mix cds from my musicology class

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are you supposed to make assumptions about the person based on what they put on their cd? Like is it about self-presentation?

i dont think youre SUPPOSED to make certain assumptions about the person

assumptions will be made and examined imo

oh sorry you didnt say "certain"

i mean, isn't that kinda the function of the mix cd though? to use a collection of songs to "say something" about yourself to the other person, assuming it's a cd you're making for another person. i totally think you should make assumptions about the people.

is the point of the class for one person to romance the whole class

or is it more like speed dating

like i think i'd make up stories about the people and those would be my responses.

one person romancing = mix 3 guy iirc, he is obv trying to!

yes, to sarahel but the mixes are anonymous so its odd
and i dont think we're really supposed to try to figure out what the stuff is (titles, artists) - i just did that. oopz

xpost again: once i figured out mix 3 guy was who he was my idea about the person was totally BLOWN - i totally thought i had the person's number and i was way off. the only mildly interesting thing so far in this project so far was meeting that guy while listening to his CD and having my perception of it completely shift.

like, that's the only thing im certain im going to write about thus far

mix 3 is the best so far

i wld h8 2 have been in this class, honestly i wld just fail this assingment

all told and even though i hate 1/2 of it mix 4 is my favorite so far because it introduced me to something i like tbh (el guincho), i also like amadou so

its also short

last mix for today:

MIX SEVEN

1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “American Girl”
2. Some kind of instrumental oompah oompah thing with lots of trumpet and shaker
3. Jimi Hendrix – “Fire”
4. Carpenters – “It’s Going to Take Some Time”
5. Very fast&jazzy skiffle-ish instrumental w/palm-muted ukes.
6. Beck – “Go It Alone”
7. Lauryn Hill – “Everything is Everything”
8. Instrumental: mid-tempo jazzy fiddle number.
9. Some kind of German (?) arena rock band with lots of clapping and hand drums.
10. Michael Buble & Nelly Furtado – “Quando Quando Quando”
11. Some kind of Italian (?) operatic pop. Male singer.
12. “Written in the Stars” from the Broadway musical Aida
13. Elvis Crespo – "Suavemente"
14. Sarah Vaughan – “It’s Magic”
15. Les Escrocs – “Assedic”
16. Very simple piano – maybe a standard but I can’t recognize it.
17. Barbra Streisand – “Where Is It Written” – HELL YEAH
18. Earth, Wind and Fire - “Got To Get You Into My Life” - ABOMINABLE
19. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – “Walk Like A Man”

really like that les escrocs song tbh
have a strong feeling this CD is by the girl in class who is a first year vocal major and chooses to go by the name "Liza"

a couple of these seem like they are struggling to be diverse - mine can/will be accused of that more than any of them though im sure

i mean mine has krayzie bone, beherit and mbuti pygmies lol

sorry classmates at least its short

i like "mad world"

i think where you were saying ppl only really want to know what ppl think of their mixes, and not really to listen closely to other ppl's, wld be my own secret wish. but id feel really guilty about that & also unsure of what 'my mix says about me' & not want to make anything.

i think mix one wld be so much better if it wasnt radiohead.

i think mix 1 is kinda perfect that it is radiohead actually

i like mad world too

xpost i was just about to say, i think it is perfect and esp that it was the FIRST ONE

ayo I had to do a dumb mixtape project like this in high school, except the gist of it was to write a paragraph about how each song related to my life. I filled it with righteous shit like Candlebox, Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Default, Barenaked Ladies, P.O.D., System of a Down, and FASTBALL — carefully culled from my collection of ≈ 15 CD's and tapes. I don't pity my teacher though, because she made the class sit through her favorite Indigo Girls and John Mellencamp songs while she reminisced about ex-boyfriends and dying grandparents. ugh.

haha i had to do that as well in high school, w/ the writing about how it was to do with me/my life - we also had to present one song from it w/ a short speech, i thought i was some kind of huge rebel playing some shitty pop punk song iirc

jesus x @ your teacher tho

lol, but with that approach at least there was no hiding the fact that it was all about ME ME ME ME ME toddlers trying to impress each other and construct identities out of Offspring songs. on the other hand your anonymous mixtape swap is just baffling. I mean are you at least allowed to go into the sociology of college kids' musical tastes as long as you don't get too judgmental about any particular classmate/mixtape? if your professor expects a musicological analysis of fucking John Mayer, then I feel bad for you, bro.

oh man i had to do this with a philosophy of musical aesthetics class that i fucking hated and i was such a bastard w/my mix. it was a class that was half music majors and half upper level philo dudes and it was just terrible, it was supposed to be our fun end of semester project and it went on for a week of evening classes, and we did our best to get horrifiyingly drunk before class every night and then just unload horrors on all the classical composition dudes, the last night my friend adam snuck off in the bathroom of the bar and took so many muscle relaxants that we had to go lay him down in the backseat of his car. i wonder if i still have the tracklist somewhere.

hahaha MIX FIVE!!

