Space Cadet

hmm... get whoever I'm with to "take a picture of me" with Thom over my shoulder so that I can annoy people with my story of being in the same restaurant as him for years to come? :idea2: ...but eating pictures always look bad.

No, I'm just too busy/lazy to figure out what to change it to... :thinking::(

Hee. :wacko:

If Miley was actually a Radiohead fan, she would have known better. If she actually paid much attention to their music, she would probably understand why. It's the weirdos who start negative threads because a spoiled teenage brat is throwing a tantrum that confuse me.

UK Life on Mars region1 DVD out in July!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: Finally! Took them long enough. Such a good show. :nice: And the crappy American remake is being killed off too. :dance:

Hee. Cultural chicken and egg. People have a long history of picking music based on their social group, and top schools have a long history of accepting 'certain types of people', reinforcing those social groups and the cultural flotsam and jetsam that goes with them. For instance if a kid whose friends all listen to hiphop decided he liked Vivaldi more than anything, he would either keep it to himself or (I can personally vouch for this one) be laughed out of having any friends. So the kid will probably listen to hiphop to fit in, and because what you listen to affects how your brain hears that thing, he will learn to genuinley like it. Someone who's been hanging around with brainiacs in thier academic ivory tower will have been assured that Vivaldi is cool, and will be more likely to openly state that they like it. On the other hand, they may be laughed at for liking hiphop, so they'll keep that to themself. The fastest way to turn into a social leper is to tell any given group that you like the wrong thing.

Well this was an odd, difficult one to do. I tried to look up stuff you might like, but it seemed like you listened to pretty much everything I do and then some, so I didn't exactly have much to add. That disqualified most of the things I had been planning to center my mix around. There 3 options in a case like that I can think of, go weird and obscure (which doesn't always make for the best mix), go local (which I already did on my last mix), or go for a theme and not worry too much about whether or not you've heard them before. I sort of went for all three- the themes were pretty loose but guided everything, about half the tracks ended up being somewhat Canadian, and there's a couple of the more out there things (Though I tried to stay away from my little IDM habit). There were two themes. One was that I wanted everything to have a strong female presence even if it wasn't obvious, like with Hey Rosetta! and Guillemots where the girl plays the violin or the bass. The other was that I wanted most of the songs to have a strong string element, just to put a little twist on it all that would hopefully make it work together. Lots of violins, cellos, and double basses all over the place. Anyway: 1. Zoe Keating - Tetrishead I noticed you mentioned that you played cello while I was looking through old mixtape threads trying to figure out what you might like, and then I knew I had to put some Zoe Keating into the mix. This girl is amazing. She builds up whole worlds out of nothing but a multitracked cello. Her stuff isn't for everyone necessarily, and it can be quite experimental, but it always blows my mind so I hoped it wouldn't seem too out of place. This is the piece that the two themes sort of developed from. You have to see her play live- she does everything with a loop pedal: 2. Belle and Sebastian - Legal Man I threw this one in on a whim while browsing through my mp3 player. Glad it worked. :nice: 3. The Secret Machines - Lightning Blue Eyes Yes, it's a guy. Thematically the one track that has nothing to do with anything, but I love it and I thought it fit. The Secret Machines' music has this transcendent quality to it (even if their lyrics don't) that I can't get enough of. (At least until their guitarist quit to form a dreampop group, but that's another story...) 