doublefourtime

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Member Since: 1/29/2006
Total Mixes: 20
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just for one day?

Artist Song
The Simpsons  Save Me Superman! 
David Bowie  Heroes 
Bob Dylan  The Times They Are A-Changin' (Unplugged) 
The Arcade Fire  Wake Up 
The Beatles  Revolution 
Ben Lee  We're All In This Together 
Oasis  Live Forever 
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah  Details Of The War 
Dar Williams  The Great Unknown 
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah  Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood 
Red Hot Chili Peppers  Save The Population 
Bloc Party  Pioneers 
Red Hot Chili Peppers  Fortune Faded 
Jill Sobule  Heroes (Live) 
Bob Dylan  A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 
Dashboard Confessional  The Good Fight 
Tom McRae  End Of The World News (Dose Me Up) 
The Postal Service  We Will Become Silhouettes 
Tom McRae  Stronger Than Dirt 
The Fullerenes  Superpowers 
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Comment:

This was supposed to be an explicitly [b]Heroes[/b] mix, but I couldn't quite get it work. A story began to emerge, so it's more a general superhero-type narrative.

01-02. Intro. Apart from the hopefulness of we could be heroes, just for one day the song doesn't really fit, but it was the inspiration for this mix and I was dying to use it.03-05. Beginnings. The stirring of "we're different, aren't we?" and their world-saving aims.07-08. Solidarity, yo. Made much simpler in this mix than it's usually portrayed. No grey areas here.09-11. Protect and serve, and the beginnings of the descent into war and chaos.12-15 Try and try again/shit hits the fan.16-19 Failure.20. But! Hope. i will still be here, when the dust has cleared.Bonus: "great scott!" the news reporters exclaim as she saves another kitten from a night in the rain.

Again, some of the tracks are extraneous - "We're All In This Together" is probably a tad too peppy for this mix - I'm sure I'll learn from my mistakes sometime.

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outfield
Date: 5/21/2007
i dig that you made a mix around one song. the choices are nice, and all together this is a solid cd. i might be a little biased because you have some of my favorites, but, all in all, great stuff. i love the track by track breakdown too, it's pretty stellar to see your thought process.
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deja_vu_all_over_again
Date: 5/21/2007
Damn - I had a superhero party a few weeks ago. This would have been useful!
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FoolThemAll
Date: 5/23/2007
Always like seeing Tom McRae on a mix.