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January 2012

 

  • January 2012

    Happy New Year, folks!
    For new members, here’s how it goes. Below there are some themes and a list of pairs. Pick a theme, find your name, and make a mix for the person you're matched with. You can discuss the theme beforehand with your partner or not, it’s up to you. Easy as that.

    Please read the Important Post in the Forum if you want a refresher on technical stuff and membership policy. (http://www.last.fm/group/The+Monthly+Mixtape/forum/45288/_/221537 )

    Every month, we have four optional theme categories. Categories stay the same, themes change monthly. Consider them suggestions if you don't know what kind of music to put together. Interpret the theme however you like. But most of the longtime members are fanatically creative in applying a theme.

    Share your theme ideas!

    This month I’m happy to introduce the first inductee of the Hermetic Order Of Alchemists. Give beautifulwaste a shout for posting the most mixes in 2011 (14!). I reminded beautifulwaste of her most recent theme suggestions, some of which went back to 2010, and she seemed surprised to hear they were hers. Anyway, her theme for your consideration is: The Plant Kingdom. Which, back in Jan 2010 was hot off the heels of an "Animal Kingdom" mix. Ah, memories...

    Our themes this month are:
    1. "Elementary" (is this too easy?) -
    .....EARTH, WIND, AIR & FIRE.....
    2. "Elixir of Life" (a.k.a. immortal themes that will not die) -
    .....ONE INSTRUMENT (your choice).....
    3. "Hermetic Order of Alchemists," no. 1: beautifulwaste -
    .....THE PLANT KINGDOM.....
    4. "Philosopher's Stone" (more challenging) -
    .....CREATE A STORY..... Song titles, read in sequence as a sentence (or paragraph?), tell a story. Bonus points if the mix flows nicely from song to song & manages to avoid being TOO eclectic.

    For you visual types, here's the picture of the month

    Now, for the pairings:
    crazystargrl - slogsdon
    muzikizum - Knirrie
    wallabyted - cthulubelle
    not0your0nerd - Tom_Meade
    Poppycrock - oz_tokyoeyes
    01010100 - Jewce
    ponchosqueal - sjp123abc
    vitreus - beautifulwaste
    yodel - blackadder_de
    martyrofevil - bassgoesbomb
    Chad-t - tougi2g
    candeecandee - KeelinJesus
    Karlientjeuh - scatterboo
    Mommabee68 - annodamydal
    sazzang - Marko_the_odd
    rosieragexo - daniloabp
    nikkyeahh - jonny_m

    get mixing!

    Artephius.FM

    Edited by Artephiusfm on 3 Feb 2012, 23:55
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  • Happy New Year Mixtapers!

    Well done to Arty Pharty on his succession to the throne, may his reign be long and fruitful. Now down to business...

    Plenty of good choices this month, so much so that i'm tempted to do at least another one but for the first i've opted for 'create a story' or in my case it's a rough musical rendition of the Lord's Prayer. Don't worry, i'm no God botherer looking for recruits, in fact i'm a man with no invisible means of support...

    So without further ado here is my mixtape for Knirrie...

    The Lord's Prayer

    1. Our Father Who Art In Heaven - The Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi
    2. Hallowed Be Thy Name - Mary Anne
    3. Kingdom Come - Tom Verlaine
    4. Love Thy Will Be Done - Martika
    5. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
    6. Here In Heaven - Sparks
    7. This Day - The Sleepy Jackson
    8. Take This Bread - The Felice Brothers
    9. Forgive Me - Le Loup
    10. Trespassin' - Skull Snaps
    11. Tempted - Squeeze
    12. Don't Give In - Steel Pulse
    13. Deliverance - Space
    14. 'Till Kingdom Come - Dead Meadow
    15. The Power & The Glory - Gentle Giant
    16. Forever & Ever - Demis Roussos
    17. Amen - Rotary Connection

    Listen

    DL

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  • hey cats. gonna quit this group. no time for makin mixes no more. have nice lives! n

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  • Here is my mix for yodel.