4. KT Tunstall - The Hidden Heart One of her finest songs, I think. She says it was inspired by the book The Giving Tree. I love how it sounds kind of quiet if you don't pay much attention to it, but if you can kind of get down into it and sort of go along with it on it's level, it explodes halfway through. 5. K-os - Crabbuckit If you haven't been properly introduced to K-os yet, you really should be. He's the rapper that made me like rap after I swore I could never like any of it. This was a fairly big radio hit here in Canada a few years ago, and it's one of the most maddeningly catchy songs ever. I threw it in because of the big double bass. If you like this you need to check out his songs "Sunday Morning" and "The Seekwill" to start with. 6. Guillemots - Made Up Love Song #43 Yes, this was one of the bands that Nik championed. I threw it in because of the girl who plays a double bass for them. And because it's such a silly, happy song it always makes me smile. 7. Caribou - Melody Day Caribou was one of those artists I'd been meaning to check out for a bit now. He recently won the Polaris prize for the album that this is on- it's sort of like Canada's answer to the Mercury Music prize. I like the way the rythm in this song is just a tiny bit off, so that it's almost like the sound equivalent of an optical illusion (or stargazing). Listen carefully and it's like there's not much there, but let it sit just on the edge of your conciousness any everything comes together into something different as all the layers shift. It reminded me of the first couple of times I heard some of Radiohead's stuff, before I could get my head around it. 8. Burial - In McDonalds One of Burial's ambient pieces. He's one of my favorite artists at the moment. Close your eyes while listening to his stuff and whole cityscapes and stories will stretch out around you. The vocals at the end are a repurposed sample from an Aaliyah song, apparently. 9. Hey Rosetta! - Black Heart The best thing to come of of Newfoundland in a while. Their live show is mindblowing. I love the way they combine harder rock with orchestral chamber pop- two of their full time members play the violin and cello. If their recorded music ever lives up to the way it sounds live... look out world. They just cleaned up at the East Coast Music Awards last night. 10. Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead Because every mix needs some Stars, and this mix needed a song in 3/4 to break up the rythm a bit. Stuck next to Hey Rosetta! because they opened for Stars when I saw them last fall and the two fit together well. It was one of the best shows of my life, actually. (Just ask Briggins- he saw it too). Their lyrics are usually amazing; check out the song "Heart" for example. 11. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes Hooray for Santogold. She is the awesomesauce, says I. 12. Jenn Grant - Sailing By Silverships Halifax's sweetheart. (Well, unless you count Ellen Page...) I saw her live before her first album came out when she opened for In-Flight Safety and said "this girl is going to be huge, or at least she should be". She's well on her way to it now, nationally at least. Her second album that this song is off of just came out a week or two ago. 13. Loreena McKennit - Courtyard Lullaby My favorite songstress ever. She started out Celtic before absorbing all sorts of world music. She can be a little weird, but I love all the textures and images and old poetry- even Shakespeare- she blends together. I wanted to end the mix on a peaceful note, and this is one of my favorite songs of hers. If you fall asleep to it, it can give some amazing dreams. "Last night you spoke of a dream/ a forest stretched to the East/ And each bird sang its song/ A unicorn joined in a feast." Anyway, so that's the mix. It ended up very different than it started, and a lot more personal than I meant for it to be (it's actually quite typical of what I would mix together on my Zen) and a lot quieter than I meant for it to be (I guess I really was in a weird mood last week), but I'm glad there was a few things you liked.