if i was in this class my mix would be an hour of chopped & screwed music just to be a total troll

my prof was a world renowned harpsichordist (?) and linguistic philosopher and made this painful effort to head nod and groove with everything that was played, it was hilarious and terribly embarrassing all at once.

haha welll my teacher in class yesterday was like "wow, these mixes are really...different from other years!!" and was doing this horrible face mask smile, brave-face-putting-on type thing and nodding furiously

from what my musicology friend said and that^ i think maybe now that the class has no pre-req its just got an influx of dumbasses or w/e

xpost my teacher nods to EVERYTHING and kinda rocks on his feet

I mean are you at least allowed to go into the sociology of college kids' musical tastes

we're allowed to do wtf ever afaict

MIX EIGHT

1. Stevie Wonder - "Sir Duke"
2. Patty Griffn - "Let Him Fly"
3. Kings of Leon - "Fans"
4. Feist - "Inside and Out" (BeeGees cover)
5. Foster the People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
6. Mumford and Sons - "Timshel"
7. Ray Charles - "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Live)
8. Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - "Something, Somewhere, Sometime"
9. Kanye West - "All Falls Down"
10. fun. - "All the Pretty Girls"
11. Jukebox the Ghost - "Victoria"
12. Lauryn Hill - "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
13. Nickel Creek - "Helena"
14. The Strokes - "What Ever Happened?"
15. The Wailin' Jennys - "One Voice"
16. Gabe Dixon Band - "Sirens"
17. Phoenix - "Lasso"
18. The Weepies - "Gotta Have You"
19. Bill Withers - "Aint No Sunshine"
20. The Avett Brothers - "The Ballad of Love and Hate"
21. Sam Cooke - "Wonderful World"
22. James Taylor - "Sweet Baby James"

a lot easier to get through. kinda like that "pumped up kicks" song tbh, wtf kind of name is Foster the People tho? now that ive heard mum&sons i can participate in that clusterfuck thread!!

i love this thread

iirc that's the one song on the mum&sons album that doesn't turn into a big stompy arena rock thing

this thread is great btw, i like to try to imagine what these people are like though a lot of them so far are just kinda generic stereotypical college student taste

MIX NINE

1. Amadou et Mariam - "Coulibaby"
2. Mbuti Pgymies of the Ituri Rainforest - "Elephant Hunting Song"
3. Underworld - "Jumbo"
4. Dark Ages - "Rats"
5. Toots & the Maytals - "Sweet and Dandy"
6. Beherit - "Down There"
7. Burning Spear - "Jah No Dead"
8. Gillian Welch - "I Wanna Sing That Rock and Roll"
9. Os Tribalistas - "Ja Sei Namorar"
10. Satanic Warmaster - "Raging Winter"
11. Marc Ribot - "I Fall to Pieces"
12. Barbara Streisand and Judy Garland - "Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again"
13. Krayzie Bone - "Kneight Ridaz Wuz Here"

sorry BARBRA

would listen

that's yours, roxy, isn't it?

yep

lol, knew it

;)

just kind of a jumble of some of my fave songs tbh. i really like the way the first 3 songs flow together, after that just said fuck it and threw them on there, its not like anyone will listen to them all the way through anyway tbh

did you get the mbuti pygmy thing from milton p?

no, i got into it after reading turnbull's "forest people", ituri rainforest is an interest of mine - hope to do some work there someday (its kinda my life's ultimate goal tbh)

have talked to milton p about it on Mbuti pygmy chanting - Classic or Badass? tho

ok that's what i remember

if i was in this class my mix would be an hour of chopped & screwed music just to be a total troll

― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 05:02 (12 hours ago) Bookmark

thought exactly the same thing!!!

great thread :) wl to yours rox

i started that thread tbh! xpost

nah - to be a total troll, you'd probably do a mix of something like Bruce Haack's children's record

LOL

it's actually really great -- the chorus about tool use reminds me a little of the song "Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage"

mix five is great, get that person to post here

bruce haack's children's records would show up on my actual mix CD, even before I read these last few posts.

MIX TWENTY FOUR

1. Weezer – “My Best Friend”
2. Queen – “You’re My Best Friend”
3. Rembrandts- “I’ll Be There For You”
4. “With A Little Help From My Friends”
5. U2 – “With or Without You”
6. Cake – “Friend is a 4 Letter Word”
7. Taylor Swift – “I’d Lie”
8. Jason Mraz ft. Colbie Caillat – “Lucky”
9. Incubus – “Dig”
10. Mumford and Sons – “White Blank Page”
11. Avril Lavigne – “Complicated”
12. Natasha Bedingfield – “Wild Horses”
13. Colbie Caillat – “I Never Told You”
14. The Calling – “I’ll Go Wherever You May Go”
15. Sarah McLachlan – “I Will Remember You”
16. Dandy Warhols – “We Used To Be Friends”

