mixes of a musical nature

[thejunipertree]

I lament the loss of the grand mixed tape making of my youth. CD mixes just don't cut it, in my opinion.

Making playlists in iTunes, while still only a pale imitation, fulfills my need to catagorize songs according to my whim and internal attachments. Until tonight, I really only had two playlists. One was called, I Am Made of Awesome (for times when I am indeed feeling made of awesome) and the other is The Saddest Sound You've Ever Heard (which is obviously a collection of some seriously sad fucking songs.

Tonight I made one I called Frailty, Thy Name is Woman and it is dedicated to my prior romantic entanglements. I was originally going to put them into some sembelance of chronological order, but my brain started swimming at the idea and I scrapped the notion. Some songs are on here because said prior romantic entanglement put them on a mix to me (like the Sisters of Mercy and Weezer, those two particular tracks are not what I'd call omens of a healthy relationship), others I either sent to them or attached to them myself for various reasons.

Ava Adore, Smashing Pumpkins
O Superman, Laurie Anderson
This Is How I Disappear, My Chemical Romance
Who Are You?, Tom Waits
Pet Sematary, The Ramones
I'm Free Now, Morphine
Ex Lover's Lover, Voltaire
Song About An Angel, Sunny Day Real Estate
From Here On Out, Rise Cecilia
Disintegration, The Cure
La La Love You, The Pixies
Possession, Sarah McLachlan
You Are The Everything, REM
If Only, Information Society
When I Disappear, stellastarr*
Straight To You, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Last Day of Our Acquaintance, Sinead O'Connor
Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying, Belle and Sebastian
Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart, Nick Cave
Gorecki, Lamb
Troy, Sinead O'Connor
Wish You Were Here, Rasputina
Paris and Rome, The Cranes
Mechanical Animals, Marilyn Manson
Little 15, Depeche Mode
Hey Jealousy, Gin Blossoms (this song never fails to make me start snickering)
Things About You, Radiohead
The Last Beat of My Heart, Siouxsie and the Banshees
Halah, Mazzy Star
Do You Take This Man?, Diamanda Galas
Reptile, The Church
I've Been Loving You Too Long, Otis Redding
When You Don't See Me, Sisters of Mercy
This Love, Pantera
No One Else, Weezer
A Letter to Elise, The Cure
Stars, Hum

Comments

[diamond-j.livejournal.com]

Very nice.

the deal

[tony-s.livejournal.com]

Its like this... I've spent time thinking about this one... seriously... Making a mix tape is a lost art form. You had to try to calculate the perfect timing for the songs on one side of a tape and you had to sit there with it while you recorded it. How many times did we sit together while one or the other of us made a mix? We were being deep and talking about important shit that *other* people weren't gonna get, and they certainly weren't going to get the music we were into, man. Seriously, think about that. That's the loss of the mix tape with cd technology. You know before you start recording it whether or not its going to fit on the cd... you could make mixes with dichotomous themed sides. I've made 4 sided mixes (2 tapes. 1 with sides 1 and 3 and 2 with sides 2 and 4.)

yeah. I'm getting wistful.

Also, what's up with liking Pantera?