It's 12:00AM, do you know where your swap group is?

Use this thread to discuss whatcha-whatcha-whatchawant.

I already have one playlist done, and a second is really close.

I'm still trying to decide between "The Best of Wal-Mart Radio" and "The Best of Whiny Feminists."

Decisions, decisions...

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I'm still trying to decide between "The Best of Wal-Mart Radio" and "The Best of Whiny Feminists."

Decisions, decisions...

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Either of those on paper sounds like it would make me slit my wrists, but I reckon Wal-Mart radio would be OK.

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Either of those on paper sounds like it would make me slit my wrists, but I reckon Wal-Mart radio would be OK.

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Occasionally they play songs I actually like, such as AHa and Beach Boys, but most of it is so mind-numbingly bland and unoffensive it would neutralize any other music in the general vicinity.

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I'll make it into a CD (or two), but I'm gonna warn you. The songs by themselves aren't bad at all; some are even great. Unfortunately, something about how they are all put together just takes the life out of them. Some songs were not meant to be in a playlist together.

Even worse...the stupid radio played "American Pie" several times today and some freaking stupid managerk (manager + jerk) froze the PA system so no one could make a page at all. Which means the song played through in it's annoying entirety. But do they let me do that when "Kokomo" or "Take On Me" plays? Of course not. I loathe "American Pie." With a passion as great as the oceans.

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I loathe "American Pie." With a passion as great as the oceans.

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So having Jes in this group means I get to send a package internationally, eh?

I've been dying to fill out one of those forms again, but haven't had a chance to do it lately.

Oh don't worry, when I send the CDs, they should arrive fine. Whether or not they arrive with an armed escort is another matter...

And of course I have plenty of the...shipping envelopes I used last time...

CD #1 playlist is done. Artwork will be finished tonight. Burning will commence shortly.

I'm debating on whether to complete CD #2 or not. It's got some great songs on it, but I'm having a problem pulling it all together thematically. I'm going to think about it for a few more days, but perhaps I'll be mailing in the next week or so.

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I'm debating on whether to complete CD #2 or not. It's got some great songs on it, but I'm having a problem pulling it all together thematically.

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Sorry, that was horrible (and ivy might resent being called "Straight").

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How is everyone fixed for delivery dates?

I was just contemplating that 20 minutes ago. I think I'll burn this week, ship on Saturday. Just one disc this time, my second disc swirled around and finally went down the drain.

I'm still working on the downloading. I've been too lazy to do anything lately. Plus infecting my new computer with Phil Collins seems wrong. But I hope to be done by the end of the month. I figure that's a decently reasonable goal.

Sorry folks but my CDs are going to be on hold for a week or two due to a bereavement.

I'm still alive. Right after I signed up for this swap, that write-an-album thing popped up, and it took up all my spare time in February. Before then, I had burned a copy of the first draft of a fun CD called "Twelve-Bar Rock," intended to be unleashed on you all. A couple of songs didn't burn right, so now I'm gonna fix it and ship it. Should be in the next week or so...

CD is burned--I probably won't get to the post office until Saturday to send.

I was at www.milkandcookies.com, and noticed someone happened to post a link to a cute, little animated video of a song I included on my swap cd (which still will go out on Saturday).

If you'd like a taste of what's to come, check it out. This song pretty much embodies the 70's-porn/blaxploitation film/CHiPs episode feel of the disc:
http://www.ninjatune.net/videos/video.php?type=qt&id=43

Otherwise, wait and hear!

Sent.

Disc 1's been burnt, despatch (sp?) of 1&2 should be Saturday.

Choad, you magnificent bastard, you've done it again!

Sorry for the delay on my end, guys. With the annual inventory idiocy, I've been up to my ears in work and too tired for much after the day is done. I'm going to at least try to finish my supplemental CD today since it's all but burned. The main CD will take some time since all those brilliant ideas I had after the last swap have completely left my mind.

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Since my disc is now officially Choad-tested, Ivytopia-approved, I'll post the track list with minimal commentary. I just threw this disc together, nothing too significant about the tracks other than I like them all and thought they'd sound nice together.

1. Intro This is the first few seconds of the Parliament Funkadelic song, "P-Funk (Wants Ta Get Funked Up)." I thought about including the whole song as the intro, but decided against it. These first 6 seconds were all I needed to set the scene.

2. Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft My favourite movie theme of all time.

3. Groove Armada - Chicago

4. Greyboy Allstars - Turnip's Big Move One day, my friend and I listened to a bunch of Greyboy and Greyboy Allstars and described the classic porn scene each song was evocative of. This one is more like blaxploitation-movie-driving-around-town-and-helping-the community-montage-music.

5. Quantic - Life In The Rain (Carl Faure Mix)

6. St Germain - What You Think About...

7. Gil Scott-Heron - Ain't No Such Thing As Superman There's so much more to Gil Scott-Heron than "Whitey on the Moon" and "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

8. DJ Greyboy - Big Blunt Break This is the blaxploitation-movie-breaking-into-the-community-center-that's-really-a-front-for -drug-dealing-scene-music.

9. Beastie Boys - Groove Holmes

10. Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find This is the second song I ever sang in a karaoke bar.

11. Ramsey Lewis - Do What You Wanna This is the blaxploitation-actors-dancing-wildly-at-a-party-or-night-club-when -the-cops-walk-in-music.

12. Interlude This is an easily recognizable clip from the Beasties' "B-Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak." I read somewhere that it comes from the movie Dolemite, which is now in my Netflix queue.

13. Mr. Scruff - Sweet Smoke This is more like Ponch-and-Jon-disco-dancing-while-undercover-music.

14. The Clinton Administration - Hit It and Quit It This is a bunch of former members of Greyboy Allstars and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe. I don't know which ones--Karl Denson may have a Tiny Universe, but he has a giant ego, so both bands were a revolving door.

15. Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up A great scene in the Simpsons was when Homer was busking as a one-man band. He introduces himself, "Hi, I'm Archie Bell, and I'm also the Drells. Here's a little number called Tighten' Up."

16. Treva Whateva - Singalong In some other thread, I referred to this as my strutting-around-town song. I'm not sure if it belongs on this disc, but its so fun, I could put it anywhere and it would work.

17. George Clinton - Let's Take It to the Stage/Do That Stuff Hmmm, I listed this as George Clinton, but I guess it's technically Parliament.

Okay, I was so freaking close to getting those CDs burned, but the PC just freaked out on me and I can't figure out what's wrong with the damned thing and HP's tech support has been outsourced to India where guys who have just the most basic grasp of english read scripts that mean nothing, especially when I've already said three times that the computer will not turn on and the cables are fine.

They had scripts for SMALL TALK!

Anyway, it will be 14 days at least before I get it back, provided I don't get help from someone more competant in the meantime.

I've had this barely a month! Jesus Fucking H Christ On A Motherfucking Stick I am so sick of this!

Maybe the Mac had something to do with it...stabbed the PC in a fit of jealousy...

Okay...ahem...

So that tech guy was supposed to cancel the work order for a technician to come to my apartment, especially since there's no one around here for them to send, but the other day I got a new motherboard in the mail instead of the empty box to send it back in. So I had a friend put it in for me since I'd rather not inadvertently destroy an entire paycheck's worth of a computer (yeah, not that pricey). After that was over, a guy from Dell called saying HP had sent him the work order and he's been sitting on it a while but no part had showed up so I told him HP was a bunch of morons and it was taken care of so then I had to call yet another guy in India (though he had the best English of all three guys I talked to, yet still not enough) and make sure that work order had been cancelled since it costs me money and I already took care of it myself since I was sick of the whole mess.

And the empty box arrived today.

So anyway, I have the supplemental CD burned, but I still need to make labels and get cases. The main CD, which is turning into a two-disc set, will take a bit longer since I want this to be a work of art. I think you all will like it. Even if it's not your thing, you will have to bow to my CD creating skills. Because I'm just that awesome.

So, give me another week before I get them sent.

Choad, I've had many requests from people for a copy of the CD you made. It's just that awesome.

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Choad, I've had many requests from people for a copy of the CD you made. It's just that awesome.

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I agree with ivy, I listened to Choad's disc yesterday and it blew my trunks off. You should like one of the Quincy Jones tracks I put on my second disc, which, along with the 1st disc, is being dispatched this week, 100% true. Not 100% happy with them but hopefully people will enjoy them for what they are.

