C90: Sister oh sister who taught you so wise

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The mix CD-R I'm mailing my sister today in exchange for a dub of Queensryche's Empire, which she was ecstatic to find for 10 cents at a garage sale:

1 You Go To My Head Derek Bailey 1:47
2 I've Seen All Good People Yes 6:53
3 Survival Yes 6:17
4 Let Down Radiohead 4:56
5 Roygbiv Boards Of Canada 2:31
6 Risingson Massive Attack 4:58
7 Teardrop Massive Attack 5:30
8 Sexx Laws Beck 3:39
9 Can You Get To That Funkadelic 2:50
10 Black Ice Goodie Mob 3:25
11 Eye Know De La Soul 4:13
12 Who Does She Hope To Be? Sonny Sharrock 4:41
13 Nuages Django Reinhardt 3:17
14 Melissa Allman Brothers 3:54
15 Drifting Jimi Hendrix 3:48
16 Ezy Rider Jimi Hendrix 4:11
17 You Took The Words Right Meat Loaf 5:04
Out Of My Mouth
(Hot Summer Night)
18 Idioteque Radiohead 5:09

Please use this thread to discuss any or all of the following:

1) the tracks on the disc itself
2) Empire
3) whether this is a fair trade
4) the last mix tape/CD-R you made
5) your sister
6) what you'd put on a mix for your sister
7) other things I should look into; in particular I'm open to recommendations of indie-pop that sounds like "Survival" because it almost makes me think I could like twee-ish stuff

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Formatted slightly better:

1 Derek Bailey - You Go to My Head
2 Yes - I've Seen All Good People
3 Yes - Survival
4 Radiohead - Let Down
5 Boards of Canada - ROYGBIV
6 Massive Attack - Risingson
7 Massive Attack - Teardrop
8 Beck - Sexx Laws
9 Funkadelic - Can You Get to That
10 Goodie Mob - Black Ice
11 De La Soul - Eye Know
12 Sonny Sharrock - Who Does She Hope to Be?
13 Django Reinhardt - Nuages
14 Allman Brothers - Melissa
15 Jimi Hendrix - Drifting
16 Jimi Hendrix - Ezy Rider
17 Meat Loaf - You Took the Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
18 Radiohead - Idioteque

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I have Empire, I never really liked it.

Tracklisting to the last CD I made:

1. Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (live)
2. Helloween - Rise and Fall
3. Alice Cooper - Guilty
4. HiM - The Funeral of Hearts
5. Europe - Carrie
6. Poison - Life Loves A Tragedy'
7. Niza - Universo
8. Komeit - I Can Tell
9. Styrofoam - A Heart Without A Mind
10. Ms John Soda - Go Check
11. Barbara Morgenstern - Mjisnjedschaz
12. Bowling For Soup - Girl All The Bad Guys Want
13. James Kochalka Superstar - President Kochalka
14. The Smugglers - Buddy Holly Convention
15. The Philistines Jr - 145 Old Mill Road
16. Juniper Moon - El Resto Di Mi Vida
17. La Casa Azul - Galletas
18. Vacaciones - Sonrier
19. Six Finger Satellite - Neuro-Harmonoic Conspiracy
20. Rose Chronicles - Awaiting Eternity

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Even "Another Rainy Night"?

(Not that I've heard the album in a decade.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It's funny to realize I also haven't heard Empire in nearly ten years. Even funnier to realize that back then, it was one of my favorite albums. Funnier still to realize I don't even remember what songs were on Empire.

So, um, here's a mix CD tracklist I made for my room-mate, who is pretty much like my adopted little sister, so it's not-too-inappropriate here:

Princess Superstar - You Get Mad at Napster
Bjork - Pretty Rocks
Fishbone - Movement in the Light
Ani DiFranco - Evolve
Common/Jill Scott - I Am Music
Soul Coughing - Lazy Bones
Radiohead - Treefingers
Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up
They Might Be Giants - Dead
Sigur Ros - Olsen Olsen
Medeski Martin and Wood - Retirement Song
Ben Folds Five - Philosophy (live)
a 10-min Jimmy Page guitar solo from some obscure fanclub-only record
Serart - Love is the Peace

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw, I had a roommate like that too.

Yeah, at the time, I though Geoff Tate was like the greatest singer ever. My sister and I like to jam on "Another Rainy Night" so I'm pretty sure the tape will be worth it just for that track.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Another Rainy Night" is decent. "Empire" is OK. "Jet City Woman" and "Hand On Heart" are tolerable. The rest of Empire is unlistenably awful.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh, "It's starting to hit me like a, um, uh, uh, a 2-ton. . . uh. . . heavy thing".

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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