    Elements

    1. The Veils - Sit Down By The Fire
    2. Owl City - The Saltwater Room
    3. Divine Comedy - Love Is Lighter Than Air
    4. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Forest Fire
    5. Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Fight Fire With Fire
    6. Simple Minds - Waterfront
    7. Violent Femmes - Jesus Walking On The Water
    8. Acid House Kings - Under Water
    9. Badly Drawn Boy - Stone On The Water
    10. Super Furry Animals - Fire In My Heart
    11. Cara Dillon - Lark In The Clear Air
    12. Sophie Zelmani - Fire
    13. Johnny Flynn & Laura Marling - The Water
    14. PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
    15. Spiritualized - Soul On Fire
    16. The The - Out Of The Blue (Into The Fire)
    17. Jools Holland & KT Tunstall - Darkness On The Face Of The Earth
    18. Aztec Camera - Still On Fire
    19. The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
    20. Brooke Fraser - Something In The Water
    21. Jem - Down To Earth

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    • yodel said...
    • User
    • 13 Jan 2012, 19:33
    Here's my mix to blackadder_de. I tried to tell a story, let’s see if it works:



    Another Day

    01 - American Music Club - Another Morning [Love Songs For Patriots, 2004]
    02 - Damien Jurado - Nothing Is The News [Maraqopa, 2012]
    03 - Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk [Poses, 2001]
    04 - Dave Gahan - Saw Something [Hourglass, 2007]
    05 - Goldfrapp - Paper Bag [Felt Mountain, 2000]
    06 - Marissa Nadler - Under An Old Umbrella [The Saga Of Mayflower May, 2005]
    07 - Smoke City - Little Elina [Heroes of Nature, 2001]
    08 - Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know [Making Mirrors, 2011]
    09 - Radical Face - All Is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye) [The Bastards: Volume One, 2011]
    10 - Alejandro Escovedo - Slow Down [Real Animal, 2008]
    11 - Devendra Banhart - Heard Somebody Say [Cripple Crow, 2005]
    12 - Zero 7 - Distractions [Simple Things, 2001]
    13 - Laurie Anderson - My Eyes [Strange Angels, 1989]
    14 - DeVotchKa - Too Tired [How It Ends, 2004]
    15 - M. Ward - To Go Home [Post-War, 2006]
    16 - Barry Adamson - The Long Way Back Again [Stranger on the Sofa, 2006]
    17 - The Radio Dept. - David [Clinging To A Scheme, 2010]
    18 - Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Everytime I'm With You (feat. Jason Lytle) [Dark Night Of The Soul, 2009]
    19 - Jay-Jay Johanson - Believe In Us [Poison, 2000]

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  • Well played Yodel. I reckon if we all had the time and inclination we could come up with a pretty good novel...

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    • yodel said...
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    • 14 Jan 2012, 11:28
    Thank you muzikizum, so kind of you! ...and yeah, I wish ;)

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  • Once Upon A Time There Was A Man.
    He Was A Friend Of Mine, Who Drove The Red Sports Car Over The Hills And Far Away, With A Girl Like You, To Find The Sun.

    That Lucky Old Sun, Shining Light All Over You
    On Some Faraway Beach.
    Sometimes, I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine
    Memories Of You Hurt So Bad.

    How Could You Break My Heart?
    Fall In Love With Him? Leave Me?
    He Thought I Was Your Best Friend,
    But You Know I Love You.

    Now That You've Gone I Hate You.
    I Hate Your Boyfriend, I Hate Myself.
    Look What You Done To Me!
    People Change Like The Weather...

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  • I don't know if I'd listen to that epic mix, muze; but it sure sounds like a book I've read...

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  • And you can do even better if you're not limited to songs in your library...

    Once upon a time in the West a stranger rode in on horseback. He took the silence carried by the wind down the dusty road like it was the thorn piercing his coat; threw it on the ground. And then you went away.

    Sam left the button of his coat undone, steppin' out three steps from the bar, Hopper and his gang following close behind. Drunk again. In the tumbling dawn light their eyes fall frozen...Clint Eastwood. Looking like danger. Or else Heaven or Las Vegas.