I finished the CDs finally. I'm not as happy with Disc 2 as I am with Disc 1 and there's a few iffy songs that I think I threw in more as filler than anything else, but unless I come up with a Version 2.0 in the next week, I should have them mailed out no later than Friday (day after payday). Or I'll send Jes's first and the rest a week later just to make sure you got them all close to the same time.

Discs will be posted tomorrow; sideswappers will have to wait a little longer still.

Got JES's discs today; officially packaged my one disc to mail Monday. I do hope it'll be worth the wait for all of you (:

Got Jes's today. I'll give them a listen tonight (unless I get sucked into bad TV). I keep putting off making the cover art for the CDs since it requires hard work like plugging in the printer, so it will either be something boringly generic or so awesomely fabulous that it makes everyone's head explode.

I won't have a chance to get to the post office until Monday (unless I really want to use my lunch hour to do it) so that's the earliest they'll go out anyway.

I am The Procrastination Queen.

Wuss. I totally used my lunch hour to do it. Then again, the post office is right around the corner from my office.

Do they even have post offices in Wyoming?

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Do they even have post offices in Wyoming?

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See, in most places, having a post office means you're an official town. In Wyoming, having a bar means your an official town.

Or in the case of several towns across the state, the post office is in the bar. In Tie Siding the post office, bar, gas station, and antique store are the same building.

It's western efficiency.

Finally got the discs burned and the labels made. Will mail them tomorrow afternoon. Sending them media mail because I'm a cheap bastard. Jes, yours will probably arrive sometime next year at that rate.

I'm still having issues with getting my arse to the post office to send out sideswap discs.

Due to the blizzard we just got (this is Wyoming, I'm not joking), the mail won't go out until the interstate opens up again. This thing is supposed to continue through Monday so I don't know if it will even get out before then.

The Wal-Mart parking lot looks like a freaking truck stop. I went out to my car for lunch and discovered I was literally surrounded by a dozen semis. My poor little Geo was feeling a wee bit insecure.

The interstate is open again so I sent the discs out. Though we'll probably get another one tomorrow.

I sent them media mail, so you'll get them the end of this week at the earliest. Jes's was sent first class, so it won't take a month.

Hooray!

I reviewed the discs I burned to send to sideswappers, and they were corrupted, so I'm doing them again. Your patience is my solitaire (appreciated)

Remaining sideswap discs are sent. Did the rest of you get the ones I sent out months ago or did Synthesizer Patel scare you into never touching a keyboard again?

I'm going to be driving to Iowa this week so I can lsiten to the swap CDs on the road.

Of course I'll be going into internet withdrawl. And CSI withdrawl. Even if Grandma's TV could get decent reception, there's no way I could watch TV with my mom, her husband, and my uncle around. They'd just talk through the whole thing, tell me I should be doing something more productive (even though we probably would have spent the day doing nothing but productive and/or exciting things) and mom's husband and my uncle doing the whole snob routine about TV being a waste of time and they'd NEVER bother with it.

Hypocritical bastards.

Ahem...

Anyway, I'll review them in a week!

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I'm going to be driving to Iowa this week so I can lsiten to the swap CDs on the road.

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This Is A Test:

01. DICK DALE - Fun and frolic from The King of the Surf Guitar, plus "Let's Go Trippin'" aptly describes the rest of the disc.

02. STATUS QUO - I think the only song I've ever heard of theirs is "Picture of Matchstick Men," and I don't even remember how it goes. "Down Down" has a nifty, driving beat and is quite infectious. What year was it recorded?

03. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Even though I listed CB among my picks for the 25 worst bands in another thread, I have to admit that "Big Eyed Beans From Venus" is a cool track--albeit the most listenable one I've ever heard by CB.

04. THE FALL - Due to a technical problem, I was looking at the wrong tracklist while listening to this disc the first couple of times. It didn't help that I thought they were singing, "I'm an edible man, myself." Good tune.

05. JOHN PEEL - See, jes, you can work snippets into a compilation. Excellent. RIP, JP.

06. NAPALM DEATH - Don't care much for their sound, but the band name is one of the best ever.

07. TOM WAITS - Very cleverly humorous. Aces.

08. CONTROL ZONE - Is this The Clash under an assumed name?

09. TRACER AMC - Sublime example of musical distension.

10. IRVINE/BRADY - jes always includes something like "Fred Finn's Reel" that makes me wish I was born across the pond at an earlier time.

