Use this area to post about your discs and whathaveya.

I'm in the old peoples group! :P

Oh no, the "old people" are in dcom's group!

Relax, dcom, I know Scyess and Drexle rock.

And I'm pretty sure ladyj can kick your ass.

Yes, but my dad can kick her dad's ass.

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Yes, but my dad can kick her dad's ass.

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No. But scyess was in my last group. Clearly I will have to respond by making this mix more irritating just in case he thought it couldn't be any worse the first time.

I have not been in your group before.

So, my discs are burned. I am debating whether to decorate them, or let the music just speak for itself without any special packaging.

It's a cd swap, not a packaging swap.

I have my cds burned. My printer doesn't seem to want to work, so I probably won't have any cover art. I'm also not sending out a tracklist. I'll post one here after you've had an unbiased listen and hate the musics for the musics, not for who's responsible for it.

Wangs and dongs.

I'm sending my discs out tomorrow. No cover art, tracklisting, notes or even a case. Just discs and maybe a child's drawing of a disc.

I almost have my disc done. I can't help being slow - I'm old, remember?

dcomposed - can you give us track lists, please? I'm listening to the Teenage girl mix right now, and digging it.

Heh, just got up to "Too high for the supermarket". I put that on a previous swap cd, dude. :P

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Heh, just got up to "Too high for the supermarket". I put that on a previous swap cd, dude. :P

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Yeah, I know. I just found it funny that the only song I recognized right off the bat was one I'd used previously. It's all good.

There were a couple of real winners on the Teenage mix, but I am not cut out for Thuganomics.

I on the other hand am much more fond of Thuganomics than the Teen Girl mix.

I got the discs a few days ago, and while I've listened to the latter disc a couple of times, there really hasn't been anything on it to catch my interest. Nothing really bad, but at the same time nothing that really stood out to me. Thuganomics on the other hand, has stuff on it that I actually kind of like as well as stuff that just drives me totally insane (mainly because they get stuck in my head when I don't like them to begin with). I told umfum when I listened to Rapestry that what I appreciated on it was the comparative lack of gangsta rap. I can't exactly say the same thing for this one. Track 3 got stuck with me mainly because I'm supposed to be researching Faustian themes, so anything dealing with selling one's soul is potential for me to reference in a final project... coincidentally, I decided last week that the coolest thing I could do would be to look for Faust influenced rap, but since I know so little about Rap, I didn't know where to start. Surprise!

Track 6 was really catchy... I liked the beat, but the lyrics weren't my thing at all. This makes it doubly frustrating, given that it's one of the ones that gets stuck in my head.

I'm going to call track 9 "War is Pain." I actually really liked that one. It was far closer to what I liked about rap pre-gangsta style.

Unfortunately, track 10 just irritated me. I can't decide if the guy rapping is brilliant or retarded. That and it too is one of those unwelcome "stuck in my head" deals.

I'm going to come forward and admit that I recognize the Vanilla Ice track. A cousin gave me the tape it's on for christmas when I was 12. That probably was the best track on the tape, funny enough. It was just funny.

None of the other tracks really stood out except for 21, which felt like it was two songs shoved onto one track. I kinda like the musical stuff going on in the first song, but once again, I'm not really into the lyrics. As for the second song on track 21... Okay, I'll admit it. This was probably my favorite song on the disc. And I bet it was Eminem, at that. But whatever. It was hysterically funny while hinting at a bit of actual meaning.

Oh yeah, I liked the wrestling outtake as well.

Track lists n junk.

Teenage Girl With Kazaa Mix:
note: I wanted this to be dumb poser music.

1. Onion Radio News - A Man With A New 40 Disk CD Changer Needs More CDs (0:43)
2. KMFDM - Bullets, Bombs and Bigotry (WWIII, 2003) (4:19)
3. Fat - Downtime (Fat, 1997) (3:35)
4. Jack Off Jill - American Made (Sexless Demons & Scars, 1998) (3:19)
5. Mindless Self Indulgence - J (Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy, 2000) (0:22)
6. Mindless Self Indulgence - Clarissa (Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy, 2000) (1:55)
7. Zug Izland - Fire (Cracked Tiles, 2003)(2:52)
8. Two - Wake Up (Voyeurs, 1997) (3:32)
9. Powerpuff Girls - If I Was a Bunny I'd... (0:51)
10. Sex Piano - Unless I Change My Mind (3:03)
11. Sven Mullet - Wanker (2:12)
12. The Uninvited - Too High for the Supermarket (The Uninvited, 2000)(4:35)
13. Propagandhi - Stick the Fucking Flag up Your Goddam Ass, You Sonofabitch (How to Clean Everything, 1994) (2:51)
14. Buffalo Tom - Rachael (Smitten, 1998) (3:01)
15. Throwing Toasters - Bad Influence (2:21)
16. Alf Stewart saying stuff (0:01)
17. Friendly - I Love You, But... (Akimbo, 2002) (3:40)
18. The John Benjamin Band - What We Need More of is Science (4:08)
19. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Mr. Pinstripe Suit (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, 1998) (3:35)
20. Robert Stanley - Swing Pick and Shovel (2:47)
21. TC Wright - Another Decision (3:10)
22. Imani Coppola - Legend of a Cowgirl (Chupacabra, 1997) (3:47)
23. Nintendo - First NES Commercial (0:30)
24. Suberbanal Cuts - Thomas Scharpling Symphony (1:42)
25. Ani DiFranco - Untouchable Face (Living in Clip, 1997) (3:37)
26. TB - Alergy (1:49)
27. Len - Big Meanie (You Can't Stop the Bum Rush, 1999) (4:07)
28. Liz Phair - Polyester Bride (whitechocolatespaceegg, 1998) (4:07)
29. PrayForMojo - Adaptation (2:09)