    "Get in or get out," he said. "Out of town, I should have said." He shook his head. Sarah shook her head. The cigarette girl just shook. "I smoked the wrong end of a cigarette," she said.

    "Stop grinding your teeth," said Telegram Sam, squinting skyward. "As long as there is whiskey in the world, we'll be around."

    "Nobody move. This is a robbery," the sheriff stuttered and fumbled, strolling down 3rd, toward the one blood bank in the county. So there I was. I did it. I shot the sheriff. So what. Did I just do that or was it Jim Carrey?

    All Hell broke loose, all guns blazing, as if by magic Main Street could be anything. Appomatox whorehouse; ocean of noise; violence in the streets; dancing in the street; panic in Detroit; the Devil's shooting gallery. It was written in blood, the last shot ringing in my ears. "We've gotta get out of this place," I could have told you. But you were already gone in the beginning. Do you remember?

    How did I get out alive? No one makes it out alive. Not even me.
    He puts on his coat and leaves. I mean you, reader.

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    • Knirrie said...
    • User
    • 16 Jan 2012, 13:04
    Oh my, that is so awesome I am afraid to try the story theme myself!!

    ♫ the music's never loud enough ♫
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  • Hi all,
    Thanks, Artephiusfm, for inducting me into the 'Hermetic Order Of Alchemists', for making too many mixtapes! It seems that I really need to get a life :P

    It was difficult to decide between the themes, but since the Plant Kingdom doesn't come up very often as a choice ...

    Here's my mix about 'The Plant Kingdom' for vitreus:






    The Midnight Garden

    01. Siglo XX - In The Garden
    02. The Future Sound of London - Ill Flower
    03. Current 93 - Black Flowers Please
    04. Einstürzende Neubauten - Blume (English Version)
    05. dEUS - Roses
    06. Fluorescent Grey - Leaf-Laden Amber Hued GUI
    07. Dragons - Here Are The Roses
    08. Asylum Party - Madhouse Grass
    09. The Cure - Bloodflowers
    10. And Also the Trees - Midnight Garden
    11. Death in June - To Drown A Rose (John Balance on lead vocals mix)
    12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Where The Wild Roses Grow
    13. Tom Waits - Flower's Grave


    Download:
    http://www.divshare.com/folder/958505-e59

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  • Here's my mix for oz_tokyoeyes.

    I really wanted to tackle one the tougher story theme, but my hard drive crashed last month so I'd been using my wife's computer...I still had access to all my music, but the organization was just lacking. So, needless to say, the story theme was out.

    But hey, plants. They're groovy. So we went with that. Despite the prevalence of 'flower' songs, I made a point to not get too flowery, or flower power-y. Some power, for sure. Some power pop for sure. And what was I thinking not using 'Honeysuckle Blue"?! Bah, hindsight!

    Anyway, you can get it here, should you be so inclined:
    http://www.mediafire.com/?mmywxs9nec945g6

    Gimme Sunshine
    January 2012

    01 Photosynthesis - They Might Be Giants
    02 (Listen to the) Flower People - Spinal Tap
    03 Garden of My Mind - The Lolas
    04 (Somebody Else Been) Shakin' Your Tree - ZZ Top
    05 15 Petals - Elvis Costello
    06 Green Mountain Clover - Future Clouds and Radar
    07 Flowers of Evil - Clorox Girls
    08 Roots Radicals - Rancid
    09 Planting Seeds - Built to Spill
    10 Forget the Flowers - Wilco
    11 New Leaf - Meat Puppets
    12 Wither, I'm a Flower - Whiskeytown
    13 Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
    14 Flower - Soundgarden
    15 I Can Hear the Grass Grow - The Fall
    16 Blackberry Way - The Move
    17 Dying on the Vine - The Jayhawks
    18 Hangin' Tree - Queens of the Stone Age
    19 Cold Comfort Flowers - Fountains of Wayne
    20 She Gave Good Sunflower - The Black Crowes
    21 Rugged Roses - The Gourds

    Be forewarned, the Spinal Tap song will get stuck in your head. The riff of Garden of My Mind will melt your face (the original's even just a touch nastier). The ZZ Top song was off their first album, well before they started making videos, so if you're just gonna write them off as that 'Legs' band, you're making a biiiiig mistake. Just sayin'.

