J-Spot

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Member Since: 4/11/2004
Total Mixes: 22
Total Feedback: 37

Other Mixes By J-Spot

CD | Alternative - Indie Rock
CD | Alternative - Indie Rock
CD | Alternative - Indie Rock
CD | Single Artist

Lullabies to Suicides

Artist Song
Pedro the Lion  Criticism as Inspiration 
Ben Folds Five  Mess 
Songs: Ohia  Coxcomb Red 
The Whitlams  Cries too Hard 
Soul Coughing  Pensacola 
Damien Rice  The Blower's Daughter 
Grandaddy  Saddest vacant Lot in all the World 
Red House Painters  Have you Forgotten? 
Gary Jules  Mad World 
Elliott Smith  Between the Bars 
XTC  Dear God 
Guided by Voices  Drinker's Peace 
Death Cab for Cutie  Transatlanticism 
Beck  Lost Cause 

Comment:

To drop all modesty, this is perhaps the finest mix I have ever made for myself. It all comes together and loosely tells a story of bad relationships, be they with God, alcohol, oneself, or members of the opposite sex. It works great as an album to just sit down and absorb, or as something to put on as you lay down to sleep.

In a few cases these songs were blended together. The opening piano of track seven comes in over the final line of track 6 to cover up the fact that "Cannonball" originally did so on the album. The clatter that bridges the song before and after track 13 on its album is maintained, fading in over the final note of "Drinker's peace" and then fading out into the opening noise on "Lost Cause." It's an effect that works very well, in my humblest of opinions.

Feedback:

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Joe Gillis1
Date: 7/8/2004
In my humble opinion: Devastating (in the best possible sense).
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Rikku
Date: 9/9/2004
awesome. i'd like to trade for this.
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NobodyNowhere
Date: 10/7/2004
Totally see you on the blending together of songs. I can't make anything anymore without blending the outro noise of one song into the intro noise of another. Cheers to "Mess" as well! Thanks!
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jbill
Date: 12/23/2004
This is some sad shit. I dig.