mix cds from my musicology class

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.

Is this an undergrad class? Kinda dread to think of what mix I'd have made at 19/20/21.

Anyway this thread is amazing.

maybe a companion "what would yr musicology mix cd look like" thread would be interesting

9 >>>>>>>>>> 5 > the rest

yeah its like, THE entry level class for musicology, no prereqs. i took it cause it fit my schedule and i needed a 3 hour elective - also i know the teach and like him

im glad 5 is so popular here cause i was seriously loling while i was listening to it

seems the most ilxory to me

i dunno s&c would properly troll and have people asking musicology type questions

tbh this class is nice cause it gives me a break from the forestry shit which is getting heated and busting my hump atm

you had a mastectomy???

i wish, would be an improvement over some of my silvics assignments

would also make it easier to carry the equipment

13. 311 – “You Get Worked”
14. AWFUL EMO “WONDERWALL” COVER
17. Alanis Morrissette – some kinda REMIX of “You Oughta Know”!!!
18. Gym Class Heroes – “Under The Bridge” (Red Hot Chili Peppers cover)!!!!!!!

never forget

i wouldve just junked mix 6 tbh

junked it how, thrown it away after listening?!

i started that thread tbh! xpost

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 6:03 PM

ha

I stop myself from bumping that thread all the time just to keep it in new answers I listen to the pygmies all the all the all the time

roxy you have this one? it rivals the turnbull CDs

http://holywarbles.blogspot.com/2010/10/inedit-cameroon-bedzan-pygmies-from.html

oops! not that one. have to hear that one. meant this one:

http://holywarbles.blogspot.com/2010/11/cameroon-baka-pygmy-music-musical-atlas.html

14. AWFUL EMO “WONDERWALL” COVER

was this ryan adams??

no it was an emo BAND tbh, adams' is solo right?

tbh, the first thing I thought when I read Mix 5 was "wkiw"