Musical Metamorphosis Mix CD Challenge!

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I'm not sure if this has ever been done but I want to see folks put together a CD length mix of artists that slowly metamorphoses from one extreme to the other over the course of the CD; Where each song sounds like it could have been performed by the performer of the song that proceeds it. Ideally you will be able to slowly, subtly get the listener from the first song on the CD to the last without them realizing that it's a group of different artists. Points go to the person who can make the largest genre leap from first song to last in the smoothest, most subtle way. For example, if you can smoothly transition from a first song by The Beatles to a last song by Dizzee Rascal, you beat out the person who successfully travelled from The Beatles to Nirvana. Anybody up for the challenge?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

you beat out the person who successfully travelled from The Beatles to Nirvana

I hope this doesn't sound like a complement to Nirvana, but that's not that big a stretch, really.

Beatles to Dizze Rascal, on the otherhand...that's a challenge.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't wait to see geir's entry

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why I said that the Beatles -> Dizzee Rascal would be more impressive.

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Devo --> Killing Joke?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

John Fahey to Chic?

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

We can assume the listener has no prior knowledge of the tracks, of course, but that doesn't mean they're a musical bozo, just a made-up person whose life experience is determined, in fact, by their not having heard the tracks in question.

I may start a side-thread taking side-bets on the Fulcrum Artists. Or just make a list rather than wheezing on.

― Acme (acme), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, this sounds like exactly the kind of brain twisting knot tying thing i'd devote the next 6 months of my life to. Where to start? Where to start?!

― mancomb seepgood (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, it's not especially extreme but so far I have:

1. Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirp Cheep Cheep
2. Little Millie - My boy lollypop
3. Brenton Wood - The Oogum Boogum Song
4. Curtis Mayfield -Pusher Man
5. David Bowie - Golden Years
6. Iggy Pop - The Passenger
7. Joy Divison - Love will tear us apart
8. New Order - Ceremony
9. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
10. Everything but the Girl - Missing
11. Dido - Hunter
12. The Cranberries - Linger
13. The Sundays - Here's where the story ends
14. The Smiths - The boy with a thorn in his side
15. The Bats - Chicken Bird Run

― mancomb seepgood (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Eno to Darkthrone in ~ 65 minutes:

Brian Eno -- Thursday Afternoon (excerpt)
Donnacha Costello -- Always a Part
Autechre -- Piezo
Bola -- Forcasa 3
Broadcast -- Hammer Without a Master
Stereolab -- Tempter
Suicide -- Cheree
Flying Saucer Attack -- Up in Her Eyes
Mogwai -- Angels vs Aliens
Ministry -- Burning Inside
Darkthrone -- Transilvanian Hunger

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

>Where each song sounds like it could have been performed by the
>performer of the song that proceeds it

Holy shit! I have long fantasized about doing this. We must have some music-obsessive genes in common or something.

I think the way I was thinking about it, the goal was to 1) make a nice, flowing mix, and 2) to show similaries in songwriting style between seemingly disparate artists...

― John 2, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Although... I might have also thought along these lines:

It's less about having two songs (by two different artists) that are similar, than it is about two songs that could seemingly be coming from the same place--possibly the same artists, though it would be apparant even to a new listener that they are not (male to female voice is a good giveaway). Thereby showing songwriting similaries, though not necessarily "Song X" sounds like "Song Y". Just that they could have been on the same record, etc etc...

Also sometimes it's too hard to go from one artist to another... I could do something like this...

[REM song]
"Downbound Train"
[2nd Springsteen song]
[Song that sounds like Springsteen by other artist]
[Song that sounds like above...and so on...]

― John 2, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Beatles to Dizzee Rascal, on the otherhand...that's a challenge.

Bonus points to anyone who can do this without playing the DJ Dangermouse joker card...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

how about a bonus if you can do it chronologically too?

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Beatles To Dizzee in 48 Minutes.

1. The Beatles - And I Love Her
2. Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason
3. Big Star - Femme Fetale
4. This Mortal Coil - Holocaust
5. Dead Can Dance - The Fatal Impact
6. Pixies - Wild Honey Pie
7. Nirvana - Polly (Andy Wallace mixed Nervermind, and he also mixed 'Grace' by -
8. Jeff Buckley - Kangaroo
9. Radiohead - Idioteque
10. Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song
11. Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U (Remix)

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok... this shud be doable. These may sound like big leaps but believe me, rythmically and melodically these mixes work.

1 Paul Simon - Mother and child reunion
2 LCD Soundsystem - Losing my edge
3 Jackson - Radio Caca
4 Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines
5 Deep Purple - Smoke on the water
6 Prodigy - 3 kilos
7 Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime
8 Metro Area - Miura
9 Pixies - Gigantic
10 CutCopy - Saturdays
11 Prince - Raspberry Beret
12 Roxy Music - Love is the drug
12 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

― ropadop (ropadop), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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