Yeah, funny how that worked, eh? :inquisitive::cool:

That was mine! :D Getting the tracklist together now... Oh and you're about a third right. The themes were strings and girls and very often strings played by girls.

Wow. That's pretty nasty on a lot of levels. Think of it this way, Coldplay. Every photographer making money legitimately this way is another photographer that isn't making money by joining the ranks of the paparazzi and hounding you to distraction. Let them make a living, guys.

This mix reached me at a very odd time. I was coming down with something nasty, and it was making me very emotional so that my opinion on almost everything changed every time I listened to the mix. And even more than that, several of the songs were really screwing with my emotions in some weird ways. I actually ended up listening to a whole lot of Gaelic stuff for a couple of days to balance it out. Very weird. So I didn’t dare write anything until I had gotten over the bug. I gave it a good listen today, and this is what I wrote, though I still think I would have a different opinion in about a month… 1. I loved this one, though it cracked me up at first because it sounds like they’re singing “Hey you’re playing with my Delorean” It has a great vaguely 80s electronic vibe to it that makes it all fit. Visions of flying cars abound. Great sound, great energy. 2. My favorite. A couple of French girls with amazing voices singing something with a great rhythm. The background noises make me laugh. I really wish I knew what they were singing about, but it’s sounds so happy and energetic it doesn’t really matter in a way. 3. A letdown after the last song. Folky Joni Mitchell wannabe without the art. Clunky lyrics. I just don’t like it. Sorry. Not my thing. 4. This drove me crazy the first time I heard it. It sounded so familiar, but it was just a long jam session that I had clearly never heard before. So I was racking my brain trying to figure out what other song used that first piano chord. Suddenly four and a half minutes in it breaks into Death Cab for Cutie’s new song and I realized that this is the long version I hadn’t heard before. Great song. Love it. 5. Has a funny kind of groove to it. I’m not sure how to describe it. It never does much for me to begin with it, and then I really get into it near the end just as it’s finishing. Good but a little frustrating. I think it needs about one more minute to be really satisfying. 6. Big bass line and ghostly vocals. Very intense, sparse (in a good way) and a little bit dark. It kind of give me shivers. I like it. *grins* 7. Awesome riff to open it. Really, really awesome riff. The guy’s voice is really strong but sounds a little emo in an annoying way. The overall sound is closer to the Chili Peppers than Fall Out Boy, though. I like the song a lot. It’s one of my favorites in the mix. 8. Sparkly, straight ahead, mellow, sort of 80s style pop. I like it ok, but for some reason it reminds me of being a little kid waiting in the doctor’s office while that sort of music played over the tinny waiting room speakers. The mind is a strange thing. 9. Rapid-fire not-quite-rap (faster than rap) lyrics. This guy must be good at tongue twisters. Funky poppy chorus. Not too familiar with his stuff, but it isn’t Jason Mraz, is it? Whoever it is, it’s got me bopping along. 10. Big piano chords, then something more hyper and poppy. One of the songs that I never think the same thing about twice. Sometimes it’s really annoying, others it’s lots of fun. 11. Sounds like a music box but much lower. Quiet and moody with a big dark streak that opens up into a big guitar freak-out. One of the songs that messed with my emotions the most when I was sick. Not sure what to think about it, though I don’t not like it. It’s the sort of song I could get a little too obsessed with when I’m in a bad mood. 12. Quiet sad guitar and just a simple voice. Very soothing except for the answering machine that ruins the mood. “Hang on/ help is on the way/ stay strong”. :D I like what I catch of the lyrics. 13. Adele – Hometown. My favorite song of hers. :nice: (I’m more of a Duffy fan, but I love this song.) It made my jaw drop the first time I heard it. Beautiful. 14. Has a scary bang start after the last song. It always makes me jump. Straight out hip hopish girl pop. Would be fun if she wasn’t singing about how she’s the centre of the universe, which just plain rubs me the wrong way. It’s a good mix. A very good mix, actually. But I’m not quite sure what to make of it. It kind of has a different energy to it than what I work on or go for, and I haven’t quite figured out why. There just isn’t much that really sinks into my psyche and gets me really attached to it in the way I like other than Death Cab. But that’s just me. My favorites were 1, 4, 6, 7, and especially 2. :D

Jenn Grant - Echoes http://www.myspace.com/jenngrant1 :nice:

durr. Uploading failed. :bomb: Trying again. Anyway, I'm over being sick, I'm through the worst of the homework crunch, and I've finished my mix, which means I can finally go listen to the one I got one last time to give a proper review in the very near future. :D

:laugh3::nice: So they're working together then? Or is this stuff they did when they recorded Ferreting? Either way, hooray! :cool: I love Ferreting, it's gorgeous. (It currently has 26 plays on my Zen, apparently, which is alot) Excited to hear what else they came up with.

Heh... Coldplay are a horrible band to do that to with how often they reuse phrases. So is it "Higher Speed" or "Speed of Sound"? :freak:

Got my mix yesterday. :nice: I'm thoroughly enjoying it, but I'm not quite sure what to write about it yet, since I'm sick and the mix is messing with my moods in different ways every time I listen in that funny, facinating way only sickness can cause. Argh... 5 days... so little time. I guess I'll just have to plow ahead on my tracklist and get it sorted out.

Epic? Amsterdam. Period. Lots of big songs, but that's the most properly epic.

There it is. Good find.

It's been posted in the Radiohead thread before... :thinking:

EEEEEEEE! I see the Bluenose! I see the Bluenose! That one's mine! :dance: Awww... that was so amazing. Thank-you so much Debs. It's so great to see that they liked them. :nice: I feel like I'm going to burst. :D And a huge thanks to everyone who organized this too. :kiss:

Coraline 9.5/10 The only less than perfect bits are the ones that weren't in the book and so didn't work quite as well with the rest of the story. (Like Wybie) Other than that, beautiful, freaky, incredible, art, just plain go see it. Now. Hurry. The 3D version isn't in theatres much longer.

:stunned: :shifty: Many things about this are not good. ...not good at all. :uhoh2:

Tough choice. Coldplay deserve it, but then so do Radiohead. Plant and Krauss will win though- it's the sort of album Grammy voters automatically go for, and it's very good.

Wait, they've even started harassing Chris' dad now? :thinking: :furious2:

Voted for Jigsaw, but hoping they play Reckoner. But yeah, House of Cards has a pretty strong chance too, since they're nominated for it. On the other hand, they are nominated for album of the year, so it's not like they're there for only one song...