11. CUBAN BOYS - Annoying at first, yet I find myself yodeling it at odd moments.

12. TRANS GLOBAL UNDERGROUND - Not as memorable as the previous track, but groovy while it lasts.

13. PLAID - Very nice. Puts me in the mind of a more electronic Medeski Martin & Wood.

14. CALIBRE - A bit too drum-n-bassy for my taste. Didn't seem like much of anything happened.

15. BEATLES - Ah, "Yellow Submarine," Ringo's ode to the life aquatic and fun drugs.

16. LAURA CANTRELL - Sweet 'n' Soothin'.

17. PJ HARVEY - I never thought her songs lived up to the hype of her critical praise, but "Kamikaze" is really good, and a nice choice for this comp.

18. LOW - On the other hand, I always look forward to LOW songs on a jes CD.

19. CAMERA OBSCURA - Even though I am an "Eighties Fan," this song didn't heighten my experience of such.

20. JOHNNY CASH - Like a gutbucket Sinatra, Cash takes most songs he covers and makes them his own.

21. ROY ORBISON - "It's Over." I've always wondered why Roy never made it REALLY big. Maybe it was the glasses. Shouldn't this have been the final track? ;)

22. JOY DIVISION - Thanks for reminding me that "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is an awesome song.

23. THE UNDERTONES - Another chocka-rocka. Good stuff. But shouldn't it have been on "Teenage Dreams?"

As usual, jes provides a varied and distinctive palette splashed across a wide canvas. You've extended my musical horizons yet again.

And, now, a slight complaint...
I received two versions of this disc instead of "Test" and "Teenage Dreams." The tracklist for "Dreams" looked quite smashing, so I'd love to get a copy if you can still make one. However, don't waste postage by shipping another disc. I can wait until the next swap. Thanks.

Ah yes,

I can only apologise again. I ran out of 90 minute CDs and had to re-jig various tracklists. In the ensuing confusion I must have picked up two copies of the same disc. I'll make amends next time.

Reminds me: feedback for my swap group buddies to follow shortly.

OK quick review:

Ivy
Bad Girl Boogie discs one and two were brilliant. I:
- love some of the band names, Jack Off Jill being my favourtite
- never knew how much Joan Jett swore
- thought the whole lot was awesome. I keep them in my office drawer now for short bursts of oestrogen fuelled rock action.

Songs of the Blue Vest, for a disc full of supermarket cheese, was a lot better than I thought. Leo Sayer still gives me nightmares but Roy Orbison and Go West more than made up for that. And the cover gave me a funny feeling in my undercrackers.

habnem
OK so a disc themed on the 12 bar blues admittedly didn't fill me with hope, but this managed to defy expectation and prove non-repetetive, plus a really good listen. I liked your track you did yourself a lot, but my all time favourite is the Indigo Girls track "Girl Trouble" because I'm immature and find the line "Girl Trouble up the ass" hilarious. Excellent work.

I would single out more tracks for praise but my back is going numb for some reason.

Thanks swappers.

I should probably do a review or something.

habnem's:
At first I wasn't sure what it was going to be (I don't pay much attention to things) but I absolutely loved it. It was a great driving disc and the theme was clever. I know I wouldn't have had that kind of dedication to work out something so specific. I must say, "If I Leave This Morning" was great. I also loved "Baby I'm Drunk" and "Pleasantly Blue."

jes's:
I wasn't overly sure of what I was getting into when I listened to these (and I shouldn't listen to trance while driving across Nebraska, I soon discovered) but after a few listens I realized how much I enjoyed the two discs. Actually, on the way back from Iowa I kept playing them over and over. Except the last half of Nebraska. In general, I liked disc 2 better than disc 1. There was an interesting variety I really enjoyed. "Knight Rider" was great (I really enjoy Indian pop/rock/etc) and I thought "How To Be Dead" was eerie. On disc 1, I enjoyed seeing some of my old favorites like PJ Harvey, Napalm Death, and Tom Waits. That one, by the way, was hilarious.

I usually prefer driving music that keeps me awake and focused on the road (and played at deafening decibels to keep me awake). These however, are going to permanently live in my travel CD case (and by "CD case" I mean I'll make tape copies because I turned in the rental and my car merely has a tape player that works only on alternate Tuesdays).

The CDs also confounded my brother because he's convinced I listen to nothing but "old" music. Like 80's.