tjarrett

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Member Since: 1/16/2003
Total Mixes: 55
Total Feedback: 22

Other Mixes By tjarrett

Cassette | Alternative - College Rock
Playlist | Mixed Genre
Playlist | Alternative - College Rock
MP3 Playlist | Mixed Genre

days that you choose to ignore

Artist Song
Funkadelic  What is Soul? 
Beck  Time Bomb 
Van Morrison  Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) 
Howlin' Wolf  Built for Comfort 
Miller Sisters  Someday You'll Pay 
The Beatles  You've Got to Hide Your Love Away 
Big Star  O My Soul 
Frank Zappa  Status Back Baby 
Feist  1234 
Magnet  Lonely No More 
The Long Winters  Fire Island, AK 
Radiohead  All I Need 
PJ Harvey  When Under Ether 
The Black Angels  Better Off Alone 
Kirsty Maccoll  A New England 
Morrissey  Everyday Is Like Sunday 
Nina Nastasia  Why Don't You Stay Home 
Jeff Buckley with Elizabeth Fraser  All Flowers In Time (Bend Towards the Sun) 
Beth Orton  Central Reservation (the Then Again Version) 
David Byrne  In the Future 

Comment:

This mix covers a lot of ground, but the loose thematic progression is summer into winter into darkness into light. Weird/obscure/nonalbum tracks include:
#2, an iTunes only single by Beck that blends a very nice fat beat with some excellent sha na nas, and thus segues nicely into "Jackie Wilson Said";
#5, a Sun Studios rarity collected on an eMusic-only (as far as I can tell) compilation, in which the harmonies are like the Delmore Brothers or perhaps the Collins Kids, but the lyric is like Medea;
#12, not rare but a pivotal track in the mix which shifts things forcibly downtempo, followed by the equally cheery #s 13 and 14;
another abrupt shift with #15, Kirsty Maccoll's first hit, a Billy Bragg cover;
#18, an unreleased collaboration between Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins--the song exists in one other radio bootleg in which Jeff performs it solo and both renditions are spinetingling--if only the song had survived their relationship to get a proper studio recording!--and finally...
#20, which in my mix is the version I took off my vinyl copy of Music from the Knee Plays because I started making this mix before the record was issued for the first time on CD late this fall.

Feedback:

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Funky Ratchet
Date: 12/30/2007
This looks phenomenal! Liking the Black Angels, Big Star, and Howlin' Wolf especially.
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EclecticCo
Date: 12/31/2007
ooowheee. Can't wait.
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singmetosleep
Date: 1/1/2008
All Flowers in time is probably my favorite song ever. And any mix with Big Star and the Beatles is absolutely epic. Great mix.
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Estaminet
Date: 1/6/2008
Oh, I absolutely approve. I like the idea of a SAD-inspired track progression, too. Can't wait to hear it.
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paulamoeba
Date: 1/27/2008
the latter half of this one has hooked me. and the Buckley/Fraser song is news to me. must be amazing !