Saaf

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Member Since: 11/6/2002
Total Mixes: 46
Total Feedback: 713

Other Mixes By Saaf

CD | Theme - Break Up
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CD | Alternative - Indie Rock
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CD | Alternative - Skate/Thrash
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CD | Classical
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Misleading Vividness

Artist Song
Lasse Lindh  +verlever Du HSrnĂ·sand Ss +velever Du Allt 
The Magic Numbers  Forever Lost 
Belle & Sebastian  Judy is a Dick Slap 
Kim Wilde  Kids in America 
The Sounds  Living in America 
Tsar  Calling All Destroyers 
Lena Philipsson  Lena Anthem 
Beck  Girl 
Puffy  Etaoin Shrdlu 
Yo La Tengo  Big Day Coming 
Yuki  Et Cetera 
Emiliana Torrini  To Be Free 
Thievery Corporation  All That We Perceive 
Kruder & Dorfmeister  Going Under 
The Streets  Blinded By the Lights 
Boards Of Canada  Chromakey Dreamcoat 
Love  Alone Again Or 

Comment:



This is a companion to an earlier compilation. Like that one, this one starts up, then goes down.
Thanks go out to Alzén, Conroy, and Tretchikoff.


Misleading Vividness is a fallacy in which a very small number of particularly dramatic events are taken to outweigh a significant amount of statistical evidence. This sort of "reasoning" has the following form:

Dramatic or vivid event X occurs (and is not in accord with the majority of the statistical evidence) .
Therefore events of type X are likely to occur.
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because the mere fact that an event is particularly vivid or dramatic does not make the event more likely to occur, especially in the face of significant statistical evidence.

People often accept this sort of "reasoning" because particularly vivid or dramatic cases tend to make a very strong impression on the human mind. For example, if a person survives a particularly awful plane crash, he might be inclined to believe that air travel is more dangerous than other forms of travel. After all, explosions and people dying around him will have a more significant impact on his mind than will the rather dull statistics that a person is more likely to be struck by lightning than killed in a plane crash.
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Feedback:

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hemizen
Date: 10/1/2006
Great stuff especially 2,8,10,13 & 17.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 10/1/2006
This is great. Thanks for the nod--I'm glad that the Streets song could be of use to you.
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blasikin
Date: 10/1/2006
Top mix, Saaf, and that artist is very cool. Love to hear it.
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Nomates
Date: 10/1/2006
Misleading or otherwise, this is indeed "vivid". You see, you even chose the correct adjective for me to use in describing the mix. What a helpful person you are.
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p the swede
Date: 10/2/2006
ha ha, HSrn÷sand och Lena Philipsson, knasigt, men kul och bra ssklart
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valis
Date: 10/2/2006
If it's half as vivid as the "earlier compilation" then this will go down a treat!
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groove366
Date: 10/2/2006
Lots of cool picks here. Looks like an interesting listen.
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FoolThemAll
Date: 10/2/2006
Great theme and some great choices to go with it. Especially like the Yo La Tengo and the Belle picks.
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Barrydali
Date: 10/2/2006
Superb, Love the last 4.
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DJ Karen Adams
Date: 10/2/2006
.::.Brilliant on all levels!.::.
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musicgnome
Date: 10/2/2006
Wonderful. 13 to 14 = sweet.
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Moe
Date: 10/2/2006
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12 dots!!!solid on all levels!

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Really like the Puffy, Magic Numbers, YLT and B&S. Wonderful cover art per your ususal.
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French Connection
Date: 10/2/2006
Like my imagination so I'm told, Vivid! Liking this immensely.
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sammyg123
Date: 10/2/2006
First, I must say I love your artwork. Vinyl Perspectives vol 4 was my screensaver for months! Your mixes are da bomb also, this being no exception. Can't say I've heard track 1 but it looks intruiging!
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Salman1
Date: 10/2/2006
Very cool stuff. Lots of killer stuff. Especially digging the Yo La Tengo and Belle and Sebastian picks.
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Sean Lally
Date: 10/2/2006
wow - much greatness here.
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GambleOn
Date: 10/3/2006
Really fantastic. Great cover too!
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deja_vu_all_over_again
Date: 10/3/2006
Impressive stuff!
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Aladasian The Meerkat
Date: 11/8/2006
I know that you commented on B-Mix #58 just a little over 11 months ago, but if you're still interested in hearing it, the link's right here.

Enjoy, dude. :*)~

(Please tell me if the zip file doesn't open for you... i had probs sending a zip of one of the albums i have on CD to a friend over Yahoo and he couldn't open it...)