World" used
6/1/07 1:01pm
The Lotto Badge
Any mix with the Pixies has to be class.
Your descriptions are great, they really got me even though I don't know half the artists. A billion points for that.
Aw man, I didn't know people traded actual mixes here.. I wanna too.
Your descriptions are great, they really got me even though I don't know half the artists. A billion points for that.
Aw man, I didn't know people traded actual mixes here.. I wanna too.
6/1/07 12:49pm
The Beta Badge II
1.) Hopefully soon enough. they're not back from the press yet.
2.) Yeah, I figgered. Just didn't have it in me.
3.)Totes, dude.
4.)WTF HAPPENED TO THE RAD PICTURE I UPLOADED FOR THIS MIX?! UGHHH!
2.) Yeah, I figgered. Just didn't have it in me.
3.)Totes, dude.
4.)WTF HAPPENED TO THE RAD PICTURE I UPLOADED FOR THIS MIX?! UGHHH!
6/1/07 11:32am
The Yay! Badge IX
You know people have traded mixes on here. All you have to do is ask around.
6/1/07 3:54am
