Curtis_Burns

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Member Since: 7/12/2002
Total Mixes: 451
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  • Submit Date: 8/4/2002
  • Format: CD
  • Category: Theme

Everything's Been Ruined by the Rain

Artist Song
Ad Libs  The Boy from New York City 
Home  Thunder & Lightning 
Lightning Bolt  Ride the Sky 
Sonic Youth  Lightnin' 
Abbey Lincoln  I've Got Thunder (And it Rings) 
Vernon Reid  Lightnin' 
Lightnin' Rod  Doriella Du Fontaine 
Faust  It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl 
God is My Co-Pilot  Thunder, Perfect Mind 
The Pixies  Where is My Mind? 
Pere Ubu  The Folly of Youth 
Tricky  Ghetto Youth 
Radiohead  Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was 
Iggy Pop  Death is Certain 
Jawbox  Paint Out the Light 
Elvis Costello  13 Steps Down 
Pussy Crush  Roofsurfin' 
Meat Puppets  Roof With a Hole 
Jeri Southern  Dancing on the Ceiling 

Comment:

Inspired by the story of Nathan Maddox, who, according to a NY Post story, was "killed by a lightning bolt...when he urged his friends to join him on a Little Italy rooftop to watch the storm come in." Reference URL - .

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lexxxicon
Date: 8/4/2002
fantabulous mix...i'd laugh if the story wasn't so tragic...but you've captured it perfectly!
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bufo alvarius
Date: 8/4/2002
Great mix, as always, Curtis. I especially like the Sonic Youth> Abbey Lincoln transition.
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The Misfit
Date: 8/4/2002
As I'm looking at this mix right now, the news blurb "2 Dead As Storms Sweep Through Area" is showing on the left of my screen. As Lou Christie sang, "Lightning's striking again..." Great mix!
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 8/4/2002
Misfit - You know, I intentionally left the Lou Christie song off of this mix only because it was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the story.
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artaud9
Date: 8/4/2002
opening with the ad-libs. masterful. on a whim you could have closed with "new yorks a lonely town". smile. you raise the bar relentlessly curtis.
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p the swede
Date: 8/4/2002
very morbid but at the same time nice, good work
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Peter Divito
Date: 8/4/2002
this looks pretty cool. i dig creative mixes like this that take something out of left field and build a soundtrack around it. well done!
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antbabe
Date: 8/4/2002
Nate was my cousin and best friend, and I'm just totally surprised that as I sit here waiting to fly to America that there is a mix about him... Somehow I can't really join in your fun making...
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 8/4/2002
Antbabe - My sympathies are with you. This mix was absolutely not intended to make fun of the tragedy, but, rather to build a narrattive, clumsily, insensitively perhaps, but, with no malice intended. I will certainly remove this mix if you like. Again, please accept my apologies and condolences.
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Geoffrey Holland
Date: 8/4/2002
a very sad story...sadder especially when someone so young and probably quite bright dies so stupidly.
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SueEW
Date: 8/4/2002
nice mix, but a totally sad story.