An integral part of my fantasy scenario involving me getting to make a movie exactly the way I want includes getting one of my favorite bands to write and perform an original score. Since that's not likely to happen, I made a soundtrack to a fake film instead. It's also a personal "best-of" compilation that I can give to friends to indoctrinate them into the church of Clutch. All bow at the rythm of JP Gaster, the sonic massage of Dan Maines, the squealy harmonies of Tim Sult and the growly blues croons of Neil Fallon.
High school was a pretty magical age. Time was slower, things were bigger, and somehow the music you listened to was more important. I have a friend named Jim who was into Jimi Hendrix. It was kind of his thing. He scoured the downtown music shops for new imports or bootlegs and shared tales of rare virtuoso performances and drunken bar-room collaborations found in his adventures. He made me a mix-tape representing the ultimate Hendrix primer. I listened to that thing to death. Cut to 15 years later, me buying the new re-mastered discs and remembering the old songs from that tape. Still, to my mind, the tape was the correct order; the albums were wrong. So I went digging and found the thing, re-recorded it (plus one song). If you’re looking for a comprehensive introduction to Jimi's music, you've found it.
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A spooky pop melange in four movements.
So I heard that when they peeled the twisted remains of Jame Dean's 1955 Porsche Spyder apart from the 1950 Ford Tudor that slammed into it head on, thus ending young Dean's life and cementing his place in history, they found a queer plastic disc described by police at the scene as "kinda like a coaster but all shiny and futuristic." Little did they know, Dean had the world's first CD player in his car and this is what was in it on that fateful day in September.
You ever have those nights where you get home and it's late but you're too worked up to go to sleep? You need something to bring you down a bit, calm your nerves and heavy your eyelids before kicking off. That's what this mix is for.
A double album of holiday goodness, one stuck in the TV age and the other back when radio was king.
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Somebody asked me for some Lyrics Born to listen to once so I decided to throw together my favorite stuff of his three released albums in my own particular order. I think it makes the voltron super mega definitive Lyrics Born album of all time.
This is a straight-up mess of 30 rock songs. If you don't like rock, get the hell out.
Anyone that knows Death From Above records recognizes their unique blend of dance music and underground punk. This is my "awesome mix tape" of that sound, assmebled largely because I wanted to hear these songs in this way instead of their completed version one after another.
My tastes in hip-hop are very specific. This is a collection of autumnal cuts that work to create what I like about the genre. The track names are really the pumpkin carvings on the back cover, but those don't work too well in winamp. Call them whatever you want.
A prototypical day in the Summer heat, where everything's hot but you're always cool. I made this to collect my favorite songs that evoke that specific summer vibe. It's something that would take a few pages to explain adequately and can be felt much more clearly just by listening.
