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Dear Eric
| Dear Eric | |
| Created by: | eric |
| Tracks: | 14 |
| Length: | 01:00:47 |
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1. Mix Contest 3 2. Mix Contest 3 3. Mix Contest 3 |
| Created on | 9/11/06 5:34pm |
| Level | 8 |
| Points | 3526 |
| Total visitors | 164 |
| Unique visitors | 99 |
| This mix was ranked #2 out of 15 entries for this contest | |
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Dearest College-freshman Eric,
What lies ahead for you on this mix is a gift from 5 years in the future. It represents a few highlights of your personal soundtrack from particular moments in time during your 5-year-stint in college. If that makes any sense.
For you all: a peek into the audiobiography of Eric. In pseudo no-related-order.
What lies ahead for you on this mix is a gift from 5 years in the future. It represents a few highlights of your personal soundtrack from particular moments in time during your 5-year-stint in college. If that makes any sense.
For you all: a peek into the audiobiography of Eric. In pseudo no-related-order.
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| 1 | American Analog Set : Continuous Hit Music |
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On your personal soundtrack, you will find this at the front end of a great many of your mixes. This is your under-the-weather song for overcast-sky days with slight showers. Remember to follow this one up with something funky, because you don't always have to talk to clouds on cloudy days.
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Track 1 from Promise of Love
Length: 00:04:27 Year: 2003 |
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On your personal soundtrack, you will find this at the front end of a great many of your mixes. This is your under-the-weather song for overcast-sky days with slight showers. Remember to follow this one up with something funky, because you don't always have to talk to clouds on cloudy days. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Aesop Rock : Big Bang |
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4th floor of the dorms, south wing, Steve's room. After drinking all night you will barely escape legal incident by feigning a makeout session with two girls to avoid a door-call from the dorm narcs and a police officer escort. Note: Avoid losing touch with Steve. He' a good guy. SHOW MORE
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Track 2 from Float
Length: 00:05:01 Year: 2000 |
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4th floor of the dorms, south wing, Steve's room. After drinking all night you will barely escape legal incident by feigning a makeout session with two girls to avoid a door-call from the dorm narcs and a police officer escort. Note: Avoid losing touch with Steve. He' a good guy. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Cake : Wheels |
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A simple gift from the future: Cake will still be making the same album when you finally get to be my age. Enjoy it.
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Track 3 from Pressure Chief
Length: 00:03:18 Year: 2004 |
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A simple gift from the future: Cake will still be making the same album when you finally get to be my age. Enjoy it. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Air : Talisman |
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This will only take you a month or two to uncover, but I don't want you to waste any time. I don't want to spoil the fun / suprise, but this song quickly becomes track one on the ultimate makeout mixtape that you will be compiling over the next five years. PLAYA' PLAYA'. SHOW MORE
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Track 4 from Moon Safari
Length: 00:04:18 Year: 1998 |
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This will only take you a month or two to uncover, but I don't want you to waste any time. I don't want to spoil the fun / suprise, but this song quickly becomes track one on the ultimate makeout mixtape that you will be compiling over the next five years. PLAYA' PLAYA'. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Jeff Buckley : Forget Her |
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On the flipside, some of those makeout sessions will lead to an amazing amount of heartbreak and personal anguish on your end of the bargain. It's going to be shitty, but trust your gut, the scales will eventually tip in the right direction.
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Track 5 from Grace: Legacy Edition Disc II
Length: 00:05:12 Year: 2004 |
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On the flipside, some of those makeout sessions will lead to an amazing amount of heartbreak and personal anguish on your end of the bargain. It's going to be shitty, but trust your gut, the scales will eventually tip in the right direction. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Alice in Chains : Rotten Apple |
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Okay, I kind of understated it, it's going to be really shitty. For a long time. You'll stumble over this track while digging through your old collection and find it amazingly magnetic, albeit depressing as fuck.
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Track 6 from Jar of Flies
Length: 00:06:58 Year: 1994 |
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Okay, I kind of understated it, it's going to be really shitty. For a long time. You'll stumble over this track while digging through your old collection and find it amazingly magnetic, albeit depressing as fuck. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | The Advantage : Castlevania III: Boss Music |
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But on the upside, when you are a junior, some nerdy-ass guys will band together. Armed with software specifically written to decode NES cartridge audio tracks they will flawlessly recreate the soundtracks from three of your favourite games of all time. In one track. With rock guitar. Oh yes.
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Track 7 from Elf-Titled
Length: 00:03:55 Year: 2006 |
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But on the upside, when you are a junior, some nerdy-ass guys will band together. Armed with software specifically written to decode NES cartridge audio tracks they will flawlessly recreate the soundtracks from three of your favourite games of all time. In one track. With rock guitar. Oh yes. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Madvillain : Accordian |
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The college crew, all but tired of party-hoping, the warm pre-summer saturday night ends at home, early. Spent with good friends on the couch nested in the front lawn, drinking shitty beer and listening to Madvillain, you'll cement your belief that the people are much more important than the party.
