Help make a mix for my hip-hop/metal/goth/Prince-loving friend, Janine

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Here is some history of Janine:

- She grew up listening to hip-hop.
- Then, around the end of middle school, she started listening to (pop) metal. She has an odd tendency to mention the name of the guitarist in Extreme.
- In high school she was a goth kid. She really likes The Fragile, still.
- She grew up around DC, and has an affinity for the punk/indie sound of that region, especially Shudder To Think.
- She also has a soft spot in her heart for slow jams.

On a typical night at her house, we will listen to Prince's Lovesexy, Cee-Lo Green Is The Soul Machine, the Duran Duran covers album, the Darkness' Permission to Land, Diamonda Galas, PJ Harvey, the Scissor Sisters, etc.

Finally, she almost exclusively listens to vinyl, so there's a lot of more recent stuff she hasn't heard.

I am now making a mix for her. What should I put on it?

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Tori Alamaze's "Don't Cha" owns this mix!

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

I would put "Hollerback Girl" on it just to see her reaction.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Sulk-era Associates (try "18 Karat Love Affair" or the cover of "Love Hangover"), something from Lamb's first two albums, Sparks's "Something For the Girl With Everything"...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

OMG...

Lil' Scrappy - Be Real

It's like a crunk/hair metal ballad all mixed into one.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

"Tall Cans in the Air" by the Transplants.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

That song rules.

"Ladyfingers" by the Fever

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Thanks all! If I could ask, though, when responding, please assume that I'm not familiar with the song (as is the case with everything listed here so far except the Gwen) and make your case in some way for why it would be appropriate, as Hari did.

But these are sounding excellent.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Redd Kross "Zira (Call Out My Name)" over-the-top ironic-glam love song about a character from Planet Of The Apes that should appeal to her Darkness-loving side

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Hahah Miccio VERY OTM on that one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Reasons to include something from the first two Lamb albums:

These are perhaps the only albums of that time to carve out a distinct identity amidst the trip-hop/drum-n-bass crossover artist glut. Alternating between lush romanticism and clinical beat pounding, Lamb put together some of the most heart-rending, inviting paeans to life on those first two albums. Seek out in particular "Lusty", "Gorecki", "Feela" and "Cotton Wool" from the first album and "B-Line", "Little Things", "Softly", "Bonfire" and "Alien" from the second album.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

So you think this would appeal to her goth side, Dan?

She's been listening to Tricky lately, but definitely Pre-Millenium Tension rather than the first one...

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Reasons for including "Don't Cha" are explained by Mr. Sherburne much better than i ever could in his "Goth 'N B" post:
http://phs.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004680.html

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

So you think this would appeal to her goth side, Dan?

Yes. A lot of the first album especially is an odd mix of the uplifting and the muscularly oppressive.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

This is the mix I just made for my doorman, Eli...who thinks Velvet Revolver and Marilyn Manson invented sliced bread.

DISC ONE:
Accept - "Fast as a Shark"
Bad Brains - "Pay to Cum"
Killing Joke - "Blood on Your Hands"
Cop Shoot Cop - "Shine On Elizabeth"
Barkmarket - "Visible Cow"
Prong - "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck"
Surgery - "Off the A-List"
Bad Brains - "Soul Craft"
Firewater - "Get Out of My Head (Ritalin Mix)"
Belfegore - "All That I Wanted"
Venom - "Rip Ride"
Shellac - "the Watch Song"
Killing Joke - "Change"
the Jesus Lizard - "Chrome"
Kraut - "Juvenile Justice"
Headcount - "1000 Miles"
the Stranglers - "5ive Minutes"
Daisy Chainsaw - "I Feel Insane"
Cop Shoot Cop - "Interference"
GG Allin & the Murder Junkies - "Die when you Die"
the MC5 - "Black to Comm"

DISC TWO:
World Domination Enterprises - "Asbestos Lead Asbestos"
Skeleton Key - "The World's Most Famous Undertaker"
Husker Du - "Divide & Conquer"
the Vibrators - "Dragnet"
the Saints - "I'm Stranded"
Corrosion of Conformity - "Clean my Wounds"
Bad Brains - "Don't Bother Me"
Fear - "Null Detector (live"
Karp - "Bacon Industry"
the Red EXpendables - "One Regret"
NomeansNo - "It's Catching Up"
Descendents - "Suburban Home"
SOA - "Blackout"
the Jesus Lizard - "Cold Water"
Paska - "Ace of Spades"
Sham 69 - "Borstal Breakout"
the Stranglers - "Burning Up Time (live)"
the Stooges - "Loose"
Killing Joke - "Money is Not Our God"
Cop Shoot Cop - "Two at a Time"
the Wildhearts - "Suckerpunch"
Bad Brains - "I Against I"
Pailhead - "I Will Refuse"
the Damned - "Neat Neat Neat"
Circle Jerks - "Behind the Door"
Death from Above - "Dead Womb"
the Plasmatics - "Masterplan (live)"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

We are all forget something crucial:

Pig "Never Forget"

..basically it sounds like Foetus covering "If I Was Ur Girlfriend"

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

you know, when I read the title and description, I thought "This sounds like Dan and Ned's long-lost female triplet."

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

deftones?

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Man, that Li'l Scrappy song is horrible. Haven't been able to track down anything else, unfortunately.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

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