MIX TWENTY FIVE

1. Southern Culture on the Skids – “Too Much Pork”
2. Cranberries – “Salvation”
3. Beck – “New Pollution”
4. Them Crooked Vultures – “New Fang”
5. Beatles – “Mean Mr. Mustard”
6. Junius – “A Word Could Kill Her"
7. The Black Keys – “Psychotic Girl”
8. Devandra Banhart – “Now That I Know”
9. El-P – “How to Serve Man”
10. MeWithoutYou – “January 1979”
11. The Cure – “Just Like heaven”
12. Interpol – “Obstacle 1”
13. Cat Power – “Metal Heart”
14. Broken Social Scene – “7/4 Shoreline”
15. Instrumental, quiet-quiet-loud, post-rock/ post-punk.
16. Old rock and roll, “Drinking All My Troubles Away.” Don’t know who.
17. Johnny Cash – “Big River”
18. Smashing Pumpkins – “1979”

MIX TWENTY SIX

1. Mum – “Green Grass of Tunnel”
2. La Bionda – “Wanna Be Your Lover”
3. track with female harmonies and angular, sparse guitars. Keeps saying “no more fiction.” Synthesized sax at the end.
4. School of Seven Bells – “Half Asleep”
5. Kleerup ft. Lykke Li – “Until We Bleed”
6. Fever Ray – “If I Had A Heart”
7. Glass Candy – “Digital Versicolor”
8. Bowie/Iggy Pop – ‘Nightclubbing”

cool mix tbh

MIX TWENTY SEVEN

1. Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.”
2. “Lithium” (Nirvana cover) – female voice and piano. Weird cover.
3. Classic rock-sounding instrumental with drum solo.
4. Very fast jazz number – trio. Bass, drums and piano.
5. The Bird and the Bee – “Preparedness”
6. Instrumental jazz with saxophone, guitar and soft drums.
7. Classical piano, sounds Bach-ish and familiar, lots of flourishes.
8. Ministry – “Jesus Built My Hotrod”
9. An English version of “Waters of March” with a female voice.
10. Elis Regina and Carlos Jobim – “Waters of March”
11. Instrumental electric funk.
12. Coldplay – “Fix You”
13. Journey – “Don’t Stop Believing”
14. Rick Astley – “Never Gonna Give You Up”
15. Rage Against the Machine – “Testify”
16. Jazzy instrumental with drums bass and sax.
17. Bessie Smith – “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home”
18. Blossom Dearie – “Corcovado”

MIX TWENTY EIGHT

1. Electronic instrumental, sounds like Fourtet.
2. Instrumental with phasing 8-bit noises and synthesized bird sounds.
3. It’s Godspeed You Black Emperor, but I don’t know what track.
4. Modern disco, really detached and minimalist.
5. Sounds like a Norah Jones song with no vocals. High pitched guitar accents, pinch harmonics.
6. Matisyahu – “King Without a Crown”
7. Instrumental with TONS of Hammond B-3 and phase-y guitar.
8. “Mystery Train” cover – not sure who? Sounds new.
9. Michael Jackson – “Rock With You”
10. Gorillaz – “Dirty Harry”
11. Steve Miller Band – “Jungle Love”
12. Van Morrison – “The Way Young Lovers Do”
13. Modest Mouse – “All Nite Diner”
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Suck My Kiss”
15. White Zombie – “Thunder Kiss ‘69”
16. 311 – “Speak Easy”
17. Muse – “Space Dementia”

My teacher's cd had Ice Cube on it. I didn't write down all the tracks.

Mix 26 seems fun but if it was me I'd have used the Grace Jones version of Nightclubbing

track 3 on that one sounds like Essential Logic?

24 is kinda wtf

24 is horrible, just a thematic cd "about being friends"

MIX THIRTEEN

1. 30 seconds of guitar noise and human wailing
2. Proscriptor
3. 19 second Napalm Death song, not sure which one
4. Bleeeeak black metal, no vocals real drums, it's badass
5. G.G. Allin – “My Revenge”
6. Khanate – “Torching Khoroviev”
7. CANINUS – “Human Rawhide” – excerpt from the track. Grind w/ dog on vocals, if you haven't heard of this!
8. Ludicra?
9. a midi with goregrind vox – horrible and I don’t recognize it
10. SO.D. – “The Ballad of Jimi Hendrix” – controversial!
11. Annoying as fuck electro-grind with hiiiiigh pitched shrieking
12. Sounds like the Locust
13. Vreid – “Black Diamonds”
14. Swans - "Freak"
15. Agoraphobic Nosebleed??

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 5:21 PM bookmarkflaglink

I'm bumping this thread because I remembered it and this whole stupid class and experience while thinking about Ethan, who made this mix. Taking this class together put us on each other's radar. Later, his band started playing shows at my house, and "tall grindcore guy" turned into "Ethan." He moved to DC a few years ago——we'd always run into him at Deathfest, and crash with him when we played in town or went to a show up there. I found out a few days ago that he was very sick with an aggressive brain tumor; before anyone could process even that news, he died. He was honestly SO like this mix: hilarious and surprising. A relentlessly uplifting and interesting person to be around. So missed.