    And as a side note to artephiusfm -- I'm digging the multiple themes. They're fun, and just the fact there are tougher challenges available mean no one's used the easy ones yet. Well, we'll see what the zero-hour brings, haha. Keep it up!

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    • Jewce said...
    • User
    • 29 Jan 2012, 09:14

    My "Musical Garden" Playlist

    Here is my plant themed playlist for 01010100.

    I had a really tough time with this one. Not because I had a small amount of things to choose but because I couldn't decide on which ones to take out. It would've been way too long otherwise.

    I don't know if it really flows together, but I did what I could with it. It's an eclectic bunch, but I bunch I really enjoyed listening to.

    I hope you like:)

    Musical Garden

    1. Ben Lee - I Am A Sunflower
    2. Ultimate Spinach - Mind Flowers
    3. Blue Orchids - Sun Kil Moon
    4. East Village Opera Company - Flower Duet Redux
    5.Ween - Roses Are Free
    6.Matt Costa - Lilacs
    7. Lady of the Sunshine - Daisy Chain
    8. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
    9. Bob Dylan - Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts
    10. Bob Schneider - Flower Parts
    11. Simon and Garfunkel - Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
    12. Burl Ives - Lavender Blue (Dilly, Dilly)
    13. Artichoke - 100 Flowers
    14. Sean Hayes - Flowering Spade
    15. Flowers In The Rain - The Move
    16. The Cowsills - I Love The Flower Girl
    17. Tyler Ramsey - Iris
    18. Mason Jennings - Lilacs
    19. Tiny Tim - Tip Toe Through the Tulips


    Peace

    Also congrats to Artephiusfm on your new role! Well done so far.

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    • vitreus said...
    • User
    • 31 Jan 2012, 22:36
    ok here's my mix, finally. it's been a crazy month, and i wasn't able to put in as much time to this mix as i would have liked, but i think i've still come up with something worth listening to.

    since beautifulwaste is the first inductee to the HOOA, i felt i needed to do her theme. so here it is!

    Eclipsed Verdancy
    01 Super Mario Brothers: Grass Land
    02 Black Moth Super Rainbow: Fields are Breathing
    03 Julie Christmas: When Everything is Green
    04 Mago: Your Mind Blew Across the Grass in Ripples
    05 Azure Ray: Signs in the Leaves
    06 The Silent Press: Branchless Tree
    07 Shahman: Dirt
    08 Dolores O'Riordan: In the Garden
    09 Clark: Growl's Garden
    10 Espers: Flowery Noontide
    11 Tilly And The Wall: Blood Flowers
    12 Emilie Simon: Rose Hybride De Thé
    13 Blonde Redhead: Penny Sparkle
    14 Opeth: Black Rose Immortal

    TRT: 70:53

    (a little hefty, but i don't really expect many of you to listen to the last track anyway!)


    listen to the noise i make and leave me a comment about it.
    check out my music journal at www.o-discordia.blogspot.com
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  • I decided to do the element theme. I have a couple tracks for each element.



    Tracklisting:

    1.) Thrice - The Earth Will Shake
    2.) Moving Mountains - Cover The Roots Lower The Stems
    3.) Modest Mouse - So Much Beauty in Dirty
    4.) Alkaline Trio - Burn
    5.) Senses Fail - The Fire
    6.) Angels and AIrwaves - Some Origins of Fire
    7.) Lights - February Air (Acoustic Version)
    8.) Cat Power - Wild is the Wind
    9.) Mumford and Sons - Winter Winds
    10.) Dispatch - Whirlwind
    11.) Assemblage 23 - Let the Wind Erase Me
    12.) Pinback - Penelope
    13.) The Fray - Oceans Away
    14.) Jack Johnson - Only the Ocean
    15.) The Feist - The Water
    16.) Regina Spektor - Aquarius
    17.) The Velvet Underground - Ocean

    Download

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