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Track 8 from Madvillainy
Length: 00:01:57 Year: 2004 |
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The college crew, all but tired of party-hoping, the warm pre-summer saturday night ends at home, early. Spent with good friends on the couch nested in the front lawn, drinking shitty beer and listening to Madvillain, you'll cement your belief that the people are much more important than the party. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | David Bowie : Moonage Daydream |
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Windows down, driving to Portland, she turned out to be a better Creative-writing peer-reviewer than she was a girlfriend but damn if that wasn't a boatload of smiles and post-teen excitement. When reviewing her paper, be sure to point out that Sri Lanka is often referred to as 'The Pearl of the Indian Ocean' -- it'll net you big points.
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Track 9 from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Length: 00:04:38 Year: 1972 |
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Windows down, driving to Portland, she turned out to be a better Creative-writing peer-reviewer than she was a girlfriend but damn if that wasn't a boatload of smiles and post-teen excitement. When reviewing her paper, be sure to point out that Sri Lanka is often referred to as 'The Pearl of the Indian Ocean' -- it'll net you big points. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Elliott Smith : Baby Britain |
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It won't take you long to realize that if you'd rather listen to an album on headphones than spend any time with the girl you're involved with, it's probably good to get out at that point. Pay attention to the switchup at 1:37 -- it's so wonderfully unexpected.
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Track 10 from XO
Length: 00:03:13 Year: 1998 |
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It won't take you long to realize that if you'd rather listen to an album on headphones than spend any time with the girl you're involved with, it's probably good to get out at that point. Pay attention to the switchup at 1:37 -- it's so wonderfully unexpected. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Cat Power : He War |
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Throughout all the girl-strife, someday in the future, you'll reconnect with a girl who captures your heart in some strange fashion. She'll curl up next to you and take cat naps to Cat Power. Does it get any better? Not as far as your future self can see.
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Track 11 from You Are Free
Length: 00:03:34 Year: 2003 |
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Throughout all the girl-strife, someday in the future, you'll reconnect with a girl who captures your heart in some strange fashion. She'll curl up next to you and take cat naps to Cat Power. Does it get any better? Not as far as your future self can see. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Daft Punk : Robot Rock |
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Don't even second-guess your trip down to Coachella. Your grades slip a little, but the outcome is so totally worth it. Amazing performance with amazing friends. A life highlight to date.
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Track 12 from Human After All
Length: 00:04:47 Year: 2005 |
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Don't even second-guess your trip down to Coachella. Your grades slip a little, but the outcome is so totally worth it. Amazing performance with amazing friends. A life highlight to date. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Death Cab for Cutie : Steadier Footing |
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Despite your good intentions and uncanny chivalry skills, you will receive one 'you kinda broke my heart a little bit' mix from a girl after some bad choices. This is the opening track. A reminiscent song for the ghost of a passing relationship.
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Track 13 from The Photo Album
Length: 00:01:47 Year: 2001 |
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Track Description:
Despite your good intentions and uncanny chivalry skills, you will receive one 'you kinda broke my heart a little bit' mix from a girl after some bad choices. This is the opening track. A reminiscent song for the ghost of a passing relationship. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Isis : False Light |
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Some day, you'll meet this kid named Corey who wears and Isis shirt, owns a Metal Zone pedal and likes to program. You'll team up and do some fun shit. Keep listening to these guys, as it is a great way to break the ice when you first meet.
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Track 14 from Oceanic
Length: 00:07:42 Year: 2002 |
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Some day, you'll meet this kid named Corey who wears and Isis shirt, owns a Metal Zone pedal and likes to program. You'll team up and do some fun shit. Keep listening to these guys, as it is a great way to break the ice when you first meet. SHOW LESS
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Tag Board
Level 5
totally smooshy and wonderful. good to know he war is also in your autobiography mix.
1/11/08 11:43pm
The Lotto Badge
Yay, I really like this. Soo good choices, such a nice idea for a mixtape. I might steal that btw. +5!
7/15/07 12:13pm
TEAM 97 -- Team Badge
I feel old. Madvillain came out in your college years?!?!?
9/12/06 4:57pm
The Yay! Badge IX
Dear Freshman Eric,
In the future, Ian will try to tell you to check out TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain. You will scoff at his advice and then lecture him about staying away from the "upper echelon" of indie music, only to make an "audiobiographical" mix consisting mostly of "upper echelon indie" about a month and a half later.
Love
Future Ian
In the future, Ian will try to tell you to check out TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain. You will scoff at his advice and then lecture him about staying away from the "upper echelon" of indie music, only to make an "audiobiographical" mix consisting mostly of "upper echelon indie" about a month and a half later.
Love
Future Ian
9/11/06 9:41pm
The 6/6/6 Badge
"Keep listening to these guys, as it is a great way to break the ice when you first meet." ... you forgot 'and will make shitty websites called the mixtape collective'
9/11/06 6:09pm
The MLK Badge
What a cool mix. :) I love the descriptions... sweet.
9/11/06 6:01pm