(this is) Basic Thuganomics:
note: This disc is like my retarded child who I love anyway.

1. Intro (0:15)
2. Geto Boys - Balls and My Word (Making Trouble, 1995) (3:45)
3. V-Sinizter - The High Cost Of Dying (Morning Star: Soul Of The Beast) (2:54)
4. Nuttea - Le Show (Un Signe de Temps, 2001) (3:23)
5. Benefit - If I Owned A Midget (B.E.N.E.F.I.T.) (4:01)
6. Goretex - Dopesick (feat. Necro) (Brutality Part One, 2003) (3:43)
7. Inner City Posse - Insian Like (Bass-Ment Cuts, 1991) (3:40)
8. Sabrina Setlur - Du Liebst Mich Nicht (Die Neue S-Klasse, 1997) (5:39)
9. Paris - AWOL (Sonic Jihad, 2003) (3:52)
10. ILL Mitch - I Will Win (Punch While Rap, 2002) (2:38)
11. Vanilla Ice - Havin' A Roni (To the Extreme, 1990) (1:09)
12. John Cena vs. Kurt Angle battle rap (5:50)
13. Abstrakt Intellekt - Roll My Sleeves Up (First Contact, 2003) (3:52)
14. Esham - Don't Blame Me (KKKill the Fetus, 1993) (3:45)
15. moveierap.com - The Rundown (1:13)
16. Akhenaton - Un Brin De Haine (Meteque et Mat, 1998) (5:08)
17. MC Face - Humplik the Baddest (Not the Tom Green Show, 1999) (4:16)
18. Kneight Riduz - Dinner 4 Krowz (Kneight Riduz the Album, 2003) (3:16)
19. Starfinger - More Than Soup (2:07)
20. Macho Man Randy Savage - Remember Me (Be a Man, 2003) (4:01)
21. House of Krazees - Murder, Murder, Murder (The Night They Kame Home, 1999) (10:34)

notes:
MSI gets two tracks, but together they're still shorter than most of the others. Clarissa may or may not be about a show on Nickelodeon.
The rap on the Zug Izland track is by Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse.
Sex Piano is trippingbillee's band.
The Propagandhi track has about 30 different titles, I think "Stick the Fucking Flag up Your Goddam Ass, You Sonofabitch" is the real one.
TC Wright (I think that's her name) sounds hot, but she's a big ugly lesbian.
TB is WiLzzt.
Inner City Posse is now known as something else with the same acronym.
Du Liebst Mich Nicht is really lame, so I hope none of you know German.
Starfinger has comics on stripcreator.
House of Krazees is now known as Twiztid.
Track 21b is Eminem and I don't care. It's funny. If it sounds like the cd is skipping, it's because the song is really bad quality.

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I told umfum when I listened to Rapestry that what I appreciated on it was the comparative lack of gangsta rap. I can't exactly say the same thing for this one.

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Whether this is a true definition or not, I have always thought of gangsta rap as being pretty much any rap that seems primarily to be themed stylistically and lyrically around such topics as drugs, murder, and sex, generally all at the same time. I would tend to call things like track 6 and track 21a gangsta rap, off the top of my head.

By the way I also really liked the one that seems to have an egyptian looking name. I'd totally forgotten about it when I was writing my summary, but the name reminded me of the song and I thought "oh yeah, I did like that one didn't I?"

The Eminem track skipped horribly the first time I listened to it. That made me sad. It's being much better behaved now, thankfully.

Also note that for all I know, the german track and track 16 could be more gangsta than the english ones, but if I can't understand the lyrics, then I just don't care. They could be stupid songs where every other word is "I want to fuck you in the ass," but it doesn't make bit of difference to me if I can't tell when I hear it.

The thing I like best about incomprehensible lyrics is that when you listen to music where you can't understand the words, bad songwriting will never get in the way of good music.

