tjarrett

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Member Since: 1/16/2003
Total Mixes: 55
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Cassette | Alternative - College Rock
Playlist | Mixed Genre
Playlist | Alternative - College Rock
MP3 Playlist | Mixed Genre

decades longer than you

Artist Song
Thelonious Monk  Abide With Me  
Alex Chilton  Make a Little Love  
Buddy Holly  Not Fade Away  
Elvis Presley  Coming In Loaded 
Beck  Hell Yes  
Quincy Jones with Bill Cosby  Hikky-Burr 
Mike Doughty  Move On 
The Shins  The New Slang 
Telepopmusik  Breathe  
New Order  Krafty  
Billions McMillions  Twisted Nerve 
Deerhoof  Panda Panda Panda  
Spoon  I Turn My Camera On  
Jeff Buckley  Be My Husband 
Marianne Faithfull  There Is A Ghost  
Sonic Youth  I Love You Golden Blue  
The Mendoza Line  Let's Not Talk About It  
Iron & Wine  Evening on the Ground (Lilith's Song)  
Robert Sean Leonard  The Lonely 1 
Liz Phair  Explain It To Me  
Big Star  What's Going Ahn  
Bj÷rk  Show Me Forgiveness  

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This is the best band Monk ever had (after his work with Diz and Bird), with John Coltrane, Gigi Gryce, and Coleman Hawkins on sax, Ray Copeland on trumpet, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Art Blakey on drums. But this cut doesn't have the rhythm section--it's a reading of the 19th century hymn for four horns that is toe-curlingly good and too brief.
From the sublime to the ridiculously sublime, Alex Chilton's late-80s cover of Lowell Fulsom's pimptastic classic also features a tight horn section; that's where the similarities end, though.
The next track continues the retro groove but knocks all the dust off. There's not a finer song ever been sung, and Buddy Holly shows all his edge here. A classic.
The King picks up the rhythm next, with the finest Friday night drinking song ever written (even if it wasn't intended that way). A splendid goof.
Another goof and a spectacle of an entirely different sort, with Beck and Christina Ricci (doing her finest Japanese schoolgirl impression) trading non sequiturs over fat 90's style beats. "Your beat is nice," indeed.
One last grin-inducer, also featuring non sequiturs over fat beats. Here, though, the beats are courtesy Quincy Jones's late-1960s jazz combo, and the non sequitur man is Bill Cosby, scatting about "gonna get me some roast" something or other.
Continuing with the vocal scat theme, Mike Doughty downshifts the tempo a little bit with a fine na-na-na chorus in service of the great Lost Cause of 2004. Good acoustic sound. As is customary, there are some fine one liners: "I love my country so much, man, like an exasperating friend" is a new motto.
If Doughty was na-na-naing along, the fellows of the Shins take "doo-doo-doo" to an art form.
A complete shift, this one into electronica. This track is no less great for its having appeared in a Mitsubishi commercial.
You'd expect New Order to continue the electronica theme, but they've got guitars and they're going to use them. Not profound, but it manages to articulate a good deal of what I'm thinking now that I'm working after a nine-month job search. Plus it's eminently singalong material.
More trance beats, this time mashed up with the whistle theme from "Kill Bill" (as well as some dialog).
Another big shift, into the insanely great grin-inducing noise of Deerhoof.
You want to keep the grin as Spoon do their finest impression of Prince (or the Bee Gees). But it's a legitimately great song with a fine funk falsetto and bass that makes the booty move.
Jeff Buckley picks up the beat with body percussion and turns in a spine-tingling solo performance (no guitar) of this blues classic from his 1993 Sin-é sessions.
Marianne Faithfull continues tingling the spine with this Nick Cave-penned track.
If the hairs on your arm aren't standing up after Kim Gordon's first verse in this track, check your pulse.
The Mendoza Line let the tension ebb with their disquieted yet warm minor key minor classic here.
The standout track from Iron & Wine's recent _Woman King_ EP. Dueling fiddle and guitar over a modern reinterpretation of the story of Lilith.
The irony switch is completely off with Robert Sean Leonard's affecting performance of this Wilco ballad.
I can't believe it's taken this long for me to include "Explain It To Me" on a mix. Long one of my favorite early Liz Phair tracks for its compressed lyrics and expansive melody line, it just seemed to fit here and provides the mix title.
Another Alex Chilton high point, expressing a male opposing perspective to Liz's plaintive request. In this world, neither the men nor the women know what's going on.
Finally, a high point from Bjork's _Medulla_. No vocal percussion or studio trickery, just Bjork's spectacular voice with a stark plea for "forgiveness for having lost faith in myself." I think that's what this mix is all about, actually.

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piecewise
Date: 5/26/2005
Hahaha...did you make the image? Hilarious.
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tjarrett
Date: 5/26/2005
No--and I should have posted the link right away, but I ran out of room in the description. The full strip is funnier: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=56

The author, Jeph Jaques, is a comic genius, and the art has gotten incredible over the three or so years of the strip. Highly recommended for fans of indie music.
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bungeeless jumper
Date: 5/26/2005
love the mix and the comments:)
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Dj Bootleg
Date: 5/26/2005
Well thought out. Nice mix!
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Salman1
Date: 5/26/2005
Great mix.
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hemizen
Date: 5/26/2005
Lots of good stuff on this.
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p the swede
Date: 5/29/2005
impressive