russ wait

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Member Since: 9/25/2003
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Cassette | Mixed Genre
Cassette | Mixed Genre

Duh-Duh Duh Duh Dah-Dah Dah Dah : Frank II

Side A
Artist Song
Lou Reed  Kill Your Sons 
Flaming Lips  Talin Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues 
Matthew Sweet  Sick of Myself 
Steve Earle  Valentine's Day ( live acoustic) 
Beatles  Ob La Di, Ob La Da 
Mick Jagger  Memo From Turner 
Bob Dylan  Queen Jane Approximately 
Gumball  The Damage Done 
Jefferson Airplane  Embryonic Journey 
Porn Orchard  Why Can't I Touch It 
Fudge Tunnel  Sunshine of Your Love 
Ramones   My Back Pages 
Gumball  New Rose 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Neil Young  Powderfinger (live) 
Grateful Dead  New Speedway Boogie (alt.) 
Funkadelic  Can You Get to That 
Tom Waits  9th and Hennepin/Gun St. Girl 
Dandy Warhols  Bohemian Like You 
Bruce Springsteen  You Can Look ( But You Better Not Touch) 
Warren Zevon  Excitable Boy 
Elvis!  I'm Movin' On (alt. vocal) 
Rhett Miller  World Inside the World 
Lou Reed  Who Am I ( Tripitena's Song) 
Lonnie Mack  Oreo Cookie Blues 
   
   

Comment:

Round two of this Frankenstein thing. You think you know your music collection, then you take one of these challenges. ( Lullaby? *Fuck* me!) Oh yeah, the title is s'posed to a phoneticized take on the opening notes of Edgar Winter's " Frankenstein." 1) Last record bought: These unreleased versions make me pull my remaining hairs out. Who are these nitwits running record labels? 2) Blues: Yeah, there's a parenthetical subtitle to this track, but how much label space did you expect me to take, anyway? 3) Morning motivator: Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend/Altered Beast/100% Fun trifecta is just pop heaven. 4) Romantic song: You're Sara Earle: Steve writes this song for you b/c he can't get it together to get you a present. Do you take it to heart and love him more OR do you say, " You write songs all day long, I want my roses, asshole!" 5) Earliest song: Back to the Beatles-- otherwise it was disco ( I'm a child of the 70s, what can I say?)6) Song from Film: " Memo From Turner" probably best Stones tune not written by Stones. ( Jagger/Cooder.) 7) Favorite band: I had to include a track from " Highway 61" since that 500 Best Albums list is out and I'm sorry but " Sgt. Pepper's" just isn't the best album ever. This is. Or that first Velvet Underground. " Sgt Pepper's isn't even the best Beatles album-- "Revover" is much better! 8) Artist you don't like, song you do: I used to sorta like Gumball, but this was the only track on the major label debut I could stomach. 9) Lullaby: For all the head-scratchers, al I can say is, Jorma Kaukonen composed this in tribute to his son's birth, so... 10) Funny song; This almost made category #8. Still, calling Larry King and making the lyric of the Buzzcocks classic into a question for him is pure genius. This tune cracks me up every time. 11) Good covers: Tape time left gets you three-- Fudge Tunnel, an otherwise forgettable grindcore combo sluges up Cream; Ramones set Dylan to maximum warp; and Gumball execute a fairly pointless version of the Damned, which features J Mascis on the spoken intro. Those are *good* covers, yes? 12) Song reminds you of school: It's 1981 and I'm in 8th grade. I've just recovered from bubblegum and discovered serious rock music. The l;ocal rock outlet has Rust Never Sleeps in heavy rotation and I hear " Powderfinger" and become an instant Neil Young convert. This remains my all-time favorite Neil tune. 13) Guilty pleasure: I'm not exactly ashamed of the Grateful Dead, but I don't talk about them much, b/c people always misunderstand. 14) FUNKY: Funkadelic-- what else can I say? 15) Rainy Day song: It's Tom Waits, contemporary master of the rainy day song and it's from RAIN DOGS... 16) Happy-no-matter-when: Some people knock me as too mellow and down, musically. This ain't. 17) " Look" in the title: Again sacrificing obvious for the sheer relief of finding something. 18) Dead Rockers Society: In my quest not to use something obvious, I found Mr. Zevon and then had to scold myself when I exulted, " Warren Zevon's dead!" 19) Elvis!: Apart from " If I Can Dream" you just can't go wrong with Elvis. 20) Wildcard: abigail_dice sez you can't have too much ryan adams or rhett miler in a mix, so even tho I used this track recently elsewhere, I'm letting abigail take the fall for itr being here. Thanks, abigail. And then I started over, as you can see for yourself...

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Dom1
Date: 11/22/2003
Some good stuff here!
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French Connection
Date: 11/23/2003
TrTs Bien, thanks for the track explanations too!