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Whether this is a true definition or not, I have always thought of gangsta rap as being pretty much any rap that seems primarily to be themed stylistically and lyrically around such topics as drugs, murder, and sex, generally all at the same time. I would tend to call things like track 6 and track 21a gangsta rap, off the top of my head.

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Poser music or not, it was definitely better than the rap crap. I listened to a couple of songs on Thuganomics, then listened to the first 10 seconds or so of the remaining ones in turn, then found myself with a new coaster. I just seriously dislike the style. I guess I'm getting old.

I got dcom's discs on the side.

Everything on disc 1 from track 9 to track 27 was great, plus the KMFDM. After 3 swaps, I can definitly sense a dcom style forming.

I liked the first 5 tracks on the second one, then flicked through some as I was going out, but I'll probably listen to some of them again. Some of the wrestlers rapping was really lame but I'll let it slide because the Goretex track was cool as.

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I liked the first 5 tracks on the second one, then flicked through some as I was going out, but I'll probably listen to some of them again.

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I've had my cds in their mailers and all addressed for a few weeks, but because I work nights and have been dragging ass too much to leave early, they are as yet unmailed. I will send them off soon, I suppose.

My discs have remained unmailed for similar reasons (leaving too early/coming home too late on most days). Then there was the fact that during that narrow window when I had no homework in Feb, I was pretty sickly.

They should be out either this afternoon or monday afternoon, depending on circumstances.

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Scyess, for the most part I really like your CD. I am unfortunately unable to devote the time to a full review of it at this time. Remind me to do it later, though. I'll be more than glad to.

I figured you, at least, would like the European stuff -- but I have to say I'm a bit surprised you (or anyone) liked the Japanese stuff, even "for the most part." I'd also be surprised if there weren't more than a few tracks you've heard before, D.

I always liked the theme to Evangelion, and of course I'd heard the Ranma theme before.

But yeah, some of the japanese stuff was pretty cool.

Has anyone recieved mine yet?

Got yours a few days ago. Haven't had a chance to listen yet.

You're kidding!

A couple of days ago, Scyess said he was still waiting on it.

*boggles*

When you listen to it, see if you can guess which two bands are Austrailan.

Or rather, which two tracks are from australian bands.

I'll listen to it tonight probably.

Drex, yours is both insane and crazy. And maybe Driving Miss Daisy.

Scy, yours is both awesome and great. And maybe eating Gilbert Grape.

I've only heard them once, so that's all I got for now.

dcom, you remind me that my grandmother was quite fond of about half the stuff you'd find on that CD. I take this more as a sign that I just had an awesome grandma than as a sign that metal is for geriatrics.

1. Storm - Nagellstev
2. Aleuchatistas - The Machines Became Cognizant
3. Jupiter Crayons - Saturn Valley remix (Original version from Earthbound. SNES.)
4. Finntroll - Vargtimmen (Cover version. Original by Hedningarna)
5. Devo - Beautiful World
6. Soundgarden - Girl U Want (Cover version. Original by Devo)
7. Type O Negative - Summer Breeze (Cover version. Original by Seals and Crofts)
8. Vintersorg - The Enigmatic Spirit
9. Candlemass - Dark Reflections
10. Death - Voice of the Soul
11. Galadriel - Strong One Against the Storm
12. Ephemeral Sun - Hands of Fire
13. Moonsorrow - Tuulen Koti, Aaltojen Koti
14. Avrigus - As Ivy Groweth Green
15. Fintroll - Svart Djup
16. diSEMBOWELMENT - The Spirits of the Tall Hills
17. Therion - O Fortuna
18. Moonsorrow - Tulkaapa Äijät! (Drinking Music (Originally: Kom Nu Gubbar by Nordman))

Yes, there are an assload of cover songs on this mix. There are also a number of instrumentals. Whee!

What would have been fun would to have had a daisy chain of cover songs where each successive band covers a song from the previous band that played, with the first band covering the last band. I dediced that I didn't have enough songs or patience to try anything of the sort.

err. track three is not the original version. Rather, the original version came from the SNES game called Earthbound.

Just clarifying in case what I wrote was confusing.

Also, I'm aware that O Fortuna is from Orff's "Carmina Burana." I just kind of figured it went without saying at first, but figured I might as well clarify that as well.

got ljdotnets yesterday. gonna listen to it tonight.

So....?

Okay, so now that finals are effectively over, I will have some time to write about Scyess's disc, and just plain listen to ladyj's disk.

I'm going to get around to telling you people what I think of your discs eventually. I'll come back tommorow and post a little, then maybe come back latter for full review.

ladyj, your cd won't play in any cd player, stereo, dvd player or anything I have that isn't my cd-rw drive. Which makes listening to it hard.

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ladyj, your cd won't play in any cd player, stereo, dvd player or anything I have that isn't my cd-rw drive. Which makes listening to it hard.

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You're so wise. I will do that.